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Tania Sheko

What Schools are Really Blocking When They Block Social Media | DMLcentral - 13 views

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shared by Tania Sheko on 30 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • The real issue, of course, is not social media but learning.  Specifically, the fact that our schools are disconnected from young learners and how their learning practices are evolving.  The decision to block social media is inconsistent with how students use social media as a powerful node in their learning network.  Can social media be a distraction in the classroom?  Absolutely.  Will some students access questionable content if given the opportunity?  Yes.  But many students use social media to enhance their learning, expand the reach of the classroom, find the things they ‘need to know,’ and fashion their own personal learning networks.
  • Because social media is such a big part of many students social lives, cultural identities, and informal learning networks schools actually find themselves grappling with social media everyday but often from a defensive posture—reacting to student disputes that play out over social media or policing rather than engaging student’s social media behaviors.
  • Education administrators block social media because they believe it threatens the personal and emotional safety of their students.  Or they believe social media is a distraction that diminishes student engagement and the quality of the learning experience.
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  •   Schools also block social media to prevent students from accessing inappropriate content. 
  • I have often wondered what are schools really blocking when they block social media.
  • We structured the learning to be autonomous, self-directed, creative, collaborative, and networked.
  • The teacher and I had overlooked the fact that YouTube was blocked
  • The teacher believes network literacy is also crucial. 
  • network literacy, that is, “using online sources to network, knowledge-outreach, publicize content, collaborate and innovate.” 
  • By blocking social media schools are also blocking the opportunity:
  • 1)    to teach students about the inventive and powerful ways communities around the world are using social media 2)    for students and teachers to experience the educational potential of social media together 3)    for students to distribute their work with the larger world 4)    for students to reimagine their creative and civic identities in the age of networked media
  • anonymous on 13 Sep 13
     
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anonymous

Mobile Learning for Development | Online and Distance Learning - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 10 Jun 13
     
    This book integrates research, action research, best practice and case studies detailing how some educators have embraced the opportunities afforded by mobile learning. In particular, it brings together a range of scenarios, solutions and discussions relating to mobile learning in development and other resource challenged contexts.
Jeff Johnson

Professional Learning Communities: What Are They And Why Are They Important? - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 30 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Jeff Johnson on 30 Jun 08
     
    In education circles, the term learning community has become commonplace. It is being used to mean any number of things, such as extending classroom practice into the community; bringing community personnel into the school to enhance the curriculum and learning tasks for students; or engaging students, teachers, and administrators simultaneously in learning - to suggest just a few.
Abhijeet Valke

Our Top 10 Learning Tools 2009 | Upside Learning Blog - 1 views

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  • Abhijeet Valke on 24 Sep 09
     
    Find details about Upside Learning Solutions Top 10 Learning Tools of the year 2009.
Abhijeet Valke

50 Years of the Kirkpatrick Model | Upside Learning Blog - 0 views

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shared by Abhijeet Valke on 24 Sep 09 - No Cached
  • In the fifty years since, his thoughts (Reaction, Learning, Behavior, and Results) have gone on to evolve into the legendary Kirkpatrick’s Four Level Evaluation Model and become the basis on which learning & development departments can show the value of training to the business. How has the model evolved over fifty years, is it still relevant? As designers of learning, have we applied the model with Don’s intent?
  • Abhijeet Valke on 24 Sep 09
     
    Read this post from The Upside Learning Solutions Blog sharing details about The 50 Years of the Kirkpatrick Model
Shelly Terrell

The Complete (?) List of Academic (Higher Education and K12) Learning Management System... - 0 views

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  • Shelly Terrell on 24 Jun 12
     
    The following Learning Management System Vendors provide Learning Management Systems that are designed primarily for use in Higher Education and K12 learning although some products may also be used in corporate instructor-led training environments.
Shelly Terrell

Technology and 21st Century Learning | New Learning Institute - 0 views

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  • Shelly Terrell on 13 Jul 12
     
    Technology and 21st Century Learning These films look specifically at the ways that the latest digital and mobile technologies can potentially transform the ways that young people communicate, collaborate, and learn.  
Fred Delventhal

Create Your Own E-Learning - 0 views

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  • Fred Delventhal on 06 May 08
     
    What is the LCDS? The Learning Content Development System (LCDS) is a tool that enables you to create high quality, interactive, online courses. Virtually anyone can publish e-learning courses by completing the easy-to-use LCDS forms that seamlessly generate highly customized content, interactivities, quizzes, games, and assessments-as well as Silverlight-based animations, demos, and other multimedia. Register to download the free LCDS release, then start creating your own e-learning courses today!
Dave Truss

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  • Dave Truss on 20 Jun 08
     
    If you don't keep your mind open to new experiences, you are in the way of learning. If you take more than you give, you are in the way of learning. If you use your voice to tear apart learning metaphors, destroy other people's ideas, or make personal attacks, however passive aggressive, you are in the way of learning.
Zaid Ali Alsagoff

101 Free Learning Tools - 92 views

Dear All, I have updated my list of free learning tools, and made it more visual: Let's explore the idea that there is at least one excellent free learning tool (or site) for every learning probl...

