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Maria Guadron

Faculty « Distance & Extended Education - 0 views

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student-centered learning online face-to-face

shared by Maria Guadron on 16 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Generally, your success in teaching online will depend upon your willingness to learn some new technologies, rethink your pedagogical methods, and to commit to frequent online interaction with your students.
  • Maria Guadron on 16 Aug 12
     
    "Generally, your success in teaching online will depend upon your willingness to learn some new technologies, rethink your pedagogical methods, and to commit to frequent online interaction with your students."
Melissa Pietricola

Study hits 'grade inflation' in New York state testing of pupils | SILive.com - 0 views

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grade inflation

shared by Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jul 10 - Cached
  • middle-school students who passed their math and English Language Arts tests are likely to struggle on their high school Regents exams
  • tudents who scored a Level 3 on their state tests -- which is considered passing -- would likely earn a 65 on their Regents exams, but that a score of 80 was typically needed to earn college credit for a course, according to the News.
  • Steiner is also calling for longer tests with more rigorous questions.
    • Melissa Pietricola
      Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jul 10
       
      Does longer mean better? Does a longer test necessarily mean it will better assess the learning objective?
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  • Critics have long been saying the tests appeared to be getting easier, and have wondered whether the scoring was adjusted to make politicians look better.
    • Melissa Pietricola
      Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jul 10
       
      Do regents and middle level state tests give kids "false sense of hope" as she states? My kids could care less what the state says. They are worried about their daily grades.
  • "But by any measure -- including the highly respected NAEP exams, state tests, and graduation rates -- due to the bold reform agenda implemented by this administration, the significant progress made by New York City students has far outpaced that of students in the rest of New York state."
  • Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jul 10
     
    NYS example of grade inflation; focusing on the middle level
Maree Michaud-Sacks

Constructivism | Funderstanding - 0 views

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constructivism

shared by Maree Michaud-Sacks on 30 May 13 - No Cached
  • The purpose of learning is for an individual to construct his or her own meaning, not just memorize the “right” answers and regurgitate someone else’s meaning.
    • Maree Michaud-Sacks
      Maree Michaud-Sacks on 30 May 13
       
      We can shift the learning from "teacher centered" to "student centered". I see too many students who memorize the facts to regurgitate on an exam, rather than working towards understanding the information.
  • Constructivism is a philosophy of learning founded on the premise that, by reflecting on our experiences, we construct our own understanding of the world we live in
    • Maree Michaud-Sacks
      Maree Michaud-Sacks on 30 May 13
       
      Rationale for adding discussion to an online course? Through discussion a learner can construct personal meaning from new concepts.
  • Teachers also rely heavily on open-ended questions and promote extensive dialogue among students.
    • Maree Michaud-Sacks
      Maree Michaud-Sacks on 30 May 13
       
      Open ended questions allows for learners to connect their experience to the concepts and explore what it means to each individual. Dialog between students encourages furthering of the conversation and adds new ideas and information to the discussion.
alexandra m. pickett

The ABCs of observing - Astronomy Magazine - 1 views

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Module 4 Assignment star science astronomy space

shared by alexandra m. pickett on 20 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Know your equipment
    • Gary Bedenharn
      Gary Bedenharn on 20 Jul 12
       
      This is great advise for doing anything new.  Work out the kinks before delving into it and becoming disappointing because it didn't work when you get to your destination.
  • Question yourself
    • Gary Bedenharn
      Gary Bedenharn on 20 Jul 12
       
      Write down questions, so later you don't have to scratch your head and ask yourself what things I wanted to look at.
  • quality of "seeing,"
    • Gary Bedenharn
      Gary Bedenharn on 20 Jul 12
       
      The quality of the atmosphere could your friend or for when it comes to star browsing.
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  • Additional online observing tools from Astronomy magazine
    • Gary Bedenharn
      Gary Bedenharn on 20 Jul 12
       
      Great resources for other activities
  • Amateur astronomy is about observing:
    • Gary Bedenharn
      Gary Bedenharn on 20 Jul 12
       
      I am going to use this website to assist students in their portfolio project, which they will make a star chart of the sky for 6 weeks of observations, either outside observations or virtual.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 22 Jul 12
       
      cool... i look forward to seeing it in your course.
  • safety
    • Gary Bedenharn
      Gary Bedenharn on 20 Jul 12
       
