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garth nichols

What The Screen Time Experts Do With Their Own Kids | MindShift | KQED News - 2 views

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  • They unplug at family dinner and before bed. They have a family movie night on Fridays, which is an example of the principle Radesky touts in her research, of “joint media engagement,” or simply sharing screen time.
  • But more than just limiting time, says Radesky, “I try to help my older son be aware of the way he reacts to video games or how to interpret information we find online.” For example, she tries to explain how he is being manipulated by games that ask him to make purchases while playing.
  • She sums up her findings from over a decade of research: “As kids and adults watch or use screens, with light shining in their eyes and close to their face, bedtime gets delayed. It takes longer to fall asleep, sleep quality is reduced and total sleep time is decreased.”
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  • No screens in the hour before bed, no screens in the bedroom and no screens as part of the bedtime routine.
  • “You don’t want to look at a screen before bed because it tells your brain to stay awake.”
  • His materials promote the formula 5- 2- 1- 0. That means five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, no more than two hours of screens, one hour of physical activity, and no sugary beverages
  • garth nichols on 09 Feb 18
     
    "They unplug at family dinner and before bed. They have a family movie night on Fridays, which is an example of the principle Radesky touts in her research, of "joint media engagement," or simply sharing screen time."
Derek Doucet

7 Essential Tools for a Flipped Classroom - Getting Smart by Guest Author - classrooms,... - 3 views

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  • 7 Essential Tools for a Flipped Classroom
  • The flipped classroom uses technology to allow students more time to apply knowledge and teachers more time for hands-on education.
  • Google Docs
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  • The following tools are listed from most basic to most sophisticated and can be used alone or in tandem to make flipped classrooms more engaging.
  • Teachem is a timely and valuable resource ideal for teachers interested in a more structured flipped classroom but unwilling to commit to paid or complex programming.
  • YouTube
  • Ideal for first-time flippers
  • Teachem
  • Google Docs have many advantages over traditional word processing programs, including real-time automatic updates visible to all users, a feature that enables robust discussion and sharing.
  • The Flipped Learning Network
  • A social media site open to first-time and experienced flippers, the Flipped Learning Network contains resources for all kinds of flipped classrooms while facilitating discussion, collective problem-solving and peer networking.
  • Camtasia Studio
  • Perhaps the most popular screencasting technology available, Camtasia Studio is now in its eighth incarnation and has remained up-to-date with educational trends
  • Edmodo or Schoology
  • eyond enabling activities fundamental to the flipped classroom, such as video lectures and e-readings, these comprehensive online learning platforms offer educator networks and resources,
  • iscussion and collaboration features, and grading and assessment options.
  • Derek Doucet on 09 Mar 13
     
    7 Essential Tools for a Flipped Classroom - nothing earth shattering but a nicely compiled list. 
garth nichols

A High School in Massachusetts Where the Students Are the Teachers | TIME.com - 0 views

