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AJET 26(3) Drexler (2010) - The networked student model for construction of personal le... - 0 views

  • Networked Student Model
    • Enrique Rubio Royo
       
      Modelo de 'alumno en red' vs nuestro eAprendiz
    • Enrique Rubio Royo
       
      Interesante pensar como adecuamos nuestro modelo de PLWE, no solo al profesor (ya lo tenemos), sino al elearner (quizás el PLWE reducido?)
  • The Networked Student Model and a test case are described in detail along with implications and considerations for additional research
  • to facilitate further discussion about K-12 student construction of personal learning environments and offer the practitioner a foundation on which to facilitate a networked learning experience.
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  • It seeks to determine how a teacher can scaffold a networked learning approach while providing a foundation on which students take more control of the learning process.
  • Emerging web applications offer unique opportunities to customise the learning environment for individual learners
  • In the past, learning environments were immediately associated with a physical location
  • however, the concept is increasingly expanded to include online learning, virtual schools, and blended opportunities that combine traditional with digital options
  • Traditional, lecture-based classrooms are designed as passive learning environments in which the teacher conveys knowledge and the student responds (Chen, 2009). Imagine the potential frustration that self-regulated learning holds for students who are quite comfortably accustomed to specific teacher directions with finite expectations.
  • learner motivation
  • Personal learning suggests learner autonomy and increased self regulation
  • self-directed.
  • they are also required to take an active role in the learning process by making decisions
  • Teachers, on the other hand, are challenged to provide an appropriate balance between structure and learner autonomy in order to facilitate self-directed, personalised learning
  • Such a scenario further presents challenges to traditional forms of assessment
  • The role of a teacher within a student-centered approach to instruction is that of a facilitator or coach
  • He or she supports the students in their search and supply of relevant material, coordinates the students' presentations of individual milestones of their projects, moderates discussions, consults in all kinds of problem-solving and seeking for solutions, lectures on topics that are selected in plenary discussions with the students and conforms to the curriculum"
  • The purpose of this test case is to introduce a model for the student construction of personal learning environments that balances teacher control with increased student autonomy
  • a level of structure is required to scaffold the learning process
  • Networked learning refers specifically to "learning in which information communication technology is used to promote connections: between one learner and other learners, between learners and tutors, between a learning community and its learning resources"
  • Networked learning is manifested in personal learning environments (PLEs), or "systems that help learners take control of and manage their own learning"
  • a model of the networked teacher that represents an educator's professional personal learning environment (PLE)
  • Figure 1: The Networked Teacher (Couros, 2008) It is a model through which teachers begin to build professional connections to support teaching practice
  • The Networked Student Model adapts Couros' vision for teacher professional development in a format that is applicable to the K-12 student. It includes four primary categories, each with many components evident in the networked teacher version (Figure 2).
  • he networked student follows a constructivist approach to learning. He or she constructs knowledge based on experiences and social interactions
  • Constructivism encourages "greater participation by students in their appropriation of scholarly knowledge"
  • Technology supports this appropriation as a collection of tools that promote knowledge construction,
  • Networked Student Model.
  • Students use RSS and social bookmarking to organise information and build upon prior knowledge with the goal of completing a task or meeting a learning objective. Social media, or web-based applications designed for the purpose of interacting with others online, promote conversations. Blogs are an example of a vehicle through which students can reflect on the learning process. The sub-parts coexist to support a constructive learning experience. The student's personal learning environment pulls them all together.
  • Siemens (2008) associates the concept of connectivism with networked learning
  • in the networked learning environment, blogging is a key component of the personal learning environment through which students respond to and collect the opinions of others. Students identify blogs that target a specific unit of study, and they have the option to respond with opinions of their own.
  • In a traditional classroom setting, the teacher has primary control over the content.
  • Networked learning gives students the ability and the control to connect with subject matter experts in virtually any field.
  • The skill to identify valid content and expertise,
  • The connection to humans is an essential part of the learning process. That connection expands to include access to resources and creative artifacts.
    • Enrique Rubio Royo
       