      Safety first!
  • Gary Bedenharn on 20 Jul 12
     
    Tips on how students can get the most out of observations of the stars.
  • alexandra m. pickett on 22 Jul 12
     
    Tips on how students can get the most out of observations of the stars.
Maria Guadron

Times Higher Education - Teaching should be student-centred: discuss - 0 views

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student-centered learning

shared by Maria Guadron on 15 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Maria Guadron on 15 Aug 12
     
    "A "cultural shift" is needed to embed "student-centred teaching" in universities, a new report claims."
Danielle Melia

Reaching Online Students with Learning Disabilities - Faculty Focus | Faculty Focus - 0 views

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interaction education teaching online

shared by Danielle Melia on 19 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Danielle Melia on 19 Jun 12
     
    Students with disabilities are drawn to online courses for many of the same reasons as everyone else, but it's often the anonymity that makes learning online particularly attractive to someone who's spent his or her life trying to mask a disability. For online instructors, this can present new issues.
Teresa Dobler

6 Ways Google Docs Supports Collaboration In The Writing Process - 1 views

www.teachthought.com/...oration-in-the-writing-process

shared by Teresa Dobler on 17 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • “Today’s young people are using a range of digital tools to compose and create in new and exciting ways. It is a game-changing moment for teachers of writing. The very notion of what it means to write is shifting, and educators are faced with adapting their teaching practices to integrate new technologies while redefining writing and learning for the 21st century.”
  • Docs provide support for collaboration in real time so students and teachers can have a virtual mini-conference about the work in front of them from any location if the timing is right.
  • quickly pinpoint the suggested revision
    • Teresa Dobler
      Teresa Dobler on 18 Jun 14
       
      The feedback draws attention right to the point that needs to be corrected. In other systems, I have seen all the feedback at the beginning or end, which makes it more difficult for students to make corrections. This is also more formative than an overall rubric, where again students have to hunt through for where the corrections are actually needed. The more work students need to do to correct, the less likely they are to do so.
  • sherrilattimer on 17 Jun 14
     
    Using Google Docs to collaborate
Joy Quah Yien-ling

Five Priniciples of New Media: Or, Playing Lev Manovich - 0 views

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participatory culture literacy media literacy media education media priniciples

shared by Joy Quah Yien-ling on 10 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Joy Quah Yien-ling on 10 Aug 10
     
    Madeleine Sorapure's presentation explains and demonstrates the five principles of new media discussed by Lev Manovich in The Language of New Media. The article also provides examples of student work, produced the author's Winter 2003 "Writing in New Media" course, that illustrates these principles.
b malczyk

Benefits of Diversity in Education - 0 views

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shared by b malczyk on 01 Jun 12 - Cached
  • students in classrooms and in the broad campus environment will be more motivated and better able to participate in a heterogeneous and complex society
  • Cognitive growth is fostered when individuals encounter experiences and demands that they cannot completely understand or meet, and thus must work to comprehend and master the new
  • more frequently expressed democratic sentiment
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  • greater motivation to take the perspective of others
  • less often evaluated the University’s emphasis on diversity as producing divisiveness between groups
  • enjoyed learning about the experiences and perspectives of other groups more than the control students
  • participants were more interested in politics and also had participated more frequently in campus political activities.
  • The discrepancy that racial and ethnic diversity on college campuses offers students for personal development and preparation for citizenship in an increasingly multicultural society depends on actual experience that students have with diverse peers.
  • b malczyk on 01 Jun 12
     
    This article describes some of the potential benefits of diversity in education. In my post I suggest that online education provides a unique means of increasing diversity which comes with the benefits described in this article.
Erin Fontaine

Techy Lincoln Middle School teachers reaching students' brains through their smartphone... - 0 views

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middle school smartphones education technology teaching

shared by Erin Fontaine on 02 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Another benefit of Edmodo is that students are encouraged to collaborate in order to solve problems, while the teachers can stand back and observe.
  • "It's almost like I had stepped out of the equation and they were problem solving themselves,"
  • The students' fingers got busy typing on their cell phone keyboards, and anonymous responses started showing up almost instantly on the discussion webpage for the question: "It could make learning more fun." "We can get our grades quicker." "It makes learning easier for everybody." "It's a lot more hands on and everyone has a voice." "Makes us pay attention and focus more."
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  • "They're training themselves. We're just the facilitators; we're just guiding them through it."
  • "Our students have been taught a one-dimensional literacy, and literacy isn't one-dimensional — it's three-dimensional," she said. "They need to be able to know what all those dimensions and facets are."
  • Erin Fontaine on 02 Jun 12
     
