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Vicki Davis

Project-Based Learning | Edutopia - 20 views

www.edutopia.org/project-learning

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shared by Vicki Davis on 16 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 16 Apr 10
     
    Excellent information on project based learning with a lot of real world examples from edutopia.
Suzie Nestico

Where is Your Classroom? - 18 views

edreach.us/...where-is-your-classroom

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shared by Suzie Nestico on 03 May 11 - No Cached
  • Suzie Nestico on 03 May 11
     
    "I have access to an incredible wealth of credible resources, and I am given as much time as I need to synthesize information and determine how to best leverage it. I have opportunities to collaborate and learn with, and from, experts all over the world. I have the chance to participate in challenge based learning projects where I work to find solutions to a variety of real world problems, and I do it with individuals in locations that I have never been to." "You may be wondering where this amazing classroom is, and my response is unique given the time of day: at home, the gym, my car, the gas station, a school, a picnic table, a friend's house, my back deck, a restaurant… and that is just a few of today's locations. "
Michael Stevenson

ITFORUM Paper 1 - 0 views

itech1.coe.uga.edu/...paper1.html

shared by Michael Stevenson on 21 Sep 08 - Cached
  • In fact, it is difficult, if not impossible, to isolate the effects of the affordances of technologies.
    • Michael Stevenson
      Michael Stevenson on 21 Sep 08
       
      Sometimes working out exactly what the affordances of technoligies are is the biggest challenge.
  • Rather than using technologies by educational communications specialists to constrain the learners' learning processes through prescribed communications and interactions, the technologies are taken away from the specialists and given to the learner to use as media for representing and expressing what they know.
    • Michael Stevenson
      Michael Stevenson on 21 Sep 08
       
      How much instructional learning is too much? Up to a point, we need it to model good use of ICT, but not to the point where the terms of that use are so constrictive as to discourage multilateral thinking around ICT use.
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  • Cognitive tools actively engage learners in creation of knowledge that reflects their comprehension and conception of the information rather than focusing on the presentation of objective knowledge.
  • Constructivist models of instruction strive to create environments where learners actively participate in the environment in ways that are intended to help them construct their own knowledge, rather than having the teacher interpret the world and insure that students understand the world as they have told them.
  • Computers support reflective thinking, Norman contends, when they enable users to compose new knowledge by adding new representations, modifying old ones, and comparing the two. Those are the purposes of cognitive tools.
  • In other words, when students work WITH computer technology, instead of being controlled by it, they enhance the capabilities of the computer, and the computer enhances their thinking and learning. The results of an intellectual partnership with the computer is that the whole of learning becomes greater than the sum of its parts.
  • Learners should be responsible for recognizing and judging patterns of information and then organizing it, while the computer system should perform calculations, store, and retrieve information.
  • what to do with all of the instructional designers...
Ben Rimes

Project Global Inform - 5 views

project-inform.org

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shared by Ben Rimes on 14 Jan 11 - Cached
  • Ben Rimes on 14 Jan 11
     
    Online project-based learning experience that helps students learn about human right's abuse around the world and then ACT on it. Focus on student activism, in addition to raising general awareness.
Vicki Davis

From Groups to Teams: The Key to Powering up PBL | Edutopia - 8 views

www.edutopia.org/...ct-based-learning-thom-markham

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shared by Vicki Davis on 13 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • But its ultimate benefit is to help students think, learn, and operate in the new century by challenging them at deeper levels. That requires reversing the equation between skills and content: PBL is method for teaching students to find, process, understand, and share information, not a way to extend the industrial landscape of regurgitation and recall.
  • Vicki Davis on 13 Apr 11
     
    Nice article at Edutopia by Thom Markam.My favorite quote about pbl is: "But its ultimate benefit is to help students think, learn, and operate in the new century by challenging them at deeper levels. That requires reversing the equation between skills and content: PBL is method for teaching students to find, process, understand, and share information, not a way to extend the industrial landscape of regurgitation and recall."
  • Vicki Davis on 13 Apr 11
     
    Excellent article about PBL
Lisa M Lane

Online Education - Introducing the Microlecture Format - Open Education - 0 views