      El elearner y el eprofesor, aprovechan la existencia del nuevo Espacio WEB en RED: Ecosistema de conocimiento personal (Espacio Social -Personas- + Espacio Digital -Recursos-INFO) + Tecnología + Procesos
  • design of the teacher-facilitated, student-created personal learning environment
  • The teacher was a facilitator in the process helping the student scaffold network learning and manage the content as it became more complex.
  • Construction of a personal learning environment does not necessarily facilitate comprehension or deep understanding
  • The networked student model is one of inquiry, or the process of "exploring problems, asking questions, making discoveries, achieving new understanding and fulfilling personal curiosity"
  • In guided inquiry, the teacher provides the problem and directs the students to the materials for investigation
  • The teacher is necessary to help the students navigate the breadth of content, apply the tools properly, and offer support in the form of digital literacy skills and subject matter expertise. Yet the teacher may not be the only expert in the learning process.
  • The test case for this model took place at a K-12 independent school in the southeastern United States. Fifteen students participated during a nine-week term as part of a contemporary issues research project. The contemporary issues course was unique to the school in its delivery. It was the first time a blended format had been offered. Students attended class three days face to face and two days online. Course assignments and discussions were organised using Moodle,
  • For the networked student project, each student selected a contemporary issue or topic for which he or she had a strong interest
  • Passion for a topic was one means of motivation
  • assessment of each student's ability to synthesise the research
  • The networked student test
  • It addresses the problem of determining the level of structure needed to facilitate networked learning while providing a foundation for greater student control over a personal learning environment
  • to collect student perceptions of the learning experience relative to their autonomy and comfort with the networked learning format
  • two key considerations when introducing the Networked Student Model. The first was student familiarity with web applications used to build the personal learning environment.
  • Second, considerably more structure was required since this was the first time each student embarked on the Networked Student Model.
  • The teacher gauged the level of structure depending upon the student's motivation, comfort with technology, and interest in the topic.
  • Patterns for networked learning
  • The learning environment slowly shifted from the classroom to online.
  • Google is used repeatedly because signing up for one account gave students access to a number of useful learning tools.
  • The level of structure is adjusted based on the prior experience of individual students.
  • Student activitylevel of structure
  • Personal learning environment toolset
  • a new tool was introduced each day over two weeks.
  • personal web page aggregators
  • iGoogle, PageFlakes, NetVibes, and Symbaloo
  • Personal web page compiles learning tools
  • There were four components of the assessment process for this test case of the Networked Student Model: (1) Ongoing performance assessment in the form of weekly assignments to facilitate the construction and maintenance of the personal learning environment, (2) rubric-based assessment of the personal learning environment at the end of the project, (3) written essay, and (4) multimedia synthesis of topic content.
  • Identify ten reliable resources and post to social bookmarking account. At least three new resources should be added each week. Subscribe and respond to at least 3 new blogs each week. Follow these blogs and news alerts using the reader. Subscribe to and listen to at least two podcasts (if available). Respectfully contact and request a video conference from a subject matter expert recognised in the field. Maintain daily notes and highlight resources as needed in digital notebook. Post at least a one-paragraph reflection in personal blog each day.
  • At the end of the project, the personal learning environment was assessed with a rubric that encompassed each of the items listed above.
  • The student's ability to synthesise the research was further evaluated with a reflective essay.
  • The personal blog provided an opportunity for regular reflection during the course of the project.
  • Students were instructed to articulate what was learned about the selected topic and why others should care or be concerned.
  • As part of a final exam, the students were required to access the final projects of their classmates and reflect on what they learned from this exposure
  • to give the students an additional opportunity to share and learn from each other.
  • Creativity is considered a key 21st century skil
  • A number of emerging web applications support the academic creative process
  • Students in this project used web tools to combine text, video, audio, and photographs to teach the research topics to others. The final multimedia project was posted or embedded on the student's personal wiki page.
  • The student-selected topics of study included
  • Video conferences were conducted with
  • All students participated in the video conferences and identified subject matter expertise as a key element of a personal learning environment.
  • Four key areas were targeted to assess the success of the project and determine whether an effective balance between teacher control and student autonomy was achieved:
  • Creation of the personal learning environment as a replacement for a traditional textbook
  • Student use of technology to complete projects was identified as important because the students had little prior exposure to technology as a learning tool.
  • Time management and workload were tangible measures of comparison from the student's perspective and indicated his or her ability to self regulate the learning process.
  • Student perception of whether he or she felt equipped to study other topics in this format with less teacher intervention provided some indication as to whether greater student autonomy was achieved
Enrique Rubio Royo

Innovating the 21st-Century University: It's Time! (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

  • The transformation of the university is not just a good idea. It is an imperative
    • Enrique Rubio Royo
       
      Completamente de acuerdo. Universidad actual vs nuevo espacio social y global en RED, base de la mayor creación/compartición e intercambio de K y de difusión de información.
  • Now is also a time of great opportunity
  • and there is a steady stream of proposals for change
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  • change is required in two vast and interwoven domains
    • Enrique Rubio Royo
       