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  • Sam Levin, an alum of Monument who is currently a sophomore at the University of Oxford in England studying biological sciences, started the program in 2010. Frustrated with his public-high-school schedule and realizing that his friends weren’t inspired to learn, Levin complained to his mother about how unhappy he and his classmates were, to which she responded: “Why don’t you just make your own school?” And so he did — albeit in small steps. In ninth grade, Levin started a school-wide garden that was solely cared for by students; some woke up early on Saturdays to work with the plants. The garden is still functioning and serves at-need families in the community. After witnessing the commitment that his classmates had to nurturing something they had created themselves, Levin was convinced that they were capable of putting more time and energy into their studies — as long as it was something they cared about. “I was seeing the exact opposite in school. Kids weren’t even doing the things they needed to do to get credit. There was something at odds with students getting up to work for no credit or money [on the garden] at 7 in the morning, but not wanting to wake up to read or do a science experiment,” says Levin. “I saw the really amazing and powerful things that happened when high school students stepped it up and were excited about something.”
  • The semester is split in half, with the first nine weeks focused on natural and social sciences. Each Monday morning, the students formulate a question with the help of their classmates. For example, “How are plants from different parts of a mountain different from each other?” or “What causes innovation?” The students spend the rest of the week researching the answer and creating a presentation to summarize their findings to share with their classmates at the end of the week for feedback and critique. The students are in charge of keeping themselves on task, creating their research plans and meeting their deadlines.
  • By taking ownership of their learning, the students at Monument are forced to think creatively and capitalize on their own talents in order to excel. The class framework is similar to what will be expected of them in college and in the workforce, when they have to make their own educated and independent decisions.
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  • Still, the project is not without its challenges, and the program continues to evolve. This year was the first time students in the program could receive general credit for the course instead of elective credit. Powell also says it’s not necessarily right for every student. “It is a challenge to think that a teenager can have that much freedom to figure out what they want to study and manage their time,” says Powell. “People are more on board now that they have observed the program, but there are still some skeptics with legitimate reasons, and we are always addressing challenges.”
  • His hope is that the Independent Project will continue to challenge current theories about education, and help teachers and policymakers think more creatively about the best way to help young people learn. Ultimately, that understanding should lead to systemic changes that open up more opportunities for children to get the education that will benefit them the most. “It is one thing to help school by school, and that is how a lot of change happens, but at the same time, the long-term goal and broader ambition is to make changes to the education system,” he says.
  • garth nichols on 02 Apr 13
     
    A different approach to learning via whole school change.
Derek Doucet

Personalize Learning: Put the "Person" in "Personalization" - 2 views

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  • It's time to put the "person" in "personalization" and stop the conversations going in directions that take us off course.
  • It's not about technology. It's not about the test or improving test scores. It's really not about school. It's all about the learner, how they learn best and that what they learn is meaningful and for a purpose.
  • Teachers and learners can work together to develop learning goals and design activities that are authentic and relevant for the learner so they are engaged in learning. Learning has to have a context that learners can grasp and understand.
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  • eachers also think they have to teach like a champion because they are the ones responsible for the learning. Don't you think that this is backwards?
  • When we put the focus on each learner and how they can own and drive their learning, then we see engaged, self-directed learners with agency.
  • This is just the beginning of a new world of learning and it's time to put the "Person" back in "Personalization."
  • They probably don't realize that their digital footprint is actually a "digital tattoo" that can never be removed.
  • If we teach as we taught yesterday,we rob our children of tomorrow.”
  • There are companies that frame "personalized learning" as adaptive learning systems using algorithms to choose the right path for learning. So we're going to end this blog emphasizing learners need to be the ones who choose their path with their teacher guiding the process. It is about encouraging learners to have a voice and choice in their learning. It's happening now all over the world.
  • When we focus on learning and not on curriculum, teachers roles change. We still can teach to standards but let's involve learners in the process and give them a voice so they own the learning.
    • Derek Doucet
      Derek Doucet on 11 Oct 15
       
      "It's about learners having a voice and choice in their learning ... leading to engaged and self-directed learners with agency..."
  • They also need to understand who they are, how they learn best, and how to be global digital citizens.
  • Derek Doucet on 11 Oct 15
     
    A great clarification on what personalized learning is... 
Justin Medved

Twitter Chats - The ins, outs and my top 8 chats - 2 views

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  • Justin Medved on 20 Aug 14
     
    Twitter Chats - The ins, outs and my top 8 chats Educational Twitter Chats are happening all the time on Twitter and as a globally connected educator - I LOVE IT! Every opportunity I can get I involve myself in the 1 hour twitter chats that surface themselves in my twitter feed. It gives me the opportunity to connect and collaborate with like minded educators, network with the best in the business and pick up new and interesting things to use to make me a better educator. PD in the palm of my hands (literally). For those that don't know what I am talking about - let me give you the low-down. Twitter chats take place on twitter at a certain time every week (click here for a complete list of education related twitter chats and their times). All chats use a certain hashtag to discuss a variety of topics with a education related theme. They provide a unique and eye opening opportunity for educators to connect, share and collaborate with others from all over the world. The best part about this virtual staffroom ….. it is FREE!
garth nichols

