tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49987496454946168662024-02-07T10:35:05.042-08:00Beyond Information LiteracyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08882337327722486582noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998749645494616866.post-72741442214909770302014-01-31T14:39:00.000-08:002014-01-31T14:48:21.812-08:00MOOcing Experiences - 1st in a series of MOOC reflections<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">This is the first, of [what
I hope will be] a series of posts on my MOOCing experiences over the past 5+
months. I hope they will provide food for thought to my fellow co-learners and
aspiring/experienced curators. If you’ve been ‘following’ my journey using
#metaliteracy, #dcurate, #teachinglibraryresearchstrategies on Twitter, this
series is being written with you in mind as my primary audience.</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s Friday afternoon and the following Canvas notification
appears in my email:</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTaenUe-xgvIVncrQaFrreYASDzOqsbkpfJQf8eidVogiCrenhYWLvGtzUrUME-SDVdmmUIk0cBqB9iG_38aca9jANS2e7bO8u6kAN-hx9GTeRcke_fCYrHIgtyjjD4gjBwh_VQyRoc_iZ/s1600/canvas_notification.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTaenUe-xgvIVncrQaFrreYASDzOqsbkpfJQf8eidVogiCrenhYWLvGtzUrUME-SDVdmmUIk0cBqB9iG_38aca9jANS2e7bO8u6kAN-hx9GTeRcke_fCYrHIgtyjjD4gjBwh_VQyRoc_iZ/s1600/canvas_notification.png" height="252" title="Canvas notification" width="640" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This “</span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Teaching Library Research Strategies</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">” MOOC only
started on January 27, and, in addition to replying to our individual discussions
on the discussion board, our instructor has already posted 8 announcements!</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMOiUiy4INNnQjMetABvaorNoMcbxiMpqJ6ZCv77CRM0ix7gOWbgSeqf1hUf8y7eh3YVkj5sfEW-0WpZmYZ4I3oKulq5zAcLh-42D-ZbUTvYD5OobaDkCvGsMINC3aERLUue_WMhyd8zjE/s1600/Rocci_8_announcements.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMOiUiy4INNnQjMetABvaorNoMcbxiMpqJ6ZCv77CRM0ix7gOWbgSeqf1hUf8y7eh3YVkj5sfEW-0WpZmYZ4I3oKulq5zAcLh-42D-ZbUTvYD5OobaDkCvGsMINC3aERLUue_WMhyd8zjE/s1600/Rocci_8_announcements.png" height="211" width="320" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I appreciate how this MOOC instructor helps keep learners
engaged by posting notifications like this. [But I digress - that’s <b>NOT</b> the
point of today’s post nor do I want to call your attention to the fact that there are some discussions (<span style="color: red;">the </span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">RED arrows</span>) that I need to read.]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since I already know that my instructor is looking for some discussion,
I go to this new ‘Announcement’ on the Canvas site.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The page is replete with links. The instructor has certainly
gotten my attention. [You’ll remember that I am an <b><i>Informavore</i></b> and aspiring
curator!] </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I immediately notice that this "Friday update" appears to contain some verbatim text and <u>doesn’t provide a link to the source</u>! [This <b>IS</b> a course on
research strategies, right?]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I scroll down the page, I notice something about the
References it provides:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I go in search of the original article and find that,
although it indicates today as its last modification date, it actually dates
from January/February 2002 [making these links at least 12 years old]!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, just for the ‘halibut’, I decided to follow the
breadcrumbs so my co-learners could be alerted to the status of these antiquated links and shared my
findings with the instructor and my co-learners:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>My takeaway:</b> In reflecting on this journey through the
'<i>Valley of the Shadow of Dead Links</i>', I'm reminded that a </span><a href="http://amzn.to/Mn3qdh" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">good book</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> is often a
better source than a soon-to-be outdated curated list of Internet resources!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have you had similar experiences? Share them in the comments section below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And stay tuned for more "<b><i>MOOcing Experiences</i></b>".</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08882337327722486582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998749645494616866.post-51710214040782104172014-01-17T15:04:00.003-08:002014-01-17T15:04:48.531-08:00From Seeking to Sharing: a story about PLNs and Curation<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a story about my curation
and my PLN [Personal Learning Network].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most days, I end up filing the
cornucopia of blog posts, listserv and RSS feeds that come across my browser or
email inbox into folders. Occasionally, they ‘grab’ me, lure me into actually
reading them and following their breadcrumbs. And, since I am currently engaged
in the the free <a href="http://www.curatr3.com/portfolio-item/how-to-be-an-effective-digital-curator/" target="_blank">Curatr Digital Curation mini MOOC</a> (Massive Online Open Course),
put together by Sam Burrough and Martin Couzins, I decided that this blog post would represent my ‘call to action’ – my ‘ah ha’ moment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The post was an insightful analysis by <a href="http://www.jarche.com/2014/01/pkm-roles/" target="_blank">Harold Jarche</a>,
a man I consider to be a PLN ‘guru’. Jarche’s visuals curate his
<b>Seek>Sense>Share</b> continuum by placing these three elements into a grid
comprised of sense-making and sharing:</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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and plots them on the same coordinate grid based upon each role’s levels of
sense-making and sharing:</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Being intrigued, I decided to further investigate <a href="http://www.greenchameleon.com/thoughtpieces/pkm.pdf" target="_blank">Lambe’s 6C’s </a><span class="MsoHyperlink"> </span>to learn more about my own curation push ↔ pull
tendencies. And, after answering his self-assessment questions, found that I
was a ‘collector’. [No news there!] Reading <a href="http://www.greenchameleon.com/gc/guide_detail/personal_km_a_diy_guide_to_knowledge_management_part_2/" target="_blank">Tan’s introduction</a>, I was (only somewhat) mollified by his observation: “different people have
different personality types, and different personality profiles in relation to
their personal knowledge affinities and capabilities.” I tallied my
‘tendencies’ to visualize my profile:</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How I Scored on Lambe's scale</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looks like I’m doing OK on Jarche’s SEEK and SENSE. My goal,
however, is the upper right quadrant: to be actively sharing. Here, then, are the
goals I derived from this exercise: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">relationship-building to enhance the ‘connection’
(especially with my audience) and</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">packaging and presentation to be a more consistent ‘creator’</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mike Fisher did a nice job of visualizing the Collection/Curation dichotomy as a continuum. So I'll leave you with one more image to ponder:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and challenge you to think about where you’re spending your
time and how to move your own efforts to the right-hand side. Try taking Lambe’s
assessment and share what you learned about your own style and what you intend
to do to modify it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>RESOURCES:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fisher,
Mike. "Collection or Curation?" <i>Digigogy</i>.
N.p., 11 June 2012. Web. 17 Jan. 2014.
<http://digigogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/collection-or-curation.html>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jarche,
Harold. "PKM Roles." <i>Harold Jarche: Seek > Sense > Share</i>.
N.p., 12 Jan. 2014. Web. 16 Jan. 2014.
<http://www.jarche.com/2014/01/pkm-roles/>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Taylor,
Donald H. "Skills for 21st Century L&D Professionals." N.p., 13
Dec. 2013. Web. 17 Jan. 2014.
<http://donaldhtaylor.wordpress.com/2013/12/13/skills-for-21st-century-ld-professionals/>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lambe,
Patrick. "Personal Knowledge Management: A DIY Guide to Knowledge
Management - Part 2." Green Chameleon. Straits Knowledge, 2002. Web. 16
Jan. 2014. <www.greenchameleon.com/thoughtpieces/pkm.pdf>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tan,
Edgar. "Personal KM: a DIY Guide to Knowledge Management - Part 2."
Green Chameleon. N.p., 23 Apr. 2003. Web. 17 Jan. 2014.
