Un blogfesor en Sagrado…

Mario Nuñez en Sagrado hoy! Su presentación “Epifanías de un profesor en la Web 2.0” está por empezar. Dice Mario que ésta es una tecnología que va mucho más allá de una “tecnología”, que tiene la capacidad de transformarnos, tanto personal como profesionalmente.

En la página de www.blogfesor.org/taller se encuentran los materiales…, y a continuación la presentación de Mario.

Epifanías de Un Profesor en La Web 2.0

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Higher Ed Revolution is Near

Gordon Gee’s Call for ‘Reinvention’ of Higher Ed :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education’s Source for News, Views and Jobs

At the last meeting of the American Council on Education (ACE), Gordon Gee (Ohio State’s President) called for radical measures to change higher education, Inside Higher Ed reports. ” I am calling for intentional upheaval at our colleges and universities just when fiscal chaos already places us on the edge…” he said. And added the choice for higher education is “reinvention or extinction.”

The situation is sufficiently dire, he said, that colleges need to “reconfigure ourselves,” rather than simply trying to restore lost funds.

Specifically, Gee suggested that colleges abandon their traditional devotion to disciplines, rethink the way faculty members are hired, and embrace a more central role for community colleges in higher education.

On disciplines, he said that the idea was to “move from thinking vertically to thinking horizontally.”

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Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers

Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers | Educationload.com

Educationload reports on the presentation Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers, available on Flypaper.

It gives an overview of Web 2.0 applications useful for teaching-I’d add, which may change your life as teachers!

Among the applications listed two are at the intersection of Internet and telephony and seem very promising.

  • Polleverywhere.com allows to create multiple-choice questions and opinion polls which then may be answered online or via SMS!!!
  • Mobilestudy.org allows to do the same with quizzes: students may submit their answers online or through SMS.

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Teaching How To Learn

Future Of Learning: Passionate Peers, Death Of The Classroom, Technologies As Tools – Emerging Trends – Robin Good’s Latest News

A gem of an article, Konrad Glogowski’s Teaching How To Learn, is introduced by this words from Robin Good:

When… peer negotiations occur in a context of public scrutiny, youth are motivated to develop their identities and reputations through these peer-based networks, exchanging comments and links and jockeying for visibility. These efforts at gaining recognition are directed at a network of respected peers rather than formal evaluations of teachers or tests.”

Excerpted from the Living and Learning with New Media (Ito, Horst, Bittani, et al., 2008) report published at the end of 2008, this is one of the valuable findings emerging from the latest research on how we actually learn.

Konrad Glogowski, education and new technologies expert, looks at the conclusions of this report and analyzes what we are realizing about the limits of our present day teaching approach and what is that we need in its place.

His view is that traditional classrooms tend to be oppressive learning environments where passion, curiosity, and personal interests of the learners are suffocated by dogmatic principles and grade scales.

Peer relation-based learning environments seems to be a more engaging opportunity to absorb and share knowledge with other individuals because you can share the same interests and passions you do want to develop and fulfill.

Why do we keep insisting then on such an old-fashioned approach in education? Is it because it makes us feel safer?

Read the full article by Glogowski: Teaching How to Learn!

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Learning Management Systems bavastyle

There’s an excellent article (The revolution will be a bus) by Jim Groom in his bavatuesday blog on LMS’s and learning. I posted a comment, since while agreeing with most of what Jim says, I still have some doubts on LMS’s demise as “crypts of learning”…

Then Jim replied to my comment with a very generous back-comment, and very intriguing as well. I had in mind to reply **now**, but I can’t, since apparently IP’s from Starbucks are firewalled… so I’ll do it later!!!

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