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9 Ways to Encourage the Adult E-Learners » The Rapid eLearning Blog - 0 views

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shared by Blair Peterson on 04 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Real learning isn’t a one-time event (like many elearning courses) where it’s just a matter of getting new information.  Instead it’s an iterative process where you do something, get feedback to evaluate, make adjustments, and do it again.
  • Few people like to fail and then do so publicly.  This is especially true of adult learners.
  • Elearning presents a great opportunity to let people fail (or practice becoming successful) in private and in a safe environment.  Unfortunately a lot of elearning fails to exploit this opportunity with our need to score and track everything.
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  • Typically our grading systems reward successful test taking more than successful learning.
  • Create an environment where they have as much freedom as possible. 
  • If you’re content isn’t relevant to the learners, they’ll just tune out and you’re wasting time and money.
  • If you do need to assess their understanding, perhaps there’s a better way to do so.
Blair Peterson

Education Week Teacher: Teaching the iGeneration: It's About Verbs, Not Tools - 0 views

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shared by Blair Peterson on 23 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Instead of exploring how new digital opportunities can support student-centered inquiry or otherwise enhance existing practices, today’s schools are preparing their teachers to use office automation and productivity tools like Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
  • begins by introducing teachers to ways in which digital tools can be used to encourage higher-order thinking and innovative instruction across the curriculum.
  • Let me suggest that it is time to be done with this unnecessary conflict about 21st-century skills. Let us agree that we need all those forenamed skills, plus lots others, in addition to a deep understanding of history, literature, the arts, geography, civics, the sciences, and foreign languages.
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  • Instead of recognizing that tomorrow’s professions will require workers who are intellectually adept—able to identify bias, manage huge volumes of information, persuade, create, and adapt—teachers and district technology leaders wrongly believe that tomorrow’s professions will require workers who know how to blog, use wikis, or create podcasts.
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      Blair Peterson on 23 Apr 11
       
      This is a key point and one that makes us stop and think about the language we use and our actions.
  • Our teaching should instead focus on the verbs (i.e. skills) students need to master, making it clear to the students (and to the teachers) that there are many tools learners can use to practice and apply them.
  • Blair Peterson on 23 Apr 11
     
    Check out this post by Bill Ferriter. Nice job explaining that "It's about the behaviors that the tools enable." Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
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