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alexandra m. pickett

School Engagement: Potential of the Concept, State of the Evidence - 0 views

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engagement

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  • alexandra m. pickett on 14 Jun 12
     
    "The concept of school engagement has attracted increasing attention as representing a possible antidote to declining academic motivation and achievement. Engagement is presumed to be malleable, responsive to contextual features, and amenable to environmental change. Researchers describe behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement and recommend studying engagement as a multifaceted construct. This article reviews definitions, measures, precursors, and outcomes of engagement; discusses limitations in the existing research; and suggests improvements. The authors conclude that, although much has been learned, the potential contribution of the concept of school engagement to research on student experience has yet to be realized. They call for richer characterizations of how students behave, feel, and think-research that could aid in the development of finely tuned interventions "
Amy M

Original iPad Open to Attack Due to Lack of iOS 6 Update - International Business Times - 0 views

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  • Apple has released an early beta version of iOS 6 to developers - which we have reviewed - but when it is available to the public in the autumn it will only work on the iPad 2 or newer, iPhone 3GS or newer and the 4th generation iPod touch or newer.
  • Amy M on 20 Jun 12
     
    iPad 1 not supported in new iOS release
Celeste Sisson

Three Number Sense Activities | OER Commons - 2 views

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Module 4 assignment

shared by Celeste Sisson on 17 Jul 13 - No Cached
    • Celeste Sisson
      Celeste Sisson on 17 Jul 13
       
      This is a game that can be used in the beginning days of school to review number operations and get students minds back in math mode after a long summer.
    • Celeste Sisson
      Celeste Sisson on 17 Jul 13
       
      This is another game that can be used in the beginning of the class to help review order of operations and help students to get to know each other when placed in groups to help develop the class community.
  • Diana Cary on 22 Jul 13
     
    Very Cool Celeste. Will you be able to incorporate these games in your online course? If so can you tell us how you plan to use them?
Alicia Fernandez

Online Instructional Effort Measured through the Lens of Teaching Presence in the Commu... - 1 views

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Community of Inquiry higher education teaching presence content analysis

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  • The focus of this paper is teaching presence, which has been defined as “the design, facilitation and direction of cognitive and social processes for the purpose of realizing personally meaningful and educationally worthwhile outcomes” (Garrison et al., 2000).
  • Instructor teaching presence is hypothesized to be an indicator of online instructional quality.  Empirical research has supported this view with evidence indicating strong correlations between the quality of teaching presence and student satisfaction and learning (Bangert, 2008; Picciano, 2002; Shea, Pickett, & Pelz, 2003)
  • First, there is a need to revisit two of the original three teaching presence elements.
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  • The second limitation relates to design and organization (DE).
  • The third limitation relates to the locus of research investigating teaching presence which has been limited largely to threaded discussions.
  • Lastly, a careful review of the original teaching presence indicators developed by Anderson et al. (2001) reveals that they are largely reliant upon the threaded discussion activities of the instructor and thus fall short in identifying and articulating the full range of online collaborative tasks and effort demonstrated by both instructors and students.
  • If students’ perceptions indicate that they place a premium on instructor interaction (Anderson, 2003; Shea et al., 2006) instructors must actively manage students’ expectations about the nature of online learning and the role of the instructor in this process. Online instructors can accomplish this by taking the time to communicate that online courses are not teacher-centered models of learning and by explaining the rationale behind student-to-student interaction in negotiating shared meaning through discourse.
  • These results suggest that students’ teaching presence may have a “floor” threshold level and when the instructor's participation within the threaded discussion drops to zero students attempt to recreate “instructional equilibrium.”
  • When accounting for instructor teaching presence in all areas of a course, we see that there is a certain ebb and flow to teaching presence.
  • restricting analysis of teaching presence to discussion areas may present too narrow a view of individual instructor’s effort. Some instructors may take a strategic approach by participating in early discussions to model how to formulate probing questions and by providing direct feedback with the goal of withdrawing once this scaffolding is completed
  • These results also document a significant correlation between instructional effort reflected in frequency of teaching presence behaviors and learning outcomes evidence through instructor-assigned grades on closely related assignments. 
  • Where does teaching presence occur in online courses? 2. How do instructors employ communicative functionality within the course to   demonstrate teaching presence? 3. In what ways do students demonstrate teaching presence? 4. Does teaching presence shift over time? 5. Does teaching presence correlate with learning outcomes reflected in instructor-assigned grades?
  • In this study we found that the effectiveness of the instructor did not depend on participation within the threaded discussion per se, but that responsiveness and effective interaction with students was carried out through a variety of forums, including the ask-a-question area, email, and other modes of communication.  We suggest that benchmarks for effective interaction be communicated to instructors and that institutions provide training and support for online faculty around teaching presence. 
  • Alicia Fernandez on 15 Jun 14
     
