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shared by Professional Learning Board on 09 May 07 - Cached
  • simulating traditional face-to-face classroom methods using asynchronous online learning simply misses the point that we are operating in a new medium with unique properties. 
  • have both interaction and independence. Not long ago it was impossible to have both; more of one meant less of the other.
  • we identify connectivity and asynchronicity as the core properties of online learning, and which have the potential to create a uniquely effective higher-order learning environment. 
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  • focus must be on the cognitive aspects of the educational process if quality learning outcomes are to be the result.
  • integrate the interactive and reflective characteristics to enhance cognitive presence beyond that in even small face-to-face groups.
  • little progress has been made in understanding cognitive presence and higher-order learning effectiveness online
  • asynchronous online learning context, there are two properties– reflection and collaboration – that shape cognitive presence in ways unique to this medium. 
    • Professional Learning Board
      Professional Learning Board on 09 May 07
       
      If a deep and meaningful learning outcome is the goal of an educational experience, then an understanding of cognitive presence is a priority.

      In an asynchronous online learning context, there are two properties- reflection and collaboration - that shape cognitive presence in ways unique to this medium.

      In contrast to the spontaneous verbal communication of face-to-face learning contexts, asynchronous learning:
      Provides time to reflect,Permanent and precise nature of communication requires reflection,Reflection is used to interpret and construct meaning.
  • In contrast to the spontaneous verbal communication of face-to-face learning contexts, the asynchronous and largely written communication of asynchronous online learning would appear to provide the conditions that encourage if not require reflection.
  • reflection to interpret and construct meaning
  • It is important to understand the natural cycle of the learning process to effectively regulate the learning process.
    • Professional Learning Board
      Professional Learning Board on 09 May 07
       
      Dewey (1933)
      The natural cycle of the learning process:
      Perception of a need or problem. Exploration for relevant knowledge, (2.5?) constructing a meaningful explanation or solution. Resolving the dissonance through action.
  • Learning was inducing reflection through questions and actively monitoring this inquiry for the purpose of achieving understanding.
  • two dimensions that shape the practical inquiry model
  • deliberation-action and perception-conception
    • Professional Learning Board
      Professional Learning Board on 09 May 07
       
      The deliberation-action axis defines the reflection and collaboration properties of asynchronous learning.

      This process iterates between thought and action, and unifies the private and public worlds of inquiry.

      Perception-conception operates at the interface of these two worlds.
  • describes the process of creating meaning from experience and the process of creating cognitive presence. 
  • emphasis is on the generation of knowledge and less so on the control of learning activities
  • assume greater control of monitoring and managing the cognitive and contextual aspects of their learning.
    • Professional Learning Board
      Professional Learning Board on 09 May 07
       
      REFLECTIVE INQUIRY
      Constructive (internal) and collaborative (external) aspects of cognition. The perspective is inside out. -->

      SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING
      Learners have greater control of monitoring and managing cognitive and contextual aspects of their learning.
Jeff Johnson

Professional Learning Communities - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 12 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Jeff Johnson on 12 Jul 08
     
    The term professional learning community has become quite commonplace in education circles. The term describes a collegial group who are united in their commitment to an outcome. In the case of education, the commitment would be to student learning. The community engages in a variety of activities including sharing a vision, working and learning collaboratively, visiting and observing other classrooms, and participating in shared decision making. The benefits of professional learning community to educators and students include reduced isolation of teachers, better informed and committed teachers, and academic gains for students. Shirley Hord of the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory says, that as an organizational arrangement, the professional learning community is seen as a powerful staff-development approach and a potent strategy for school change and improvement.
Jeff Johnson

School of One Revolutionizes Traditional Classroom Model | MindShift - 3 views

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  • Jeff Johnson on 11 Dec 10
     
    So imagine this: A student arrives in school in the morning and answers five questions that will be calculated in a customized algorithm to figure out what she'll be doing that day. That algorithm will decide which teacher she'll work with, her level of learning based on what she learned the previous day, and her specific activities. The system completely subverts the traditional classroom model of one teacher for 25- 30 students per classroom. And each student learns in different modalities throughout the day: individually with computer software, with groups, with a virtual tutor, with a live tutor, and so on.
Jeff Johnson

Professional Learning Communities at Work Best Practices for Enhancing - 0 views

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  • Jeff Johnson on 12 Jul 08
     
    Professional Learning Communities at Work Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement Professional Learning Communities at Work Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement by Richard DuFour & Robert Eaker
Jeff Johnson

Effective Professional Learning Communities - 0 views

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  • Jeff Johnson on 12 Jul 08
     
    The Effective Professional Learning Communities project is a study of effective professional learning communities in schools and of how they are created and sustained. It is an exciting, new, collaborative venture between the Universities of Bristol and Bath and the Institute of Education, University of London, which is funded by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), General Teaching Council for England (GTC) and the National College for School Leadership (NCSL)
A.T. Garcia

100 Must-Read Blog Posts on the Future of Learning | Online School - 0 views

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shared by A.T. Garcia on 12 Oct 09 - Cached
  • A.T. Garcia on 12 Oct 09
     
