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Lauren D

Theory_and_Practice_of_Online_Learning - 0 views

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    The effective online learning teacher makes provision for negotiation of activities, or even content, to satisfy unique learning needs. As they become more informed participants and consumers of formal education, learners are also demanding increased input into the control of their learning
Tina Bianchi

Words & Place - 3 views

    • Tina Bianchi
       
      Provides a glimpse into Southwestern Native American culture
    • alexandra m. pickett
       
      How will you use this resource in your course, tina?
    • Tina Bianchi
       
      Right now I see it as a supplemental resource for getting a glimpse into the very important aspect of Native culture which is oral storytelling. Somewhere along the way we'll look at oral tradition and I imagine there may be at least one student who will pursue the topic in their research.
  • The speakers also talk about the relation of their oral tradition to their native communities. Five programs are recorded in native Indian languages with English subtitles so that students have an opportunity to experience the beauty and complexity of these languages.
    • Tina Bianchi
       
      Students who choose some aspect of Native American culture (oral traditions of storytelling, for example) could benefit from seeing/hearing songs and stories relayed in native language
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  • Andrew Natonabah Through a unique blend of imagery and sound, this website captures the complex oral traditions of Native American communities in the American Southwest. Songs are sung and stories told within the landscapes which inspired them.
Amy M

Never Mind Algebra. Is Literature Necessary? - SchoolBook - 0 views

  • Despite the fact that this project engaged students on many levels and taught them story structure, characterization, use of dialogue, and exposition, it was jettisoned last year because of the national shift to the Common Core. It was replaced with an eight-page (for sixth graders!) research project.
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    common core
Catherine Strattner

Reading Online - Articles: Exploring an Approach to Online Instruction - 0 views

  • One study explicitly examined the quality of the discourse environment in an online literacy course at the graduate level in a teacher education program (Many, Howrey, Race, Pottinger-bird, & Stern, 2001). The authors noted that with deliberate scaffolding by the instructor and teacher-leaders, students developed a strong support community, provided mentoring and advice, and collaborated with colleagues. In addition, research has focused specifically on the nature of scaffolding that occurred in an online reading assessment course (Many, Bates, & Coleman, 2002). In that study, bulletin board postings included support from both the instructor and the class members and focused on the use of technology; clarification of assignments; strategies for learning online; understanding, assessing, and teaching literacy concepts; and understanding general concepts in education. Online scaffolding processes included modeling, supplying information, clarifying, assisting, questioning, prompting, focusing attention, encouraging self-monitoring, and labeling/affirming.
  • Instructional scaffolding of course content in online conversations. Instructional scaffolding took place in the highly individualized and elaborative e-mail feedback given by the instructor for all course assignments. An analysis of all such correspondence between the instructor and the members of the focus group revealed the following four categories related to scaffolding: Affirming Probing Providing explicit instruction Clarifying
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    Addresses various uses of scaffolding in online instruction.
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    This article provides examples of online instructional scaffolding.
Tina Bianchi

The effect of education on democratisation: A review of past literature and suggestion... - 0 views

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    democratisation; political development; educational research
Erin Fontaine

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

  • 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."
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    Learn to embrace and be a part of their world and they will become more of an active learner.
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    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.
Amy M

edX - Home - 0 views

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  • Through this partnership, the institutions aim to extend their collective reach to build a global community of online learners and to improve education for everyone.
  • by MIT and Harvard that will develop an open-source technology platform to deliver online courses. EdX will support Harvard and MIT faculty in conducting research on teaching and learning on campus through tools that enrich classroom and laboratory experiences.
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    Harvard and MITx offer free classes
Jessica M

Students' Learning Style Preferences and Teachers' Instructional Strategies: Correlatio... - 0 views

