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What If Schools Created a Culture of "Do" INSTEAD of a Culture of "Know?" - The Tempere... - 0 views

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    Perhaps a viable introductory activity for the course Different groups coming up with what if for their divisions to move mobile learning forward
Kate Spilseth

Changing culture of learning: Mobility, Informality, and connectivity - mLearning re-fr... - 0 views

  • How can we use technologies to make learning more connected, more mobile? In Knowledge building students work in a community, investigate a topic, ask questions, conduct research, and self-assess progress. They also engage in face-to-face and online discussions to share, critique, build on, and synthesise ideas that are new to the community. It is a way of advancing personal and community knowledge.
    • Kate Spilseth
       
      This article shows the need to use technology in the classroom and recognize the skills that students develop using social networking.
  • Many teachers do not see informal learning as they domain. But there is a semiotic relationship between formal and informal learning "The emphasis is on sharing, working together, and using a wide range of cultural references and knowledge..."
  • Knowledge is not fixed, not transmitted by authority, and we are constantly creating knowledge. There is a shift in control via ubiquitous access to learning resources, and in turn, the learners produce knowledge. This person is a mobile learner...and the whole world is mobile...the whole world is our curriculum.
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    Recognizing technology and "soft skills" in the classroom will lead to more learning.
RODRIGO PRIEGO RAMIREZ

Arts Programs Foster More Than Creativity - 0 views

  • She argues that for children to become successful adults, they need to know more than just how to read, write and multiply. They need to learn fundamental social skills, such as the ability to “persist in goal-oriented activity, to seek help when needed, and to participate in and benefit from relationships.” The arts are an invaluable teaching tool in this regard, in that they “naturally and frequently involve group tasks,” she notes. “Activities such as dramatic play or dancing in unison provide a venue for learning collaboration and cooperation.”
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      Arts are an efficient way of engaging students in collaborative assignments, learning different skills through the exploration of their emotions.
  • “If all teacher certification programs at the elementary level were to equip teacher candidates with arts-based techniques for supporting the social-emotional development of children,” she writes, “this would not only benefit students but also create a broader base of support for the ar
Tania Hinojosa

UNESCO Working Paper Series on Mobile Learning | United Nations Educational, Scientific... - 0 views

  • Mobile Learning for Teachers in Latin America 
  • Turning on Mobile Learning in Latin America 
Pedro Aparicio

Distance Learning: Closer than It Looks | Powerful Learning Practice - 0 views

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      This is a great example of how to participate in local and global learning communities to develop cultural understanding of the world.
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