Participants also highlighted positive aspects related to support received. Respondents to the PLENK2010 survey were appreciative of how the facilitators led without directing and also of the work and engagement provided by the facilitators. Thus, teaching presence, especially exemplified through course design and the type of facilitation, turned out to have a powerful effect on student perceptions of support, inclusiveness, and overall satisfaction with the course. The participants valued greatly the autonomy on connections and participation in networks: “We were given free choice and allowed autonomy about our ways to connect and participate in the network. I greatly value this approach to learning and working together.”
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A pedagogy of abundance or a pedagogy to support human beings? Participant support on m... - 1 views
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table, trusted, and valued, and where people can access and interact with resources and each other. The new roles that the teacher as facilitator needs to adopt in networked learning environments include aggregating, curating, amplifying, modelling, and persistently being present in coaching or mentoring.
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How Well Do Your Students Know Each Other? | Responsive Classroom - 0 views
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They understand that helping students build relationships with each other is a key to creating an optimal learning environment.
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You can support children's relationships in many ways. Let students share about their hobbies, interests, and passions at Morning Meeting or in connection with academic topics or assignments
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ry brainstorming lunch conversation topics with your class, assigning lunch partners, and then taking a few minutes for sharing what partners learned about each other after lunch.
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Arrival time can be another opportunity to check in with students and give them a few minutes to touch base with each other.
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Games can be a fast, fun, and effective way for a group to get to know each other better, too. Here are a few to try:
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The dark side of social media? - 1 views
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The videos for Module 1, quite honestly, were mind-blowing. And what I was left with, after watching them all, was this thought -- can the human mind truly process even a dollop of all of the information that is out there? In our quest to gain access to as much information as possible, are we losing our ability to dig deep within it? This video came across my Facebook not too long ago, and it really made me wonder how much is too much...
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Individual and Social Aspects of Learning - 1 views
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The cognitive transformations triggered by tools have two sides, paralleling the kinds of effects discussed above. One side is learning effects with the tool. This recognizes the changed functioning and expanded capability that takes place as the user uses and gets used to particular tools. Impact occurs through the redistribution of a task‰s cognitive load between persons and devices (e.g. Pea, 1993; Perkins, 1993), including symbol-handling devices (e.g,. a spell checker) or across persons, mediated by devices and symbol systems (telephones, fax machines). As these examples suggest, such tools are all around us, but their possibility also invites the design of special-purpose tools for supporting various cognitive functions. For instance, experiments have shown that a computerized Reading Partner that provides ongoing metacognitive-like guidance improves students‰ comprehension of texts while they read with the tool (Salomon, Globerson, & Guterman, 1991).
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The role of tools and symbol systems as both reflecting and affecting the human psyche has long been recognized. But it is mainly due to the Russian sociocultural tradition of Vygotsky (e.g., 1978), Luria (1981), and Leont‰ev (1981), and their Western interpreters (e.g,. Cole & Wertch, 1996), that scholarly attention has focused on tools as social mediators of learning. Here we use ‹toolsŠ in a broad sense, including not only physical implements but technical procedures like the algorithms of arithmetic and symbolic resources such as those of natural languages and mathematical and musical notation.
