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edbuzz.org » Blended Learning Boosts Achievement - 0 views

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shared by Demetri Orlando on 31 Jul 09 - Cached
  • The study identified three important best practices related to online instruction: “Online learning can be enhanced by giving learners control of their interactions with media and prompting learner reflection.” The study seems to indicate that online learning environments improve student learning when students are able to manipulate instruction based on their particular learning needs or when the online curriculum provides learning mechanisms that trigger student reflection or self monitoring of learning. Online learning is more effective when the curriculum includes blended learning elements (e.g., face-to-face interaction, online collaboration, independent practice, etc.). Effective online learning environments include a variety of learning activities. The simple inclusion of online learning activities such as video or online quizzes do not necessarily improve student learning. Although these sorts of instructional activities are often recommended by educators, the study was not able to find a significant connection between the activities and improved student achievement.
  • Demetri Orlando on 31 Jul 09
     
    blog post summarizing the recent DOE findings on blended learning improving student outcomes
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CAIS Commission on Professional Development | CPD Blog for CAIS Colleagues to Share Pro... - 2 views

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shared by Lorri Carroll on 07 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • This post, written by Justine Fellows, is the first of a series of posts written by members of the CAIS Commission on Technology. 
  • Lorri Carroll on 07 Dec 11
     
    You are invited to join our new professional development blog; enter the conversation and write posts about important issues that focus your learning and help other CAIS colleagues. Think of our blog as a faculty lounge for all CAIS educators. It's our venue to share professional learning, ask questions, and give advice:  [ http://caisct.wordpress.com/ ]http://caisct.wordpress.com/ Just as an "unconference" moves forward with a participant driven spirit, the Commission of Professional Development created this blog to be a forum for CAIS educators to exchange thoughts, questions and insights about important issues in our learning communities. Email [ mailto:bsullivan@suffieldacademy.org ]bsullivan@suffieldacademy.org for a simple step to becoming a member of this blog. What do we hope this blog will become? An opportunity for CAIS educators to jettison inhibitions that they may have about "writing in the social media" world and break into the digital forum by sharing the wisdom we know exists among CAIS minds. Click on this Edutopia link for an example of a dynamic blog for educators:  [ http://www.edutopia.org/blog/balancing-work-and-life-teacher-elena-aguilar ]http://www.edutopia.org/blog/balancing-work-and-life-teacher-elena-aguilar Imagine that the above content of that post and comments were specific to CAIS educators-perhaps from a colleague! The content would be so useful. Moving forward, the CAIS blog will host interesting topics with comment threads that relate to the contexts of CAIS learning communities because CAIS educators know a great deal about teaching and learning. The blog will also be another lens to design professional development programs. The CPD wants to read your posts. Also sign up for updates by clicking on the "Follow Blog via Email" hyperlink so that you can follow your colleagues: [ http://caisct.wordpress.com/ ]http://caisct.wordpress.com/
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Top 100 Tools for Learning: Summary PDF - 0 views

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shared by Sarah Hanawald on 26 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Between January and March 2008 155 learning professionals shared  their Top 10 favourite tools for learning  (either for their own personal learning or for creating learning for others).  We used these lists to compile the Top 100 Tools for Learning Spring 2008. 
  • Sarah Hanawald on 26 Apr 08
     
    From the UK, top 100 tools for learning. Mostly web app's, lots of web2.0. Would be handy for a presentation, sort of "how many of these do you know about" overview for folks.
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Unlearning How to Teach - 1 views

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shared by susan carter morgan on 02 Jul 10 - Cached
  • susan carter morgan on 02 Jul 10
     
    The shift from 'sage on the stage' to 'guide on the side', while it has served an important function in shifting the focus from the teacher to the learner, does not capture the fullness of the implications of this shift. We have been hearing about the importance of 'lifelong learning' for some time now in formal education. If, as Bauman asserts, 'unlearning' will be as important to social success in the 21st millennium as learning has been in the 20th millennium, then the habit of 'lifelong learning' will need radical re-thinking in terms of the nature and purposes of pedagogical work. Put simply, we will need to see a further shift from sage-on-the-stage and guide-on-the-side to meddler-in-the-middle (McWilliam, 2005).
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The Nuts & Bolts of 21st Century Teaching | Powerful Learning Practice - 0 views

