Category: New Media
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Rethinking Peer Review
Given the discussion that the Critical Studies had earlier this week about Morville and folksonomies — and what counts when doing background reading for research — this article from Wired makes me rethink how the research gets done in the first place. Scientists frustrated by the iron grip that academic journals hold over their research…
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Notes from “Using Multi-Media Records of K-12 Practice as Teacher Education “Texts””
Here are some notes from another presentation on campus: Using Multi-Media Records of K-12 Practice as Teacher Education “Texts” by Pam Grossman and Anna Ershler Richert In this presentation we will explore the use of web-based, multi-media representations of practice in teacher education. Both of us are affiliated with the Quest project, of the Carnegie…
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eSchool news article on New Literacies Research Team
Here is an article that features a summary of the great work being done by the New Literacies Research Team. I saw them at AERA earlier this year and I think that they are on to some interesting points about online reading, especially in light of all the Wikipedia-ish concerns this summer. Study aims to…
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Missing the (Power)Point
What is it with our affliction with Power Point? Check out today’s Foxtrot: FoxTrot by Bill Amend – September 8, 2006 Over the years, I have seen many cartoons, articles, and voices in education and the media taking pot shots at Power Point without ever really talking about the root of the problem: lacking a…
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Some thoughts on assessment of new media
David makes an interesting point about blogs and assessment. After noting the old aphorism, “Not everything that is measurable is valuable and not everything that is valuable is measurable,” he adds this: I think the things that are most educationally valuable about blogs and read/write web tools are the hardest to measure. Certainly, the creativity…