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"As a learning strategy, inquiry-based learning is all about learners constructing their own understanding and knowledge through asking questions. Unlike traditional learning methods that focus primarily on drills, memorization and rote learning, inquiry-based learning is essentially student-centered. It starts with posing questions and directly involves students in challenging hands-on activities that drive students to ask more questions and explore different learning paths. In today's post, we have assembled a collection of some useful web tools and apps that support the ethos of inquiry-based learning. Using these tools will enable students to engage in a wide range of learning tasks that are all driven by a sense of inquiry and questioning."

"As a learning strategy, inquiry-based learning is all about learners constructing their own understanding and knowledge through asking questions. Unlike traditional learning methods that focus primarily on drills, memorization and rote learning, inquiry-based learning is essentially student-centered. It starts with posing questions and directly involves students in challenging hands-on activities that drive students to ask more questions and explore different learning paths. In today's post, we have assembled a collection of some useful web tools and apps that support the ethos of inquiry-based learning. Using these tools will enable students to engage in a wide range of learning tasks that are all driven by a sense of inquiry and questioning."

"Open with a question or two. Another favorite education writer of mine, the cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham, argues that teachers should focus more on the use of questions. "The material I want students to learn," he writes in his book Why Don't Students Like School?, "is actually the answer to a question. On its own, the answer is almost never interesting. But if you know the question, the answer may be quite interesting." My colleague Greg Weiner, an associate professor of political science, puts those ideas into practice. At the beginning of class, he shows four or five questions on a slide for students to consider. Class then proceeds in the usual fashion. At the end, he returns to the questions so that students can both see some potential answers and understand that they have learned something that day. What did we learn last time? A favorite activity of many instructors is to spend a few minutes at the opening of class reviewing what happened in the previous session. That makes perfect sense, and is supported by the idea that we don't learn from single exposure to material - we need to return frequently to whatever we are attempting to master.But instead of offering a capsule review to students, why not ask them to offer one back to you?Reactivate what they learned in previous courses. Plenty of excellent evidence suggests that whatever knowledge students bring into a course has a major influence on what they take away from it. So a sure-fire technique to improve student learning is to begin class by revisiting, not just what they learned in the previous session, but what they already knew about the subject matter.Write it down. All three of the previous activities would benefit from having students spend a few minutes writing down their responses. That way, every student has the opportunity to answer the question, practice memory retrieval from the previous session, or surface their prior knowledge - and not just the students most likely to

1) the ways they currently implement Twitter in their teaching and learning, 2) ideas for future development of Twitter-based assignments and pedagogical practices, and 3) issues concerning the integration of Twitter and other digital media into both traditional and non-traditional pedagogies. Collaborators should feel free to add material to these pages, to comment on existing material, and to share links to relevant external readings and resources. It may be helpful to tag your contributions with your Twitter handle. Collaborators are asked to please respect this space as a forum for open and respectful dialogue and networking. Let's fill up the pages below with great ideas!  Share the ways you currently implement Twitter in your teaching and learning: Students in my course New Information Technologies do an "Internet Censorship" project, focused on a specific country. I ask them to follow a journalist who tweets on that country as part of their research to understand the state of Internet freedom in the country they select. -- Lora Since shortly after Twitter was launched, I've experimented with various iterations of "The Twitter Essay," an assignment that has students considering the nature of the "essay" as a medium and how they might do that work within the space of 140 characters. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) In my fully online classes, I've started using Twitter to replace the discussion forum as the central location for student interaction. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) Show Tweets that have gotten people arrested and prompt discussion on whether it is fair that anyone be arrested for any Tweet in the US, who is likely to be arrested for their Tweets, what kinds of Tweets are likely to prompt arrest, etc. Students in my First Year Seminar course "The Irish Imagination: Yeats to Bono" developed a platform for digital annotation of Irish literature. Embedded in their platform was a twitter feed of relevant individuals/groups, m

