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Archived: Sample 4th & 8th Grade Questions from TIMSS - 0 views

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shared by Joan Erickson on 14 Jul 10 - Cached
  • 2. Peter bought 70 items, and Sue bought 90 items. Each item costs the same, and the items cost $800 altogether. How much did Sue pay?
  • Joan Erickson on 14 Jul 10
     
    TIMSS math sample test
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Study hits 'grade inflation' in New York state testing of pupils | SILive.com - 0 views

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  • middle-school students who passed their math and English Language Arts tests are likely to struggle on their high school Regents exams
  • tudents who scored a Level 3 on their state tests -- which is considered passing -- would likely earn a 65 on their Regents exams, but that a score of 80 was typically needed to earn college credit for a course, according to the News.
  • Steiner is also calling for longer tests with more rigorous questions.
    • Melissa Pietricola
      Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jul 10
       
      Does longer mean better? Does a longer test necessarily mean it will better assess the learning objective?
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  • Critics have long been saying the tests appeared to be getting easier, and have wondered whether the scoring was adjusted to make politicians look better.
    • Melissa Pietricola
      Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jul 10
       
      Do regents and middle level state tests give kids "false sense of hope" as she states? My kids could care less what the state says. They are worried about their daily grades.
  • "But by any measure -- including the highly respected NAEP exams, state tests, and graduation rates -- due to the bold reform agenda implemented by this administration, the significant progress made by New York City students has far outpaced that of students in the rest of New York state."
  • Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jul 10
     
    NYS example of grade inflation; focusing on the middle level
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Sue's reflections ETAP687 - 1 views

srappazzo.edublogs.org
shared by alexandra m. pickett on 20 Jul 10 - Cached
  •   Perhaps that is why Professor Pickett mentioned she had a hard time with students that felt they had nothing to learn.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 20 Jul 10
       
      : )
    • Joy Quah Yien-ling
      Joy Quah Yien-ling on 09 Aug 10
       
      Nothing to learn??!! I am wondering what on earth those folks were expecting. This says nothing about the teacher. But is says volumes about the students. I think readiness is a key component in learning. When a student is not ready, there is nothing even the best teacher can do about it. There is also an attitudinal component in learning which some students lack.
  • “the aim of education must be the facilitation of learning”.
  • Though Rogers was referring to these traits in classroom, these same qualities apply to online learning and have been demonstrated by the Professor in the design of this course and in the breeze presentation explaining effective online learning.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 20 Jul 10
       
      thank you for noticing. i can't think of a higher compliment. : )
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  • For a while, I never thought I would get here!
    • Melissa Pietricola
      Melissa Pietricola on 01 Aug 10
       
      Good for you, Sue! You must feel relieved :)
  • spelling errors
    • Joan Erickson
      Joan Erickson on 08 Aug 10
       
      I have those, too! I wish Moodle had a spell-check. I couldn't even catch my own spelling errors when I proofread my own writing.
  • the finish line is still there right?
    • Joy Quah Yien-ling
      Joy Quah Yien-ling on 09 Aug 10
       
      It keeps moving Sue. Thought I was done as well. So this is the meaning of "iteration". You're never done!
    • Sue Rappazzo
      Sue Rappazzo on 10 Aug 10
       
      Great point!
  • I have struggled with who I am as a “Teacher”.  I am a trainer, spoon feeding information for those to do their jobs.  A teacher brings students to the level of thinking for themselves…nurturing critical thinkers.  A very big part of me now questions my training. 
    • Joan Erickson
      Joan Erickson on 16 Aug 10
       
      Sue, I think we all have to work with this issue. You are certainly not alone...You work with adults, so the role of a trainer is appropriate! :)
    • Joan Erickson
      Joan Erickson on 16 Aug 10
       
      Sue, thank you for being such a great classmate and teacher to me. I've learned from you!
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 17 Aug 10
       
      brilliant observation!!
  • I feel I am now a teacher
  • Melissa Pietricola on 01 Aug 10
     
    "For a while, I never thought I would get here!"
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lifelong learning... - 1 views

aubrey22.edublogs.org student blog
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  • I feel like every discussion, article and assignment I have done in this course has really made me question why I do things the way I do.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 09 Aug 08
       
      i am, of course, thrilled with this observation, aubrey. thanks for sharing it. If that was the only thing you got out of this cousre i would be very very happy. thanks for your willingness to consider the possibilities . : ) me
  • This was the most challenging course in my Master Degree career at UAlbany. I loved every minute of it. I think that pushing students to perform at higher levels helps them to break the plateu of what they think they are capable of. Usually they are capable of more than you think. It also helped my learning to use diigo and rate my posts. At first I thought it was painstaking and hard, especially when I spent an hour on constructing a post only to recieve a 2, but as I learned that it was more about teaching others, I began to perform better and was more motivated to teach something new and provide a cool resouce in diigo.
  • My feelings about this course are great! I would recommend anyone interested in online course development to take the course with Alex. She makes everyone in the course feel welcome and comfortable, which is the key to being successful and having students who are motivated to working with her
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  • Relationships and feelings are one of the underlying keys to success in a course. If you have a teacher you like, don’t you want to work harder to please them? I know I do…and I know that I don’t really feel like working for someone who berates my feelings and is insensitive.
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Videos | Edublogs - education blogs - 0 views