      La Univ. requiere cambios en 2 dominios: 1.- modelo de pedagogía (cómo se lleva a cabo el aprendizaje) y sustituirlo por el nuevo modelo de 'Aprendizaje colaborativo', y 2.- el modelo de producción de contenidos (producción colaborativa de K). Solo así la Univ. tiene la posibilidad de sobrevivir e incluso de desarrollarse vigorosamente en una economía global en RED.
  • First we need to toss out the old industrial model of pedagogy (how learning is accomplished) and replace it with a new model called collaborative learning. Second we need an entirely new modus operandi for how
  • (the content of higher education) are created.
  • Collaborative Learning: Reinventing Pedagogy
  • In the industrial model of student mass production, the teacher is the broadcaster
  • "In collaborative classrooms, the lecturing/listening/note-taking process may not disappear entirely, but it lives alongside other processes that are based in students' discussion and active work with the course material."
  • Collaborative learning has as its main feature a structure that allows for student talk
  • With technology, it is now possible to embrace new collaboration models that change the paradigm
  • This is not about distance learning
  • Rather, this represents a change in the relationship between students and teachers in the learning process.
  • Collaborative Learning Is Social Learning.
  • we need to focus not on what we are learning but on how we are learning
  • instead of starting from the Cartesian premise of 'I think, therefore I am,' . . . the social view of learning says, 'We participate, therefore we are.'"
  • the web provides powerful new tools and environments for collaborative learning
    • Enrique Rubio Royo
       
      Cómo posibilita la web el aprendizaje colaqborativo: 1.- Nuevas tools y entornos, como WIKIS y mundos virtuales como 'Second Life' 2.- Cursos online interactivos pueden liberar a los profesores de 'lecciones', consiguiendo tiempo para colaborar con los estudiantes. 3.- la web posibilita interaccionar con otros estudiantes independientemente del momento y del lugar 4.- la web representa un nuevo modo de producción del K, que cambia todo lo que tenga que ver con 'cómo' se crean los contenidos de los cursos de la Univ.
  • from wikis to virtual worlds like Second Life
  • However, the web enables social learning in other ways as well.
  • Collaborative Learning Embraces Discovery.
  • "The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery."14
  • Students need to integrate new information with the information they already have — to "construct" new knowledge structures and meaning.
  • Today, every college and university student has at his or her fingertips the most powerful tool for discovery, for constructing knowledge, and for learning.
  • the web
  • the web
  • seeing the web as a threat to the old order, universities should embrace its potential and take discovery learning to the next step
  • Rather
  • Collaborative Learning Is Student-Focused and Self-Paced.
  • the education model has to change to suit this generation of students. Smart but impatient, today's students like to collaborate, and they reject one-way lectures
    • Enrique Rubio Royo
       
      el nuevo modelo de educación debe adecuarse a la generación actual de estudiantes: inteligentes, impacientes, colaborativos y que rechazan las lecciones en una sola dirección. Quieren aprender, pero solo aquello que tengan que aprender, y desean aprender en un estilo que es el mejor para ellos'
  • "They want to learn, but they want to learn only what they have to learn, and they want to learn it in a style that is best for them."15
  • Collaborative Knowledge Production: Opening Up the University
    • Enrique Rubio Royo
       