Using "Think-Time" and "Wait-Time" Skillfully in the Classroom. ERIC Digest. - 2 views

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Wait Time Pause

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  • garth nichols on 14 Mar 16
     
    "when students are given 3 or more seconds of undisturbed "wait-time," there are certain positive outcomes: * The length and correctness of their responses increase. * The number of their "I don't know" and no answer responses decreases. * The number of volunteered, appropriate answers by larger numbers of students greatly increases. * The scores of students on academic achievement tests tend to increase. When teachers wait patiently in silence for 3 or more seconds at appropriate places, positive changes in their own teacher behaviors also occur: * Their questioning strategies tend to be more varied and flexible. * They decrease the quantity and increase the quality and variety of their questions. * They ask additional questions that require more complex information processing and higher-level thinking on the part of students."
Justin Medved

EDpuzzle - A new flipped classroom tool. - 4 views

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  • Justin Medved on 31 Oct 13
     
    "Find a video and use only what you need. Make it to the point. Explain it with your voice Change the audio of the video to explain it with your own teaching approach. Record audio notes at any time to add clarifications, remarks, an introduction, conclusions, you name it. Add quizzes along the video Add questions at any time during the video to check your students' understanding. Get individualized statistics of your students, and check the effectiveness of your lesson."
Justin Medved

Google Scripts - New Visions CloudLab - 1 views

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  • Justin Medved on 05 Apr 14
     
    "Until March 11th, 2014 (the launch of Add-ons) Apps Scripts for Google Sheets were distributed in the "Script Gallery."  The tools below will remain useful for some time to come, as many of them perform functionality still not available - most specifically TRIGGERED EVENTS like form submit or time-based events.  Until the Add-ons framework supports triggers, we encourage users to choose when and where to use the OLD Google Sheets so they can continue to access the script gallery and use our legacy tools.  Use this link to launch yourself a copy of an "old" Google Sheet, where you will be able to access the script gallery.  "
Derek Doucet

How Assessment Can Lead to Deeper Learning | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Here's an illustration of that process:
  • The reflection step in this on-going learning cycle is an essential element where assessment happens.
  • Having students play an active role in this step is distinctive for two reasons:
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  • The assessment process itself helps students develop critical thinking and analysis skills.
  • The process also helps students internalize knowledge, turning what and how they learn into a well of resources they can use in the future.
  • Derek Doucet on 26 Mar 14
     
    A great reminder of why we need to give the keys to the students and let them drive from time to time.
Adam Caplan

The Balancing Act of Screen Time (Long Version) | Beth Holland - 1 views

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edtech iPad screentime

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  • “Today, if I were to lose the devices (iPads) that that my students have,” writes Shawn, “I would mourn the loss not of the technology but of the voices that my students have gained through having them.”
  • “Innovation shouldn’t look like a tablet or a laptop. It should look like a learning environment where students—with teachers at their side— choose their learning targets and aim to hit them.” writes Grant Lichtman (@GrantLichtman)
  • Adam Caplan on 09 Jan 14
     
    Another good discussion on the topic being called "screen time", from Beth Holland (my fav!). 
  • garth nichols on 09 Jan 14
     
    I really liked the idea of what goes into the iPad and not just what it can do... The school has an unconventional take on the iPad's purpose. The devices are not really valued as portable screens or mobile gaming devices. Teachers I talked to seemed uninterested, almost dismissive, of animations and gamelike apps. Instead, the tablets were intended to be used as video cameras, audio recorders, and multimedia notebooks of individual students' creations. The teachers cared most about how the devices could capture moments that told stories about their students' experiences in school. Instead of focusing on what was coming out of the iPad, they were focused on what was going into it. - The Smart Way to Use iPads in the Classroom, April 15, 2013
Derek Doucet

12 Effective Ways To Use Google Drive In Education | Edudemic - 3 views

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edtech SAMR collaboration technology teaching learning

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  • I’d recommend using it as a useful tool for project-based learning where students can collaborate in real-time, hold chats, and even finalize a project from different locations.
    • a_harding
      a_harding on 18 Oct 14
       