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J Black

The End in Mind » A Post-LMS Manifesto - 0 views

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shared by J Black on 09 May 09 - Cached
  • Technology has and always will be an integral part of what we do to help our students “become.” But helping someone improve, to become a better, more skilled, more knowledgeable, more confident person is not fundamentally a technology problem. It’s a people problem. Or rather, it’s a people opportunity.
  • The problem with one-to-one instruction is that is simply doesn’t scale. Historically, there simply haven’t been enough tutors to go around if our goal is to educate the masses, to help every learner “become.”
  • Through experimental investigation, Bloom found that “the average student under tutoring was about two standard deviations above the average” of students who studied in a traditional classroom setting with 30 other students
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    • J Black
      J Black on 09 May 09
       
      I agree - for example, blogging within a LMS does not allow this, whereas blogging with a known host (Blogger, WP) does help students to connect with others inside and outside of the learning environment/institution.
    • J Black
      J Black on 09 May 09
       
      This is a very profound statement that we should closely look at. Do LMS do nothing more than perpetuate the traditional classroom model?
  • here is, at its very core, a problem with the LMS paradigm. The “M” in “LMS” stands for “management.” This is not insignificant. The word heavily implies that the provider of the LMS, the educational institution, is “managing” student learning. Since the dawn of public education and the praiseworthy societal undertaking “educate the masses,” management has become an integral part of the learning. And this is exactly what we have designed and used LMSs to do—to manage the flow of students through traditional, semester-based courses more efficiently than ever before. The LMS has done exactly what we hired it to do: it has reinforced, facilitated, and perpetuated the traditional classroom model, the same model that Bloom found woefully less effective than one-on-one learning.
  • Because the LMS is primarily a traditional classroom support tool, it is ill-suited to bridge the 2-sigma gap between classroom instruction and personal tutoring.
  • We can extend, expand, enhance, magnify, and amplify the reach and effectiveness of human interaction with technology and communication tools, but the underlying reality is that real people must converse with each other in the process of “becoming.”
  • undamentally human endeavor that requires personal interaction and communication, person to person.
  • n the post-LMS world, we need to worry less about “managing” learners and focus more on helping them connect with other like-minded learners both inside and outside of our institutions.
  • We need to foster in them greater personal accountability, responsibility and autonomy in their pursuit of learning in the broader community of learners. We need to use the communication tools available to us today and the tools that will be invented tomorrow to enable anytime, anywhere, any-scale learning conversations between our students and other learners
  • However, instead of that tutor appearing in the form of an individual human being or in the form of a virtual AI tutor, the tutor will be the crowd.
  • The paradigm—not the technology—is the problem.
  • Building a better, more feature-rich LMS won’t close the 2-sigma gap. We need to utilize technology to better connect people, content, and learning communities to facilitate authentic, personal, individualized learning. What are we waiting for?
    • J Black
      J Black on 09 May 09
       
      Bingo
  • J Black on 09 May 09
     
    A very insightful look into LMS use and student achievment. Highly recommended read for users of BB or Moodle.
John Evans

"If We Didn't Have Today's Schools, Would We Create Today's Schools?" - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 15 May 09 - Cached
    • Sharon Elin
      Sharon Elin on 15 May 09
       
      This analogy of equipping sailing vessels with steam engines works well as an illustration of technology being plugged into traditional classrooms.
  • We need to get the teacher into the game. The teacher needs to get in there and be part of the learning process, actively engaged in solving the problem with the students and learning with the students—not teaching but modeling learning with the students by functioning as an expert learner solving problems and constructing new knowledge with the students.
    • John Evans
      John Evans on 15 May 09
       
      Totally agree with this. Teachers MUST be learning along with their students to continue to expand their professional repetoires.
  • modeling the learning process
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  • we will get the same result if we introduce modern learning technologies in our schools but do not prepare teachers to work in this new learning environment.   If we want to take advantage of these new technologies and the billions we are investing in equipment for our schools, we have to prepare teachers very differently than we have in the past. We have to change our own model of teaching and instruction in higher education.
  • Any organization that adopts a new technology without significant organizational change is doomed to failure. You have to change the organization. You cannot just add the technology. You have to actively work on changing the roles of the teachers, the roles of the students, the roles of the parents, and the roles of the administrators, and start to work toward building new relationships and new structures
  • Trying to introduce new technologies into schools without these changes would be similar to efforts in the sailing industry during the 1800s, when steam engines were installed in wooden sailing ships.
  • We will not get out of our wooden ship schools until we use communication technologies for two-way interactivity that allows us to collaboratively construct the learning experience and new knowledge.
  • Sharon Elin on 15 May 09
     
