Twitter Updates for 2010-02-07

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Twitter Updates for 2010-02-02

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Indecent Indeed

February 2nd, 2010 llcowell Posted in Funding, Teaching & Learning, multiple literacies | No Comments »

Read Buffy Hamilton’s (The Unquiet Librarian) powerful response (An Indecent Proposal) to the President’s failure to include funding in support of school libraries.  This failure to strengthen his recent official proclamation through specific action (and, in fact, mention!) is a blow to those of us who professionally support the President’s literacy initiatives in the field, integrated and day-by-day.  More than this, it misleads those who do NOT understand the new paradigm of literacy in a hyperconnected and information saturated society.

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DebateGraph take the Wiki Further

February 1st, 2010 llcowell Posted in Transtextuality, Web 2.0 Tools | No Comments »

This visual/concept based Wiki strives to “make arguements on all sides of any public debate freely available to all and continuously open to challenge and improvement by all.”  More than an interesting application of Web 2.0 technology, this tool actually engages students in the behavior it takes to critically think!  The tool would be great for students who want to prepare for debate, forensics, or even classroom discussion.   When users “create and reshape debates, make new points, and rate/filter arguements,” a community develops around them that encourages deeper level thinking.  As the site notes, this creative commons project promises to

increase the transparency and rigor of public debate everywhere—by making the collective insight and intelligence of the global community freely available to all and filtering out the noise….[enabling] us to visualise and deepen our understanding of the ways in which different debates are semantically interrelated, and ways in which these interrelated debates shape, and are shaped by, each other.

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Twitter Updates for 2010-01-28

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Twitter Updates for 2010-01-26

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Information Deformation

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Twitter Updates for 2010-01-25

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Twitter Updates for 2010-01-24

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Social Technographics and Scaffolding…

January 19th, 2010 llcowell Posted in Learning Spaces, Social Media, design theory, multiple literacies | No Comments »

From a blog associated with the new book, GroundSwell, the post Social Technographics: Conversationalists get onto the ladder shows how twitter and facebook status updaters are figuring into the the world of social media. Reminds me alot of Gladwell’s Tipping Point.

Conversationalists are now on the ladder of social media

"Conversationalists" are now on the ladder of social media

The author’s note that these “conversationalists” are an intriguing lot with a definate stake in market trends. I can’t help but come back to my own professional observations of how market and classroom align in today’s marketplace of information and media. Consider the following suggestions offered in the blog:

“Convince your boss this stuff is for real, and that if you haven’t jumped on it, you’re late.”

There is a hum (or drum) in education now pushing administrators to recognize social media not just as a tool that could be harvested, but as a new way of communicating that MUST be engaged if we are to remain relevant in society.

“Profile your customer base, and see what they’re ready for, before planning a project to reach out to them.”

Know your students. They don’t learn the same way we did, even 15 years ago. The dilemma in education? Student’s today are technologically MORE ready than we are! At the same time, they’re social aptitude has slipped they navigate through the online social network “willy-nilly.” Shouldn’t we be there with them…to teach, to model?

“Segment your audience; build different strategies for different segments. (Social is so prevalent now that a single approach for your company is probably too broad.)”

Differentiate your approach to reach different learners. We’ve embraced that in the classroom, but too often we settle for seeing “technology” AS an approach, rather than as a space in need of these differentiated approaches. All said, it comes down to…SCAFFOLDING!

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