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Diane Gusa

ETAP640student FIR reflections - 1 views

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  • Fook and +Askeland (2007) explore the benefits of critical reflections. They point out that reflection is an intentional practice of exploring underlying assumptions in thought processes, for the purpose of achieving growth.  They explain that this practice is useful for an individual to be able to understand their own thinking, and gain better insight into what drives their behaviors.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 07 Jun 11
       
      link please!
  • Did You Know Video
  • Ian’s post about faculty ignoring technology forced me to reflect on my own biases.
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  • It has taken nearly 2 years for the administration on our campus to support the request of one of our faculty members to provide infrastructure and equipment to use Elluminate. Elluminate (http://www.elluminate.com) is a web based tool that provides opportunities for distance learners to stay in their location and participate in synchronous, real time lectures, seminars, or presentations with other members in a different location.
  • Furnborough and Truman (2009)
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 21 Jun 11
       
      Hi Francis, I too am guilty here, and this course has taught me the importance of redundancy. I beleive it will cut down on the many emails I get by students who "forget" what is expected.
  • June 20th, 2011
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 22 Jun 11
       
      francia: there are 2 blog posts due for each module. for module 2 they were due between june 6-19th.
  • it is ideal to make the online environment as effective as possible to meet the learning objectives, and the learners needs.
    • Donna Angley
      Donna Angley on 25 Jun 11
       
      Yes, very good point - and as I'm learning week after week, there are many technologies out there to help with meeting the objectives. What I've realized in the past 2 weeks or so is that I didn't have very clear objectives. Once I clarified those, I found it easier to begin to build my course and visualize the modules.
  • This includes the feedback I so diligently write on their assignments.
    • Donna Angley
      Donna Angley on 25 Jun 11
       
      I am so guilty of this; Alex had left me feedback in several areas, and I didn't realize it. I wasn't checking back frequently enough. Live and learn.
  • I honestly don’t see how all of this technology has necessarily improved life for the poor, the hungry, and the uneducated
    • Donna Angley
      Donna Angley on 25 Jun 11
       
      I agree that perhaps these populations aren't benefiting from the technology yet, but the potential is huge. Imagine being able to reach out to poorer communities via online learning. Urban schools have a really difficult time recruiting and retaining quality teachers. It's not unheard of for an uncertified teacher to teach in an urban school, because they are so desperate for teachers to man the classrooms. If some of the learning can happen online, or if they could offer blended classes, it could have real potential to raise graduation rates. Online learning is still fairly new in the grand scheme, but it is spreading like wildfire. More people will come on board, great minds will (have) come together for Best Practices, and the proof will be in the student outcomes.
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 04 Jul 11
       
      Hi Francia, Sorry for spelling your name wrong in last sticky note. What you are trying to achieve is a paradigm shift....it takes time, but it can happen Diane
Donna Angley

Curriculum and Instructional Design - 0 views

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  • I can now see that learning to transform my ideas and beliefs about learning IS GOING TO require a constant and steady flow of reflective inquiry.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 07 Jun 11
       
      brilliant!! : )
    • Donna Angley
      Donna Angley on 23 Jun 11
       
      Took me a while to realize it as well!
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 18 Jun 11
       
      I am curious, what do you mean logical? Is it possible that what is logical to one student, will be chaos for another?
  • There are still so many tools and technologies to learn!
    • Kimberly Barss
      Kimberly Barss on 20 Jun 11
       
      I KNOW! It is so overwhelming at times. I just keep telling myself "it's all going to be worth it!" It is extremely comforting, however, to hear the experts in the field and those who have been doing this for a long time saying that they felt the same way when they first began.
    • Donna Angley
      Donna Angley on 23 Jun 11
       
      I just found out tonight about this ability to use Diigo in our blogs to leave post-its....very cool!
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  • Jun 21st,
  • I do not know all that there is to know about online learning
  • I need to move outside of comfort zone to make this course work!
  • I am able to read the discussion posts and announcements while I’m on the road, at work, exercising or shopping. I am able to stay connected to the course, and this has been a great help to my learning.
    • Donna Angley
      Donna Angley on 23 Jun 11
       
      I'm a little jealous :-) I don't have internet on my phone, so I have to wait to be home to do any work at all. It must be nice to always have the option of connecting!
  • I still have so much learning to do
    • Donna Angley
      Donna Angley on 23 Jun 11
       
      We all do...hopefully the learning never ends. I think of myself as one long work in progress.
  • visual
  • post quality responses
    • Donna Angley
      Donna Angley on 02 Jul 11
       
