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Lisa Martin

Creepy Treehouse Syndrome | On Campus | SPLICETODAY.com - 0 views

  • But they're running into an old problem with all this new technology: students don't want to hang out with their professors on the Internet.
  • seeing faculty members as intruders in their private online spaces.
Joan McCabe

Fostering Second Language Development in Young Children - 0 views

  • Principle #6: Language is used to communicate meaning. Children will internalize a second language more readily if they are asked to engage in meaningful activities that require using the language. For children who are learning English as a second language, it is important that the teacher gauge which aspects of the language the child has acquired and which ones are still to be mastered. Wong Fillmore (1985) recommends a number of steps that teachers can use to engage their students: Use demonstrations, modeling, role-playing. Present new information in the context of known information. Paraphrase often. Use simple structures, avoid complex structures. Repeat the same sentence patterns and routines. Tailor questions for different levels of language competence and participation.
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    Describes principles for second language acquisition. Gives ideas to reinforce these principles in the classroom.
Lisa Martin

Catherine's Reflections » Blog Archive » Week 7: Teaching Presence and Establishing a Community of Inquiry Online. - 0 views

  • It is through design that teachers set the stage for a community of inquiry, but it is through the facilitation and experience with that design that the community is actually established.
    • Lisa Martin
       
      Great point!
  • imagine the design as being the outline of a painting.  As the community is established and evolves its members fill the outline with color.  Together they create a picture of learning.  The more active and engaged the participants, the more the picture will evolve.  Ultimately, my goal is for the community to paint a picture with detail, depth, subtlety, and nuance.  I want my students to take the picture with them after the course and bring it into a new community and continue to share and develop it.   In turn, I will take the picture I am left with at the end of the course and look for pieces where my design succeeded in encouraging color with detail, depth, subtlety and nuance as well as pieces that maybe weren’t colored in as much or as well.  I will adapt my design based on the influence of the community in an attempt to maximize its potential to create a high quality picture of learning.
    • Lisa Martin
       
      Wow! What a GREAT way to look at it!
Amy M

Technology - Joe Moon - What Hacker Apprenticeships Tell Us About the Future of Education - The Atlantic - 0 views

shared by Amy M on 05 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Three very similar compressed software development training programs have emerged in the last few months: Code Academy (not to be confused with the startup
  • The programs make an implicit rejection of the conventional wisdom that a pr
  • ofession (especially one as cerebral as programming) requires a base of abstract, academic study.
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  • the roles of recruiter and trainer and tightly aligning the incentives of everyone involved. Access to literature and materials is no longer the bottleneck for students, so they instead optimize on the new bottleneck and offer direct, personal access to an instructor, with close guidance through projects, and a community of peers and mentors. 
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    The future of education: open courses?
Diana Cary

Educational Leadership:Teaching for Multiple Intelligences:Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences - 0 views

