Saturday, November 20, 2010
EME2040 Students, Thank you for a great class!
Thanks for a great class this term students. I enjoyed reading your papers on connectivism, mobile learning, social networking, and eBooks. The ideas shared were insightful and thought provoking. If you do not have a grade for your research paper please make sure to load it through Blackboard by midnight EST tonight. I look forward to seeing some of you in future classes. Good luck on your futures. -Jeff Kissinger
Monday, November 15, 2010
Can Twitter Make You Smarter?
BY DAVID ZAX FAST COMPANY
Can using Twitter make you smarter? A new semester-long study found that college students who used Twitter for educational purposes earned GPAs a half-point higher than a non-tweeting control group.
In a group of 125 students at an anonymous medium-sized public college in the Midwest, 70 students used Twitter to access information and complete class assignments; the remaining 55 students used a more typical Internet-based course-management system and billboard. Not only did the tweeting 70 earn higher GPAs, they also reported much higher levels of engagement. The findings were reported in the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning.
Some early-adopting professors have advocated experimenting with Twitter in the classroom -- "essentially asking students to pass notes during class,” as the Chronicle of Higher Education once put it. This study may vindicate such an approach. But one professor quoted by the Chronicle expressed skepticism that Twitter alone could have led to such a remarkable boost. “I think more could be done to understand the range of ways that the Twitter design can work better in class assignments and collaborative note-taking,” said Dave Parry, a UT Dallas professor who himself has experimented with Twitter in his class.
Meanwhile, to the dismay of more traditional professors, students can point to a new justification for pulling out smartphones in class. BY DAVID ZAX Fast Company
Can using Twitter make you smarter? A new semester-long study found that college students who used Twitter for educational purposes earned GPAs a half-point higher than a non-tweeting control group.
In a group of 125 students at an anonymous medium-sized public college in the Midwest, 70 students used Twitter to access information and complete class assignments; the remaining 55 students used a more typical Internet-based course-management system and billboard. Not only did the tweeting 70 earn higher GPAs, they also reported much higher levels of engagement. The findings were reported in the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning.
Some early-adopting professors have advocated experimenting with Twitter in the classroom -- "essentially asking students to pass notes during class,” as the Chronicle of Higher Education once put it. This study may vindicate such an approach. But one professor quoted by the Chronicle expressed skepticism that Twitter alone could have led to such a remarkable boost. “I think more could be done to understand the range of ways that the Twitter design can work better in class assignments and collaborative note-taking,” said Dave Parry, a UT Dallas professor who himself has experimented with Twitter in his class.
Meanwhile, to the dismay of more traditional professors, students can point to a new justification for pulling out smartphones in class. BY DAVID ZAX Fast Company
EME2040 Research Papers Kissinger Fall 2010
Students,
I have been getting some of you papers in and reading them. There have been some really great ones, and there have been some good starts and drafts. In general here are some tips on getting the full amount of points 440:
1. Use APA formatting properly, specifically your in-text supporting references to your research articles and data. See Owl for good examples here http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
2. Use 5 or more supporting pieces of empirical research articles to support your assertions and thoughts. Examples of good journal articles can be found in BJET.
3. The minimum length of the paper is 5 pages, which does not include the title and references page.
Thanks, get these in by Saturday. Good luck, Pr Kissinger
I have been getting some of you papers in and reading them. There have been some really great ones, and there have been some good starts and drafts. In general here are some tips on getting the full amount of points 440:
1. Use APA formatting properly, specifically your in-text supporting references to your research articles and data. See Owl for good examples here http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
2. Use 5 or more supporting pieces of empirical research articles to support your assertions and thoughts. Examples of good journal articles can be found in BJET.
3. The minimum length of the paper is 5 pages, which does not include the title and references page.
Thanks, get these in by Saturday. Good luck, Pr Kissinger
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Mobile Moodle and mLearning project for mLearncon in San Diego
Check out this SlideShare Presentation:
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Monday, November 8, 2010
Sunday, November 7, 2010
EME2040 Week 7 Discussion
#eme2040 We are reaching toward the end of this course and all of our rich discussions. Much of what we have covered is exciting and potentially quite powerful for student learning. It is important, however, to have a nuanced perspective on the changes, technologies, and phenomena as well in order that we keep focused on teaching, learning, pedagogy, and most importantly student safety in the digital age.
Reflect back on our readings and discussions, and express a practical way forward to implement some of these techniques and tools for learning while simultaneously keeping students safe from any threats or misuse of the technologies.
Reflect back on our readings and discussions, and express a practical way forward to implement some of these techniques and tools for learning while simultaneously keeping students safe from any threats or misuse of the technologies.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Educational Tech Students
#eme2040 Students, those of you who use twitter, you can follow class updates here by following or simply follow them in blackboard. This is a great way to have instant access to what is new in the class.
Fall 2010 EME2040
Everyone has been doing a great job in eme2040 educational technology this fall term. Please make sure to post frequent high quality contributions and questions to the discussion boards and to complete your lab assignments. I look forward to reading your paper the last week of class, and most importantly both of my EME2040 classes end 11/21/2010 so plan accordingly.
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