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Christopher Williams

Julia Kristeva - 5 views

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  • Theories of the body are particularly important for feminists because historically (in the humanities) the body has been associated with the feminine, the female, or woman, and denigrated as weak, immoral, unclean, or decaying.
    • Christopher Williams
      Christopher Williams on 13 Sep 12
       
      Feminism and post-structuralism operate in binaries: good/evil, truth/lie, love/hate, man/not man(woman)
  • Kristeva emphasizes the maternal function and its importance in the development of subjectivity and access to culture and language. While Freud and Lacan maintain that the child enters the social by virtue of the paternal function, specifically paternal threats of castration, Kristeva asks why, if our only motivation for entering the social is fear, more of us aren't psychotic?
  • Kristeva argues that there are three phases of feminism. She rejects the first phase because it seeks universal equality and overlooks sexual differences. She implicitly criticizes Simone de Beauvoir and the rejection of motherhood; rather than reject motherhood Kristeva insists that we need a new discourse of maternity.
Maureen Greenbaum

Do Teachers Need to Relearn How to Learn? - Redefining my role: Teacher as student - 165 views

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shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 09 Jan 12 - No Cached
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  • if a teacher can do a few basic computer skills (format in MS Word, copy and paste, attach a document to an email or upload a photo, and perhaps add a hyperlink) they should be able to transfer that knowledge across various internet programs.
  • Teachers sometimes express surprise when a student can’t write a response to a question that is virtually the same as one they answered the day before simply because it is worded differently. Yet teachers can’t apply what they know about Facebook (or shutterfly, gmail, youtube, etc.) to use edmodo or a wiki? I’m not saying they should be able to master a new program immediately – like anything new it takes time, but they should have the flexibility of thinking to apply what they already know. If teachers can’t transfer their knowledge, how are they going to teach students to do so?
  • Learners are no longer dependent on learning directly from an expert, the information is literally at their fingertips, they just need to know how to access it. And most important, learners of all ages need to be the drivers of their learning. Just like our students, teachers need to seek answers through active exploration. Again, if we are not independent learners, how can we expect our students to be?
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  • Dependent on PD
  • Besides the lack of time and/or motivation, I’m beginning to wonder if teachers really know how to learn new skills independently. We come from a system of education where everything was fed to us. As a student (even through my master’s degree), if I was told I needed to learn something there was a clear process I had to go through to learn it; sign up (and pay) for the right course with the available expert, buy some textbooks, go to class, follow directions, and collect my credits to show that I had learned it. Most PD follows a similar process (although greatly abbreviated). So that is the paradigm that teachers have for their own learning – they feel that they need to be taught something in order to learn it. I’m not sure that they know there is now another way to learn, especially where learning about technology is concerned. But how would they know this new way of learning if it’s rarely been modeled for them? And if this is how they view their own learning, can we really expect them to teach students how to be independent learners?
  • Eric Arbetter on 09 Jan 12
     
    Great insight and reflection on how we learn and how we expect our students to learn.
  • MisterD on 09 Jan 12
     
    Main points are in a slideshow here: http://www.slideshare.net/sdimbert/relearn
Steve Ransom

Why Students Don't Read What is Assigned in Class - YouTube - 7 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 01 Feb 12 - Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 01 Feb 12
     
    A great example of the importance of choice, relevancy, and joy in any literacy program
Daniel Spielmann

How Online Innovators Are Disrupting Education - Jason Orgill and Douglas Hervey - Harvard Business Review - 122 views

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  • flips education on its head
    • Daniel Spielmann
      Daniel Spielmann on 09 Nov 11
  • First, online education isn't the one and only teaching tool.
  • Second, online education integration will help teachers make a more impactful influence on students.
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  • concern — that teachers will become less relevant
  • higher quality education
  • The real problem lies in the effects standardized education has had on a student's internal and external motivation.
  • insufficient money, the teachers' unions, and large classroom size, all relevant issues, are not the root cause of our schools' troubles.
Sarah Schaller Welsh

