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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Kathy Hageman

Kathy Hageman

Free Technology for Teachers: Common Craft Explains Blended Learning - 9 views

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    Dare I ask this question in a group of Moodle users? Has anyone had experience using the Otus mobile learning environment?
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    The video does a good job introducing the basics of blended learning, including tools and potential options for implementation. The video does not address the challenges brought about by either inequality of internet access or variables of motivation among students, both of which are serious teacher considerations when planning for blended learning.
Kathy Hageman

ollie4: Article: Attributes from Effective Formative Assessment (CCSSO) - 14 views

  • In addition to communicating the nature of the instructional goal, teachers must provide the criteria by which learning will be assessed so that students will know whether they are successfully progressing toward the goal. This information should be communicated using language readily understood by students
    • Kathy Hageman
       
      This section brings to mind last week's discussion of rubrics - clear expectations expressed in student-friendly language. While I think of rubrics as guides for students, I also think of them as summative assessment tools. Is there a blurring of summative and formative assessment?
  • students can be encouraged to be self-reflective by thinking about their own work based on what they learned from giving feedback to others
    • Kathy Hageman
       
      Perhaps this would help students learn to provide better feedback to peers. Even after teacher modeling, many students have difficulty moving beyond superficial compliments to provide thoughtful, constructive comments.
Kathy Hageman

ollie4: Building a Better Mousetrap - 1 views

  • when rubrics are published in the classroom, students striving to achieve the descriptions at the higher end of the scale in effect guide their own learning
    • Kathy Hageman
       
      For educators, recognizing the appropriate instances in which a rubric will help students rise to higher levels of achievement and then creating a well-designed rubric are both critical. Let's use rubrics efficiently and appropriately!
  • rubrics that are outside of the students “zone of proximal development” are useless to the students
    • Kathy Hageman
       
      Look at rubric descriptors with your students. Ask them to clarify their understanding: "How would you say that in 'eighth grade words'?"
Kathy Hageman

ollie4: Educational Leadership: The Quest for Quality - 5 views

  • Teachers have choices in the assessment methods they use, including selected-response formats, extended written response, performance assessment, and personal communication.
    • Kathy Hageman
       
      Wouldn't matching method of assessment to method of practice be a consideration?
Kathy Hageman

ollie1: Iowa Online Course Standards - 2 views

  • Instructions make clear how to get started and where to find various course components
    • Kathy Hageman
       
      As students in this course, many of us understand that it may be easy to be overwhelmed when starting out in online learning. We help our students with simple and clear guidance.
  • The requirements for student work, including student interaction, are clearly articulated.
    • Kathy Hageman
       
      Limited experiences teaching online have taught me that the quality of student interaction rises significantly when there are rubrics that spell out expectations for student posts. Otherwise, students easily slip into the language and style of non-academic online social interactions.
Kathy Hageman

ollie1: Iowa Online Teaching Standards - 0 views

  • Designs the structure of the course and the presentation of the content to best enhance student learning, including using unit/lesson overviews and reviews, using patterns in lesson sequencing, and using appropriate visual web design techniques
    • Kathy Hageman
       
      I have taken "online courses" for graduate credit in which the structure of the course was nothing more than a list of assignments to complete outside the Moodle and snail mail to the instructor. Those poor examples certainly helped me understand the importance of the structure and presentation of online courses!
  • Promotes learning through online collaboration group work that is goal-oriented and focused
    • Kathy Hageman
       
      Well-designed online collaborative learning activities, which provide a greater opportunity for a student to work at his or her own pace, may be less threatening and result in greater participation than in-class group work.
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