      Fantastic applications of Google Drive in the classroom!
  • The other big way I’d recommend trying out Google Drive would be for mind maps. You can create mind maps using a presentation in Google Drive and work on it with others at the same time.
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  • Are you a Google Drive / Google Docs fan? Do you take notes, compose papers, construct spreadsheets, and build presentations in real-time on the web while collaborating with others? I’m not necessarily promoting Google Drive; just merely pointing out a few of the powerful ways the free tool can help you save time and keep you better organized.
    • Derek Doucet
      Derek Doucet on 18 Nov 14
       
      Hey check this out, this could some excellent in class application of drive.
  • Derek Doucet on 18 Nov 14
     
    This is a way that eductors can utilize Google Drive full capabilities in the classroom
  • Marcus Down on 19 Nov 14
     
    I've begun a journey this week where my students and I are collaborating on PE "sportfolios". So, I guess what I am saying, is you can add e-portfolios to the list!
Justin Medved

Skills in Flux - New skills of for the 21st century - 2 views

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  • Justin Medved on 25 Mar 15
     
    "As the economy changes, the skills required to thrive in it change, too," says David Brooks in this New York Times column, "and it takes a while before these new skills are defined and acknowledged." He gives several examples: * Herding cats - Doug Lemov has catalogued the "micro-gestures" of especially effective teachers in his book, Teach Like a Champion 2.0 (Jossey-Bass, 2015). "The master of cat herding," says Brooks, "senses when attention is about to wander, knows how fast to move a diverse group, senses the rhythm between lecturing and class participation, varies the emotional tone. This is a performance skill that surely is relevant beyond education." * Social courage - In today's loosely networked world, this has particular value - the ability to go to a conference, meet a variety of people, invite six of them to lunch afterward, and form long-term friendships with four of them. "People with social courage are extroverted in issuing invitations but introverted in conversation - willing to listen 70 percent of the time," says Brooks. "They build not just contacts but actual friendships by engaging people on multiple levels." * Capturing amorphous trends with a clarifying label - People with this skill can "look at a complex situation, grasp the gist and clarify it by naming what is going on," says Brooks. He quotes Oswald Chambers: "The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance." * Making nonhuman things intuitive to humans - This is what Steve Jobs did so well. * Purpose provision - "Many people go through life overwhelmed by options, afraid of closing off opportunities," says Brooks. But a few have fully cultivated moral passions that can help others choose the one thing they sho
Ryan Archer

What Checking Email All The Time Does To Your Brain - Business Insider - 2 views

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GTD brain email

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  • Ryan Archer on 26 Oct 15
     
    Schedule times to look at your email and find ways to clear the clutter. Your brain will thank you for it and you will be much more efficient.
mmekraus

Educational Leadership:Feedback for Learning:Seven Keys to Effective Feedback - 3 views

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  • Expert coaches uniformly avoid overloading performers with too much or too technical information. They tell the performers one important thing they noticed that, if changed, will likely yield immediate and noticeable improvement ("I was confused about who was talking in the dialogue you wrote in this paragraph"). They don't offer advice until they make sure the performer understands the importance of what they saw.
  • I say "in most cases" to allow for situations like playing a piano piece in a recital. I don't want my teacher or the audience barking out feedback as I perform. That's why it is more precise to say that good feedback is "timely" rather than "immediate."
    • Melissa Jolicoeur
      Melissa Jolicoeur on 17 Oct 15
       
      Interesting thoughts about the nature and speed of feedback. Connecting the ideas of coaching and learning new skills to in classroom learning.
    • Melissa Jolicoeur
      Melissa Jolicoeur on 17 Oct 15
       
      How do you provide feedback to your students? What is your most effective strategy both in terms of benefit to student learning and your own time? 
    • Melissa Jolicoeur
      Melissa Jolicoeur on 17 Oct 15
       
