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in title, tags, annotations or urlHumor, Analogy, and Metaphor: H.A.M. it up in Teaching - 0 views
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The proper use of humor, analogy, and metaphor appropriate to the topic can provide benefits in the college classroom.
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Online Community of Learners - 1 views
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have the students introduce themselves by their "medieval vocational personality."
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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.
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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.)
eLearning Reviews: Identifying the pitfalls for social interaction in computer-supported collaborative learning environments. A review of the research - 0 views
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The article then discusses a number of educational techniques for avoiding these two pitfalls, including building more measures that support positive interdependence, individual accountability, and collaborative skills; increasing opportunities for the socio-emotional and affective exchanges between learners; adjusting the instructor’s and the learners’ role for CSCL environments; and increasing social presence, i. e. reducing the perceived distance between learners.
ON COURSE: The One-Minute Paper - 0 views
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: A “one-minute paper” may be defined as a very short, in-class writing activity (taking one-minute or less to complete) in response to an instructor-posed question, which prompts students to reflect on the day’s lesson and provides the instructor with useful feedback.
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What was the most important concept you learned in class today? Or, “What was the ‘muddiest’ or most confusing concept covered in today’s class?
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more as a student-centered reflection strategy designed to help students discover their own meaning in relation to concepts covered in class, and to build instructor-student rapport
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Welcome to CIRGE » Intellectual Risk-taking - 0 views
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Intellectual risk-taking is not an end in itself; it is a means to foster innovative, potentially transformative research. It is also a way to prepare doctoral graduates to respond flexibly to change in rapidly changing times.
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Interdisciplinarity is inherently risky—yet essential to production of new knowledge.
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Understanding risk and communicating risk brings different domains of knowledge together
"The Future of ePortfolio" Roundtable | Academic Commons - 0 views
Compensating for the Shortcomings of the Written Word | Mindgate Media - 0 views
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Written communication lacks the subtle tonalities of the spoken language, as demonstrated in this humorous ad in which a single word is said 15 times with a slightly different meaning each time. Writers must compensate for these deficiencies by providing detail and context and selecting their words precisely.
Liz 48 - Powered by Google Docs - 0 views
John Dewey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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School and Society (1900), The Child and the Curriculum (1902), Democracy and Education (1916) and Experience and Education (1938). Throughout these writings, several recurrent themes ring true; Dewey continually argues that education and learning are social and interactive processes, and thus the school itself is a social institution through which social reform can and should take place.
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addition, he be
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Michael Polanyi and tacit knowledge - 0 views
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Central to Michael Polanyi's thinking was the belief that creative acts (especially acts of discovery) are shot-through or charged with strong personal feelings and commitments (hence the title of his most famous work Personal Knowledge).
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Polanyi's argument was that the informed guesses, hunches and imaginings that are part of exploratory acts are motivated by what he describes as 'passions'.
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'we can know more than we can tell
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DIY Education: How to Start a Freeskool in Your Community - 0 views
The Application of Learning Style Theory in Higher Education Teaching - 0 views
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A learning style is: "A complexus of related characteristics in which the whole is greater than its parts. Learning style is a gestalt combining internal and external operations derived from the individual's neurobiology, personality and development, and reflected in learner behaviour" (Keefe & Ferrell 1990, p. 16).
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general tendency towards a particular learning approach displayed by an individual.
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Riding & Cheema (1991), from an extensive review of the literature, conclude there are only two principal styles "families", the holist-analytic, and the verbaliser-imager. These two broad groupings relate to the type of cognitive activities normally ascribed to the two hemispheres of the brain. Curry (1983) suggests there are three different perspectives on styles: those relating to a preference for a particular instructional approach, those relating to the individual's intellectual approach to assimilating information independently of the environment, and those relating to the individual's intellectual approach to assimilating information with the environment.
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Closing your course - 0 views
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ues: Provides emotional and psychological closure to the classroom thereby reducing awkwardness. Acts as an opportune time to summarize central ideas and review content. Wraps up the class in ways that add to students' entire semester-long experience and sense of accomplishment.
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Give students some memento from the course experience. Just as with a memorable trip, people enjoy having something to remember important events in their life.
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Contribute to a sense of accomplishment. In one sense an activity can put closure on the class from an academic or learning based perspective. Completing your class should be seen as something worthwhile and important.
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Indigenous Knowledge Systems/Alaska Native Ways of Knowing - 0 views
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This article seeks to extend our understanding of the processes of learning that occur within and at the intersection of diverse world views and knowledge systems, drawing on experiences derived from across Fourth World contexts, with an emphasis on the Alaska context in particular
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Until recently there was very little literature that addressed how to get Western scientists and educators to understand Native worldviews and ways of knowing as constituting knowledge systems in their own right, and even less on what it means for participants when such divergent systems coexist in the same person, organization or community.
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issues on a two-way street, rather than view them as a one-way challenge to get Native people to buy into the western system.
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University of Phoenix How It Works - Online and On Campus - 0 views
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Our military community is a large and important part of our student population. So, whether you're active duty, a veteran, a member of the Reserve or National Guard or a military spouse, you're eligible for special tuition rates. Our course schedules are extremely flexible, so you can balance school with work, family and the unpredictable nature of military life.
Edmodo | Home - 1 views
Online K-8 Program | K12 - 0 views
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It's not all "online": You'll also receive boxes of traditional materials, including award-winning textbooks, CDs, videos, and hands-on materials that complement online learning.
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online delivery and individualized learning
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Individualized Learning Plan, monitors progress, and focuses on each student's individual problem areas.
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