Top 10 Stories in Education in 2011

Top 10 Stories in Education in 2011:

1. Hacking education
2. Open source
3. Free versions of industry software
4. Data portability
5. Flipping the classroom
6. Talent + Money + Innovation
7. Google  vs Apple vs Amazon
8. Personal Learning Networks
9. Gamification
10. Schema.org

How many of these can/will impact your school/community/work-style?

How?  Why?

Learning Objectives

A Model of Learning Objectives, based on Bloom’s Taxonomy.

“Mouse-over the colored blocks to see examples of learning objectives that generally match each of the various combinations of the cognitive process and knowledge dimensions.”

Kids and Facebook

Why parents help their children lie to Facebook about age: unintended consequences of the ‘Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act,’ by danah boyd, Eszter Hargittai, Jason Schultz, and John Palfrey.

From the abstract: “In this paper, we provide survey data that show that many parents know that their underage children are on Facebook in violation of the site’s restrictions and that they are often complicit in helping their children join the site. Our data suggest that, by creating a context in which companies choose to restrict access to children, COPPA inadvertently undermines parents’ ability to make choices and protect their children’s data. Our data have significant implications for policy–makers, particularly in light of ongoing discussions surrounding COPPA and other age–based privacy laws.”

This is an important document that should be shared with all educators, administrators, and parents!

13 virtues for next-gen librarians

In the spirit of Benjamin Franklin. 13 virtues of the next-gen librarian, as presented at ACRL 2011 by Andy Burkhardt, Catherine R. Johnson, and Carissa Tomlinson.

“Franklin used his virtues to grow as an individual. These virtues can be used as a tool to guide our self improvement as librarians in the 21st century, though they aren’t limited to that purpose.”

1. Courage — Act not from fear, but in spite of it.
2. Flexibility — change comes quickly and often; be prepared to adapt.
3. Service oriented — give your attention and talents to others, not your email.
4. Balance — budgets, time, user needs, and technology — find balance in all things.
5. Collegiality — learn from and share with your colleagues.
6. Curiousity — be comfortable not having the answers, but strongly desire to find them.
7. Creativity — let not your mind be limited by what has come before.
8. Thoughtful — ignore the bandwagon and engage attentively.
9. Playful — ‘let my playing be my learning, and my learning be my playing.’
10. Collaborative — look for opportunities to partner with others.
11. Direction — set a goal and head toward it.
12. Passionate — invest fully in your pursuits.
13. Assertive — shed the passive librarian stereotype and advocate for your needs.

Read the essay for full details and discussion.

Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age

Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education.  Is your school ready??

Immigrant Kids in your School?

Watch this:  Children Being Seen & Heard: How Youth Contribute to Their Immigrant Families’ Adaptations

via Vikki Katz – Children Being Seen & Heard – YouTube.

Content Creation vs. Content Curation strategies

Content Creation vs. Content Curation – YouTube.

Distance education pedagogy

Three generations of distance education pedagogy | Anderson | The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning.

Worth reading by all online instructors … and some students, too!

E-Portfolios

 

Wesch: from Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able

Excellent summary of a great keynote presentation by Michael Wesch, Cultural Anthropologist, Researcher in Digital Ethnography, and Associate Professor, Kansas State University, creator of seminal video A Vision of Students Today.