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Generation “MySpace”

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Social networking and its impact on students and education

This was my first overseas seminar since joining the University of Auckland as an academic in Technology Enhanced Learning. The seminar – focused on social networking – began with Dr. Dahle Suggett raising important issues around social networking and its impact on the social and emotional wellbeing of our youth. According to him, social networking begins a new era of cultural management where it becomes essential for educators and school administrators to plan the management of the social aspects of technologies. Many schools and universities end up blocking the access to tools such as ‘YouTube’ and ‘MySpace’. Is this the right approach? How do schools respond to students’ use of advanced technologies?

Affordances of Web 2.0

Keynote by danah boyd
Networked publics concept began with the inception of Usenet in 1979. Web 2.0 has provided more opportunity for networking in the public sphere with the use of modern social networking tools.

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Good teaching in large classes

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In this seminar, experienced teachers of large classes shared their strategies for keeping their classes active and engaging. It’s not about the tools, but how you use them to meet the needs of your learners, staying true to your teaching approach.

References:

McKeachie, W. (1980). Improving lectures by understanding students’ information processing. In McKeachie, W.J. (Ed.), Learning, Cognition, and College Teaching. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 2. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
Learning spaces e-book by EDUCAUSE
Good, M. (2001). On the Way to Online Pedagogy (Chapter 13) in John Stephenson (ed.). Teaching and Learning Online: Pedagogies for New Technologies. [Online]
Lyman, F. (1981). The Responsive Class Discussion. In A. S. Anderson (ed.), Mainstreaming Digest. College Park: College of Education, University of Maryland, 1981. (Think-pair-share technique)
Thiagi, S. (2005). Thiagi’s Interactive lectures: Power up your training with interative games and exercises. USA: ASTD Press.
George Brown (1978). Lecturing and Explaining. London: Methuen. (Peer squares-peer assessment technique)
Shenk, D. (1997) Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut, San Francisco: HarperCollins.  

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