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Culture, Change and the Individual - The Learner's Way - 0 views
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A recent post by George Couros (author of The innovators Mindset) posed an interesting question about the role that culture plays in shaping the trajectory of an organisation. The traditional wisdom is that culture trumps all but George points to the role that individuals play in shaping and changing culture itself. Is culture perhaps less resilient than we are led to imagine and is it just a consequence of the individuals with the greatest influence? Or, is something else at play here?
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Language Moves for Thinking - The Learner's Way - 1 views
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A good place to start in our efforts to shift the impact that our language choices have is with a focus on the language of thinking. If we believe that all learning is a consequence of thinking, it is natural to select language moves that encourage this from our learners.
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Thinking throughout the Inquiry Cycle - The Learner's Way - 3 views
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If we believe that all learning is a consequence of thinking, then we should consider what types of thinking our learners are likely to benefit from at each phase of their inquiry. This is where the Understanding Map, developed by Ritchhart, Church & Morrison offers useful guidance. By contemplating the demands of each phase of our chosen inquiry model, we can plan for how we might scaffold thinking moves which will enhance our learners' learning.
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In the global pandemic scenario, education has become completely online. Consequently, there has been a huge change in pedagogy.
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Commercialisation - 11 views
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A discussion of the potential consequences of Commercialisation, is is good or bad for our students?
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Ten reasons to teach thinking - 39 views
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The teaching of thinking is a critical endeavour for teachers and one that brings enhanced learning opportunities for students. Unfortunately thinking is not something that we naturally do well and as a consequence it is a skill we need to learn.
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What Do Teachers Do? | Taking Note - 53 views
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teachers were explorers, and I riffed about the changed world, the internet, and the importance of adults helping kids formulate questions, not regurgitate answers.
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Your theories are fine, but we teach Advanced Placement History, and there’s not much time for ‘coaching’ or ‘exploring
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of John W. Gardner’s observation, “All too often, we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”
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Today’s approaches to accountability may also be turning teachers into competitors, not teammates in a shared enterprise
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charter authorizers have made it too easy to get a charter, with predictable consequences
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The schools I am writing about here have strong leadership, a balanced curriculum that includes art and music, and (most often) a strong working relationship with families. Inside these schools you find students and teachers who want to be there.
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Learning and Cognitive Load - An Introduction - 13 views
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What does it mean to have learned something? What occurs within the individual as they are learning and what changes occur as a result of that learning? At some point in the teaching/learning cycle we need to ask this question and ponder our definition of learning and the consequences that follow from our conclusions.
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Online Teaching and Learning: Makin' Whuffie - 0 views
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A sense of community is created where people have a common goal, such as a project, or can benefit from working together. One of those benefits is social capital, as mentioned above. Another is increased learning.
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Members of an online community gain social capital by making thoughtful or helpful contributions.
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Members of an online community gain social capital by making thoughtful or helpful contributions. This can be made tangible by a rating system - some forums have thumbs up or down or voting systems for forum posts.
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Social capital is a natural and logical consequence/reward of a student's (or anyone's) online behavior and contributions, and as such, it is a powerful tool for educators to include in their online courses to ensure student engagement and retention.
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Good points. On Group bookmarks we have votes now. Will be adding more meaningful (ie. taken anti-spam into consideration) contribution attributes to reward user participation!
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A sense of community is created where people have a common goal, such as a project, or can benefit from working together. One of those benefits is social capital, as mentioned above. Another is increased learning.
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If you want to truly learn something, there is nothing like teaching it, so allowing, in fact encouraging, students to help one another solve problems, to teach each other, increases learning for both the helper and the helped.
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A group can gain social capital by being proud of what it creates and getting positive feedback from other groups. A chance for students, whether working as individuals or in collaborative groups, to give feedback to each other is a valuable tool for creating a greater sense of community and engagement toward common goals.
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Bookmarking, Sharing, Highlighting, and Annotating Online Resources:Diigo is a great tool for Educators, because you can form a group, and share bookmarks, which each member can highlight and comment on. Diigo is a fantastic tool for sharing resources and collaborating. Now, they have come out with Diigo for Educators, to make it even better!
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Thoughtful article on "social capital" Educator Tools and Links for Creating Community (and opportunities for students to develop social capital):
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Five Reasons to Use Wordle in the Classroom by Terry Freedman - 0 views
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One of the unfortunate consequences of this is that a lot of teachers I've met do not feel that they have the time to be creative or innovative, in case it affects their reaching of the targets. Personally I disagree with them. I have always taken the view that if you teach in a way that gets the kids excited, enthusiastic and educated (in a broad sense), the targets will look after themselves. But the important thing is that they believe they have to pound away at the targets, in spite of their real desires and aspirations.
