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Melissa Pietricola

Litz - Student-directed Assement in ESL/EFL: Designing Scoring Rubrics with Students (T... - 1 views

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student directed

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  • negotiable contracting and his research shows that students who are given a role in the assessment process and provided with the appropriate direction by their teachers are able to accurately evaluate their strengths and weaknesses and better pinpoint areas where they need to focus their efforts for improvement
  • develop a clearer picture of the task and their teacher's expectations while the teachers reported that they had clearer instructional goals
  • As a result, students typically perform at higher levels and gradually come to view assessment not as an arbitrary form of reward or humiliation, but rather as a positive tool for educational enrichment and growth.
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  • In this way the teacher presents his or her own expectations for the assigned work but also asks the students their opinion of what they think would constitute quality work
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      Melissa Pietricola on 19 Jun 10
       
      This might be the greatest asset; having the students articulate what they think is quality work.
  • openness and accomplishment
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    student created assessment tools
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http://www.uncp.edu/home/dente/online.htm - 0 views

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hybrid teaching technology

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  • Such discussion places many learners at a disadvantage - those who are introverted, those for whom English is not their first language, those who don't like to interrupt, those who like to think more before they speak, and many others
    • Melissa Pietricola
      Melissa Pietricola on 16 Jun 10
       
      I think this-giving everyone the opportunity to speak is the most significant benefit for my students in having the course by a hybrid
  • only 20% of the students do 80% of the discussing. Online, 65% of the students do 80% of the discussing.
  • Consequently, online students do more work and cover more subject matter.
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  • This constant interaction with the subject matter greatly increases learning retention.
  • Students are more active and self-directed in their learning.
  • discussion is richer because it is recorded
  • class discussions easily cross week boundaries. It is very common for a discussion which began in the first week of the course to resurface in the fourth week when new learnings shine a fresh perspective on it. This type of dialogue feels much more natural than the fragmented discussions I experienced in the classroom.
  • My experience with teaching online is that it is a different thing. I encourage us all to experiment in both our face-to-face and virtual learning encounters and to share what seems to work and not work.
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    benefits of online learning
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Decision Making in MIddle School Social Studies: SOCIALIZATION - 0 views

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socialization social growth

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      Melissa Pietricola on 15 Jun 10
       
      Middle school students need caring teachers who listen and demonstrate to them that they want to understand them. Online learning may facilitate this.
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Vanderbilt Center for Teaching: Understanding By Design - 0 views

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teaching learning understanding education

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  • other words, Wiggins and McTighe argue that you can’t start planning how you’re going to teach until you know exactly what you want your students to learn. 
  • worth being familiar with.”
  • What facts, concepts and principles should they know?  What processes, strategies and methods should they learn to use? 
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  • enduring understandings”
  • How can they practice using new knowledge
  • Devise active and collaborative exercises that encourage students to grapple with new concepts in order to “own” them.
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    Understanding By Design, Backwards Design McTighe, Wiggins
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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.
Melissa Pietricola

EBSCOhost: Formative peer assessment in a CSCL environment: a case study - 0 views

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peer formative education learning teaching

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  • feedback rules was one of the assessment tools
  • Results showed that students’ attitude towards peer assessment was positive and that assessment assignments had added value. However, not all students fulfilled all assessment assignments
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    Peer Revie adds value and increases positive attitudes towards learning.
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News: The Evidence on Online Education - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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education research online learning

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  • 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.
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      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
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Eagle Hill Middle School - 0 views

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Tools elearning online

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    Project Management Software
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Social Studies 8 - Dashboard - 0 views

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Tools

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  • Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jun 10
     
    This software is free and helps a group monitor its productivity. I think this might work well helping groups manage a complex cooperative task.
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African-American Experience and Issues of Race and Racism in Schools - WISE - 1 views

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american african education

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    Racism and schools issues
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Rethinking Schools Online - 0 views

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  • A person can teach in one of Milwaukee's 125 publicly funded private schools without even a high school diploma.
    • Melissa Pietricola
      Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jun 10
       
      Does this really make sense? Without a high school diploma? How does that really improve student learning, but online learning?
  • "teacher proof"
    • Melissa Pietricola
      Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jun 10
       