<http://www.greenchameleon.com/gc/guide_detail/personal_km_a_diy_guide_to_knowledge_management_part_2/>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Zierten,
Charity. "What Is 'Content Curation' Anyway?" Socially Engaged
Marketing, 18 Apr. 2012. Web. 17 Jan. 2014. <http://www.sociallyengagedmarketing.com/2012/04/content-curation/>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08882337327722486582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998749645494616866.post-24833778322520026132014-01-15T06:02:00.001-08:002015-02-03T08:54:36.774-08:00Infographics as a Form of Curation<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On 13 December, a SUNY </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Conversation in the Disciplines on "</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Developing Metaliterate Learners: Transforming Literacy across Disciplines" was held. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paige Jaeger <a href="http://librarydoor.blogspot.com/2013/12/metaliteracy-megaliteracy-and.html" target="_blank">summarized the proceedings</a> by creating this infographic:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This got me to rethink my fascination with Infographics. While I DO love to write, as you've noticed if you've slogged through my previous posts, I appreciate the value of an image. It's not just that "a picture is worth a thousand words". An image 'sticks' in a way that words alone can't. Jaeger's visual summary 'resonates': like the lyrics to a favorite song, like the refrain from a tune. [If only I could turn my spreadsheets of data into something memorable like this!] </span><br />
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LibraryDoor. N.p., 17 Dec. 2013. Web. 15 Jan. 2014.
<http://librarydoor.blogspot.com/2013/12/metaliteracy-megaliteracy-and.html>.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08882337327722486582noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998749645494616866.post-3720852695594221852013-11-08T14:16:00.001-08:002014-01-24T08:13:48.448-08:00[VERY] Long Ago and [NOT SO] far, far away… - a STEM reflection with some personal bias thrown in<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a story about my experiences with ‘flipped classrooms’ and STEM education. It also is a tale about Vygotsky’s <i>zone of proximal development</i> and ‘<i>scaffolding</i>’. And, ultimately, it relates how I overcame my ‘<i>fear of math</i>’.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was in 7<sup>th</sup> grade
when the Soviet Union sent</span> <span style="font-family: Stencil;">Sputnik 1</span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">into Earth orbit in 1957. [That’s when the ‘space race’ officially commenced.
Before that date, US education had resembled the hare in Æsop’s fable.] And so
began my journey into “accelerated learning”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">i</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">]</span></span></span></span>. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Aesop's Fables</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;"> with an Introduction<br />by Marcus Sedgwick </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Puffin; Reprint edition (2013)</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8</span><sup style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> grade found me in
Algebra class with Mr. Bozzo [I kid you not – that WAS his name!], who believed
that the way to teach Algebra was to assign homework from the text (without
providing any instruction) and then to review questions students had in class
the next day. I guess Bozzo’s ‘</span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">flipped classroom</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">’ approach worked for most of
my classmates – they were going to be
engineers or scientists when they grew up - but I didn't have their innate
affinity toward ‘non-numerical mathematical objects’ (AKA </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">unknowns</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> or </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">variables</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">).</span><br />
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addition, like most math texts, ours was poorly written and did not provide
intelligible directions for solving problems. Also, since only one of my parents had
graduated from college and had only received a D in her college algebra course,
I had no help from my folks</span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">ii</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">]</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.
[WAS I in a </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ZPD</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> but my teacher just didn't provide the </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">scaffolding</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> that I
required at the time?]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Over the Christmas break, Mr.
Bozzo assigned a take-home exam. Suffice it to say, I spent most of my vacation
in the Hempstead Public Library, pouring over whatever Algebra texts I could
find on the shelves and trying to understand HOW to do the take-home problems.
My bedroom floor became littered with wads of crumpled notebook paper that
represented several weeks of unsuccessful attempts at solving the assigned
problems. I think I finally figured out how to do the exam problems and
probably passed the mid-term. In retrospect, G-d knows how I survived both
Algebra I and II!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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encountered the Chair of our high school’s Math department AND was faced with
Plane & Solid Geometry & Trigonometry<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">iii</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My journey into the joy of mathematics </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">was short-lived. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the first parent-teacher conference of the year, Dr. Toner
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Mrs. Simpson,
is your daughter going to be a doctor or an engineer? [You can guess her answer.]
Then WHY is she taking up space in my class?” [I kid you not!]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Suffice it to say, I dropped his
‘honors’ course ASAP and transferred into Regents Geometry. I COULD handle ‘proofs’,
‘theorems’, and ‘postulates’! And, although I couldn't draw free-hand, I COULD
use a protractor, compass, and ruler! And <b>I never took another math course
again</b>! [And I never DID learn how to use a slide rule!] <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;">[</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">iv</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;">]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fast forward 40 years – I am a
solo librarian at a 2-year proprietary college. Students in our college algebra
course are having trouble with solving quadratic equations. Just about the ONLY
thing I remember from high school Algebra IS the quadratic formula:</span></div>
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remembering Mnemonics like PEMDAS and SOHCAHTOA, I’m still unable to determine
HOW that quadratic formula stayed with me!] </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And so began my career as a math
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some things never change – math
books are still being poorly written! Luckily, they now come with Student
Solution Manuals that provide step-by-step instructions on how to solve the odd
numbered problems. By back-engineering the odd-numbered problems, I was able to help students
figure out how to solve their even-numbered homework problems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And some things have changed with the
times. I couldn't find a table of trigonometric functions at the back of any
math book in my library and had to learn how to use a scientific calculator. I, also, had to teach myself logarithms. [“Look, Ma, no slide rule!” and thank heaven
for <a href="http://www.purplemath.com/modules/logs.htm" target="_blank">PurpleMath</a>.]</span></div>
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there were video tutorials on VHS, then on CD and then DVD. There were software
tools you could use online that would provide practice problems, grade your
results, and even show little video clips explaining how to do the problems or show
step-by-step solution instructions. But these were prepared by the same people
whose textbooks were so difficult to follow in the first place! These tools even provided pre-assessments and used a form of AI to develop a sequence of modules
to follow. But often, the same problem was just repeated and varied only by
supplying different units or values. You’d rush to get through ten of them
correctly just to advance to the next module!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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a plethora of tools like <a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/" target="_blank">Khan Academy</a> videos</span><span class="MsoHyperlink">, some students just didn't get it. Over the years, I found
myself showing numerous students how to calculate and graph trigonometric functions,
how to solve logs, and how to understand things like ∑ummation notation. To keep from writing the same notes by hand day after day and quarter after quarter, I ended up developing little <a href="http://getzvillelrc.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/ge192-college-math-ii-study-sheets/" target="_blank">study guides</a> for them to use. </span><span class="MsoHyperlink">[Oh yeah, you caught me – I just created another tool!]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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is good. Technology provides us with a plethora - a veritable cornucopia of tools. However, technology should NOT be used in lieu of one’s brain. When I tutored,
if a student reached for a calculator to do a simple addition or multiplication
problem, I’d slap his hand. Technology can help us
deal with large numbers, or crunch data, or simulate experiments by changing variables and observing (or graphing) the
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and, while tech provides a vast array of supplemental tools that appeal to a
variety of learning styles, in the end <i><b>Learning involves a synergy between a
teacher</b></i> (be s/he F2F or remote and reachable via email, texting, video chatting,
webinars …) <b><i>and a learner</i></b>. Even P2P (Peer-to-Peer) or PBL (Project-Based
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gist of 'acceleration' was to get students into AP classes to earn credit toward
college prerequisites before entering college. [Advanced Placement tests had
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">My mother was a whiz with numbers but just couldn't wrap her mind around the
concept of <i>variables</i>. She religiously
attended each class and struggled to submit each homework assignment and only
received a passing grade from her instructor because she was going to teach 2<sup>nd</sup>
graders and, therefore, would NOT have to teach algebra. Her instructor said:
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in those days, there were NO calculators. You used slide rules and tables of
trigonometric functions, from which you often had to extrapolate answers to a
certain number of significant digits. [I won't launch into a chorus of 'Those were the days, my friend'!]</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now here’s a really</span> <span style="font-family: Ravie;">scary</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">thought brought up by</span> a <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">blog post by
Donald Clark (11-7-13): "<a href="http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2013/11/when-big-data-goes-bad-6-epic-fails.html" target="_blank">When Big Data goes bad:6 epic fails</a>". <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Clark notes that “Data, in the
wrong hands, whether malicious, manipulative or naïve can be downright
