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Week 4

This week I liked the post here (again from TeachThought) about the Elements of a Digital Classroom. What does it look like?  What is the 'product?' What is the evaluation/feedback?  Quite thought provoking.

Lisa Nielsen is prompting us to consider Civil discourse in online spaces (no, really). This is a question that I have thought about previously, especially with the anonymity of the web... you can comment as anyone, or no one at all, and often people use this this anonymity as a mask to write things they would never say face to face, to represent others maliciously, to generally spread hate and vitriol. I often think that the answer is to disengage, but perhaps there is an alternative. Surely youth can be better at this than the purported 'adults' are...

Finally, another post from TeachThought (I really like this blog) about the reasons to use digital portfolios. Portfolios were mentioned in today's class with Eran, and this post shows us not so much how (those possibilities are probably endless) but more the why of using digital formats for portfolios of students' work.  Again, quite thought-provoking and relatively easy to implement, once the basics are set up.  Or, let the students set them up themselves.

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