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Sheri Edwards

Actually, practice doesn't always make perfect - new study - The Washington Post - 0 views

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  • They found that how interested the students were in the passage was thirty times more important than how “readable” the passage was.
  • Maybe the right question to ask is: Why do some people decide to practice a lot in the first place? Could it be because their first efforts proved mostly successful?   (That’s a useful reminder to avoid romanticizing the benefits of failure.) Or, again, do they keep at it because they get a kick out of what they’re doing? If that’s true, then practice, at least to some extent, may be just a marker for motivation. Of course, natural ability probably plays a role in fostering both interest and success, and those two variables also affect each other.
  • By contrast, when the hours were logged, and the estimates presumably more reliable, the impact of practice was much diminished. How much? It accounted for a scant 5 percent of the variance in performance. The better the study, in other words, the less of a difference practice made.[1]
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  • What’s true of time on task, then, is true of practice — which isn’t surprising given how closely the two concepts are related.
  • Sheri Edwards on 06 Aug 14
     
    "The question now is what else matters." And there are many possible answers. One is how early in life you were introduced to the activity - which, as the researchers explain, appears to have effects that go beyond how many years of practice you booked. Others include how open you are to collaborating and learning from others, and how much you enjoy the activity."
Sheri Edwards

Gamification in the Classroom: The Right or Wrong Way to Motivate Students? | NEA Today - 0 views

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shared by Sheri Edwards on 05 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Kathy Sierra, a popular technology blogger, author and game developer, believes that incentivizing learning-related behaviors poses risks. Sierra says rewards should be left at the classroom door. She is critical of the way gamification is practiced in the classroom, and believes well-intentioned educators may be missing the mark.
  • “A well-designed game only deploys certain mechanics to support an intrinsically rewarding experience,” Sierra explains. “When you remove that experience but keep the mechanics, you are now working from an entirely different psychology than actual games, and it is one that, in essence, uses mechanics to drive mechanical behaviors.”
  • Matthew Farber is not keen on the term “gamification”
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  • instrinsic game elements like narrative, creativity and collaboration, rather than just badges.
  • What’s missing, Farber says, is a narrative structure that places the student on a “journey,” similar to what the best games do.
  • “The journey is to build mastery,” Farber says. “The better way to gamify is to put students in an inquiry-based or project-based learning experience. Or give them a task in a narrative frame.”
  • create the right balance of challenge and skill, deeper knowledge and high-quality feedback.
  • Try to find what is inherently interesting in a subject and exploit that. It doesn’t matter if students roll their eyes. A good teacher can capture their attention and engage them before they even have a chance to think they aren’t interested
  • Sheri Edwards on 05 Jul 14
     
    "using instrinsic game elements like narrative, creativity and collaboration, rather than just badges."
Sheri Edwards

Games In The Classroom: What the Research Says | MindShift - 2 views

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shared by Sheri Edwards on 28 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • summarizing a bit of the scant research that’s specific to the classroom
  • According to the SRI study, a simulation differs from a game in that it does not employ a points or “currency” based reward system and it doesn’t have level based achievement goals. In addition, simulations have an “underlying model that is based on some real-world behavior.”
  • there’s no need for more commodified motivation
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  • Play is useful because it simulates real life experience — physical, emotional, and/or intellectual — in a safe, iterative and social environment, not because it has winners and losers.
  • The achievement lies in the act of learning and understanding itself.
  • interactive digital tools can offer an efficient means to provide effective contextualized learning experiences.
  • games as most beneficial for “low-performing students,” “students with emotional/behavioral issues,” “student with cognitive or developmental issues.” In other words, students who have been labeled and/or diagnosed because they struggle within the traditional school environment, benefit from game-based approaches
  • Gaming inherently involves systems-thinking which is best taught through collaborative learning.
  • There are connected, networked ways of knowing that will dominate the digital future. Sharing and collaboration go hand-in-hand with integrating non-competitive and non-commodified ways of playing. The way students play and learn today is the way they will work tomorrow.
  • Sheri Edwards on 01 Jul 14
     
    More to consider. Games In The Classroom: What the Research Says | MindShift http://t.co/sn6lHuXAPZ via @MindShiftKQED #clmooc @onewheeljoe
onewheeljoe

What's 'Value Added' About Tech Tools in the Classroom? | DMLcentral - 0 views

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shared by onewheeljoe on 24 Jun 15 - No Cached
  • More than any other aspect of digital texts, this sense of malleability is what I find most exciting as an educator because it helps us expand the definition of what constitutes writing and it reminds us that writing, just like all forms of creation, is a social practice in conversation with others in the world around us.
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      onewheeljoe on 24 Jun 15
       
      If all forms of creation are a social practice how do we facilitate and highlight the social aspects of the creative work we do in #clmooc, a space designed for collaboration and connecting. 
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