      How do you provide feedback to your students? What is your most effective strategy both in terms of benefit to student learning and your own time? 
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  • eedback is often used to describe all kinds of comments made after the fact, including advice, praise, and evaluation
  • Whether the feedback was in the observable effects or from other people, in every case the information received was not advice,
  • Guidance would be premature; I first need to receive feedback on what I did or didn't do that would warrant such advice.
  • Whether feedback is just there to be grasped or is provided by another person,
  • Formative assessment, consisting of lots of feedback and opportunities to use that feedback, enhances performance and achievement
  • Decades of education research support the idea that by teaching less and providing more feedback, we can produce greater learning
  • Whether feedback is just there to be grasped or is provided by another person, helpful feedback is goal-referenced; tangible and transparent; actionable; user-friendly (specific and personalized); timely; ongoing; and consistent.
  • feedback is information about how we are doing in our efforts to reach a goal.
  • by teaching less and providing more feedback, we can produce greater learning
  • The most ubiquitous form of evaluation, grading, is so much a part of the school landscape that we easily overlook its utter uselessness as actionable feedback.
  • Melissa Jolicoeur on 17 Oct 15
     
    Learning from coaching and learning in other situations to giving feedback in classrooms.
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  • alainarobcon on 17 Oct 15
     
    How to effectively feedback to students
  • Andrew McNiven on 17 Oct 15
     
    Great article to see the value of formative assessment and feedback
  • mmekraus on 17 Oct 15
     
    Useful for all teachers!
  • Ryan Archer on 19 Oct 15
     
    Worth checking out. Worth buying the journal.
garth nichols

Beyond teacher egocentrism: design thinking | Granted, and... - 2 views

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Design education curriculum

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  • As teachers we understandably believe that it is the ‘teaching’ that causes learning. But this is too egocentric a formulation. As I said in my previous post, the learner’s attempts to learn causes all learning.
  • From this viewpoint, the teacher is merely one resource for learning, no different from a book, a peer, an experience, or an experimental result.
  • It is the learner who decides to try to learn (or not) from what happens.
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  • We think like a designer, not like a teacher, when we say: the teacher is just one element in the design. The choice of task, pedagogy, groupings, flow of work, resources, furniture, light, noise level, role of people and text – all of these design elements are arguably as important as the teacher.
  • What are those conditions, in a nutshell? I would highlight the following: Thought-provoking intellectual challenges (inquiries, questions, problems) The challenge has been designed to optimize self-sustaining and productive work by learners, related to a clear and intellectually worthy goal The learners have become reasonably competent in classroom routines that foster productive goal-focused work The challenge cannot be accomplished by a worksheet, checklist or recipe. It requires strategic use of knowledge and skill, creative problem-solving, and critical thinking; and the eliciting of multiple perspectives on how to address the challenge and gauge progress. There is an unambiguous product or performance goal (even if there is ambiguity about how to achieve the goal), supported by clear criteria and standards, thus permitting ongoing student self-assessment and self-adjustment. There is enough feedback within the challenge (and resources) that the work can be maximally self-sustaining and productive. The teacher is therefore freed up to coach for a significant amount of time, permitting personalized feedback and guidance (as well as just-in-time mini-lessons). This coaching role also permits the teacher to determine what is and isn’t working in the challenge, and thus enables the teacher to quickly change gears if the desired learning is not occurring or the process is not working.
  • In other words, it is a poor design for learning that puts all the burden of teaching and processing on the teacher. Then, the teacher can neither coach nor understand what is going on in the minds of learners. Worse, endless teaching, no matter how expert, soon becomes passive and without much meaning to learners who must wait days, sometimes weeks, to get meaningful chances to interact with the content, to try out their ideas on others, and to get the feedback they need.
  • Group-worthy tasks – Focus on central concepts or big ideas that require active meaning-making The challenge itself has ambiguity or limited scaffold and prompting so that student meaning-making and different inferences about the task and how to address it will emerge. Are best accomplished by ensuring that multiple perspectives are found tried out in addressing the task. This not only rewards creative and non-formulaic thought but undercuts the likelihood that one strong student can do all the key work. Provide multiple ways of being competent in the task work and the task process Can only be done well by a group, but are designed to foster both individual and group autonomy. (The teacher’s role as teacher and direction-giver should be minimized to near zero). Demand both individual and group accountability Have clear evaluation criteria
Justin Medved

