This morning I read an eCampus News (Can Twitter use help improve grades? Some researchers think so) overview of a recent article from the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning reporting a positive effect on grades when students use social media (The effect of Twitter on college student engagement and grades, R. Junco, G. Heiberger, E. Loken). I love that studies are coming … [Read more...] about Twitter improves grades, but science could be better #smcedu
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Curation Not The Future of The Net, Unless You pay
I was just referred to Tom Foremski’s Silicon Valley Watcher post on Curation and the Human Web… which argues that curating the content of the web will be a big topic in 2011. I don’t think so, at least not as it is characterized in the post. Curation is like knowledge management. If there is no business model, there is no incentive for people to curate content. Small start-ups … [Read more...] about Curation Not The Future of The Net, Unless You pay
Merit Pay and Teaching: Classrooms Aren’t Factories
The Vanderbilt study (see Merit pay study: Teacher bonuses don't raise student test scores) confirms what we know intuitively: you can’t pay a teacher to perform better in the classroom. Well, at least not the way we measure performance, and that is the big issue. We still have our heads in the factory and think our children learn in one. We think about performance rather than … [Read more...] about Merit Pay and Teaching: Classrooms Aren’t Factories
Encouraging Communities of Practice
I was just reading a report out from Deloitte’s Stan Garfield on Communities of Practice (original post from the Darwin Discovery Engine Blog no longer available. Find KM-related posts form Stan at Medium). Here are some thoughts on Stan’s 10 Principals. My comments are in grey. One - Communities should be independent of organizational structure. They should be based on the … [Read more...] about Encouraging Communities of Practice
Management by Design Workshop at KMWorld
I want to thank the people who attended my KMWorld 2010 pre-conference workshop that used the principles of design from my new book, Management by Design, to think about learning environments. The presentation part of the workshop wasn't that good. I have to rethink how to conceptualize the methodology before just jumping into it. The methodology reads much better than it … [Read more...] about Management by Design Workshop at KMWorld