    Learn to embrace and be a part of their world and they will become more of an active learner.
  • Erin Fontaine on 02 Jun 12
     
    I found this article as I was researching as to what I wanted to do for my course. I was really debating whether I wanted to do a course for adults or if I wanted to do one at the middle school level. This article was definitely one of my deciding factors.
Diana Cary

EBSCOhost: Teacher's Role in Students-Centered English Intensive Reading Class in Chin... - 0 views

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student-centered learning

shared by Diana Cary on 16 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • new students-centered pattern by which students are the main body of the class and the owner of their learning
  • the roles of the teacher, instead of as a controller and a dominant, should be played fully as a manager and an organizer
Jessica M

ETAP640amp2014: SLN online student demographics - 0 views

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Students Demographics EDU640 Online

shared by Jessica M on 02 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • 17709      20 to 24                    37.756646               22 8149        25 to 29                    17.374155               27
  • 62%          Female
  • 0.9899366               46,431     United States
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  • 0.9289384               43,570     New York
  • Jessica M on 15 Jun 14
     
    Online Student Demographics - some numbers are surprising while others I assumed..
mikezelensky

Connecting Students to Content: Student-Generated Questions - 1 views

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student created questions

shared by mikezelensky on 27 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • mikezelensky on 27 Jun 14
     
    "The more connections and engagement they have, the better they will learn new information. Studies have shown that more student ownership of the course and its content result in better retention and better application of information after the course"
Tera

Podcasting: A Stepping Stone to Pedagogical Innovation - 1 views

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podcasting pedagogy

shared by Tera on 03 Jun 10 - Cached
  • odcasting was defined for instructors as a technology that allowed students to receive course materials through the convenient, RSS-based subscription mode and listen to them anywhere, anytime. The goal of the podcasting theme was to enable instructors to experiment with audio modes of learning. Audio has the power to capture and focus attention, helping learners acquire content and process complex information (Bishop, Amankwatia, and Cates, 2008).
  • Furthermore, informal, personalized audio presentations are thought to create a feeling of social presence that helps learners integrate new information with their existing knowledge (Moreno and Mayer, 2004).
  • Some instructors used podcasting as a way to provide recordings of lectures to students. However, many more experimented with podcasting as a way to expose students to additional course content in engaging formats.  They created course podcasts that were mock radio programs, case studies, and interviews with national and international figures.  Still others used podcasting as a method for delivering course audio files or assigned students to create podcast presentations for their class. These varied pedagogical strategies were used by instructors across all disciplines.
Barbara Recchio-Demmin

BBC - Languages - El Mensual - 0 views

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Spanish language culture audio Module 4

shared by Barbara Recchio-Demmin on 19 Jul 09 - Cached
    • Barbara Recchio-Demmin
      Barbara Recchio-Demmin on 19 Jul 09
       
      This is a great feature for students to hear authentic Spanish speakers.
    • Barbara Recchio-Demmin
      Barbara Recchio-Demmin on 19 Jul 09
       
      Here is a comment to my comment. We Spanish teachers who are not of Spanish-speaking origins often carry an accent with us no matter how hard we try to erase it. This is one reason why it is so important to expose our students to authentic materials in order to help them learn proper pronunciation.
    • Barbara Recchio-Demmin
      Barbara Recchio-Demmin on 19 Jul 09
       
      Games help to improve student interest and learn vital vocabulary at the same time
  • It incorporates reports from BBC Mundo plus other materials to help you keep your Spanish up to date.
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    • Barbara Recchio-Demmin
      Barbara Recchio-Demmin on 19 Jul 09
       
      Learning about Spanish in context is one of the foundations for increased interest in language learning. The relevance of learning nouns and verbs becomes clear once students understand the people and culture associated with the target language
  • Spanish with audio
  • Barbara Recchio-Demmin on 19 Jul 09
     