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VIRTUAL TRANSFORMATION: WEB-BASED TECHNOLOGY AND PEDAGOGICAL CHANGE - 2 views
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One online instructor (Alley 1996) has described this changing pedagogical consciousness as an �instructional epiphany�.� Alley tells of a personal transformation, stimulated by online instruction, marked by two "milestones". First, he had to totally redesign his course to fit and leverage the new learning environment. Second, he had to rethink what he calls his �basic approach�: �As long as I held on to the traditional �sage-on-stage� style of teaching, I would keep reinventing ways for students to be a passive audience� (1996:51).� Similar changes in pedagogical belief and practice have been reported by other faculty who have taught web-based courses (Brown 1998; Jaffee 1997; Cremer 1998) as well as researchers who have interviewed online instructors (Frank 2000).�� There are clearly some �structural constraints� built into the virtual classroom ecology that make it difficult to implement traditional modes of delivery and, in this sense, almost force instructors to entertain active learning strategies. As Frank (2000) discovered in her study of online instructors, "All of the participants saw online learning as empowering for students. The most valuable benefits were the facilitation of active learning, critical thinking, collaboration, confidence, and lifelong learning habits. A common theme was the way in which the teacher is forced to give up the control that one has in a face-to-face environment and re-examine the traditional role of content deliverer".� Just as the physical classroom architecture imposes constraints on, and opportunities for, particular pedagogical practices, so too does the virtual classroom. John Seely Brown (2000) has described the environment of the world-wide-web as a �learning ecology� that is a self-organized evolving collection of cross-pollinating overlapping communities of interest.� Asynchronous web-based courses that include a discussion forum possess many of the same ecological features. All members of the class can receive and broadcast information at any time. This critical communication feature distinguishes the virtual classroom from prior forms of instructional technology.�� While instructors can mediate and guide, they cannot entirely control the flow of communication. Thus, instructor and student roles and relations are less hierarchical and more overlapping and interactive. These greater opportunities for participation can contribute to a greater diversity of opinion and perspective. It is hard work to establish these social dynamics in a physical classroom constrained by a fixed space, a designated time block, and trained inhibitions. The virtual classroom, in contrast, has the potential to establish new patterns of instructor and student interaction and, accordingly, different teaching and learning roles and practices (Girod and Cavanaugh 2001; Becker and Ravitz 1999). ��������� In making comparisons between the physical and virtual classroom, it is important to emphasize a cautionary caveat. The pedagogical ecology, be it a physical classroom or a virtual interface, cannot entirely determine a particular pedagogical practice or learning outcome. The pedagogical ecology offers opportunities and constraints that will shape and influence classroom dynamics and learning outcomes, but much will also depend on the principles informing, and the actual design of, the teaching and learning process (see Chamberlin 2001). The various practices that are employed in both a physical and a virtual classroom indicate the range of possibilities. However, if we believe that, for the purpose of student learning, active student engagement and interaction is preferable to the passive reception of information, we should consider the degree to which this principle is advanced or facilitated by the expanding virtual learning ecology.�
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Sociological theories and concepts have an important role to play in analyzing and interpreting these developments. A central sociological proposition is that structural environments influence the social perceptions, roles, and relations of human actors.� As increasing numbers of students and faculty find themselves operating in virtual learning environments, we might also expect to find some changing instructional dynamics. More specifically, there are a number of questions worth exploring. What are the relationships between the technical, the social, and the pedagogical infrastructures?� How has the introduction of new instructional technologies influenced established pedagogical practices? How does the shift from a physical classroom to a virtual learning environment shape and reconfigure the social roles and relations among faculty and students? What consequences will these technologies have for developing pedagogical practices?
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have less to do with the proven effectiveness of the particular practice than the desire to appear legitimate or conform to normative expectations.�
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etap687 Joan Erickson - 3 views
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Synthesizing and formulating a mini-thesis is where learning becomes meaningful for me; this is where mere information becomes MY knowledge
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Then I think about the etap course now. The teaching presence is so apparent. I see it from the professor in the way shes asks questions and my classmates in their posts. I listen to the exemplar courses interviews and think “wow, it must be interesting to be in that course!”
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I don’t really care how students categorize me as a certain type or style of teacher. I want to know if I am a good teacher in terms of challenging students to obtain knowledge.
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” yeah, Joan Erickson is not easy but she can get you to do really good work. And you know you are learning stuff in her class.”
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learning.
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I love my subject, but I have failed to utilize the human nature to my advantage. I forgot how powerful social interaction, motivation (how to engage), and the need to feel ownership can be in helping students learn.
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I don’t know yet if my online students will step up to the plate, actively and enthusiastically contribute what they know to the community.