  • the majority of studies pertaining to learning styles involved participants in secondary or post-secondary education
  • Past research has predominately focused on identifying individuals’ learning style preferences and pattern
  • helping teachers recognize the incredibly diverse needs students bring into the classroom
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  • This extends to those with special learning needs
  • and Guild (2001) even suggested                       between teaching and learning styles
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    is there a correlation between student learning styles and teacher instruction strategies?
Teresa Dobler

Four Dimensions of Online Instructor Roles - 2 views

  • eing clearer and more structured
    • Teresa Dobler
       
      You have to be MORE CLEAR than in a traditional classroom. Perhaps because students can't get immediate answers to their questions and you can't see their confused looks to clarify?
    • Teresa Dobler
       
      Not being clear hinders learning.
efleonhardt

Development and validation of the Online Student Connectedness Survey (OSCS) | Bolliger... - 0 views

  • e socially and academically integrated in order to provide meaningful learning experiences
  • “relationships with cohorts”
  • hat interaction between peers is important to online students and suggests that “the psychological presence of peer students can also bring a positive effect on various aspects of distance learning”
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  • id not participate as often in departmental activities as residential students,
  • “people with high levels of connectedness are better able to manage their own needs and emotions through cognitive processes”
  • that student isolation is one of the major problems for online learners
  • Connectedness is the sense of belonging and acceptance
  • are on their own, likely to be anxious, defensive and unwilling to take the risks involved in learning”
  • can reduce student dropout rates and “can help meet the quality challenge”
  • groups of people engaged in intellectual interaction for the purpose of learning”
  • perceives the availability of, and connectedness with, people in his/her educational setting”
  • social, teaching, and cognitive
  • learners’ levels of motivation and satisfaction.
  • work together collaboratively can reduce levels of student isolation
  • artments and instructors need to create safe learning environments (Stelzer & Vogelzangs, 1994) in which learners feel comfortable and are encouraged to participate without fear of persecution.
  • they are more likely to limit their interactions with an instructor and peers or less likely to ask for support
lkryder

Adaptive Learning System - The Role of Adaptive Learning in Math - 0 views

  • Pedagogically and research-based intelligent adaptive learning technology accesses and stays in the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) for each learner. That means it provides the right next lesson at the right level of difficulty at the right time. When work is easy, learners can do the work on their own without any help. It’s in their "comfort zone." If all the work a learner is asked to do is always in the comfort zone, no real learning will take place and the learner will eventually lose interest. Conversely, when the work is too hard, the learner becomes frustrated and will likely give up. The area between the comfort zone and the frustration zone is the one where true learning will take place – the optimal learning zone. It’s the area where a learner will need some help or will need to work hard to understand a concept or complete a task. By keeping the challenge appropriate, the learner is guided to be a mathematical ‘doer’ — someone who thinks and strategizes in ways they can apply in school and in their real life experience. This is optimal teaching and optimal learning.
    • lkryder
       
      This has been my thinking all along on the gamefying and my weekly really hard quizzes. Now I hope to build on it.
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    This is a page offering a product BUT what I found fascinating was their use of ZPD as the learning opportunity in adaptive technologies. I recall as a child having programmed learning guides that I loved and I did them for hours ( I recall they were about logic and problem solving- very cool). They were printed in a book. Now that kind of thing is frowned upon as low on Bloom but all the publishers are creating these adaptive supplements and students love them.
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    This is a page offering a product BUT what I found fascinating was their use of ZPD as the learning opportunity in adaptive technologies. I recall as a child having programmed learning guides that I loved and I did them for hours ( I recall they were about logic and problem solving- very cool). They were printed in a book. Now that kind of thing is frowned upon as low on Bloom but all the publishers are creating these adaptive supplements and students love them.
Elena Buttgereit

