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Sheri Edwards

ELA-BMS - Info for parents (& other interested parties) - 0 views

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  • Sheri Edwards on 05 Jul 14
     
    "7/16/13: Back in the 2011-12 school year, I piloted an ELA-specific game overlay titled, "The Kingdom of Diddorol." Although the classroom content remained the same -- standards-based, and true to the district's curriculum maps -- delivery, record-keeping, and a few other educational components were changed. The students became players, and they created avatars. Free-choice writing became "adventuring," lessons became "trainings," quizzes and tests were recast as efforts to tame nefarious creatures, and so on."
Sheri Edwards

NH teachers have 'gamified' their classrooms to motivate their students to learn - Pare... - 0 views

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  • Sheri Edwards on 05 Jul 14
     
    ""Within my class, when I introduce an assignment, it's embedded within a storyline," he said."I'm making up a story as I go, often strongly influenced by suggestions from the students. They'll create an entire subplot basically, but, basically it's a reason. The reason you need to take this test is because there is a peril in the kingdom and we need people to go up against this.""
Terry Elliott

Tutor Mentor Institute, LLC - 0 views

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  •    Career Ladder - Helping Inner City Youth Through School to Careers by Daniel F. Bassill
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 13 Dec 15
       
      I am reading Henry Jenkins, et al's latest book, Participatory Culture.  Everything I see here fits what I have read so far.  And also asks the question: how do we get youth to participate in this particular culture--the one that moves them through poverty and into careers.   I will have to make this one of the core questions as I read Participatory Culture.
  • "What Will it Take to Assure that all Youth Born or Living in High Poverty are Starting Jobs and Careers by Age 25?"
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 13 Dec 15
       
      Trying to imagine what this meant to me in my life.  I don't think it was the skills so much that my parents gave me as the attitude to keep on.  
  • the ideas exchanged by participants, and the relationships created, are as important as the learning that takes place.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 13 Dec 15
       
      the "c" in cMOOC stands for 'connectivism', a learning philosophy that argues that connection is the secret sauce the element in the play that makes learning inevitable.  Part of that connection is exchange (what I call reciprocation) and relationship (the fruit of reciprocation).
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  • Last night the hangout focused on a platform called Youth Voices, where youth from around the country are connecting and sharing ideas and reflections. 
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 13 Dec 15
       
      I feel badly that I have not made a better attempt to connect/facilitate between others. That's why I tried to get Daniel and Simon together in a Hangout.  
  • encourage him to use concept mapping tools like Kumu
  • I found one under the topic of "How Can We Reduce Costs and Still Get the Care We Need?"  
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 15
       
      A valuable tool.  Here is a quick response: https://farm1.staticflickr.com/741/23114808664_5298e18c36_b.jpg
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 15
       
  • They could be learning many new skills and habits (see article about passionate employee). 
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 15
       
      This has always been an issue in education--where is the best leverage for improving learning? where the best place to use any resource to get the most value?   Is this too narrow a way of looking at the problem?  too bottom line?  Seems to value "cost" efficiency over all other values?   So...do we need to be putting our magic into tutors/mentors and teachers or into learner/employees?
  • This process could engage youth in thousands of locations, focusing on many complex problems, not just health care or poverty.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 15
       
      I have always been for the idea that learners need to be more responsible for their own learning.  They should begin to be responsible for the problems they generate in their own lives and the ones they see generated around them.  It is the distribution of these problems and the relative inequity of this distribution that is most troubling.  Those who have the greatest opportunity to face the most difficulty problems are also those who are given the least resources to deal with them.  How fair is it to ask children to deal with the large issues of safety, health care, and poverty around them?  
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