“If you take a class, in our case, you’re very likely to meet 20 students from 20 countries,” Reshef says about University of the People. “We believe, by the way, that being exposed to 20 people from 20 cultures — the way they think, the way they function in the class — is as important, if not more, than the subject area itself.”
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in title, tags, annotations or urlThe Case for the Virtual Classroom - 0 views
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“We re-teach the same concepts again and again,” he said. “The teacher has no sense of who in his classroom is getting it, not getting it…and when you look at all of the successful innovations, it’s where you let the student assess his knowledge, understand where they are, and proceed at a pace where they’re actually seeing that they know something before they move on.”The Department of Education’s meta-analysis, which focused on older learners, supports this. Online learners who self-monitored understanding — by, for example, deciding when to move on to the next lesson — performed better.
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The modest difference in performance between online and physical classroom learners in the meta-analysis, for instance, was larger for those students who learned through a blend of online and physical classroom conditions.
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Using Open Content To Drive Educational Change | FunnyMonkey - 0 views
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The differences between open content and traditional textbooks only begin with the production and distribution of the text. When we look at the types of teaching, learning, and assessment that become more accessible when using open content, we can start to get a clearer picture of the pedagogical rationale that makes remixable and reusable content a better choice than a traditional textbook.
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generally, when a text is being used within a course, the structure of the text creates the structure of the course.
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The text becomes a point of reference for the ongoing work in the class.
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A Fairy Tale? « Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice - 0 views
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what they had learned in school did not prepare them to face the problems of life, think clearly, be creative, or fulfill their civic duties.
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So to give high schools the freedom to try new ways of schooling in a democracy, a small band of reformers convinced the best universities to waive their admission requirements and accept graduates from high schools that designed new programs.
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Between 1933-1941, thirty high schools in the country and over 300 universities and colleges joined the experiment sponsored by the Progressive Education Association.
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The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education -- Publications -- Center for Social Media at American University - 0 views
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PRINCIPLES
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EMPLOYING COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN MEDIA LITERACY LESSONS
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Common instructional activities include comparison-contrast analysis, deconstruction (close analysis) of the form and content of a message, illustration of key points, and examination of the historical, economic, political, or social contexts in which a particular message was produced and is received.
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Día de San Patricio - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre - 0 views
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a nivel mundial
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cerveza
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Dr. Mashup; or, Why Educators Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Remix | EDUCAUSE CONNECT - 0 views
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A classroom portal that presents automatically updated syndicated resources from the campus library, news sources, student events, weblogs, and podcasts and that was built quickly using free tools.
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Increasingly, it's not just works of art that are appropriated and remixed but the functionalities of online applications as well.
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mashups involve the reuse, or remixing, of works of art, of content, and/or of data for purposes that usually were not intended or even imagined by the original creators.
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Lead article: How did a couple of veteran classroom teachers end up in a space like this? Extraordinary intersections between learning, social software and teaching. : The Knowledge Tree - 0 views
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With social networking and media-sharing practices rapidly assuming a central role in our professional and personal lives, teachers have a responsibility to bring these practices into the classroom.
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technology uber-fans gush over their embrace of every new gadget, technology and practice, affixing computer-driven activities onto factory-model teaching practices as shiny appendages, resulting in a ‘technology façade’
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This does not mean that traditional literacies of critical reading, thinking and communication must make way for emerging literacies of collaboration, online communication and multimedia navigation. It does mean that we have to transform our teaching to accommodate them all effectively.
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