      This has proved to be one of the more difficult portions of this course. It takes me hours to create a quality post, but I do learn a lot in the process.
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 04 Jul 11
       
      Hi Kristen I too am grateful for the experiences, even though that cause me great frustration, because those have made me dig deeper...
  • teacher
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 04 Jul 11
       
      it is teaching presence not teacher presence. there is a big difference. : )
  • This course allows me to learn the theoretical underpinnings of learning and teaching online, but also allows me to apply what I have learned and “make the connection” to my professional life and to the greater world!
  • From this point on, I have made the decision to be strategic about the design and impact of my course on my faculty’s personal and professional lives.
  • for business
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 18 Jul 11
       
      it is a process : )
  • stay consistent with the structure
    • Donna Angley
      Donna Angley on 30 Jul 11
       
      It's taken a while for me to realize this as well. I've since gone back and added consistency throughout my modules.
Michael Lucatorto

Oxford Tutorial Method - 0 views

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  • You communicate with your Professor by email or telephone as often as you need to. If you happen to live near a Faculty member, you may arrange to meet with him or her in person. This personal approach to learning, featuring frequent interaction with your Professor, affords the Rushmore student greater flexibility and support than at conventional schools
Lauren D

Communication in Online Courses: Strategies for Providing Feedback - 0 views

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feedback education teaching online

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  • Here are strategies for providing feedback in the Virtual Classroom
  • Clearly communicate exactly how participants will be graded.
  • Set evening hours if most of your students work during the day.
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  • Be prepared to use a variety of delivery systems for feedback in case the technological system fails
  • Take note of students who don’t participate during the first session, and contact them individually after class. They may have technological difficulties
  • Provide substantive critique, comment, and/or evaluation for work submitted by individual students or groups, referring to additional sources for supplementary information where appropriate.
  • Provide private, weekly updates to EACH participant on their grade status.
  • Thank students publicly for comments submitted to the Virtual Classroom showing insight or depth. This will serve to model the types of responses and critical thinking skills you expect from other participants as well as give positive reinforcement to the student who contributed the message.
  • Make interpretive as well as descriptive comments.
  • the instructor should recognize quality work and intervene as the work is being developed to steer students in the right direction
  • Do not comment on every student posting. Much like in face-to-face class discussions let the conversation develop and give students a chance to participate before jumping in with in depth comments/feedback or analysis.
  • Use your students' feedback regarding course content, relevancy, pace, delivery problems, and instructional concerns to improve your course for the next time you teach it.
  • formative assessment
  • Donna Angley on 12 Jun 11
     
    The importance of continuous and prompt teacher feedback in the virtual classroom.
  • Maria Guadron on 07 Jun 12
     
    Online students need more support and feedback because they may feel alienated online. Read some strategies to provide feedback here!
ian august

Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: Learning in a Participatory Culture: A Conversation About New Media and Education (Part One) - 0 views

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digital learning social communications onine education henry jenkins

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  • peop
  • it isn't about the technology
  • It is about the informational affordances and cultural practices which have taken shape around the computer and other interactive technologies.
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  • Yochai Benkler, author of The Wealth of Networks, tells us we respond to the culture differently when we see it through the eyes of a participant rather than a consumer
  • And it is this participatory culture which has been facilitated by the new digital media in a way that stretches far beyond the imagination of previous generations.
  • When we are talking about the internet, we are talking about all of the activities we perform through this new information infrastructure and the mindset which emerges through our ongoing engagement and participation in the great public conversation that emerges through it.
  • Beyond the individual medium there is a media ecology -- all of the different kinds of communications systems which surround us and through which we live our everyday lives
  • and they have opened up a space where all of us can be welcomed as potential participants
  • All of the research shows that the communities of practice which grow up around this participatory culture are powerful sites of pedagogy, fueled by passion and curiosity and by a desire to share what we learn and think with others.
  • Pierre Levy tells us that in a networked society, nobody knows everything
  • everybody knows something
  • and what any given member of the community knows is available to the group as a whole as needed.
  • We are evolving towards this much more robust information system where groups working together can solve problems that are far more complex than can be confronted by individuals
  • Right now, schools are often using group work but not in ways which encourage real collaboration or shared expertise -- in part because they still assume a world where every student knows everything rather than one where different kinds of knowledge come together towards shared ends.
  • You wouldn't consider someone literate if they could read but not write text and we shouldn't consider someone literate if they can consume but not produce media
  • ian august on 10 Jun 11
     
    henry jenkins
ian august

Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: A New Culture of Learning: An Interview with John Seely Brown and Douglas Thomas (Part One) - 0 views