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  • susan carter morgan on 22 Mar 11
     
    his is the sixth time I've taught a unit on the Holocaust, each one slightly different than the last. In the past, my students learned most of the information via lecture, notes and videos. Because I was responsible for distilling the information, I learned much more than they did. This semester they're doing it all themselves. And the end result will be a classroom Holocaust museum curated by my grade 10 English students. The unit involves inquiry, collaborative, and project-based learning all in one.
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Lessons Learned from the Hybrid Course Project at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - 0 views

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shared by Bill Campbell on 31 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Lessons Learned from the Hybrid Course Project
  • Lesson #1: There is no standard approach to a hybrid course.
  • Lesson #2: Redesigning a traditional course into a hybrid takes time.
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  • he broke his content presentations into less than ten minute streaming video clips, and he interspersed his mini-lectures with student-centered problem-solving activities.
    • Bill Campbell
      Bill Campbell on 31 Jan 12
       
      As I was reviewing information from Brain Rules to confirm my recollection about the 10 minute rule, I found the following quote from Medina that also seems signficant with regard to a possible hybrid course advantage. He says the most common communication mistake is "relating too much information with not enough time devoted to connecdting the dots. Lots of force feeding, very little digestion." Might this be an advantage of presenting information online in a content-heavy course? Maybe the logistics of breaking up a 45 minute period that don't work well face-to-face might work better by presenting some content online. My gut says yet, but I'd like to see real examples of this.
    • Bill Campbell
      Bill Campbell on 31 Jan 12
       
      This is interesting because it is consistent with the research report in the book Brain Rules by John Medina. Brain Rules reported that students attention in a class drops a significant amount after 10 minutes and that you need to change gears to get another 10 minutes. So breaking up a video lecture into 10 minutes segments seperated by releveant problem sovling fits right in with that.
  • Hybrid instructors should allow six months lead time for course development.
  • Lesson #3: Start small and keep it simple.
  • "Integrate online with face-to-face, so there aren't two separate courses."
  • "The emphasis is on pedagogy, not technology. Ask yourself what isn't working in your course that can be done differently or better online."
  • Lesson #4: Redesign is the key to effective hybrid courses to integrate the face-to-face and online learning.
  • , instructors need to make certain that the time and resources required to create a hybrid course are available before they commit to the process.
  • Students need to have strong time management skills in hybrid courses, and many need assistance developing this skill.
    • Bill Campbell
      Bill Campbell on 31 Jan 12
       
      Participation in an online course might be an authentic way to provide high-school (and maybe older middle-school) students the opportunity to practice time management skills in an authentic way. However, this would need to be handled carfully so students who are not successful at first are not completey lost or so far behind that they can't be successful later after learning from their mistakes.
  • Contrary to many instructors' initial concerns, the hybrid approach invariably increases student engagement and interactivity in a course.
  • Lesson #6: Students don't grasp the hybrid concept readily.
  • Lesson #5: Hybrid courses facilitate interaction among students, and between students and their instructor.
  • Surprisingly, many of the students don't perceive time spent in lectures as "work", but they definitely see time spent online as work, even if it is time they would have spent in class in a traditional course.
  • Lesson #7: Time flexibility in hybrid courses is universally popular.
  • Lesson #8: Technology was not a significant obstacle.
  • Lesson #9: Developing a hybrid course is a collegial process.
  • Lesson #10: Both the instructors and the students liked the hybrid course model.
  • They stated that the hybrid model improved their courses because Student interactivity increased, Student performance improved, and They could accomplish course goals that hadn't been possible in their traditional course.
  • Bill Campbell on 31 Jan 12
     
    Teaching with Technology Today: Volume 8, Number 6: March 20, 2002
  • Bill Campbell on 31 Jan 12
     
    This article about the lessons learned during a higher-ed blended learning project is a decade old but still interesting and relevant.
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21st Century Learning: Learning2.0 - 0 views

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shared by susan carter morgan on 05 May 08 - Cached
  • Independent school culture is such that teachers need to make certain they build on the rich heritage of what works and yet make room to rethink delivery of AP courses and such so that these kids not only get into some of the most prestigious colleges around, but they are fluent in the new literacies when they arrive.
  • Web 2.0 – and ultimately School 2.0 -- is all about this two-way or group communication. The Web is no longer just a place to search for resources. It’s a place to find people, to exchange ideas, to demonstrate our creativity before an audience. The Internet has become not only a great curriculum resource but a great learning resource. The second generation Web is in fact, laying the foundation for ideas such as Classroom 2.0, Teacher 2.0 and Learning 2.0.
  • susan carter morgan on 05 May 08
     
