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POGIL | Home - 0 views

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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."
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Publications: SRN LEADS - 0 views

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shared by Michelle Krill on 26 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Research shows that professional learning can have a powerful effect on teacher skills and knowledge and on student learning. To be effective, however, it must be sustained, focused on important content, and embedded in the work of collaborative professional learning teams that support ongoing improvements in teachers’ practice and student achievement.
  • the type of support and on-the-job training most teachers receive is episodic, often fragmented, and disconnected from real problems of practice.
  • Most states and districts are still not providing the kind of professional learning that research suggests improves teaching practice and student outcomes,”
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  • Workshop overload. Research shows that professional development should not be approached in isolation as the traditional “flavor of the month” or one-shot workshop but go hand-in-hand with school improvement efforts. The report finds that teachers still take a heavy dose of workshops and do not receive effective learning opportunities in many areas in which they want help.
  • But fewer than half found the professional development they received in other areas, such as classroom management, to be of much value, despite the fact that they want more support in this area.
    • Michelle Krill
      Michelle Krill on 26 Aug 11
       
      Seems to me that coaching would be what teachers need. Implementing a structured coaching program would help this situation.
  • Michelle Krill on 26 Aug 11
     
    Nation Making Progress in Ensuring More Teachers Have Deep Content Knowledge and Mentoring But U.S. Teacher Development Lacks Intensity, Follow-up, & Usefulness
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Mindfulness meditation may improve memory for teens | Reuters - 0 views

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shared by Michelle Krill on 18 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • Memory scores increased in the mindfulness meditation group by the end of the study, while they did not change in the yoga or waitlist groups, the authors reported in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
  • Perceived stress and anxiety decreased in all three groups over time.
  • “Theoretical and experimental research suggests that mindfulness meditation is associated with changes in neural pathways and may be particularly effective in promoting executive functioning,”
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  • Some of the benefit of the meditation sessions may come from the relationships the teens build with the instructors,
  • Michelle Krill on 18 Nov 15
     
    "Adolescents assigned to a mindfulness meditation program appeared to have improvements in memory in a recent study."
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Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students - Teaching - The Chroni... - 1 views

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shared by Michelle Krill on 26 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Michelle Krill on 26 Aug 11
     
    "...There is no strong scientific evidence to support the "matching" idea, they contend in a paper published this week in Psychological Science in the Public Interest. And there is absolutely no reason for professors to adopt it in the classroom."
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ClassDojo FAQ - 0 views

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shared by Michelle Krill on 12 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Michelle Krill on 12 Sep 11
     
    "ClassDojo is an in-classroom tool that helps you to manage behavior and boost engagement in class really quickly and easily. ClassDojo enables you to recognise specific behaviors and accomplishments in real-time, with just one click of a smartphone or laptop button. Try it out for free now! How does it work? ClassDojo works by setting up real-time feedback loops in the classroom, to recognise and reinforce desirable behaviors and values. You can recognise and reinforce specific behaviors and accomplishments with just one click, and have real-time visual notifications appear on your smartboard, laptop or projector. All recognition is logged automatically, and student behavior records are automatically created and updated so you don't have to do any other data entry (unless you want to, of course!). ClassDojo automatically generates analytics, shareable character report cards and insight into your classroom that has never before been possible."
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elearnspace › Collective Intelligence? Nah. Connective Intelligence - 0 views

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shared by Michelle Krill on 31 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Michelle Krill on 31 Oct 11
     
    "He makes the point that people do not think together in coming to certain conclusions, but rather than people think on their own and the value of the collaborative comes in the connection and combination of ideas. Each person retains their own identity and ideas, but they are shaped and influenced by the work of others. The concept here is related somewhat to Stephen Downes' discussion of groups vs. networks. At stake in these discussions (Surowiecki, Downes, de Kerchove) is how we are to perceive the individual in a world where the collaborative/collective is increasingly valued. Collective intelligence places the collective first. Connective intelligence places the individual node first."
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Learning Styles - 0 views

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  • Michelle Krill on 03 Nov 15
     
