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Michelle Krill

What the Heck Is Project-Based Learning? | Edutopia - 0 views

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pbl elevatorpitch edutopia

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  • PBL doesn't ask you to replace your content. It asks that you create a vehicle in which to communicate your content.
  • Michelle Krill on 01 Feb 15
     
    ""PBL is the act of learning through identifying a real-world problem and developing its solution. Kids show what they learn as they journey through the unit, not just at the end.""
  • Ting Mi on 03 Oct 15
     
    "Perhaps that skills fits within a unit based on a topic or a theme, but each lesson works independently and can function without being embraced in a unit that connects them all in a learning story. " Personally I can resonate with this comment. I agree that most of the foreign language textbook are theme based, which put vocabulary and grammar within the given theme. But between different themes lack of coherence or connection. But using PBL might be an effective way to make an connection. I would like to share a own example of using PBL.The PBL is design a Travel Itinerary. Students impersonate travel agent to design a 2 days travel itinerary which includes 3 places to visit and 4 meals, provide price, compare different travel plans and persuade buyers to purchase their own travel plan. So in the PBL they are incorporate skills from different themes "Asking direction" "Travel" "Weather" "Shopping". It is also mentioned in the article that PBL "prepare the students for predicted the future", the PBL stays as authentic as possible. Also, as an ongoing assessment, the PBL can be used independently in each assessment and then at the end combined into a big assessments.
Michelle Krill

Theory behind Mind Maps - 0 views

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mindmap brain memory

shared by Michelle Krill on 30 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • A Mind Map converts a long list of monotonous information into a colorful, memorable and highly organized diagram that works in line with your brain's natural way of doing things.
  • He argues that 'traditional' outlines require that the reader scans the information from left to right and top to bottom, whilst the brain's natural preference is to scan the entire page in a non-linear fashion.
  • He argues that 'traditional' outlines require that the reader scans the information from left to right and top to bottom, whilst the brain's natural preference is to scan the entire page in a non-linear fashion.
  • Michelle Krill on 30 Sep 12
     
    "A Mind Map is a highly effective way of getting information in and out of your brain - it is a creative and logical means of note-taking and note-making that literally "maps out" your ideas."
Michelle Krill

Multitasking: Switching costs - 0 views

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multitasking

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  • Michelle Krill on 21 Sep 14
     
    "Doing more than one task at a time, especially more than one complex task, takes a toll on productivity. Although that shouldn't surprise anyone who has talked on the phone while checking E-mail or talked on a cell phone while driving, the extent of the problem might come as a shock. Psychologists who study what happens to cognition (mental processes) when people try to perform more than one task at a time have found that the mind and brain were not designed for heavy-duty multitasking. "
Michelle Krill

Sketchnoting - Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything - 0 views

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mindmap sketchnoting doodle notetaking

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  • Michelle Krill on 03 Feb 15
     
    "Sketchnoting, in its purest form, is creating a personal visual story as one is listening to a speaker or reading a text. I also believe the interactive notebook, which includes the process of taking "regular" notes" while listening to a speaker and later creating a sketchnote of the text notes, would also be considered sketchnoting. "
Michelle Krill

POGIL | Home - 0 views

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inquiry

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  • Michelle Krill on 20 Nov 14
     
    "POGIL is an acronym for Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning. POGIL originated in college chemistry departments in 1994; there are now well over 1000 implementers in a wide range of disciplines in high schools and colleges around the country. POGIL uses guided inquiry - a learning cycle of exploration, concept invention and application - as the basis for many of the carefully designed materials that students use to guide them to construct new knowledge. POGIL is a student-centered strategy; students work in small groups with individual roles to ensure that all students are fully engaged in the learning process. POGIL activities focus on core concepts and encourage a deep understanding of the course material while developing higher-order thinking skills. POGIL develops process skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, and communication through cooperation and reflection, helping students become lifelong learners and preparing them to be more competitive in a global market."
Michelle Krill

Seymour Papert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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papert

shared by Michelle Krill on 01 Dec 11 - Cached
  • Papert worked on learning theories, and is known for focusing on the impact of new technologies on learning in general and in schools as learning organizations in particular.
  • Papert used Piaget's work in his development of the Logo programming language whilst at MIT. He created Logo as a tool to improve the way that children think and solve the problems
Michelle Krill

Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains - 1 views

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Wired multitask rewiring brain

shared by Michelle Krill on 20 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Brain activity of the experienced surfers was far more extensive than that of the newbies, particularly in areas of the prefrontal cortex associated with problem-solving and decisionmaking.
    • Michelle Krill
      Michelle Krill on 20 Oct 11
       
      Interesting
  • The evidence suggested, then, that the distinctive neural pathways of experienced Web users had developed because of their Internet use.
  • The depth of our intelligence hinges on our ability to transfer information from working memory, the scratch pad of consciousness, to long-term memory, the mind’s filing system. When facts and experiences enter our long-term memory, we are able to weave them into the complex ideas that give richness to our thought.
    • Michelle Krill
      Michelle Krill on 20 Oct 11
       