      Hacia una emergente Red Global de Aprendizaje superior (Meta-universidad), a lo largo de 5 etapas: 1.- Intercambio de contenidos de cursos 2.- Colaboración en contenidos de cursos 3.- Co-innovación de contenidos de cursos 4.- Co-creación de K 5.- Conexión Aprendizaje colaborativo
  • The university needs to open up, embrace collaborative knowledge production, and break down the walls that exist among institutions of higher education and between those institutions and the rest of the world
  • To do so, universities require deep structural changes
  • in the open-access movement, we are seeing the early emergence of a meta-university
  • The Internet and the Web will provide the communication infrastructure, and the open-access movement and its derivatives will provide much of the knowledge and information infrastructure."
  • The emerging meta-university, built on the power and ubiquity of the Web and launched by the open courseware movement, will give teachers and learners everywhere the ability to access and share teaching materials, scholarly publications, scientific works in progress, teleoperation of experiments, and worldwide collaborations, thereby achieving economic efficiencies and raising the quality of education through a noble and global endeavor."17
  • For universities to succeed, we believe they need to cooperate to launch what we call the Global Network for Higher Learning
  • This network would have five stages or levels:
  • Level 1: Course Content Exchange
  • colleges and universities post their educational materials online, putting into the commons what would have traditionally been viewed as cherished and closely held intellectual property. MIT pioneered the concept with its OpenCourseWare initiative (http://ocw.mit.edu), and today more than 200 institutions of higher learning have followed suit.
  • Consider what a change this offers to a typical professor's life
  • Level 2: Course Content Collaboration
  • What higher education desperately needs is a social network — a Facebook for faculty.
  • Sharing materials is an important first step. But the course materials available freely online could also be constructed as a platform for users to collaborate and share experiences with the materials. As the Global Network for Higher Learning gains momentum, the volume of material being posted will become overwhelming, comprising not only text but also lecture notes, assignments, exams, videos, podcasts, and so on.
  • But it shouldn't be a standalone application; it should be integral to the Global Network for Higher Learning.
  • A little effort can yield large returns. For example
  • Level 3: Course Content Co-Innovation
  • the Wikimedia Foundation organized Wikiversity
  • The next level in the Global Network for Higher Learning goes beyond sharing and collaborating on course content to actually co-creating content. Professors can co-innovate new teaching material based on work already available and can then make this newly synthesized content available to the world.
  • For the ultimate course, teachers need more than course materials, of course. They need course software enabling students to interact with the content, supporting small group discussions, facilitating testing, and so on. Such software can be developed using the tried-and-true techniques and tools of the open-source software movement.
  • Sakai
  • Sakai.
  • Level 4: Knowledge Co-Creation
  • In the next level of the Global Network for Higher Learning, scholars move beyond course materials and collaborate to co-create all subject-matter-appropriate knowledge.
  • Knowledge from university-based research should be a public good.
  • Universities and academics need to embrace the Global Network for Higher Learning as the platform for collaboration in research, creation, communication, and exploitation of new knowledge. With the Global Network for Higher Learning, the current problems of academic journals would go away.
  • The traditional peer-reviewed academic journals would adopt a much more dynamic online process.
  • Level 5: Collaborative Learning Connection
  • How can we network the world's higher education institutions to go beyond the production of knowledge to the consumption of that knowledge by learners?
  • The 21st-century university will be a network and an ecosystem — not a tower — and educators need to get going on the partnerships to make this work for students.
  • Reinvention or Atrophy
  • he combination of the Internet, the new generation of learners, the demands of the global knowledge economy, and the shock of the current economic crisis is creating a perfect storm for universities, and the storm warnings are everywhere.
  • As the model of pedagogy is challenged, inevitably the revenue model of universities will be too.
  • Many will argue: "But what about credentials?
  • Others will argue: "What about the campus experience?
  • If institutions want to survive the arrival of free, university-level education online, they need to change the way professors and students interact on campus.
  • How, then, can universities reinvent themselves, rather than atrophy? What are the steps to be taken?
  • Adopt Collaborative Learning As the Core Model of Pedagogy.
  • Professors who want to remain relevant will have to abandon the traditional lecture and start listening to and conversing with students — shifting from a broadcast style to an interactive one
  • Professors should encourage students to discover for themselves and to engage in critical thinking instead of simply memorizing the professor's store of information. Finally, professors need to tailor the style of education to their students' individual learning styles.
  • The Internet and the new digital platforms for learning are critical to all of this, especially given the high student-faculty ratio in many universities.
  • Collaboratively Produce Higher Education Content and Knowledge by Launching the Global Network for Higher Learning.
  • Right now, universities around the world are embracing level one — course content exchange — of the Global Network for Higher Learning. But they need to move further in the next four levels.
  • Content should be multimedia — not just text. Content should be networked and hyperlinked bits — not atoms. Moreover, interactive courseware — not separate "books" — should be used to present this content to students, constituting a platform for every subject, across disciplines, among institutions, and around the world.
  • Build New Revenue and Collaboration Models between Higher Education Institutions to Break Down the Silos between Them.
  • we will need to build a collaborative revenue model and a new structure of transfer pricing.
  • Change Incentive Systems to Reward Teaching, Not Just Research.
  • If universities are to become institutions whose primary goal is the learning by students, not faculty, then the incentive systems will need to change. Tenure should be granted for teaching excellence and not just for a publishing record.
  • How can this be done?
  • Build the Infrastructure for 21st-Century Higher Education.
  • a new kind of infrastructure is required to realize the University 2.0.
  • The world needs a "Digital Marshall Plan."
  • Where is the University 2.0?
  • A powerful force to change the university is the students.
  • The Industrial Age model of education is hard to change. New paradigms cause dislocation, disruption, confusion, uncertainty. They are nearly always received with coolness or hostility. Vested interests fight change. And leaders of old paradigms are often the last to embrace the new.
  • Changing the model of pedagogy and the model of knowledge production is crucial for the survival of the university
  • Global Network for Higher Learning
Enrique Rubio Royo

eSN Special Report: Small-group collaboration | eSchoolNews.com - 0 views

  • Educators are increasingly seeing the value of having students collaborate in small groups on classroom projects—and whether such projects involve producing a written or multimedia presentation, solving a math problem, or creating a video, technology can facilitate the group process.
  • Some educators believe students gain a deeper understanding when they participate in group projects.
  • "When a teacher lectures to them, they forget; when you have kids help design something, they will remember for a lifetime
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  • students "gain ownership of their learning" when they are asked to solve a problem collaboratively
  • were designed specifically to support collaborative learning.
  • tablets
  • Groups of older students often collaborate on a wiki, journal, or blog using laptops connected to the same document through Google Apps, he says.
  • To help teachers become more comfortable with collaborative learning, all teacher professional development in Jefferson County takes place online, and teachers take part in online collaborative work groups.
    • Enrique Rubio Royo
       
      Interesante a la hora de justificar el 2º criterio de evaluación de la Maestría
  • "No one person can cover nearly as much information or get as many views and opinions as a group working together to develop a common understanding,
    • Enrique Rubio Royo
       