dangerous. Indeed, when big data goes bad it can be lethal. Unfortunately the
learning game is no stranger to both the abuse of data.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Clark’s blog post ties in with Topic
4: Connecting Visual Literacy to
Metaliteracy and reiterates my call for “<a href="http://beyondinformationliteracy.blogspot.com/2013/10/on-need-for-due-diligence-in-21st.html" target="_blank">due diligence</a>” (10-18-13), based upon Catherine Lombardozzi’s “<a href="http://learningjournal.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/perils-of-popular-science/" target="_blank">Perils of Popular Science</a>” (10-17-13).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08882337327722486582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998749645494616866.post-39267492361955733202013-11-01T14:36:00.000-07:002013-11-07T15:44:04.837-08:00Hello, Is There Anybody Out There? - What Message Are You Sending Me?<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OK, fellow Metiliteracy MOOCers, I don’t get it.</span></div>
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responded to it. So, I tested it myself. [Granted, it didn’t seem to work as an
embedded form using my Chrome browser, but it DID in IE and my stats show that
52% of my views were done using Internet Explorer!] Therefore, I quickly added
a <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1O252icm72-OuIZST8Z6CpP1k61wj5_AmICb8r03uLr4/viewform" target="_blank">direct link to the Google Form</a> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on my blog post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I just wanted to thank the one librarian who DID take the
survey. You validated the fact that it <b>IS</b> functional. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I’m just wondering
<b>WHY</b> no one else has responded. The survey <i>IS</i> anonymous. And, if you have any
questions about the survey questions, you could always email me (KSHerzog@live.com) or use Blogger’s ‘comments’ feature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you ‘<b>get</b>’ <b><i>Metaliteracy</i></b>, then you understand that one of
its key principles is the ability to engage in dialogue, and, perhaps even to
engage in collaboration. It’s all about <a href="http://beyondinformationliteracy.blogspot.com/2013/09/getting-message-out-and-getting.html" target="_blank">Getting the MESSAGE OUT and GettingMESSAGES BACK</a> and <a href="http://beyondinformationliteracy.blogspot.com/2013/09/getting-messages-back-and.html" target="_blank">STARTING/CONTINUING/DEVELOPING CONVERSATIONS</a>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So here's hoping that the 21 people who viewed my survey WILL take a few minutes to respond to it. This is your opportunity to express your preference about how these communications are shared among Metaliteracy MOOC participants and, in addition, providing valuable feedback to future MOOC offerings.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08882337327722486582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998749645494616866.post-2139635266157749852013-10-30T10:45:00.002-07:002013-10-30T11:00:57.104-07:00Beware online "filter bubbles" - Eli Pariser's TED Talk<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eli Pariser: <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html" target="_blank"><b>Beware online "filter bubbles"</b></a> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(filmed March 2011)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">I hope you will agree that Pariser's TED Talk ties in with this week's topic: </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">TOPIC 5: MEDIA AND NEWS LITERACY </span></div>
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"Pioneering online organizer Eli Pariser is the author of "The Filter Bubble," talks about how personalized search might be narrowing our worldview. </div>
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Abstract: As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy."</div>
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Pariser reminds us that we are seeing a Web based upon 'invisible algorithmic editing' of relevance. Yes, the algorithms are created by humans but the resultant 'personalization' leads to what Pariser calls "filter bubbles". And he calls for a return to the 'civic responsibility' displayed by the human gatekeepers of our past (the role that newspapers and other media provided us). "...We need the new gatekeepers to encode that kind of responsibility into the code that they're writing."<br />
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"So if algorithms are going to curate the world for us, if they're going to decide what we get to see and what we don't get to see, then we need to make sure that they're not just keyed to relevance. We need to make sure that they also show us things that are uncomfortable or challenging or important -- this is what TED does -- other points of view."<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" mozallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="http://embed.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="560"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08882337327722486582noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998749645494616866.post-20914076336305294082013-10-30T10:14:00.003-07:002013-10-30T10:14:42.703-07:00The Whole Student: Cognition, Emotion, and Information Literacy - a C&RL preprint of interest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This article, "The Whole Student: Cognition, Emotion, and Information Literacy"</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> by Miriam L. Matteson (Kent State), was accepted for publication in September [but won't actually be published by College and Research Libraries until January, 2015]. Luckily, those of us who are working on a Metaliteracy action agenda can read the </span><a href="http://crl.acrl.org/content/early/2013/10/23/crl13-533.full.pdf" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">preprint</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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of learning that is influenced by cognitive, emotional, and social processes.
This research studied how two emotional constructs (emotional intelligence and
dispositional affect) and two cognitive constructs (motivation and coping
skills) interacted with students’ information literacy scores. Two studies were
carried out with a group of undergraduate students. Correlation and regression
analyses revealed that emotional intelligence and motivation significantly
predicted students’ information literacy scores. Instruction librarians may
consider incorporating greater awareness of the emotional and cognitive aspects
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08882337327722486582noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998749645494616866.post-42596282268713832902013-10-25T09:00:00.000-07:002013-10-26T16:23:25.372-07:00Put Your 2¢ In! (Metaliteracy MOOC Participant Survey)<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you have trouble viewing or submitting this form, you can <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1O252icm72-OuIZST8Z6CpP1k61wj5_AmICb8r03uLr4/viewform" target="_blank">fill it out online</a>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A post from </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Catherine Lombardozzi, one of the thought leaders I follow as part of my PLN RSS feed, popped for me and I just had to share it with other members of the MetaliteracyMOOC and readers of my blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The blog post, <a href="http://learningjournal.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/perils-of-popular-science/" target="_blank">Perils of popular science</a> (</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">October 17, 2013) raises questions about the increased need for 'due diligence' in 21st century research and scholarship.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since my response to her post is awaiting moderation, I'll share it with you here:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.453125px;">Catherine, this is a great example of why those of us in the library profession make such a big deal about the concept of “information literacy” or ‘Metaliteracy,’ as some are suggesting we call it in the 21st century. With the advent of OERs – with the plethora of curation tools and the ‘noise’ they can generate – with self-publication AND self-promotion being so readily available and accessible, critical literacy becomes increasingly important. Caveat emptor!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Are your ideas about critical evaluation changed or sparked by Lombardozzi's blog post?</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08882337327722486582noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998749645494616866.post-4770606822408781002013-10-15T13:07:00.000-07:002013-10-15T13:07:17.008-07:00Metaliteracy: “Liquidity” and “Fluidity” and the Game of Lifelong Learning<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">These are the <b>thought-leaders</b> I chose from among the works Prinsloo offered in his presentation</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Prinsloo’s
<i>Beta </i>(β), <b>critical literacy </b>(as Freire observed) involves <b>reading both the <i>world</i> and the <i>word</i></b> in
a <b>nonlinear</b> fashion:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Reading is no longer a passive linear act</b> in which we follow the author's lead from page to page,
from idea to idea, from topic to topic. The nature of authority is that it
dictates the direction of a text. In even the most basic hypertext document, <b>the reader begins to have more control</b>
than with the printed book. <b>The reader
can make choices about which direction to go, paths to follow, and which to
ignore or put off until later.</b> In some hypertexts <b>the reader is encouraged to contribute, to add nodes or comments to the
existing text, or even to alter it.</b> In this format, traditional definitions
of the author are no longer valid, but must give way to a postmodern sense that
<b>text is created in both the writing and
the reading.</b> Even more, the acts of <b>reading
and writing become intellectually and physically intertwined</b>. (Wahlstrom)
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And, to
return to Bourdieu’s playing field analogy discussed in <a href="http://beyondinformationliteracy.blogspot.com/2013/10/metaliteracy-learning-how-to-play-field.html" target="_blank">my previous post</a>, “The <i><b><span style="color: #38761d;">habitus</span></b></i> is therefore a <u>generative</u> rather than a <u>fixed</u>
system: a basis from which endless <u>improvisations</u> can derive; a
'practical mastery' of skills, routines, aptitudes and assumptions which leave
the individual <u>free</u> to make (albeit limited) <u>choices</u> in the <u>encounter
with new environments or fields</u>. As in a sport or jazz, in Bourdieu's
favoured analogies, mastery of the rules or an instrument gives a 'feel for the
game' which enables individuals to <u>improvise</u> in response to the
circumstances of the moment.”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span> (Behler)
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Against this background, Prinsloo tries to
make sense of the 21</span><sup style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">st</sup><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> century: “Our understanding of the scope and
function of literacies is influenced by our understanding of the major
discourses of the current (and future) age.” (slide 11) He then gives us James
Martin’s view of the 21</span><sup style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">st</sup><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> century as potentially “The New Dark Age”
and asks: “</span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How does such a view of the world shape my view of the scope,
definition and function of literacy?</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">”
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The <i>Liquidity</i> of Discourse: The Relativity of Truth and its
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can do, and where they can go during the game, depends on their field position.
