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Becoming aware of learner perceptions | Instructional Design Fusions - 0 views

  • ← More Symbaloo love: A collection of design tools Free-range vs Facilitated Discussions → Becoming aware of learner perceptions Posted on March 10, 2012 | 1 Comment A number of surveys have compared employees’ perceptions of what they need and managers’ perceptions of what employees need. These are listed by priority in the table below.
  • what employees tend to value most are those intangibles they’d receive from a positive relationship with their managers.
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    Becoming aware of learner perceptions Posted on March 10, 2012 | 1 Comment A number of surveys have compared employees' perceptions of what they need and managers' perceptions of what employees need. These are listed by priority in the table below.
Matt LeClair

Educators As Learners - 0 views

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    Educators As Learners: Creating a Professional Learning Community in Your School" -
Matt LeClair

Powerful Learning Practice Live Conference - Inspire. Collaborate. Shift. - 0 views

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    We provide professional development for 21st century educators. Our brand of job-embedded learning is built around social media and Web 2.0 tools. Our participants are part of intensive, organic, learner-directed, collaborative communities of practice that focus on leveraging emerging technologies as tools for deep learning and principled change.
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SuccessTypes Survival Strategy - 0 views

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    I developed the SuccessTypes Survival Strategy as a realistic way of helping at-risk medical students improve their academic performance. If you are currently at-risk, you are dealing with several big problems at once. The root problem is probably not what you fear, that is, that you are not smart enough. Instead, the problem is probably in the way you learn, your learning style. Secondary problems are: 1) coping with the panic that sets in as the threat of failure becomes increasingly real, 2) coping with the challenge to your self identity as a successful student, and 3) coping with an increasing mountain of new material.
Matt LeClair

http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/jack/arplanner.htm - 0 views

  • expression and communication of these values is essential in any valid explanation of your educational influence in your own learning and in the learning of others.  I am thinking here of values such as freedom, justice, care, love, compassion, respect and knowledge-creation
  • three assumptions
  • 'How do I improve what I am doing?'  in  your professional practice.
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  • onversations between pairs of practitioner-researchers in which we take some 4 minutes each to outline our contexts, what really matters to us, and what we would like to improve
  • motivating you to improve your practice it often helps in the development of realistic action pla
  • After the initial conversation on values and context in relation to your desire to improve practices that relate to helping students, yourself and/or colleagues to improve their learning, I believe that you may find the following action planning process most useful.
  • 'How do I improve what I am doing?'
  • tions, ideas and actions that can distinguish an action reflection cycle: 1) What do I want to improve? What is my concern? Why am I concerned? 2) Imagining possibilities and choosing one of them to act on in an action plan 3) As I am acting what data will I collect to enable me to judge my educational influence in my professional context as I answer my question?  4) Evaluating the influence of the actions in terms of values and understandings. 5) Modifying concerns, ideas and actions in the light of evaluations.
  • Making public a validated explanation of educational influences
  • 7) As I evaluate the educational influences of my actions in my own learning and the learning of other, who might be willing to help me to strengthen the validity of my explanation of my learning about my influence with responses to questions such as: i)               Is my explanation as comprehensible as it could be? ii)             Could I improve the evidential basis of my claims to know what I am doing? iii)            Does my explanation include an awareness of historical and cultural influences in what I am doing and draw on the most advanced social theories of the day? iv)            Am I showing that I am committed to the values that I claim to be living by?
  • nhancing professionalism with TASC (Thinking Actively in a Social Context)
  • .  In producing a valid explanation for our educational influences in the learning of others I believe it to be necessary for the other's explanation of their own learning to be included in our explanation. 
  • ecognises the creativity of the other in engaging with ideas
  • I believe that Sally's writings make an original contribution to educational knowledge whilst showing that she has found useful some of my own ideas  in making this contribution.
  • Educational Enquiry (EE), Research Methods in Education (RME), Understanding Learners and Learning (ULL) and Gifts and Talents in Education (G & T) you can access these at: http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/mastermod.shtml .
  • To see the criteria used in assessing these units click on this link for the MACriteria.
  • virtual learning space for this CPD project go to http://www.spanglefish.com/livingvaluesimprovingpracticecooperatively/ . You can also read Walton's (2011 a&b) ideas on developing a collaborative inquiry.
  • In an inclusional way of being and knowing an individual recognises that they exist in a relational dynamic of space and boundaries. Hence one of the tasks of the practitioner-researcher is to express and communicate this relational dynamic in explanations of educational influence.
  • An example here would be the use of Foucault's (1977) ideas on Power/Knowledge to understand the relationships between the Truth of Power and the Power of Truth in the workplace when seeking academic legitimation for new living standards of judgment.
  • Appendix 1 Action Planner
  • You can access this curriculum at http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/bishops/bish99.pdf
  • How do we contribute to an educational knowledge base
  • Hymer, B. (2007) How do I understand and communicate my values and beliefs in my work as an educator in the field of giftedness?
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    "Action Planning In Improving Practice And Generating Educational Knowledge In Creating Your Living Educational Theory"
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Informal Learning Environment - All or nothing - 0 views

  • Upon reflection, I realized that this parallels the introduction of eLearning. Many people had oversimplified what eLearning meant; they defined it as replacing instructors with computers.
  • All learning occurs through a combination of different activites. Why should eLearning be different?)
  • The formal-versus-informal debate shouldn’t be happening at all. Extremists on both sides miss the point that this is not either/or. It’s shades of gray.
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  • Imagine, if you will, a learning mixer. You could slide the switches to give the learners a little more control here while shaving development time there. And so on. Here’s a hypothetical learning mixer.
  • You don’t achieve the best mix by moving all of the sliders to the top or all to the bottom.
  • The Delivery slider moves from courses and push (formal) to conversations and pull (informal).
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    Reflections from ASTD TechKnowledge regarding the "Formal vs Informal Debate"
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