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Junct Blog: The End
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For Collaboration, Sharing, and Community. Monday, December 12, 2011. I'm wrapping things up here at Junct Blog, and hopefully passing the torch on to some other West Campus adjuncts or otherwise interested parties. I'm moving on to the Ankeny campus in January where I'll be a full-time instructor, mainly teaching literature, but hopefully still thinking about issues pertaining to technology. In the future, I'd like to develop a course about technology and literature, for example. View my complete profile.
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Junct Blog: Ditch the GPS; Get Lost Instead
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For Collaboration, Sharing, and Community. Monday, December 5, 2011. Ditch the GPS; Get Lost Instead. We are entering an era of chaos. The traditional approaches to education are being challenged by rapid changes in technology and economic pressures. And if the old model falls, we're simply not ready to replace it. We don't have any good ideas. Or.we have a lot of good ideas but no big picture. In his opening post. For Week 13 of #change11 MOOC, Clark Quinn addresses this problem:. Chances are, if the dr...
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Junct Blog: What Page One Tells us About Education #change11
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For Collaboration, Sharing, and Community. Wednesday, November 23, 2011. What Page One Tells us About Education #change11. The documentary about the writing and editorial staff of the New York Times, is streaming on Netflix, and I recommend watching it if you want a glimpse into the future (or present) of education. However, as the highly watchable David Carr keeps reminding us in Page One. This is, I think, a perfect analogy for the world of education. Just because you can make a cheaper model and c...
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Junct Blog: December 2011
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For Collaboration, Sharing, and Community. Monday, December 12, 2011. I'm wrapping things up here at Junct Blog, and hopefully passing the torch on to some other West Campus adjuncts or otherwise interested parties. I'm moving on to the Ankeny campus in January where I'll be a full-time instructor, mainly teaching literature, but hopefully still thinking about issues pertaining to technology. In the future, I'd like to develop a course about technology and literature, for example. Monday, December 5, 2011.
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Junct Blog: Children Raised by Wolves are the Only True Self-Taught Learners #change11
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For Collaboration, Sharing, and Community. Friday, December 2, 2011. Children Raised by Wolves are the Only True Self-Taught Learners #change11. Daniel Gilbert says that all psychologists are required, at some point in their careers, to write a sentence that begins with "The human being is the only animal that." According to Gilbert, the answer is "imagines the future." My personal choice would be "wears socks with sandals," but I haven't done the field research to back that up. No, sorry, old joke.
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Junct Blog: D-MOOC
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For Collaboration, Sharing, and Community. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This is blog is authored by the adjunct faculty at Des Moines Area Community College West Campus in West Des Moines, Iowa. It is a space designed for sharing, collaboration, and community-building. English Instructor. I teach courses both virtual and real. View my complete profile. Ditch the GPS; Get Lost Instead. Children Raised by Wolves are the Only True Self-T. Using Twitter on the Half-Dipper Bridge #change11. R16 56 I Spy CEJ!
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Junct Blog: Bryan Caplan Needs to Get Out More #change11
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For Collaboration, Sharing, and Community. Wednesday, November 30, 2011. Bryan Caplan Needs to Get Out More #change11. Bryan Caplan, who often presents himself as the paragon of reason and reasonableness, has written an incredibly illogical article. Step 1: I open my mouth and talk about academic topics like externalities of population, or the effect of education on policy preferences. Step 2: The students learn the material. Step 4: My students become slightly better bankers, salesmen, managers, etc.
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Junct Blog: Thus Sprach der Super Committee
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For Collaboration, Sharing, and Community. Tuesday, November 22, 2011. Thus Sprach der Super Committee. I believe that since I am of German ancestry (I have been to the Motherland, where strangers approach me and start conversations as if we were long-lost roommates) I am entitled to make any number of potentially disrespectful German wordplay jokes. (There aren't many other cultural benefits of being German, unless you count spaetzle as a cultural benefit). Anyone who thinks the. And we all know that wh...
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Junct Blog: Using Twitter on the Half-Dipper Bridge #change11
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For Collaboration, Sharing, and Community. Thursday, December 1, 2011. Using Twitter on the Half-Dipper Bridge #change11. Based on I.S.T (Internet Standard Time) , this 2010 David Carr article. About Twitter is ancient. However, I've just come around to David Carr after watching the brilliant Page One. So forgive me for coming late to the party. Carr, who was initially a Twitter skeptic, has come to find great value in the micro-blogging software:. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Twitter helps define what is ...