The actual physical condition of the field (whether it is wet, dry, well
grassed or full of potholes), also has an effect on what players can do and
this how the game is played” (Thompson, 2012, p. 66). (slide 18)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Being of a philosophical bent, I asked Paul to what
extent one’s ‘location’ affected one’s perspective or perception – in other
words, whether the Thompson quote alluded to “the relativity of truth”.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[iii]</span></span></span>
In responding, Prinsloo admitted that there ARE some universal truths (like the
Laws of Physics, which we can’t argue since they hold true from any perspective
we might view them).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To further ‘muddy the field’ [and I know this is a
terrible pun], Prinsloo introduced us to Bauman’s concept of <b><i>liquid
modernity</i></b>.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--> This was used by Area and
Pessoa as the foundation for “</span>a model for developing new literacies of
citizenship in the digital society…. we contrast the 'solid' culture of the
19th and 20th centuries to the ‘liquid’ information culture of the 21st century
in which Web 2.0 plays a fundamental role and affects many aspects of our
culture.” (p.13)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Area and Pessoa review the main features of Web
2.0, which they see as having six major dimensions: as a universal library,
global market, as a giant hypertext jigsaw puzzle, a public space for social
communities, a territory for multimedia and audiovisual expression, and as a
space for multiple virtual interactive environments. [include web 2.0
dimensions pic here] I love the way the authors refer to the overabundance of
the universal library of the Web as “<b><i>infoxication</i></b>”!</span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 115%;">[v]</span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prinsloo attempts to align the
competencies these dimensions require with those proposed by Mackey and
Jacobson</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and expands their Metaliteracy
Wheel to include the competencies required in a Metaliterate environment.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My takeaway from Prinsloo’s presentation: Knowledge is
no longer a ‘production line’, where each individual expands upon (or refines)
the original concept; knowledge in the 21<sup>st</sup> century is developing
into a canvas where ideas can be taken and transformed (by the cultural,
philosophical, intellectual, and creative perspectives of the player [be s/he reader,
listener, participant or ‘player’) into an array of thoughts, shared by the
individual with whomever cares to ‘taste’ them and re-use, revise, or re-invent
them into new artifacts that can, in turn, be sampled by others and re-used,
revised, or re-invented in a vast array of formats and etc. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So <b>Lifelong Learning is a “Make (rather than
Choose) Your Own Adventure”! </b>And I, for one, am enjoying the adventure immensely!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">REFERENCES and other
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bauman,
Zygmunt. "Education in Liquid Modernity." <i>Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies</i> 27.4 (2005):
303-317. Education Source. Web. 9 Oct. 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Behler, Constantin.
"Habitus." <i>CB's Glossary for Students</i>. N.p., 27 Oct. 2001.
Web. 11 Oct. 2013. <http://faculty.washington.edu/cbehler/glossary/habitus.html><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Freire, Paulo and Donaldo Macedo. 1987. <i>Literacy:
Reading the Word and the World</i>.
South Hadley, MA: Bergin & Garvey</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Linear." <i>Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus,
Third Edition</i>. Philip Lief Group 2009. Web. 15 Oct. 2013.
<http://thesaurus.com/browse/linear>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Martin, James. <i>The Meaning of The 21st Century: A
Vital Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future</i>. London, UK: Transworld Publishers,
2007. Print<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prinsloo, Paul. "Metaliteracy in beta: A Personal View from the
South." <i>SlideShare</i>. 23 p., 7 Oct. 2013. Web. 11 Oct. 2013.
<http://www.slideshare.net/prinsp/p-prinsloo-7-october2013-final>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thompson, Pat. "Field." <i>Pierre Bourdieu:
Key Concepts</i>. Ed. Michael Grenfell. Durham, UK: Acumen Publishing, 2012.
65-82. Print.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wahlstrom, Ralph. "Approaching The Paideia: an
Advanced Composition Model - The Triad; The Paideia." N.p., n.d. Web. 13
Oct. 2013.
<http://faculty.buffalostate.edu/wahlstrl/I-Search/frierereading.htm>.</span></div>
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leads me to wonder: <b>At what point does
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Nazik Roufaiel commented: “I am not sure about reading the world! From which
perspective, culture, economic, social, technology and infrastructure... Also <u>how
do we interpret what we read</u>, do we do it from OUR perspective, or the
writer’s perspective, or background?” I noted “It is philosophical and ties in
with content creation by individual users and the evaluation of same by the
'reader'/'viewer' as well as the manipulation by re-posting”; to which Joyce
McKnight responded “Key is to keep in mind that <u>nothing is ever neutral</u>.”
Tor Loney added “<u>Understanding what we are NOT seeing is also a key part of
critical consciousness</u> - both in the sense of knowing one's own personal
blocks and also actual existing blocks or absences.” And David Brown summarized
“I think <u>understanding that everything is biased really brings ultimate
understanding</u>.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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discusses the impact of liquid modernity:..” society is being transformed by
the passage from the ‘solid’ to the ‘liquid’ phases of modernity, in which all
social forms melt faster than the new ones can be cast. They are not given
enough time to solidify and cannot serve as the frame of reference for human
actions and long-term life-strategies because their allegedly short life
expectation undermines efforts to develop a strategy that would require the
consistent fulfillment of a ‘life-project.’” (p.303)</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Since I am an avowed “<b>informavore</b>”
(AKA ‘consumer of information’), do I, therefore, run the risk of becoming “<b>infoxicated</b>”?
Maybe I already AM too ‘infoxicated’ to recognize the signs!</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08882337327722486582noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998749645494616866.post-8454477289201712782013-10-11T12:50:00.002-07:002013-10-15T13:11:36.864-07:00Metaliteracy: Learning How to Play the Field<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope the other participants in Dr.
Paul Prinsloo’s Metaliteracy MOOC talk: “<i>Metaliteracy in Beta</i>” (7 October) came
away as excited by his webinar’s insights/perspectives as I was.</span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[i]</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
The title of Prinsloo’s presentation is significant - I agree with his use of
the concept </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Beta</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (β), a term implying prototype rather than
final product. Many computer programs are released in beta and are modified
based upon user experiences. So, too, with Metaliteracy, which is continuously evolving
as technologies are introduced/modified and as user skills develop or as her
information needs/environments change.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Discourse: Playing the game</b><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><b style="font-size: 11pt;">[</b><span style="font-size: x-small;">iii</span><b style="font-size: 11pt;">]</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to Prinsloo, Metaliteracy deals with <b>discourses</b> not just
static information. The discourses take place on a field “with different
players, and different agendas, rules, power-relations, inclusion and
exclusion… In order to be literate/ a player in the 21<sup>st</sup> century I need
to understand the field, the game, and my position, and my skills… How
does the field in which I find myself in, shape me? What/who shapes the field?
