109 ideas for virtual learning : how open content will help close the digital divide /
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| Author / Creator: | Breck, Judy, 1936- |
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| Imprint: | Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006. |
| Description: | xx, 331 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Digital learning series ; no. 3 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5843439 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Foreword
- Section 1. Approach
- Idea 1. The Most Important Idea
- Idea 2. Ideas in Common
- Idea 3. Ideas Are Open
- Section 2. Attitude
- Idea 4. Attitude of Avoidance
- Idea 5. Call a Kid to Fix It
- Idea 6. I Don't Understand the Internet
- Idea 7. The Internet Is a Big Encyclopedia
- Idea 8. Why Only Open Content Will Endure
- Idea 9. Children Need Cultural Comfort
- Idea 10. Is There a Conspiracy?
- Idea 11. The Education Establishment Ogre
- Idea 12. Knowing the Bad Stuff
- Idea 13. The Education Establishment Attitudes toward the Internet
- Idea 14. Attitude: Wire the Schools
- Idea 15. Attitude: Technology Cannot Replace Human Teachers
- Idea 16. Attitude: Books Are Better
- Idea 17. Attitude: Ignore the Internet
- Idea 18. Attitude: Reposition Present Education Techniques Online
- Idea 19. Attitude: Control Internet Access to Protect Children
- Idea 20. Attitude: Educators Must Choose What Students Use
- Idea 21. Attitude: Education Must Retrieve Control of Open Content
- Idea 22. Attitude: The Education Industry Creates Superior Content
- Idea 23. Attitude: Curriculum Standards Rule
- Idea 24. Attitude: Wire the Schools, Not the Kids
- Idea 25. The Response of the American Public
- Idea 26. The Kids' Attitude
- Idea 27. The College Level Clearer Course
- Idea 28. The Extra-Education Little-Noticed Morph
- Idea 29. Distant Learning Is Many Things
- Idea 30. Responses of Various Countries
- Idea 31. The Accurate Attitude about Technology
- Idea 32. Can Pedagogy Be What It Teaches?
- Idea 33. The "It's Only Access" Mental Block
- Section 3. Access
- Idea 34. The Great Content Cascade onto the Internet
- Idea 35. The Author's Vantage Point
- Idea 36. Hewlett Foundation Initiative
- Idea 37. Technology Was the First Necessary Step for Access
- Idea 38. What Knowledge Is
- Idea 39. Knowledge Moved
- Idea 40. Why Knowledge Accessed in the Virtual Knowledge Ecology Is Superior
- Idea 41. Open Content Only Is Accessed from the Virtual Knowledge Ecology
- Idea 42. Why Open Content Is a Bargain
- Idea 43. Literacy and Language
- Idea 44. The Container Is Not the Content
- Idea 45. Direct, Individual Access
- Idea 46. Search Engines as Access
- Idea 47. Repositioned Old Kinds of Access
- Idea 48. Open Content for Learning That Is Not Part of the Virtual Knowledge Ecology
- Idea 49. Content That Cascades Into the Virtual Knowledge Ecology Becomes Global
- Idea 50. Content for Small Children and Other Learner Levels
- Idea 51. Definition and History of the Virtual Learning Cascade
- Idea 52. Eyewitness Account of the Subject Cascade
- Idea 53. Eyewitness Account of the Cascade Sources
- Idea 54. How Open Content Is Paid For
- Idea 55. The Movement Toward a New Ecology of Learning
- Idea 56. The Increasing Level of Detail
- Idea 57. Ubiquitous Wireless Computing
- Section 4. Aggregation
- Idea 58. It Takes a Network for Knowledge to Emerge
- Idea 59. Early Glimpses of the Virtual Knowledge Ecology
- Idea 60. Cyberspace Cognitive Explosion
- Idea 61. Why It Takes Chaos and Complexity
- Idea 62. The Cambrian Explosion
- Idea 63. Highway to Network to Ecology
- Idea 64. The Center of Everything
- Idea 65. Seeing Wholes
- Idea 66. Opening the Universe of Human Learning
- Idea 67. Open Content Only
- Idea 68. Complexity and the Emergence of Meaning
- Idea 69. Minimalization
- Idea 70. Networks
- Idea 71. Small-World Networks
- Idea 72. Dynamic Networks
- Idea 73. The 80-20 Rule
- Idea 74. The Network Effect
- Idea 75. Open Content Vets Spontaneously
- Idea 76. The Darwinian Effect
- Idea 77. Virtual Content Creatures
- Idea 78. Why Aggregated Virtual Knowledge Is Superior
- Idea 79. How to Find Something on the Internet
- Idea 80. The Grand Idea
- Section 5. Adapting
- Idea 81. Making Learning Suit the New Knowledge Location
- Idea 82. The Knowledge Itself Is Not Isolated but Connected
- Idea 83. The Education to Expect
- Idea 84. The Adaptation of Technology
- Idea 85. The Adaptation of Content
- Idea 86. The Adaptation across Cultures
- Idea 87. Letting Kids Really Learn Something
- Idea 88. How Kids Adapt to the Virtual Knowledge Ecology
- Idea 89. The Gift of the Virtual Knowledge Ecology to Teaching
- Idea 90. How the Education Establishment Could Adapt
- Section 6. Action
- Idea 91. Embrace the Main Idea
- Idea 92. Don't Try to Fix the Schools
- Idea 93. Get the Virtual Knowledge Ecology to the Kids
- Idea 94. Use Cell Phone Screens Now
- Idea 95. Give Each Child of Yours WI-FI
- Idea 96. Get Laptops to School Students
- Idea 97. Develop Devices for Ubiquitous Mobile Computing
- Idea 98. Give Other People's Kids WI-FI
- Idea 99. Paint the Planet with Access
- Idea 100. Transmit a Lily Pad
- Idea 101. Press Forward on Language Tools
- Idea 102. Take Open Content into the Future
- Idea 103. Accept Obsolescence
- Idea 104. Think Share Not Copyright
- Idea 105. Make Open Content and They Will Come
- Idea 106. Open Your Own Content
- Idea 107. Sprout Language Lily Pads
- Idea 108. Rethink Assessment
- Idea 109. Be a Pixel Pedagogue
- Appendix 1. The Cyberschool Cascade
- Appendix 2. URLs for Web Pages Mentioned in the Ideas
- Index
- About the Author