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Brooke Hessler | Material Metaphors
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Hands-on Rhetoric, Teaching and Craft in a Digitized World. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Author Archives: Brooke Hessler. Strike a Pose: Drag as Shtirasukha. May 15, 2016. The Heart of Yoga. TKV Desikachar explains how in every pose yogis aim to achieve. A combination of steady alertness (. With comfort and lightness (. Ananta must be strong and steady to support the universe (. But keep his body relaxed to serve as a comfortable bed for his lord (. In a moving article about this t...
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Digital Cultures | Digital cultures, e-learning, and humanity | Page 2
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Digital cultures, e-learning, and humanity. Newer posts →. Coursera and the homogenization of knowledge. Coursera’s course E-learning and Digital Cultures. Has launched. Thousands joined in. The discussion forums already have more than 200 pages of titles. Current enrollment exceeds 30, 000 students. How many people will view the same short films, read the same articles, and create blogs in response to the same topics? The image of Bendito Machine III. Not long time ago, I read about how Coursera and oth...
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The role of economics and culture in students’ motivation for learning | Digital Cultures
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Digital cultures, e-learning, and humanity. Why do we need structure in higher education? Digital Artifact for “E-learning and Digital Cultures” #edcmooc →. The role of economics and culture in students’ motivation for learning. In my blog Why do we need structure in higher education? I talked about how students sometimes choose to pursue a major because of cultural and economic factors rather than an intrinsic motivation for learning and shared a story to illustrate that point:. My impression is that th...
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Why do we need structure in higher education? | Digital Cultures
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Digital cultures, e-learning, and humanity. Coursera, MOOCs and Higher Education. The role of economics and culture in students’ motivation for learning →. Why do we need structure in higher education? This blog started as a response to Felicia M. Sullivan’s blog “ The Story We Tell Ourselves. Felicia proceeds to describe traditional way of learning and traditional institutions of learning:. I would like to explore the idea of structure in higher education. I recently met a wonderful Chinese graduate stu...
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Gems from Neil Postman’s “The End of Education” | Digital Cultures
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Digital cultures, e-learning, and humanity. Digital Artifact for “E-learning and Digital Cultures” #edcmooc. Notes from Gardner Cambell’s “The Arts of Freedom in a Digital Age” speech →. Gems from Neil Postman’s “The End of Education”. As I was preparing to grade students’ discussions, I came upon an old notebook with quotations. #edcmooc. The following gems come from Neil Postman’s book. The End of Education. I do not even remember its edition and publisher. Perhaps, it is this one. Great reason for sch...
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Notes from Gardner Cambell’s “The Arts of Freedom in a Digital Age” speech | Digital Cultures
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Digital cultures, e-learning, and humanity. Gems from Neil Postman’s “The End of Education”. Wiki – a modern digital tool for social learning →. Notes from Gardner Cambell’s “The Arts of Freedom in a Digital Age” speech. The following notes come from Gardner Cambell’s presentation on the arts of freedom in a digital age. The Arts of freedom in a digital age. Think at scale (think exponentially). Stimulate curiosity and prize interest. Search for the implicit human (search for the human who made something).
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dementia | Material Metaphors
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Hands-on Rhetoric, Teaching and Craft in a Digitized World. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Making Material Rhetoric Matter More. September 29, 2013. Http:/ shadowboxpress.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/making-a-memory-box-for-alzheimers-dementia-patient/. Strike a Pose: Drag as Shtirasukha. 8220;It’s too expensive”: On team teaching. Studying the Stories behind Stories. Quad 5 – Dan. Quad 5 – Paula. Quad 5 – Sarah. Digital Divide Defined (Hint: it's not about access).
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tools | Material Metaphors
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Hands-on Rhetoric, Teaching and Craft in a Digitized World. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. January 23, 2013. Teaching and learning ingenuity. If All You Have is a Hammer . . . January 21, 2013. The first day of our Liberal Arts Seminar I said Cardinal Newman’s philosophy of liberal learning. Boiled down to one thing: his concern that if all we have is a hammer everything will look like a nail. Building up your 10,000 hours. Goats and New Media. June 26, 2009. I smiled as I heard all ...
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verum factum | Material Metaphors
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Hands-on Rhetoric, Teaching and Craft in a Digitized World. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Category Archives: verum factum. January 23, 2013. Teaching and learning ingenuity. January 11, 2013. Two years ago today my friend Elaine died of Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS). For years she was my closest friend in the department. As time passes I find myself missing her more, finding more things we ought to be talking about. Teaching is one of those things. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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collaboration | Material Metaphors
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Hands-on Rhetoric, Teaching and Craft in a Digitized World. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. 8220;It’s too expensive”: On team teaching. April 2, 2016. If I were appointed U.S. Tsar of Higher Education I would require that all courses be team taught. –Stephen Brookfield. Yesterday I crashed Steve Brookfield’s keynote address at the Transformative Learning Conference. I’m a critical reflection geek. So I tried it a few hours later. This topic is also coming up as I work on an essay abou...
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