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Sasha Thackaberry

E-learning on the rise - 28 views

www.ccdaily.com/...e-on-rise.aspx

survey results NACCE elearning increasing trend

shared by Sasha Thackaberry on 18 May 14 - No Cached
  • ​E-learning is a growing trend at community colleges, according to survey results from the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE) and Hewlett-Packard (HP).
  • E-learning is already used at 47 percent of community colleges and is expected to increase to 55 percent within two years. The survey of 578 community college faculty was conducted by Eric Liguori, an assistant professor at California State University.
  • Eighty-four percent of respondents believe e-learning is a valuable educational tool.
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  • The top five benefits of e-learning identified by respondents are: It increases access through location and time-flexible learning. More resources and information are available to students 24/7. Teachers can use a wide variety of tools and methods for teaching. It is a good supplement to face-to-face curriculum. It can lead to a richer learning experience if integrated correctly, freeing up class time for more engaging activities. This experience is often referred to as “flipping the classroom.”
  • When asked about the barriers to adopting online learning, faculty cited such concerns as doubt about its capability and reliability, acceptance by students and teachers, and lack of resources, such as time and technical support.
  • Twenty-three percent of respondents said the effectiveness of e-learning depends on the resources available, including the format and features of courses. For example, e-learning is best when teachers are adequately trained to use it, there is high-quality content and curriculum design, it’s used in conjunction with real-world situations and there is opportunity for student-teacher interactions, discussion boards and collaborative projects.
  • “Our survey looked at how community college faculty members are using e-learning as a cost-effective means” to increase completion rates and ensure that “students walk away with credentials that are meaningful in the workplace and that they are prepared for the careers they hope to pursue, including, for many, the start of entrepreneurial endeavors,” said NACCE President and CEO Heather Van Sickle.
Sharin Tebo

Hand-Sketching: Things You Didn't Know Your Doodles Could Accomplish - Smashing Magazine - 55 views

www.smashingmagazine.com/...h-with-hand-sketching-doodling

shared by Sharin Tebo on 17 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • They concluded that sketching stimulates group creativity by enabling individuals to reinterpret their own ideas further and to facilitate other people’s access to those ideas once they are brought to the table.
    • Sharin Tebo
      Sharin Tebo on 17 Dec 14
       
      This is where our Mr. Potato Heads and Christmas Rabbits with a Mushroom blossom in to group creativity...
Matt Renwick

What Reflects a Great School? Not Test Scores - Education Week - 79 views

www.edweek.org/...09routman.h34.html

regie routman education week great schools test scores

shared by Matt Renwick on 21 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • These gains often turn out to be an achievement mirage
  • Three interconnected factors are as essential for whole-school achievement as knowing how to teach well: trust, collaboration, and authenticity.
  • professional learning is ongoing and embedded
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  • They let parents know through social media, a phone call, or an email when a child has done something well
  • observe, coach, and co-teach
    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 21 Oct 14
       
      Teacher Rounds/Peer Observations
  • rich and extensive classroom libraries
  • students choice and easy access to books
  • they partner with teachers to ensure that all resources and texts used in the classroom are well written and are crafted by notable authors
  • the quality of relationships within the school and across the community
Maureen Greenbaum

