I have talked to many K-12 educators, as well as college professors. Some are adventurous technophiles, and others are resistant, reluctant or not technology capable of embracing new technology as moves into common use. I think we need to encourage faculty to embrace technology as it arrives, and provide them the tools and support to make them successful, even if a fad is short … [Read more...] about Why Faculty Should Employ Technology Du Jour
Redefining Cheating
Redefining cheating: I saw a small blub in The Week about outsourcing homework to India, Pakistan, and Egypt. This is aligned with a conversation going on in education about the redefinition of “cheating” which is often called management or collaboration in the business world. After searching on the web, I found a similar story that may be the source, Australia’s Current Week … [Read more...] about Redefining Cheating
Twitter improves grades, but science could be better #smcedu
This morning I read an eCampus News (Can Twitter use help improve grades? Some researchers think so) overview of a recent article from the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning reporting a positive effect on grades when students use social media (The effect of Twitter on college student engagement and grades, R. Junco, G. Heiberger, E. Loken). I love that studies are coming … [Read more...] about Twitter improves grades, but science could be better #smcedu
Curation Not The Future of The Net, Unless You pay
I was just referred to Tom Foremski’s Silicon Valley Watcher post on Curation and the Human Web… which argues that curating the content of the web will be a big topic in 2011. I don’t think so, at least not as it is characterized in the post. Curation is like knowledge management. If there is no business model, there is no incentive for people to curate content. Small start-ups … [Read more...] about Curation Not The Future of The Net, Unless You pay
Merit Pay and Teaching: Classrooms Aren’t Factories
The Vanderbilt study (see Merit pay study: Teacher bonuses don't raise student test scores) confirms what we know intuitively: you can’t pay a teacher to perform better in the classroom. Well, at least not the way we measure performance, and that is the big issue. We still have our heads in the factory and think our children learn in one. We think about performance rather than … [Read more...] about Merit Pay and Teaching: Classrooms Aren’t Factories