1) the ways they currently implement Twitter in their teaching and learning, 2) ideas for future development of Twitter-based assignments and pedagogical practices, and 3) issues concerning the integration of Twitter and other digital media into both traditional and non-traditional pedagogies. Collaborators should feel free to add material to these pages, to comment on existing material, and to share links to relevant external readings and resources. It may be helpful to tag your contributions with your Twitter handle. Collaborators are asked to please respect this space as a forum for open and respectful dialogue and networking. Let's fill up the pages below with great ideas!  Share the ways you currently implement Twitter in your teaching and learning: Students in my course New Information Technologies do an "Internet Censorship" project, focused on a specific country. I ask them to follow a journalist who tweets on that country as part of their research to understand the state of Internet freedom in the country they select. -- Lora Since shortly after Twitter was launched, I've experimented with various iterations of "The Twitter Essay," an assignment that has students considering the nature of the "essay" as a medium and how they might do that work within the space of 140 characters. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) In my fully online classes, I've started using Twitter to replace the discussion forum as the central location for student interaction. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) Show Tweets that have gotten people arrested and prompt discussion on whether it is fair that anyone be arrested for any Tweet in the US, who is likely to be arrested for their Tweets, what kinds of Tweets are likely to prompt arrest, etc. Students in my First Year Seminar course "The Irish Imagination: Yeats to Bono" developed a platform for digital annotation of Irish literature. Embedded in their platform was a twitter feed of relevant individuals/groups, m

"Discover Moodle and teach with Gnomio We are just a few Moodle fans offering free tools for the e-learning community. With us you can discover the most widely used open source learning tool, and create your own online learning community. In a few minutes you can have your virtual classroom active, with your own subdomain, secure access, complete administration privileges and totally free."

The aim of the Transmedia Literacy project is to understand how the young boys and girls are learning skills outside the school. The construction of those cultural competencies and social skills will be at the centre of the research. Once the informal learning strategies and practices applied by young people outside the formal institutions are identified, the team will 'translate' them into a series of activities and proposals to be implemented inside school settings. The Transmedia Literacy Project will also produce a Teacher's Kit that will be designed to facilitate the integration of transliteracies in the classroom.

Advanced ESL listening comprehension activity.

Web centrada en una variante de la Indagación que pone el foco en la argumentación. Estrategia que cada vez recibe más atención por su gran potencial en el aprendizaje. "The ADI Instructional Model ADI lab activities consist of the same 8 stages. Each stage is designed to give students an opportunity to participate in one or more science and engineering practices. The stages of ADI are the same for each investigation so students have an opportunity to use the same science and engineering practices, but different disciplinary core ideas and crosscutting concepts to figure out how thing work or why things happen. This instructional approach also gives students an opportunity to learn how to propose, support, evaluate, and revise ideas through discussion and in writing."

Ambicioso proyecto de educación estadounidense sobre el clima, energía y educación ambiental. The Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) Portal was launched in 2010 as a National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Pathways project. It is led by the science education expertise of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder and the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College. As of 2012, CLEAN has been syndicated to NOAA's climate.gov portal. CLEAN's primary effort is to steward the collection of climate and energy science educational resources and to support a community of professionals committed to improving climate and energy literacy. The three key components of the CLEAN project are: The CLEAN Collection of Climate and Energy Science resources- high-quality, digital resources---including learning activities, visualizations, videos, and short demonstrations/experiments---geared toward educators of students in secondary through undergraduate levels. Guidance in Teaching Climate and Energy Science pages designed to help educators understand and be equipped to teach the big ideas in climate and energy science. The CLEAN Network a community of professionals committed to improving climate and energy literacy.

Listening and speaking activities based on the famous BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers. For B2 ESL learners.

VERY GOOD!!! E-LEARNING WORKSHOPS

"El autor del material es Javier Quílez Peña, y comparte un tutorial que seguro que pondréis en práctica en festividades de vuestros centros. Este material compratido se encuentra dentro de un proyecto llamado "Looking and learning"."

"... Ocurre que, desde pequeños, los hemos acostumbrado a adoptar ese rol pasivo en el aula. A recibir órdenes, a seguir instrucciones. Y hemos penalizado-marginado-excluido a los disidentes. El resultado era previsible. En mi humilde opinión creo que los niveles educativos mas bajos deberían basarse en pedagogías similares a las de la escuela Montessori (más orientadas a la creación de entornos que estimulen el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje que la la consecución de unos objetivos estandarizados) y, a partir de cierta edad, pasar a metodologías de aprendizaje basado en proyectos. Pero, claro, eso significaría poner en riesgo el concepto de sistema educativo como "fábrica de operarios que prepara a los mejores para cubrir las necesidades productivas del sistema económico y descarta a los peores"."

