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Dennis OConnor

Virtual School Meanderings By Michael Barbour K-12 Certificate Series: Univer... - 5 views

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shared by Dennis OConnor on 30 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Continuing the Certificate Series, where I have been describing and discussing each of the certificates in online teaching that are focused on the K-12 environment. The sixth one I wanted to discuss was the E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate Program at University of Wisconsin-Stout.
  • Dennis OConnor on 30 Aug 11
     
    Michael, Thanks for letting your readers know about our program. I am the advisor for the E--Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate program. I also wrote and teach two of our 5 classes, E-Learning for Educators and the E-Learning Practicum. Our graduate classes are offered by the University of Wisconsin Stout, School of Education. (We are not an extension program.) I'm delighted to be able to talk with those interested in K-12 Virtual Education. I was a public school teacher for 25 years before I went fully online. Working online has been a journey of discovery and a constant reminder of the joys of being a lifetime learner. As you mention we do mix together all kinds of educators in our classes. A typical course will include K-12 classroom teachers, some K-12 online teachers and a good number of community college and university instructors. We also see health educators and some corporate trainers. Folks join us from around the country and the world. It's an eclectic mix of people who all share an interest in teaching online. Our goal is to help people become experienced professional online teachers as a way to expand and grow their careers. To accommodate everyone's interests we have our materials highly differentiated. K-12 teachers have the option of investigating the great resources from iNacol. They are encouraged to build useful quizzes and surveys and to craft discussion prompts as they practice facilitation skills. The topics for all projects are learner selected. We emphasize a practical hands on approach where participants can use what they learn and make right away. The great thing is to see a strong community of practice develop between all kinds of educators. Everyone is richer for it. When it comes to the E-Learning Practicum, I customize each student's experience. I have managed some placements with K-12 Virtual Schools. More often, K-12 teachers take one of two options. Both involve teaching with one of our cooperating
Monica Williams-Mitchell

Harvard Education Letter/learning to question - 0 views

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shared by Monica Williams-Mitchell on 08 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • : “We’re not going to the schools because we don’t even know what to ask.
    • Monica Williams-Mitchell
      Monica Williams-Mitchell on 08 Sep 11
       
      Reminds me of the Ruby Payne workshop -- one of the skills students need is the ability to question effectively.
  • create their own research projects
Barbara Lindsey

Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger and communities of practice - 1 views

