This article suggests the benefits to students to learn through video presentation outside the classroom and work on homework ( with teacher assistance) inside the classroom. TED is viewed as a very effective means of non-traditional education in the classroom. So sorry I am unable to get the link to properly work, here is the …
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Sep 30
TED Talks
Johanna Blakley is the Deputy Director of the Norman Lear Center at USC who studies how today’s entertainment impacts our social, commercial, and political environments. In her TED Talk, she explores how relaxed copyright laws in the fashion industry allow for more collaboration, creativity, and thus, higher sales volumes than other industries which have rigid copyright laws. …
Sep 28
Academic Issue ~ Open Textbooks
This is an excellent overview and discussion on the topic of Open Textbooks. It is also an issue that could be used for final papers and projects. “An Open Perspective on Interactive Textbooks” – Jim Fowler. EDUCAUSE Review (August 22, 2016)
Sep 27
“How PhotoSynth can connect the world’s images”
I found this ted talk especially interesting after taking a GIS course this past summer. Mr. Blaise Agüera y Arcas does an overview of utilizing all of different photo capturing technologies and how a program a called “Microsoft Photosynth” that can potentially combine all of the pictures from everyone in the entire world and create …
Sep 26
Beyond Surface-level Pedagogy
This article is worth the read. It is a fresh take on teachers staying up to date on how to use technology in the classroom. The author references a story that really brings attention to the fact that often times teachers think they are truly embracing digital scholarship, when really they are already behind the …
Sep 26
Confessions of a Self-Taught College Instructor: Embracing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
This is an interesting piece calling for professors and teachers to approach their work as a form of scholarship in itself. The article provides an neat perspective on teaching and learning as “an act of intellectual invention”. http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/hybridped/confessions-self-taught-college-instructor-embracing-scholarship-teaching-learning/
Sep 25
TED Talk: Depression, the Secret We Share
In this TED talk, Andrew Solomon concisely and effectively offers insight to many unspoken and misunderstood facets of depression from what it feels like, what it is, to alternative solutions and socionomic prevalence and implications. He opens up about his own experience with depression and how he was able to overcome it. Solomon uses experiences …
Sep 25
TED Talk: Being Just Crazy Enough
In this TED Talk, comedian Joshua Walters, offers a different perspective on being bipolar and having manic episodes. He offers the idea that one can choose to deny the illness and go through life over medicated, or one can use the illness and the manic episodes as a tool. He spends most of the clip …
Sep 23
Internet Trolls — Another View…
Here is an interesting counter view to our KM article read — “How to Tame an Internet Troll” This view argues that trolls provide a useful function in society — “Why We Meed Trolls…“
Sep 12
And so it continues…
Here is another great article exploring the topic of scholarship in social media…or is it scholarship? The author writes of his own scholarship and use of blogs and Twitter, being cited, and struggles within the academic scope of these forums being valued. http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/hybridped/social-media-service-and-the-perils-of-scholarly-affect/