EDT Diigo Group Summer 2014

"Wherever we are, we'd all like to think our classrooms are "intellectually active" places. Progressive learning (like our 21st Century Model, for example) environments. Highly effective and conducive to student-centered learning. But what does that mean?"

Shows the reach of any single online event.

"Distance Education Student-led facilitation strategies in online discussions"

Some good ideas for those of us who only want or like to teach a hybrid brand of online class.

I took it and I scored 85%. I think it can help weed out some students who should not take an online class.

Please take a look at this video

Great video! I always wondered how to cook my links.

Super helpful and obvious (after the fact!) thanks

Why is curation important? Curation is a life skill and an important part of being digitally literate. Educators need to know how to curate information so they can teach students how they can curate content for research, their interests and passion. As part of this process educators need to encourage students to curate information using techniques that address their own personal learning needs.

I had no idea how many resources were available

"The Post-Lecture Classroom: How Will Students Fare? A new study finds moderate student gains in courses where lectures take place at home and "homework" happens in the classroom. "

Screen distance + brightness/contrast reduction + lighting + glasses

Andragogy

"Less to Pedagogy Among educators, there's much talk of pedagogy, but in institutions of higher education, there should be more talk of andragogy. Andragogy, also called adult learning theory, is the adult version of pedagogy. Adult learners, especially non-traditional college students, will probably gain more from instructors who use principles of andragogy. In college, I learned about four of its assumptions."

And interesting blog post from User Education about the merits of Andragogy and Heutagogy in Mobile Learning

This resource make student feel like they are in a real classroom with this resource.

Welcoming your students to your online class means giving them the information that they need to get started

The evolution of the web from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and now to Web 3.0 can be used a metaphor of how education should also be evolving, as a movement based on the evolution from Education 1.0 to Education 3.0. I discussed this in Schools are doing Education 1.0; talking about doing Education 2.0;...