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Connected pedagogy: Shared minds

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I call this connected pedagogy. When people connect using technology, they seek out commonalities and look for shared experiences. The selection of common goals and purposes is a powerful motivator for those engaged in collaborative learning. One essential element of connected pedagogy is communication. Unported License.

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Connected pedagogy: Smart technology

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Connected students can become the nodes of their own production, and are creating more content than ever before as they perform their learning for global audiences. A variety of new approaches to pedagogy have been introduced as a result of our hyperconnected society (of which more in a future blog post). Unported License.

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Maker pedagogy

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More and more teachers are beginning to realise that creating environments and possibilities where students make things is a very powerful pedagogy. Teaching takes a back seat and product based education is sidelined in favour of process based learning. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Connected pedagogy: Social networks

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Connected students can become the nodes of their own production, and are creating more content than ever before as they perform their learning for global audiences." Connected pedagogy: Social networks by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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What is authentic assessment?

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Until we change how and what we measure from 19th c productivity norms, education will deliver a 19th c product.' If we focus on measuring the product and ignore the process of learning, we fail to prepare students for modern work. Unported License. Assessment. This was a message tweeted by Cathy Davidson recently.

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Learning is a journey

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It is a process, not a product. Sadly, formalised learning is usually characterised by product based objectives. All of formal education points firmly in the direction of products, with scant attention paid to the process of learning. Therefore, the best way to transform the product into a process is to change assessment.

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The cult of the grade

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It says 'this product meets the requirements.' Assessment drives pedagogy, so if assessment doesn't change, it's difficult to teach in new ways. It's bad pedagogy, and needs to be challenged. It is difficult, when leaders resist, for institutions to break out of old, traditional thinking about pedagogy. Unported License.