Buena colección de webquest. Muchas áreas, aunque todo en inglés.

"Antes de empezar con mi experiencia, me gustaría incidir en la diferencia entre dictar apuntes y tomar apuntes, ya que considero que son dos procedimientos significativamente distintos. De hecho, lo que he realizado estos últimos cursos con mis alumnos está más cerca del dictado de apuntes que no de la toma de apuntes. Dictar apuntes. Normalmente se usa cuando quieres incidir en un concepto o idea. Para que la idea llegue a todos los alumnos con total seguridad, lo que se hace es dictar literalmente la definición varias veces hasta que todos los alumnos la han copiado en su cuaderno debidamente. Sin duda es una estrategia en ocasiones necesaria, pero que no tiene otra finalidad que la que todos los alumnos cuenten en sus cuadernos con la misma información. Tomar apuntes. La toma de apuntes no se dirige a un concepto o idea específica, sino que se trata del desarrollo de una idea. En la toma de apuntes se deja de tener una única opción, como pasaba en el dictado de una definición, y es el alumno el que debe aprender a elegir entre lo que es relevante de lo que es una información secundaria. Bien, ahora que he diferenciado estos dos conceptos, paso a explicarte mi experimento de tomar apuntes mediante la metodología del aprendizaje cooperativo. Cómo enseñar a tus alumnos a tomar apuntes a través del aprendizaje cooperativo. Desarrollo de mi experiencia en el aula. Edad de los alumnos: 14-16 años Duración: 25 minutos Material: un DIN A5 para cada alumno y un DIN A5 por grupo base, un bolígrafo azul para cada alumno y un bolígrafo rojo para cada grupo base. Material de audio: audio de aproximadamente 10 min. sobre la disputa entre los poetas barrocos Luis de Góngora y Francisco de Quevedo. Este es el audio elegido para la actividad de aprendizaje cooperativo: Desarrollo de la actividad. Los alumnos se colocan en grupos de aprendizaje cooperativo formando grupos base preferentemente de cuatro a

"Antes de empezar con mi experiencia, me gustaría incidir en la diferencia entre dictar apuntes y tomar apuntes, ya que considero que son dos procedimientos significativamente distintos. De hecho, lo que he realizado estos últimos cursos con mis alumnos está más cerca del dictado de apuntes que no de la toma de apuntes. Dictar apuntes. Normalmente se usa cuando quieres incidir en un concepto o idea. Para que la idea llegue a todos los alumnos con total seguridad, lo que se hace es dictar literalmente la definición varias veces hasta que todos los alumnos la han copiado en su cuaderno debidamente. Sin duda es una estrategia en ocasiones necesaria, pero que no tiene otra finalidad que la que todos los alumnos cuenten en sus cuadernos con la misma información. Tomar apuntes. La toma de apuntes no se dirige a un concepto o idea específica, sino que se trata del desarrollo de una idea. En la toma de apuntes se deja de tener una única opción, como pasaba en el dictado de una definición, y es el alumno el que debe aprender a elegir entre lo que es relevante de lo que es una información secundaria. Bien, ahora que he diferenciado estos dos conceptos, paso a explicarte mi experimento de tomar apuntes mediante la metodología del aprendizaje cooperativo. Cómo enseñar a tus alumnos a tomar apuntes a través del aprendizaje cooperativo. Desarrollo de mi experiencia en el aula. Edad de los alumnos: 14-16 años Duración: 25 minutos Material: un DIN A5 para cada alumno y un DIN A5 por grupo base, un bolígrafo azul para cada alumno y un bolígrafo rojo para cada grupo base. Material de audio: audio de aproximadamente 10 min. sobre la disputa entre los poetas barrocos Luis de Góngora y Francisco de Quevedo. Este es el audio elegido para la actividad de aprendizaje cooperativo: Desarrollo de la actividad. Los alumnos se colocan en grupos de aprendizaje cooperativo formando grupos base preferentemente de cuatro a