Daily post 05/04/2012
May 4, 2012
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I learn through useful professional links from Facebook and Twitter. Why should students be different? How you gonna keep ’em down on the farm …?
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Twelve Principles of Collaboration
via @C4LPT Brief and to the point statements about how to make collaboration work. First up is to ensure benefit for everybody. Getting out of the way and leading by example also figure.
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DrAlb
2 Comments
Thanks for linking to my post.
My idea isn’t to keep students “down on the farm”, simply to be careful with social networks that don’t belong to Universities or students. This has implications for the privacy and sustainability of the learning experience.
If you read up to the end of the article, you’ll see that I advocate deep integration with existing social networks.
I think I agree with your comment and your original post.
My “down on the farm” reference was intended to be ironic. Students are familiar with and comfortable in the systems they use for personal purposes and are likely to find many of our educational systems less convenient to use and even clunky. Unless we make our systems more like what they prefer, it may be difficult to persuade students to use the ‘official’ systems when they can so easily take their conversations to somewhere they prefer. It will often be better to meet them where they are comfortable, though we and they would need to take care with privacy and other aspects.