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Important research compiled on the effects of students multitasking while learning shows that they are losing depth of learning, getting mentally fatigued, an
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Teens and tech are tied together. How can we help students see the value of single-tasking?
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Ken's Key Takeaway: We often fail to attribute the world wide web to the list of acomplishments by open source programmers. The low barriers for entry and the ability the 'look over the shoulder' of programmers via the 'view source' button led to inquiry and productivity. Delete the scoop?
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The important annual Horizon report is out! Delete the scoop?
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“Students of all ages must be trained to search, select, qualify (and therefore disqualify), then enrich with their own thought, and then use and share information.”
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Last year was the first year where I activiely encouraged students to curate content. It has been a success. Ken 
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February 12, 11:56 AM
Es una competencia de gran valor y relevancia hoy día:tener factor crítico de selección de contenidos,discernimiento:frente a la gran cantidad de información a la que los estudiantes y jóvenes tienes acceso ,gracias a las TIC! 
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“If everyone can speak, to whom should I listen?” and “... how can I get heard?” #communication #content 
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Teaching the important skills of information management. A thought provoking article. Delete the scoop?
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Educators are always striving to find ways to make curriculum relevant in students’ everyday lives. More and more teachers are using social media around les Via Gary Morrison
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Ken's Key Takeaways The tools are less important than the tactics.
This is a nice blog based on insight after reading Henry Jenkins' research findings and the 'PLAY' program (Participatory Learning and You)
Many teachers find connected learning to be 'messy'. This article describes one teacher who 'let go' and the students created a project that they did not know met one of the future required state objectives. Delete the scoop?
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KEN's KEY TAKEAWAY: 87% of Facebook users like brand pages. In 2010, only 38% did so. Facebook thrives because they understand thir users. Great brand pages know their specific visitiors. My Key takeaway was that only 35% of Facbook fans feel that the brand listens to them. There was also an interesting discussion prompt about if a 'like' equals an opt-in for marketing messages. Via Jonha Revesencio, Firas Ghunaim
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87% of Facebook users like brand pages. In 2010, only 38% did so. Facebook thrives because they understand thir users. Great brand pages know their specific visitiors. My Key takeaway was that only 35% of Facbook fans feel that the brand listens to them. There was also an interesting discussion prompt about if a 'like' equals an opt-in for marketing messages. Delete the scoop?
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"The term “project-based learning” gets tossed around a lot in discussions about how to connect students to what they’re learning. Teachers might add projects meant to illustrate what students have learned, but may not realize what they’re doing is actually called 'project-oriented learning.' And it’s quite different from project-based learning..." Via EDTC@UTB, William Machado, Lynnette Van Dyke
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This is a wonderful resource for how to communicate with your bosses, students and their parents what project based learning is all about 
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I am half way through this wonderful collection. I highly recommend it! 
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December 17, 2012 8:34 AM
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December 17, 2012 8:55 AM
Gapminder = animated statistics
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KEN's KEY TAKEAWAY A good primer of MOOC's Marketing dilemna. It talks a bit about diluting a university's "brand"
The Udacity of hope: new online programs offer free courses to hundreds of thousands of students, while the business model still gets worked out. Delete the scoop?
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Ken's Key Takeaway: I love this idea of Stanford to help solidify the open internet. They want to crowdsource common privacy policies and connect them to new icons that will be well-known. Then we all know what we are signing up for based on shared ideas of what is cool and what is not cool for being regulated.
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Ken's Key Takeaway The UK is making all publicly funded university journals free to the world. Will the Academics accept this? Delete the scoop?
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Ken's Key Takeaways: Honestly, this is for future reading, but I wanted to share.
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Ken's Key Takeaway: You will get many great nuggets of info in this article focusing on the continuing growth of social media and industries affected by it.
My favorite stat is: Twitter is currently gaining more active users at a faster pace than Facebook.
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The author's key takeaway: Get over your social media anxiety and get on the social ladder before you get left behind. The view from the ground is not nearly as thrilling as the view from the top.
We’re living in an age of connectedness like most of us would not have imagined even five years ago. We have amazing social networks available to every human and company on the planet. Brands can reach out and talk to consumers like never before. Delete the scoop?
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Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education
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This is exactly what i am trying to accomplish in my classroom. Thank you to Robin Good for this scoop. I could not do a proper rescoop on the mobile app. Delete the scoop?
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Finland and South Korea top the charts in a new global education ranking. But with very different philosophies. We're looking at what the US – ranked number 17 – can learn.
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An interesting podcast and documentary on some inside secrets of the success of South Korean and Finland public school systems.
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I am reluctant to review newspaper articles or op-ed pieces in the same way I have handled journal articles, series chapters or literature from the developers of MOOC platforms. However, if utiliz...