  • Learning-style theory begins with Carl Jung (1927), who noted major differences in the way people perceived (sensation versus intuition), the way they made decisions (logical thinking versus imaginative feelings), and how active or reflective they were while interacting (extroversion versus introversion)
  • Most learning-style theorists have settled on four basic styles. Our own model, for instance, describes the following four styles: The Mastery style learner absorbs information concretely; processes information sequentially, in a step-by-step manner; and judges the value of learning in terms of its clarity and practicality. The Understanding style learner focuses more on ideas and abstractions; learns through a process of questioning, reasoning, and testing; and evaluates learning by standards of logic and the use of evidence. The Self-Expressive style learner looks for images implied in learning; uses feelings and emotions to construct new ideas and products; and judges the learning process according to its originality, aesthetics, and capacity to surprise or delight. The Interpersonal style learner,1  like the Mastery learner, focuses on concrete, palpable information; prefers to learn socially; and judges learning in terms of its potential use in helping others.
  • Student Choice: Assessment Products by Intelligence and Style
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  • In integrating these major theories of knowledge, we moved through three steps. First, we attempted to describe, for each of Gardner's intelligences, a set of four learning processes or abilities, one for each of the four learning styles. For linguistic intelligence, for example, the Mastery style represents the ability to use language to describe events and sequence activities; the Interpersonal style, the ability to use language to build trust and rapport; the Understanding style, the ability to develop logical arguments and use rhetoric; and the Self-expressive style, the ability to use metaphoric and expressive language.
  • In MI theory, I begin with a human organism that responds (or fails to respond) to different kinds of contents in the world. . . . Those who speak of learning styles are searching for approaches that ought to characterize all contents (p. 45).
  • Learning styles are not fixed throughout life, but develop as a person learns and grows.
  • The following are some strengths of learning-style models
  • They tend to focus on how different individuals process information across many content areas.
  • They recognize the role of cognitive and affective processes in learning and, therefore, can significantly deepen our insights into issues related to motivation.
  • They tend to emphasize thought as a vital component of learning, thereby avoiding reliance on basic and lower-level learning activities.
  • Learning-styles models have a couple of limitations. First, they may fail to recognize how styles vary in different content areas and disciplines.
  • Second, these models are sometimes less sensitive than they should be to the effects of context on learning.
  • Emerging from a tradition that viewed style as relatively permanent, many learning-style advocates advised altering learning environments to match or challenge a learner's style. Either way, learning-style models have largely left unanswered the question of how context and purpose affect learning.
  • But learning styles emphasize the different ways people think and feel as they solve problems, create products, and interact.
  • The theory of multiple intelligences is an effort to understand how cultures and disciplines shape human potential
  • Though both theories claim that dominant ideologies of intelligence inhibit our understanding of human differences, learning styles are concerned with differences in the process of learning, whereas multiple intelligences center on the content and products of learning. Until now, neither theory has had much to do with the other
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    This article discusses integrating learning styles with multiple intelligences
Danielle Melia

Many City Schools Don't Provide Physical Education, Audit Finds - 0 views

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    Despite alarming obesity rates among school-age children and a state requirement that all students get some level of structured exercise every week, many New York City schools do not provide physical education, or do not provide it as frequently as they should, according to an audit released on Tuesday by the city comptroller.
Julie DelPapa

Frames Of Mind - 0 views

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    Are you familiar with multiple intelligences? Meet the man who founded the theory! In his classic work, Gardner explains multiple intelligences and how most of them are ignored in society. This insightful theory sheds new light on how students learn.
Amy M

A pedagogy of abundance or a pedagogy to support human beings? Participant support on massive open online courses | Kop | The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning - 1 views

shared by Amy M on 08 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Participants also highlighted positive aspects related to support received. Respondents to the PLENK2010 survey were appreciative of how the facilitators led without directing and also of the work and engagement provided by the facilitators. Thus, teaching presence, especially exemplified through course design and the type of facilitation, turned out to have a powerful effect on student perceptions of support, inclusiveness, and overall satisfaction with the course. The participants valued greatly the autonomy on connections and participation in networks: “We were given free choice and allowed autonomy about our ways to connect and participate in the network. I greatly value this approach to learning and working together.”
  • table, trusted, and valued, and where people can access and interact with resources and each other. The new roles that the teacher as facilitator needs to adopt in networked learning environments include aggregating, curating, amplifying, modelling, and persistently being present in coaching or mentoring.
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    Research on teacher presence in a MOOC
Catherine Strattner

a_series_of_unfortunate_online_events.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 1 views

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    Assume nothing! Excellent advice for new online instructors.
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    "Explicit orientations to each module with due dates, time frames, and details about what the module contains, as well as redundant, clear, explicit expectations and instructions are necessary to ensure students are at all times well oriented to the content, activities, and tasks in the course."
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    "My best advice the first time through is -- keep it simple. Go for vanilla the first time and work your way up to rocky road. : )"
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    Course Reading
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    What things to think about when designing an online course.
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    Quoted with regard to the 24/7 faux pas.
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    Many common threads with the Ragan article.
efleonhardt

Strategies for Successfully Teaching Math Online - 0 views

  • video lectures, which she creates along with corresponding fill-in-the-blank notes, as one of the keys to her success
  • They must achieve a score of 75 percent or higher, a technique that ensures students have mastered the topic area, before they can move onto the next level to cover new material.
Shoubang Jian