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Kind of like a wedding planner who walks through the empty reception hall and can foresee the problems with lighting, photography, food, and traffic pattern… I am the course designer, it is my job to minimize any possible glitches. It is my job to provide students with a doable and engaging learning environment.
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I see more clear vision of myself as an educator. During this summer course I was confronted with questions that challenged my teaching practices. I started asking myself why I wouldn’t try to trust my students more, let them develop the social presence in the f2f class? What was the harm in that I wouldn’t even consider trying it?
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I’ve finally made the connection between theory and application. I witnessed firsthand the benefit of social constructivism. It can be done. Our etap687 course is a living proof.
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I understand myself better as a learner. This course pushed me to think honestly what I truly want to do.
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Taking education courses is like a spring that feeds into my puddle, bringing fresh new perspectves and ideas. I needed it. It’s reshaped my outlook on teaching.
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have 2 weeks left. I want to make a difference. I CAN make a difference. I can use the web 2.0 applications as my allies. There is enough time for me to plan and implement changes in the f2f courses before school starts.
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My reflecting puddle may seem small, because there is so much to learn and I’ve just begun. But my puddle is deeper and its water runs clearer now. Taking education courses is like a spring that feeds into my puddle, bringing fresh new perspectves and ideas. I needed it. It’s reshaped my outlook on teaching.
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2 weeks ago I wrote my tagline on this blog as my “reflecting puddle”. I still think it’s a puddle; it is still small(but so much deeper!). I can recount the discoveries on this etap687 journey when I stare into the puddle. I see the following things:
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’t believe we are coming to the end of this course. It wasn’t that long ago I was installing diigo toolbar, signing up for voice thread, and setting up this blog site.
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Now the excitement of trying new tools has settled a bit. I start to think how technology tools will impact my teaching.
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My self efficacy is low. Does it matter in the end? I only have two options: If I cant’ seem to do the work, I should leave the course. Or, I try with my darnedest effort, and see where I land. Time to take a chance! I think I will have a lot to gain!
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So this is what I’m gonna do: I will blog here periodically and document my journey in the Ed Psych course. Let’s see if I can be honest with myself. Learn because life in general is interesting and worth exploring, and I can’t capture all on my own. So I go to the experts and learn knowledge from them.
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For weeks and weeks I was obsessed with making Jing videos, trying new communication tools. I thought WOW, these are the coolest things I’ve learned this summer! Now the excitement of trying new tools has settled a bit. I start to think how technology tools will impact my teaching. What other tasks should be let go in order to make room for the new things in my practice? What educational principles do I base on to justify the changes? What kind of measured learning outcomes and students’ perceived learning do I anticipate after the changes are implemented?
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I added several communication tools. I want the students to feel that I want to talk to them. I want them to hear and see me. (again, teaching presence and social presence.)
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Comparing Piaget and Vygotsky - 0 views
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A child in the preoperational stage could not be taught to understand the liquid volume experiment; she does not possess the mental structure of a child in concrete operations.
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Private speech is considered to be self-directed regulation and communication with the self, and becomes internalized after about nine years
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Vygotsky believed that given proper help and assistance, children could perform a problem that Piaget would consider to be out of the child's mental capabilities.
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Piaget proposed that children progress through the stages of cognitive development through maturation, discovery methods, and some social transmissions through assimilation and accommodation
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Assimilation is information we already know. Accommodation involves adapting one's existing knowledge to what is perceived
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A Vision of Students Today - Some Additional Thoughts from Michael Wesch - Open Education - 1 views
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What is the relevance of comparing reading books with reading e-mails and Facebook profiles?”
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I had become convinced that the video was over the top, that things were really not so bad, that the system is not as broken as I thought
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the classroom environment. It speaks directly to those who propose the move from a ’sage on the stage’ teacher style to that of ‘guide on the side
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Scanning the room my assistants also saw students cruising Facebook, instant messaging, and texting their friends. The students were undoubtedly engaged, just not with me. “My teaching assistants consoled me by noting that students have learned that they can ‘get by’ without paying attention in their classes.”