Gardner's Multiple Intelligences - 1 views

  • seven distinct intelligences.
  • "we are all able to know the world through language, logical-mathematical analysis, spatial representation, musical thinking, the use of the body to solve problems or to make things, an understanding of other individuals, and an understanding of ourselves. Where individuals differ is in the strength of these intelligences - the so-called profile of intelligences -and in the ways in which such intelligences are invoked and combined to carry out different tasks, solve diverse problems, and progress in various domains."
  • Gardner says that these differences "challenge an educational system that assumes that everyone can learn the same materials in the same way and that a uniform, universal measure suffices to test student learning. Indeed, as currently constituted, our educational system is heavily biased toward linguistic modes of instruction and assessment and, to a somewhat lesser degree, toward logical-quantitative modes as well."
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  • Very aware of their environments.
  • Keen sense of body awareness.
  • They love music, but they are also sensitive to sounds in their environments
  • These students learn through interaction
  • These learners tend to shy away from others
  • reasoning, calculatin
  • At first, it may seem impossible to teach to all learning styles. However, as we move into using a mix of media or multimedia, it becomes easier
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    Multiple Intelligences Howard Gardner of Harvard has identified seven distinct intelligences. This theory has emerged from recent cognitive research and "documents the extent to which students possess different kinds of minds and therefore learn, remember, perform, and understand in different ways," according to Gardner (1991).
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    a description of Gardner's inteligences
Maree Michaud-Sacks

Gagne's and Laurillard's Models of Instruction Applied to Distance Education: A theoret... - 1 views

  • Students first read introductory material, which acquaints them with the faculty and teaching assistants, course objectives, lesson plan and schedule, and information about evaluation and grading
  • Lessons begin with stated learning objectives, which are followed with audio tutorials with slide presentations and (usually) reading assignments
  • a case study approach
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  • weekly discussion forum
  • post-tests
  • include formal examinations and some also include final projects or papers
Joan Erickson

ITD Journal - 0 views

  • Teachers and students need assessment tools that connect to individual learning styles and provide key information to teachers. This information will help to guide instruction and allow students to connect with their unique learning style
    • Joan Erickson
       
      This sounds very vague to me. I would like to see concrete examples of this
  • assessment to provide feedback and adjustment for the instructional process
    • Joan Erickson
       
      Bingo!
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  • assessment as a deliberate use of many methods to obtain evidence to indicate if students are meeting standards
  • Many of the premier online assessment vendors offer only rudimentary, machine scored true/false, or multiple-choice responses with automatic feedback or essay storage without scoring. Little research has been done to integrate the deep knowledge base we have of learning and assessment into future online assessment tools
  • diverse types of classroom assessments
  • Teachers using online assessment tools can better analyze and adjust teaching approaches based on real-time student assessment data only available through online assessment tools
Melissa Pietricola

The Associated Press: House passes major R&D funding bill - 0 views

  • The House gave its assent Friday to $84 billion in federal funding to help keep the country competitive in the fields of scientific and technological innovatio
  • $40 billion over the five-year period for research and education programs,
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  • Senate approval
  • offers scholarships for K-12 teachers working in science, technology, engineering and math education.
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    The House has led the way to increase funding in science and technology education. It looks like Republicans have attempted to block it several times, and it still must fight its way through the Senate.
Melissa Pietricola

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

  • 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.”
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
       
      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.
Diane Gusa

Scaffolding - 0 views

  • According to Vygotsky, students develop higher-level thinking skills when scaffolding occurs with an adult expert or with a peer of higher capabilities
    • Joan Erickson
       
      hmmm, I'm not convinced. BTW, is it called "tutoring"?
  • Conflicts would then take place between students allowing them to think constructively at a higher level
    • Joan Erickson
       
      Show me research, pleaes!
    • Joy Quah Yien-ling
       
      May include worksheets, additional links to materials, assessment rubrics, tutorials, question pronpts, exemplars, FAQs, and other pre-prepared material.
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    Instructional scaffolding is the provision of sufficient support to promote learning when concepts and skills are being first introduced to students. These supports may include the following: * Resources * A compelling task * Templates and guides * Guidance on the development of cognitive and social skills
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