    Independent school culture is such that teachers need to make certain they build on the rich heritage of what works and yet make room to rethink delivery of AP courses and such so that these kids not only get into some of the most prestigious colleges around, but they are fluent in the new literacies when they arrive.
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The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - Framework for 21st Century Learning - 0 views

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shared by Sarah Hanawald on 27 Apr 08 - Cached
  • The Partnership for 21st Century Skills has developed a unified, collective vision for 21st century learning that can be used to strengthen American education. The key elements of 21st century learning are represented in the graphic and descriptions below. The graphic represents both 21st century skills student outcomes (as represented by the arches of the rainbow) and 21st century skills support systems (as represented by the pools at the bottom):
  • Sarah Hanawald on 27 Apr 08
     
    sort of the "official" publication about 21st Century Learning
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UVA Med School Embraces Innovative Teaching - 5 views

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shared by Demetri Orlando on 04 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • they are expected to graduate with the habits of mind—curiosity, skepticism, compassion, wonder—that will prepare them to be better physicians
  • About half of all medical knowledge becomes obsolete every five years. Every 15 years, the world’s body of scientific literature doubles.
  • better integration of formal knowledge and clinical experience and a learning process that is individualized, not one-size-fits-all
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  • One of the goals of this whole model—of having students do a lot of the learning themselves rather than passively listening—is that they need to be lifelong learners
  • Gone is the traditional 50-minute lecture. (Also gone is paper, for the most part.) The students have completed the assigned reading beforehand and, because they’ve absorbed the facts on their own, class time serves another purpose. Self-assessment tests at the start of class measure how well they understand the material. Then it’s time to do a test case, to reinforce their critical thinking and push their knowledge and skills to another level.
  • The room’s interactive technology allows her to link to students’ laptops; it also enables their work to be broadcast onto the big screens. Instead of a blackboard, she can use a document camera, which is like an overhead projector, allowing her to write or draw a diagram that will project on the screens. Absentees can view a podcast of the session.
  • We’re trying to create a situation in which they are thinking as a physician working with a patient, not as a professional test taker,
  • Immediately following the exercise, students move to a separate room where, still highly energized, they watch the video and reflect on their decision making as physicians in that particular situation.
  • studies in modern learning theory indicate that hour-long lectures are not the best way to teach students because the average attention span for listening to one is about 12 minutes.
  • The circular learning studio, Pollart notes, is designed for learning, not teaching.
  • There was some initial resistance. Some faculty felt a little offended
  • Demetri Orlando on 04 Mar 11
     
    a lot of these ideas are applicable to k-12
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The Culture of a Learning Experience - 2 views

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  • Dolores Gende on 11 Mar 13
     
    The mission of this school is to create, sustain, and grow a culture of learning for all"
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http://www.ithaka.org/about-ithaka/announcements/barriers-to-adoption-of-online-learnin... - 0 views

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  • Demetri Orlando on 03 May 12
     
    Barriers to Adoption of Online Learning in US Higher Ed. Nice comprehensive report.
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Personal Learning Networks for Educators: 10 Tips | Getting Smart - 3 views

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  • Demetri Orlando on 24 Feb 12
     
    "the power of weak ties" is right on the money.
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Starting With Why: The Power of Student-Driven Learning - 3 views

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shared by Dolores Gende on 23 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Dolores Gende on 23 Nov 13
     
    "Start with Why: The power of student-driven learning"
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The 21st Century Educator | always learning - 0 views

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shared by susan carter morgan on 03 Apr 08 - Cached
  • The development of a personal learning network (or PLN) is absolutely essential for any successful 21st century educator. This interconnected network of learners whom you select based on interests, skills, or experience will soon become an integral part of your daily learning and thinking.
  • susan carter morgan on 03 Apr 08
     
    Great%20advice%20from%20Kim%20Cofino
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PLP's Voices from the Learning Revolution: A brief guide to our first 30 posts | Powerf... - 0 views

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shared by susan carter morgan on 13 May 11 - No Cached
  • susan carter morgan on 13 May 11
     
    If you are looking for thoughts/reflections from teachers about their experiences in shifting their practice--this is a great place to start
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Children Educate Themselves III: The Wisdom of Hunter-Gatherers | Psychology Today - 4 views

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  • susan carter morgan on 17 Sep 11
     
    powerful essay on learning
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https://www.inacol.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/iNACOL-Blended-Learning-Teacher-Compe... - 1 views

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  • Demetri Orlando on 15 Oct 14
     
    New PDF doc from iNACOL Framework for blended learning
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