Who are the (other) players in the field: Who are they? How come they are
shapers? What are the rules? Who are the referees?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Rules are predetermined</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Players have different skills</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">What players can do is determined by their
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Although the image I’d have
chosen doesn’t delineate the size of the field, it DOES show the initial
placement of the members of both teams. And a most important person on the field: the referee!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[During the webinar, several of the
participants engaged in a chat on the playing field metaphor and other aspects
of the game that this metaphor brought to our minds.]<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a player, I need to consider my <b><i><span style="color: #93c47d;">HABITUS</span></i></b>
(the physical and intellectual 'me' that has been shaped by both my genetics and my experiences). In addition, my capabilities are shaped by the <b><i><span style="color: #c27ba0;">CAPITAL</span></i></b> I do or do not have
(including: Economic, Cultural, Social, Symbolic). Prinsloo summarizes:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In order to read
the world, I therefore need to be able to map <b>who</b> shapes/shaped my world, the <b>reasons</b> for it, <b>how</b> the
shape influences where I am and the <b>choices</b>
I have, what the rules of my world are and <b>who</b>
benefits from those rules (and my adherence) and how to <b>disrupt</b> and <b>formulate
alternative</b> narratives, for myself and for others. (slide 10)<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Field Theory” appears to have been discussed in class and
I’ll defer to <a href="http://shakirajones.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/looking-at-metaliteracy-from-a-field-theory-perspective" target="_blank">Shakira Jones’ blogpost</a> to cover that perspective.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another
aspect in Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological/anthropological/philosophical [and,
therefore, AKA ‘<i><u>Bourdieusian</u></i>’) framework is <b><i><span style="color: #93c47d;">HABITUS</span></i></b>,
the concept of 'a durable, transposable system of
definitions' , socialized
norms in our behavioral tendencies – including the way we tend to think, a
product of the ‘interplay’ between our heritage and cultural structures AND our
own free will or self-determination. [Was that too much in one mouthful?] The <b><i><span style="color: #45818e;">FIELD</span></i></b>
is, therefore, <i><b>objective</b></i> (existing
outside of myself), while <b><i><span style="color: #93c47d;">HABITUS</span></i></b> is <i><b>subjective</b></i> – how I act upon the field. But, as the <b><i><span style="color: #45818e;">FIELD</span></i></b>
changes, as the rules of the game change, my <b><i><span style="color: #93c47d;">HABITUS</span></i></b> will, likewise, morph.
Hopefully, this will allow me to play additional positions in the game. After
all, I AM a lifelong learner! And, if I play well, I should gain additional <b><i><span style="color: #c27ba0;">CAPITAL</span></i></b>
(though, by virtue of being a librarian, it probably won’t be additional <u>economic</u>
resources) but it will most certainly be in terms of <u>knowledge</u> and,
hopefully, include <u>social</u> <u>capital</u> (by dint of new or improved social
contacts and professional relationships) as well as some <u>symbolic</u>
<u>capital</u> (everyone appreciates recognition!)<o:p></o:p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>On Becoming a MVP (Most Valuable
Player)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lifelong Learning is our human
response, representing our desire to become a valuable player. Learning is a
team sport. We bring our strengths to the field. [I consider my strengths to be: teaching, a ‘team
player’ attitude, and my love of ‘wordsmithing’ combined with a philosophical
bent and a strong desire to realize a goal.] </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If I can develop strengths in
other areas, I might be able to play more positions. But, whether or not I can
do so, I could always serve as a coach. [She’s not represented in the diagrams above,
but that role is essential if the team actually wants to score some goals and
protect its own ‘red’ zone<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>!]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the same time, however, the
environment (our </span><b><i><span style="color: #45818e;">FIELD</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> is changing and so, too, are the rules of the game. But that will be the subject of a subsequent post on Freire’s “reading the world
and the word” and Bauman’s “liquid modernity”.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[See the <a href="http://beyondinformationliteracy.blogspot.com/2013/10/metaliteracy-liquidity-and-fluidity-and.html" target="_blank">final installment on my takeaways from the webinar</a>.]</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">REFERENCES
and SOURCES:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Behler,
Constantin. "Habitus." <i>CB's Glossary for Students</i>. N.p.,
27 Oct. 2001. Web. 11 Oct. 2013. <http://faculty.washington.edu/cbehler/glossary/habitus.html
>.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Bourdieu
and ‘Habitus’." <i>Powercube: Understanding Power for Social Change</i>.
Participation, Power and Social Change team. Institute of Development Studies,
University of Sussex, UK, n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2013.
<http://www.powercube.net/other-forms-of-power/bourdieu-and-habitus/>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jones, Shakira. "Looking at
Metaliteracy from a Field Theory Perspective." <i>Metaliteracy</i>. N.p.,
10 Oct. 2013. Web. 11 Oct. 2013.
<http://shakirajones.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/looking-at-metaliteracy-from-a-field-theory-perspective/>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prinsloo,
Paul. "Metaliteracy in beta: A personal view from the South." <i>SlideShare</i>.
23 p., 7 Oct. 2013. Web. 11 Oct. 2013.
<http://www.slideshare.net/prinsp/p-prinsloo-7-october2013-final>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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For those of you who missed Prinsloo’s talk, you can find his <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/prinsp/p-prinsloo-7-october2013-final" target="_blank">slides</a> and listen to the recording: <a href="https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2013-10-07.0107.M.0FAB3903494045EFC45539A96FEDFA.vcr&sid=2012301" target="_blank">Topic 3.2 A Global Perspective on Metaliteracy</a> (7
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Jarche, a member of the ITA (<b>I</b>nternet
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An aside about <b>discourse</b> and how I <b>play the game</b>: During the webinar,
there was rich dialogue/discussion/discourse in the chat window. [There may
have been more on Twitter, but I still haven’t gotten ‘into’ it!] <b>Chat</b> is, however, <b>linear</b> – so during a webinar, you either need a very agile
presenter who can keep an eye on the chat while, at the same time, presenting
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comments into appropriate places in the presentation. [You’ll notice that Paul
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by asking questions chatted by participants.] Since <b>Chat is Linear</b>, I found myself replaying the webinar recording so I
could use CTRL-C to copy a particular comment I wanted to note in my blog post
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Also the spectators influence greatly!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A strange, interesting aspect of
soccer: field size is not standardized, but instead within a set of
parameters. Interesting connotations for the analogy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Kate: Right...and the metaphor breaks down a bit
because spectators can run onto the field and join the game!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">@ Joyce - a game with ever-changing
rules because of the speed at which technologies develop<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I wonder if Paul counts such
"free-style" games such as street soccer, stick ball, etc....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Love this soccer (football) metaphor, right now I'm
feeling very out of place on this field, but also extremely energized to be
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And what about the role of the 'having
fun' aspect?!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I guess it’s like a soccer field where
you have to figure out where you are and what to do...feels about right for
this metaliteracy business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And sometimes the fun is a crucial
part of the Interaction and discourse - unformed boundaries are where the
creativity can happen!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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get the picture: this dialogue is taking place over a 10-minute span while
Paul is talking and is interspersed with other chat entries on other topics!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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Nicola Allain observed in her chat: “Habitus, Field, and Capital seem to be
some of the meta-spaces surrounding metaliteracy and metacognition.” And, in
answer to my chat question “But, if the world is getting smaller, shouldn’t the
literacies be coming together as well?”, Tor Loney commented: “I do believe
that literacies are merging – that is why to me the concept of metaliteracy is
critical. It aligns and joins all literacies into one concept.” Alice
Goodwin-Davey asked: “But isn’t part of the point that these multiple
Literacies also give a voice to those who usually do NOT have the option!” and
Nicola (whose dissertation is on the topic of empowerment) added: “Can we teach
metaliteracy in ways that empower? I think that is where critical consciousness
comes in.” Joyce McKnight observed: “I don’t think we empower… I agree with the
idea of embody.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pardon my mixing the metaphors of a soccer game with a football game.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08882337327722486582noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998749645494616866.post-43637560974602570162013-10-06T12:54:00.004-07:002013-10-29T09:22:26.678-07:00Did you miss me?...I’ve been MOOCing…and more<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David Hopkins<br />http://bit.ly/16rKrWl</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In conjunction with trying to
actively participate in this Metaliteracy MOOC, I joined the <a href="http://www.leadermooc.net/" target="_blank">Leadership forReal MOOC</a>,
two weeks into its start. This joint experience has provided additional
insights into the skills required of a <i>Metaliterate</i> individual. [Or should I
say <i>Metaliterate</i> learner, since, if we are not learning, we are not living?]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’m a great ‘<i>juggler</i>’ (or <i>multitasker</i>)
– it was one of the requirements of my various librarian positions. However, a
successful ‘juggling’ act requires <b>time
management </b>(or <b>project management</b>)<b> </b>skills. [And I must admit that I’m not
the world’s greatest time manager! I compensate by starting early in the
morning, by staying at work until I complete the task, or by taking work home
with me and doing it on my own personal time, thus putting off some of the
things I <i>should</i> have been doing in
terms of personal responsibilities. “Do as I say, NOT as I do.”]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Among the week’s activities were
webinars for both MOOCs on Wednesday (10-2), a webinar on Social Networking,
and one on Instructional Design on Thursday (10-3) [these are personal research
interests]; numerous discussion posts to read (and possibly respond to); and a
host of RSS feeds and aggregator emails to investigate [from sites I’m
monitoring/following as part of my PKN].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>EVERNOTE: </b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bookmarking? Downloading/Saving?
