www.commongroundpublishing.com » 2011 » November http://commongroundpublishing.com Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:12:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 November and December Conferences http://commongroundpublishing.com/2011/11/november-and-december-conferences/ http://commongroundpublishing.com/2011/11/november-and-december-conferences/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:48:11 +0000 Kelly Searsmith http://commongroundpublishing.com/?p=488 This November and December, Common Ground Publishing will host four conferences for vibrant knowledge communities that we curate.  Each knowledge community shares an interdisciplinary focus that is expressed through dynamic, interactive conferences; peer-reviewed journals, and a related book series.  Please follow the conference links below to find out more.

November

Aging and Society, Nov 8-9, Clark Kerr campus at UC Berkeley

Ubiquitous Learning, Nov. 11-12, Clark Kerr campus at UC Berkeley

Spaces and Flows, Nov. 17-18 in Prato, Italy
December
Food Studies, Dec 9-10 in Las Vegas
]]> http://commongroundpublishing.com/2011/11/november-and-december-conferences/feed/ 0 Common Ground President Presents on Educational Approach of Scholar Learning Environment http://commongroundpublishing.com/2011/11/common-ground-president-presents-on-educational-approach-of-scholar-learning-environment/ http://commongroundpublishing.com/2011/11/common-ground-president-presents-on-educational-approach-of-scholar-learning-environment/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:50:26 +0000 Kelly Searsmith http://commongroundpublishing.com/?p=479 On Wednesday  November 2, 2011 from 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (Education Rm. 10) Dr. William Cope will present at the “Transformations: Research and Teaching in the Digital Age” seminar series, sponsored by the University of Illinois Department of Educational Psychology, & Ubiquitous Learning Institute.  Dr. Cope’s presentation is titled “Integrating Assessment Into Learning: The “Scholar” Environment in Principle and Practice.” In Dr. Cope’s words:

We can use new technologies to do conventional, old things—as we do when we transfer Gutenberg’s typographic schemas onto desktops or the heritage logic of classrooms into learning management systems. This presentation explores seven ‘affordances’—things we could do differently with new media technologies, even though much of the time we do not. The things I am going to highlight are by no means written into new media technologies. In fact, these are all things that, with effort, we could have done with printed texts and in traditional classrooms, and sometimes did. The change of greatest significance is the economy of effort.  The presentation will explore the practicalities of integrating assessment into learning in several projects I am working on for the US Department of Education. For these projects, we have been building an online writing, learning and assessment environment, and trialing it in schools. I will show this. I will also discuss a theory of new learning and new literacies, focusing on some of the affordances of the digital media: collaboration, differentiation, metacognition, ubiquity, multimodality, agency and evaluation.

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