Skip to main content

Home/ LINCoq/ Group items tagged community

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Dave Truss

Year 9 Passion-driven project … using social media to have a real world impac... - 0 views

biancahewes.wordpress.com/...ia-to-have-a-real-world-impact

PBL inquiryhub community

shared by Dave Truss on 13 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Dave Truss on 13 Feb 12
     
    The project was called 'Cause We Care' - a pun I thought particularly witty, since the Driving Question was 'How can we raise awareness in our local community about a charity or cause we feel passionately about?' Whilst I did develop the driving question the students were responsible for the following: deciding on team members and team name, selecting a charity/cause to focus on, their investigation sources and mode of sharing findings (focus questions can be on this document: Cause We Care), the products to demonstrate research, raise awareness and legitimate contribution to cause/charity, their presentation of learning, including sharing learning with experts, defending ideas and celebrating their chosen charity, the Habits of Mind to master for the duration of the project and the outcomes from the Stage 5 English Syllabus they will master during the project ( I gave them a list of the 11 outcomes and the related dot-points, was an eye-opening experience for them!).
Dave Truss

Jason Ohler : Education and Technology :: Beyond Words and Essays - 0 views

www.jasonohler.com/...beyondwords.cfm

blooms publishing presentation

shared by Dave Truss on 21 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Stage 7: Creation Activities: plan, make, create, innovate, originate, construct, produce, invent, direct, program... Bloom's taxonomy was developed during a time when the tools, pedagogy and social impetus for students to create original work were rather weak. Thus the highest rung in the Bloom ladder was evaluation. Fast forward to the digital age, when creativity tools are abundant, and the new ISTE standards promote innovation and creativity figure prominenty, and the ability to create becomes an important high end cognitive function. This applies to all phases of media development.
  • Stage 8: Publication, presentation Activities: show, publish, present, communication... This is a direct result of Stage 7: Create. In the digital age, creativity does not happen in a vacuum. Presentation is very much about creating student work with an expectation of audience. Doing so raises quality standards, and expectations of public involvement. Again, in Bloom's time, there was very little opportunity for public involvement in terms of seeing or evaluating student work. Now, the venues for showing work on the web are copious, international and flexibile in terms of the kind of work they facilitate, including text, video, images, media collages and so on. This directly correlates with Phase V of media production.
  • Dave Truss on 21 Jun 11
     
    Stage 6: Evaluation Activities: value, judge, assess, evaluate, predict, support... Stage 7: Creation Activities: plan, make, create, innovate, originate, construct, produce, invent, direct, program... Stage 8: Publication, presentation Activities: show, publish, present, communication...
Dave Truss

Introduction - 0 views

teachinquiry.com/...Introduction.html

inquiryhub inquiry Read4ihub PBL CBL newschool 21stcenturylearning NeilStephenson

shared by Dave Truss on 12 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • to be most effective inquiry should be seen as a complex combination of structured learning with intentional opportunities for students to create, design, imagine and develop new possibilities.
  • As as entry point, inquiry involves learners:
  • Inquiry honours the complex, interconnected nature of knowledge construction, striving to provide opportunities for both teachers and students to collaboratively build, test and reflect on their learning.
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • If we are to make use of these important findings from the learning sciences, inquiry should be viewed as a highly-structured and thoughtfully designed-endeavour. As contrasted with ‘minimal-guided’ inquiry which has been shown to be marginally effective as a teaching technique, (Hattie) classroom tasks that are worthy of students time and attention, relevant, connected to the world and organized around the ‘big ideas’ of a subject can develop understanding and intellectual interest and engagement with students. For inquiry to be effective requires significant intellectual investment on the part of teachers to design learning tasks that are connected to the disciplines, to their students’ lives, and to the world, while focused toward clear and achievable learning targets. It requires that teachers see themselves as learners and researchers of both the subjects they teach and their professional practice as a whole.
  • Just as play requires rules to keep a game going, inquiry needs structure and boundaries to be effective. As compared with more traditional delivery models of teaching and learning that focus only on pre-existing knowledge or skills, inquiry remains open to the unknown, to the ‘not yet.’ As teachers are considering inquiry in a particular topic it becomes helpful to consider how students might ‘play’ within in topic, that is, maintain an emphasis on what is already known (the foundational concepts or key-ideas) while allowing for space for the unknown where students can create, design, interpret or participate.
  • “Liberating constraints describes the balance between freedom and constraint that creates conditions for learning and creativity.”
  • This is the act of structuring learning, not in the sense of a pre-determined, closed plan of action, but rather an organic, biological understanding of structure, where organisms respond and adapt to changing conditions
  • One exemplary organization who focuses on inquiry is the Galileo Educational Network from Calgary, Alberta. In addition to providing research, resources and professional development on teaching and learning from an inquiry stance, the Galileo Network has also created the Galileo Inquiry Rubric.
  • Dave Truss on 12 Feb 12
     
    nquiry is not merely 'having students do projects' but rather strives to nurture deep, discipline-based way of thinking and doing with students.  As as entry point, inquiry involves learners: ✦tackling real-world questions, issues and controversies ✦developing questioning, research and communication skills ✦solving problems or creating solutions ✦collaborating within and beyond the classroom ✦developing deep understanding of content knowledge ✦participating in the public creation and improvement of ideas and knowledge
Dave Truss

