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NATO Summit – Work Behind the Scenes
Leaders of NATO and aligned nations are in Chicago this week and will try to reach agreement on some big decisions. Do you think they do all the thinking, planning, brainstorming just while the leaders...
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Final notes from 1/24-25 National Mentoring Summit
I received an email from MENTOR today announcing that photos, videos and workshop presentations are now available at this link.I’ve been working on a final recap expressing some of my observations. I...
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In my last post I wanted to try to pin-point some ideas that seemed important to me in reference to the discussion going on at ETMOOC and with Mozilla around digital literacy and web literacy. It has...
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What Does It Mean to be Digitally Literate?
On my drive to work this morning, the Roger, Darren and Marilyn were discussing how the “older” generation folks they have in their lives were struggling with things like Facebook, Twitter, Smartphones...
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Column by Emanuel Derman: Little Big Data
Column by Emanuel Derman: Little Big Data: …I’m not sure what #etmooc topic this belongs to. Maybe “Connected Learning – Tools, Processes & Pedagogy.” Sooner or later online education talk, mooc or...
View ArticleInfographics to Enable Teaching and Learning
The opinion mill may be churning–some sources suggest infographics are dead, while others say we should move on to more appealing “story-telling agents.” But don’t yet discount their place in the...
View ArticleTell me EVERYTHING about you: What’s next in #QuantifiedSelf?
Tell me EVERYTHING about you: What’s next in #QuantifiedSelf?: …#clmooc reflection, interrupted. I’m guessing the Quantified Self, besides not having much privacy, may be less inclined to reflect and...
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The Struggle to Define Our Jargon – Excerpts from MOOC Research
Note: I will use this space over the next month to share excerpts from my dissertation The Evolution & Impact of the Massive Open Online Course. The research was a Delphi study bringing together 20...
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Poverty data for each Illinois Political District – just released
A few years ago the Heartland Alliance provided poverty data for community areas of Chicago, which enabled me to create maps showing this information, which I have shared in this pdf presentation.Today...
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