      Lo mismo que la anterior nota. En general, son justificaciones para promover la evaluación basada en trabajos cooperativos o colaborativos.
  • using mini-projectors
  • to promote collaborative learning
  • The idea is to have four or five students, already equipped with netbooks, collaborating on an assignment, with all of them able to view projected images
  • the projector will be useful for teacher collaboration,
  • Plano’s curriculum stresses multitasking in classrooms, which means some students might be working in groups, while others are working individually or listening to the teacher. "To get the most personalized learning," Hirsch said, "everyone shouldn’t be working on the same thing at the same time." He believes mini-projectors could be a "key component of multitasking in the classroom."
  • ultraportable projectors "have the potential of making a real impact" on teaching 21st-century skills, particularly collaboration.
  • In a traditional classroom arrangement—with the teacher lecturing at the front of the class—"the group becomes homogenized,
  • ignoring the passive,
  • and the more advanced students
  • The teacher might ask two to four students to come to the front of the room to solve a problem, but the rest are "educational voyeurs,
  • But when groups of students collaborate together on a project simultaneously, in different parts of the room, "the level of interactivity goes up exponentially,"
  • on a classroom wall without having to disrupt the rest of the class
  • when their work is displayed on a projector and the whole group can see it easily, he says, "they are truly working as a group."
  • each group have a student identified as a facilitator, recorder, and possibly, reflector, with those positions changing from project to project. After a group completes its work, the students can use the projector to share what they’ve learned with the whole class.
  • "It’s harder for a student to be silent; there is more pressure to participate."
  • Collaborative projects not only help teach content, but also can help students develop 21st-century skills such as communication, time management, teamwork, and facilitation
  • With this approach, "the teacher is seen less like an evaluator and more as a coach, facilitator, and mentor. Teachers today need to know how to mix and match those different roles to maximize learning."
  • Communication and collaboration are among the key skills necessary for succeeding in school and life, as identified by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, along with such skills as critical thinking, creativity, problem solving, flexibility, and media literacy.
  • The partnership defines collaboration as the ability to work effectively and respectfully with diverse teams, the willingness to compromise to accomplish a common goal, and the ability to share responsibility for collaborative work and to value the individual contributions made by each team member.
    • Enrique Rubio Royo
       
      Incorporar la definición que se da de trabajo colaborativo, a la hora de proponer trabajo colaborativo, como indicador d evaluación.
  • "students who work together cooperatively show dramatic increases in academic achievement, self-esteem, and positive social skills."
  • benefits of collaborative learning
    • Enrique Rubio Royo
       
      Interesante.
  • assume ownership of a process and its results
  • along with their retention of information and interest in the subject matter.
  • Students’ critical thinking skills improve
  • allows the assignment of more challenging tasks without making the workload unreasonable.
  • It provides weaker students with extensive one-on-one tutoring, while stronger students gain the deeper understanding that comes only from teaching others.
  • Students are less likely to consider teachers the sole sources of knowledge and understanding.
  • ’s essential "to know how to collaborate across a digital learning environment," as well as face to face,
  • "To be an effective engineer, you have to work collaboratively with engineers in different countries, different time zones, and probably different cultures. That was quite a shock to some of our parents who thought it was enough to be a good student."
    • Enrique Rubio Royo
       
      Buen ejemplo para justificar el requerimiento de nuevas competencias online, como p.e. las que menciona el modelo de eCompetencias Suricata.
  • using desktop videoconferencing to collaborate globally
  • Collaboration is "authentic learning," Hobson said, and it is "transformational in that kids see their work is valued beyond the teacher.
Enrique Rubio Royo

School of One boosts individual learning - 0 views

  • School of One
  • pioneer for a new method of education based on each student’s individual learning experience.
  • In traditional classrooms, teachers lead students through the curriculum at the same pace, and every student is expected to learn the same material at the same time. The School of One focuses on learning progression, but students might begin the same lesson at different points. State test results and other assessments identify which skills a student needs to develop, and those skills make up a student’s “playlist,” or individual learning plan.
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  • School of One students receive a daily schedule based on their own academic strengths or needs. The schedules are tailored to each student’s ability and to the way that student learns best.
  • different learning stations
  • that let students learn with a teacher, with software, via online tutors, through group collaboration, or by working independently.
Enrique Rubio Royo

Students 2.0 - Drive Your Own Learning - 0 views

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    students 2.0 vs eAprendiz
Enrique Rubio Royo

eLearn: Research Papers - Predictors of Success for Adult Online Learners: A Review of ... - 0 views

