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studentmumma1

Professional development to enhance teachers' practices in using information and commun... - 12 views

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    Hi All, I found this article to be very pertinent to this weeks content in EDC3100. I hope some of you can benefit as well: ABSTRACT (Copied from Sciencedirect) Technology integration in K-12 classrooms is usually overly teacher-centered and has insufficient impact on students' learning, especially in enhancing students' higher-order cognitive skills. The purpose of this project is to facilitate science teachers' use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as cognitive tools to shift their practices from traditional teacher-centered methods to constructivist, student-centered ones. This paper describes the outcomes and lessons learned from an application of design-based research (DBR) in the implementation and refinement of a teacher professional development (PD) program that is a key component of the overall project. This DBR study involved 25 middle-school science teachers from 24 schools whose implementation of cognitive tools with their students in science classrooms and virtually through a social networking site were observed over four years. A mixed-methodology was utilized to examine the impact of the cognitive tools intervention on teachers' classroom practices and students' development of new literacy skills. Identifying reusable design principles related to technology integration was another focus of the DBR study. The results revealed teachers' positive changes in their classroom practices by gradually allowing students to take control over the use of technology, and positive impact on students' ICT skills and science learning. Design principles for future professional development programs aimed at preparing teachers to adopt a cognitive tools approach are described.
djplaner

Three Applications of Cognitive Science | Pragmatic Education - 0 views

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    English teacher linking research findings from Cognitive Science to his teaching practice.
djplaner

The presence of a cell phone, even if not in use, decreased cognitive performance | Use... - 0 views

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    Summary of some research about the impact of a mobile phone on cognitive performance.
djplaner

Curriculum21 - Annotexting - 2 views

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    Describes an approach to encouraging meta-cognition, deep reading etc from students enable by a range of different ICTs to enable students to collectively analyse annotations on a text.
wilkoo

Technology for positive: Using Technology to Differentiate Instruction - 1 views

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    "One of the major benefits of using technology in the classroom is the ability to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of every student in every lesson. Just as every student grows and develops at different rates, they learn in different ways and at different speeds. Technology makes it possible to pace lessons appropriately for each student's learning level and can be used to promote learning in the multiple intelligences. Below you will find website suggestions that address the different learning styles in your classroom with the help of technology: Verbal-Linguistic These learners enjoy learning through speaking, writing, reading, and listening. In the classroom setting these students shine when given tasks such as taking notes, researching, listening, reading for information, and writing. Websites to encourage learning for Verbal-Linguistic students: 1. http://wordle.net Allow students to express themselves creatively with words 2. http://ed.voicethread.com Capture student voices with audio, text, pictures , and video 3. http://zoho.com- A free online word processor, and presentation tool 4. http://gcast.com- Students can podcast (voice recording) online. 5. http://kerpoof.com - Students can create stories or mini- movies 6. http://www2.shidonni.com- Students create animated stories 7. http://tickatok.com Students can create stories and turn them into a book 8. http://pbskids.org/wordworld A world where words come alive 9. http://readwritethink.org 52 interactive activities related to reading, writing, and speaking 10. http://speakaboos.com Students can read stories online, record their own story and play literacy games Logical-Mathematical These learners love numbers, reasoning, and problem solving. These students enjoy measuring, calculating, and organizing data. In the classroom students will shine when given tasks such as collecting data, conducting experiments, solving proble
djplaner

Algorithmic skin: health-tracking technologies, personal analytics and the biopedagogie... - 2 views

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    Journal paper talking about "digitized health and physical education". "The emergence of digitized health and physical education, or 'eHPE', embeds software algorithms in the organization of health and physical education pedagogies. Particularly with the emergence of wearable and mobile activity trackers, biosensors and personal analytics apps, algorithmic processes have an increasingly powerful part to play in how people learn about their own bodies and health. This article specifically considers the ways in which algorithms are converging with eHPE through the emergence of new health-tracking and biophysical data technologies designed for use in educational settings. The first half of the article provides a conceptual account of how algorithms 'do things' in the social world, and considers how algorithms are interwoven with practices of health tracking. In the second half, three key issues are articulated for further exploration: (1) health tracking as a 'biopedagogy' of bodily optimization based on data-led and algorithmically mediated understandings of the body; (2) health tracking as a form of pleasurable self-surveillance utilizing data analytics technologies to predict future bodily probabilities and (3) the ways that health-tracking produces a body encased in an 'algorithmic skin', connected to a wider 'networked cognitive system'. These developments and issues suggest the need for greater attention to how algorithmic systems are embedded in emerging eHPE technologies and pedagogies."
djplaner

Mind Amplifier: Howard Rheingold And The Value Of Convivial Tools - Forbes - 0 views

  • his is a helpful thought in a society that has placed more attention on the fact of digital technologies (the new iPhone!) than on what we do with them
  • but all technologies, to some degree or another, are enmeshed in what Langdon Winner calls ‘regimes,
  • Design of tools has—as Illich pointed out—been accomplished in the absence of any consideration of their effects on social, cognitive, and political regimes. Designers can be better educated. And so can the users of their tools
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  • The old model of learning—the sage on the stage—is being challenged by cooperative forms of co-learning in which teachers act as facilitators and students use the tools available, from search engines to smartphones, to learn collaboratively, with teachers acting as facilitators
  • The whole notion of meta-cognition, of treating attention as a trainable aspect of everyday thought, is a potential new discipline
  • He is developing tools for “knowledge design” that both help individuals capture and manipulate what they know, but that also help connect individual intelligence to different models and sources of knowledge.
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    Howard Rheingold has written about the use of digital technologies for learning and other tasks. In particular, the possibility that digital technologies can be mind amplifiers. Tools that enhance our ability to think and learn. Something EDC3100 will touch on in Week 3
Shari Kath