      Key fact from the text.
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  • And that short-term storage is fragile: A break in our attention can sweep its contents from our mind.
  • Imagine filling a bathtub with a thimble; that’s the challenge involved in moving information from working memory into long-term memory. When we read a book, the information faucet provides a steady drip, which we can control by varying the pace of our reading. Through our single-minded concentration on the text, we can transfer much of the information, thimbleful by thimbleful, into long-term memory and forge the rich associations essential to the creation of knowledge and wisdom. On the Net, we face many information faucets, all going full blast. Our little thimble overflows as we rush from tap to tap. We transfer only a small jumble of drops from different faucets, not a continuous, coherent stream
    • Michelle Krill
      Michelle Krill on 20 Oct 11
       
      This analogy would be great to use with students.
Michelle Krill

Measuring 1:1 Results -- THE Journal - 0 views

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1:1 shift byod

shared by Michelle Krill on 02 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Staff development was a big issue.
  • Before the 1:1 rollout we spent at least six months on staff development. Going from 30 kids in a room opening textbooks to 30 kids opening computers is a significant shift.
  • Four years later we're still not there yet but we've definitely made progress. Getting to 100 percent is going to take a while.
  • Michelle Krill on 02 Dec 11
     
    "When you move an entire district into a digital environment a lot of things change. What doesn't change is the fact that everything revolves around academic achievement."
Michelle Krill

Cognitive Scientists Debunk Learning-Style Theories - Inside School Research - Educatio... - 1 views

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learningstyles debunk

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  • Michelle Krill on 26 Aug 11
     
    "What many of these theories give a name to may actually be a learning preference. And it's a long way from preferring to be taught one way to actually learning more when taught by a compatible instructional method."
Michelle Krill

Interviews - Clifford Nass | Digital Nation | FRONTLINE | PBS - 0 views

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multitasking pbs frontline

shared by Michelle Krill on 04 Oct 11 - Cached
  • As a professor and as a teacher, we think a lot about how do you teach kids who can't pay attention or are distracted by irrelevancy or don't keep their memory neatly organized? It's a scary, scary thought.
  • So what we're seeing is less of a notion of a big idea carried through and much more little bursts and snippets. And we see that across media, across film, across, in Web sites, this idea of just do a little bit and then you can run away.
  • anytime you switch from one task to another, there's something called the "task switch cost," which basically, imagine, is I've got to turn off this part of the brain and turn on this part of the brain. And it's not free; it takes time.
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  • One of the biggest delusions we hear from students is, "I do five things at once because I don't have time to do them one at a time." And that turns out to be false. That is to say, they would actually be quicker if they did one thing, then the next thing, then the next. It may not be as fun, but they'd be more efficient.
Michelle Krill

Definition / Definition - 0 views

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flipped flippedclassroom flippedlearning

shared by Michelle Krill on 21 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • Michelle Krill on 21 Oct 15
     
    "Flipped Learning Network (FLN) announced a formal definition of the term. They also released the Four Pillars of F-L-I-P™ and a checklist of eleven indicators that educators must incorporate into their practice. The group of experienced flipped educators also draws a distinction between Flipped Learning and a Flipped Classroom."
Michelle Krill

Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? - 1 views

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memory supermemo software education

shared by Michelle Krill on 07 Oct 11 - Cached
  • SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
  • A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off. This pattern has long been known to cognitive psychology, but it has been difficult to put to practical use.
  • SuperMemo is the result of his research. It predicts the future state of a person's memory and schedules information reviews at the optimal time.
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  • Ebbinghaus showed that it's possible to dramatically improve learning by correctly spacing practice sessions. On one level, this finding is trivial; all students have been warned not to cram. But the efficiencies created by precise spacing are so large, and the improvement in performance so predictable, that from nearly the moment Ebbinghaus described the spacing effect, psychologists have been urging educators to use it to accelerate human progress.
  • SuperMemo is a program that keeps track of discrete bits of information you've learned and want to retain. For example, say you're studying Spanish. Your chance of recalling a given word when you need it declines over time according to a predictable pattern. SuperMemo tracks this so-called forgetting curve and reminds you to rehearse your knowledge when your chance of recalling it has dropped to, say, 90 percent.
  • Perhaps the things we learn — words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details — don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for. When it comes to learning, what really matters is how things fit together. We master the stories, the schemas, the frameworks, the paradigms; we rehearse the lingo; we swim in the episteme. The disadvantage of this comforting notion is that it's false.
  • The most popular learning systems sold today — for instance, foreign language software like Rosetta Stone — cheerfully defy every one of the psychologists' warnings. With its constant feedback and easily accessible clues, Rosetta Stone brilliantly creates a sensation of progress.
  • Michelle Krill on 07 Oct 11
     
    supermemo
Michelle Krill

What type of learning is most natural? - Daniel Willingham - 0 views

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learning willingham

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  • Michelle Krill on 17 Jun 13
     
    "The paper focuses on a rather profound problem in human learning. Think of the vast difference in knowledge between a new born and a three-year-old; language, properties of physical objects, norms of social relations, and so on. How could children learn so much, so rapidly? "
Michelle Krill

Constructivism is a theory of learning that has roots in both philosophy and psychology - 0 views