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    Factores de éxito en aprendizaje online (revisión de la literatura). comentarios de Dolors Reig. La autonomía es un factor fundamental: Autonomous, self-regulated learners committ to controlling their own learning experiences Las titulaciones parecen predecir el éxito: Graduate vs. Undergraduate Motivations: Differences have been noted between undergraduate and graduate distance learners and their motivations. Parece que la edad no es lo importante: Age as a Factor in Online Learners' Success: The literature supports the idea that because adult learners are not as technologically savvy and have more responsibilities toward work and family, online learning is more difficult for them (Dubois, 1996). However, Ke and Xie's (2009) study showed that regardless of an adult learner's age, students self-reported the same amount of effort put into learning tasks and reported comparable levels of satisfaction. Características en un buen modelo: Design Model Characteristics and the Impact on Performance and Learner Satisfaction * connect new knowledge to prior learning: conectar nuevo conocimiento con anterior (recordemos el conectivismo) * maintain collaboration and social interaction between students: mantener la colaboración, la interacción social * promote a self-reflective environment: promover un entorno de reflexión. * include current or immediate applications: Incluir ejemplos prácticos (Learning by doing, añado) * advance self-regulated learning: avanzar mecanismos de auto-aprendizaje: la idea de los PLE-PLN responde a ello.
Enrique Rubio Royo

Ple Conference - 0 views

  • Personal Learning Environments (PLE) include the tools, communities, and services that constitute the individual educational platforms learners use to direct their own learning and pursue educational goals. The idea of the PLE represents a shift away from the model in which students consume information through independent channels such as the library, a textbook, or an LMS, moving instead to a model where students draw connections from a growing matrix of resources that they select and organize. Because they emphasize relationships, PLEs can promote authentic learning by incorporating expert feedback into learning activities and resources. A PLE also puts students in charge of their own learning processes, challenging them to reflect on the tools and resources that help them learn best. By design, a PLE is created from self-direction, and therefore the responsibility for organization—and thereby for learning—rests with the learner. (7 things you should know about Personal Learning Environments, Educause 2009).
Enrique Rubio Royo

Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: A New Culture of Learning: An Interview with John ... - 0 views

  • 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
  • new book
  • 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
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • new book
  • A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change
  • why learning is changing in the 21st century and what schools need to do to accommodate these new practices
  • Can you share some of what you learned about student-directed learning?
  • distinction
  • between teaching and learning
  • it means to be an educator and being open to ideas such as student-directed learning
  • to be a responsible educator
  • the role of educators needs to shift away
  • to becoming expert in the ability to create and shape new learning environments.
  • In a way, that is a much more challenging, but also much more rewarding, role.
  • You get to see students learn, discover, explore, play, and develop
  • has become a cliché
  • "Lifelong learning"
  • the world of networked computing you describe which transforms this abstract concept into a reality?
  • kids learn about the world through play
  • play and learning are indistinguishable
  • The premise of A New Culture of Learning is
  • which means that more often than not, we are faced with the same problem that vexes children
  • we are now living in a world of constant change and flux
  • How do I make sense of this strange, changing, amazing world?
  • By returning to play as a modality of learning
  • is about the productions of new meanings by reframing or shifting the context in which something means
  • 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.
  • as the world grows more complicated, more complex, and more fluid, opportunities for innovation, imagination, and play increase.
  • Essentially what this means is that
  • Information and knowledge begin to function like currency: the more of it you have, the more opportunities you will have to do things.
  • The force that seems to be pushing the knowledge curve forward at an exponential rate is two fold.
  • the generation of new content and knowledge
  • First
  • second
  • while content may remain stable at some abstract level, the context in which it has meaning (and therefore its meaning) is open to near constant change
  • users are not so much creating content as they are constantly reshaping context
  • idea of remix
  • "imagination is more important than knowledge."
  • The 21st century has really marked the time in our history where the tools to manipulate context have become as commonplace as the ones for content creation and we now have a low cost or free network of distribution that can allow for worldwide dissemination of new contexts in amazingly brief periods of time.
  • Millions of micro-transactions, each of which are trivial as "content" powerfully and constantly reshape the context in which news and current events have meaning.
  • how we learn is more important than what we learn
  • knowledge, now more than ever, is becoming a where rather than a what or how
  • relationship between meaning and context.
  • every piece of knowledge has both an explicit and a tacit dimension
  • The explicit
  • s only one kind of content, which tells you what something means
  • The tacit
  • It tells why something is important to you, how it relates to your life and social practices
  • It is the dimension where the context and content interact
  • Our teaching institutions have paid almost no attention to the tacit and we believe that it is the tacit dimension that allows us to navigate meaning in a changing world.
  • Knowledge may maintain consistency in the explicit, while undergoing radical changes in the tacit and we believe that understanding how knowledge is both created and how it flows in the tacit is the key to understanding and transforming learning in the 21st century.
  • Douglas Thomas
  • John Seely Brown
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Systems Thinking | Center for Ecoliteracy - 1 views

  • A systems approach helps young people understand the complexity of the world around them and encourages them to think in terms of relationships, connectedness, and context.
  • SHIFTS IN PERCEPTION
    • Enrique Rubio Royo
       