www.openeducation.net/...ducing-the-microlecture-format

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shared by Lisa M Lane on 10 Mar 09 - Cached
  • in online education “tiny bursts can teach just as well as traditional lectures when paired with assignments and discussions.” The microlecture format begins with a podcast that introduces a few key terms or a critical concept, then immediately turns the learning environment over to the students.
  • “It’s a framework for knowledge excavation,” Penrose tells Shieh. “We’re going to show you where to dig, we’re going to tell you what you need to be looking for, and we’re going to oversee that process.”
  • It clearly will not work for a course that is designed to feature sustained classroom discussions. And while the concept will work well when an instructor wants to introduce smaller chunks of information, it will likely not work very well when the information is more complex.
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  • 1. List the key concepts you are trying to convey in the 60-minute lecture. That series of phrases will form the core of your microlecture. 2. Write a 15 to 30-second introduction and conclusion. They will provide context for your key concepts. 3. Record these three elements using a microphone and Web camera. (The college information-technology department can provide advice and facilities.) If you want to produce an audio-only lecture, no Webcam is necessary. The finished product should be 60 seconds to three minutes long. 4. Design an assignment to follow the lecture that will direct students to readings or activities that allow them to explore the key concepts. Combined with a written assignment, that should allow students to learn the material. 5. Upload the video and assignment to your course-management software.
    • Lisa M Lane
      Lisa M Lane on 28 Oct 10
       
      This really isn't lecture - it's more like an introduction to guide them toward reading and discussion.
  • the microlecture format similarly requires teachers to get the key elements across in a very short amount of time. Most importantly, it forces educators to think in a new way.
  • Given that it is tough to justify the traditional lecture timeframes
Jackie Gerstein

Information Literacy Resources | November Learning - 29 views

novemberlearning.com/...information-literacy-resources

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shared by Jackie Gerstein on 26 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 26 Nov 10
     
    In a world of information overload, it is vital for students to not only find information but also determine its validity and appropriateness. Our information literacy material demystifies the process of finding and validating online information. These vital skills are needed as students prepare for our global economy.
Ted Sakshaug

The Galileo Project - 8 views

galileo.rice.edu/index.html

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shared by Ted Sakshaug on 29 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 29 Oct 09
     
    The Galileo Project is a source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Our aim is to provide hypertextual information about Galileo and the science of his time to viewers of all ages and levels of expertise. What you read and see here is a beginning -- we will continue to add and update information as it becomes available. We solicit contributions from our colleagues in the history of science and comments on how we can improve the project from everyone, particularly suggestions on how to make this tool more useful in primary and secondary education.
Vicki Davis

AASL_LearningStandards.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

www.ala.org/...AASL_LearningStandards.pdf

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shared by Vicki Davis on 15 Oct 08 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 15 Oct 08
     
    Information from librarian association on their standards 4 learning
  • Vicki Davis on 15 Oct 08
     
    Learning Standards 4 Learning from the AASL - I like these four standards. Wonder about connection though - guess that fits in #3.
Caroline Bucky-Beaver

Footprints in the Digital Age - 0 views

www.ascd.org/...JnWmcWLY1mVcyLJ7JtJ!-633203459

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shared by Caroline Bucky-Beaver on 31 Oct 08 - No Cached
  • It's a consequence of the new Web 2.0 world that these digital footprints—the online portfolios of who we are, what we do, and by association, what we know—are becoming increasingly woven into the fabric of almost every aspect of our lives.
  • A recent National School Boards Association survey (2007) announced that upward of 80 percent of young people who are online are networking and that 70 percent of them are regularly discussing education-related topics.
  • By and large, they do all this creating, publishing, and learning on their own, outside school, because when they enter the classroom, they typically "turn off the lights" (Prensky, 2008).
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  • This may be the first large technological shift in history that's being driven by children.
  • The new literacy means being able to function in and leverage the potential of easy-to-create, collaborative, transparent online groups and networks, which represent a "tectonic shift" in the way we need to think about the world and our place in it (Shirky, 2008). This shift requires us to create engaged learners, not simply knowers, and to reconsider the roles of schools and educators.
  • Publishing content online not only begins the process of becoming "Googleable," it also makes us findable by others who share our passions or interests.
  • Although many students are used to sharing content online, they need to learn how to share within the context of network building. They need to know that publishing has a nobler goal than just readership—and that's engagement.
  • These new realities demand that we prepare students to be educated, sophisticated owners of online spaces.
  • More than ever before, students have the potential to own their own learning—and we have to help them seize that potential. We must help them learn how to identify their passions; build connections to others who share those passions; and communicate, collaborate, and work collectively with these networks.
  • Get Started! Here are five ideas that will help you begin building your own personal learning network. Read blogs related to your passion. Search out topics of interest at http://blogsearch.google.com and see who shares those interests. Participate. If you find bloggers out there who are writing interesting and relevant posts, share your reflections and experiences by commenting on their posts. Use your real name. It's a requisite step to be Googled well. Be prudent, of course, about divulging any personal information that puts you at risk, and guide students in how they can do the same. Start a Facebook page. Educators need to understand the potential of social networking for themselves. Explore Twitter (http://twitter.com), a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables users to exchange short updates of 140 characters or fewer. It may not look like much at first glance, but with Twitter, the network can be at your fingertips.
  • Caroline Bucky-Beaver on 31 Oct 08
     
    Very interesting article regarding our need as educators to teach students how to build their own PLNs. Teachers need to lead by example. He gives quick tips in the end on how to establish a PLN.
Dave Truss

