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Rachel Tan

Teacher Training on Technology-Enhanced Instruction - A Holistic Approach - 1 views

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    Tan, Hu, Wong, Wettasinghe (2003) on Information Technology and Singapore Education, Instructional Framework, Instructional Strategies (Direct Instruction, SDL, Group Work, Computer-Mediated Communication, Constructivist Learning, Learning through Experience) Computer As an Administrative Tool - Blackboard ! Computer As a Presentation Tool - from PPT to Prezi? Computer As a Tutor - engage the learners in higher order thinking Computer As a Cognitive Tool - mindtools Conclusion: To successfully integrate IT into teaching and learning in schools is a challenging task that hinges on a lot of factors, including effective teacher training. Darling-Hammond (1994) describes the new paradigm of teacher learning as a place in which opportunities are provided for "learning by teaching, learning by doing and learning by collaborating." In our attempt to avoid reducing such training into teaching of discrete IT skills, or merely talking about it through lectures, we presented an approach that modeled various pedagogies, including direct instruction, self-directed learning, group work, computer-mediated communication, and constructivist learning. We also provided a holistic technology-enhanced environment, for the trainees to experience the use of the computer as an administrative tool, as a presentation tool, as a tutor, and as a cognitive tool. These strategies are built upon theories and studies of learning, as well as the use of IT in education. The results of the trainees' evaluation of the module indicated a generally positive reaction to the module and the perception that the instructional objectives have been achieved. These are encouraging indicators of the effectiveness of our instructional strategies, which we will build upon for further improvement in the subsequent delivery of the module.
Kartini Ishak

SearchTeam - 1 views

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    Use SearchTeam as a collaborative tool to enable small teams to collaborate on finding the best information on the web. Excellent for working on collaborative research projects. It's easy to use - sign in, enter a topic of research into your "search space" and voila - share and collaborate your findings with your peers. A great tool!
Rachel Tan

Blackboard Learn Quick Hit: Social Learning Tools - 0 views

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    How open are we to promote Social Learning Tools in Bb? (Published Jan 17, 2013) Less than five minutes is all it takes to learn about the new and improved social learning tools feature for Blackboard Learn. Use these tools to discover, connect, communicate and collaborate with your learning network. Watch the video and then try it out for yourself !
Rachel Tan

MERLOT Pedagogy Portal - 0 views

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    Consider this as an ID resource for our internal training? MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, collection of peer reviewed higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services. MERLOT's strategic goal is to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning by increasing the quantity and quality of peer reviewed online learning materials that can be easily incorporated into faculty designed courses. MERLOT's activities are based on the creative collaboration and support of its Individual Members, Institutional Partners, Corporate Partners and Editorial Boards. Integral to MERLOT's continuing development of faculty development support services are its: * Building and sustaining online academic communities * Online teaching and learning initiatives * Building, organizing, reviewing, and developing applications of online teaching-learning materials
bernard tan

3G powers Singapore school's 21st century classroom - 1 views

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    NIE is mentioned in this article talking about mobile technology in schools. And the platform chosen was Windows.... The National Institute of Education of Singapore is assisting teachers with the development of customized curriculum in English, Science and Chinese that leverages the benefits of mobile, Internet-connected, learning devices and provides students with new learning opportunities that are not possible with paper and pencil. We co-design technology enabled lessons with the teachers and provide professional development to teachers that enable them to enact lessons using smartphones. It is critical to empower teachers to orchestrate the transformed classroom to support students' personalized learning," says Professor Looi Chee Kit of the National Institute of Education. All smartphones are equipped with MyDesk, a next-generation mobile learning platform tailored to leverage the capabilities of Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system. MyDesk enables each student to access his or her assignments, relevant websites that contain podcasts, textual material and video clips and educational applications, such as concept mapping, drawing and animating, to practice both self-directed and collaborative learning.
yeuann

1 | CollabFinder Wants To Make Hackathons A Part Of College Life | Co.Design: business ... - 0 views

  • A growing list of schools are turning to the "serendipity engine" to help students find cross-discipline collaborators for passion projects.
  • finding a cross-disciplinary collaboration is tougher--most of us are more likely to head to a meetup or networking event to fish for someone outside of our skill set. That’s fine, but it’s not a very efficient way to find exactly what you’re looking for.
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    Interesting! What if we could do something similar - a website where collaborators can gather from all over the world to work on e-learning strategies and applications?
Ashley Tan

Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Hi... - 2 views

  • The real treasure trove was to be found in the students' innovations. Working together, and often alongside their professors, they came up with far more learning apps for their iPods than anyone—even at Apple—had dreamed possible. Most predictable were uses whereby students downloaded audio archives relevant to their courses—Nobel Prize acceptance speeches by physicists and poets, the McCarthy hearings, famous trials. Almost instantly, students figured out that they could record lectures on their iPods and listen at their leisure.
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      Something to consider when planning for a contest for e-fiesta 2012?
wittyben

