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"It has me thinking about what it would mean to improve online classes. A few ideas come to mind: Use multiple platforms. I'm not against using an LMS as a central hub. However, I think it's valuable to experiment with the types of productivity tools you will actually use outside of a classroom. Use Google Docs to share ideas, create surveys, and ask questions. Use Google Hangouts to meet as a group. Go project-based. I haven't figured this out entirely with my first class but my hope is that we can go fully project-based in the same way that my face-to-face class is. In fact, the asynchronous nature of online classes actually means there is a better potential of creating a project-based culture that mirrors the way people actually work on projects. Make something together. I use a collaboration grid with co-creating and communicating on separate spectrums (x-axis) and multimedia and text on another spectrum (y-axis). This has been an effective way to think through collaborative tools that allow students to co-create. Embrace a synchronous/asynchronous blend: I love using Voxer because students can speak back and forth in the moment. However, if they miss it, they can listen to it later. The same is true of using a Google Hangouts On Air. Make it more connective. We tend to treat online instruction as if it is a linear process and we don't do enough to link things back and forth and connect ideas, resources, discussions and content creation in a seamless, back-and-forth nature. Incorporate multimedia. It's a simple idea, but I create a short video at the beginning of each week and I encourage students to create video and audio as well. This has a way of making things more concrete. There's something deeply human about hearing an actual human voice. I know, crazy, right? Go mobile. I don't simply mean use a smart phone. I mean assign some things that allow students to get out in the world and create videos, snap pictures,

"It has me thinking about what it would mean to improve online classes. A few ideas come to mind: Use multiple platforms. I'm not against using an LMS as a central hub. However, I think it's valuable to experiment with the types of productivity tools you will actually use outside of a classroom. Use Google Docs to share ideas, create surveys, and ask questions. Use Google Hangouts to meet as a group. Go project-based. I haven't figured this out entirely with my first class but my hope is that we can go fully project-based in the same way that my face-to-face class is. In fact, the asynchronous nature of online classes actually means there is a better potential of creating a project-based culture that mirrors the way people actually work on projects. Make something together. I use a collaboration grid with co-creating and communicating on separate spectrums (x-axis) and multimedia and text on another spectrum (y-axis). This has been an effective way to think through collaborative tools that allow students to co-create. Embrace a synchronous/asynchronous blend: I love using Voxer because students can speak back and forth in the moment. However, if they miss it, they can listen to it later. The same is true of using a Google Hangouts On Air. Make it more connective. We tend to treat online instruction as if it is a linear process and we don't do enough to link things back and forth and connect ideas, resources, discussions and content creation in a seamless, back-and-forth nature. Incorporate multimedia. It's a simple idea, but I create a short video at the beginning of each week and I encourage students to create video and audio as well. This has a way of making things more concrete. There's something deeply human about hearing an actual human voice. I know, crazy, right? Go mobile. I don't simply mean use a smart phone. I mean assign some things that allow students to get out in the world and create videos, snap pictures,

This is the difference between 'projects' and 'project-based learning' - Daily Genius

This is the difference between 'projects' and 'project-based learning' - Daily Genius