Students, Meet Your New Teacher, Mr. Robot - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    Though not directly related to online learning, but this is really interesting.
Melissa Pietricola

Education World ® Technology Center: Technology Integration Made Easy - 0 views

  • Access an online weather forecast.
  • Include URLs in your monthly calendar.
  • Personalize history lessons for those students by beginning each history lesson with a quick visit to Today in History or This Day in History.
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  • 's American Memory Collections search engine to locate primary source material for whatever topic you’re tackling. E
  • Make the news a learning tool.
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    Technology in the day to day
Sue Rappazzo

ETAP687amp2010: Both videos - 0 views

  • old school
    • Joan Erickson
       
      I know people like that, too
  • If a student multitasks while doing homework and does well in school are they being challenged enough?
  • being given ideal test taking conditions that will not happen in the real world?
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  • every new task that you take on “you dilute your investment in each task
    • Joan Erickson
       
      this has been scientifically obeserved; there is a higher oxygen concentration in the area of that brain that is engaged. The oxygen concentraion does not double when 2 separate areas of the brain are engaged. Each area's oxygen concentration is less than what it would've been in a single-task engagement
    • Sue Rappazzo
       
      A useful bit of info!
Joan Erickson

Neil Postman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • efficiency
  • technophiles who do not see the downside of technology. This is dangerous because technophiles want more technology and thus more information
  • Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see
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  • If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it
  • A new technology tends to favor some groups of people and harms other groups. School teachers, for example, will, in the long run, probably be made obsolete by television
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    who is Neil Postman, what are his beliefs?
Diane Gusa

From Andragogy to Heutagogy - 0 views

  • It was always the teacher who decided what the learner needed to know, and indeed, how the knowledge and skills should be taught
    • Jarrod McEntarfer
       
      Not to be a stick in the mud, but how else will they know whats on the regents exam?
  • The idea that, given the right environment, people can learn and be self-directed in the way learning is applied is not new
    • Jarrod McEntarfer
       
      Certainly the best way to teach is to allow for self determination, especially with adolesants who reject authority.
  • as Bill Ford (1997) eloquently puts it 'knowledge sharing' rather than 'knowledge hoarding'. In this respect heutagogy looks to the future in which knowing how to learn will be a fundamental skill given the pace of innovation and the changing structure of communities and workplaces.
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  • Success is based on attending to narrow stimuli presented by a teacher, an ability to remember that which is not understood, and repeated rehearsal (Emery, 1974, p.2).
    • Jarrod McEntarfer
       
      Practical knowledge must occur, people can buy a dictionary.
  • Rogers (1969) suggests that people want to learn and have a natural inclination to do so throughout their life. Indeed he argues strongly that teacher-centred learning has been grossly over emphasised. He based his student-centred approach on five key hypotheses: We cannot teach another person directly: we can only facilitate learning; People learn significantly only those things that they perceive as being involved in the maintenance or enhancement of the structure of self; Experience which if assimilated would involve a change in the organisation of self tends to be resisted through denial or distortion of symbolisation, and the structure and organisation of self appear to become more rigid under threat; Experience which is perceived as inconsistent with the self can only be assimilated if the current organisation of self is relaxed and expanded to include it; and The educational system which most effectively promotes significant learning is one in which threat to the self, as learner, is reduced to a minimum".
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    What is Heutagogy
ian august

University of the future is here | The Australian - 0 views

  • Marc Prensky
  • What many educators often forget is that reading and writing, although they have enjoyed primacy for hundreds of years, are very artificial ways to communicate, store and retrieve information," he says.
  • Prensky argues that only 10 per cent to 20 per cent of people in any society are highly literate and points out that YouTube already hosts more video content than was produced in the entire history of broadcast television, including millions of how-to videos that show, not tell.
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  • Australian internet expert, Matthew Allen from Curtin University vigorously disagrees."We have to get over the myth that mobile phones have eaten the brains of our children and talk productively about using new communications tools."There is an untapped reservoir of interest and enthusiasm, and if you can find the right tasks [that] empower students, it's like reaching a [teaching] tipping point," Allen says.
  • The future role of formal education may be to help us navigate through this information in a really useful way
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