Finding it Again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’ve just started using <b>Evernote</b> and have 15 folders and 193
notes created since downloading this tool to my laptop on 19 September! I’m
overawed by the plethora of tools that the 21<sup>st</sup> century offers us.
But I definitely recommend <b>Evernote </b>if
you’re looking for a way to save and tag emails, webpages, and even ‘to do’
lists in one consolidated format. Rather than bookmarking, this tool allows me
to include an image prompt (taken from the image on the blog page or website)
in addition to ‘tagging’ items. Since I’m an ‘<i>informavore</i>’ (consumer of information), you should not take this
recommendation lightly!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s all about ‘Professional
Development’. [And for those of you who are still in school, it’s never too
early to initiate your PD plan. I found a great set of goals on a <a href="http://learningjournal.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/13-resolutions-for-professional-development-in-2013/" target="_blank">blog post by CatherineLombardozzi</a> (a Learning and Development Consultant and founder of Learning 4 Learning
Professionals). I’m trying to follow her recommendations:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><b>Declare
your intentions. </b>[</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Identify what you want to learn.]</span></li>
<li><strong style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">Follow
the leaders</span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.
[Identify them then look for their blogs, tweets, online presentations, journal
articles, and conference appearances.]</span></li>
<li><strong style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">Make
friends</span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.
[Classmates, colleagues, mentors, or role models can help accelerate your
learning.]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><b>Read.
</b>[Books, if you can afford to buy them or have the time to find them in your
library, </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">professional
journals, blogs, or articles that ‘pop’ from your RSS feeds or aggregators.]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><b>Write it down. </b>[Blog your insights... “</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">capture electronic articles and your comments on them on
a bookmarking site…” For some ideas, look at Steve Wheeler’s “<a href="http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2013/09/blogging-as-conversation.html" target="_blank">Blogging asConversation</a>”.</span></li>
<li><strong style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">Take
a vacation.</span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
[I’ll be going to Myrtle Beach for Thanksgiving and to Israel at the end of the
year.]</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lombardozzi, Catherine. "13
Resolutions for Professional Development in 2013."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Learning
Journal: The Learning 4 Learning Professionals Blog</i>. N.p., 1 Jan. 2013. Web. 6 Oct. 2013. <http://learningjournal.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/13-resolutions-for-professional-development-in-2013/>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wheeler, Steve. "Blogging as
conversation." <i>Learning with 'e's</i>. N.p., 14 Sept. 2013. Web. 24
Sept. 2013. <http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2013/09/blogging-as-conversation.html>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08882337327722486582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998749645494616866.post-46056909256699159772013-09-30T04:29:00.003-07:002013-09-30T04:48:04.624-07:00Tools for Learning [Thanks to Jane Hart's efforts]<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today, Jane Hart released her </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7</span><sup style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
annual <a href="http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/" target="_blank">Top 100 Tools for Learning (2013)</a>, the results of votes of over 500
learning professionals in workplace learning and education from 48 countries
worldwide. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[“A learning tool is a tool for your own personal learning or one that you use for teaching or training.” Hart’s definition of Learning Tools]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This overview can inform your own concept of tools you can utilize
as part of your own <i>metaliteracy</i> quest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’d suggest you look at Hart’s <a href="http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/analysis-2013/" target="_blank">analysis</a> (a revealing look at major changes) as
well as at her historical overview of <a href="http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/top-100-tools-2007-2013/" target="_blank">Top 100 Tools 2007-2013</a> (an alphabetic list of all tools that have been on the list over its 7-year history).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where do your current favorites show up on this list? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is it time you investigate (and, more importantly, start using) other tools?</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08882337327722486582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998749645494616866.post-67410529443752812732013-09-28T15:03:00.000-07:002013-10-15T10:01:52.626-07:00October is NATIONAL INFORMATION LITERACY MONTH! [I just can't help myself from SHOUTING!]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08882337327722486582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998749645494616866.post-57105752515175943432013-09-26T10:02:00.000-07:002013-10-12T08:03:05.412-07:00Getting MESSAGES BACK and STARTING/CONTINUING/DEVELOPING CONVERSATIONS<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To continue my previous post</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://beyondinformationliteracy.blogspot.com/2013/09/getting-message-out-and-getting.htm" target="_blank">Getting the MESSAGE OUT and Getting MESSAGES BACK – About Blogging as a Tool and Tools in General</a> </span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[i]</span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,
I’d like to tell you a story about a PKN (Personal Knowledge Network) journey I
recently took.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To frame this PKN experience, I should preface it by
giving you some context: I am interested in Learning in Organizations, both “Learning
Organizations” AND “Organizational Learning”. In researching the topic, I <i>found/discovered</i> Jane Hart, Collaboration
Consultant and founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance
Technologies (<a href="http://c4lpt.co.uk/" target="_blank">C4LPT</a>), one
of the world’s most visited learning sites on the Web.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
A webinar ‘junkie’, I attended a GoToTraining Webinar on <i>Social and
Collaborative Learning in the Workplace</i> given by Jane Hart (August 2012)<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span>
and added her blog, <a href="http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog" target="_blank">Learning in the Social Workplace</a>, to my
Outlook RSS feed reader.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This story demonstrates how discovery doesn't necessarily occur in chronological order.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">It starts with Hart’s blog post “</span><b style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">How do
we deal with unwilling corporate learners?</b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">” (September 22</span><sup style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">nd</sup><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">), which responds to Schlenker’s blog comment:
</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">“<i>The truth is, there are no learning
problems in corporate settings. There are only people unwilling to learn</i>”
(September 20</span><sup style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">th</sup><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">). Hart’s post develops a wonderful matrix of
self-directed/directed and willing/unwilling learners, which I just had to
share with the Metaliteracy MOOC.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">My blogging juices get flowing and I write my “</span><b style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Getting the MESSAGE OUT</b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">” post
(September 25</span><sup style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">th</sup><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">) which is fueled by Hart’s ideas. I agree with </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Schlenker’s other blog statement:</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> “</span><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Learning is about People, NOT technology</i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">”
and need to follow up on his observation that “<i>people still don't take advantage
of new technologies for learning</i>” and that “<i>so many workers choose to leave
their learning in the hands of others</i>.”</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">More on the topic from Clark Quinn (another
blogger in my RSS feed and, like Hart, a member of the <a href="http://internettimealliance.com/wp/" target="_blank">Internet Time Alliance</a>): “</span><b style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Being explicit about corporate learning</b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">” (September 25</span><sup style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">th</sup><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">) [unfortunately, AFTER I had posted mine]. Quinn observes
</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">that “<i>the ability to be a self-directed learning is a skill issue</i>” and
that “<i>learning-to-learn or meta-learning skills may or may not exist in any
particular individual</i>” which can be explicitly developed while willingness to
learn is a question of responsibility and attitude. [The issue of attitude is
one Quinn addressed back in April 2006 and he hyperlinks back to that earlier
blog post.] He concludes by coupling learning environment with culture: “<i>Learning
has to be explicit, safe, valued, modeled, and expected. Learners need to be
empowered with tools, coached, and formatively evaluated.</i>”</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">I now feel the need to chronicle the way ideas
are shared, thoughts are developed and connected in an asynchronous environment
through blogs. And, knowing that an image helps, put this mindmeld into a
graphic.</span></li>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The end of the saga leading to this post.</span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, dear readers, I ask you: </span></o:p></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Is it the technologies? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Is it attitude? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Is it willingness? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Do you see yourself in some of these observations? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Do you feel the tools are empowering? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Or overwhelming? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Are you comfortable with asynchronicity? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Do you agree that this is part of metaliteracy?</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hart, Jane.
"How do we deal with unwilling corporate learners?." Learning in the
Social Workplace. N.p., 22 Sept. 2013. Web. 26 Sept. 2013.
