Teaching in Social and Technological Networks « Connectivism - 10 views
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A teacher/instructor/professor obviously plays numerous roles in a traditional classroom: role model, encourager, supporter, guide, synthesizer.
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dmwentroble on 02 Jun 14and in the elementary classroom, a nurse, guidance counselor, referee, and cheerleader!
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Selecting a textbook, determining and sequencing lecture topics, and planning learning activities, are all undertaken to offer coherence of a subject area. Instructional (or learning) design is a structured method of coherence provision.
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The largely unitary voice of the traditional teacher is fragmented by the limitless conversation opportunities available in networks. When learners have control of the tools of conversation, they also control the conversations in which they choose to engage.
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This cozy comfortable world of outcomes-instruction-assessment alignment exists only in education. In all other areas of life, ambiguity, uncertainty, and unkowns reign.
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clear outcomes are still needed.
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How can we achieve learning targets when the educator is no longer able to control the actions of learners?
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Thoughts, ideas, or messages that the teacher amplifies will generally have a greater probability of being seen by course participants.
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While “curator” carries the stigma of dusty museums, the metaphor is appropriate for teaching and learning. T
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How do individuals make sense of complex information? How do they find their way through a confusing and contradictory range of ideas?
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Instead of being the sole or dominant filter of information, he now shares this task with other methods and individuals.
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Having recently relocated to Alberta, I used Google to gain a sense of my children’s teachers, the social media network in Edmonton, colleagues at work, meetups, democamps, etc.