Freakonomics » Evaluating Teachers: What About Doing it the Old-Fashioned Way? - 88 views

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  • A substantial literature documents large variation in teacher effectiveness at raising student achievement, providing motivation to identify highly effective and ineffective teachers early in their careers. Using data from New York City public schools, we estimate whether subjective evaluations of teacher effectiveness have predictive power for the achievement gains made by teachers’ future students. We find that these subjective evaluations have substantial power, comparable with and complementary to objective measures of teacher effectiveness taken from a teacher’s first year in the classroom.
Roland Gesthuizen

Always Late? Learn to Be On Time and to Stop Making Excuses for Being Late - 1 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 23 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • the first step is to make promptness a conscious priority. "Look at the costs of being late and the payoffs of being on time,"
  • Once you feel motivated to make a change, Morgenstern says the next step is to figure out why you're always late. The reason can usually be classified as either technical or psychological.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 23 Jul 12
     
    "For some people, being on time seems nearly impossible -- no matter how important the event. They're always running out the door in a frenzy, arriving everywhere at least 10 minutes late. If this sounds like you, have you ever wished you could break the pattern?"
Lauren Rosen

C. M. Rubin: The Global Search for Education: More Technology, Please! - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...tion-technology_b_1675040.html

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  • Rotation model is any time students rotate on a fixed schedule between online learning and other modalities for any given course. In the Flex model, student schedules are more fluid and content and instruction are delivered primarily by the Internet. The Self-Blend model is any time students take one or more courses entirely online to supplement their traditional courses. The Enriched-Virtual model involves students dividing their time within each course between attending campus and learning remotely online.
    • Lauren Rosen
      Lauren Rosen on 19 Jul 12
       
      Models for Blended learning
  • unfair that a huge percentage of what teachers have been taught is irrelevant in this learning environment
  • The attraction of blending online learning into schools is that online learning allows for modularity
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  • the teacher was no longer there to "punish them" or "grade them down". Instead the teacher was there to help them reach their goal. This is much more of an environment built around success and motivation versus failure.
  • computers are able to do what computers do well. Humans are freed up to do what humans do best.
  • Assessment needs to be based on where each individual child started and then grew to and finally ended up in a particular year, versus a snapshot once a year view of an entire school
  • Lauren Rosen on 19 Jul 12
     
    Models for blended learning and how it changes the learning environment for students and educators. Discusses what works and what needs to change in our system.
Roland Gesthuizen

There Are No Technology Shortcuts to Good Education « Educational Technology Debate - 73 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 21 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • “At its best, the fascination with ICT as a solution distracts from the real issues. At its worst, ICT is suggested as substitute to solving the real problems, for example, ‘why bother about teachers, when ICT can be the teacher’. This perspective is lethal.”
  • some uses of computers in education can be justified, although with the ever-applicable caution that while technology can augment good schools, it hurts poor schools.
  • Though children are naturally curious, they nevertheless require ongoing guidance and encouragement to persevere in the ascent. Caring supervision from human teachers, parents, and mentors is the only known way of generating motivation for the hours of a school day
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 21 Nov 11
     
    There are no technology shortcuts to good education. For primary and secondary schools that are underperforming or limited in resources, efforts to improve education should focus almost exclusively on better teachers and stronger administrations. Information technology, if used at all, should be targeted for certain, specific uses or limited to well-funded schools whose fundamentals are not in question.
Tonya Thomas

elearn Best Practices & Tips Articles - 45 views

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  • In the Google Age, Information Literacy is Crucial
  • Lights, Camera, Learn!: Five tips for using video in eLearning
  • Improving Motivation in eLearning By Matt Guyan / October 8, 2013
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  • Synchronous Learning: Is there a future? By Martin Sivula / September 26, 2013
  • eLearning and Digital Cultures: A multitudinous open online course By Jeremy Knox / September 24, 2013
  • The Rock Stars of eLearning: An interview with Connie Malamed By Rick Raymer / September 19, 2013
  • The Rock Stars of eLearning: An interview with Karl Kapp By Rick Raymer / September 5, 2013
Tricia Hunt

