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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Michelle Munoz

Michelle Munoz

How Teachers Make Cell Phones Work in the Classroom | MindShift - 1 views

  • makes the experience more immediate. I want it to be as rich and as visual as possible. I want them to see things, not just know it.”
  • idea of mobile learning touches on just about every subject that any technology addresses: social media, digital citizenship, content-knowledge versus skill-building, Internet filtering and safety laws, teaching techniques, bring-your-own-device policies, school budgets.
  • The data integration wouldn’t be as rich, the experience wouldn’t be as dynamic, the cognitive load is higher,”
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  • It’s our responsibility as educators to teach kids how to interact with the world,” Sanders says. “Those interpersonal human conversations are incredibly valuable.”
Michelle Munoz

Apple's iPad helps to improve kindergarten literacy in Maine | TabTimes - 0 views

  • 129 students were taught to read and write using an iPad, while the remaining 137 were taught the 'old fashioned' way, using pen and paper.
  • in every single literacy test, students using the iPad outperformed those who did not use the tablet, and by a significant margin.
  • iPad has allowed them to maximise the time spent on teaching the lesson,
Michelle Munoz

5 ways to develop critical thinking in ICT - Articles - Educational Technolog... - 0 views

  • teacher needs to encourage a critical approach by walking the talk.
  • always ask "Why?".
  • They will start to ask themselves the “Why?” question and the “How do you know?” question
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  • website called Digital Disruption.
Michelle Munoz

A Training Proposal for e-Learning Teachers - 0 views

  • able to make appropriate use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) either as a teacher who uses ICT in the classroom, or as an e-teacher or e-moderator of open and distance learning.
  • adapt to new educational changes without compromising the quality of education
  • functions
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  • Mentoring is a one-to-one relationship
  • between an expert and a novice in which the expert guides the novice by behavioural and cognitive modelling, academic and career counselling, emotional and scholarly support, advice, professional networking, and assessment.
  • Coaching is observing learners' performance and providing encouragement, diagnosis, directions, feedback, motivational prompts, monitoring and regulating learner performance, provoking reflection, and perturbing learners' models.
  • Facilitating is providing technical, pedagogical, managerial, and social activities that maintain sustained and authentic communication between and among instructors and students.
  • Technical:
  • Management Function:
  • e-teacher who plays the role of mentor, coach (Volman, 2005) and facilitator, (that is the so called 'e-moderator'
  • Social Function:
  • In order to perform these teaching functions, teacher training should focus on how to develop a series of abilities and strategies
  • Professional:
  • Intellectual Function:
  • Personal:
  • advantage of e-training is that it permits the achievement of really autonomous learning, for its convenience in time and space.
  • The primary function is that of orientator,
  • motivator and guide of the students.
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      All what I need to know about elearning and preparing to be able to teach applying elearning.
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    It explains step by step in very clear way what is e-learning and what should we as teachers know to be able to teach it. 
Michelle Munoz

Mobile Learning Technologies for 21st Century Classrooms | Scholastic.com - 0 views

  • "It provides the potential to empower and uplift students in their learning,"
  • To maximize effectiveness, education in the 21st century has to be active, engaging, and customized. Students must have universal access to mobile technologies that will enable critical thinking, differentiation, and problem solving. It is our belief that the technology in Apple's iPad meets these needs and more."
  • cell phones in education involve websites like Poll Everywhere and Text the Mob, which allow a teacher to create a set of questions that the students can respond to with a text message.
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  • Students are more engaged and motivated to learn when they use mobile devices, and research shows that academic performances can improve.
  • Our digital natives are counting on us.
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      Mlearning engages our students in their own learning and investigations. "Our digital natives are counting on us"
Michelle Munoz

QR Codes and Mobile Learning « The Mobile Learner - 0 views

  • QR codes can link the physical and virtual worlds by allowing students to link to more information about an object or historically significant building or area Bringing learning into the physical world and out of the classroom Allowing students whose native language is one other than the dominant language of their school to connect to information about objects or ideas in their native languages
  • link to specific information on the internet quickly and easily. 
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      Implications for teaching and learning using QR codes
Michelle Munoz

Mobile Devices and the Flipped Classroom Model « The Mobile Learner - 0 views

  • a flipped classroom is a classroom where the instructional time and student activity time are reversed.
  • Teachers record their lesson or lecture and post their recording online for students to access for homework. As the student works through a video in their own time and in their own space, they can pause to think about what the teacher discussed, to take notes, or can replay a section they did not understand.
  • combine the best that elearning and face-to-face learning have to offer.
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