CEW-76 Breakout Session - Discussion Group Three (404T)
Collaborative Expedition #76, Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at NSF - Strategic Leadership For Networking and Information Technology Education (404U)
To be discussed: (404V)
- What Works? (404W)
- What Doesn't Work? (404X)
- What do We Need to Create? (404Y)
- What do We Need to Know? (404Z)
Participants: (4050)
- Amy Magnus (409G)
- ... (4051)
Focus: Undergraduate and Graduate IT Learning and Teaching ... (4052)
What works? (408G)
- Networks effective at folding new expertise/information in existing processes { (40AI)
- Outreach between new science and education (406M)
- Distance Learning reduces hours spent preparing classes, more time for research (406N)
- Mining for New Starts, common strategies in seeking collaborations, calls for special issues and sessions (406O)
- Blogging and Wikipedia promote the use of citation early and often (406P)
- Technical discourse on wikipedia often high; good augmentation to tech books (406Q)
What doesn’t work? (406S)
- Without IT: (406T)
- Time lines for archival publications too long (406U)
- Breakdown in interdisciplinary communication (406V)
- No insight into overspecialization even at undergraduate levels (406W)
- Refresh archival skills based on new discovery tools (406X)
- With IT: (406Y)
- E-bullying and bad publication choices (406Z)
- Snarky, unforgiving broadcast and archive environment where mistakes linger (4070)
- Easy to be outnumbered by hostile forces in specialty areas (4071)
- Authoritative cues can be biased to promote incremental research (4072)
- Increased opportunities for plagiarism {nid 4073} * Lack of interactions in the class room. (408J)
What do We Need to Create? (4075)
- Definition of Good IT Citizen (4076)
- Use social environments like dorms to promote good discipline and skills in collaborative IT (4077)
- Schools as local computing sites (4078)
- IT Workspaces that preserve full dynamics of productive work (OODA loop with reflection) (4079)
- Ways of protecting intellectual property & privacy while encouraging interaction and collaboration (Estashing rules of the game) (407A)
- Develop common strategies of what works (40AJ)
- Need for interdisciplinary research {nid 408K (40AK)
What do We Need to Know? (407C)
- Is the traditional class room the most effective form of collaborative learning? (407D)
- How to promote other types of learning? (40AL)
- How to open opportunities for both discovery and discussion? (407E)
- How to promote a positive social environment using IT (407F)
- How to preserve places of learning as a destination (why go to college) (407G)
Discussion Notes: (4053)
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