Learning World Affairs Through Digital Media | Edutopia - 54 views

www.edutopia.org/l-generation-global-kids-video

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    • Tricia Hunt
      Tricia Hunt on 05 Sep 13
       
      motivation is key!
Roland Gesthuizen

The Transformational Potential of Flipped Classrooms : Education Next - 3 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 26 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 26 Aug 13
     
    "the flipped classroom is a form of blended learning in which students learn online at least part of the time while attending a brick-and-mortar school. Either at home or during a homework period at school, students view lessons and lectures online. Time in the classroom, previously reserved for teacher instruction, is spent on what we used to call homework, with teacher assistance as needed. How can this improve student learning? "
David Masuda

My Weekly Reflections: My Weekly Reflections: My Portfolio - 19 views

canvas.uw.edu/...My_Weekly_Reflections

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  • I appreciated this perspective because I feel that one of my challenges in learning a topic is staying focused.  Focus doesn't just entail a conscious selection of important vs irrelevant information/ideas/experiences, but also the ability to persevere on a task when it becomes boring
    • David Masuda
      David Masuda on 07 Apr 14
       
      This is interesting. When learning is "fun", focus is easy. So when is learning NOT fun? I would say it is when you do it for an intrinsic motivator - a test, for example.
  • an important part of learning is sticking with a topic long enough to let it's nuances manifest.
  • my banjo
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  • Is it important to face "drudgery" in lifelong learning.
Susanna Livingston

Four steps to get your classroom management off to a great start Pt2 | Expert Professional Development for teachers in student motivation, student engagement, and classroom managment - 76 views

teacherstraining.com.au/ement-off-to-a-great-start-pt2

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  • Susanna Livingston on 02 Jan 11
     
    Classroom Management- Part 2 of starting the year off right!
Keith Landa

Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching and Technology - 65 views

projects.coe.uga.edu/...index.php

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  • Michael Johnson on 07 Jan 10
     
    A good looking resource on learning theories, etc.
Roland Gesthuizen

Use the FEAR Method to Overcome Your Own Fears - 38 views

lifehacker.com/come-your-own-fears-1479086906

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 09 Dec 13
     
    "Speaking in front of a crowd, giving an important presentation, going to a job interview-they're all stressful and they can trigger anxiety and fear in even the most stalwart people. So how do you beat it back when you need to? One psychologist suggests the FEAR method, or "Focus, Expose, Approach, Rehearse."
Roland Gesthuizen

Public speaking in primary school - 34 views

www.schoolatoz.nsw.edu.au/...lic-speaking-in-primary-school

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 02 Sep 12
     
    "confidence in public speaking is a valuable tool for children to have. "A clear confident speaking voice is an essential life skill that fosters self-esteem and personal confidence,"" "Children need lots of opportunities to prepare and present speeches as well as to listen to and watch others speak."
Elizabeth Resnick

Using "Music Writing" to Trigger Creativity, Awareness and Motivation | Edutopia - 7 views

www.edutopia.org/...gger-creativity-jeffrey-pflaum

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  • Elizabeth Resnick on 12 Apr 12
     
    The Contemplation Writing Project, as I came to call it, uses an innovative form of writing called "Music Writing" to develop intra- and interpersonal communication skills (EI), creative self-expression (journal or therapeutic writing), thinking, character education, identity and values clarification in young people through music, writing, discussion and self-assessments.
Jon Tanner

21st Century Education in New Brunswick, Canada - YouTube - 21 views

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  • Jon Tanner on 04 Nov 13
     
    Good promo video by New Brunswick schools designed to provoke thought and conversation. Particularly notable quotes: "The top ten jobs today didn't exist in 2004." and "Many skills learned in public schools today will be obsolete by graduation." I have some thoughts on this at http://tannervision.blogspot.com/2013/11/new-brunswicks-view-of-21st-century.html
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