    Great site to enhance Spanish language and cultural immersion
Diane Gusa

New Learning Theories | eHow.com - 0 views

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Democratic learning design theories

shared by Diane Gusa on 15 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Democratic learning involves empowering students to control the direction of how exactly they reach an end-destination involving any subject to be learned. Democratic models employ various leaning strategies particular to the personality types and preferred learning styles making up a student body. For example, the anatomy of a democratic-learning environment involves three distinct themes: assigning a minimum amount of tests at the end of a predetermined time frame, transferring all responsibilities to students (individuals or groups) to learn everything needed to pass all required tests and implementing a self-driven or voting model allowing students to determine for themselves appropriate learning strategies. Furthermore, implementing true democratic voting models in learning environments both encourages and even forces group participation. For instance, the least active member is more inclined to participate than in non-democratic environments when realizing voting is required to bring about the most favorable learning circumstance for both himself and his group.
Melissa Pietricola

News: The Evidence on Online Education - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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education research online learning

shared by Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jun 10 - Cached
  • learners in the online condition spent more time on task than students in the face-to-face condition found a greater benefit for online learning," the report says.
    • Melissa Pietricola
      Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jun 10
       
      benefits to online learning as students spent more time on task than students in the face to face environment.
  • differed in terms of time spent, curriculum and pedagogy. It was the combination of elements in the treatment conditions (which was likely to have included additional learning time and materials as well as additional opportunities for collaboration) that produced the observed learning advantages
  • This new report reinforces that effective teachers need to incorporate digital content into everyday classes and consider open-source learning management systems, which have proven cost effective in school districts and colleges nationwide
    • Melissa Pietricola
      Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jun 10
       
      What is meant by an open-source learning management system??
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  • open-source learning management systems
  • Joy Quah Yien-ling on 14 Jun 10
     
    This summarizes the key findings of the report "Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning".
Sue Rappazzo

30 THINGS WE KNOW FOR SURE ABOUT ADULT LEARNING - 2 views

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education learning adult_learning

shared by Sue Rappazzo on 03 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Information that conflicts sharply with what is already held to be true, and thus forces a re-evaluation of the old material, is integrated more slowly.
  • Adults prefer self-directed and self-designed learning projects over group-learning experience
  • Self-direction does not mean isolation. Studies of self-directed learning indicate that self-directed projects involve an average of 10 other people as resources, guides, encouragers and the like. But even for the self-professed, self-directed learner, lectures and short seminars get positive ratings, especially when these events give the learner face-to-face, one-to-one access to an expert.
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  • The learning environment must be physically and psychologically comfortable
  • Adults have something real to lose in a classroom situation. Self-esteem and ego a
  • Adults have expectations, a
  • Adults bring a great deal of life experienc
  • Instructors who have a tendency to hold forth rather than facilitate can hold that tendency in check--or compensate for it--by concentrating on the use of open-ended questions to draw out relevant student knowledge and experience.
  • New knowledge has to be integrated with previous knowledge; students must actively participate in the learning experience.
  • The key to the instructor role is control. The instructor must balance the presentation of new material, debate and discussion, sharing of relevant student experiences, and the clock.
  • The instructor has to protect minority opinion, keep disagreements civil and unheated, make connections between various opinions and ideas, and keep reminding the group of the variety of potential solutions to the problem. The instructor is less advocate than orchestrator.
  • Integration of new knowledge and skill requires transition time and focused effort on application. Learning and teaching theories function better as resources than as a Rosetta stone. A skill-training task can draw much from the behavioral approach, for example, while personal growth-centered subjects seem to draw gainfully from humanistic concepts. An eclectic, rather than a single theory-based approach to developing strategies and procedures, is recommended for matching instruction to learning tasks.
Joan McCabe

A Preliminary Investigation of "Teaching Presence" in the SUNY Learning Network - 0 views

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student satisfaction online pedagogy teacher presence

shared by Joan McCabe on 27 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Gary Bedenharn on 27 Jun 12
     
    Foundation for online courses.
  • Maria Guadron on 28 Jun 12
     
    "Guiding questions create a knowledge-centered learning environment "
  • Joan McCabe on 09 Jul 12
     
    This paper examines issues of pedagogy, faculty development, student satisfaction, and reported learning in the State University of New York (SUNY) Learning Network (SLN).
Joan McCabe

NYS Student Learning Objectives - 0 views

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assessment strategies SLO

shared by Joan McCabe on 24 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Joan McCabe on 24 Jun 12
     
    New NYS standards for effective teaching, learning, and assessment. Will be required for every subject and grade level in elementary through highschool, except physical education. Back to teachers proving themselves based on the outcomes of students on standardized tests.
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