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  • Writing posts and pages
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 08 Jun 08
       
      if you have questions about adding posts or pages to your blog view this video! : ) me
  • Customizing your design
  • Configuring your settings
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 08 Jun 08
       
      There are lots of things that are included in your edublogs, settings that are there by default, but that you can customize. And stuff that is prepopulated to get you started. You have to remove the default stuff and replace it with your own content. View your blog and use your dashboard to delete, replace, customize what is displayes with your own content. : ) me
  • alexandra m. pickett on 10 May 08
     
    Some video tutorials to help you get started with your own blogs.
  • alexandra m. pickett on 08 Jun 08
     
    Use the resources on this page to learn more about how to customize your blog with your own content. Mouse over the highlighted areas for sticky notes from me. : )
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Breeze Presenter: Creating Online Quizzes and Questions - 0 views

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  • Robert Braathe on 20 Jun 08
     
    How to create online exams/quizzes using Breeze
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Emotional Intelligence (Goleman) - 0 views

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    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 29 May 09
       
      according to goleman - these EI competencies are not innate talents. they are learned abilities. how might these domains be incorporated into an online instruction? How are they represented in an online class community regardless of our awareness or deliberate facilitation of of them? just a few thought questions...
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Digitally Speaking / Voicethread - 0 views

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  • drive to connect
    • jessica mascle
      jessica mascle on 14 Jul 09
       
      never thought of it that way
  • Matching this motivation and fluency with required elements of the curriculum
    • jessica mascle
      jessica mascle on 14 Jul 09
       
      learning content as an extension of leisure. we wok too much!
  • group audio blog,
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  • Asynchronous:
  • discussion boards are nothing more than written text.  Voicethread gives users something interesting to talk about---pictures!  What's more, being able to actually hear one another makes digital communication through Voicethread much more personal. 
  • Possible topics include:
    • jessica mascle
      jessica mascle on 14 Jul 09
       
      Has American lived up to the ideals established in the Declaration of Independence?
  • collecting a series of images
  • script out short opening comments for each image that include a question for viewers to consider.
  • promote conversation
  • not to lecture through pictures. 
  • students are crafting identities
  • informal social learning
  • working through personal values
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Learning... - 0 views

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  • . I  have to get away from thinking that LIB 105 is “just a one credit requirement that no one wants to take.” Instead, as Alex suggested some time ago, I need to make it alive and engaging and what I really want it to be.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 21 Jul 09
       
      Bravo Anne!! share your passion! think about stuff from their perspective and what would make your content relevant, applicable to their real lives. how will you know if you are doing it right? will they tell their friends about it? will they continue to do it/use it after the course? would they spend their own money to do it/use it?
  • to answer the question of who I am as an educator and a learner, I am both simultaneously
  • I think what I learned in this module is that my class will only be as engaging as I make i
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  • As interesting as this article was, I would have like to have read it prior to reading the Shea, et al. article which used Garrison’s material. I think that it would have been more relavent then.
  • The cool thing is that they seemed like second nature after reading the manual, listening to the model course instructors and most importantly paying close attention to how Alex has constucted, guided and facilitated our course. I learn best by example and this has been an extraordinary model for me to follow.
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Jen Boisvert's Blog - 0 views

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  • One area I am not too sure of is having students grade their own work or others. I am not sure how effective this is.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 12 Jul 09
       
      ok... you set it up... go find studies that support or refute the efficacy of peer and self evaluation : ) i want to hear what you find. : ) me
  • . I am constantly brainstorming and asking myself questions (from student perspective) like “Would I want to learn this? What am I going to get out of this course? Would I be able to complete the allotted work during the time frames I have provided?”
  • So, in less than one week the site admin area of Edublogs changed. It threw me for a loop, but I like the design a lot better.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 11 Aug 09
       
      did you see that i posted it as an announcement to our twitter course stream?
    • Jennifer Boisvert
      Jennifer Boisvert on 15 Aug 09
       
      I did! Sorry it took me forever to respond back. I just realized that if you click on it, you can respond back.

using diigo in ETAP687 - 22 views

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New Challenges for Universities: Why They Must Change - 0 views

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  • Kristen Della on 30 May 11
     
    New Challenges for Universities: Why They Must Change. This chapter identifies the critical motivations and dimensions for change in today's universities. While the introduction of technology into teaching, learning, and research makes the necessity of change apparent, it is neither the only reason nor the only area in which universities will have to adopt new organizational models. The following questions are considered: what is the function of universities in today's societies? how can technology help the transfer to viable new futures of universities? why is the old culture of teaching and learning failing? what new forms of teaching and learning are needed for the twenty-first century? what is the prevailing culture of universities and why does this prevent necessary changes? how can the necessary changes be brought about?
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Qualitative and quantitative research designs are more similar than different - 0 views

