- Jan 2016
-
medium.com medium.com
-
Giving students their own digital domain is a radical act. It gives them the ability to work on the Web and with the Web, to have their scholarship be meaningful and accessible by others. It allows them to demonstrate their learning to others beyond the classroom walls. To own one’s domain gives students an understanding of how Web technologies work. It puts them in a much better position to control their work, their data, their identity online.
What a great way to summarize the importance of student-owned and operated domains, well-put.
-
we’re concerned about what students do online but we fail to probe the “appropriateness” of the demands on data and content that (education) technology companies increasingly make on the students in turn.
It must be a challenge to monitor a few hundred students and their social media presence, better yet a few thousand.
-
is often tinged with fears that students will be seen “doing bad things” or “saying bad things” that will haunt them forever.
I have a gut feeling that a small part of this is really for the sake of holding prestige so that potential freshman do not place labels or stereotypes on schools that they have not yet attended.
-
Instead of focusing on protecting and restricting students’ Web presence, UMW helps them have more control over their scholarship, data, and digital identity
I am fond of that idea
-
-
hackeducation.com hackeducation.com
-
As Arthur C. Clarke once famously said, “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
That's an intriguing way of putting it.
-
We’re told this exchange — this extraction, if you will — fosters innovation.
In today's world, it would be hard to think about a day where there is absolutely no internet. Some individuals may become lost without it, yet on the same token, the internet would be lost without people and their ideas.
The internet is merely a large tool used to transfer and manipulate information across broad horizons.
-
Yet unlike technologies that are specifically geared towards classrooms, Google doesn’t really suffer from its association with ed-tech, does it? Instead, it’s credited with bringing a long-overdue technical boost to schools. And it’s free!
I have always carried a great appreciation for everything Google has done for education, in terms of all of the free services they provide that help me link with other classmates and workers.
Being free and universal is what I feel makes Google ahead of the game.
-