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new media technlogy john seely brown

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  • . In fact we encourage that kind of exploration. It is how children explore and gain information about the world around them.
  • Can you share some of what you learned about student-directed learning
  • What we are essentially doing when we move to student-directed learning is undermining our own relatively stable (though I would argue obsolete) notions of expertise and replacing them something new and different.
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  • One of the key arguments we are making is that the role of educators needs to shift away from being expert in a particular area of knowledge, to becoming expert in the ability to create and shape new learning environments. In
  • You get to see students learn, discover, explore, play, and develop, which is the primary reason
  • We take it as a truism that kids learn about the world through play.
  • known that at that age, play and learning are indistinguishable. The premise of A New Culture of Learning is grounded in the idea that we are now living in a world of constant change and flux, which means that more often than not, we are faced with the same problem that vexes children. How do I make sense of this strange, changing, amazing world? By returning to play as a modality of learning, we can see how a world in constant flux is no longer a challenge or hurdle to overcome; it becomes a limitless resource to engage, stimulate, and cultivate the imagination. Our argument brings to the fore the old aphorism "imagination is more important than knowledge." In a networked world, information is always available and getting easier and easier to access. Imagination, what you actually do with that information, is the new challenge
  • users are not so much creating content as they are constantly reshaping context
  • how we learn is more important than what we learn.
  • ian august on 10 Jun 11
     
    great article on models and theories of teaching in the new media technology age
Kristen Della

Carl Rodgers - 1 views

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psychology humanism humanistic maslow

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  • Kristen Della on 12 Jun 11
     
    ...Like Maslow, Rogers believes that, if left to their own devices, animals will tend to eat and drink things that are good for them, and consume them in balanced proportions. Babies, too, seem to want and like what they need. Somewhere along the line, however, we have created an environment for ourselves that is significantly different from the one in which we evolved. In this new environment are such things as refined sugar, flour, butter, chocolate, and so on, that our ancestors in Africa never knew. These things have flavors that appeal to our organismic valuing -- yet do not serve our actualization well. Over millions of years, we may evolve to find brocolli more satisfying than cheesecake -- but by then, it'll be way too late for you and me...
alexandra m. pickett

About | ETAP640student FIR reflections - 0 views

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      alexandra m. pickett on 12 Jun 11
       
      francia; i forgot to mention that you need to customize this page to you. Tell us who you are, what you are doing with this blog. what your interests are. : ) this will help us (your readers) get to know you and help you begin to explore your "voice" and establish your online digital persona.
Diane Gusa

New Learning Theories | eHow.com - 0 views

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Democratic learning design theories

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  • 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.
Michael Lucatorto

Hands On: Google Voice's Voicemail Transcription | News & Opinion | PCMag.com - 0 views

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  • What Google transcribedWhat I actually said now that grand central has become cool voice i thought i would be a good idea to review it and the best way to do that would be to test it out bye doing a little voicemail message and then leading school voice transcribe it for me so here's a chance to see how accurate it really is but they're a part of the site the really do about meNow that Grand Central has become Google Voice I thought it would be a good idea to review it and the best way to do that would be to test it out by doing a little voicemail message and then letting Google Voice transcribe it for me. So here's a chance to see how accurate it really is. But there are parts of the site that really do bug me. I tried to speak distinctly. I didn't want to make it harder for the system than it needed to be. Still, Google didn't recognize Google! The end of the message reads as if it was just made up! An earlier message from an auto body shop was even more garbled--though the all-important phone number made it through intact. Obviously, this is quite an achievement, but is it useful if it's only close? Advisedly--yes.
Nicole Arduini-Van Hoose

Student Participation, Interaction, and Regulation in a Computer-Mediated Communication Environment: A Qualitative Study - 0 views

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  • Nicole Arduini-Van Hoose on 14 Jun 11
     
    study examined student interaction and participation within a computer-mediated communication (Need ERIC login)
Diane Gusa

The Ed Techie: Using learning environments as a metaphor for educational change - 0 views

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module 2 21stcenturylearning e-learning WEB2.0 education learning_environments