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If we want students to become citizens who understand their role as a citizen then we need to teach them to understand and respect the power of questions.
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Without the freedom and courage to ask that paradigm shifting question then progress and innovation would cease to exist and we would become slaves to our past and out-dated solutions.
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The power of just one word can totally change the meaning of something as intrinsic as national identity.
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The more students have an opportunity to read, speak and write the more they are going to understand the power of words.
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The moment students craft words meant not just for the teacher and a few other peers, but for the wider world, is the moment students learn that a misplaced, mispronounced, or misspelled word has consequences far beyond a grade. These authentic learning opportunities are crucial to prepare students for the new realities of a more global and transparent world.
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Students (and teachers) need to understand that everything they do communicates, whether they know what they are communicating or not.
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Once students really figure out who they are and what they stand for then they can more comfortably be themselves. However, an important social skill that many students have difficulty grasping is knowing appropriate social norms in various settings.
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Anyone can be a teacher... if you are alert and willing to learn from others. We need to teach students to be alert and willing to learn from sources other than textbooks. We need to teach students how to create and cultivate learning from a personal learning network, in order to extend the traditional capabilities of school from the limited hours of the school day to the unlimited hours beyond the school day. The informal classroom of life offers lessons far more valuable than the classroom if only we are open to learning from each other each and every day.
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The Answer Sheet - Goodlad on school reform: Are we ignoring lessons of last 50 years? - 28 views
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By John I. Goodlad
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We need to be aware that recent decades of research on cognition reveal hardly any correlation of standardized test scores with a wide range of desired behavioral characteristics such as dependability, ability to work alone and with others, and planning, or with an array of virtues such as honesty, decency, compassion, etc. Employers dissatisfied with employees who studied mathematics and the physical sciences in first-rate universities often call for higher test scores. Is academic development the totality of the purpose of schooling?
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The consequence, of course, was the substantial narrowing of pedagogy to simply drilling for tests. We do not need schools for this. It is training, not education, and access to it can be obtained almost anywhere at any time in this increasingly technological age. That would leave the opportunity to turn schools, whose prime function has long been child care, into centers of pedagogy with the mission of guiding what education is: the process of becoming a unique human being whose responsibility it is to make the most of oneself.
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what schools are for.
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they are to provide whatever educational is not being taken care of in the rest of our society.
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What we must do now nationwide is begin the 20-or-more-year process of creating a new tomorrow.
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They will vary widely in their agendas of change, just as they vary in their cultural settings.
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6 girls arrested in Facebook teacher attack invite - Yahoo! News - 41 views
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Sadler said the teachers targeted by the threatening comments were shocked by the arrests because the six girls were good students. Some held leadership positions while others had top grades.
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"I don't understand their motivation. I don't think they think about the consequences because they're young. They're pretty immature then."
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Children's stresses are so great that they can act out on their frustrations. Parents need to monitor what their kids are doing on communication devices."
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Everyone gets frustrated. This is NOT a reasonable conclusion for being frustrated or stressed. What is evolving in the fabric of our youth that to even consider such actions, let alone make them public, is even possible? There don't appear to be disturbed young girls. The fact that they are likely "normal" in every respect makes this story even more disturbing.
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A senior prank, told through tweets - The Buzz - The Washington Post - 47 views
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I agree with the person who said, "give them a bucket..." I recently told my 10th grade daughter about my senior prank, which couldn't have hurt anyone, and finished by saying that when you do something, be prepared to accept the consequences!
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Writing Center Staff | Wilk - 0 views
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Thesis: understanding the differences and cultural factors will help with some guidelines for communicating with ESL students/tutees, thus leading to more beneficial tutoring sessions.
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communications gap.
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made in the paper.
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in my explanations
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Since the first paragraph identified the problem and stated the solution, the reader needs to understand what is causing the probelm
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cultural factors plague important aspects of ESL communications in the writing center.
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ack of a shared linguistic knowledge base,
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ifferences in the educational, rhetorical, and cultural contexts of their language
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acquisition
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subconsciously incorporating of linguistic forms through reading and listening.
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consciously assimilating rules and forms through study and instruction.