Stages of Teacher Development - 1 views

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started by Shari Kath on 03 Mar 13 no follow-up yet
jac19701212

Going SOLO on the journey towards deep learning - 0 views

  • Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes Taxonomy (SOLO)
  • describes the stages of learning that students go through to reach a real depth of understanding on a topic
  • John Hattie’s taxonomy of choice
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  • emerged from in-classroom research
  • progressively more challenging levels of cognitive complexity
  • more simple to understand and apply than Bloom’s
  • Pre-structural
  • Uni-structural
  • Multi-structural
  • Relational
  • Extended abstract
  • You have to progress through the levels and cannot jump straight to deep learning.
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    John Hattie SOLO - Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes
peta82

Signs of a Transhuman Future - The New Technologies that Will Change Human Civilization... - 0 views

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    Ever heard of transhuman? This is the most mind-blowing article you will ever read about the evolution of ICT
Musq

IMAGES | Van Hiele Levels of Geometric Reasoning - 0 views

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    Great breakdown of the Van Hiele model for geometric reasoning, with suggested activities. 
Cynthia Veranova

Tablet Toddler | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - 3 views

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    Technology is inseparable with education including early childhood education. With the use of technology such as laptops, pre-literacy and pre-numeracy lessons are more fun, active, and engaging for the children as it creates different ambience and promotes active learning in the classroom as well as home setting.
Ellen Jacklin

Learning through play - 1 views

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    Learning through play. Social, emotional, cognitive and physical development.
Noel Kibai

Does Social Media Breed Learner Laziness? - 0 views

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    By Shelley Kinash and Jeffrey Brand. As new technologies grow in popularity, the associated cognitive and moral worries, concerns and questions intensify. The current devices of choice are smartphones, tablets and laptops. People primarily use them for texting, social media and massive multi-player online games.
coral0084643

Enhancing Practicing Primary School Teachers' Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Technology - 5 views

This paper describes the frameworks and cognitive tools that have been developed to enhance practising teachers' pedagogical content knowledge in primary school technology education. How we see lea...

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started by coral0084643 on 20 Apr 15 no follow-up yet
aliciawalsh2015

Piaget Cognitive Stages of Development - 0 views

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    interesting read but no necessarily correct
Zeah Lane

Cognition and technology: scaffolding early literacy through ICT - 0 views

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    Good reference for Early Childhood educators
djplaner

The Myth of Learning Styles - 3 views

  • So in claiming that learning styles do not exist, we are not saying that all learners are the same. Rather, we assert that a certain number of dimensions (ability, background knowledge, interest) vary from person to person and are known to affect learning. The emphasis on learning styles, we think, often comes at the cost of attention to these other important dimensions.
  • However, when these tendencies are put to the test under controlled conditions, they make no difference—learning is equivalent whether students learn in the preferred mode or not. A favorite mode of presentation (e.g., visual, auditory, or kinesthetic) often reveals itself to be instead a preference for tasks for which one has high ability and at which one feels successful.
  • However, in order to persuade us to devote the time and energy to adopt a certain kind of differentiated teaching, the burden of proof is on those who argue for the existence of that description of students' cognitive strategies
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  • a good rule of thumb is that we should only bring ideas from the laboratory into our teaching if (1) we are sure that the laboratory phenomena exist under at least some conditions and (2) we understand how to usefully apply these laboratory phenomena to instruction
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      A good rule of thumb to consider when looking at reasons for changing teaching.
  • And Henry L. Roediger and his associates at Washington University in St. Louis have demonstrated the value of testing for learning.
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      Some research that I need to follow up with and ponder how it might be integrated into EDC3100
  • We shouldn't congratulate ourselves for showing a video to engage the visual learners or offering podcasts to the auditory learners
  • we should realize that the value of the video or audio will be determined by how it suits the content that we are asking students to learn and the background knowledge, interests, and abilities that they bring to
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    Good overview of what is wrong with learning styles.
nickyrehner84

What Is a Schema? - Psychology - About.com - 1 views

  • A schema is a cognitive framework or concept that helps organize and interpret information. Schemas can be useful because they allow us to take shortcuts in interpreting the vast amount of information that is available in our environment. However, these mental frameworks also cause us to exclude pertinent information to instead focus only on things that confirm our pre-existing beliefs and ideas. Schemas can contribute to stereotypes and make it difficult to retain new information that does not conform to our established ideas about the world.
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      interesting
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    Good find from Anna, a bit more on schema.
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    Good find from Anna, a bit more on schema.
philipamck

McManis_YC0512.pdf - 2 views

  • computer use supports and increases young children’s skills in the social, cognitive, language, literacy, writing, and mathematics realms.
  • They share and help one another, ask for and provide information and explanations, and collaborate to solve problems
  • Adult guidance for children using computers is associated with increases in abstract reason-ing, planning behavior, visual-motor coordination, and visual memory
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