Hub Proposal - 0 views

www.brokenairplane.com/...hub-proposal_3182.html

newschool 21stcenturylearning inquiryhub

shared by Dave Truss on 03 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Dave Truss on 03 Feb 12
     
    What might a 21st-century community look in which students direct their own education? In this world, the following scenario could take place: a student, engrossed in his favorite video game, puts down his gaming console and decides that he has an innovative idea for a new game of his own. From the convenience of his home computer he signs on to his profile at his school website and posts a bulletin within the "projects" section of the school's online network.
Dave Truss

Inquiry Hub - 0 views

www.inquiryhub.org

21stcenturylearning inquiryhub newschool SD43Learn inquiry TeamCOL blended_learning

shared by Dave Truss on 02 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Dave Truss on 02 Feb 12
     
    Connect - Create - Learn This is the process behind the Inquiry Hub, a new initiative by Coquitlam Open Learning and School District #43.  The COL Inquiry Hub is a full-time grade 8-12 program which brings students together in a technology-facilitated environment and encourages them to explore their own questions from key themes: Community and global issues Environmental sustainability Media Art, design and technology
Dave Truss

The Tri-City News - SD43 unveils Inquiry Hub - 0 views

www.tricitynews.com/...138600184.html

Tri-City-News inquiryhub newschool news Stephenwhiffin

shared by Dave Truss on 04 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Dave Truss on 04 Feb 12
     
    "The framework for doing that is inquiry-based learning, where students choose their own theme," Whiffin said. Students at the Inquiry Hub will choose from three main areas: community and global issues; environmental sustainability; and media arts, design and technology.
Dave Truss

Footprints » Environmental Education - 0 views

footprintseducation.org

environment inquiryhub garden

shared by Dave Truss on 06 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Dave Truss on 06 Feb 12
     
    Footprints Conservation Society is a Greater Vancouver based charitable organization dedicated to inspiring, educating and encouraging children to make choices that result in a healthy, happy life for themselves and our planet. We provide well rounded, captivating programs for children that include workshops, guest speakers, fieldtrips, community projects and environmental education packets... krystal-at-footprintseducation . org
Dave Truss

Challenge Based Learning - About CBL - 0 views

www.challengebasedlearning.org/...about-cbl

PBL CBL newschool inquiryhub

shared by Dave Truss on 12 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Dave Truss on 12 Feb 12
     
    Challenge Based Learning is collaborative and hands-on, asking students to work with other students, their teachers, and experts in their communities and around the world to develop deeper knowledge of the subjects students are studying, accept and solve challenges, take action, share their experience, and enter into a global discussion about important issues.
Dave Truss

Challenge Based Learning  ~ White Paper - 0 views

www.challengebasedlearning.org/...CBL_Paper_October_2011.pdf

PBL CBL inquiryhub Read4ihub

shared by Dave Truss on 12 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Dave Truss on 12 Feb 12
     
    Challenge Based Learning provides: * A flexible framework with multiple entry points * A scalable model with no proprietary systems or subscriptions * A focus on global challenges with local solutions * An authentic connection between academic disciplines and real world experience * A framework and workflow to develop 21st century skills * The purposeful use of technology for researching, analyzing, organizing,  collaborating, communicating, publishing and reflecting. * The opportunity for learners to do something important now, rather than waiting  until they are finished with their schooling * The documentation and assessment of the learning experience from challenge to  solution * An environment for deep reflection on teaching and learning * A process that places students in charge of their learning
Dave Truss

Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Relationships...MATTER. #edchat #cbchat #edtech - 0 views

www.mguhlin.org/...shipsmatter-edchat-cbchat.html

inquiry-hub-link pair-a-links mycomments relationships leadership-lessons inquiryhub

shared by Dave Truss on 27 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Dave Truss on 27 Feb 12
     
    here are my take-aways from that response. What would you add to it? You must first set a vision of what's possible in play. Identify that the need(s) available can be met by strategic use of staffing and technologies available. Acknowledge past efforts that failed to be implemented fully. Connect with powerful stakeholders (district department directors), as well as those "in the trenches" (teachers and students) Align the plan with standards and goals at the state level Connect with stakeholders and communicate in an ongoing manner. And, a point that David shared explicitly with me, "Run to the resistors" rather than away from them. To me, this means embrace resistance viewpoint as one that can enlighten the conversation rather than stop it.
Dave Truss

Digital Storytelling Resources - Google Docs - 0 views

docs.google.com/...edit

digitalstorytelling courosa

shared by Dave Truss on 06 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Dave Truss on 06 Mar 12
     
    In a nutshell, digital storytelling is "using the tools of digital media to craft, record, share and value the stories of individuals and communities, in ways that improve our lives"
Dave Truss

Web 2.0/Mobile AUP Guide - 0 views

www.cosn.org/Default.aspx

aup LINC socialmedia mobile policy

shared by Dave Truss on 02 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Dave Truss on 02 Jun 11
     
