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Jayme Jacobson Meeting 14: November 18, 8:15 a.m. Pacific

This weeks reading was suggested by Nils and has two parts. Part I is How Social Networking Will Transform Learning by Tom Vander Ark who was the first Executive Director for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Nils ha… Continue

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Jayme Jacobson Meeting 13: November 4, 8:15 a.m. Pacific

This week's "reading" will be the TED talk by Daniel Pink on "The Surprising Science of Motivation." Pink, who wrote A Whole New Mind with its Manga version, Johnny Bunko, talks about motivation in business but it's not a great mental leap to see implications for learning. Hope yo… Continue

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Jayme Jacobson Meeting 12: October 21, 8:15 a.m. Pacific

The reading for this week will be Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 by John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler. It was suggested by Nils. Hope to see you there... Continue

Added by Jayme Jacobson on October 5, 2009 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

Jayme Jacobson Meeting 11: August 26, 8:15 a.m. Pacific

This Wednesday's reading will be the Reddit-TED interview with Sir Ken Robinson: http://blog.ted.com/2009/08/ted_and_reddit_1.php In the interview, Robinson responds to some assessment questions… Continue

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Jayme Jacobson Meeting 10: August 12, 8:15 a.m. Pacific

This week's reading will be a post http://highered.blogspot.com/2009/07/tlts-harvesting-feedback-project.html from David Eubank's 'Higher Ed (assessing the elephant)' blog where he… Continue

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Jayme Jacobson Meeting 9: July 29, 8:15 a.m. Pacific

This week’s reading was suggested by Lorena O’English and is How Do You Know That?: An Investigation of Student Research Practices in the Digital Age (PDF link) Hope you… Continue

Added by Jayme Jacobson on July 27, 2009 at 2:59pm — 2 Comments

Jayme Jacobson Meeting 8: July 15, 8:15 a.m. Pacific

I have left this very late, so this week’s reading will be a very short article by James Boyle, “A Closed Mind About an Open World,” that was cited “The Future of Learning Institutions in… Continue

Added by Jayme Jacobson on July 14, 2009 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

Jayme Jacobson Meeting 7: July 1 CANCELLED

The next meeting will be July 15. Continue

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Jayme Jacobson Meeting 6: June 17, 8:15 a.m. Pacific

This week's "reading" will be the (20 min) TED talk by Sugata Mitra about how kids teach themselves. Below is from Mitra's TED bio: In 1999, Sugata Mitra and his colleagues dug a hole in a wall bordering an urban slum in New Delhi, installed an Internet-connected PC, and left it there (with a hidden camera filming the area). What they saw was kids from the slum playing around with the computer and in the process learnin… Continue

Added by Jayme Jacobson on June 3, 2009 at 9:54am — No Comments

Jayme Jacobson Meeting 5. June 3 at 8:15 a.m. Pacific

This week's reading will be the New Yorker article How David Beats Goliath: When underdogs break the rules by Malcolm Gladwell. It was suggested by Theron. Continue

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Jayme Jacobson Meeting 4, May 20 at 8:10 a.m. Pacific

This week's reading will be an article from Prism called Working the Crowd by Robin Tatu Continue

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Jayme Jacobson Meeting 3: May 6 at 8:10 a.m. Pacific

The reading for this meeting will be ""A Harvest Too Large? A Framework for Educational Abundance" by Trent Batson, Neeru Paharia, & M.S. Vijay Kumar in MIT's… Continue

Added by Jayme Jacobson on May 4, 2009 at 9:42am — No Comments

Abel Diaz Hi Everyone!

Hello All, I am glad to be part of this great group! looking forward to intriguing articles & discussions... Continue

Added by Abel Diaz on April 28, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Sharon Roy is MRG weekly?

I can't join you this week as I'm all booked up, but if I know how often/when you're planning to meet in advance, I can book some of them into my schedule. Is this weekly? or monthly? or as interest dictates? -Sharon Continue

Added by Sharon Roy on April 20, 2009 at 5:50pm — 1 Comment

Jayme Jacobson Reading for April 22: Surfing the Universe

Hello MRGers- This week's article from the New Yorker, Surfing the Universe, was suggested by Gary. If you are interested in learning more about Garrett Lisi, Theron has suggested that you might… Continue

Added by Jayme Jacobson on April 20, 2009 at 11:44am — No Comments

Jayme Jacobson We're starting again! Please join us...

We're trying to revitalize Ye Olde Morning Reading Group and we'll be starting again on Wednesday, April 8th by reading an… Continue

Added by Jayme Jacobson on March 20, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

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I found this piece stimulating on several levels. The quote contrasting "I think, therefore I am" with "We participate, therefore we are." is a interesting paradigm shift. I wrote a response to the article, written after the last MGR was canceled.
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This Wednesday's reading will be the Reddit-TED interview with Sir Ken Robinson: http://blog.ted.com/2009/08/ted_and_reddit_1.php In the interview, Robinson responds to some assessment questions that will probably be of interest to MRG members. If…
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This week's reading will be a post http://highered.blogspot.com/2009/07/tlts-harvesting-feedback-project.html from David Eubank's 'Higher Ed (assessing the elephant)' blog where he responds to some of the Harvesting Gradebook work Nils, Theron, and…
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