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constructivism

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  • 7.  Teachers serve primarily as guides and facilitators of learning, not instructors.  The role of the teacher in the learning process has often been a major factor in the apparent division between cognitive constructivism and social/radical constructivism.  Teachers, in the cognitive constructivist perspective, are usually portrayed as instructors who "transmit knowledge."  The teacher instructs, while the learner learns.  In actuality, in the cognitive constructivist perspective, the role of the teacher is to create experiences in which the students will participate that will lead to appropriate processing and knowledge acquisition.  Consequently, cognitive constructivism supports the teacher as a guide or facilitator to the extent that the teacher is guiding or facilitating relevant processing.  Contrarily, since social and radical constructivism eschew any direct knowledge of reality, there is no factual knowledge to transmit and the only role for the teacher is to guide students to an awareness of their experiences and socially agreed-upon meanings.  This teacher as guide metaphor indicates that the teacher is to motivate, provide examples, discuss, facilitate, support, and challenge, but not to attempt to act as a knowledge conduit.
  • constructivism is a theory of knowledge acquisition, not a theory of pedagogy;
Michelle Krill

Revolutionizing Education with Personalized Learning: Jeremy Friedberg at TEDxYouth@Tor... - 0 views

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tedtalks personalized blended

shared by Michelle Krill on 07 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • Michelle Krill on 07 Oct 15
     
    ""We can finally say that you are not the sum of a letter grade, that your report card should not dictate where you will go and what you should do with your life." Jeremy Friedberg of Spongelab interactive talks about blended learning and creating a personalized learning experience with help of technology and gaming. Games are the most popular form of entertainment and through participation they are an incredibly powerful data capturing tool. By knowing so much more about a learner and the help of collaboration we can revolutionize the way we deliver education and foster creativity in students."
Michelle Krill

Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation - YouTube - 1 views

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motivation TED pink

shared by Michelle Krill on 29 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • Michelle Krill on 29 Sep 15
     
    "Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories -- and maybe, a way forward."
  • Ting Mi on 03 Oct 15
     
    The TED talk further distinguish tasks into two types, and reveals that incentives doesn't work with the type of work requires cognitive skills. It points out that intrinsic motivation: autonomy, mastery and purpose will work better to enhance efficiency. The situations in my classroom clearly backup this statement. Every time when I am doing simple translation word to word with my students in a timed situation, incentive such as candies, points work perfectly. Students performed well under that simply reward system. But when the task change into creating sentences with the given vocabulary, students' attentions shift from getting rewards to proving their ability or mastery. As a language teacher, I understand that as the difficult of the content increase, the effect of rewards decrease accordingly. To increase students' intrinsic motivation, cultivate self-motivated students is the key to success.
Michelle Krill

A Quick, No-Nonsense Guide to Basic Instructional Design Theory - 0 views

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behaviorism constructivism cognitivism instructionaldesign

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  • Michelle Krill on 03 Sep 14
     
    "A lot of eLearning professionals, especially those who have just started with their practice, often ask about the need for theory. Why bother with an instructional design theory at all? Isn't practice enough? Practice and theory actually goes hand in hand. This is true not only in instructional design but in any other field or discipline. Theory, far from crippling your practice, will actually help you improve the quality of your eLearning material. While a learning theory won't answer all of your design problems, it offers clarity throughout your process and directs you toward finding solutions."
Michelle Krill

So You Want to Drive Instruction With Digital Badges? Start With the Teachers | EdSurge... - 0 views

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badges motivation

shared by Michelle Krill on 03 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • When you marry the concept of badging with technology, you get digital badges that allow a person’s portfolio of badges to be stored in one place and provide a record of subject or skill mastery
  • in the short run the best approach to scaling digital badging is not to focus on students, but on their teachers.
  • Michelle Krill on 03 Nov 15
     
    When you marry the concept of badging with technology, you get digital badges that allow a person's portfolio of badges to be stored in one place and provide a record of subject or skill mastery.
Michelle Krill

Project-Based Learning: Real-World Issues Motivate Students | Edutopia - 0 views

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pbl edutopia papert

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  • "One of the major advantages of project work is that it makes school more like real life," says Sylvia Chard,
  • "One of the major advantages of project work is that it makes school more like real life," says Sylvia Chard,
  • Chard doesn't like the term "project-based learning," because she says it implies a focus on projects to the exclusion of other legitimate learning methods; she prefers "project learning."
  • Michelle Krill on 01 Dec 11
     
    "In a growing number of schools, educators are echoing Papert's assertion that engaging students by starting with the concrete and solving hands-on, real-world problems is a great motivator."
Michelle Krill

Colleges Cutting Lectures, and Costs - The Atlantic - 0 views

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highered competencybased shift

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  • Michelle Krill on 05 Oct 15
     
    "Called competency-based education, this new model looks at what students should know when they complete a certain degree, and allows them to acquire that knowledge by independently making their way through lessons. It also allows students who come into school with knowledge in a certain area to pass tests to prove it, rather than forcing them to take classes and pay for credits on information they already know."
  • Michelle Krill on 05 Oct 15
     
    What about the social factor?
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