    Information and communications technologies (ICT) policies in schools have two dimensions. One is to ensure that students are protected from pernicious materials on the Internet. The other is to enable student access to the extensive resources on the Internet for learning and teaching. While these two dimensions are not intrinsically in conflict, in actuality, such can become the case.
Dave Truss

The Tri-City News - Personalized learning strikes chord in Inquiry Hub - 0 views

www.tricitynews.com/...187374351.html

inquiry-hub-link inquiryhub personalized-learning SD43Learn

shared by Dave Truss on 18 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Dave Truss on 18 Jan 13
     
    A walk through the new Inquiry Hub in Coquitlam is a bit like walking into a school of the future even through it's located in historic Maillardville and the school is more than 100 years old. There are few desks, and those there are on wheels. Project tables line walls topped with with fish tanks and bits of other projects, and kids sit together or work alone on laptop computers while listening to music on headphones. While Inquiry Hub isn't for everyone, it is worth exploring for any student who is looking for a more self-directed style of learning.
Dave Truss

The Five Pillars | Bishop Carroll High School - 0 views

www.cssd.ab.ca/...the-five-pillars

newschool

shared by Dave Truss on 05 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • By making the students ultimately accountable for their learning, the students remain the active constructors of their knowledge rather than passive recipients of some other’s knowledge. 
    • Dave Truss
      Dave Truss on 05 Dec 11
  • 1. Teacher-advisors take an active role in the goal setting and monitoring of student progress. In getting to know their advisees’ needs, interests and academic and personal history, the teacher advisor becomes a student advocate.
  • 2. Subject area specialists develop learning guides which are the first level of engagement between students and the content of the subject areas. Learning guides lay out suggested learning activities in which students may become involved in order to meet course objectives.
  • ...8 more annotations...
  • 3. Instructional assistants are non-certified personnel (see Differentiated Staffing) who possess expertise and training in a subject area field. They offer one-to-one assistance to students in their area of expertise.
    • Dave Truss
      Dave Truss on 05 Dec 11
       
      Parent and community volunteers?
  • the student learns how to learn.
  • there is no master schedule. Instead the teacher advisors and students, in consultation with the parents, design a schedule that meets the student’s unique interests and needs.
  • The teacher advisor of these students is charged with the responsibility of helping them balance their out-of school commitments with in-school expectations to facilitate a successful realization of all of their goals.
  • Individualized control of their learning keeps them accountable for their learning. However, the input of the teacher advisor in the construction of the schedule gives the student the security that the process is overseen by someone who really cares. 
  • Independent study and individualized instruction are strengthened through continuous progress. Simply put, continuous progress insures that students have open access to all learning activities at any time throughout their high school career.
    • Dave Truss
      Dave Truss on 05 Dec 11
       
      ... but "no pace" is not a pace! :)
  • continuous progress insures that students remain in constant contact with all areas of study throughout their high school career. There is power in learning the connectedness of the various disciplines.
  • Teacher advisors work with their students to plan progress through all of their course at all times.
  • Dave Truss on 05 Dec 11
     
    Teacher advisors are given considerable time in their regularly scheduled day to fulfil their role. Teachers, on average, spend about one and one-half hours in their individual offices meeting with their advisees
Dave Truss

Literacy in the Digital Age - Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything - 0 views

www.schrockguide.net/teracy-in-the-digital-age.html

DigitalLiteracy ihub-community

shared by Dave Truss on 27 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Dave Truss on 27 Feb 12
     
    INTRODUCTION New literacy in the Web 2.0 world (Churchill) Digital World: Kids Today (Welding)
Dave Truss

Blended Learning: Combining Face-to-Face and Online Education | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/...earning-heather-wolpert-gawron

onlinelearning LINC blended_learning

shared by Dave Truss on 18 May 11 - No Cached
  • Face-to-Face + Synchronous Conversations + Asynchronous Interactions = Strong Online Learning Environment
  • I met with the representatives of three of the major competitors of learning managements systems for schools and tried out each interface. Each permitted transparency for parents. Each permitted me to create a bulletin board of sorts where I could load recorded lessons, upload videos, provide assigned links for homework, create a dropbox for my own handouts, post grades, receive assignments, email, etc. Pretty cool; but not enough.
  • What was missing was my own interaction with the students.
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • you need to purchase additional programs in order to benefit from the grown-ups in the community.
  • I am a huge believer in distance learning and the power of online tools, but I deeply believe that by sending the message that real-time teachers are only needed as a luxurious plug-in and not a fundamental fixture of this next educational chapter, we are doing a disservice to our students and the quality of these growing programs.
  • 5 Components Needed for a Blended Learning Model
  • Dave Truss on 18 May 11
     
    The fact is that there is a purpose in protecting a level of F2F and real-time interaction even in an online program. In education, the components of online and F2F are stronger together than apart. The power is in a Blended Learning equation: Face-to-Face + Synchronous Conversations + Asynchronous Interactions = Strong Online Learning Environment
1 - 16 of 16
Showing 20▼ items per page