    With more than 4 million students enrolled in online courses in the US alone (Allen & Seaman, 2010), it is now time to inquire into the nature of instructional effort in online environments. Reflecting the community of inquiry (CoI) framework (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 2000) this paper addresses the following questions: How has instructor teaching presence (Anderson, Rourke, Garrison, & Archer, 2001) traditionally been viewed by researchers? What does productive instructor effort look like in an entire course, not just the main threaded discussion? Results suggest that conventional research approaches, based on quantitative content analysis, fail to account for the majority of teaching presence behaviors and thus may significantly under represent productive online instructional effort.
Alicia Fernandez

The first decade of the community of inquiry framework: A retrospective - 0 views

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Community of Inquiry teaching presence social presence cognitive presence transcript analysis

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  • Alicia Fernandez on 15 Jun 14
     
    This article provides a personal perspective about the development of the seminal papers associated with the Community of Inquiry Framework. The framework and its construction are described. The main part of the paper explores the evolution of the framework and its associated methodology. Finally, research associated with the validation of the framework and new research directions are reviewed.
Melissa Pietricola

Managing the Platform: Higher Education and the Logic of Wikinomics (EDUCAUSE Review) |... - 0 views

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education platform managing

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  • Wikipedia and other social networking sites provide a space or platform upon which all kinds of activities can flourish, with the idea of a platform transcending any particular technology or application and referring to either virtual or physical worlds. Collaboration among many users upon such a platform often produces unplanned and emergent
  • results—results frequently unattainable in a command-and-control management setting
  • the logic of commons-based peer production, and the logic of platform management transform the idea of the university and the very activities—teaching and learning, research, and publishing—that lie at the heart of this enterprise
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  • But at its heart, the university was born to provide a structure to govern the student-teacher relationship.
  • development of Wikiversity (http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page), an initiative from the Wikimedia Foundation
  • materials are produced by Wikiversity participants, who are, like their counterparts in Wikipedia, motivated volunteers. In addition, the Wikiversity course materials, unlike those made available by MIT, are editable by users
  • . Instead, students are invited to work together, to engage in discussion, to solve problems, and to otherwise “construct their knowledge.”
  • Put another way, the role of the teacher in a constructivist setting is like being a “procedural author,” as defined by Janet Murray when discussing virtual reality spaces.9
  • transformed into a kind of platform where students were invited to explore/create/construct knowledge. Peer production is very much a part of the constructivist classroom setting.
  • are more theme-parks than sandboxes,” meaning that learning is made as uniform and as controlled as possible (under the name of “standardization” and “outcomes-based” assessments).
    • Melissa Pietricola
      Melissa Pietricola on 15 Jun 10
       
      This is a great analogy-we have our kids waiting in line to have them produce cookie-cutter results..
  • In contrast, a sandbox conjures up images of unstructured, unplanned, emergent play that is determined by the players. Imagine a university organized and managed like a sandbox, where teachers and students are invited to play and create in an unstructured environment—or, rather, in an environment structured by their own actions, choices, and decisions.
  • Concerns would surely be raised about the quality of these credentials, similar to the debates about the quality of the articles in Wikipedia
  • To what degree will such informal learning and “credentialing by reputation” be legitimated and accepted by society?
  • emerge from the decisions, the edits, the additions, and the deletions of a number of people, all bound by the rules and protocols of Wikipedia
  • The wiki-ized university will probably not displace the traditional university but will likely exist alongside it, albeit in direct competition.
Joy Quah Yien-ling

Best Practices in Online Teaching Strategies - Hanover Research Council - 1 views

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online best practices elearning

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  • Joy Quah Yien-ling on 15 Jun 10
     
    In this 2009 report, the Hanover Research Council reviews the best practice teaching strategies in the field of online education. Report also provides case studies of exemplary programs
Kelly Hermann

