Conference Method of Teaching and Learning



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Ideas
The opportunity to engage the conference method (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning), perhaps with MIT OCW or Reed College, faculty or students, and live, in every subject, perhaps by hopping into a virtual world will be invaluable. More than the study group idea, it emerges from ancient Greece, as philosophical discourse, for generating new knowledge, and pursuing knowledge in depth. World University and School's SUBJECT TEMPLATE - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - for every subject (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects) makes this possible, and one can come into conversation with the core MIT OCW courses themselves, by sharing references, or teaching to your web camera, or generating a live conversation.



I met a Reed College chemistry major from the early 1960s who said that, after the first year, Reed chemistry classes were all about conferencing.

The 'conference method of teaching and learning' is about 'conferencing,' about sharing ideas around a table (now metaphorically in the digital age and in the context of a great universities- and all languages-centric online world university and school). Doing this among high achieving students can make this process very interesting and exciting.



In building on MIT OCW's 2100 + free, online courses, - for free, online bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees, - there's so much opportunity for all of us, in editing wiki WUaS, as a expression of the Conference Method, to add FUN ways to engaging serious knowledge generation ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects ... and in ALL languages and countries, with time ... and in the Music School, too.



WUaS-hired graduate student instructors (learning to become professors) facilitating the Conference Method - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning - building on Reed College's 'conference method' approach ...

Publish my article in a WUaS academic journal in this subject
Open Journal Systems. 2012. Open Journal Systems. Public Knowledge Project.

(WUaS's wiki, information technologies and criteria for this - informed by the WUaS academic journal subject matter - are developing, since you can already publish your article at http://www.academia.edu).

Select Book Groups, Study Groups, Musical Groups, etc.
Begin a Google + Hangout: https://plus.google.com/u/0/108179352492243955816/posts

Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/

Select Books
Plato. 360 B.C.E. The Symposium. The Internet Classics' Library.

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Select Letters
Seif, Elliott. 2014. Better Teaching Methods. December 3. New York, NY: nytimes.com/2014/12/04/opinion/better-teaching-methods.html.

Select Libraries, Archives, Collections, etc.
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Select Museums
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Select References
Abazorius, Abby. 2012. New online learning tool brings 'the crowd' into homework assignments. Cambridge, MA: web.mit.edu/newsoffice.

Allyn, David. 2012. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-allyn/can-students-love-school_b_1872100.html Can Students Love School? Yes, If Schools Love Students]. September 12. New York, NY: Huffington Post.

The Conference Method in Education - Lambda Chapter. 2011. The Conference Method in Education. Vol. 17, No. 1 (Nov., 1934), pp. 24-48. Lambda Chapter - Phi Delta Kappa International.

Edmundson, Mark. 2012. The Trouble With Online Education. July 19. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Macleod, Scott. 2014. [http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/12/ribes-species-instruction-for-graduate.html Ribes species: Instruction for graduate students to become teachers, and now online in group video conferencing, (and even with developing A.I. information technologies?), Reed College's conference method extended ... to all academic courses, including and especially STEM and science courses?, Music performance classes too? WUaS would like to explore doing this online in group video and explicitly for a) the science, b) the interactivity with teachers, and especially c) for the connecting with faculty]. December 30. Canyon, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/12/ribes-species-instruction-for-graduate.html.

Macleod, Scott. 2014. Tarsier eyes: Thanks for your engaging Paideia workshop on Sunday on "Video Production from Scratch for Beginners" at Reed, "On Music in Film - Ken Burns," Cuttyhunk film, a) Reed College Hum 110 lectures, primarily for the Internet, and b) recording, for instruction, Reed's guidelines for faculty on teaching via the conference method in Hum 110 sections. January 22. Medical Springs, OR: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/tarsier-eyes-thanks-for-your-engaging.html.

Macleod, Scott. 2013. WUaS's framework or platform (and in a wiki, as well) and planning. Canyon, CA: worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com.

Norvig, Peter. 2013. Google I/O 2013 - Building an Online Education Platform using Google Technologies. May 18. Mountain View, CA: Google I/O.

Roush, Wade. 2012. [http://www.xconomy.com/national/2012/07/20/can-anyone-catch-khan-academy-the-fate-of-the-u-in-the-youtube-era/ Can Anyone Catch Khan Academy? The Fate of the U in the YouTube Era]. July 20. Xconomy.

Sanford, John. 2003. Scholar discusses educational benefits of Socratic method. Stanford University News' Service.

Steinberger, Peter. 2011. What Hum 110 Is All About. Portland, OR: reed.edu.

Useful Handouts and Study Strategies. 2013. Useful Handouts and Study Strategies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University.

Walthausen, Abigail. 2013. Don't Give Up on the Lecture: Teachers who stand in front of their classes and deliver instruction are not "out-of-touch experts"—they're role models. NOV 21. The Atlantic.

Socratic Method

Maxwell, Kenneth J. 2011. Introduction to the Socratic Method and its Effect on Critical Thinking. socraticmethod.net.

The Socratic Method. The Socratic Method. Chicago, IL: law.uchicago.edu.

