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Kim W

ourPLT - Staff Meetings - 5 views

ourplt.wikispaces.com/Staff+Meetings

shared by Kim W on 03 Nov 10 - No Cached
    • danielle spencer
      danielle spencer on 03 Nov 10
       
      Any comments about how we can get more students and parents on our wikis at home?
    • Kim W
      Kim W on 03 Nov 10
       
      How can I continue to support you?? ;)
  • Kim W on 03 Nov 10
     
    I think they need to have a "need" or a "want" to get from the wiki. Perhaps student work or student projects that they are proud of would motivate some parents.
danielle spencer

Teaching in a Participatory Digital World | CEA - 2 views

www.cea-ace.ca/...ng-participatory-digital-world

teaching digital inquiry today's_learners

shared by danielle spencer on 28 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • 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.
  • he Galileo Network
  • 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

DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: Tools and Technologies for Effective Classrooms - 2 views

www.guide2digitallearning.com/...bout_students_using_technology

shared by danielle spencer on 23 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Students need teachers to teach them how to truly use technology to do great and wonderful things — unbelievable things.
  • new standards of National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS-S) that had recently been published by International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).
  • “Will students having netbooks increase their 21st Century Skills?
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  • One of the fundamental keys to getting our students to have 21st C
  • Skills is the use of integrated technology into their daily school work by using great projects.
  • ntury
danielle spencer

For More Students, Working on Wikis Is Part of Making the Grade - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...02iht-educSide.html

shared by danielle spencer on 01 May 11 - No Cached
  • how do you learn if you’re not able to make mistakes and get feedback?”
  • Working collaboratively, editing each other’s work publicly and getting feedback, sometimes from outside the classroom, can make many students uncomfortable at first .
  • gatekeeper of information.”
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  • orate communication in the business school at the Singapore Management University, said
  • students’ learning improved when they embarked on wiki projects.
  • least 15 year
  • wiki teams and allowing them to contribute from home and at their own pace works great.”
  • decentralization of the work was one of the advantages of using wikis.
  • go on to the wiki and edit the information ourselves.”
  • For More Students, Working on Wikis Is Part of Making the Grade
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