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What causes the communication gap/ differences between what the ESL learner wrote and what the tutor is trying communicate as errors
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Understanding those differences helps in formulating beneficial principles of communication
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rhetorical models are quite diverse
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In some cultures, one would be considered rude or abrupt to announce one's point immediately.
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Socratic dialogue
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The tutor takes on the role of collaborator and is an authoritative figure based on didactic tutoring. Tutors don't need to know all the answers, but it seems this paragraph is saying start by using didactic tutoring and move towards Socratic dialogue.
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didactic context
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So we have a communications gap, how do we begin to communicate with the ESL learner. What tutoring style should we use? Didactic context and communicate collaboratively, but realize that tutor is more of an authoritative figure, telling/informing the tutee of what he/she must do.
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shared assumptions and patterns of language
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apply a principle they have learned to a grammar error.
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communicate collaboratively
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ole as cultural/rhetorical informants as well as collaborators.
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Cultural differences in body language
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attitudes and preferences
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The acceptability of degrees of physical proximity and eye contact differ between cultures.
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Cultural differences in body language (speaking without speaking), attitudes and preferences need to be known so that the tutor and tutee may communicate effectively. Examples of these cultural differences are given: Latin American, Arabic, Asian, and Chinese.
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When I have gone to a new country, such as Zambia and Mexico, I looked up the ways in which to communicate with folks there, forbidden hand gesture, is shaking hands okay. In some culture they kiss each other on the cheek as a greeting. Ignorance towards body language, attitudes, and preferences may drive an eternal wedge between the tutor and tutee. This is a huge part of understanding cultural differences.
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it down first and allow the student to establish comfortable body positioning
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ake body language cues from the writer
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encouraging the student to speak up or ask questions
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This paragraph answers a question Writing Centers, directors and tutors may wonder: Do I have to know everything about every culture in order to communicate effectively? When writing essays it's important to keep in mind questions that may arise from the intended audience.
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The tutor does not need to know everything about every culture, rather keenly observe the tutee, and modify behavior when appropriate.
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utor can foster discourse through slightly modified behavior.
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temptation to address too many issues in one session
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Another issue with tutoring ESL learners: trying to fix everything at once. They are not the same as a native English speaker and cannot be expected to eat, chew and digest everything put in front of them. You need to pick up the steak knife and cut up the steak into manageable pieces.
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Native English speaker vs ESL learner; don't tutor them the same Although this paragraph seems slightly out of place and doesn't move the argument forward, it is a reminder that ESL students are tackling the foreign language and cannot be expected to handle the same workload as native speakers.
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effective communications is best achieved by limiting the topics covered within the session
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English is not the primary language.
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Going back to ESL learners, a part of understanding cultural differences is understanding that they are coming to me for help with their writing-writing which is in a foreign language to them. Understanding prioritizing is part of the solution when tutoring ESL learner, and all learners consequently.
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The driving force behind limiting is prioritizing.
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the primary cultural barrier to communication
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Explaining the differences in mechanics seen in varying languages spoken by other cultures. Patience is key nevertheless.
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So how do tutors not overwhelm the tutees? By prioritizing-what is causing the most issues and go from there.
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Communication barriers lie in the language itself and its attached conversational dialect, transcending into how the ESL learner communicates in their native tongue. * I think this paragraph could be two.
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ack of fluency in conversational dialect
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Close observation is a key to interpreting and dispelling cultural interference.
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Summarizing the last several paragraphs; close observation is the key as well as other possible modifications.
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Summarizing the main points is like the Therefore since we know all of this we can understand the cultural differences between the tutor and ESL tutee and thus eliminate or at least reduce the cultural barriers.
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A continuance of the last paragraph. All of this information presented may help or it may not.
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Critical Thinking: A Necessary Skill in the Age of Spin | Edutopia - 56 views
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Critical thinking reduces the power of advertisers, the unscrupulous and the pretentious, and can neutralize the sway of an unsupported argument. This is a skill most students enjoy learning because they see immediately that it gives them more control.
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People believe stories because they are the ones available.
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we are surrounded by illusions, many of them deliberately created.
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An inability to think critically at an early age can have devastating consequences.
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People may not recognize the significance of their own perceptions.
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It is a social reality that people encourage one another to make important decisions with limited facts
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As teachers, we want our students to value commitment. We want them to one day go into this crazy world of ours owning a sense of commitment. The world will consequently shine brighter.
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Cracking an entrance exam like TEAS is never easy, unless you study tirelessly. However, not all students are created equal, and not all can pass this test on the first try. There are numerous reasons why this happens, but when it does, it can have serious consequences for students.