Archive for December 2011

A Practical Infotention Master Class

Use Twitter, search, Diigo Delicious, DEVONthink, Scrivener to find, refine, and organize information into knowledge

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Howard Rheingold, Ted Nelson & Doug Englebart at Play

This is a celebration in the season of celebration.    

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Should I save or should I go now?

Harvard’s Nieman Center presents some intriguing primary research digging into emerging patterns of what is saved or marked for future reading. This is one of the key Infotention skills, and the initial results point mostly to the “kinds” of writing that emerge as being “sticky.” This is a natural concern for  Journalistic research. The study equates this stickiness with engagement, another Infotention component, one requiring some deeper and more pointed research. Developing

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New online learning models becoming mainstream

The confluence of technology and education is starting to achieve a critical mass.  At the same time, Khan Academy continues to insinuate itself into the broader discourse about online education.  

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Berkeley Regents Lecture: “Social Media and Peer Learning: From Mediated Pedagogy to Peeragogy”

Our illustrious Chief Curriculum Officer and Instructor Howard Rheingold has been invited to deliver the University of California at Berkeley Regent’s Lecture on Monday January 23, 2012 from 5 to 7 p.m at South Hall on the Berkeley Campus. Quoting Mr. Rheingold ““My career-long compulsion has been to take new media to their limits. In the field of learning, this means developing a method of teaching and learning that amplifies the affordances of online media to depart from the millennia-old model of professor-lecture-texts-tests. The first stage of this evolution was the application of online media to classroom teaching. The second stage was the transformation of my teaching because of

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The Infotention Network

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