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• Making Them WANT To Do It (Apathy vs Engagement)

  
  Swift Kick Central — Authority: 98
  If you have ever attended a conference with us, you know we enjoy mixing stuff up through the use of Flashmobs and Blender Events, both of which stem from our Dance Floor Theory Leadership Training . The goals are to: Have Fun Increase Engagement Build Relationships Create Pattern Interrupts Induce Positive ...
  1 day ago

• Top 12 Ways to Increase Student Participation

  
  Teachhub Education Blog — Authority: 130
  Call it "active learning," or "classroom participation" -- every teacher wants more involved students and fewer apathetic ones. With a little extra planning, that is possible. Below are four common reasons students don’t participate and techniques to solve those problems and spice up your lessons. Read more
  1 day ago

• How can we make Students’ Unions stronger with social media?

  
  edwalker.net — Authority: 98
  I’m off to Birmingham next week, the social media centre of the UK, for an event organised by AMSU about how social media can be used to make Students’ Unions stronger . I like the title, it implies that the Union is already strong but there’s much more we can do. It’s a fitting time really as the Union’s ...
  4 days ago

• Whitman students cautious about use of P-D-F

  
  The Pioneer | Whitman news, delivered. — Authority: 488
  Registering for a P-D-F class grade, possible this week until Friday at 4 p.m., is not a popular option for most students. Whitman’s student handbook cautions against its overuse, saying, “although the P-D-F option can be very useful in certain circumstances, there are complications with its use.” The primary ...
  1 week ago

• Build a real class learning community

  
  Education with Technology Harry G. Tuttle — Authority: 112
  Teachers can create a class community such as everyone knowing two things about everyone else in the class without having a learning community where students continually work together to better each other.   Likewise, teachers can have students work together (Student A does this/ student B does that….) without ...
  1 week ago

• Orchestrating additional expectations

  
  growing changing learning creating — Authority: 419
  The final question in this series on student engagement impacted by Web 2.0 tools is: How could the use of the tools be made more effective in combination with some other methods, strategies or contexts? An answer to this question occurred to me while learning from Nicola and minh in the extended series of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Merely providing hiding places?

  
  growing changing learning creating — Authority: 419
  In the initial post in this series, I wondered "how easy is it to hide in classes making use of the tools of engagement and keep ones lack of interest, motivation or comprehension out of sight?" This calls into question a pattern I recognize in countless management situations, as well as in mentoring individuals who ...
  2 weeks ago

• Affordances that amplify disengagement

  
  growing changing learning creating — Authority: 419
  It seems likely there are affordances that amplify negative effects and dampen positive effects. Learners might be slightly bored before associating with such an affordance and then be "bored out of their skulls". Facilitated by the affordance, they could be watching an interaction for what to say and then feel ...
  2 weeks ago

• Not enough connecting?

  
  growing changing learning creating — Authority: 419
  Over the past few weeks, Ive read two books about Actor-Network Theory: Reassembling the Social and Prince of Networks . Like the CCK09 course on Connectivism, theres a big emphasis in these books on connections. Bruno Latour makes a wonderful distinction between intermediaries who pass along what comes through ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tools that transform us

  
  growing changing learning creating — Authority: 419
  When we use Web 2.0 tools on social networking platforms, theres a login button to click on. Theres usually a check box to indicate if we want to remain logged in on the computer were using. We think nothing of those buttons and boxes. When were blogging, adding a comment to a blog or contributing to a wiki or ...
  3 weeks ago

• Banging the drum easily at first

  
  growing changing learning creating — Authority: 419
  Back during my middle school years, I spent several months (not years) learning to play the baritone horn. I found it easy to get a sound out of it, but difficult to get my fingering fast enough to keep time. I knew I had it easy compared to friends playing the clarinet, sax or flute. I figured the baritone horn was ...
  3 weeks ago

• Same old class discussions

  
  growing changing learning creating — Authority: 419
  Back when I was teaching college courses, I found a gem of a book: Small Group Teaching - A Troubleshooting Guide . Richard G. Tiberius had compiled a wonderful set of questions for diagnosing why class discussions fizzle out. In brief, he recommended exploring: unclear goals unattainable goals unacceptable goals ...
  3 weeks ago

• Coming up with something to say

  
  growing changing learning creating — Authority: 419
  A blank sheet or paper or empty screen can make things worse when someone has a bad case of writers block. The opportunity to appear before an audience can heighten fears of making a fool of oneself. Whenever Web 2.0 tools contribute to decreased student engagement, its possible the tools are no help with coming up ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Value of Leveraging Network Nodes In The College Community

  
  Swift Kick Central — Authority: 98
  Last spring, I was traveling on a public bus from Laguardia Airport in New York to my hotel on the north side of Manhattan. When I got on the bus at the airport, the bus driver was in a heated argument with someone complaining about being charged twice for the ride. The bus driver was clearly not amused and went from ...
  3 weeks ago

• Wrong tool for the job?

  
  growing changing learning creating — Authority: 419
  You may already had the experience of replacing a car battery when the alternator, generator or ignition switch needed replacing. Like me years ago, you may have tried to get a ton of school work done by staying up all night when the work would have been done faster and better with more sleep. Every problem situation ...
  3 weeks ago

• Getting used by our tools

  
  growing changing learning creating — Authority: 419
  While I dont know that its actually happening, its very possible and likely that our Web 2.0 tools are using us. Whenever tools use the user, the user is unaware of getting used. Tools dont share our interests or serve larger purposes. This offers one possible explanation for our "tools for engagement" yielding the ...
  4 weeks ago

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