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  • It has often been noted that when a new technology arrives we tend to use it in old ways (eg Twigg 2001), before we begin to understand what it really offers
  • t has often been noted that when a new technology arrives we tend to use it in old ways (eg Twigg 2001), before we begin to understand what it really offers
  • t has often been noted that when a new technology arrives we tend to use it in old ways (eg Twigg 2001), before we begin to understand what it really offers
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  • It has often been noted that when a new technology arrives we tend to use it in old ways (eg Twigg 2001), before we begin to understand what it really offers. So, for example the television was initially treated as ‘radio with pictures’
  • In an attempt to move towards the possibilities offered by a completely digital, online world, they have started with the education model we are familiar with. They are, in effect, a virtual classroom, or course, with content (which map onto lectures) laid out in a linear sequence with discussion forums linked to this (mapping onto tutorials). In one LMS (the open source Bodington system, http://bodington.org) they even went as far as to make this mapping explicit by making the interface a building which you had to navigate to your lecture room.
  • Heppell (2001) argues that “we continually make the error of subjugating technology to our present practice rather than allowing it to free us from the tyranny of past mistakes.
  • Daniel (1996) has argued that elearning is the only way to cope with expanding global demand for higher education, claiming that “a major university needs to be created each week” to meet the proposed demand.
  • f we view our online learning environments not as analogies of how we currently teach, but rather as a metaphor for how we engage with changes required for a digital society, then this provides us with some insight in to how to tackle the issues above (and others).
  • Siemens (2008) argues that “Learning theories, such as constructivism, social constructivism, and more recently, connectivism, form the theoretical shift from instructor or institution controlled teaching to one of greater control by the learner.”
  • To learn is to acquire information Information is scare and hard to find Trust authority for good information Authorized information is beyond discussion Obey the authority Follow along
  • lecture hall ‘said’ about learning,
  • Why would we seek to recreate the sort of learning affordances Wesch highlights in a virtual environment, when we are free to construct it however we wish?
  • Arguably then there has never been a better alignment of current thinking in terms of good pedagogy – i.e. emphasising the social and situated nature of learning, rather than a focus on knowledge recall with current practices in the use of technologies – i.e. user-generated content, user-added value and aggregated network effects. Despite this, the impact of Web 2.0 on education has been less dramatic than its impact on other spheres of society – use for social purposes, supporting niche communities, collective political action, amateur journalism and social commentary.”
  • "Tools such as blogs, wikis, social networks, tagging systems, mashups, and content-sharing sites are examples of a new user-centric information infrastructure that emphasizes participation (e.g., creating, re-mixing) over presentation, that encourages focused conversation and short briefs
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 16 Jun 11
       
      Mashups are web pages or applications that combine data or presentation from two or more sources -WIKIpedia
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 16 Jun 11
       
      Mashups?
  • connectivism (Siemens 2005) places decentralisation at the heart of learning:"Learning is a process that occurs within nebulous environments of shifting core elements – not entirely under the control of the individual. Learning (defined as actionable knowledge) can reside outside of ourselves (within an organization or a database), is focused on connecting specialized information sets, and the connections that enable us to learn more are more important than our current state of knowing"
  • Wikipedia succeeds by decentralising the authoring process, YouTube succeeds by both decentralising the broadcasting production process, but also by allowing embeds within blogs and other sites, thus decentralising the distribution process
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 16 Jun 11
       
      Two good examples
  • Knowing how to link to and locate resources in databases and search engines is a skill for a decentralised information world. The result is that online references are forced into an existing scheme, which has an inherent preference for physical resources. The traditional reference is often provided in papers, when it is the online one that has actually been used because the referencing system is biased towards the paper version.
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 16 Jun 11
       
      I wonder what Alex's PLE would look like. I also wonder what our PLE will look like in 8 more weeks, next year?
  • ‘eduglu’
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 16 Jun 11
  • SocialLearn has been conceived as a deliberate attempt to discover how learners behave in this sphere, how to develop the appropriate technology and support structures, what pedagogies are required and what are the business models for education in a disaggregated educational market.
Diane Gusa

Education And Learning: A Paradigm Shift - Part 2 - How To Prepare Yourself For A Meaningful Life? - 0 views

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education learning online module 5 blog

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  • Instead of collecting knowledge, discovering it. Instead of receiving it, trying to seek it, to answer some kind of questions, something that's meaningful to me.
  • For me to learn today is about being properly connected to other people, being able to find information when I want.
  • Having tools at my disposal that allow me to access different sources of information, and also having a network of people that enables me to reach out, ask questions when I need it.
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  • In a real very practical sense, my ability to connect to other people, is learning for me. My ability to find information sources through easy-to-use tools is learning for me. And ultimately, anything whether it's policy, government initiatives, copyright, or any other system that puts up barriers between me and my ability to connect to others and information, it is ultimately a barrier to my learning.
Diane Gusa

