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Implementation in an Elementary Classroom (Articles) - 0 views

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  • Reduced recess, cuts to physical education courses and limited free time in the classroom coupled with an increasing emphasis on testing are propelling this decline all over the country.
    • Denise Tatoian
      Denise Tatoian on 27 Jul 16
       
      Increased emphasis on 'teaching to the test' and as well as reduced funding to schools directly impacts students. Resources are declining while requirements are not, making it difficult for teachers to allow for play which as stated in this article is "how children are wired to learn."
  • By engaging multiple areas of the brain simultaneously, play links to “foundational capacities such as memory, self-regulation, oral language abilities, social skills, and success in school,”
    • Denise Tatoian
      Denise Tatoian on 27 Jul 16
       
      Play involves creativity, curiosity, problem- solving and what if thinking which are all intertwined in the early years of learning.
  • Ask them how they like to learn and present their knowledge, and what their favorite activities are
    • Denise Tatoian
      Denise Tatoian on 27 Jul 16
       
      So important to ask students how they like to learn and what their interests are. Helps you to not only create a learning plan, but to better communicate and understand them as well.
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  • They started small, and they've grown and honed their strategies each year.
    • Denise Tatoian
      Denise Tatoian on 27 Jul 16
       
      When changes are made in a school too quickly, and without training, or guidance, they fail. This article gives good tips on implementation over a period of time. "One step at a time."
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PLE Articles - 2 views

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  • students could demonstrate their learning through their PLE by creating blogs, wikispaces, prezi presentations and photo collages as final projects; thereby diversifying instruction. Some instructors empower students to use their own mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones as a means to create PLEs.
    • Denise Tatoian
      Denise Tatoian on 14 Jul 16
       
      in some cases will students become more proficient than their instructors, especially in the case of technology?
  • The notion of a PLE for students, grounding them intentionally in an environment of information tools and productive applications, is a great way to seek, develop, and structure that balanced approach.
    • Denise Tatoian
      Denise Tatoian on 14 Jul 16
       
      I am inspired by PLEs and what's happening with them in education. I worry about schools who are not 1:1 with technology and/or students who don't have personal devices of their own.
  • Teachers, she explains, are no longer the primary or even the best source of information available to students, and our work must increasingly attend to supporting students in developing their skills and motivations for becoming themselves networked and sophisticated online learners.
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      Denise Tatoian on 14 Jul 16
       
      Teacher's are not experts in all areas. In PLEs they serve as facilitators. I love my ah-ha moments when I learn something new from a student.
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  • The employ of PLEs in the classroom can go horribly wrong if teachers fail to prepare students and set usage parameters.
    • Denise Tatoian
      Denise Tatoian on 14 Jul 16
       
      Or if students do not have the skills to manage their PLEs.
  • The Symbaloo interface looks a bit like a high-tech Scrabble board with movable “tiles” on it. These tiles give you access to Web pages or other webmixes.
    • Denise Tatoian
      Denise Tatoian on 15 Jul 16
       
      Works great with elementary students. I have seen them in action creating webmixes.
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"Personalized" vs. "Personal" Learning - 2 views

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  • Dozens of teachers agreed that a truly personalized learning experience requires student choice, is individualized, meaningful and resource rich. This kind of learning allows students to work at their own pace and level, meets the individual needs of students, and perhaps most importantly, is not a one-size fits all model.
    • Denise Tatoian
      Denise Tatoian on 12 Jul 16
       
      When discussing the merits and challenges of personalized learning, it's alarming to me that technology was absent from the converstations when most of what I read includes the use of technology.
  • many school district leaders require public school educators to teach a specific curriculum that will be evaluated on standardized tests, while at the same time telling teachers to be innovative and creative within their classrooms. When that happens, the structures around the classroom leave little room for the kind of authentic, whole-child personalization many teachers dream of offering.
    • Denise Tatoian
      Denise Tatoian on 12 Jul 16
       
      I like that conversations are getting serious about personalized learning, but how do we get school districts on board when training, planning, technology, etc., are driven by time and funding?
  • In a world where we can explore almost every interest or passion in depth on our own or with others, it’s crucially more important to have the dispositions and the skills to create our own educational opportunities, not be trained to wait for opportunities that someone else has selected for delivery.
    • Denise Tatoian
      Denise Tatoian on 12 Jul 16
       
      Comes down to training. Not all students have the skills to create their own personal learning.
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