      Maybe we could just have one super-teacher make a video and post it to you tube and that would solve all our problems..
  • Such approaches ignore fundamental issues of resources, teacher leadership, teaching and learning conditions, and the need for much more time for teachers to collaborate, assess student progress, and improve their teaching skills.
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  • 20 percent of all new hires leave the classroom within three years. In urban districts, the numbers are worse; close to 50 percent of newcomers leave within their first five years.
  • Poor children are the most likely to be taught by the newest and least-qualified teachers
    • Melissa Pietricola
      Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jun 10
       
      The point here is that they are new and unseasoned. In my experience, these often can be the most energetic and creative. Simply saying they are the newest does not necessarily mean they are the least-qulified.
  • But if students rarely — if ever — see a teacher of color, or if teachers of color feel isolated and/or burdened by being "the only" in their schools, educational quality suffers.
    • Melissa Pietricola
      Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jun 10
       
      Perhaps online educators are colorless? This would help address this problem.
  • Such "conversation" implies thoughtful dialogue. We need to create the institutional spaces where in-depth reflection and discussion about good teaching take place on a regular basis.
    • Melissa Pietricola
      Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jun 10
       
      The one risk would be that online education became so common place that we could teach remotely and miss out on this collaboration.
  • "We have tried to figure out how you can have creative and constructive resistance and how you can layer in your knowledge . . . to try to craft something that has integrity and matches what we know about learning."
  • It's a matter of reform grounded  in the classroom, of respect for teaching as a profession, of a broader vision of social justice, and of improved organizing and collaboration.
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Reducing the Online Instructor's Workload (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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  • substituting peer, computer, or self-assessment options. Group assignments often require less teacher assessment than do individual assignments
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      Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jun 10
       
      I am considering requiring group posts to our discussion board that critique the other groups' work. I'm hoping this will cut my grading down to a quarter of what it would be.
  • Post any new e-mail questions or general problems on the FAQ and “What’s New” sections to minimize repetitive e-mail questions from others in the class
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Overview of Alternative Assessment Approaches | Coalition of Essential Schools - 1 views

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  • Assessment Ideas for Individuals and Groups
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    Ideas for alternate assessment formats
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Technology - 0 views

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technology

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  • Using Technology to Support Alternative Assessment and Electronic Portfolios
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    Technology to support assessment of large classes
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Today's Middle Schools Combining Education with Life Experiences - 0 views

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cooperative collaborative student-centered positive learning environment

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  • most successful middle schools recognize learner diversity,
  • promote a positive school environment
  • collaboration among students and educators, promotes harmony and interpersonal relations among students, and reflects positive communication. Teachers and students listen with empathy and support others in a positive manner.
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  • ith the elimination of the “students vs. educators” mentality, middle school students perceive the harmonious relationships in the school and see less of a need to engage in hostile and confrontational behaviors.
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    Elements of a successful middle school
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Using Technology to Enhance Engaged Learning for At-Risk Students - 1 views

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  • Teachers can draw on technology applications to simulate real-world environments and create actual environments for experimentation, so that students can carry out authentic tasks as real workers would, explore new terrains, meet people of different cultures, and use a variety of tools to gather information and solve problems." (p. 43)
  • technology can enhance student engagement and productivity. More specifically, technology increases the complexity of the tasks that students can perform successfully, raises student motivation, and leads to changes in classroom roles and organization
  • collaborative.
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  • meaningful, engaged learning.
  • authentic tasks.
  • the intersection of learning and technology,
  • monitor and document each student's progress.
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      Melissa Pietricola on 09 Jun 10
       
      This is what I am currently wrestling with: how do I monitor student contributions to my course if they work in a cooperative group? I hated being that kid in the group that did all the work!
  • Melissa Pietricola on 09 Jun 10
     
    "Teachers can draw on technology applications to simulate real-world environments and create actual environments for experimentation, so that students can carry out authentic tasks as real workers would, explore new terrains, meet people of different cultures, and use a variety of tools to gather information and solve problems."
Melissa Pietricola

Lesson Plans : FactCheckED - 0 views

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SocialStudies teaching resources lesson plans factchecked lessonplans

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    How to teach students to check their facts; lesson plans and ideas
  • Melissa Pietricola on 06 Jun 10
     
    Teaching Students to Examine Resources
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Seigenthaler and Wikipedia: A Case Study on the Veracity of the "Wiki" concept | Projec... - 0 views

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wikipedia

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    Wikipedia post by journalist lasts for months unchallenged. How accurate is Wikipedia? How should our students use it?
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