ETAP640amp2011: Discussion Rubric - 0 views

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    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 07 Aug 11
       
      Do you believe I never scrolled down and saw the grading scale...to think I freaked out all semester thinking 30 points was an "F"...now I understand why Alex said that 12 posts were not needed!!! Imagine finding this on the last week.
Diane Gusa

Rubrics - 1 views

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rubrics assessment learning teaching

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  • A rubric is an authentic assessment tool used to measure students' work. It is a scoring guide that seeks to evaluate a student's performance based on the sum of a full range of criteria rather than a single numerical score.
  • It is a formative type of assessment because it becomes an ongoing part of the whole teaching and learning process.
  • use a range to rate performance.
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  • focus on measuring a stated objective
  • contain specific performance characteristics arranged in levels indicating the degree to which a standard has been met (Pickett and Dodge).
  • improve students' end products
  • provide the scaffolding necessary to improve the quality of their work and increase their knowledge.
  • help students become better judges of the quality of their own work.
  • allow assessment to be more objective and consistent.
  • force the teacher to clarify his/her criteria in specific terms.
  • provide students with more informative feedback about their strengths and areas in need of improvement.
Diane Gusa

Exemplary Online Educators: Creating a Community of Inquiry - 0 views

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Online learning community COI module 4 db knowing

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  • White, Roberts and Br anna n (2003) focused particularly on course design in online education. Their major premise is that “unless the course is reconceptualized using an interactive learning pedagogy, the results are nothing more than a correspondence course via e-mail and that simply transferring a traditional classroom-based course to an online format is doomed to failure ” (White, Roberts & Br anna n, 2003, p. 172).
  • White, Roberts and Br anna n go on to describe an online nurse refresher course provided by University of Wisconsin that promotes the following four components - humanizing or creating a good learning environment; getting the learners to participate; using the right message so that it is received, understood, and remembered; and eliciti
  • cognitive presence of the teacher is a core concept in creating a community of inquiry.
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  • teacher learner interaction is not sufficient on its own to create effective learning.
  • The second major theme relates to exemplary online educators as affirmers. The students identified instructors who found opportunities to let their students know that they were succeeding in their studies and to encourage them in their learning.
  • The overlap of teaching presence and social presence as depicted in the model forms what Garrison and his colleagues have labeled “setting climate” (
  • The final theme is exemplary online educators as influencers
  • In some ways the Community of Inquiry model speaks to this experience of mutuality (Archer, et.al, 2003).
  • The heart of the challenge facing online educators is “the need to create a critical community of inquiry- the hallmark of higher education – within a virtual text-based enviro
Diane Gusa

Humor, Analogy, and Metaphor: H.A.M. it up in Teaching - 0 views

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modile 4 assignment pedagogy teaching humor metaphor learning

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    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 09 Jul 11
       
      Very strong statement!
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 09 Jul 11
       
      I am a metaphoric person...when I want to remember or learn deeply a metaphor helps me.
  • The proper use of humor, analogy, and metaphor appropriate to the topic can provide benefits in the college classroom.
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  • Better comprehension,
  • increased retention of material,
  • more comfortable learning environment
  • effective use of these strategies.
  • Humor has been defined as “the mental faculty of discovering, expressing or appreciating something that is comical, amusing, or absurdly incongruous” (Merriam-Webster, 2001, p.564)
  • The use of humor as a pedagogical tool has been shown to reduce classroom anxiety, create a more positive atmosphere, as well as facilitate the learning process (Berk, 1996, 1998; Garner, 2003, in press; Glenn, 2002; Hill, 1988; Pollio & Humphreys, 1996).
  • Garner (in press) found that participants who were exposed to a series of lectures containing course-specific humor demonstrated increased retention of the course-content information as compared to those who received the same material without the infusion of humor.
  • According to Glenn (2002), humor may physiologically help to connect left-brain activities with the right-brained creative side
  • teaching philosophies of highly-rated teachers finds the use of humor as an important component of their teaching strategies. Humor can increase (Civikly, 1986) and sustain (Dodge & Rossett, 1982) student interest in learning and provides a means to engage in divergent thinking. Instructors’ use of effective humor in the classroom can foster mutual respect (Kher, Molstad, & Donahue, 1999), provide commonalities and connections between the instructor and students (Pollio & Humphreys, 1996) and even increase class attendance (Devadoss & Foltz, 1996; Romer, 1993; White, 1992). According to Bergen (1992), “teachers who use strategies that promote the connection between humor and learning usually provide students with their best school experiences” (p.106).
  • Metaphor and analogy have historically been used as an effective teaching tool. Greek myths, religious texts, and fairytales all use metaphor, analogy, and parables to teach and help us learn expected conduct (Gorden, 1978). The use of metaphor and analogy is pervasive in society in both language and communication
  • According to the National Research Council (2000) the effective use of metaphors and analogies is an important educational strategy.
  • . In teaching, using either analogy or metaphor allows the instructor to relate a potentially unfamiliar idea with that which is familiar.
  • Pedagogical use of analogy and metaphor can enhance learning and retention, but they must have a high degree of resonance for the listene
  • be most effective, an analogy or metaphor must transfer ideas from a familiar concept to one that is less familiar or unknown. According to Bowers (1993) the metaphorical relationship must be clear and accurate—possessing face validity.
  • Williams (1986) suggests that vivid metaphors have the capability to teach in a way that is not always available with the use of words alone.
  • Diane Gusa on 09 Jul 11
     