L3D Philosophy - 36 views

l3d.cs.colorado.edu/philosophy.html

technology Education

shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 17 Jun 13 - Cached
  • uture is not out there to be "discovered": It has to be invented and designed.
  • Learning is a process of knowledge construction, not of knowledge recording or absorption. Learning is knowledge-dependent; people use their existing knowledge to construct new knowledge. Learning is highly tuned to the situation in which it takes place. Learning needs to account for distributed cognition requiring knowledge in the head to combined with knowledge in the world. Learning is affected as much by motivational issues as by cognitive issues.
  • previous notions of a divided lifetime-education followed by work-are no longer tenable.
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  • Professional activity has become so knowledge-intensive and fluid in content that learning has become an integral and inseparable part of "adult" work activities.
  • require educational tools and environments whose primary aim is to help cultivate the desire to learn and create, and not to simply communicate subject matter divorced from meaningful and personalized activity.
  • current uses of technology in education: it is used as an add-on to existing practices rather than a catalyst for fundamentally rethinking what education should be about in the next century
  • information technologies have been used to mechanize old ways of doing business‹rather than fundamentally rethinking the underlying work processes and promoting new ways to create artifacts and knowledge.
  • important challenge is that the ?ld basic skillsº such as reading, writing, and arithmetic, once acquired, were relevant for the duration of a human life; modern ?asic skillsº (tied to rapidly changing technologies) will change over time.
  • We need computational environments to support "new" frameworks for education such as lifelong learning, integration of working and learning, learning on demand, authentic problems, self-directed learning, information contextualized to the task at hand, (intrinsic) motivation, collaborative learning, and organizational learning.
  • Instructionist approaches are not changed by the fact that information is disseminated by an intelligent tutoring system.
  • Lifelong learning is a continuous engagement in acquiring and applying knowledge and skills in the context of authentic, self-directed problems.
  • ubstantial empirical evidence that the chief impediments to learning are not cognitive. It is not that students cannot learn; it is that they are not well motivated to learn.
  • Most of what any individual "knows" today is not in her or his head, but is out in the world (e.g., in other human heads or embedded in media).
  • technology should provide ways to "say the 'right' thing at the 'right' time in the 'right' way
  • challenge of whether we can create learning environments in which learners work hard, not because they have to, but because they want to. We need to alter the perception that serious learning has to be unpleasant rather than personally meaningful, empowering, engaging, and even fun.
  • making information relevant to the task at hand, providing challenges matched to current skills, creating communities (among peers, over the net), and providing access to real practitioners and experts.
  • What "basic skills" are required in a world in which occupational knowledge and skills become obsolete in years rather than decades?
  • reduce the gap between school and workplace learning
  • How can schools (which currently rely on closed-book exams, the solving of given problems, and so forth) be changed so that learners are prepared to function in environments requiring collaboration, creativity, problem framing, and distributed cognition?
  • problem solving in the real world includes problem framing calls into question the practice of asking students to solve mostly given problems.
  • teachers should see themselves not as truth-tellers and oracles, but as coaches, facilitators, learners, and mentors engaging with learners
Deborah Baillesderr

eThemes - 82 views

ethemes.missouri.edu

21st Century Skills child safe online sources

shared by Deborah Baillesderr on 14 Jul 10 - Cached
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  • anonymous on 24 Jan 11
     
    "eThemes is your source for content-rich, kid-safe online resources that will help enhance your teaching and save you time. eThemes provides free, fast access to over 2,500 collections of websites, on topics ranging from Aerodynamics to Zebras and everything in between!"
Michele Rosen

Kahoot! | Game-based blended learning & classroom response system - 133 views

getkahoot.com

shared by Michele Rosen on 31 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • A game-based classroom response system For schools, universities, & businesses
  • Ask thought provoking questions
  • Easy-to-use, inclusive & highly engaging
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  • Students, take control of your own learning
  • Martin Burrett on 31 Oct 13
     
    This has got to be the funkiest instant poll, quiz, response site around. Create questions, quizzes and polls with optional uploaded images for participants to complete in real time from a computer or mobile device. The users access the quiz by using a pin code. The 'question master' gets the data back instantly and it is stored on the site or can be downloaded. This is superb for checking the knowledge of children in your class or that your audience is still awake. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
  • Deborah Baillesderr on 06 Apr 14
     
    A fun online interactive, gamebased way to give quizzes. You can also do discussions and survey. Here is a short youtube video on how to use it, www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfoyDG8HG6A&list=UUaW4ssrzSaQeAZbA3mo73DQ
  • Deborah Baillesderr on 06 Apr 14
     
    An easy and fun way to give quizzes. You can also do discussions and surveys. Here is a short youtube video on how to use it, www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfoyDG8HG6A&list=UUaW4ssrzSaQeAZbA3mo73DQ
Glenda Baker

Is Curation The Future of The Social Web?Scoop.it - 4 views

blog.scoop.it/...n-the-future-of-the-social-web

Curation scoopit

shared by Glenda Baker on 07 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • your “social graph” could help to make sense of the web again, to access not only content, but what is relevant to you. Ben Parr asked if Google+ was a new social media platform that was bringing a innovative way to share clusters of interests.
  • The debate around the need of filters, and how to be sure to find the “right” information
  • if we can be all creators, can we all be curators? Who should be the ones in charge of it? Journalists and educators were both examples of natural curators according to Burt Herman and Guillaume Decugis.
  • Glenda Baker on 07 Aug 11
     
    Discussion about social media, filtering content and the art/skill of curation
Nathan Dybvig

BBC Two - The Classroom Experiment - Episode guide - 63 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...guide

shared by Nathan Dybvig on 03 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Nathan Dybvig on 03 Mar 15
     
    alternatives to hand raising
  • nadinebailey on 03 Mar 15
     
    Is this location restricted? Can't seem to access it in Singapore
Erin Sturgis

Exploratree - Exploratree by FutureLab - 32 views

www.exploratree.org.uk

mindmapping visualization web2.0 tools collaboration writing

shared by Erin Sturgis on 13 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Lee-Anne Patterson on 13 Feb 09
     
    Exploratree is a free web resource where you can access a library of ready-made interactive thinking guides, print them, edit them or make your own. You can share them and work on them in groups too.
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  • Lee-Anne Patterson on 13 Feb 09
     
    great online resource for those that like to do stuff visually
  • Paul Welsh on 02 Mar 09
     
    a free web-based graphic organizer
  • Gerald Carey on 06 Oct 10
     
    An oldie but a goodie. Plenty of graphic organisers here - and modifiable.
  • Wayne Holly on 07 Mar 11
     
    Exploratree is a free graphic organizer creation tool. Exloratree users can use pre-made graphic organizer templates which Exploratree refers to as "thinking guides" or create their own templates. The Exploratree thinking guides can be used online or downloaded and printed for offline use.
Michele Brown

Select and Speak - 62 views

chrome.google.com/...jopfpjmkcfgjpogepmdjmcnihfpokn

text-to-speech accessibility

shared by Michele Brown on 18 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Michele Brown on 18 Oct 12
     
    A Google Chrome extension that uses iSpeech's human sounding text to speech (TTS) to let you select text from almost any website and make it talk.
Michele Brown

Speak It - 53 views

chrome.google.com/...eolalilifpodheeocdmbhehgnkkbak

accessibility text-to-speech

shared by Michele Brown on 18 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Michele Brown on 18 Oct 12
     
    A Google Chrome extension that reads the text on a page. Select text you want to read and listen to it. SpeakIt converts text into speech so you no longer need to read.
Sharin Tebo

Turn snow days into e-learning days with these 6 simple steps | eSchool News | eSchool ... - 40 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...snow-learning-days-486

onlinelearning online learning online digitallearningday Digital eSchoolNews

shared by Sharin Tebo on 29 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • It’s time for e-learning to become common place in public schools, starting with snow days.
    • Sharin Tebo
      Sharin Tebo on 29 Jan 15
       
      Just because students are not at school doesn't mean the learning stops. What instead of mandating kids have internet access at home, there are pre-made activities that don't foresee the dependency on the Internet and instead, can be approved by a parent/guardian signature that such learning activities took place during the day off school for whatever reason.
  • Online learning also helps teachers reduce their stress load. It provides a predictable avenue for educators to budget their curriculum goals with available teaching days. Finally, e-learning days provide students with academic consistency and predictability, eliminating any snow day confusion.
dabennett7

Remix Culture : Center for Social Innovation (CSI) - 12 views

csi.gsb.stanford.edu/remix-culture

shared by dabennett7 on 29 Mar 15 - Cached
  • there’s a war raging over what some now are calling a new art form in the emerging Web 2.0 culture—remix
  • remix is collage, a recombination of existing, reference images or music and video clips from popular digital culture, elements of which are mashed up into something new.
    • dabennett7
      dabennett7 on 29 Mar 15
       
      Does this sound familiar? Common core and even the SBAC assessment are rooted in remix.
  • as long as the remix is significantly altered from the original—should remix be permitted by law
    • dabennett7
      dabennett7 on 29 Mar 15
       
      How will copryright laws evolve for the 21st century? What skills must our students gradate with to prepare them for a world of Remix vs. Copyrights?
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  • Should remix be outlawed as a violation of an artist’s or photographer’s copyrigh
  • “Remix is literacy in the 21st century,” Lessig said. The chief of Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society
    • dabennett7
      dabennett7 on 29 Mar 15
       
      If digital literacy includes remixing, then the skills of citation and attribution are more important than ever.
  • failing to legally protect remixes as original forms of art and expression “will make pirates of our children...We cannot kill this form of expression;
  • Johnson, author of The Invention of Air, a new book about the history of information flows in American and British society, said remix has “deep roots in the Age of Enlightenment and among America’s Founding Fathers.”
    • dabennett7
      dabennett7 on 29 Mar 15
       
      Remix is not new...  but it is easier and more accessible than ever.  A smartphone alone is a remix machine capable of remixing text, audio, video, images and more.  Then with a click you can publish your remix to the world from anywhere!
  • Where do we think innovation and creativity come from
  • Fairey rounded out the talk, citing remix as one of the early 21st century’s most popular forms of free political expression.
  • Remix is all about making references; references are how you establish a point of view in popular culture, and they are crucial to my work as an artist.”
    • dabennett7
      dabennett7 on 29 Mar 15
       
      This is what we as educators are all about... We challenge students to make connections, identify themes, clarify or argue a point of view.  We push them to remix everyday. Are we challenging them to respect the ideas they build their learning upon?
Eric Robertson

Podcast: Mobile and Learning with Dr. Michael Truong - 18 views

bettereducators.com

Mobile learning comprehension

shared by Eric Robertson on 19 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Eric Robertson on 19 Feb 13
     
    Host Eric Robertson's conversation with Michael Truong, Associate Director of UC Merced's Center for Research on Teaching Excellence looks at technology innovations at the UC system's newest campus as an indicator for what is happening nationally. After covering topics ranging from the role of Learning Management Systems to trends in student technology purchases, their conversation focuses on UC Merced's Mobile App Learning Lounge, a resource designed to help students and faculty explore the possibilities of teaching and learning using mobile applications. Truong argues that mobile tools are dramatically enhancing assessment, communication between students and faculty, collaboration activities, and even access to and time spent with learning materials. The conversation concludes with a fascinating discussion about the challenges of teaching in an age of technology driven distraction. Referencing thinkers like Michael Wesch, Sherry Terkle and Nicholas Carr, Robertson and Truong explore how faculty can help students develop critical thinking skills in a "search culture" by moving beyond consuming knowledge to curating and producing it.
Doug Henry

EarSketch - 45 views

earsketch.gatech.edu

programming music digital

shared by Doug Henry on 10 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Doug Henry on 10 Jan 15
     
    EarSketch teaches computer science through music composition and remixing! No prior knowledge of either computer science or music is needed. See "More About EarSketch" below to learn more about the software. I'm a student, how do I get started? Access the latest version of EarSketch here.
Ann Steckel

This finger-mounted camera turns any book into an audiobook - 73 views

www.imaging-resource.com/...rns-any-book-into-an-audiobook

camera turns book audiobook accessibility

shared by Ann Steckel on 16 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Ann Steckel on 16 Mar 15
     
    "This finger-mounted camera turns any book into an audiobook"
matt oconnor

Homepage - ReadWriteThink - 14 views

www.readwritethink.org

resources education teaching

shared by matt oconnor on 03 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Get inspired and make connections with diverse and talented literacy professionals.
    • Kalin Wilburn
      Kalin Wilburn on 19 May 11
       
      I cannot say enough good things about this website. They offer SO many great resources for teachers and students. They have worksheets, lesson plans, and interactive tools for all to enjoy.
    • Christi Johnson
      Christi Johnson on 12 Jul 11
       
      Right on Kalin!
  • April Grybosky on 03 Jul 09
     
    Comics
  • Marc Patton on 29 Jun 12
     
    Here at ReadWriteThink, our mission is to provide educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials.
  • matt oconnor on 28 May 13
     
    liots of edu resources and pd strategies
anonymous

The Internet's Dark Ages - The Atlantic - 51 views

www.theatlantic.com/...409210

archives archiving digital citizenship

shared by anonymous on 13 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • It’s not a place in any reliable sense of the word. It is not a repository. It is not a library. It is a constantly changing patchwork of perpetual nowness.
  • It’s unstable.
  • “Except when it goes, it really goes,” said Jason Scott, an archivist and historian for the Internet Archive. “It’s gone gone. A piece of paper can burn and you can still kind of get something from it. With a hard drive or a URL, when it’s gone, there is just zero recourse.”
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  • The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has a trove of cached web pages going back to 1996.
  • It is not just access to knowledge, but the knowledge itself that’s at stake.
  • Ephemerality is built into the very architecture of the web, which was intended to be a messaging system, not a library.
  • And yet there are no robust mechanisms for libraries and museums to acquire, and thus preserve, digital collections.
  • Vaughan was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in
  • The Internet is now considered a great oracle, a place where information lives and knowledge is stitched together.
Rafael Morales_Gamboa

Prometheus and the Pendulum: Why the University of Michigan Joined edX | The EvoLLLution - 15 views

evolllution.com/...versity-of-michigan-joined-edx

mooc

shared by Rafael Morales_Gamboa on 16 Dec 15 - No Cached
  • This first major wave of experimentation has revealed the magnitude of opportunity to transform lives and push the bounds of discovery
  • personalization at scale
    • Rafael Morales_Gamboa
      Rafael Morales_Gamboa on 16 Dec 15
       
      As commented by Stephen Downes in his talk in Mexico.
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