Comments on: Five Recommended Readings?

By: Gedichte

Gedichte — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:01:37 +0000

Hello from Germany! May i quote a post a translated part of your blog with a link to you? I’ve tried to contact you for the topic Five Recommended Readings? | open thinking, but i got no answer, please reply when you have a moment, thanks, Gedichte

By: t_krischak (Tim Krischak)

t_krischak (Tim Krischak) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:33:00 +0000

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By: martinlindner (Martin Lindner)

martinlindner (Martin Lindner) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:40:59 +0000

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soziale netzwerke/wissen/technologie i.d. bildung: welche 5 bücher, artikel, blogposts ... vermitteln grundverständnis? [link to post]

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By: Deb Kitchener

Deb Kitchener — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:33:26 +0000

How about the latest Horizon Report? http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2010/

By: drewmca (Drew McAllister)

drewmca (Drew McAllister) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:47:43 +0000

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gathering potential candidates for my edtech library [link to post] , prompted by @curosa post [link to post]

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By: dennis p. anderson

dennis p. anderson — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:10:41 +0000

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By: Diane Main (Dowbiggin)

Diane Main (Dowbiggin) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:33:54 +0000

If your dean is looking for a good basic overview of all the stuff that’s out there, I can suggest Meaningful Learning With Technology by Jonassen, Howland, Marra, and Crismond. For people like us who spend all day and night online, a lot of the content/tools it covers won’t be new to us, but for someone who wants to catch up on the underlying important stuff, this covers it.

The chapters focus on the different roles technology plays in education: investigating, experimenting, supporting writing, modeling, community building, communicating, designing, and visualizing, then assessing meaningful learning. And in each chapter it gives examples of the tools and sites out there that can be used for these purposes.

By: Dean Shareski

Dean Shareski — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:37:23 +0000

I would also like to say that one of the failures I’ve seen in leadership is while these sources may provide a window into some changing opportunities for education, there is a cavaet that leaders often don’t participate, they just observe. Observation is fine but understanding I think has to come from true participation in connecting and learning with others in new ways. Unless they do that, I’m not convinced these readings alone will do anything.

I’d also challenge both George and Gary in their despise of “pop-culture” type books. I think what’s exciting and meaningful to me is the blurring of lines between formal education and social media. I agree that educators may offer some unique insights and understandings when it comes to learning theory but I’m equally as excited by the fact that we learn with anyone, anytime and anywhere are don’t have to place everything in the context of educational jargon.

This is not to dismiss the ideas of Papert and Wegner and I appreciate their desire to advocate for their perspectives, I just don’t think it has to be either or. I learn from lots of people and don’t really care if they are educators or not.

By: José Mota

José Mota — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:48:06 +0000

Lots of great stuff already, but here’s my 2 cents:

Martin Owen, Lyndsay Grant, Steve Sayers and Keri Facer, Social Software and Learning – Future Labs Report July 2006
http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/documents/opening_education/Social_Software_report.pdf

Maarten de Laat, Networked Learning, 2006
http://www.e-learning.nl/files/dissertatie%20maarten.pdf

Stephen Downes,The Future of Online Learning: Ten Years On, 16-11-2008
http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2008/11/future-of-online-learning-ten-years-on_16.html

George Siemens, Knowing Knowledge, 2006
http://www.elearnspace.org/KnowingKnowledge_LowRes.pdf

Terry Anderson (ed.), The Theory and Practice of Online Learning (2008)
http://cde.athabascau.ca/online_book/second_edition.html