Daily post 05/16/2012
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How I assess a funding application: Part 1 – Track-records « The Research Whisperer
Useful information for those chasing grants, especially those with enough years ahead of them to be able to build the track record.
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20 ways of thinking about digital literacy in higher education
The core ideas apply at all levels of education. Staff and students both need to adapt practices. “It’s all about having time, having opportunities for ‘peer supported experimentation’ – which turns out to be the best way to learn new technical tricks” could be a useful line for our project application. That resonates with deep-play and the TPACK meme.
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Six Ways to Use Social Media in Education | Center for Instructional Technology
Useful, though not revolutionary, suggestions but perhaps that’s what makes them useful. They could be used by ordinary teachers with ordinary classes.
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Flipping Blooms Taxonomy | Powerful Learning Practice
Flip Bloom’s taxonomy upside down and begin with creating rather than climb the steps of the pyramid. It seems a bit radical but it does make sense in the examples provided.
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Can Online Learning Communities Foster Professional Development?
Article provides more support for ideas around PLNs for professional learning. Content and references also likely to be useful for OLT project.
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Are Smart Phones Spreading Faster than Any Technology in Human History? – Technology Review
Smartphones are becoming endemic. It can only be a matter of time before we can assume very high rates of access among tertiary students and even at younger levels. We need to be thinking about the potential for learning.
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Connectivism: Design and Delivery of Social Networked Learning
IRRODL special issue with more than one article that might be helpful in laying foundations for the project application we are building.
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