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Hedy Lowenheim

How Online Learning Is Revolutionizing K-12 Education and Benefiting Students - 0 views

  • Students appear to be benefiting from online learning programs. While evidence about the effectiveness of K-12 online learning programs is limited, there is reason to believe that students can learn effectively online. In 2009, the U.S. Department of Education published a meta-analysis of evidence-based studies of K-12 and postsecondary online learning programs.[3] The study reported that "students who took all or part of their class online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through traditional face-to-face instruction."[4] In addition, online learning has the potential to improve productivity and lower the cost of education, reducing the burden on taxpayers
  • Whether students have access to online learning options will largely be determined by policymakers' willingness to reform education funding to facilitate greater parental choice. This factor largely explains why the Florida Virtual School enrolls 154,000 students while the Maryland Virtual School enrolls only 710 students. If policymakers want to open the possibilities of online learning to all students, they must reform school funding mechanisms to allow the money to follow the students to their providers of choice.
  • Federal policymakers should consider using online or virtual learning to improve effectiveness and efficiency of these programs. For example, the Department of Defense Education Activity (DODEA) currently educates approximately 85,000 children of military personnel[22] and is developing plans to create an online virtual high school for the 2010-2011 school year.[23] A virtual school for the children of military personnel would likely expand their educational opportunities and minimize disruptions caused by transferring to new schools when their parents are transferred to new assignments.
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  • Online learning has the potential to revolutionize American education. Today, as many as 1 million children are participating in some form of online learning.
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    "How Online Learning Is Revolutionizing K-12 Education and Benefiting Students"
alexandra m. pickett

Thoughts About Teaching Spanish Online - 0 views

  • In an online environment it is fundamental.  Discussions generate questions, and questions promote critical thinking.  I now firmly believe, and understand, that in order to promote a higher level of language usage, I need to help my students learn how to think critically through questioning.  This is best accomplished through a dialogue format, where all students are expected to contribute in a relaxed and supportive learning environment.
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      Brilliant!!! yes! you are getting it!
  • I am wondering if there is a way to copy a module set-up, and then simply customize the web pages within each module. 
    • alexandra m. pickett
       
      i wish there were in moodle but to my knowlege there is not. Believe me, i understand.
  • Suddenly, the student is propelled to think clearly and critically, as now their core ideas have the potential to be shared with anyone, anywhere.
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  • t occurred to me that real learning requires the removal of classroom walls in the sense that students need to be made to feel empowered  in their ability to learn independently, as well as in the amount of information they learn. 
  • Personal stories give life to a faceless person, just as they do in literature.  We come to know, like, love, despise, and sympathize with characters the more we know about them.  Online it is very different in the sense that we are communicating interactively, but unless we become ‘real’ to our students, there will be a disconnect between instructor-student that must ultimately interfere with knowledge acquisition, particularly since effective teaching presence has been shown to directly affect the quality of education in online environments based on interactions between students and instructors (Alex – Breeze presentation module 5).
  • Specifically, I need to ask myself:  Do these questions simply ask student to use their  foundational knowledge, and book resources,  in order to answer the questions? Or do they need to think, analyze, research and push themselves cognitively in order to understand, and answer, the posted questions?
  •   Online learning requires a different framework of thinking and behaving.  It requires a sense of self-reliance, responsibility and an openness to collaboration and reflection. 
  • Many of our high school students are not equipped with these survival skills. 
    • alexandra m. pickett
       
      barbara: it is my experience that students rise to your expectations. I have seen remarkable work by k12 students and lower level college students. And even if it is true that they are not well equipped, they will have a fantastic teacher in you to get them there : ) me
  • online learning not only allows students to learn according to their favored multiple intelligences (visual, auditory, tactile, etc.), it also allows students to learn according to their own rate of information reception.  While the classroom forces us all to be quick thinkers, and immediate responders, many of us are not.  We need time to formulate ideas, responses and concepts.  Students who cannot respond immediately are left out of the learning environment and many may eventually ‘check-out’. 
  • Seeing others accomplish things that I had either not thought of, or was too intimidated to attempt, made me take chances. 
  • This is what learning is all about – moving out of our comfort zone and pushing our possibilities.
Teresa Dobler

Online K-8 Program | K12 - 0 views

  • It's not all "online": You'll also receive boxes of traditional materials, including award-winning textbooks, CDs, videos, and hands-on materials that complement online learning.
    • Teresa Dobler
       
      The course provides a combination of online and traditional resources to students as part of the educational program.
  • online delivery and individualized learning
    • Teresa Dobler
       
      While individualized does not have to mean student centered, they can go together. I would hope in my own online course, I would be able to focus more on the student centered work.
  • Individualized Learning Plan, monitors progress, and focuses on each student's individual problem areas.
    • Teresa Dobler
       
      A very different role for the teacher in this online environment.
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  • parent booster clubs, museum trips, student clubs, school activities, picnics and more.
    • Teresa Dobler
       
      Community building is still an important part of the educational system.
  • Suggested lesson plans are provided to you each week, which update automatically as your child progresses
    • Teresa Dobler
       
      One way in which the work is individualized.
Teresa Dobler

Online K-8 Program | K12 - 0 views

  • individualized learning
    • Teresa Dobler
       
      While individualized does not always equate with student centered, I would hope to focus more on a student centered approach while designing an online learning program.
  • each student is typically assigned to one teacher who manages an Individualized Learning Plan, monitors progress, and focuses on each student's individual problem areas.
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      The changing role of teacher in this online environment. It seems as if the parent is the main person directing education.
  • parent booster clubs, museum trips, student clubs, school activities, picnics and more.
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      Social community building is still an important part of the educational system.
alexandra m. pickett

Promising Practices in Online Learning - iNACOL - 0 views

  • The most well established K-12 online learning programs are more than ten years old
Teresa Dobler

K12 | Online Public School, Online High School, Online Private School, Homeschooling, a... - 0 views

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      Here are some of the many benefits of the online K-12 program.
  • Individualized learning customized
  • online interactive and offline hands-on learning
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  • powerful, personalized connection with teachers
Danielle Melia

Our Mission - The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - 0 views

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    To serve as a catalyst to position 21st century readiness at the center of US K12 education by building collaborative partnerships among education, business, community and government leaders.
mikezelensky

Learning together in a community: collaboration online - 0 views

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    "Recent studies of the online learning environment have noted the involvement of 'social presence,' better known as a feeling of community and connection among learners, has contributed positively to learning outcomes and learner satisfaction with online course."
Gary Bedenharn

04_1127.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 1 views

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    Article on how collaboration and community are main factors in developing an effective online learning environment.
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    Working in groups in an online setting can be tricky. In one of the classes we used Titan Pad, which acts as a big instant messanger. We would share ideas and post parts to a project. Here an example of one I used: http://titanpad.com/MRYfaMK1Np
Joan Erickson

SCORE: Collaboration Rubric - 0 views

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    straightforward rubrics for group learning, peer evaluations
alexandra m. pickett

The Impact of Synchronous Online Learning in Academic Institutions: Customer Experience... - 0 views

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    Impact of synchronous online learning, including support, considerations for institutions, and students.
alexandra m. pickett

A National Primer on K-12 Online Learning, Version 2 - 0 views

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    "A Nation"
Diane Gusa

Behaviorism: Not As Dead As Previously Thought - 0 views

  • the behaviorist view isn’t one of passive absorption of knowledge,
  • It is one where the learner actively engages the world around him, and learns through experience (p. 9)
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