Outlook for online learning in 2013: online learning comes of age - 1 views

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  • Initially in many institutions the move will be crude pedagogically, with an emphasis on video recording of lectures and flipped classes, or merely increasing the amount of online learning supporting regular classes. Over time, though, as instructors get more experience in hybrid learning, get more instructional design support, and greater pressure from the administration, full course re-design will increase, but major redesigns around hybrid learning may take as long as five years in many institutions. One reason for this slow adoption of re-design is the current lack of appropriate models for hybrid learning that have been tested and evaluated; this will change though as experience grows. Best practice for hybrid learning will emerge, as it did for fully online learning.
  • 10. Expect the unexpected: One year: 100%; Three years: 100%; Five years: 100% These are the monsters lurking in the shadows. In online learning, the only thing you can really be certain of is the uncertainty. These are Donald Rumsfeld’s unknown unknowns, so by definition they are unpredictable or non-forecastable. However, there are also some known unknowns that perhaps we should discuss. (MOOCs are good examples – they were known in 2011, but the likelihood that they would take off in 2012 in the way they did was not known, at least by most pundits.) Here are some possible bogeymen to lie awake worrying about:
  • the privatization of post-secondary education in the USA. Many states are in dire financial trouble. Will this result in some states privatizing their public post-secondary education systems? What price would Alabama State University fetch from a commercial buyer and how would that affect the state’s finances? If some states do decide on privatization, expect online learning to increase – indeed, online learning will likely increase in financially challenged states without privatization, because, rightly or wrongly, it will be seen as cheaper; also expect federal student financial aid to take a hit in the USA as Congress grapples with the deficit. a major Internet player (Apple, Google, Facebook or Amazon) jumps into the online learning market, perhaps in partnership with some elite universities, and takes a major share of the for-credit online market, because of lower costs, quality content, and accreditation from elite universities (but with a different category of degree from their on-campus programs) The US Congress backs publishers and shuts down all publicly funded open educational resources; copyright legislation is tightened on US-based Internet companies making it all but impossible to use educational resources over the Internet for free major power shortages/outages, due to bad weather/a surge in energy prices/political activists (pick your reason) makes online delivery increasingly unreliable during winter quantum computing arrives at a reasonable cost and completely changes the game.
  • Justin Medved on 24 Jan 13
     
    "What's primarily going to drive this move to the centre is not MOOCs but hybrid learning, by which I mean the re-design of courses to integrate the best of online and campus-based teaching. This is being driven by dissatisfaction with very large lecture classes in first and second year university courses, the need for increased productivity/better learning in times of economic austerity, and faculty's increasing familiarity with online learning in supporting regular lecture-based classroom teaching."
Christina Schindler

How to Praise Your Child and Encourage a Growth Mindset | Motion Math - 2 views

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  • How to Praise Your Child and Encourage a Growth Mindset
  • The right kind motivates students to learn.” - Carol Dweck
    • Christina Schindler
      Christina Schindler on 19 Nov 14
       
      Good summary of the research and data that explains the science behind this idea -- a key component of the PD conversation with teachers when discussing how we can implement this as a school-wide tool for communication & feedback 
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  • Being mindful about how you praise your child can help your child foster a growth mindset and boost his or her motivation, resilience and learning
  • Citing specific behaviors such as the amount of time spent or the approach your learner is taking to figure out the task enables the child to connect their actions with results. Additionally, the praise needs to be sincere, otherwise your kid will discredit all praise – insincere and sincere.
    • Christina Schindler
      Christina Schindler on 19 Nov 14
       