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Last spring I asked my students how many of them did not like school. Over half of them rose their hands. When I asked how many of them did not like learning, no hands were raised. And there’s the rub. We love learning. We hate school. What’s worse is that many of us hate school because we love learning
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Some time ago we started taking our walls too seriously – not just the walls of our classrooms, but also the metaphorical walls that we have constructed around our ’subjects,’ ‘disciplines,’ and ‘courses.’ McLuhan’s statement about the bewildered child ….. still holds true in most classrooms today. The walls have become so prominent that they are even reflected in our language, so that today there is something called ‘the real world’ which is foreign and set apart from our schools
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ETAP687amp2010: Update on Michael Wesch's "A vision of students today" - 0 views
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kids prefer Coke than water
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Centering Marxist-Feminist Theory in Adult Learning - 0 views
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karl marx marxist feminist theory adult learning praxis oppression dialectical social cultural invividual
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Centering Marxist-Feminist Theory in Adult Learning. Using feminist extensions of Marxist theory, this article argues that a Marxist-feminist theory of adult learning offers a significant contribution to feminist pedagogical debates concerning the nature of experience and learning. From this theoretical perspective, the individual and the social are understood to exist in a mutually determining relationship, with a social world conceptualized as active human practice. The primary theoretical task is then to rearticulate the central relations of adult learning theory (the individual, the social, and experience), which necessitates a dialectical formation of social difference and oppression. This allows for an examination of the reification of experience as a core relation of adult learning theory and a reimagining of feminist praxis.
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Historical Reflection on Learning Theories and Instructional Design - 0 views
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Employing my research and practical experience in the field of educational psychology, with a specialty in instructional design and technology, I would like to reflect on the theoretical foundations of instructional design. My purpose is to show the growth of the field through theories associated with learning psychology and educational technology. Both human psychology and technology are the main foundations for instructional psychology. Evaluation and assessment continue to be integral to the field but more in the form of tools. Included is my view of the field in reference to work I and my colleagues have done in what we label as a linking theory of instructional design. That is, linking learning theory directly with research findings and practice I argue that educators need to clearly propose and define their own theoretical foundations when engaging in the design of effective learning environments...
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Carl Rodgers - 1 views
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...Like Maslow, Rogers believes that, if left to their own devices, animals will tend to eat and drink things that are good for them, and consume them in balanced proportions. Babies, too, seem to want and like what they need. Somewhere along the line, however, we have created an environment for ourselves that is significantly different from the one in which we evolved. In this new environment are such things as refined sugar, flour, butter, chocolate, and so on, that our ancestors in Africa never knew. These things have flavors that appeal to our organismic valuing -- yet do not serve our actualization well. Over millions of years, we may evolve to find brocolli more satisfying than cheesecake -- but by then, it'll be way too late for you and me...
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Stephen Hicks, Ph.D. » Fichte on education as socialization - 0 views
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To start with, education must be egalitarian and universal, unlike previous education, which was feudal and elitist: “So there is nothing left for us but just to apply the new system to every German without exception, so that it is not the education of a single class, but the education of the nation.” Such education will aid in the creation of a classless society: “All distinctions of classes … will be completely removed and vanish. In this way there will grow up among us, not popular education, but real German national education.”[75]
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Real education must start by getting to the source of human nature. Education must exert “an influence penetrating to the roots of vital impulse and action.” Here was a great failing of traditional education, for it had relied upon and appealed to the student’s free will. “I should reply that that very recognition of, and reliance upon, free will in the pupil is the first mistake of the old system.” Compulsion, not freedom, is best for students: On the other hand, the new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to cultivate, and produces on the contrary strict necessity in the decisions of the will, the opposite being impossible. Such a will can henceforth be relied upon with confidence and certainty.[76]
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