      Pensar de manera sitémica (brecha actual de la complejidad) requiere cambiar la manera mediante la cuál percibimos las cosas, las diferentes situaciones, el mundo. A su vez, dicho cambio en la manera de percibir las cosas que nos rodean, nos conducirá a enseñar de forms diferente, a organizar de manera distinta las instituciones y hasta la propia soociedad. Una mentalidad distinta, o mejor dicho una percepción distinta del mundo que te rodea. Dicha nueva percepción, procedente de un pensamiento sistémico, requiere diferentes desplazamientos, que a la postre nos conducirán a diferentes formas de enseñar, y a diferentes formas de organizar las instituciones y la sociedad.
  • Thinking systemically requires several shifts in perception
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  • which lead in turn to different ways to teach, and to different ways to organize institutions and society
  • From parts to the whole
  • From objects to relationships
  • From objective knowledge to contextual knowledge
  • From quantity to quality
  • From structure to process
  • From contents to patterns
  • With any system, the whole is different from the sum of the individual parts
  • By shifting focus from the parts to the whole, we can better grasp the connections between the different elements.
  • within the context
  • the culture
  • Similarly, the nature and quality of what students learn is strongly affected by
  • the whole school
  • from single-subject curricula to integrated curricula.
  • the relationships between individual parts may be more important than the parts.
  • In systems
  • ecosystem
  • collection of species
  • interacting with each other
  • and their nonliving environment
  • the "objects" of study are networks of relationships
  • In the systems view
  • this perspective emphasizes relationship-based processes
  • from analytical thinking to contextual thinking
  • Shifting focus from the parts to the whole implies shifting
  • project-based learning
  • teachers to be
  • facilitators and fellow learners
  • alongside students, rather than experts dispensing knowledge.
  • Western science has often focused on things that can be measured and quantified.
  • It has sometimes been implied that
  • phenomena that can be measured and quantified are more important
  • and perhaps even that
  • what cannot be measured and quantified doesn't exist at all.
  • Some aspects of systems
  • however
  • cannot be measured.
  • the relationships
  • more comprehensive forms of assessment than standardized tests.
  • Living systems
  • develop and evolve
  • Understanding these systems requires
  • a shift in focus
  • from structure to processes
  • such as evolution, renewal, and change
  • how students solve a problem
  • ways in which they make decisions
  • Within systems
  • certain configurations of relationship appear again and again in patterns
  • such as cycles and feedback loops
  • Understanding how a pattern works in one natural or social system helps us to understand other systems that manifest the same pattern
  • For instance, understanding how flows of energy affect a natural ecosystem may illuminate how flows of information affect a social system.
  • One lesson that nature teaches is that everything in the world is connected to other things.
    • Enrique Rubio Royo
       
      La naturaleza nos enseña que todo en el mundo está conectado a otras cosas. Un SISTEMA es un conjunto de elementos interrelacionados que constituyen un todo unificado. Cosas individuales, comop plantas, personas, escuelas, rios, o economías, son en si mismos sistemas y al mismo tiempo NO pueden ser completamente comprendidos separados de otros sistemas mas grandes en los que existen.
  • Systems thinking
    • Enrique Rubio Royo
       
      Un planteamiento orientado a sistemas (Pensamiento sistémico) nos ayudará acomprender la complejidad del mundo que nos rodea y nos ayudará a pensar en términos de relaciones, conectividad y contexto (cultura de la interdependencia). Pensamiento sistémico como parte esencial de la sostenibilidad. La brecha de la complejidad- necesidad de una nueva forma de pensar acerca del mundo que nos rodea, desde la complejidad, desde una perspectiva de sistemas, pensar en términos de 'relaciones', 'conectividad', y 'contexto'.
  • Individual things
  • is a set of interrelated elements that make a unified whole
  • system
  • are themselves systems and at the same time cannot be fully understood apart from the larger systems in which they exist
  • essential part
  • for sustainability
Enrique Rubio Royo

Ramblings of a Professional Learning Community: How's Your PLN? - 0 views

  • It would be great for educators to receive credit and recognition for the countless hours spent reading, listening, and implementing what other educators and experts have to say about Pedagogy, Technology, Science Education, and 21st Century Teaching.
  • So exactly what does my Personal Learning Network (PLN) look like? Here’s a sample of how I spend the first half hour of every morning learning before I go to work:Check my email.Check in with Twitter and Classroom 2.0 to see what people are saying, blogging, what websites are being referenced, or what webinars may be available later in the day.Visit interesting bookmarks shared through the Diigo groups I belong.I’ll check into Facebook to see what friends and relatives, some personal some professional, are up to this day.I’ll check my school and student email. (Students use a unique email to access me.)I’ll check my blog to see if I need to respond to anyone or perhaps I’ll add a new post.I’ll review the new posts of the many blogs I follow.Whatever new comes my way that day, I’ll click and check it out.All this before I even leave the house. Of course, I follow up at work when and where I am able. My expanded PLN is fairly new. I can’t imagine what this list will look like in a few months.If you're interested in developing your own PLN, check out this blog page by Lisa Nielsen, author of The Innovator Educator.
Enrique Rubio Royo