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  • Kristen Della on 30 May 11
     
    Qualitative and quantitative research designs are more similar than different. The qualitative/quantitative divide has been extensively debated in social science and educational research. However, health researchers are still bound by traditional distinctions between qualitative and quantitative research. This paper argues that although these distinctions were valid at the turn of the twentieth century, they no-longer hold true. With advances in both qualitative and quantitative methods, and the need to explore increasingly complex situations it is time to concentrate on how best to answer the research question rather than focusing on the research design being used.
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How I talk about searching, Discovery and Research in Courses - 0 views

blogs.swarthmore.edu/...covery-and-research-in-courses Education teaching student research assignment - building your course
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  • Diane Gusa on 07 Jun 11
     
    Blog that shares the advice Professor Tim Burke try to give students about how to carry out searches and formulate research questions, which I'll reproduce here
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Reflections on Online Learning - 1 views

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  • Age problem, an overload of information to the point where in heavy doses it begins to resemble garbage is the problem of our day.
  • How will I balance these issues? How can you have non-hierarchical education within the confines of traditional educational pedagogy especially in an online environment? I feel like I’m taking a big risk here with this topic.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 13 Jun 11
       
      hi mike! i think it is a risk, but i am open to you trying. frankly, i don't see how it can work, but if you are passionate about it and believe it can work and will show and prove that it can, i would support your choice and be very interested to see that.
  • Not just another Edublogs.org weblog. :D
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 22 Jun 11
       
      brilliant!
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    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 04 Jul 11
       
      Bookmarked a book in diigo that someone pdf. Teaching as a subversive activity. Wouldn't it be great if you created such a wonderful course that your students CHOOSE to continue learning without credit!
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 04 Jul 11
       
      You may also want Kohn's Punish by Rewards. Another worn out book on my bookshelp.
  • So what does this mean for education? How is this different online? And why do I believe that I only understand the stick?
  • What is my role? What is the future role of the instructional designer?
  • I couldn’t help but think that all of these questions led to more
  • Time to finish strong.
    • Donna Angley
      Donna Angley on 19 Jul 11
       
      :-)
  • education is one of the most fundamentally revolutionary acts.
  • he power or the perceived power of education and it’s threat even in relation to the most influential and powerful in all of the land.
  • I still am holding on to Alex telling us to challenge our assumptions about online learning and what it means. I think that should spill over to everything if we really want to affect change in this world and in the field of education. What are we assuming? What can be changed? What seems like it’s either a precursor or indispensable even if this may not be the case at all?
  • Understanding history and using it is cheating in a way. A good type of cheating. We can stand on the work of those before us and take the best or the most appropriate for our time. We can use a historical perspective to give a voice to the voiceless of history.
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Ten Steps to Better Student Engagement | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • A teacher in one of my workshops said, "When my students and I are in the flow, then I don't feel like I have to work as hard." I heartily agree.
  • Create an Emotionally Safe Classroom
  • Create an Intellectually Safe Classroom
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  • Practice Journal or Blog Writing to Communicate with Students
  • Create a Culture of Explanation Instead of a Culture of the Right Answer
  • Teach Self-Awareness About Knowledge
  • Use Questioning Strategies That Make All Students Think and Answer
  • Include peer evaluation as part of the feedback they receive.
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Interaction and Immediacy in Online Learning | Woods | The International Review of Rese... - 0 views

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  • Interaction alone, however, is insufficient to create a positive social dynamic in the online classroom.
  • Research demonstrates that the integration of verbal and non-verbal immediacy communication behaviors lets instructors move from mere interaction to authentic intimacy and interpersonal closeness.
  • an instructor’s understanding of interaction and immediacy dynamics will affect the nature and quality of communication in the online learning environment.
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  • Mehrabian (1967) defined immediacy as the extent to which selected communicative behaviors enhance physical or psychological closeness in interpersonal communication.
  • Anderson (1979) summarizes the impact of immediacy: The more immediate a person is, the more likely he/ she is to communicate at close distances, smile, engage in eye contact, use direct body orientations, use overall body movement and gestures, touch others, relax, and be vocally expressive. In other words, we might say that an immediate person is perceived as overtly friendly and warm (p. 545).
  • “Knowledge building occurs as students explore issues, examine one another’s arguments, agree, disagree, and question positions. Collaboration [learner-learner interaction] contributes to higher order learning through cognitive restructuring or conflict resolution, in which new ways of understanding the material emerge as a result of contact with new or different perspectives” (p. 55)
  • Kearsley (2000) declared: “The most important role of the instructor in online classes is to ensure a high degree of interactivity and participation” (p. 78)
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