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  • Supposing learning is social and comes largely from of our experience of participating in daily life? It was this thought that formed the basis of a significant rethinking of learning theory in the late 1980s and early 1990s by two researchers from very different disciplines - Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger. Their model of situated learning proposed that learning involved a process of engagement in a 'community of practice'. 
  • When looking closely at everyday activity, she has argued, it is clear that 'learning is ubiquitous in ongoing activity, though often unrecognized as such' (Lave 1993: 5).
  • Communities of practice are formed by people who engage in a process of collective learning in a shared domain of human endeavour: a tribe learning to survive, a band of artists seeking new forms of expression, a group of engineers working on similar problems, a clique of pupils defining their identity in the school, a network of surgeons exploring novel techniques, a gathering of first-time managers helping each other cope. In a nutshell: Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly. (Wenger circa 2007)
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  • Over time, this collective learning results in practices that reflect both the pursuit of our enterprises and the attendant social relations. These practices are thus the property of a kind of community created over time by the sustained pursuit of a shared enterprise. It makes sense, therefore to call these kinds of communities communities of practice. (Wenger 1998: 45)
  • The characteristics of communities of practice According to Etienne Wenger (c 2007), three elements are crucial in distinguishing a community of practice from other groups and communities: The domain. A community of practice is is something more than a club of friends or a network of connections between people. 'It has an identity defined by a shared domain of interest. Membership therefore implies a commitment to the domain, and therefore a shared competence that distinguishes members from other people' (op. cit.). The community. 'In pursuing their interest in their domain, members engage in joint activities and discussions, help each other, and share information. They build relationships that enable them to learn from each other' (op. cit.). The practice. 'Members of a community of practice are practitioners. They develop a shared repertoire of resources: experiences, stories, tools, ways of addressing recurring problems—in short a shared practice. This takes time and sustained interaction' (op. cit.).
  • The fact that they are organizing around some particular area of knowledge and activity gives members a sense of joint enterprise and identity. For a community of practice to function it needs to generate and appropriate a shared repertoire of ideas, commitments and memories. It also needs to develop various resources such as tools, documents, routines, vocabulary and symbols that in some way carry the accumulated knowledge of the community.
  • The interactions involved, and the ability to undertake larger or more complex activities and projects though cooperation, bind people together and help to facilitate relationship and trust
  • Rather than looking to learning as the acquisition of certain forms of knowledge, Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger have tried to place it in social relationships – situations of co-participation.
  • It not so much that learners acquire structures or models to understand the world, but they participate in frameworks that that have structure. Learning involves participation in a community of practice. And that participation 'refers not just to local events of engagement in certain activities with certain people, but to a more encompassing process of being active participants in the practices of social communities and constructing identities in relation to these communities' (Wenger 1999: 4).
  • Initially people have to join communities and learn at the periphery. The things they are involved in, the tasks they do may be less key to the community than others.
  • Learning is, thus, not seen as the acquisition of knowledge by individuals so much as a process of social participation. The nature of the situation impacts significantly on the process.
  • What is more, and in contrast with learning as internalization, ‘learning as increasing participation in communities of practice concerns the whole person acting in the world’ (Lave and Wenger 1991: 49). The focus is on the ways in which learning is ‘an evolving, continuously renewed set of relations’ (ibid.: 50). In other words, this is a relational view of the person and learning (see the discussion of selfhood).
  • 'the purpose is not to learn from talk as a substitute for legitimate peripheral participation; it is to learn to talk as a key to legitimate peripheral participation'. This orientation has the definite advantage of drawing attention to the need to understand knowledge and learning in context. However, situated learning depends on two claims: It makes no sense to talk of knowledge that is decontextualized, abstract or general. New knowledge and learning are properly conceived as being located in communities of practice (Tennant 1997: 77).
  • There is a risk, as Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger acknowledge, of romanticizing communities of practice.
  • 'In their eagerness to debunk testing, formal education and formal accreditation, they do not analyse how their omission [of a range of questions and issues] affects power relations, access, public knowledge and public accountability' (Tennant 1997: 79).
  • Perhaps the most helpful of these explorations is that of Barbara Rogoff and her colleagues (2001). They examine the work of an innovative school in Salt Lake City and how teachers, students and parents were able to work together to develop an approach to schooling based around the principle that learning 'occurs through interested participation with other learners'.
  • Learning is in the relationships between people. As McDermott (in Murphy 1999:17) puts it: Learning traditionally gets measured as on the assumption that it is a possession of individuals that can be found inside their heads… [Here] learning is in the relationships between people. Learning is in the conditions that bring people together and organize a point of contact that allows for particular pieces of information to take on a relevance; without the points of contact, without the system of relevancies, there is not learning, and there is little memory. Learning does not belong to individual persons, but to the various conversations of which they are a part.
  • One of the implications for schools, as Barbara Rogoff and her colleagues suggest is that they must prioritize 'instruction that builds on children's interests in a collaborative way'. Such schools need also to be places where 'learning activities are planned by children as well as adults, and where parents and teachers not only foster children's learning but also learn from their own involvement with children' (2001: 3). Their example in this area have particular force as they are derived from actual school practice.
  • learning involves a deepening process of participation in a community of practice
  • Acknowledging that communities of practice affect performance is important in part because of their potential to overcome the inherent problems of a slow-moving traditional hierarchy in a fast-moving virtual economy. Communities also appear to be an effective way for organizations to handle unstructured problems and to share knowledge outside of the traditional structural boundaries. In addition, the community concept is acknowledged to be a means of developing and maintaining long-term organizational memory. These outcomes are an important, yet often unrecognized, supplement to the value that individual members of a community obtain in the form of enriched learning and higher motivation to apply what they learn. (Lesser and Storck 2001)
  • Educators need to reflect on their understanding of what constitutes knowledge and practice. Perhaps one of the most important things to grasp here is the extent to which education involves informed and committed action.
Rajeev Goel

Our Science Fair -- making life easier for your science fair coordinator - 0 views

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web2.0 science fair website technology tools

shared by Rajeev Goel on 13 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Rajeev Goel on 13 Nov 09
     
    This tool gives your school its own free website dedicated to your science fair. The website has several pages, including an online registration page, a photo upload page, and an ordering page for science project supplies.
Dennis OConnor

Jeff Clark - Portfolio Illustrating Patterns in Data - 22 views

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Data visualization infographic infographics twitter 21cif analytics

shared by Dennis OConnor on 29 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Dennis OConnor on 29 Apr 11
     
    This is a tantalizing portfolio page of infographic generators.  As a writing teacher I see many applications. As an information fluency advocate I see a way to understand data that excites the mind. Many of these programs use social media sources to build visual comparisons and patterns.   What a find! 
David Wetzel

7 Real Time Data Online Science Investigations: Project-Based Learning Designed to Deve... - 30 views

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shared by David Wetzel on 27 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • David Wetzel on 27 Jun 11
     
    Students learn how to conduct science investigations in the same manner as scientists, as they learn to analyze sets of online real time data to solve problems.
iupdateyou123

Jobs For Mechanical Engineers - 0 views

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  • iupdateyou123 on 22 Jan 15
     
    Jobs For Mechanical Engineers Industries- Manufacturing / Production / Projects Job Functions- Manufacturing / Production / Maintenance / Packaging Job Location- Delhi / NCR, Gurgaon, Noida Job Eligibility- Any Graduate Vacancies
milesmorales

What You Have To Know About Homeschooling - 1 views

Homeschooling can be a good way for your children to learn, but if they don't have a good teacher, then your homeschooling efforts will be worthless. A good teacher is one of the most important asp...

