Learning Designer @EMERITUS_INST, EdTech geek, soccer jock, digital maps nerd, new music hipster, photography enthusiast
Chicago, NC
Joined August 2009
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What can instructors do to help students online feel like active participants in their own education, not solitary learners staring at a screen? Colleges that have planned for an online fall have some idea. chroni.cl/34HPTJ1
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Trending: Professors believe students cheat more online, and colleges ramped up use of detection tools amid shift to remote instruction this spring. Better assessment and student engagement would be more effective, experts say. bit.ly/2WR4f5h
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The @chronicle asked me to expand on my tweet last week about why colleges are spending so much time, effort, and money on getting back to the physical campus when they should be doing more to improve remote and online learning. chroni.cl/2B9gqCN
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If you care about your students, if you want them to learn and succeed, you’ll embrace the opportunity to improve your online teaching this summer. chroni.cl/37AvW6q
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"The obsession of many college leaders with preserving or improving campus metrics, rather than human lives, is a disgrace," @ibogost writes: on.theatln.tc/7Dq5Q2C
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Surveys examining students’ impression of the rapid shift to remote instruction in the spring indicate dissatisfaction with the experience bit.ly/2NzSv1U
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For one professor, the trick to building relationships in a Zoom classroom was assigning them to write personal essays about their lives. chroni.cl/2Bx1lLk
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This "keynote" epitomizes the problem for edu in general: all focus is on tech, 0% focus on inspiration or impassioning students. #SxSWedu
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Correction: just learned the Oprah moment will be later, when we walk outside and get free BBQ. Thank god for Edmodo. #sxswedu #oprahGates
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The Bill Gates talk show going on now feels awkwardly similar to Between Two Ferns. #sxswedu
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FL must have guy that says numbers in middle of your count and everyone cracks up and has to start over again. Hate that guy.
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For the record, the most challenging classes I took at UNC (the Honors 32 cycle w/ Professor Goldberg) featured neither tests nor quizzes.
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Always had great shows in NC. Lots of nice people there. This time, the ignorant & fearful yelled louder. It'll change. #stillloveyouNC
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Not too shabby! - Raleigh-Cary jumps to 7th from 14th on Forbes 'Best Cities for Jobs' list :: WRAL Tech Wire: bit.ly/Iv9J8z
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The recession killed journalism – and saved it blogs.reuters.com/paulsmaler… These days the media business is pushing pixels, not paper. via @reuters
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We'll never completely understand cats. Why they rule the Web, however, can be explained. bit.ly/Aul169
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Without any more GOP debates, I'm afraid I won't remember how horrifying and terrible things are.
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7 Educational YouTube Channels - via @TLC_edu blog.simplek12.com/education…