What Makes a Great Teacher? - Magazine - The Atlantic - 27 views

www.theatlantic.com/...2

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shared by Dave Truss on 31 May 10 - Cached
  • Great teachers, he concluded, constantly reevaluate what they are doing. Superstar teachers had four other tendencies in common: they avidly recruited students and their families into the process; they maintained focus, ensuring that everything they did contributed to student learning; they planned exhaustively and purposefully—for the next day or the year ahead—by working backward from the desired outcome; and they worked relentlessly, refusing to surrender to the combined menaces of poverty, bureaucracy, and budgetary shortfalls.
  • one way that great teachers ensure that kids are learning is to frequently check for understanding: Are the kids—all of the kids—following what you are saying? Asking “Does anyone have any questions?” does not work, and it’s a classic rookie mistake. Students are not always the best judges of their own learning. They might understand a line read aloud from a Shakespeare play, but have no idea what happened in the last act.
  • Mr. Taylor follows a very basic lesson plan often referred to by educators as “I do, we do, you do.” He does a problem on the board. Then the whole class does another one the same way. Then all the kids do a problem on their own.
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  • “We see routines so strong that they run virtually without any involvement from the teacher. In fact, for many highly effective teachers, the measure of a well-executed routine is that it continues in the teacher’s absence.”
  • On the front wall, Mr. Taylor has posted different hand signals—if you need to go to the bathroom, you raise a closed hand. To ask or answer a question, you raise an open hand. “This way, I have the information before I even call on you,”
  • Before they leave, all the kids fill out an “exit slip,” which is usually in the form of a problem—one more chance for Mr. Taylor to see how they, and he, are doing.
  • I make it my business to call the parents—and not just for bad things.”
  • Dave Truss on 31 May 10
     
    Great teachers, he concluded, constantly reevaluate what they are doing. Superstar teachers had four other tendencies in common: they avidly recruited students and their families into the process; they maintained focus, ensuring that everything they did contributed to student learning; they planned exhaustively and purposefully-for the next day or the year ahead-by working backward from the desired outcome; and they worked relentlessly, refusing to surrender to the combined menaces of poverty, bureaucracy, and budgetary shortfalls.
Chris Lott

Informal Education - Exploring reflection and learning - 0 views

www.infed.org/...w-inf4.htm

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shared by Chris Lott on 18 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Chris Lott on 18 Sep 09
     
    "Here we look more closely at the process of working with others (or ourselves) to deepen learning. In particular, we explore: emancipating and enlarging experience, the nature of reflection, and learning from experience"
Qien Kuen

A chat with Stephen Downes on OER - Creative Commons - 3 views

creativecommons.org/...17860

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shared by Qien Kuen on 13 Oct 09 - Cached
  • My mission is to make it so that every person around the world has full access to educational opportunities and equal opportunity to make the most of their lives. Open educational resources are an important part of that because, of course, access to open materials enables all of that
  • In order to learn, we have to be active. You have to do things; we have to create things. So learning, whether it occurs in the classroom, in a formal situation or informal situation, it involves not only accessing, but remaking, remixing, repurposing, and rewriting learning resources; the creation of learning resources; the redistribution of them.
Vicki Davis

How Teachers Are Using Technology at Home and in Their Classrooms | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project - 0 views

www.pewinternet.org/...Teachers-and-technology.aspx

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shared by Vicki Davis on 21 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 21 Mar 13
     
    Take time to read this PEW research about teachers and how they are using technology in their classrooms. It is shocking that 73% say they or their students use cell phones to complete assignments. I wish they had separated out this number to know exactly how many let their STUDENTS use their cell phones. To me, this number shows the tide has turned.  Some of the highlights of the research: "Mobile technology has become central to the learning process, with 73% of AP and NWP teachers saying that they and/or their students use their cell phones in the classroom or to complete assignments More than four in ten teachers report the use of e-readers (45%) and tablet computers (43%) in their classrooms or to complete assignments 62% say their school does a "good job" supporting teachers' efforts to bring digital tools into the learning process, and 68% say their school provides formal training in this area Teachers of low income students, however, are much less likely than teachers of the highest income students to use tablet computers (37% v. 56%) or e-readers (41% v. 55%) in their classrooms and assignments Similarly, just over half (52%) of teachers of upper and upper-middle income students say their students use cell phones to look up information in class, compared with 35% of teachers of the lowest income students"
Vicki Davis

Penn-Finn Learnings 2013: A Journey of Inquiry | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/...-finn-learnings-2013-joe-mazza

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shared by Vicki Davis on 26 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 26 Mar 13
     
