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Levy Article on Reading and Attention

By Jared Stein | Published: February 6, 2011
 Levy, D. M. (1997). I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: Reading and Attention in Digital Libraries. Proceedings of the second ACM international conference on Digital libraries (pp. 202-211). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This paper explores the changing view of attention and reading, contextualizing it in modern technology developments. “…a particular constellation of technology developments and [...]
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IPT 692R Notes: 4-13-2010

By Jared Stein | Published: April 13, 2010
What is the most effective way to learn? In order to gauge the effectiveness of learning, one must agree upon an objective for that learning. Schunk states “Learning is an enduring change in behavior, or in the capacity to behave in a given fashion, which results from practice or other forms of experience.” I accept [...]
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IPT 692R Notes: 4-6-2010

By Jared Stein | Published: April 6, 2010
30000 2500 + PT + GTA + TA 1:20 how to detect need for tutoring? team? self-assessment? does one need tutoring all of the time? if one need one-to-one tutoring only some of the time, one only needs to use the tutor in those instances if tutor is unavailable for an instance, one might be [...]
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IPT 692R Notes: 3/20/2010

By Jared Stein | Published: March 30, 2010
Willingham’s book “Why Don’t Students Like to Learn” I’m reading it now, too, and it reminded me of some videos I saw on YouTube last year, which, unbeknownst to me, happen to be by Willingham: Teaching Content is Teaching Reading Learning Styles Don’t Exist Tutors shape stories to connect to background knowledge. See Siemens’s idea [...]
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Freshman Peer Mentoring

By Jared Stein | Published: February 16, 2010
Prompt: Design freshman peer mentoring system, set goals, use 2 sigma readings to inform, consider evaluation The following are merely my notes for this assignment; I intend to flesh this out later! ability grouping goals enculturation support system –> retention faqs early warning/intervention profiling how does choice/accountability avoiding minimal compliance matchmaking cohesion of general ed [...]
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IPT 692R Notes: 2/9/2010

By Jared Stein | Published: February 10, 2010
if we don’t kill them… scaffolding may not be so much about having a more knowledgeable other, but having the right tools within one’s environment that allow one to support one’s self in the construction of knowledge and building of identity goes to ideas of the university such as Siemens suggests: a place to form [...]
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IPT 692R Notes: 1/26/2010

By Jared Stein | Published: January 26, 2010
What we’ve learned from Bloom Def of tutor matters Mastery of learning = next best thing –> critiques –> control groups, tests Constructivism seems to matter > situated cognition Frequency of feedback Tutoring happens via tests? Small changes? Human potential (and agency) What we wonder about technology platforms what problem are you solving? –>formal/admin/access –>Learning [...]
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3 Articles Orbiting Bloom’s 2 Sigma Problem

By Jared Stein | Published: January 26, 2010
I’ve posted these annotations to the class’s Google Doc for Jon Mott’s IPT 692R course, but wanted to archive them here as well. These 3 article annotations seemed relevant in the discussion of Bloom’s 2 sigma problem: Cohen, A. (1987). Instructional Alignment: Searching for a Magic Bullet. Educational Researcher, 16:8, 16-20. Cohen reviews and expands [...]
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Revisiting Bloom’s 2 Sigma Problem

By Jared Stein | Published: January 10, 2010
Bloom, B. (1984). “The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring,” Educational Researcher, 13:6(4-16). Bloom’s 2 sigma problem confronts educators and researchers with the challenge of improving student performance/learning outcomes by 2 sigma based on a combination of 2 or 3 significant variables in instruction, learner, environment, [...]
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