<http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/2013/09/22/how-do-we-deal-with-unwilling-corporate-learners/>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Herzog, Kate S. "Getting the MESSAGE
OUT and Getting MESSAGES BACK – About Blogging as a Tool and Tools in
General."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Beyond Information
Literacy</i>. N.p., 25 Sept.
2013. Web. 26 Sept. 2013. <http://beyondinformationliteracy.blogspot.com/2013/09/getting-message-out-and-getting.html>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Quinn, Clark.
"Attitudinal Change." Learnlets. N.p., 20 Apr. 2006. Web. 26 Sept.
2013. <http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=40>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Quinn, Clark.
"Being explicit about corporate learning." Learnlets. N.p., 25 Sept.
2013. Web. 26 Sept. 2013. <http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=3506>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Schlenker, Brent.
"Welcome back..." Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development.
N.p., 20 Sept. 2013. Web. 26 Sept. 2013.
<http://elearndev.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/welcome-back.html>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kate S. “Getting the MESSAGE OUT and Getting MESSAGES BACK – About Blogging as
a Tool and Tools in General <a href="http://beyondinformationliteracy.blogspot.com/2013/09/getting-message-out-and-getting.html">http://beyondinformationliteracy.blogspot.com/2013/09/getting-message-out-and-getting.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tools</b>” <a href="http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/quick-guides/quick-guide-to-blogging/">http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/quick-guides/quick-guide-to-blogging/</a>],
author of the <b><i>Social Learning Handbook</i></b>,
surveyor of “<b>The Top 100 Tools for
Learning</b>” (results of results of the 7th Annual Learning Tools survey <a href="http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/">http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/</a> will
be released 9-30-13) and author of “<b>A Practical
Guide to the Top 100 Tools for Learning</b>,” which describes the essential
features of each tool. I could go on extolling her accomplishments…but it
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The topic I’m currently pondering is Blogging, a tool that provides a platform on which you can crystalize your thoughts, opinions, or views
into an Internet post. If your purpose is to do only that – to create an
artifact (perhaps because it is required for your course), you probably don’t
care about “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What happens then</i>?” But
every guide to blogging I’ve read says that its goal is to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">engage</b> the reader – in contemplation and/or in conversation – to grow
and develop the thought and to get feedback from your readers. Blogging is a
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So I wanted to say how much I appreciate the </span><i><span style="color: #609060; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 28.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Metaliteracy
MOOC Daily Newsletter</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, which serves as an aggregator<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of Participants' Blog Posts, New Discussion Threads, Comments,
Diigo Posts, and Twitter Posts. However, this MOOC’s aggregation software DOES frustrate
me – it does NOT collocate materials. Comments on Blog Posts and New Threads
don’t sit with the materials that spawned them. And the software leads one to
comment, not on the page where the post resides (where is WOULD be collocated
as a thread) but in a chronological stream of comments. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Does anyone else find this frustrating</i>? <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Have you considered posting your comment directly on the blog</i>,
rather than (or in addition to) doing so using the MOOC’s comment link?</span></span></div>
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a great fan of aggregation. These tools/services are a great way of keeping
current with your areas of research and/or interest. They can help you grow
your <strong>PLN</strong> (Personal Learning Network)/<strong>PKN</strong> (Personal Knowledge Network). I mourned
the death of Google Reader but have compensated by adding numerous <em>RSS feeds</em> to
my Microsoft Outlook (where I see new ones every time I open my Outlook). These
unread feeds beckon me to explore the new thoughts of people whose thoughts
excite and stimulate me in my areas of interest. I supplement these with
listserv emails (usually of less interest but still of potential value to
finding out about new publications and webinars and possibly responding to a
question.) [I don’t Tweet, obviously have trouble limiting myself to 140
characters, but recognize that many professionals use this method in lieu of my
more traditional approach!] I also receive numerous aggregation emails from
LinkedIn groups to which I belong and aggregation services for which I’ve
signed up. All of these allow for responding and joining the conversation if I
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And I am not surprised to see that my first post got the
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I came upon a very relevant blog post from Jane Hart (one of
the sources I use in my “Learning Organization” PLN): <a href="http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/2013/09/22/how-do-we-deal-with-unwilling-corporate-learners/" target="_blank">How do we deal with unwilling corporate learners?</a> </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hart, whose blog posts often contain quite informative
visuals, notes that people who are independent (willing) learners will learn regardless
of teaching methodology. Unwilling learners, on the other hand, expect to be
taught. Since instructional designers and trainers try to motivate the unwilling,
their methods often frustrate their more willing classmates. She also observes
that there are those who are willing to learn but don’t know how to learn
independently. What they need is direction - “help to revive their innate
ability to learn.” Finally Hart notes that unwilling, traditional (directed)
learners need help in becoming self-directed, finding suitable learning styles,
and help in taking responsibility and accountability for their own learning. [There
is a lesson for teachers in Hart’s message: one size cannot fit all learners.]<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sharon Boller, a well-respected instructional design guru,
notes in her response to Hart’s blog the importance of creating a “self-directed
environment.” She also observes that “information overload is not conducive to
a self-directed approach to learning.” On the corporate side, she perceives “The
luxury of time is an essential ingredient to a self-directed learning approach.
You need time to explore, time to make some mistakes, time to reflect on what
it is you are learning. Corporate America is very short on time. Hence, I think
we’ve evolved directed approaches to learning that try to minimize the time
required for people to learn…. I also think we do a poor job in corporate
American at distinguishing what we truly need for people to learn to do and
what we simply want them to be able to find/locate as they need it. So we
create overly elaborate learning solutions for things that we don’t really
intend for people to remember and under-cut the learning situations that need
to be far more robust for people to truly gain skill or in-depth knowledge.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Source: Hart, Jane. "How do we deal with unwilling
corporate learners?." Learning in the Social Workplace. N.p., 22
Sept. 2013 Web. 22 Sept. 2013.
<http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/2013/09/22/how-do-we-deal-with-unwilling-corporate-learners/>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08882337327722486582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998749645494616866.post-82887287267112991912013-09-22T07:57:00.000-07:002013-09-28T14:27:28.474-07:00Jack of all Trades? – A Metacognitive Musing<br />
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Dennis Harter and Justin Medved summarize:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Reflection
has always been is a powerful tool used to develop as a learner and individual.
Today there are so many different ways in which an individual can acquire
knowledge, communicate and learn about the world. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Understanding yourself and which
learning environments and information streams work best for you are important
components of successful navigation in this information and learning landscape</i></b>.
Central to this is “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">learning how to
learn</b>” and developing in individuals <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">an
awareness of how they learn best and the different tools that are available to
them for different informational situations</b>. Growing an understanding about
of the various learning strategies they employ and the types of resources they
access in order to meet their information and learning needs are crucial
elements to growing as learner today”. [The bolding is mine.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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lots – novels, journal articles, blogs, RSS feeds (I still mourn the death of
Google reader), listserv notices and aggregator dailies that appear in my inbox
– if it contains text I can understand, I’ll read it. And, if it contains text
I think I can use for a future project or even text about a concept I’m
interested in, I’ll save it by downloading or bookmarking.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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saved into a vast array of folders in Outlook, Chrome bookmarks (also stored in
a variety of folders) and, though I choke to admit I use it, favorites and RSS
feeds on Internet Explorer! [Note to self: Gather them together into a more
unified format (see below).]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to attend tons of conferences, I have to content myself with webinars. Not all
of the professionals I admire come across as well in speaking as they do in
writing, but I have their presentations (Slideshares or PowerPoint handouts in
PDF) to remind myself of what they said. And I often have the archived webinar
that I can revisit when I need to refresh myself on their insights.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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use? [Not their question but closely linked to my style of learning]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Yesterday, I downloaded and installed <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Evernote</b> for Windows on my laptop.
While Microsoft OneNote came with my Office 2010, I just couldn’t get into a
comfort zone with this tool and am hoping that Evernote will help me organize
all those things I just mentioned. There are 2.65 GB on the C drive of the
laptop (which I just got this January). I’m afraid to look at my 32 GB flash
drive to see how much I’ve archived from my old Dell pc and from the files I
downloaded from my personal network drive at work! Did I say that I’m a saver?
