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Tarmo Toikkanen

Fle4 - Knowledge Building for the rest of us - 0 views

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  • Tarmo Toikkanen on 10 Sep 09
     
    Fle4 (Future Learning Environment 4) is a collection of tools and plugins that provide support for Knowledge Building processes in various platforms.
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Facebook 'enhances intelligence' but Twitter 'diminishes it', claims psychologist - Tel... - 0 views

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  • Sudoku also stretched the working memory, as did keeping up with friends on Facebook, she said. But the ''instant'' nature of texting, Twitter and YouTube was not healthy for working memory.
  • Tarmo Toikkanen on 08 Sep 09
     
    Spending time on the Facebook networking site could enhance a key element of intelligence that is vital to success in life, a psychologist has claimed, but using Twitter may have the opposite effect.
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Attacking the Factory Model School System - 0 views

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  • The only way to make learning easy, is to create a passion and safe culture for easy learning. The only way to make learning any subject easy is to create a community of learners where the students feel comfortable and safe to take risks. I have broken down this "easy" rule into four steps that make it easier to understand. A. Listen to why students are participating in the classroom and fulfill the learning needs that they are identifying. When these needs are being met. the student’s interest level and cooperation with the teacher will be highest. B. Understand how the classwork relates to the student’s daily lives. The student’s have to see the connection between the material and who they are to feel motivated C. Immerse the students in both the theoretical and material ways that the classwork affects the students lives. If the teacher presents the material in a complete fashion the classwork will be easier to place in its context. D. Give students the chance to learn. Create a community of learners where every member is trying to learn. Students and teachers have the ability to learn at every moment of their lives
  • Tarmo Toikkanen on 04 Sep 09
     
    Attacking the Factory Model School System (or) 12 easy steps to turn a teacher into a prison guard and one very hard way to make it easy to learn.
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What is the Future of Teaching? - 0 views

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  • According to the New York Times Bits blog, a recent study funded by the US Department of Education (PDF) found that on the whole, online learning environments actually led to higher tested performance than face-to-face learning environments.
  • “In many of the studies showing an advantage for online learning, the online and classroom conditions differed in terms of time spent, curriculum and pedagogy. It was the combination of elements in the treatment conditions (which was likely to have included additional learning time and materials as well as additional opportunities for collaboration) that produced the observed learning advantages,” writes the authors of the report (emphasis theirs). “At the same time, one should note that online learning is much more conducive to the expansion of learning time than is face-to-face instruction.”
  • We can conclude that those in online learning environments tested better, but not necessarily why.
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  • Researchers warned that “various online learning implementation practices may have differing effectiveness for K–12 learners than they do for older students,” which seems plausible.
  • The word education, after all, comes from the Latin educare, which means, “to lead out.” I.e., think Socrates. Anyone can absorb information from a book or video, but good teachers will always be necessary to draw out that knowledge and help students develop the skills needed to think critically about the information they consume. In other words, online learning tools are just like any other tools in a teacher’s bag of tricks: what matters is how they’re applied. The instruction of good teachers will be made better by the proper application of web tools, while bad teachers won’t necessarily be made better by utilizing online education methods.
  • It comes down to knowing how to best use the tools at your disposal to maximize the impact of education for students, which has always been what separates good teachers from bad ones. The major difference between teachers of today and teachers of the future is that in the future educators will have better online tools and will require better specialized training to learn how to utilize them properly.
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      Tarmo Toikkanen on 10 Sep 09
       
      Exactly. The tools are not the point, it's the learning results that matter. And they stem from the learning activities, which in turn are supported by the tools that are employed.
  • Teachers will certainly need to adapt in order to use new tools and methods, but that’s nothing new. Online education may never completely replace face-to-face learning, though as the Department of Education study shows, with enough time and under the guidance of a good teacher, online learning environments can produce results that are just as good or better than classroom learning. Online learning is likely to be used more often to enhance face-to-face learning in the future, however, and in communities where classroom learning is infeasible due to lack of funds, online learning is an adequate stand-in.
  • Tarmo Toikkanen on 10 Sep 09
     
    Good analysis on the impact of new tools, and the need for great teachers.
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Westwood Cyber High School - 0 views

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  • Tarmo Toikkanen on 04 Sep 09
     
    Westwood Cyber High School is a learning environment which utilizes the model of the Not-School Program. In the United Kingdom, this model offers an educational experience for students who are unable to attend school for a variety of reasons. The Westwood Cyber High School is a virtual learning experience offering students an opportunity to obtain a High School diploma by teaching them the skills necessary for higher education or future employment.
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Notschool.net - 0 views

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  • Tarmo Toikkanen on 04 Sep 09
     
    Notschool.net is an international 'Online Learning Community' offering an alternative to traditional education for young people who, for a variety of reasons, are unable to engage with school or other complementary provisions such as home tutoring or specialist units. After almost 9 years and 5000 young people, Notschool.net is a full-time alternative provision; successfully demonstrating that young people for whom 'school does not fit' can renew their confidence in learning and gain a range of qualifications that recognise their progress.
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Stuff for Classroom Teachers - 0 views

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shared by Tarmo Toikkanen on 12 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Tarmo Toikkanen on 12 Sep 09
     
    Links to resources. Includes lots of IWB (interactive whiteboard) activities.
  • Tarmo Toikkanen on 12 Sep 09
     
    Interesting things for Teachers on the World Wide Web.
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Blogs Wikis Docs Chart - 0 views

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shared by Tarmo Toikkanen on 10 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Tarmo Toikkanen on 10 Jan 10
     
    Comparison of blogs, wikis, and Google Docs, for educational settings.
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