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Jill Bergeron

Do Not Fear the "F" Word: Functions & Formulas - 0 views

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    This presentation explains how to use functions and formulas in Google Sheets.
Jill Bergeron

Getting Started on Google Plus by @davidtedu | Teacher Tech - 0 views

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    A presentation on how to get started with creating a Google+ Profile.
Gayle Cole

Goodbye SmartBoard… Hello Apple TV | Exploring Digital Media in Education - 0 views

  • I use our class accounts for Twitter, blogs, Instagram, Skypeetc almost daily in my classroom. We are engaged in various projects at any given moment and we use these tools as a way to communicate with other classes and people all over the world. Each student in my class has their own iPad which they use at various times during the day to engage with a variety of tools, apps, people (often times using social media), their environment, and each other. What the Apple TV allows us to do is to share what we are doing on our iPads at any given moment with the whole class.
Jill Bergeron

When Kids Engage In "Making," Are They Learning Anything? « Annie Murphy Paul - 0 views

  • In all, self-directed maker activities may have students expending a lot of time and effort—and scarce cognitive resources—on activities that don’t help them learn.
  • cognitive load researchers caution that learning and creating are distinct undertakings, each of which competes with the other for limited mental reserves.
  • The best way to ensure learning, these researchers maintain, is to provide direct instruction: clear, straightforward explanation, offered before any making has begun.
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  • Kapur has found that presenting problems in this seemingly backwards order helps those students learn more deeply and flexibly than subjects who receive direct instruction. Indeed, the teams that generated the greatest number of suboptimal solutions—or failed—learned the most from the exercise.
  • Learners pay especially close attention when the instructor reveals the correct solution, because they have now thought deeply about the problem but have failed themselves to come up with the correct solution.
  • Some tasks, like those concerning basic knowledge or skills, are better suited to direct instruction.
  • We should tell student makers exactly how to perform straightforward tasks, so that they can devote cognitive resources to more complex operations.
  • By applying cognitive load theory to making, we can “unbundle” learning and creating—at least at first—so as to reduce cognitive overload.
  • Instead of asking learners to learn and make at the same time, these two activities can be separated and then pursued sequentially.
  • Once students begin making, we can carefully scaffold their mental activity, allowing them to explore and make choices but always within a framework that supports accurate and effective learning. The scaffolding lightens learners’ cognitive load until they can take over more mental tasks themselves.
  • Fixed stations have “low barriers to entry,” says Fleming; students can walk into the library and immediately engage in the activities set up there, without any instruction or guidance. Fleming’s fixed stations include LEGOs and a take-apart technology area, where students can disassemble old computers and other machines to investigate how they work.
  • Flexible stations, by contrast, are periodically changed, and they involve much more structured guidance from Fleming, who might lead students step by step through an activity, modeling what to do as she goes.
  • “Before I ordered a single piece of equipment [for the maker space], I did a thorough survey of students’ existing interests,” says Fleming. “I also looked for ways that the maker space could supplement areas in which the academic curriculum was thin, or make available to all students activities that had previously been open to only a select group.”
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    Two approaches to making- direct instruction and independent learning. Both have psychological studies backing them.
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