Some of the articles were downloaded from databases to which I no longer have
access.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and make post-it notes on both webpages AND on PDFs of articles I’ve uploaded).
This enhances browser bookmarks by allowing you to see WHY you thought
something was important in the first place!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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when the light bulb turns on.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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demonstrable fashion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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graduate school, I suffered from ‘fear of writing.’ [Obviously, I have overcome
writer’s block!] The computer has given me the freedom to communicate in a
variety of formats.</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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planning to write a post on this [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A
Picture is Worth a Thousand Words</i>]. I’m not an artist; I can’t draw, but I
appreciate images that convey a message. Images are memorable – so I try to use
them liberally. </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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because I’ve learned how to capture and use other people’s images in powerful
ways to demonstrate my message. [BTW, Jing is great screen capture software!]</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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tried to create one, I find that <u>infographics</u> are a great way to distill a
wealth of information. [Have you looked at the ones I’ve put on this blog’s
Infographics page?] I excel at creating charts and graphs in Excel. [Pardon the
word-play!]</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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flow charts, mind maps, and storyboarding help confirm the
relationships/interrelationships between the knowledge being organized.</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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giving them. It gives me the opportunity to add my vocal talents and nuances of
voice to the slideshow I’ve prepared. I can’t stand to hear myself, however, so
I haven’t tried to make podcasts or videos! While I’ve tried to write stories,
I need to practice the art of storytelling to add relevance to my
presentations.</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’m an <u>informavore</u>! I
consume information. I make connections between disciplines. I’m a <u>teacher</u>! I
love helping others to understand and recognize/realize their own learning. And
you always learn something new when you’re teaching. I’m a <u>mentor</u>! I enjoy
supporting others and watching them develop and succeed. I’m a <u>searcher</u>! “Librarians
love to search” and I enjoy playing with a variety of strategies and search
tools until I find the best results available. I’m a <u>creator</u>. The down side of
that trait is that I always need to have a personal spin to put on my creation
so it’s unique and insightful. And I’m a <u>curator</u>! I enjoy discovering and
gathering information and evaluating/comparing/highlighting the best sources. [The
tools and art of Curation are also going to appear as a later blogpost.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Trades! I recognize that my talents can’t be used effectively on all platforms
or in all media. That’s not to say that I’m unwilling to try new tools but,
rather, that I’d prefer to continue to work my mastery of the ones I have in my
toolkit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08882337327722486582noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998749645494616866.post-61754992430575715752013-09-21T06:36:00.000-07:002013-09-28T14:24:59.757-07:00Metaliteracy as a definition of 21st Century Learning Skills<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background: white;">This
great recent ‘insight’ by Kumar </span>Snehansu nails it! He observes that: “<span style="background: white;">Education today is much more about ways of thinking
which involves everyday creative and critical approaches to problem-solving and
decision-making. It is also about ways of working as well as the tools they
require, such as the capacity to recognize and exploit the potential of new
technologies and methods of teaching. These citizens influence what they want
to learn and how they want to learn it, and it is this desire and inclination
that shapes the role of educators.</span>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background: white;">So,
whether you are a student, a teacher, or just a lifelong learner, </span>Snehansu’s
post covers all the bases:<span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Become a <em>self-teacher</em></span></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">– Its true definition can be quoted as ‘building
the ability to learn without the exclusive teaching of a teacher or
other such authority figure (parents, tutor, etc.)’. This is very different
from learning being just an instruction designed to help students consume
existing bodies of knowledge and actually this is the ultimate goal of any
education system.</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><em>Application based</em> knowledge</span></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">– building a broad set of basic skills needed by everyone for life
and work in the 21st century. This is a totally different approach of education
by encouraging students to accumulate knowledge-based credentials only but
instead applying the skills online on various real-time contests and scenarios.</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><em>Sharers not just consumers</em> of
knowledge</span></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">– using knowledge to develop new knowledge, as
opposed to ‘getting’ existing knowledge and having no contribution of oneself.
Using blogs and other forums to have detailed discussions and debates on
topics.</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Helping mentally challenged
co-students globally</span></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">– instead of pressurizing them
to cover their tracks they should be allowed to work at their own pace, and in
contexts of interest to them. It is the opposite of ‘one-size-fits-all’
approaches.</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Generating <em>Multi-tasking</em></span></strong><em><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">skills </span></strong></em><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">– such as analyzing, synthesizing, creative thinking, and
practical thinking and so on. The 21st century expects that these would be
developed implicitly, not just via exposure to the traditional subjects.</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Add to<em> ‘right brain thinking’</em></span></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">– the idea that ‘left brain thinking’ (logical, analytic,
detail-oriented thinking) is necessary, but no longer sufficient, and ‘right
brain thinking<i>’</i> (aesthetic, synthesizing, simultaneous, ‘big
picture’ thinking) is now just as important.</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Developing <em>collaborative
skills</em></span></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> – people skills and emotional
intelligence has become more easy and compulsory both for a good network.</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Isn't this metacognition and
metaliteracy in a nutshell?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Source: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Snehansu, Kumar. "What
Students Should Know About 21st Century Learning?." <i>EdTechReview</i>.
N.p., 14 Sept. 2013. Web. 21 Sept. 2013.
<http://edtechreview.in/news/news/trends-insights/insights/581-what-students-should-know-about-21st-century-learning>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08882337327722486582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998749645494616866.post-76937648294085157192013-08-28T06:14:00.001-07:002013-08-28T06:32:31.357-07:00The Metaliteracy Action Agenda<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are not just librarians, the keepers of knowledge; we're also teachers. Our responsibility has been to 'archive' knowledge and to assist our communities in locating, accessing and using that knowledge responsibly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, 21st century fluencies include so much beyond the information literacy, whose skills we have chosen to standardize. The Wordle above represents some of the action verbs associated with 21st century information fluency - which Mackey et al have chosen to rename "Metaliteracy."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So I'll begin this discussion by looking at all the things we have put on our teacher-librarian plates - and I would encourage you to add other action/skills to the list I've pictured above. (While it's in alphabetic order, it should probably be rearranged in groups. I've included this alphabetical list at the bottom of this post.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This is a tall order - a veritable cornucopia of learning critical to the success of our students, of our society, and (perhaps) of our continued existence. I look forward to brainstorming a strategy for improving the information literacy and the metaliteracies of all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Metaliteracy Action Verb list:</span><br />
<ul>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Accessing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Activating</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Acting</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Adapting</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Advocating</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Analyzing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Annotating</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Answering</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Articulating</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Asking</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Assessing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Assisting</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Attending</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Challenging</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Changing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Coaching</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Collaborating</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Collating</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Collecting</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Combining</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Communicating</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Composing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Conceptualizing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Connecting</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Considering</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Consulting</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Converging</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Creating</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Critical Thinking</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Defining</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Demonstrating</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Determining</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Developing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dialoguing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Digesting</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Discussing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Doing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Enhancing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Evaluating</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Evolving</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Experiencing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Experimenting</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Focusing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Formulating</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Group Building</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Growing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hearing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Helping</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hypothesizing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Implementing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Improving</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Incorporating</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Informing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Innovating</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Inspiring</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Instructing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Integrating</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Interacting</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Interpreting</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Investigating</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Judging</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Knowing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Leading</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Learning</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lifelong Learning</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Linking</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Listening</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lurking</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Managing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mastering</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mediating</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mentoring</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Messaging</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mind Mapping</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Modeling</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Modifying</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Networking</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Organizing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Participating</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Polishing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Practicing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Preparing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Problem Solving</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Processing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Producing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Questing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Questioning</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reading</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recapping</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recognizing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recording</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Redefining</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ReEvaluating</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Refining</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reflecting</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reframing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Refreshing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reinventing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reiterating</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remembering</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Researching</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reviewing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Revising</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Revisiting</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saving</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Searching</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Seeing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Selecting</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sharing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Showing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Speaking</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Specializing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Story Telling</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Summarizing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Supporting</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Surveying</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Synergizing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Synthesizing</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Teaching</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Testing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thinking</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Transforming</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Understanding</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Utilizing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Visualizing</span></div>
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