    100 blog posts speculating on the future of learning.
A.T. Garcia

Q & A on 21st Century Skills « 21st Century Skills | Blog - 1 views

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shared by A.T. Garcia on 27 Oct 09 - Cached
  •  The skills are not new (with the exception of some of the Digital Literacy skills), but for centuries have been offered to only the privileged and gifted students. Yet all students need these skills to succeed.
  • Confucius recognized the need for learning by doing, quoted as: “I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand”. 
  • Context – Real-world learning Caring – Intrinsic motivation Construction – Mental & virtual model-building Competence – Multiple pathways to expertise Community – Learning socially in groups & teams
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  • It is important now that learning becomes focused both on what students need to know, and what students are able to do with what they know.
  • That is why the 21st century skills movement won’t be short-lived. It is an economic and social imperative we all share now.
Sheryl A. McCoy

World Without Walls: Learning Well with Others | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Sheryl A. McCoy on 11 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Sheryl A. McCoy on 11 Dec 08
     
    one of the most profoundly important articles I have read recently. "For educators and the schools in which they teach, the challenges of this moment are significant. Our ability to learn whatever we want, whenever we want, from whomever we want is rendering the linear, age-grouped, teacher-guided curriculum less and less relevant. "
Jeff Johnson

McCain Says He's Learning How To Use the Internet (Wired.com) - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 25 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Jeff Johnson on 25 Jul 08
     
    "I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself," McCain told the New York Times in an interview that appeared Sunday.  "I don't expect to be a great communicator, I don't expect to set up my own blog, but I am becoming computer literate to the point where I can get the information that I need." Even so, McCain bluntly admits, "I don't e-mail. I've never felt the particular need to e-mail."
Jeff Johnson

The Change Game: Engaging Exercises to Teach Change - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 21 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Jeff Johnson on 21 Jul 08
     
    Successful initial implementation and ongoing maintenance of process improvements requires overcoming the resistance to change. Green Belts are change agents who need to recognize, understand and interpret resistance to change and develop skills to manage it effectively. Managing change resistance is often covered in training, yet a primary learning issue facing most organizations is the lack of engagement and motivation in lecture-based training. By using simulations, exercises or games, practitioners can enliven their learning environments and improve knowledge retention, skills and applications. This will keep the audience members interacting with each other and with the content.
Jeff Johnson

The Five Disciplines of Organizational Learning (Society for Organizational Learning_ - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 29 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Jeff Johnson on 29 Jul 08
     
    1. Personal Mastery 2. Mental Models 3. Shared Vision 4. Team Learning 5. Systems Thinking
Professional Learning Board

NCCTE - Publications - Highlight Zone #5 - Contextual Teaching and Learning - 0 views

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contextual learning pd teaching

shared by Professional Learning Board on 13 Mar 07 - Cached
  • Contextual Teaching and Learning
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      Professional Learning Board on 13 Mar 07
       
      Is Contextual Teaching & Learning what I'm really passionate about? This is exciting!
Professional Learning Board

Directory of E-Learning Tools: Browsers, extensions and players - 0 views

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elearning teachers technology toolbar

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  • Professional Learning Board on 03 May 08
     
    Teacher Toolbar included in Jane Hart's Directory of Learning Tools
Professional Learning Board

New Horizons for Learning: News from the Neurosciences - 0 views

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shared by Professional Learning Board on 28 Jul 07 - Cached
  • Practice and meaning are the most important parts of this art
  • When our students find the right connections, they will learn. They won't be able to help themselves. It is just what the brain does. And having that faith in learning is part of the "Art."
Professional Learning Board

Home Schoolers Content to Take Children's Lead - New York Times - 0 views

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shared by Professional Learning Board on 13 Mar 07 - Cached
  • Hayden Billings, 4, put a box over his head and had fun marching into things. His sister Gaby, 9, told stories about medieval warrior women, while Sydney, 6, drank hot chocolate and played with Dylan, the baby of the family. In a traditional school setting, such free time would probably be called recess. But for Juli Walter, the children’s mother, it is “child-led learning,” something she considers the best in home schooling. “I learned early on that when I do things I’m interested in,” Ms. Walter said, “I learn so much more.” As the number of children who are home-schooled grows — an estimated 1.1 million nationwide — some parents like Ms. Walter are opting for what is perhaps the most extreme application of the movement’s ideas.
Professional Learning Board

Going Amish for learning and technology - by Ishmael Burdeau - 0 views

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shared by Professional Learning Board on 29 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Professional Learning Board on 29 Apr 10
     
    "Last month I was somewhat surprised when my teenage son announced that he was going to sell his iPhone and start using a £10 monocrome mobile instead. Naturally I was interested in trying to understand his motivation for downgrading so dramatically. It seems that after six months of trying out various apps and dealing with the fragility and complexity of the iPhone, he was ready for something simpler."
Jeff Johnson

Sorting Children Into 'Cannots' and 'Cans' Is Just Racism in Disguise - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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  • Jeff Johnson on 20 Jan 09
     
    Tomorrow marks a turning point in the history of our schools as well as our country. Note how the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., whom we honor today, had to confront the cold, hard, in-your-face prejudice of a legally segregated system, while the next president, Barack Obama, speaks of a softer negligence, illuminated by the frequently heard phrase, "These kids can't learn."
Jeff Johnson

Balance Versus Juggling | Slow Leadership - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 25 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Jeff Johnson on 25 Jul 08
     
    Juggling requires maintaining your center. The idea is to stop managing life so much, and begin managing yourself. Long ago I learned that it's better to prepare the speaker than the speech, particularly when I'm well acquainted with the subject matter. If I meticulously outline a lecture, rehearsing the points as I get ready to begin, I'm likely to lose my center. But if I chat with the audience first, put myself at ease, or take a few minutes for some deep breathing, the talk always goes more smoothly.
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