Edina Digital Age Learning

This past weekend, 500 educators descended on the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia for Educon 2.5 . For those who couldn't make the trip, most sessions were streamed, recorded and available for viewing. I was able to clear my schedule for a few hours both days to interact and learn. There was great conversation happening on Twitter as well. Here are my notes from those sessions. Edina Technology Integration: Educon 2.5: Build a MOOC Workshop ... 21 hours ago In his session at Educon 2.5, Jon Becker led a crowd sourcing activity to create a High School MOOC. Thomas Friedman discussed MOOC's in his New Your Times Op-Ed today, though Becker thought he didn't really get it. Edina Technology Integration: Educon Session 1: The Closer ... Jan 26, 2013 This session at Educon 2.5 titled: The Closer Citizen-Linking Close Reading to a Careful Analysis Of Media and Our Lives by Chris Lehman and Kate Roberts from The Teacher's College a...

In his session at Educon 2.5 , Jon Becker led a crowd sourcing activity to create a High School MOOC. Thomas Friedman discussed MOOC's in his New Your Times Op-Ed today , though Becker thought he didn't really get it. @ pomdr please consider ignoring Friedman. As usual, he's misinformed and off base here. — Jonathan Becker (@jonbecker) January 27, 2013 Here's the video of the session. My Notes  from the session: Becker- Asking the question "What is a MOOC?" is the wrong question. There are many things that are "MOOCish," and all the letters are negotiable! Types of MOOC's xMOOC's -Corporate sponsored, Coursera etc Packaged with stuffed content. Proprietary.  cMOOC's -Connective, Community MOOC's. Creation is part of it.  I have seen others talk about 3 types of MOOC's . Examples DS106 - Started face to face, on Digital Storytelling. 1000's take the course for no credit online to be...