      The parent perspective is key part of a meaningful conversation on mindset, especially in the learning environment.  Trying to shift the focus away from marks alone -- towards the effort, energy and experience of learning is significant.  It is also not easy. I've included articles like this as part of the parent communication piece on how we are implementing a growth mindset perspective.  
  • “I’m proud of you for sticking with it and taking the time to understand the concepts you’re trying to learn.”
  • “I noticed you spent a lot of time figuring out your homework – I’m happy that you’re so dedicated. Let’s work together to figure out what you don’t understand.”
  • “When you ask questions to figure out what you’re doing, I appreciate your curiosity.” or “It makes us happy that we can discuss these activities.” – show your child that you value curiosity, intellectually stimulating conversations and the exploration of ideas.
  • Christina Schindler on 19 Nov 14
     
    This is an interesting perspective on the parent voice in the larger conversation about how feedback contributes to a growth mindset. 
David Byrne

How Should Professional Development Change? | Edutopia - 1 views

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professional development disparity Asia North America

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    • David Byrne
      David Byrne on 18 Oct 14
       
      @Cohort21 - Looking at these numbers, I wonder what would happen if we were to spend 7.5 hours together every week!
  • The Shanghai teacher and Singapore teacher ratios of teaching time to collaboration time reveal even larger disparities. The Shanghai teacher reported teaching 15 hours a week and collaborating 7.5 hours a week. The Singapore teacher spends 18 hours teaching and 15 hours collaborating each week. Spending so much time collaborating with other teachers every week is not a reality for U.S. teachers who feel lucky to chat with their colleagues at lunch or in biweekly faculty meetings. The differences in professional development systems do not end here though. In Singapore, teachers are expected to do 100 hours of professional development (paid by the ministry of education) every year. That would be 500 hours in five years. In Shanghai, teachers are expected to do a minimum of 360 hours of professional development every five years -- compare that to the mere 120 hours of professional development that is typically required of U.S. teachers every five years.
garth nichols

http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs184/1102752268498/archive/1122580804441.html - 1 views

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feedback coaching PD cohort21

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  • In my mind, a solid 4 rating means that your adult professional embraces feedback, both formal and informal and has strong systems and processes in place that encourage feedback - things like annual faculty,  parent, and board surveys, intentionally designed evaluation processes for students, faculty, staff and leadership that happen at minimum annually, but even better quarterly, regular audits of programs, curriculum, pedagogy, time and space.  Other good signs that your culture supports feedback might be meetings that end with questions like, "How are we working together as a team/department?" and "What can we do to get better at this work?"  and school leaders who ask their reports with genuine curiosity,  "What can I do to better support your work?"  "What do you think about this idea?" or "How did this meeting go for you?"
  • What if you spent a week "playing anthropologist" with the following question in mind: "What evidence do I see that our adult community has a strong culture of feedback?" 
    • garth nichols
      garth nichols on 23 Oct 15
       
      Love these questions of educators!
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  • pend some time with colleagues. Ask them questions about their classes.  See how many times you hear someone ask questions like: "What do you think about this?"  "Will you come by my class and let me know what you think about this lesson I am teaching?"  "How can I/we do this better?"  Attend meetings with this question in mind.  How receptive are team members to feedback they get in meetings?
  • talk Feedback Without Frustration.  This 15 minute video offers some key habits and practices that designers (and educational leaders in their roles as experience designers) can adopt in order to make feedback more meaningful, especially when presenting a new idea or product and much of which can be applied to feedback - both formal and informal.  A few tips include:taking responsibility for the feedback you are gettinggoing after the kind of feedback you wanthaving a designated facilitator for more significant processeshaving goals for the project that you can use to make the feedback more helpfulnot confusing what you like/don't like with what is good/bad(most importantly) just getting better at talking to each other.
  • garth nichols on 23 Oct 15
     
    For those of us who lead teachers; for those of us who seek feedback from others; and for those of us who want to buid a culture of sharing and feedback, this is a great read!
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Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. - 0 views

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shared by su11armstrong on 23 May 13 - Cached
  • su11armstrong on 23 May 13
     
    Gapminder is an online resource for comparing statistics.  It allows for you to compare human based statistics in a graphical nature and then allows you to animate it through time to see how dynamic statistics really are over a period of 200 years.  This is an amazing tool and could be used in a variety of courses.
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