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  1. Nov 2017
  2. www.projectconnect.world www.projectconnect.world
    1. Project Connect is a non-profit working to map every school in the world. Our goal is to provide real-time data assessing the quality of each school’s Internet connectivity, eventually creating an observable metric of society’s progress towards enabling educational access and opportunity for every student on Earth.
    1. On August 24, 2016 Reveal Digital announced that they were temporarily removing access to the OOB content. The main reason they gave was took this collection down citing minors access to pornography, the privacy concerns I raised and the need to consult with community.

      I wonder what the implications are for sites who maintain copies of old sites.

      Old site

    1. “We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”
    1. holistic, in which the skilled crafts-person could make almost every tool needed, and had much creative control over the entire process, and prescriptive, in which the control is shifted to a hierarchy of managers, and the human is part of a larger machinery. It is the latter meaning of technology that we probably most often encounter, and in my estimation, one that needs to be balanced with the holistic meaning.

      holistic vs. prescriptive

    1. My blossoming hope is that we can use some of the tools and rhetoric of open to build a public response to the crisis in American public higher education. OER can help us conceive of how the public can generate the materials it needs to support its education, and can help us center access as a key component of any equitable learning environment.

      How can or will institutions better internally support public education in ways that improve access and equity VS. outsourcing personnel, services, platforms, etc. which further adds to the problematic privatization issue.

    2. If OER is appealing because they can help make knowledge more accessible, then we must care about the myriad issues -- from child care to transportation -- that prevent our potential students from even coming to our classrooms in the first place.

      Broader concept of access to education.

  3. Oct 2017
    1. a study by the Connecticut Board of Governors for Higher Education published in 2006 found that only 58 percent of Connecticut state schools’ faculty knew how much the books they selected for their classes cost.

      Faculty aren't aware or don't care about textbook expenses. I think this is slowly changing for the better, but 58% is pretty bad.

    1. Most of today's educational technology depends on users having Internet access. Students, staff, and faculty must be online in order to participate in learning management systems, digital tests, student information systems, licensed databases, and the entire web. They not only must be reliably online but also need to do so through high-speed connectivity. The digitally networked world is increasingly predicated on users having broadband access.
    1. Providing students with multiple means of perceiving, comprehending, and expressing their learning not only allows for students to engage with the material in a way that most benefits them

      Accessibility vs. Accommodation... Building accessible courses helps ALL students, regardless of their status of ability, as opposed to accommodating to meet the needs of one student.

    1. They know words like constructivism and problem-based learning, but they have never heard of open pedagogy. They know service learning and communities of practice, but they don’t know how to get started in the digital space to make that work connect to others. They don’t know what a domain is but they know it’s a real pain in the ass when you lose access to your teaching materials. They have adopted an Open course, but they haven’t edited anything yet and they have no idea why that matters so much to some people. They know Reading, Writing, and ‘Rithmetic, but they may not know the 5Rs. They don’t care about the theories and ideas I care about. What you may care about.

      The common missing link: institutional support of professional staff to help instructors navigate these water. Why this isn't a priority is mind blowing. The evidence of the impact on students is clearly there, but most of the work to enact this change is falling on contingent labor (primarily at CCs).

    1. "They said it's coming any day now, but they've been saying that for a couple weeks now," said James Martello, a freshman at UAlbany who applied to the four-year state school because of the scholarship. "We already paid the bill, so I assume we'll get it refunded in some way or another."

      seems a little disconcerting...

  4. Sep 2017
    1. “a higher education professional who is engaged in course design and development and who provides faculty support to aid in the adoption of academic technologies and effective teaching strategies across face-to-face, blended and online modalities.”

      ID definition

    1. Higher education has atomized knowledge by dividing it into disciplines, subdisciplines, and sub-subdisciplines — breaking it up into smaller and smaller unconnected fragments of academic specialization, even as the world looks to colleges for help in integrating and synthesizing the exponential increases in information brought about by technological advances

      Conundrum around increasing specializations and specialized generalists.

    1. If the revolutionary part of social media lies in its potential to help marginalized people find a community & to organize, then we need to teach kids where and how to look.

      Yes!

    1. To have them look at their information environments not as vehicles of just self-expression, but as ways to transcend their own prejudices. To read and listen much much more than we speak. And to see what is needed through the lens of privilege – teaching the beauty of deference to the students with self-confidence and social capital, while teaching marginalized students to find communities that can provide them with the self-confidence they need.

      Golden, Holden!

  5. Aug 2017
    1. The thing is, I struggle with self-doubt quite a bit. And the way you conquer self-doubt is to convince yourself that you do belong in the center of the story, that you’ve earned what you’ve got, and in fact you should strive for more. If you walk around thinking that everything you have is illegitimate and that you are not central to some meaningful narrative you’ll never find the energy to make positive change. That doesn’t help anyone. It gets worse: as a male raised in this patriarchal society, that sense of displacement from the center of the narrative can quickly turn inward and gnaw at you. It's a cancer. Heck, even deferring to the expertise of others can feel like failure. So how do privileged men find a new sort of manhood, that can be powerful and driven without being exclusionary? How do I, as a white male, make my peace with deference to others, with being told, occasionally, what to do by people who know better? With stepping aside? With being a bit player in a story where we are sure we could get the lead role?

      Couldn't agree more. Support group, please. At wits end.

    1. Is this just-in-time support or something else?

      For me, the majority of it is this. Not last second, frantic JIT, but "I want/need support at the time I will actually use what you help me understand, build, use, plan, etc."

    1. And reflection is the key to integrative ePortfolio pedagogy and practice. In her essay, “Reflection and Electronic Portfolios: Inventing the Self and Reinventing the University,” Kathleen Blake Yancey defines reflection as the centerpiece of powerful ePortfolio learning.iiReflective pedagogy transforms ePortfolio from a push-button technology into an engaging process of connection, integrating academic learning, life experience, and profound processes of personal growth

      so interesting how this is emerging from the use of a tool

    1. he ‘preciseterms’ are only precise if interpreted by means of the background under-standing and experience. Without this they are largely vacuous.

      need background to understand

  6. Jul 2017
    1. uCertify provides courses, simulator, labs, test prep kits for IT certifications including Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, CompTIA, CIW, Adobe, PMI, ISC2, EC-Council, Linux, Zend, Google, IC3 , Adobe and many more.