100 Inspiring Ways to Use Social Media In the Classroom | Online Universities - 0 views

  • Social media may have started out as a fun way to connect with friends, but it has evolved to become a powerful tool for education and business. Sites such as Facebook and Twitter and tools such as Skype are connecting students to learning opportunities in new and exciting ways. Whether you teach an elementary class, a traditional college class, or at an online university, you will find inspirational ways to incorporate social media in your classroom with this list.
Enrique Rubio Royo

Five lessons from the nation's best online teacher | Top News | eSchoolNews.com - 0 views

  • Educators who teach in an online setting should foster strong relationships with their students’ parents and should offer plenty of positive feedback, says the nation’s first-ever K-12 Online Teacher of the Year. Teacher Teresa Dove of the Florida Virtual School (FLVS) last week was chosen as the first winner of this new award, which not only recognizes excellent teaching but also the prevalence, and importance, of online learning across the country. The award, which recognizes an “outstanding online teacher for exceptional contributions to online K-12 education,” was created by the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) and the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL).
Enrique Rubio Royo

Top 5 Ways to Use Augmented Reality in Education: Part 1 of 5 - Second Life [mobile lea... - 0 views

  • Second Life offers students and teachers the opportunity to fully immerse themselves – well, their avatar – in a dynamic, virtual world. The teaching and learning opportunities within Second Life are limitless.
  • Hope you enjoyed the introduction!  Here are a host of other relevant links related to Second Life in education: Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human Advantages of 3D Learning Worlds Teen Second Life – Official Page If Second Life isn’t a game, what is it? Second Life provides real-world benefits Advantages of using Second Life instead of video conferencing Want to read more about the possibilities of augmented reality in education?  Check out other posts in our series “Top 5 Ways to Use Augmented Reality in Education:” Part 2: iPhone augmented reality apps in education Part 3: Xbox 360 Kinect in education Part 4: Tour de Classroom: GPS-Based Audio Tool, Toozla Part 5: Virtusphere in Education
Enrique Rubio Royo

Software & Industry Information Association - 0 views

  • As the voice of the educational technology industry, we have developed a vision for K-20 education - a vision to ensure that all students have access to a teaching and learning environment capable of preparing them to compete globally and lead the world in innovation.
  • The SIIA Vision is based on the experience that technology: Allows educators to teach and learn in ways that were not previously possible Enables educators to be more efficient and effective in teaching and learning Is essential for life-long learning
  • Vision Survey
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ASCD Inservice: The New Faces of Ed Reform - 0 views

  • we pulled 10 articles from our EL archives that discuss reforming education with teachers as leaders and partners in meaningful, lasting change:
  • How a school turned itself around, thanks to its on-site experts working together.
  • distributed leadership.
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  • They need to give teachers more control.
  • Talent Development, First Things First, and career academies
  • a richer understanding of teaching and learning.
  • To upgrade teacher quality
  • system to ensure that teachers can perform at their best.
  • What school qualities contribute most to teacher growth
  • build the skills and knowledge of those responsible for student learning and seriously engage teachers and the community in setting goals and putting them into practice.
  • Our task was to help a room full of administrators understand the role teachers could play in driving change in schools."
  • Six conditions helped these urban districts launch—and sustain—strong learning communities.
Enrique Rubio Royo

higher order thinking skills | Educational Software Blog - 0 views

  • Web-based instructional activities have an enormous potential to enhance and entice learning. Unfortunately integrating the internet into your curriculum in a way that has a positive impact on students' learning is often a difficult process. Below are some questions to ask yourself to help you get started.
Enrique Rubio Royo

Author: 'iGeneration' requires a different approach to instruction | eSchoolNews.com - 0 views

  • Not everyone would agree that multitasking is a healthy attribute of today’s students.
  • A Stanford University study released last year found that high-tech jugglers have problems paying attention, controlling their memory, or switching from one job to another as well as those who prefer to complete one task at a time.
  • In his book, Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn, Rosen suggests, among many other things, that teachers should begin to use cell phones as tools for mobile learning.
    • Enrique Rubio Royo
       
      Empezar a usar la telefonía móvil en nuestra actividades de formación y alprendizaje. Contactar con la profesora francesa de traductores e interpétes (pedirle si desea colaborar en ell).
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  • Encourage group work … in the classroom through collaborative group work that supports individual activities. Use games as teaching and learning tools,” he added. “Yes, review quizzes can be engaging, but consider using games and simulations as a way to teach concepts through hands-on learning, not just as a way to review concepts taught in a traditional sense.”
  • One problem with today’s multitasking iGeners “is that they spend more time gathering information in breadth rather than depth,” Rosen acknowledged, “and I think this is an issue for educators.” Teachers must teach media literacy and the difference between superficial gathering of information and deeper understanding, he said.
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