    I love this trip that is happening in Finland, especially the transparency. I'm going to be "hanging out" with some of those in Finland in the hangout on Wednesday. You can look at what they are doing and how they are traveling and sharing. I think more information-gathering trips should be this transparent. "Doctoral learners from the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education will spend a "week in the schools" -- the schools of Helsinki, that is -- looking at a variety of research areas through the lenses of students, teachers, parents and leaders. These lead learners will use that week to reflect upon where the United States and Finland agree and disagree on core beliefs surrounding teaching, learning and leadership."
Vicki Davis

A Parent's Guide to 21st-Century Learning | Edutopia - 18 views

www.edutopia.org/entury-learning-resource-guide

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shared by Vicki Davis on 02 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 02 Feb 13
     
    An interesting guide from edutopia for parents that you can share with your parents and PTO. They share a lot of examples of 21st century learning and as you work to build support for these things, this is a great document to share. (Full Disclosure: The digiteen project is listed for middle school - after this was listed, we saw such an inundation of schools wanting to do the project, we created the DigiTween project for kids aged 10-12 and Digiteen is still for kids aged 13+.) There are a lot of other great sites including the World Peace game, information on Skype in the Classroom, World of Warcraft in School and the Digital Youth Network. Download and share.
carlos villalobos

educational-origami - home - 3 views

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  • Educational Origami is a blog, and a wiki, about the integration of ICT into the classroom, this is one of the largest challenges that I feel we as teachers face. Marc Prensky coined the now popular and famous phrase "Digital natives and digital immigrants" in his two papers on digital Children. We the teachers are the immigrants and our students are the natives, brought up in a world where there has always been computers and the internet, where information is always instant and varied.I made this wiki on request from Miguel Guhlin after I blogged about matching ICT tools to traditional classroom practice and Bloom's Taxonomy.
  • Reggie Ryan on 30 Mar 08
     
    Nice start for rubrics for 2.0 projects
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  • Diane Hammond on 14 Apr 08
     
    Bloom's digital taxonomy with task rubrics
  • Vicki Davis on 15 Apr 08
     
    Incredible rubrics of all kinds for electronic media based upon Bloom's taxonomy.
  • Vicki Davis on 15 Apr 08
     
    Phenomenal page about integrating ICT into the classroom witha wide variety of rubrics based upon Bloom's taxonomy. You'll see blog journaling, wiki editing, threaded discussion, bookmarking rubrics, search rubrics, podcasting rubrics, audio conferencing, data analysis, and collaborative rubrics. I haven't been through all of these but would love it if we could go through them and work on them. They are in PDF format, but it would be great to share and edit them collaboratively. Very nice website.
  • anonymous on 29 May 08
     
    Educational Origami is a blog, and a wiki, about the integration of ICT into the classroom, this is one of the largest challenges that I feel we as teachers face. Its about 21st Century Learning and 21st Century Teaching. Marc Prensky coined the now popular and famous phrase "Digital natives and digital immigrants" in his two papers on digital Children. We the teachers are the immigrants and our students are the natives, brought up in a world where there has always been computers and the internet, where information is always instant and varied. Our teaching and their learning must reflect this.
  • carlos villalobos on 30 Oct 10
     
    Educational Origami is a blog , and a wiki, about 21st Century Learning and 21st Century Teaching.
Vicki Davis

How mobile technology in education is shaping the next generation of employees | Information Age - 1 views

www.information-age.com/...ping-next-generation-employees

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shared by Vicki Davis on 29 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 29 Sep 15
     
    This article talks about how today's teaching is going to change the business world. Sadly, I think that much of the teaching they CLAIM happens (such as mobile learning and differentiation) may not be as widespread as they think. Either way, this generation is different and I do think they expect to be a truly mobile workforce. Of course it will be interesting to see how the kids who are lucky enough to have personalized learning feel about the workforce.
Vicki Davis

Federation of American Scientists :: The National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies - 0 views

www.fas.org/...nationalcenter.html

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shared by Vicki Davis on 20 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 20 Aug 08
     
    New center for researching information and digital technologies and the impact on learning has been created.
  • Vicki Davis on 20 Aug 08
     
    Comprehensive research on how advanced computer and communication technologies can improve all levels of learning has been funded. This National Center was created and signed into law on August 14, 2008 in the United States. I think that research is a great thing. I they will involve all educators in developing their primary questions. Research based best practices underlie all we do and we do need more. I hope, however, they don't get too hung up on the technology (i.e. wiki, blog) and focus on what technology lets us do.
Vicki Davis

Reflections from the Trenches: K12 Learning 2.0 - 0 views

reflectionsfromthetrenches.blogspot.com/...k12-learning-20.html

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shared by Vicki Davis on 23 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 23 Jun 08
     
    Information about k12 learning 2.0. This is an eXCELLENT best practice to follow. I am very impressed.
  • Vicki Davis on 23 Jun 08
     
    More virtual / wiki enabled professional development work going on. Wow!
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