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Lorie Shuck

How Technology Wires the Learning Brain | MindShift - 0 views

  • The technology train has left. You have to deal with it, understand it, and get some perspective
  • “The brain is complex,” he said. “The answers are not straightforward.”
  • “Google is making us smart,” he said. “Searching online is brain exercise.”
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    "How Technology Wires the Learning Brain February 23, 2011 | 9:45 AM | By Tina Barseghian FILED UNDER: Learning Methods, Research, Neuroscience, text, video games * 9 Comments * * Share447 * Email Post * Link to this post Getty Kids between the ages of 8 and 18 spend 11.5 hours a day using technology - whether that's computers, television, mobile phones, or video games - and usually more than one at a time. That's a big chunk of their 15 or 16 waking hours. But does that spell doom for the next generation? Not necessarily, according to Dr. Gary Small, a neuroscientist and professor at UCLA, who spoke at the Learning & the Brain Conference last week."
Lorie Shuck

100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom | Online College Tips - Online ... - 2 views

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    "Facebook isn't just a great way for you to find old friends or learn about what's happening this weekend, it is also an incredible learning tool. Teachers can utilize Facebook for class projects, for enhancing communication, and for engaging students in a manner that might not be entirely possible in traditional classroom settings. Read on to learn how you can be using Facebook in your classroom, no matter if you are a professor, student, working online, or showing up in person for class."
Lorie Shuck

Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro best practices - 0 views

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    Technology alone does not guarantee successful online learning or collaboration among faculty and students. However, when you leverage it properly, technology can offer huge possibilities for improving communication and learning. This document identifies a collection of best practices for using Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro. You'll see some innovative ways to use Connect Pro in education and explore a process for successful online teaching and collaboration.
Jennifer Beasley

7 Things you Should Know about Collaborative Learning - 1 views

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    In team-based learning, students work in groups on outcome-based or problem-based assignments. Assessing the work produced by teams, however, presents a significant challenge, and this difficulty is especially prominent in online environments. Developing and implementing a transparent assessment process that both supports and recognizes individual and group learning can generate a powerful combination of interdependency and peer cooperation. Online assessment tools that evaluate both individual and group effort support this dynamic, fostering the reliance on community that is becoming an increasingly important feature of the online academic landscape.
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    Suggestions for how to assessment collaborative learning in an online course/setting.
Ben Wyatt

The 100 Best (And Free) Online Learning Tools - 2 views

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    Over 100 Free resources to use in the f2f or online classroom. Learning objects, FREE, as well as emerging tech. and social networking tools to use in your classroom
Ben Wyatt

How Students Develop Online Learning Skills - 0 views

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    Successful online students share their secrets on how they have succeeded in the online environment. The pointers in this article will also help those instructors who are new to online teaching.
Ben Wyatt

JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching - 0 views

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    supports use of video in the classroom
Ben Wyatt

Tweeting the Night Away: Using Twitter to Enhance Social Presence - 0 views

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    An article publish in the Journal of Information Systems Education on how the use of Twitter in an online class can enhance social presence
Lorie Shuck

Vodcasting: Education Of The Future - 0 views

  • But vodcasting makes it a lot easier to keep up. The video is posted online, where kids can access it outside of school. That way they can better utilize their time with the teacher.
  • Essentially, vodcasting has flip-flopped the traditional way of learning. Classroom instruction is done at home, and homework is done in class.
  • "There's a lot of research that shows that kids learn better that way because of their ability to pause, rewind, listen to things again," Newitt said.
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    "You probably remember going to school with the teacher at the front of the room and the students sitting quietly in neat rows. But education has changed; now students work in groups and participate actively in class. Even homework is different. Vodcasting is changing the role of the teacher in the classroom. "
Lorie Shuck

Traditional schools aren't working. Let's move learning online. - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

  • But kids remain stuck in analog schools.
  • How do we know online education will work? Well, for one thing, it already does. Full-time virtual charter schools are operating in dozens of states
Lorie Shuck

Is it Live or is it Internet? Experimental Estimates of the Effects of Online Instructi... - 0 views

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    "ents in a large introductory microeconomics "
Lorie Shuck

Live vs. Distance Learning - Measuring the Differences - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • Without the nudge of having to attend classes, the authors suggested, it can be easy to let recorded lectures pile up unwatched. Indeed, it is common at Florida to see students in libraries cramming viewings of a dozen lectures back to back before exams.
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      So, the lower grades are not because the online environment is of lesser quality, but because students are simply poor time managers.
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