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danielle spencer

Teaching in a Participatory Digital World | CEA - 2 views

  • to participatory social, academic, and political Web 2.0 environments with a new vocabulary and new temporal and spatial interactions.
  • new user-centric information infrastructure that emphasizes creative participation over presentation; encourages focused conversation and short briefs written in less technical, public vernacular; and facilitates innovative explorations, experimentations, and purposeful tinkerings that often form the basis of situated understanding that emerges from action not passivity
  • for changed mindsets about schooling, teaching, learning, and assessment.
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  • how they work with disciplinary knowledge, how they design for learning and assessment, and how they embrace technology.
  • the active, engaged, and collaborative teaching and learning relationships made possible by new educational technologies.
  • inquiry and technology opens the door to powerful new teaching and assessment practices that result in documented benefits for learners
  • If work is now about networking, question-posing, critical assessment of information and media, collaborative team work, and creating new knowledge and ideas, then today’s students require opportunities to develop the competencies they need for expert adult performance in digitally rich and net-connected school spaces.
  • The most powerful thing teachers do to engage students is to design engaging, meaningful, and authentic work and technology-enhanced learning experiences.
  • teachers have a greater effect on students’ learning outcomes than the schools they attend
  • only active participation in knowledge construction allows for deeper conceptual understanding of disciplinary concepts and increased motivation for learning
  • The thoughtful design of meaningful online learning experiences matters; teachers who design for peer collaboration and individual reflection on learning cultivate stronger learning outcomes.
  • evolution of Web 2.0 is blurring the line between producers and consumers of content and shifting attention from access to information to access to other people, and online experiences and virtual communities like Second Life are allowing people with common interests to meet, share ideas, and collaborate in innovative ways.
  • it is socially constructed and shared.
  • it is an active, situated, and engaged process of making meaning, interpretation, and developing deep understanding.
  • it supports deep and engaged learning, simultaneous articulation, creation, and reflection in participatory social networks and dynamic ecosystems.
  • teachers need continuous professional support while they learn to design rich, authentic learning tasks and support the evolving needs of their students.
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  • teachers learn how to design and teach in a digital world by using rich online tools and resources; by collaboratively developing rich tasks and student inquiry projects; by actively accessing, evaluating, and developing online educational content and learning experiences; and by participating in online forums within IO to discuss student engagement, the design of great tasks, authentic assessment, and uncovering the curriculum.
danielle spencer

Calgary Board of Education - 0 views

  • How Are We Unique? How Do We Celebrate Our Global Community? How does where we live effect how we live and who we are? How can we be the best we can in everything we do? What can we discover to help us understand our world? How are we connected? Do our early experiences with nature create a sense of responsibility to the earth and its inhabitants? What is change? In What ways Does The Earth Speak? What are the meaningful moments in my life? What is our perspective of the world around us? What is Magical about Nature? What lasting treasure can we find in the changes that occur in ourselves, our families and our world? How does change affect global awareness and citizenship? How do our diverse backgrounds enrich our lives as Canadians? How Does Mythology Reveal Where We Are? What does it mean to live a life of purpose? What is Beautiful? What can we do to make our world a better place? How must we be the change we wish to see in the world? How are we connected? How is the layered landscape revealed to us? What do we know about Polar Bears? Change is constant and occurs in patterns all around us
danielle spencer

Big Ideas from TED 2011: Letting Students Drive Their Education - TheApple.com - 1 views

  • , he started making short video versions of his tutorials. And then a funny thing happened. His cousins reported that they liked learning from his videos better than from him.
  • Having a video made it so they could repeat and replay anything that they didn’t understand as many times as necessary. They could refer back to weeks-old lessons without having to feel embarrassed about it. They could learn without another person standing over their shoulder asking, “do you understand yet?”
  • To date, Khan has posted more than 2,200 talks on everything from basic math to history. Between 100,000 and 200,000 lectures are watched every day.
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  • it is about fundamentally changing how education happens.
  • big idea is that all education should be self-driven.
  • Rather than penalizing failure and rewarding test-taking ability (like our current paradigm), education should encourage failure and experimentation but demand mastery.
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