The Socratic Method: What it is and How to Use it in the Classroom. 2003. The Socratic Method: What it is and How to Use it in the Classroom. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Newsletter on Teaching.

Select Video and Audio
Education Nation heads to Cambridge, Massachusetts to talk technology in the classroom at the MIT Media Lab. 2012. Education Nation heads to Cambridge, Massachusetts to talk technology in the classroom at the MIT Media Lab. September 13. Cambridge, MA: MIT Media Lab.

Kirkpatrick, John David (moderator), with John Deasy, John Fallon, John Palfrey and Craig Mundie. 2014. Learning for a New Era. The Aspen Institute.

Select Websites
Christensen, Chris. 2012. Case Method in Practice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School.

Reed College's The Conference Method of Teaching. 2011. The Conference Method of Teaching. Portland, OR: Reed College.

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Wikipedia
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Calendar (Schedule what you'd like to teach)
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... in a virtual world

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Digital To Do
Android

Brainwave device / Headset

Broadcast to radio frequencies

Broadcast to TV / television

Create EMail group for page

Digital Text to Audio file format (Browse Aloud / Read Aloud?)

Google Glass

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Oculus Rift

Print

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Recommend

Send to phone

Tablets

Translate

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(beginning with United Nations' languages - Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, Russian, Spanish)

In Google Earth
Google Earth.

In Virtual World
(Search on the word 'lists' here, too: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Worlds)

3D Learn. 2013. http://www.learningin3d.info/

Active Worlds Educational Universe (AWEDU). 2012. http://www.activeworlds.com

Alice. 2012. http://www.alice.org/

Minecraft. 2012. www.minecraft.net

Edusim. 2013. http://edusim3d.com/

Gifted Kids.ie. 2013. http://www.giftedkids.ie/daynuv.html

ISTE – SIGMS. 2013. http://sigms.iste.wikispaces.net/secondlifeplayground2010

Kaneva. 2014. http://www.kaneva.com/

Open Cobalt. 2013. http://www.opencobalt.org/

OpenSim. 2012. http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page (http://www.scribd.com/doc/57959626/OpenSimulator-School-Quick-Start-Guide)

Open Croquet. 2012. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OpenCroquet and http://www.opencroquet.org/

Open Wonderland. 2012. http://openwonderland.org/

Primary Games. 2013. http://www.primarygames.com/arcade/virtualworlds.php

Quest Atlantis. 2012. http://atlantisremixed.org/ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoT3pilNPI).

SimScience. 2012. http://simscience.org/

Second Life - Harvard's virtual island. 2012. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/115/53/25 - and teach, learn and share ideas - in group voice chat, or in group type chat, and via building.

SmallWorlds. 2014. https://www.smallworlds.com/

There.com. 2014. http://www.there.com/

Twinity. 2014. http://www.twinity.com/en/choose-your-free-avatar

Unity3D. 2012. http://unity3d.com/

WiloStar3D. 2013. https://www.wilostar3d.com/

World of Warcraft in School. 2014. http://wowinschool.pbworks.com/w/page/5268731/FrontPage

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TV-Live Broadcasting
Broadcast to television

Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software to the web:

Google + Hangouts - https://plus.google.com/hangouts

Justin TV - http://www.justin.tv

Livestream TV - http://www.livestream.com

Ustream TV - http://ustream.tv

Video Communication
Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software

Free video conferencing

iChat - http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/ichat.html

Skype - http://www.skype.com/

Free, group video conferencing

AnyMeeting - http://anymeeting.com/homepage/

Google + Hangout - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/hangoutplugin - http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/

Meeting Burner - http://www.meetingburner.com/index?page=signup-v2 – up to 15 connection

ooVoo - http://www.oovoo.com/home.aspx

Paltalk - http://www.paltalk.com

sifonr - free communication - http://www.sifonr.com/‎

Tokbox | OpenTok - API - http://tokbox.com/opentok

Vyew - http://vyew.com/

Web Huddle - https://www.webhuddle.com/homepage.jsp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/webhuddle/

Zoom.us - Cloud HD Video Meetings - http://zoom.us/

Universal Translator at WUaS
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Google Translate language:

Sugar Labs: Translation System language:

Region:

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Babelxl. 2015. Babelxl: the best translator. http://babelxl.com/.

Babylon Online Translation. 2015. Babylon Online Translation. (Offering hundreds of dictionaries and translation in more than 800 language pairs). translation.babylon.com/.

Free-translator.com. 2015. Free-translator.com. free-translator.com/.

Google Translate. 2015. Google Translate. translate.google.com/.

SDL Free Translation. 2015. SDL Free Translation. freetranslation.com/.

Word Lingo Free Translation Tools. 2015. Word Lingo Free Translation Tools and Machine Translation Products. worldlingo.com/en/products/.

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Wiki Software for Courses
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PB Works - http://pbworks.com/

Wet Paint - http://wikisineducation.wikifoundry.com/

Wikia - http://www.wikia.com/Wikia

Wikispaces - http://www.wikispaces.com/

Wikidata / Bots
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