Comments for design:learning

Comment on Oops, the blog exploded by Grafisk

Grafisk — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:01:01 +0000

Hello,I love reading through your blog, I wanted to leave a little comment to support you and wish you a good continuation. Wishing you the best of luck for all your blogging efforts.

Comment on New toy by William Chinda

William Chinda — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:29:13 +0000

I know, right? They hype stuff up then just leave you hanging.

Just the cost of dealing with the big G, I guess.

Comment on New toy by Shelley

Shelley — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:41:47 +0000

I got my invite yesterday, too. They must have caught up on old emails!

Comment on Getting Paid by Shelley

Shelley — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:41:04 +0000

Isn’t that how it always works? All good things and such. I agree that if people have to pay, they will go back to piracy (although I purchase House episodes from iTunes on occasion when my DVR has a meltdown so I can watch them on my TV).

Comment on RE-spect by rob

rob — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:05:16 +0000

can you send me a pick of your diploma so i can put my name on it? haha, wow, a link to see your diploma.

Comment on Podcasts will (save/replace) us all! by Will Chinda

Will Chinda — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:01:08 +0000

If I recall correctly, it was posttest only. They did, however, gather a lot of data on student GPAs, standardized test scores, and the like – which is a lot more than the other podcast studies I have seen. They qualified it as a “preliminary study,” but that’s a hard one to swallow when they have such a bombastic title… which of course leads to it getting loads of coverage by a hundred different news sources.

I really love podcasts, and actually hope that creative uses of it in education would happen on a large scale… of course the reality is that people would just record lectures, put it up, and that would be the end of it. There’s so much freaking potential with the medium, but everyone’s stuck in the same mode of thinking they’ve always been in.

Comment on Podcasts will (save/replace) us all! by Shelley

Shelley — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:49:44 +0000

I listened to that podcast, too…Did you check out his site? The students can change absolutely everything. It is a website wiki =) What really struck me, though, was when he was talking about his little profile on the left that said that he spoke English and had 15 years exp. or whatever, and then on the right was the experience and languages earned/spoken by the members of his class. I think that is the basis of what web 2.0 offers education; the perception of students has changed from client to commodity.

As far as the podcast, though, we both listened by choice and because it was of particular interest to us. I wouldn’t necessarily buy the results in the study you cited because it used only a posttest as a dependent measure (I haven’t read the study, but this is what I gathered), and that phenomenon has been discussed widely by the no significant difference phenomenon (all things being equal, etc). I don’t think students would tolerate 12 or 15 credit hours of courses all being delivered via podcasts…where is the learning in that?