30 Trends In Education Technology For 2015 - 0 views

  • Rethinking data in the classroom
  • Adaptive learning algorithms
  • Experimentation with new learning models (including flipped classroom, sync learning, blended learning, etc.)
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  • Teacher self-directed PD, webinars, streams, etc.
  • Focus on learning spaces
  • Design thinking
  • Gamification of content
  • Genius hour, maker hour, collaboration time
  • Workflows
  • YouTube channels, Google Chromecast, AppleTV
  • Google Drive
  • Google
  • Professional Learning Communities
  • Traditional reading lists of truly great literature
  • Pure creativity
  • Self-directed learning
  • Massive in-person education conferences
  • The physical design of most school buildings and universities
  • Memorization of prioritized content that leads to design thinking
  • Gamification-as-grading-system
  • Cloud-based learning
  • Apps like Prezi
  • Moving from one OS to another (e.g., from Android to Windows Phone)
  • Socioeconomic disparity
  • Mobile learning
  • Mobile assessment
  • Mass education publishers
  • Data Teams
  • “21st century learning” as a phrase or single idea
  • MOOCs
  • Increased “instructional hours”
  • Standards-based grading; pass/fail; student retention
  • Pressure on teachers
  • The traditional classroom
  • Whole class processes
  • Flash drives, hard drives, CDs, emailing files
  • Alternative schools/classrooms for special needs students
  • Apple-centric thinking
  • Apps like PowerPoint
  • Cable television, subscription-based content streaming
  • Oversimplifying BYOD thinking
  • “Doing projects”
  • In-app purchase gouging
  • Dropbox
  • Mobilizing non-mobile content
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    Tech in edu trends you might be interested to know...
Ashley Tan

ingentaconnect Conceptions of e-learning and professional development for e-lear... - 0 views

  • A phenomenographic research approach was used to gather the expressed experiences of e-learning and professional development for e-learning held by teachers and support staff from institutions across New Zealand. Five conceptions of e-learning (as tool and equipment; as a facilitator of interaction; as learning; as a reduction in distance; and as a collaborative enterprise) and four conceptions of professional development for e-learning (as training; as opening up possibilities; as collaboration; and as relevant and purposeful) were discovered.
anonymous

planejourney - 1 views

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    PLANE - Pathways for Learning Anywhere, Anytime: A Network for Educators PLANE is an innovative and fun educator community, networking space, and virtual world; providing accredited professional learning, courses, multi-media resources, ICT skills development, e-portfolio, collaborative tools, games-based-learning, and peer coaching.
Ashley Tan

Instructional & Multimedia Designin Angry Birds - 7 views

Here were my preliminary thoughts on incorporating Angry Birds in education: http://ashleytan.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/angry-birds-for-learning/

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Sally Loan

SDL and CoL with ICT by Dr Cheah Horn Mun - 2 views

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    After viewing the video, I understand better of what is Self-directed learning (SDL) and collaborative learning (CoL) means.
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    in CoL, perhaps the tasks have to be such that students are inter-dependent on each other. This would then promotes interaction amongst students. A simple task would end up in a divide and conquer as shared by Dr Cheah.
Pratima Majal

Googling Towards ePortfolios- Educational Collaborators - 1 views

  • a school that implements ePortfolios will mirror the collaborative patterns in academia and industry, where research and development are collaborative, peer-reviewed, and cumulative.  Such schools not only make the necessary evolution from individual training to community learning, but effectively prepare students for the world of knowledge work.
Ashley Tan

Blended learning checklist (PDF) - 5 views

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    For Jason and Sally. This PDF might help with the workshops for blended learning in collaborative classrooms. Couldn't Diigo a PDF from my phone so I had to tweet it first. 
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    thanks for the resources.
Kartini Ishak

5 Ways Twitter Strengthens A School's Learning Community | Connected Principals - 0 views

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    Examples of collaborative and transparent learning using social media at school. 
mazlanhasan

Why The iPad Is a Learning Tool by Sesh Kumar : Learning Solutions Magazine - 1 views

  • as a learning tool, the iPad’s single-screen interface reduces elements of interruption and potentially enhances user orientation to a specific task. An abundance of features can be a disturbance to the cognitive process, and educators often prefer mobile devices without distractive features like messaging and phone calls.
  • Modern educators are voicing the need for learning to be more contextual and engaging. Mobile phones and digital whiteboards add a level of interactivity, but not a lot of computing power, and a laptop is not always convenient.
  • The iPad fills this gap by enabling a host of activities such as referencing, collaborating, and creating content. In an August 2010 Wired.com article, “The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet,” the transformation from open Web browsing to specialized apps was a change driven by the Apple model of mobile computing. The iPad leverages this trend by providing personalized choice of content, a big plus for student users.
Eveleen Er

Technology Integration Matrix - 2 views

  • The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students
  • The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, collaborative, constructive, authentic, and goal directed (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments.
  • Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells.
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    Perhaps we can use this matrix for our workshops as well.
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    Nice find! I particularly like the concept items on the x-axis and they could be used for evaluating e-learning. The vertical concepts are a bit dated.
Ashley Tan

Teaching and Learning with Technology Blog: E-portfolios for Learning - 2 views

  • Google Sites for Education has only recently been considered for portfolio development but offers promising solutions to effectively build learning, assessment, and showcase portfolios including artifact storage, privacy control, collaboration, reflection, and ownership. Although orientation, training, and ongoing support are strongly recommended, Google Sites is easy-to-use and provides built-in tools to insert evidence of extended learning from sources such as social media sites.
Rachel Tan

Advancing Collaborative Learning with ICT: Conception, Cases, and Design - 0 views

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    Chai, Lim, So & Cheah (MOE, 2011)
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