This course looked like an interesting way of dividing through a huge volume of material, providing a unifying heuristic, a set of categories, from using it, to finding it, to sharing it (with more steps in between).
Plug for my own site: http://wikieducator.org/Digital_Math (up to 11K views since inception), many blessings to Wikieducator for allowing me to showcase my wares (curriculum writing designs). I likewise attempt to break a huge volume down, into just four categories in my Heuristics for Teachers: * futuristic math (martian math): murky future, bucky fuller influenced * past math (neolithic math): murky past, astronomy, geological time as one axis, and then in each time period: * sharing / distributing (supermarket math): eCommerce, logistics * taking risks (casino math): investing, probability, statistics Lately, I've been teaching virtual classrooms of students mostly in the Bay Area, Silicon Forest, those selecting from a menu of offerings to pursue Python, the computer language. I'm actually not in California but in Portland, Oregon, with head- phones and microphone, optical fiber, shared screen, I'm able to host what amounts to a call-in radio show, or "text in" as the case may be. Check my LinkedIn profile for more clues.[1] California proactively provides professional upgrade courses to its already-employed, the goal being to improve the quality of their existing jobs. I've done 3x 40 hours teaching that material in recent months, with a company called Saisoft (based in Irvine). I bring this up as a segue to your "Protecting It" category, which translates in my namespace to "cyber-security". You're wise to focus on protecting the integrity of one's own identity and insisting on getting credit for one's original work (be that monetary, or in the case of other reward systems, simply reputation points for having made a difference in some field, the academic currency aside from cash (it's not either/or)). To incentivize around the integrity of the individual makes for a strong beginning, with protecting a company's perimeter, a team's, a family's, a part of the follow-on logic. The code schools are looking for ways to share about cyber-security and Protecting It is all about protecting identity theft. You'll find I've been blogging for CERM Academy [2], one of several schools aimed at training up "risk managers" per new ISO standards. The role such standards play in the business world is fascinating to study and not without its detractors. Bah humbug standards. As someone who follows the story of JavaScript [tm] fairly closely (an ECMA standard) I'm aware that standards committees have a non-trivial role to play in some circles. CERM Academy is about training folk in "risk based thinking" which is more than simply responding, reacting, to breaches of security. That's too behind the curve. Sorry if I seem to ramble, just circling a domain I'm focused on, one could summarize "optimal code school curriculum" where a "code school" is a semi-new institution growing up to share IT skills with those seeking to break in, sometimes in a hurry, with high hopes of fulfilling dreams. For more on Code Schools, I'll cite this blog post from today: http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2016/04/code-school-gift-shop.html Kirby [1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/4dsolutions [2] http://insights.cermacademy.com/tag/kirby-urner/ On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 4:26 AM, Valerie Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > DeAnza College funded the development of a course called Digital > Learning Literacties. > http://wikieducator.org/User:Vtaylor/Learning_literacies > > The Digital Learning Literacies course not offered as a stand-alone > course. The activities and resources are used within other courses > with great results. > > We have been surprised by the feedback. Our students live, work and > study in the heart of Silicon Valley, California, and yet, many have > little or no prior knowledge or experience with many of the concepts > and tools. For many, the notion of a Personal Learning Network (PLN) > is an abstract concept. > > The course resources are update continuously - great app smashing > thanks to Jim Tittsler. As new resources are identified by the > instructors and students, they are bookmarked and tagged in diigo. > With the clever little one liner in WikiEducator, the most recent > items in the diigo rss feed get plopped into the resources page list! > Older, less appropriate resources are removed based on student > recommendations. Great critical thinking activities. > > The proposed outline for the Learning in a Digital Age course > specifically addresses many of the same issues that we cover as > objectives. Looking forward to seeing this course develop as it will > provide the broader framework for taking more personal responsibility > for learning now and in the future. > > > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 9:53 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > [email protected] Google Groups > > Crowdsourcing topics for new 1st year course: Learning in a Digital Age > > Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]>: Apr 29 11:02PM +1200 > > > > -- > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "WikiEducator" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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