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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Dec 12, 2016
Are you ready for blended learning?
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The key question to emerge from Tony Bates's review of a
survey on learning technology in universities: "What
happens when we go to 85% or more of the teaching being
blended? The current learning technology support model just
won’t be able to handle this expansion, certainly not
at the rate that it is being predicted." But if
universities have no realy idea how to implement blended
learning, why would we think this is the way forward?
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What I have learnt from the course "Advanced Theories of
Communicationâ€
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A lot of what underpins communications theory as described
here also underpins theories of transactional distance in
education theory (see the work
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G. Moore for example). The idea is that "the process of
communication involves the process by which a sender
conveys a particular message to the audience" and
"effective communication occurs when the receiver can
acquire the exact meaning intended by the sender." Pretty
standard stuff. About three quarters of the way through,
the author looks inward and discusses the elements of
dialogue with oneself. I like this a lot, but it makes me
wonder, when we communicate with ourselves, is
communication always effective? I don't think it is, for a
variety of reasons. And I ask whether communication is
really the sending of a specific message with any sort of
meaning at all. Via Pierre Levy.
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What I Learned Recreating One Chart Using 24 Tools
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This is a great example of a personal professional
development project, and Lisa Charlotte Rost is not only
walking away from this exercise with knowledge and skills
she can bank on, she provides the rest of us with an
excellent understanding of the range of data visualization
tools available today (and more importantly, what sets them
apart from each other).
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Experience of disadvantage: The influence of identity on
engagement in working class students’ educational
trajectories to an elite university
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A willingness to work hard, an ability to resist negative
social pressure, and a desire to prove sceptical parents
and peers wrong - these are traits that characterized those
from disadvantaged social groups who did attend a top-tier
university, as compared to those who didn't. These are the
conclusions of a British Educational Research Journal study
published today. It all rings true for me (despite the
small size of the study, which should invite caution).
People may read this and say "oh yeah, you need grit." Or
some such thing. But to me it speaks to the wider social
conditions we need to address to help people move beyond a
disadvantaged background and achieve more in life.
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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking
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This is the first of Audrey Watters's series
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for 2016 and it's pretty good, even if I disagree with the
main metaphor. She depicts 2016 as "a terrible, terrible
year" because of the celebrity deaths, bad election
results, war and killings. My own observation is that it's
business as usual with a bit of a demographic kick as the
post-war baby boom reaches its inevitable conclusion. But
her observations about the danger of quackery in ed tech
are spot on, and she lists a number of 'trends' as
indicators: chatbots, blockchain, Pokemon Go, 3D printing
and wearables. If your pundit gushed about one of more of
these this year, there's a good chance they're a quack. Not
because they're failures. But because they're fads, and
quacks jump on fads (trying to be the 'first' and make a
name for themselves, as Dean Groom
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week.
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Your Ellie – On the Primacy of Networked Knowledge
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I commented to someone this week, "For all my talk about
networking, I'm not a very good networker." Maybe when you
don't have it you see what it is more clearly? So
consequently, I don't have what Amy Burvall's daughter
would call "an Ellie" - a close (and more organized) friend
she calls instead of using antique technology like a
website. This reminds me of a survey we did when
researching for MuniMall in the 1990s - we asked municipal
officials where they got the information they needed, and
the number one answer was to "'call someone they know."
Burvall suspects we prefer this method because it's more
human. I suspect it's rather because it's more efficient.
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