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Myths of teaching & learning: An interview with Clay Shirky

I am republishing here a post I did recently with an interview with Clay Shirky. It is related to my research on the myths of Teaching and learning, technology & media. I am copying it here, but the video of the interview (as well as the original summary) is here: An Interview with Clay Shirky.

You can also access the series of posts on the Myths here: …

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Added by Antonio Vantaggiato on June 23, 2011 at 8:46am — No Comments

Reform the PhD system or close it down! : Mark Taylor

There are too many doctoral programs, producing too many PhDs for the job market. Shut some and change the rest, says Mark C. Taylor.

The system of PhD education in the United States and many other countries is broken and unsustainable, and needs to be re-conceived. In many fields, it creates only a cruel fantasy of future employment that promotes the self-interest of faculty members at the expense of students. The reality is that there are very few jobs for people who… Continue

Added by Reid Cornwell on May 18, 2011 at 8:09am — 4 Comments

The Paradox of Online Teacher Standards

In my study of the hiring, training, and evaluation of online teachers, I examined standards and training documents from the SREB and iNACOL. These were wonderful documents. If I had been on the committees that created them, the final products would have been much…

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Added by John Adsit on April 21, 2011 at 3:03pm — No Comments

Second Life - Three articles worth reading

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Added by Paul Simbeck-Hampson on February 27, 2010 at 8:42am — No Comments

We are The People: The Movie

This is a clip from Lord Putnam's amazing movie on Education "We are the people" http://www.wearethepeoplemovie.com/ In many ways it's a case for support for eSingularity. And the need to completely redefine our global education… Continue

Added by Managing Editor on February 24, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

New Media Literacies

Members of the research team at Project New Media Literacies discuss the social skills and cultural competencies needed to fully engage with today's participatory culture. Featuring Henry Jenkins, and produced by Anna Van Someren at Project New Media… Continue

Added by Reid Cornwell on February 1, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

World University

WorldUniversity.wikia.com is a global, digital, open, free, university and school, where anyone can teach to your WEBCAM, learn and add content, and focuses on great universities and is for OLPC countries and everyone. It's like Wikipedia w MIT OCW.…

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Added by Reid Cornwell on January 26, 2010 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment

They Left No Child Behind in their Quest to Teach

You never hear me fuss about religious schools, or charter schools, or

most types of schools I have even taught in DODDS Schools and in a

school for dropouts. Teaching is sometimes a challenge but the nuns who

taught me were up to every challenge. So, that is one of the reasons I get fired up

when people like Michelle Rhee make fun of older teachers and do not realize that

these people and others stood in places where no one cared to teach and produced… Continue

Added by Bonnie Bracey Sutton on November 28, 2009 at 1:46am — No Comments

Supercomputing or not?

While everyone else is deep in 2.0 the Supercomputing is going on. Here is what we have put together for a conference. But I have limited attendance for this day. If you have friends who are in the Portland area I need your help.

The National Academy of Sciences has had hearings on STEM, on Science Learning and , gaming, simulations in education. A group of us, mostly EOT, NCWIT and others crafted a conference to further that message. This is a group of us who have worked together… Continue

Added by Bonnie Bracey Sutton on November 8, 2009 at 4:36am — No Comments

Education Reform: Wrong Diagnosis, So Wrong Cure

My guest column in the Washington Post, 11-04-09]

Education Reform: Wrong Diagnosis, So Wrong Cure

When "Race to the Top" fails, as it will, the main reason won’t be any of those currently being advanced by the corporate interests and politicians now running the education show. It won’t fail because of lack of academic rigor, poor teaching, weak administrators, too-short school year, union resistance, differing state standards, insufficient performance incentives, sorry… Continue

Added by Marion Brady on November 6, 2009 at 2:30am — 2 Comments

Wannabe U: Inside the Corporate University

In most debates over its future, the university is represented—by both its critics and its champions—as a secular temple for learning, a sacred space freed from the more mundane concerns that trouble other institutions. But lately this lofty image looks increasingly tarnished, especially with regard to public research universities. There, a new class of administrative professionals has been busy working to make colleges as much like businesses as possible. In…

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Added by Reid Cornwell on October 6, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments