e-Portfolios: An overview : JISC - 69 views
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But most importantly we are interesed in e-portfolios because there is emerging, often powerful evidence from practitioners and learners of how e-portfolios can promote more profound forms of learning, as well their further potential in supporting for example transition between institutions and stages of education, and in supporting professional development and applications for professional accreditation.
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An e-portfolio is a purposeful aggregation of digital items - ideas, evidence, reflections, feedback etc. which 'presents' a selected audience with evidence of a person's learning and/or ability
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Behind any product, or presentation, lie rich and complex processes of planning, synthesising, sharing, discussing, reflecting, giving, receifing and responding to feedback.
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Changing Rules of the Literacy Club | Angela Maiers Educational Services, Inc. - 68 views
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Aren't we all emergent readers when we encounter new texts and mediums that push the boundaries of genre, form, format, and mode;on and offline?
The Elusive Big Idea - NYTimes.com - 51 views
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If our ideas seem smaller nowadays, it’s not because we are dumber than our forebears but because we just don’t care as much about ideas as they did. In effect, we are living in an increasingly post-idea world — a world in which big, thought-provoking ideas that can’t instantly be monetized are of so little intrinsic value that fewer people are generating them and fewer outlets are disseminating them, the Internet notwithstanding. Bold ideas are almost passé.
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we live in a post-Enlightenment age in which rationality, science, evidence, logical argument and debate have lost the battle in many sectors, and perhaps even in society generally, to superstition, faith, opinion and orthodoxy. While we continue to make giant technological advances, we may be the first generation to have turned back the epochal clock — to have gone backward intellectually from advanced modes of thinking into old modes of belief.
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Post-Enlightenment refers to a style of thinking that no longer deploys the techniques of rational thought. Post-idea refers to thinking that is no longer done, regardless of the style.
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Technology + mentoring helps failing schools achieve - 50 views
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Amid growing pressure on public school districts to improve performance of chronically struggling schools, two nationally recognized education organizations have formed a consortium to offer a research-based approach for transforming these schools into successful learning environments without requiring mass dismissals of staff, school closures or turnover to charters or outside management organizations.
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The new initiative, called SetPoint, pairs classroom technology with intensive coaching to build capacity for sustained change within the local district.
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With the SetPoint process, most staff members remain in their positions and receive intensive coaching and modeling in best instructional practices from experienced principals and school leaders.
The Creativity Killer: Group Discussions - David Sherwin - Life - The Atlantic - 76 views
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Yes, group activity can provide the impetus for better framing of problems, which can lead to original solutions. But creativity is the "end result of many forms of intelligence coming together, and intelligence born out of collaboration and out of networks," to quote one of my co-workers, Robert Fabricant. When we collaborate with different kinds of thinkers, sometimes from different cultures and backgrounds, we individually struggle with ingrained behaviors that reduce our likelihood of manifesting creativity.
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Instead of holding an hour-long meeting with a facilitator at the whiteboard, pen poised to capture ideas called out, what would happen if every person in the room were provided five minutes to generate ideas individually?
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When we lose track of time in group discussion, we are often crafting an enjoyable group experience at the cost of surfacing everyone's unique perspectives and voices. We risk filling the time with consensus, rather than exploring divergent, multi-disciplinary viewpoints. It is in the friction between these views that we explore new patterns of thought.
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Get the Most out of Online Quizzes « classroom2point0 - 156 views
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Unfortunately, life is not multiple choice; it’s a story problem. If we want to prepare our students for the demands of college and the real world, we cannot afford to whittle away their knowledge to a, b, c, d, or e: all of the above. At the same time, our time as teachers is at a premium and very few of us can afford to spend hours grading essay tests.
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Fortunately, the powers that be are aligning in the classroom teacher’s favor, and there are two great tools you can use to reduce your grading time.
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So what does QuizStar have that other sites don’t? My favorite feature of QuizStar by far is the “choose all that apply” option. You can create a
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Comment le Royaume-Uni risque de perdre davantage en ayant triplé les frais u... - 1 views
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Mais le taux d’impayés est récemment grimpé à 45 % au lieu des 28% à 30% prévus lorsque la réforme a été adoptée
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Les opportunités gagnées par le gouvernement étaient claires. L'internalisation d'un coût supplémentaire par les étudiants représentaient des coûts évités en se transformant en actifs financiers sous forme de prêts à très long termes accordés aux étudiants. Le risque est que ces prêts ne soient pas remboursés et qu'ils faillent transformer une partie de ces créances (45%) en charges (pertes sur créances irrécouvrables).
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Le gouvernement a, dans le même temps, réduit de 40 % ses subventions à ces établissements et promis aux étudiants des prêts à taux avantageux, d’une durée maximale de trente ans, garantis par l’Etat
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apprend que le service d’Etat chargé de recouvrer lesdits paiements est assez peu outillé et efficace
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Response: Several Ways to Get the New Year Off to a Good Start -- Part One - Classroom ... - 60 views
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Every day that first week, even in the first meeting, teach something substantive in the curriculum. Make it something that is brand new, not something reviewed from the previous year. Students are hungry for intellectual engagement after a summer off, and they want to think great thoughts and do great works.
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Mix academics with administrative and Get-to-Know-You activities. It should be about 50-50: half engagement with interesting academics, half focused on forms, announcements, or activities meant to build classroom community. Keep the ratio: students will grow impatient and disillusioned if too much time is spent on get-to-know-you activities. It sounds weird, but most students are not looking for continued summer camp experiences so much as they are seeking confidence and engagement.
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choose poems related to growing up or modern culture, or read share the lyrics of powerful songs of any generation.
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Bing in the Classroom will eliminate adverts at no cost to school districts | eSchool N... - 23 views
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Schools are safe havens where children should be able to learn and grow in a supportive atmosphere. At home, parents have the ability to monitor their children’s intake of consumer products by limiting television and internet usage, and helping them engage critically with the content they see. But if we allow advertising in any form in our schools, we run directly counter to the message educational institutions are trying to promote: that these are places of learning, not selling.
ollie-afe-2019: Educational Leadership: The Quest for Quality--article - 2 views
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t also helps them assign the appropriate balance of points in relation to the importance of each target as well as the number of items for each assessed target.
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At first when looking at this test plan, I questioned how an English teacher who gives very few "tests" in favor of application essays would create a test plan. However, then I realized that each of the learning targets is really just a criterion on a rubric. Instead of having a certain number of questions, each category is worth a different weight. That makes the test plan idea make much more sense in my mind.
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minimizing any bias that might distort estimates of student learning.
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Will the users of the results understand them and see the connection to learning?
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Do we read differently on paper than on a screen? - 9 views
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In total, there are more than 180 researchers from 33 different countries participating in the COST-initiated research network E-READ, reading in an age of digital transformation. This network examines the effects and consequences of digital developments in terms of reading.
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It is not a case of "one size fits all," but patterns are beginning to emerge from empirical research into the subject. The length of the text seems to be the most critical factor. If the text is long, needs to be read carefully and perhaps involves making notes, then studies show that many people, including young people such as students, still often prefer a printed book, even if it is available as both an e-book and in electronic formats with options for making notes, enabling the user to search for and highlight the text digitally. This is not the case when it comes to shorter texts.
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When reading long, linear, continuous texts over multiple pages that require a certain amount of concentration, referred to as "Deep Reading," the reader often experiences better concentration and a greater overview when reading from a printed medium compared to a screen. When we are reading from a screen, only one section can be seen at a time and the available reading surface area is limited. If you read a printed medium such as a book, several text areas are available simultaneously and it feels easier to form an overview and make notes in the margins.
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When Everything Clicks | Hidden Brain : NPR - 23 views
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This is a segment from NPR's HIdden Brain about Dr. Martin Levy's use of a clicker, usually used to train dogs, to train surgical students. It's fascinating. Essentially, the argument is made that clickers work so well because it is a form of feedback that does not use any verbal signals - no praise, no reprimand, no "good job," no "not like that." Praise and criticism distract a learner from mastering the skill being taught, making a learner focus instead on pleasing the teacher. With nonverbal feedback, the learner doesn't focus on the teacher but on the skill being taught
100+ Google Tricks That Will Save You Time in School | Online Colleges - 199 views
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Do a timeline search. Use "view:timeline" followed by whatever you are researching to get a timeline for that topic
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Invite others. If you have events on your calendar that you want to invite others to join, just add their email address under Add Guests within the event.
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Use the school year calendar template. Have an easy to use school year calendar through Google Docs by following these instructions.
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Using Diigo in the Classroom - Student Learning with Diigo - 66 views
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Save important websites and access them on any computer. Categorize websites by titles, notes, keyword tags, lists and groups. Search through bookmarks to quickly find desired information. Save a screenshot of a website and see how it has changed over time. Annotate websites with highlighting or virtual "sticky notes." View any annotations made by others on any website visited. Share websites with g
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Extended Learning
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Bookmark Lists
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Need your help!! - 25 views
eLearning faculty please consider taking my survey. It is anonymous, so I won't be able to send a proper thank you. Please know that I will pay your kindness forward to another doctoral student in ...
Response: Advice From The "Book Whisperer," Ed Week Readers & Me About Teaching Reading... - 1 views
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Other ways I encourage these kinds of discussions includes having students choose their own groupings and books for independent book "clubs" and using the Web as a vehicle to create audio and/or video "book trailers."
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K-12 Educators' Reaction and Response to ChatGPT and AI Tools During the 2022-2023 Scho... - 13 views
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