Collective Intelligence: Online Democracy or a Digital Wasteland?
Abstract from Dr. Maryanne Berry’s EDCT 552 Educational Technology Praxis Course Wikipedia and Crowdsourcing are what Henry Jenkins calls “Collective Intelligence” in his MacArthur Foundation report “Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century,” about the participatory culture of today’s youth. Collective intelligence is “the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal.” These two phenomena represent how the democratization of the internet has changed the way...
read moreA Philosophical look at the Common Core
The backlash to the Common Core State Standards movement is quite ironic. It’s interesting that the CCSS, which was developed to promote education, has produced such anger-based ignorance. Just like any good teacher or parent those of us who support the common core and understand the spirt of the movement must continue to find ways to explain it to those that don’t get it or maybe they do but are ideologically opposed to it. I think a quick look at basic western philosophy and the four educational philosophies that have emerged from it might...
read moreEducation Technology – A Primer
This article is an abstract from SSU EDUC 571, Dr. Paula Lane, Capstone Research Assignment Education Technology What is education technology? Quite simply it’s the use of technology to educate. Not to be confused with technology education, which teaches the use of technology, education technology is the infrastructure, both hardware and software, that’s used in today’s modern classroom to facilitate the education of students. This included both in class (synchronistic) and distance (asynchronistic) learning. Any technology cannot be...
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