RT @boonebgorges: I appreciate the gesture, but the last thing I needed was another tote bag. #cunygened WE NEED MORE TOTE BAGS! tooliopipe Fri, 08 May 2009 20:12:51 +0000 Students use ePortfolios to show academic sides of themselves to friends. #cunygened boonebgorges Fri, 08 May 2009 19:14:45 +0000 RT @boonebgorges: God, people really hate Blackboard. #cunygened mikhailg Fri, 08 May 2009 19:01:56 +0000 God, people really hate Blackboard. #cunygened boonebgorges Fri, 08 May 2009 19:01:06 +0000 Online BA students told faculty they wanted every one of their course spaces to look exactly the same. No "Easter egg hunts". #cunygened boonebgorges Fri, 08 May 2009 18:49:52 +0000 @shareski Just this morning I attended a talk where Marc Prensky proposed the concept of Open Phone Tests. How prescient. #cunygened boonebgorges Fri, 08 May 2009 18:46:24 +0000 Student presenter from Bronx CC sees ePortfolio of student at Laguardia, which allows for custom banners: No fair. #cunygened boonebgorges Fri, 08 May 2009 18:41:16 +0000 @jimgroom Hi PR - I am an instructional technologist at Queens College, and right now I'm at the CUNY Gen Ed Conference #cunygened boonebgorges Fri, 08 May 2009 18:31:24 +0000 At a session on ePortfolios. #cunygened boonebgorges Fri, 08 May 2009 18:26:17 +0000 I appreciate the gesture, but the last thing I needed was another tote bag. #cunygened boonebgorges Fri, 08 May 2009 18:08:21 +0000 How2share good pedagody? Students c it, but other teachers don't learn from other teachers since we aren't there to experience it #cunygened DrGdot Fri, 08 May 2009 16:22:48 +0000 Games have constant feedback built in - something often lacking between faculty and students #cunygened boonebgorges Fri, 08 May 2009 16:16:34 +0000 Prensky thought it might be good to have Levels of academics like in games. Level 60 Molecular Biol can beat level 50. Funny. #cunygened DrGdot Fri, 08 May 2009 16:16:04 +0000 Repositories for games goes back to Prensky's idea of sharing ideas online. Put stuff out in VISIBLE areas #cunygened DrGdot Fri, 08 May 2009 16:11:41 +0000 Games are good for low stakes learning because losing simply means leaning from mistakes and starting anew. #cunygened boonebgorges Fri, 08 May 2009 16:07:44 +0000 Lehman math student used games to extend the benefits of her education to people out of the classroom - her family members. #cunygened boonebgorges Fri, 08 May 2009 15:53:40 +0000 #cunygened the classroom IS a simulation game. We ask students to simulate learning and discoveries that are already made --c. Hernandez DrGdot Fri, 08 May 2009 15:47:00 +0000 Carlos Hernandez, BMCC: Classroom is already built on game dynamics. We ask them to simulate professional research #cunygened boonebgorges Fri, 08 May 2009 15:46:04 +0000 #cunygened it's not just playing the games that has a role in education. There are many other ways to we them. Never thought of it that way DrGdot Fri, 08 May 2009 15:42:42 +0000 Joe Bisz is using Diplomacy to teach problem solving strategies. Very cool. #cunygened boonebgorges Fri, 08 May 2009 15:39:03 +0000 At the session on the role of games in learning #cunygened boonebgorges Fri, 08 May 2009 15:30:25 +0000 #cunygened Listen2 students. Involve them in planning! Yes. I hear complaints that students don't want this or that but no1 asked them first DrGdot Fri, 08 May 2009 15:09:46 +0000 Prensky calls out faculty on "kids these days can't concentrate" gripe. Amen brother! #cunygened (via @boonebgorges) YES!! DrGdot Fri, 08 May 2009 15:08:07 +0000 Prensky calls out faculty on "kids these days can't concentrate" gripe. Amen brother! #cunygened boonebgorges Fri, 08 May 2009 15:05:54 +0000 #cunygened Open phone tests?! Interesting idea!!! DrGdot Fri, 08 May 2009 15:02:51 +0000 #cunygened I am glad to hear Prensky use the term students and not kids. I HATE the mentality that your students are kids!! DrGdot Fri, 08 May 2009 15:00:27 +0000 Prensky: New div of educ labor: let students find information/content; let profs teach quality/judgment/rigor. Crowdsourcing! #cunygened boonebgorges Fri, 08 May 2009 14:59:28 +0000 Prensky: the only role of tech on the classroom is to support the pedagogy of helping students teach themselves. #cunygened boonebgorges Fri, 08 May 2009 14:51:22 +0000 Chuckle of selfrecognition in room when Prensky quotes student: teachers think they're awesome if they use ppoint #cunygened emmnyc Fri, 08 May 2009 14:50:51 +0000 #cunygened love the Einstein quote. I always say the goal isn't to teach it's to allow students to learn. Einstein said it better. DrGdot Fri, 08 May 2009 14:50:00 +0000 #cunygened perhaps he missed his intro when he talked about mind control. Marc is def aware in these differences DrGdot Fri, 08 May 2009 14:45:17 +0000 I want digital office hours! I am tires of being held capative in my office when students don't want to connect face to face! #cunygened DrGdot Fri, 08 May 2009 14:39:02 +0000 Finding passion!! That is the key. So true! My students often comment that my passion engages them. It's contagious too! #cunygened DrGdot Fri, 08 May 2009 14:37:23 +0000 @DrGdot constqnt connection w each other is the main issue with "digital natives" - Prensky is saying this nicely right now #cunygened boonebgorges Fri, 08 May 2009 14:32:04 +0000 #cunygened why interupt for this?! Great points. Can't it fit at the end?! DrGdot Fri, 08 May 2009 14:28:47 +0000 #cunygened two hands!! DrGdot Fri, 08 May 2009 14:27:41 +0000 @boonebgorges I think I'm more effective with my students because I connect better. I wonder how many here will learn2 connect #cunygened DrGdot Fri, 08 May 2009 14:26:06 +0000 RT @DrGdot: I'd like 2c Prensky stop telling us general & get to details. But the gray hair in the room needs convincing first #cunygened boonebgorges Fri, 08 May 2009 14:24:27 +0000 I wish we could txt our students. College based email is stupid! Right on Marc! #cunygened DrGdot Fri, 08 May 2009 14:20:48 +0000 Prensky: educ goals ("verbs") stay the same; tools ("nouns") change > Only if you construe goals broadly enough #cunygened boonebgorges Fri, 08 May 2009 14:20:21 +0000 I'd like 2c Prensky stop telling us general statements& get to some details. But the gray hair in the room needs convincing first #cunygened DrGdot Fri, 08 May 2009 14:14:35 +0000 Prensky: Young people have never known anything but exponential technological change. Contrast with previous generation. #cunygened boonebgorges Fri, 08 May 2009 14:12:20 +0000 @boonebgorges I don't see him suggesting that at all. #cunygened DrGdot Fri, 08 May 2009 14:11:59 +0000 Prensky seems to be suggesting that education is the accumulation of skills. #cunygened boonebgorges Fri, 08 May 2009 14:08:10 +0000 Marc Prensky about to speak on "educating today's digital native learners". Hm. #cunygened boonebgorges Fri, 08 May 2009 13:56:14 +0000