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Fritz writes on education, learning, and technology
Internet Based Learning – Meta Analysis
It comes form an unlikely source, but this month’s Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) includes the publication of a meta analysis of Internet based learning in health professions. The study, led by David Cook and assisted by 5 others, looked at 201 eligible studies. “We sought to answer (1) to what extent is... »
The Screen is Flat Resources
MERLOT has hundreds of links and references for learning materials, so we are adding just a few links to papers and studies that we have read and pondered over the past couple of years. Please add any that you would like to share. References for The Screen is Flat: MERLOT CRL Information Literacy: http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/informationliteracycompetency.cfm Pew Internet and American... »
Supporting the Data is supporting the users
Becky Hines, our medical librarian colleague expanded on an idea we shared over coffee in her blog TheScreenIsFlat.org, Are we are still trying to control the data and expecting users to utilize data in the ways in which we have organized? I’m not suggested that Librarians get out of the game of offering expertise in... »
It’s not all fun and games, but it can be
Our librarian colleague Becky Hines has shown that librarians do have a sense of humor. Ann and I both knew this, its fun to be able to share it. Her Twelve step program starts with the reason we’re all here: 1. We admitted we were powerless of our information needs and that our lives had become... »
On Strategy and Points of view
In January, Ann and I had the good fortune to meet many of you during the ELI annual conference in San Antonio. That was the first of three events I’ve attended in as many months which have given me a look at three conferences and how each represents a piece... »
There’s no end of questioning we have to do.
I came across this interview with David Pogue at The Royal Treatment, an interview with Ken Royal at District Administration magazine. Royal blogs on technology aimed at the k-12 segment, but if you read Pogues’ comment, there is great content for all of us DA: “I know you’ve done some technology for dummies books... »
ELI and San Antonio
Ann and I wanted to include a few links from our podcast for January 31 from ELI. The Henry Jenkins presentation as podcast I referenced this study: A study by Ruhl, Hughes and Schloss (1987) compared lectures presented without pauses with lectures where, every 12-18 minutes students paused for two minutes and discussed and reworked their notes... »
If this is January, it’s time to hear from Steve
Disclosure: I use a Macbook to create this blog. NPR reports (along with every other media source) on the news from Macworld Expo in San Francisco on the new tools and toys from Cupertino. The head turner this year is the MacBook Air, an ultra thin laptop which lacks both a replaceable battery... »
The (hand)writing on the wall
For all of the discussion of technology, there is room to find perspectives about the low tech and no tech tools for learning. Vanderbuilt University professor Steve Graham published a study which brings to mind something we’ve all seen, and maybe experienced ourselves. The importance of handwriting, even though our penmanship skills may be... »
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