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

"El feedback o retroalimentación es uno de los elementos más eficaces en el proceso de aprendizaje (y enseñanza). Hace unos meses publicamos un artículo basado en los datos del estudio TALIS último (2013) en el que estudiábamos el impacto de este elemento en las prácticas docentes de los profesores. Curiosamente, o no, los profesores que recibían feedback habitualmente sobre su trabajo, tendían a utilizar prácticas docentes más innovadoras, más centradas en los alumnos que los que no lo recibían. Hay muchos estudios sobre el feedback y su impacto, tanto en profesores como estudiantes, en empleados de empresas, etc. Hoy quiero ofreceros un infográfico desarrollado pensando en la conducta en las organizaciones, pero que he adaptado a la escuela. Resume 21 características que debe reunir el feedback. Tanto si eres profesor, director o responsable de una organización o parte de ella, como si eres padre te pueden servir. El feedback debe ser: 1. Específico Los comentarios tienen que ser concretos y relacionarse con un objetivo de rendimiento específico, medible. Debe incluir también expectativas claras para el empleado (léase estudiante, hijo, profesor, etc.) y su desempeño. 2. Oportuno Los destinatarios deben recibir la retroalimentación tan cerca del evento (examen, trabajo, proyecto) como sea posible. Feedback inmediato mejor que diferido. 3. Adecuado La retroalimentación debe ser presentada de una manera positiva, con tacto y no de modo amenazante. 4. Centrarse en el comportamiento, no en la personalidad Siempre se debe proporcionar información que se base en el comportamiento, no la personalidad o características de la persona, a menos que sea absolutamente necesario. 5. Proactivo No retrasar o evitar proporcionar la retroalimentación oportuna. Siempre es mejor identificar los problemas y proporcionar información antes de que se conviertan en insolubles o que tengan un gran impacto en la persona, escuela, organiza

"El feedback o retroalimentación es uno de los elementos más eficaces en el proceso de aprendizaje (y enseñanza). Hace unos meses publicamos un artículo basado en los datos del estudio TALIS último (2013) en el que estudiábamos el impacto de este elemento en las prácticas docentes de los profesores. Curiosamente, o no, los profesores que recibían feedback habitualmente sobre su trabajo, tendían a utilizar prácticas docentes más innovadoras, más centradas en los alumnos que los que no lo recibían. Hay muchos estudios sobre el feedback y su impacto, tanto en profesores como estudiantes, en empleados de empresas, etc. Hoy quiero ofreceros un infográfico desarrollado pensando en la conducta en las organizaciones, pero que he adaptado a la escuela. Resume 21 características que debe reunir el feedback. Tanto si eres profesor, director o responsable de una organización o parte de ella, como si eres padre te pueden servir. El feedback debe ser: 1. Específico Los comentarios tienen que ser concretos y relacionarse con un objetivo de rendimiento específico, medible. Debe incluir también expectativas claras para el empleado (léase estudiante, hijo, profesor, etc.) y su desempeño. 2. Oportuno Los destinatarios deben recibir la retroalimentación tan cerca del evento (examen, trabajo, proyecto) como sea posible. Feedback inmediato mejor que diferido. 3. Adecuado La retroalimentación debe ser presentada de una manera positiva, con tacto y no de modo amenazante. 4. Centrarse en el comportamiento, no en la personalidad Siempre se debe proporcionar información que se base en el comportamiento, no la personalidad o características de la persona, a menos que sea absolutamente necesario. 5. Proactivo No retrasar o evitar proporcionar la retroalimentación oportuna. Siempre es mejor identificar los problemas y proporcionar información antes de que se conviertan en insolubles o que tengan un gran impacto en la persona, escuela, organiza

This paper reports on the outcomes of a mini-research project about visible forms of collaboration when children are learning with the support of Wikis-online editable websites. The findings were based on observing the children using the Wiki, analysis of the video recording of the task and the survey that was completed by the children using the Wiki as a tool for a task. Qualitative research methodology became a primary technique for the data collection and content analysis approach used to explore the children's behaviour when investigating the use of the wiki and video recording of the sessions. Various types of behaviour associated with collaboration, were observed when the children were working on Wiki pages with their peers.  

De acuerdo con el artículo en inglés de Katrina Schwartz en Mind Shift: What Project-Based Learning is and what it isn't, el término que se ha puesto tan de moda últimamente en educación, aprendizaje por proyectos, a veces se confunde con aprendizaje orientado a proyectos.

Una gran guía para profesores sobre el aprendizaje por proyectos

Experts & NewBIEs - Un Plan de implentación global para hacer sostenible  PBL a largo plazo . La necesidad de un plan de implementación sólido que cree condiciones adecuadas para instalar un sistema PBL sostenible a largo plazo. BIE utiliza un modelo llamado four D approach, compuesto por cuatro pasos: diseñar, desarrollar, implementar y determinar la calidad y eficacia.