    "The belief in learning styles is so widespread, it is considered to be common sense. Few people ever challenge this belief, which has been deeply ingrained in our educational system. Teachers are routinely told that in order to be effective educators, they must identify & cater to individual students' learning styles; it is estimated that around 90% of students believe that they have a specific learning style but research suggests that learning styles don't actually exist! This presentation focuses on debunking this myth via research findings, explaining how/why the belief in learning styles is problematic, and examining the reasons why the belief persists despite the lack of evidence."
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Constructivism is a theory of learning that has roots in both philosophy and psychology - 0 views

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shared by Michelle Krill on 14 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • 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;
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Seven Tips for Creating Community In Online Courses | EdSurge News - 0 views

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  • Michelle Krill on 19 Oct 15
     
    "we know that people remain hungry for real, in-person connection. Adults have always enjoyed learning together-whether in book clubs, literary salons or meetup groups"
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What the Heck Is Project-Based Learning? | Edutopia - 0 views

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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.
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How to Deal With Kids' Math Anxiety | MindShift - 0 views

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  • Michelle Krill on 22 Nov 14
     
    "Brain scans of these children also show that when they're in the grip of math anxiety, activity is reduced in the information-processing and reasoning areas of their brains-exactly the regions that should be working hard to figure out the problems in front of them."
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A Quick, No-Nonsense Guide to Basic Instructional Design Theory - 0 views

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shared by Michelle Krill on 03 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • 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."
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Wonderopolis | Where the Wonders of Learning Never Cease | Wonderopolis - 0 views

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  • Michelle Krill on 05 Nov 15
     
    Welcome to Wonderopolis®, a place where natural curiosity and imagination lead to exploration and discovery in learners of all ages. Brought to life by the National Center for Families Learning (NCFL), our Wonders of the Day® will help you find learning moments in everyday life-ones that fit in with dinner preparations, carpool responsibilities, a stolen moment between breakfast and the bus, or within school curriculum and education programs.
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Theory behind Mind Maps - 0 views

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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."
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Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains | Wired Magazine | Wired.com - 1 views

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  • every medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense of others.”
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 07 Oct 12
       
      I find that this statement is particularly true of myself and my learners. We tend to learn well in a particular mode when we first learn about how that mode works best, have it modeled, practice it. When we have left that mode and come back to it after having left it for a while (two weeks or more), we tend to need more guidance with that mode on how to use it effectively.  Like everything else in teaching, model, model, model and everything in moderation. 
  • We’ve always skimmed newspapers more than we’ve read them, and we routinely run our eyes over books and magazines to get the gist of a piece of writing and decide whether it warrants more thorough reading
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 07 Oct 12
       
      This is a really good point to make to those colleagues that are tech. unsaavy, hesitant, or unwilling because it "makes us" not as deep of readers. 
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 16 Oct 12
       
      The internet isn't so bad. :)
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    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 16 Oct 12
       
      As somebody said on the discussion board...everything is better in moderation. I think the internet has many pros as well as cons as evident by this article.
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What type of learning is most natural? - Daniel Willingham - 0 views

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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? "
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Seymour Papert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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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
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Understanding the Learning Personalities of Successful Online Students (EDUCAUSE Review... - 0 views

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  • Michelle Krill on 25 Feb 14
     
    "As online classes reduce and often eliminate face-to-face (F2F) interactions, it's important for instructors to learn new ways of understanding and interacting with their online students to further enhance their success. Studies show students' cognitive styles play a key role in their success in online courses."
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Cognitive Perspective in Psychology Videos - Free Educational Psychology Tutorials & Le... - 0 views

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  • Michelle Krill on 25 Nov 13
     
    "How we learn, remember, process information, create ideas and solve problems lies inside our brain. In our lessons on cognitive perspective, you'll take a look at all these functions and processes to gain a better understanding of how they occur. "
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Behaviorism vs. Constructivism in the Technological Secondary Education Classroom - The... - 0 views

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  • Michelle Krill on 14 Sep 14
     
    " Behaviorism vs. Constructivism in the Technological Secondary Education Classroom "
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