    CITE Journal Article
  • John Evans on 15 May 09
     
    CITE Journal Article
Rob Jacklin

Facebook Applications for Learning - 2009 - ASTD - 1 views

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  • Rob Jacklin on 19 Jul 09
     
    According to the Educause report 7 Things You should Know About Facebook, "Facebook's structure encour­ages users to view relationships in a broad context of learning, even as affiliations change-from high school to college to gradu­ate school to the workplace. By opening itself to virtually anyone, Facebook has become a model for how communities-of learn­ers, of workers, of any group with a common interest-can come together, define standards for interaction, and collaboratively cre­ate an environment that suits the needs of the members." Indeed, there are countless other articles touting the benefits of Facebook and detailing why we should be using it in our various learning solutions. However, concrete advice on how to use Facebook has proven difficult to find. Check out these applications that represent some of the ideal tools Facebook has to offer online learning.
Abhijeet Valke

Presenting UpsideLMS Version 4.0 | Upside Learning Blog - 1 views

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shared by Abhijeet Valke on 25 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Today we reach a significant milestone as we release UpsideLMS Version 4.0 - a comprehensive, fully-featured learning management system delivered on a robust, scalable and reliable architecture. It’s extremely satisfying for me personally as the chief architect of the system since its first release.  Here I am sharing a quick overview of what’s new in Version 4.0 and I encourage you to take a tour OR a trial and let me know of your thoughts on the latest version of our product.
  • Abhijeet Valke on 25 Sep 09
     
    UpsideLMS Version 4.0 now comes in two variants (that run on the same robust and scalable architecture) - UpsideLMS Professional and UpsideLMS Enterprise. UpsideLMS Professional is designed and packaged specifically for SMBs and Training companies where the need for an LMS is to efficiently manage learning data, large number and churn of users and the need to quickly configure training with a high degree of flexibility. Additionally, it meets the needs of training companies for an easy way to manage multiple customers through a single system that include licensing and branding control and to have an eCommerce module. UpsideLMS Enterprise is for large enterprises that need the LMS to manage learning within the context of an organizational hierarchy, and tight links to a competency framework; they also tend to require solutions that are scalable.
Abhijeet Valke

Learning Solutions for SMBs from Upside Learning Solutions - 0 views

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  • Abhijeet Valke on 25 Sep 09
     
    Learning Management Software for SMBs. We offer Learning Management Software for Small and Medium Business Solutions (SMBs) that best fit your business needs.
Syed Amjad Ali

Why E-Learning - A simple analysis - 10 views

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shared by Syed Amjad Ali on 10 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Syed Amjad Ali on 10 Oct 14
     
    E-Learning industry is witnessing tremendous growth in terms of revenue and application. It has become a synonym for many of the learning requirements in corporates, academics and government institutions. To provide most suitable learning solutions, industry experts exploring and inventing creative methods and approaches such as Custom Learning Solutions, Rapid Learning Solutions, Gamifications, Instructor Led Training programs and blend of these methods and approaches.
learnnovators

The Top Six Things Organizations Must Do to Enable Emergent Learning - 5 views

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  • learnnovators on 12 Jan 16
     
    What is common across the learning modes and methods mentioned? Social learning via an enterprise collaboration platform Mobile enabled learning accessible anytime, anywhere, on any device of the user's choice MOOCs which straddle the line between social learning and e-learning with learner communities While an organization can facilitate these, the onus lies with the users/learners.
Sakshi

7 Useful Tips To Learn Spanish Faster - Scholaradda - 0 views

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  • Sakshi on 31 Jul 20
     
    These tips help you to learn Spanish fast. These are time-saving actionable tips. Anyone can easily apply in their life from day one. Even these tips also help beginners who embark on their journey in Spanish. These are the best Spanish learning tips. Your Spanish learning and speaking will shoot up within a month.
priyanshu1

How to make Learning Exciting? | Swiflearn - 0 views

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  • priyanshu1 on 27 Aug 20
     
    How to make learning exciting? Online learning is a proven way to learn new skills and other things - Swiflearn.
anonymous

July 2 - "Teaching and Learning Weekly" is out | Studying Teaching and Learning | Scoop.it - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 03 Jul 12
     
    An online newspaper that collects together the week's news relating to teaching and learning - particularly for those interested in finding resources and inspirational stories about education.  Read and subscribe free at: http://paper.li/f-1328546324
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