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chakri_seo

Video conferencing - How it can help reduce your business costs? - 0 views

*Video conferencing can help your business get people virtually at one place at the same time and in an efficient manner. *Where traveling was a necessary part of business before, this has now been...

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qtvtutor

math online - Learn basics of math online with qtutor | Project of ARY Tech, Math onlin... - 0 views

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  • qtvtutor on 19 Jul 17
     
    Math online lessons and homework help | Qtutor offers online practice skills covering preschool through grade 12 maths Math online lessons and math online homework help | Qtutor offers thousands of online maths practice skills. Qtutor provides free Math online help and worksheets. Take our math online courses in Pre-algebra, PSAT, SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT and Geometry.
  • qtvtutor on 19 Jul 17
     
    Math online lessons and math online homework help | Qtutor offers thousands of online maths practice skills. Qtutor provides free Math online help and worksheets. Take our math online courses in Pre-algebra, PSAT, SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT and Geometry.
blueocean22

DevOps Training in Bangalore | DevOps Training and Certification - 0 views

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  • blueocean22 on 18 May 18
     
    Devops is the point of unison and convergence of development, quality assurance ,and operations. The collaborative efforts of the developers and IT Professionals in facilitating an environment where designing ,testing and implementing the software happens at a faster pace and is more reliable and trust worthy. DEVOPS is a business practice and an approach which has a profound impact on the whole IT fraternity . DEVOPS is basically dominated or guided by a certain set of norms or principles 1. It's all about the app end user's experience 2. According to this , developing ,testing and running of software is an integrated process 3. Performance is a discipline 4. It believes in building faster and learning quicker even if one fails 5. Loosely coupled service oriented components 6. Automation of all that can be automated. 7. Monitoring as an enabler and a discipline. The tools for DEVOPS can be categorised based on the layer of automation chosen . For instance-configuration management uses puppet as the frequently used software, continuous integration uses Jenkins and monitoring uses Nagios . These are just some of the few automation layers, there are many more such as revision control system, software configuration management, infrastructure automation etc which have unique and effective software to execute these functions. These tools of DEVOPS are extensively used in getting work done within a shorter span of time without any disruptions. DEVOPS believes in inculcating assiduous practices such as sharing and speaking about the project, collaboration amongst the various departments , feedback loop creations and breaking the ice between the team members belonging to diversified groups. The benefits of DEVOPS such as shorter development cycles, reduced costs , fewer deployment issues and shared responsibilities of developers and IT professionals is something that the whole IT world has witnessed and post this revelation , the demand for DEVOPS architects
manuskyinfo

Oracle Training Institute - 0 views

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  • manuskyinfo on 01 Mar 17
     
    Sky Infotech offers Top 10 Oracle Training, where trainer has corporate skills to make you better professional with 100% placement in Noida. Oracle Apps is a server based technology that is used to develop software that helps you runs your enterprise businesses such as Accounting, Humans Resource, or Financials. But the Oracle Applications Server is the technology that, mostly installs on the server, integrates others software to work together. It can be called Middleware.
nandu reddy dasari

DevOps Online Course - 0 views

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  • keerthi reddy on 05 Apr 17
     
    DevOps is to improve and change the performance for better communication and collaboration .Devops online training classes conducted through experts by onlineitguru.
  • nandu reddy dasari on 16 Jun 17
     
    DevOps Online Training at Onlineitguru is a program and training with experienced faculty. We provide real time projects and job placement assistance. contact 9885991924.
Chris Herbert

McCunications: The power of Diigo - 1 views

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shared by Chris Herbert on 25 Oct 08 - Cached
    • Chris Herbert
      Chris Herbert on 25 Oct 08
       
      Lists can be good containers for specific projects. When does one use a group instead of a list I wonder.
  • But after downloading a Diigo update this morning, I realized I'm just scratching the surface of what you can do with Diigo. For example, my previous blog post on Greenspan's sudden epiphany...well, I posted it direct from Diigo while reading and bookmarking the article. Pretty cool, huh?
    • Chris Herbert
      Chris Herbert on 25 Oct 08
       
      This is pretty cool.
  • Chris Herbert on 25 Oct 08
     
    A teachers example of using Diigo.
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