AbleData: Welcome to AbleData - 0 views

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Module 4 assignment

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  • Kelly Hermann on 19 Jul 10
     
    This site has a wealth of resources for those interested in learning more about assistive technology in general as well as those researching specific products.  AbleData provides resources for users, product reviews and a searchable database of companies that manufacture assistive software and devices, as well as a library that allows users to search for publications and other information about assistive technology.  It is a dynamic website that is updated frequently so it helps users to stay current on a rapidly changing field.
Joan Erickson

Games for Higher Education: 2008 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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  • games can tie into constructivist pedagogy
  • gaming influences how they perceive and use information
  • Some libraries have hosted game nights or have developed a digital game collection for access and preservation purposes
  • Joan Erickson on 06 Aug 10
     
    by Bryan Alexander---talks about how to use gaming to help the learning process, the rationale for working gaming into teaching
  • Joan Erickson on 06 Aug 10
     
    this is Bryan Alexander's blog site. There's one more article about him and his beliefs I will diigo
Joan Erickson

http://www.college-cram.com/study/trigonometry/angle-functions/my-angle-functions-flash... - 0 views

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module 4 assignment

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  • Joan Erickson on 19 Jul 10
     
    to use in f2f for unit 1 review----teacher resource\n\ntoo easy, below freshmen level\njust memorizing definitions----but good for weak students
Joan Erickson

Online Community of Inquiry Review-A Response | Social Studies Another Way - 0 views

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shared by Joan Erickson on 27 Jul 10 - Cached
  • groups do not naturally coalesce and move to integration and resolution phases
    • Joan Erickson
      Joan Erickson on 27 Jul 10
       
      ditto here, you and I talked about this in the discussion. Not the easiest thing to achieve!
Kelly Hermann

Evaluation - Web Accessibility for All - 0 views

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module 4 assignment

shared by Kelly Hermann on 27 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Kelly Hermann on 27 Jul 10
     
    You may find this information helpful as you are doing the final preparations on your own courses.  There is a tutorial that allows for a user to manually check a website for accessibility as well as detailed information about common accessibility checker programs and how they work.  I am going to post a link to this page in the resources section of my course.
  • Kelly Hermann on 27 Jul 10
     
    I intend to post this page in the resources section of my online course to provide participants with information regarding how to check web spaces for accessibility.  This information may be helpful to them in the accessibility review activities of the course, particularly those that involve reviewing other web spaces or tools.
alexandra m. pickett

Class Size - 0 views

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class size

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  • Smaller class size seems to result in higher achievement among students who are economically disadvantaged. Students with lower academic ability seem to do better in smaller classes than in larger ones. It may be that class size affects student attitudes more significantly than it affects achievement. A direct effect of large class size is to lower the morale and increase the stress of teachers. There is typically little to be gained from reductions in class size that do not bring class size below 30.
  • Smaller classes are beneficial for children at the primary level, particularly in math and reading.
  • The most positive effects of small classes on pupil learning occur in grades K-3 in reading and mathematics.
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  • Little, if any, increase in pupil achievement can be expected from reducing class size if teachers continue to use the same instructional methods and procedures in the smaller classes that they have used in larger classes (Robinson, p. 82).
  • Teachers with small classes must not only be trained to be effective in such settings, but they must also be committed to try new skills and procedures.
  • Robinson, Glen E. “Synthesis of Research on the Effects of Class Size.” EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP (April 1990): 80-90.
  • The most recent comprehensive review of existing research was completed by Robinson (1990), and used a cluster analysis approach. Studies were “clustered” into categories considered important for class size decisions such as grade levels, subject areas, student characteristics, student achievement, student behavior, and teaching practices. The results of part of Robinson’s analysis appear below.
  • Effective schools research has extended its research agenda by focusing on an expanded number of variables that are presumed to be related to student achievement. Schools are now perceived as a cultural entity where the complex interplay of multiple variables affect the lives of all who learn and teach in those institutions. As the metaphor for American schools has shifted from an assembly line to that of a caring, learning community, the class size research agenda has also shifted to include such variables as instructional method, teacher morale and stress, teacher work load, student behavior and attitudes, content areas, student characteristics, and grade level. Bennett (1987), in a review of more recent research, found broad agreement among researchers on the following general conclusions:
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 28 Aug 08
       
      hey ;just demoing diigo to faculty
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 28 Aug 08
       
      another demo of a comment
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