    I am comfortable using metaphors, but will need to work on the humor aspect. New goal for the Fall semester.
ian august

Online Community of Learners - 1 views

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module 4 assignment

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  • have the students introduce themselves by their "medieval vocational personality."
  • Diane Gusa on 09 Jul 11
     
    What medieval vocational personality are you? I am a Dreamer-Minstrel: You can always see the "Silver Lining" to every dark and dreary cloud. Look at the bright side is your motto and understanding why everything happens for the best is your goal. You are the positive optimist of the world who provides the hope for all humankind. There is nothing so terrible that you can not find some good within it. On the positive side, you are spontaneous, charismatic, idealistic and empathic. On the negative side, you may be a sentimental dreamer who is emotionally (academically?)impractical. Interestingly, your preference is just as applicable in today's corporate kingdoms.
  • Nicole Arduini-Van Hoose on 13 Jul 11
     
    According to the test I am also a Dreamer-Minstrel. Interesting task. As part of my courses I have students take real personality tests and we do some group activities with them. Where the topic falls in the sequence of the course is always toward the end, I've thought about making it early in the course because they really get to know themselves and eachother during the group activities, but I haven't done it because I've always felt that they needed more of a foundation to really understand the use of the test (measurement, validity/reliability, standardization, etc.)
Diane Gusa

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  • Most five year olds are totally confident that they can draw, sing, and dance.  Tragically, within three or four years this child, if she is typical, will experience a crisis of confidence
  • She will no longer feel competent or creative. 
  • When allowed to do what we want to do, we are most likely to revert to whatever we previously found enjoyable and/or successful.
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 27 Jun 11
       
      I have experienced this with my students, but now I also understand that they need more confidence to be risk-takers
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  •   In order to force a new idea to the surface, an artist might reverse the order of work, change the medium, change the scale, forbid a certain common component in the work, and so on.  These are limitations to jog or jump start the creative impulse.
  • In creative teaching, assignment limitations provide a way to change the student's habits of work
  • people have developed problem solving habits that lack confidence in their own ability to bring any life experience or judgement to the situation.
  • a society that values conformity above indiviual creativity and choice making probably should teach drawing as a series of prescribed symbols rather than teaching actual observation, thinking, feeling, and interpretation skills.
  • Teach creativity by giving TIME FOR THE CREATIVE PROCESS Assign HOMEWORK OF THE MIND
  • When we show an end product in order to help explain something, we risk that students will not be challenged to think creatively
  • To teach process, we avoid posting charts that gives answer unless the students themselves have invented the charts.
  •   The scientific method says that questions must be answered experimentally and the results are repeatable.
  • the scientific method takes more time in the short run, but if a student learns that they can design experiments to solve their own problems, they have learned not only the scientific method, they have learned one of the important components of artistic thinking and artistic behavior. Ultimately, time is saved because students have learned to figure out how to answer their own questions. They are empowered.
  • True creativity happens when intuitive imagination brings forth the previously unknown and unimagined
  • The creative process includes preparation, incubation, insight, elaboration, and evaluation.
Matthew Daly

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TED Talk Ken Robinson creativity

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  • Matthew Daly on 08 Jun 13
     
    Great talk about how the modern educational system is failing to teach students the skills they need to face future challenges.
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