This week, we discussed an article called Minds on Fire: Open Education, The Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 . The article covered many different ways that Universities are helping to give open education opportunities. For example, MIT’s, “OpenCourseWare (OCW) initiative, which today provides open access to undergraduate and graduate level materials and modules from more than seventeen hundred courses(covering virtually all of MIT’s curriculum)”(Brown & Adler, 2008). In addition, Harvard Law School and Harvard Extensions School conducted an interesting experiment using the Second Life network to launch a fall 2006 course called “Cyber One: Law in the Court of Public Opinion” (Brown & Adler, 2008). Although the course was offered to students enrolled in Harvard Law, non-law or just curious persons, “any participant in Second Life could review the lectures and other course materials online at no cost” (Brown & Adler, 2008). Ever since the “compelling evidence for the importance of social interaction to leaning (came) from the landmark study by Richard J. Light, of the Harvard Graduate School of Education” (Brown & Adler, 2008), the way course material seemed to evolve around this concept seemed to make more sense. In his study, “Light discovered that one of the strongest determinants of students’ success in higher education- more important than the details of their instructors’ teaching styles- was their ability to form or participate in small study groups”(Brown & Adler, 2008). Light highlighted the importance of the social learning concept and with his findings, altered the educational prophecy previously known as the Cartesian perspective “I think therefore, I am” to a new outlook of “we participate, therefore we are”, and brought “our attention from the content of a subject to the learning activities and human interactions around which that content is situated” (Brown & Adler, 2008).
The way we learn is so different, and the new innovations can not only update how we learn, what we learn and how much we learn, but how we learn it! :)
Very cool, please check out the article.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Week Three: EDU 651- There is Nothing Private About Facebook
As we know, Facebook is a social network. Although it has potential for other uses, such as promoting a business, connecting with organizations, such as March of Dimes to show support to premature babies, and many other causes of good nature- There is NOTHING private about Facebook.
This week, we reviewed an article about a woman who made a comment that she was "teaching in the most ghetto school in Charlotte"(Schaffhauser, 2008), and although she was making this comment on her private facebook page, her settings were not made private, and her opinion left her open to public scrutiny in addition to consequences from her school board. So yes, we can see that although sometimes we are making comments to our friends or whatnot that we consider to be "private", posting them on Facebook isn't technically the most professional thing to do. In addition, if you are considering operating a facebook page and living any sort of professional life, be sure that what is posted, or what gets posted is something that you don't mind sharing with the WORLD, because literally, that's what Facebook exposes you to- a global network!
Something I must share on this topic: I recently had a friend of mine post pictures of myself from highschool onto my Facebook page. Luckily, they were genuinely congenial pictures and ones that I could identify with, and I was "tagged" in them, so they showed up in my pictures as well. Funny to be able to remember the moments of highschool drama club- literally, but had this been another picture, from say, a party where my attendance was more or less "unknown" by let's say my parents, I might have chosen to delete the "tag" and just simply say to my "friend"- "THANKS FOR POSTING THIS PICTURE, I hope I never have to see it again in my life time".
Hahah.
Reference:
Scaffhauser, D. (2008). Suspend Teacher in Facebook Incident Ignites Debate: should ONline Privacy for Educators Exist? Retrieved July 27, 2010 from URL: http://www.thejournal.com/articles/23611 for job seekers to get a preview
This week, we reviewed an article about a woman who made a comment that she was "teaching in the most ghetto school in Charlotte"(Schaffhauser, 2008), and although she was making this comment on her private facebook page, her settings were not made private, and her opinion left her open to public scrutiny in addition to consequences from her school board. So yes, we can see that although sometimes we are making comments to our friends or whatnot that we consider to be "private", posting them on Facebook isn't technically the most professional thing to do. In addition, if you are considering operating a facebook page and living any sort of professional life, be sure that what is posted, or what gets posted is something that you don't mind sharing with the WORLD, because literally, that's what Facebook exposes you to- a global network!
Something I must share on this topic: I recently had a friend of mine post pictures of myself from highschool onto my Facebook page. Luckily, they were genuinely congenial pictures and ones that I could identify with, and I was "tagged" in them, so they showed up in my pictures as well. Funny to be able to remember the moments of highschool drama club- literally, but had this been another picture, from say, a party where my attendance was more or less "unknown" by let's say my parents, I might have chosen to delete the "tag" and just simply say to my "friend"- "THANKS FOR POSTING THIS PICTURE, I hope I never have to see it again in my life time".
Hahah.
Reference:
Scaffhauser, D. (2008). Suspend Teacher in Facebook Incident Ignites Debate: should ONline Privacy for Educators Exist? Retrieved July 27, 2010 from URL: http://www.thejournal.com/articles/23611 for job seekers to get a preview
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