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"During the second half of 2012, conversations within the ed-tech world were all a-Twitter linking and blogging about MOOCs at a fever pitch, identifying them as the impending disruptor in higher education. It wasn't until November that it seemed the more mainstream press finally covered it with the big headline, such as The Year of the MOOC . ... Will MOOCs be transformative to higher education as other technologies were to other industries and sectors? What's your riff?" Via Peter B. Sloep, Miloš Bajčetić
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Here is a fairly balanced look at the possibility of Moocs. 
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This articl4 is an attempt to go beyond the hype and assess what MOOCs really could mean for (US) education. It starts with a bit of history, including 'predictions' by Harvard's Clayton Christensen and by Nathan Harding on the bankruptcy of the current university system. It then continues with an inventory of what may have contributed to the MOOCs' rapidly increased popularity: college is in trouble anyway, the credit card debt is topped by the student loan debt, the flipped classroom is as good (or bad) as the teacher who does the flipping (with MOOCs being flipped classrooms taken to its logical conclusion). Amidst worries about equal access to higher education and the quality of MOOCs if they become widespread, Westerberg list 16 thoughts about what MOOCs might achieve. These really are intuitions about what the future might bring, useful intuitions in that they allow us to be prepared for the future (and thus ready to adjust its course).
Not all of her thoughts are original - such as MOOCs stimulate thinking about pedagogy, about online affordances, about knowledge sharing - but how could they in such a much discussed area? Original are the intuitions that MOOCs sharpen our intuitions as to what we do badly in schools, what the importance is of teachers and one-to-one interactions, and what is wrong with college.
I found this a stimulating article. Even though a substantial part of it is specific to the US (not even North-American) situation) and does not directly apply elsewhere in the world, it might soon. In the UK student fees have gone up tremendously this year, for example, so a student loan debt is in the making there too, it would seem. Elsewhere, governments fighting increasing deficits might consider the same solutions, with the same dire consequences. (@pbsloep) Delete the scoop?
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Here is a very nice 70-slide overview of some of the trends and tools that are pointing the direction of the future of the workplace. Via Linda Alexander 
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Educators need to be informated as to the work environment their students will eventually be entering. This report presents some of the key trends and "thematic takeaways". For example, it's important that students learn to value life-long and independent learning as well as developing highly collaborative project management skills... Delete the scoop?
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This is a great resource about what you can expect to be changing education in 2013
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We've needed a strong pedagogical framework for digital tools since the introduction of technology into education. Hopefully this helps. Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Louise Robinson-Lay
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I always appreciate frameworks. Here are three frameworks to help us choose how we will use new technology in the classroom 
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December 27, 2012 6:44 PM
changing among 4 different frameworks - interesting and short reading 
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December 28, 2012 5:46 AM
The monological form of teaching – Learning is the student's acquisition of this knowledge.Tools – distributing and intermediary tools.
The dialogical form of teaching – Learning is seen as the student's development of this inherent basis of knowledge. Tools that support students' problem oriented; simulations and more advanced learning games.
The polyphonic form of teaching – Learning is the student's participation in exchange of many different individuals' perception of the world. Tools that support equal collaboration
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December 30, 2012 8:19 AM
"The framework is based on a distinction between a monological, a dialogical, and a polyphonic form of teaching." Very interesting. Delete the scoop?
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Chrs Brogan suggested for his subscribers to view this presentation. It should be helpful for research Delete the scoop?
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KEN'S KEY TAKEAWAY: This is a wonderful resource. Please forgive the bad outline slide. This is a solid presentation based on Arthur W. Chickering and Stephen C. Ehrmann's important ideas for conducting quality online learning environments. In fact, here is the original study: http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/seven.html (I am happy to see that it now has a Creative Commons license. Ken Via Ana Cristina Pratas Delete the scoop?
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Ken's Key Takeaway: This is a bigger statistic than I expected: "One in six social network users say they've changed their views about a political issue after discussing it or reading posts about it on a social networking site, according to a Pew Research Center survey fielded in January and February."
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Unfriending, blocking and ignoring: Political spats on Facebook affect real-life relationships with family, friends, colleagues and neighbors as the 2012 Election Day battle between Obama and Romney draws near... Delete the scoop?
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Ken's Key Takeaway The Who's, What's and Why's of instructional design. I see that they now added a section on mobile learning. Delete the scoop?
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Ken's Key Takeaway This is a wonderful look at how different cultures accept cell phone interuptions in public. Ken
It is a device that three quarters of the world's inhabitants have access to, according to the World Bank, but the words to describe it and etiquette of how to use it differ starkly across cultures. Delete the scoop?
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I love these tools that visualize your social media connections.