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Implementation in an Elementary Classroom (Articles) - 1 views

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  • Throughout the remainder of the unit, they theorize, test, analyze, experiment, and share and review results at various work stations Ms. Moore establishes in the classroom. They also receive visits from and ask questions of representatives from some of the many local businesses engaged in mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction in the mountains in and around Mitchell County.
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      lkmace on 21 Feb 16
       
      District driven curriculum can make a teacher feel there isn't time for doing this type of learning. Teachers feel an urgency to get through all the skills they are expected to teach, as well as showing that year's growth in students they are responsible for. Taking time to cross curricular skill instruction gives greater allowance to doing lessons that move with student pace of inquiry. A reoccurring topic I often hear when collaborating with grade level PLCs is they just don't have time and feel frustrated that so much curriculum is getting in the way of those teachable "a-ha!" moments.
  • local companies,” says Ms. Moore, “because I feel it’s important for young girls to see that science isn’t for guys only.”
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      lkmace on 21 Feb 16
       
      This is getting more difficult to make happen as I found out last fall. I invited a professional into my class to share about an area we were investigating, when I found out it required a background check prior to meeting with my students. This doesn't stop me from having guest speakers, and I respect the reason our district has enforced this, but it does put a damper on reaching out in a timely manner. Just had to share a personal experience.
  • using, for example, a “double bubble” Thinking Map for comparing and contrasting — and the information does not cohere, he or she can discard that approach and try another way. “When kids use Thinking Maps, they tend not to become frustrated when things don’t work out immediately,” says Ms. Moore.
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      lkmace on 21 Feb 16
       
      This could be a tool that will help my students get past that feeling of giving up when things don't go the way they planned. I want to find out more about thinking maps. Does anyone know of a link with templates or other information regarding these?
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  • Students who miss time to play miss opportunities to let their minds soar and connect the dots between what they do at their desks and what surrounds them in the world
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      lkmace on 21 Feb 16
       
      Reminds me of the Google theory for their employees! That much needed time to explore and imagine in order to gain insight should be seen more in elementary, as well as secondary education. This year's Philosophy Slam topic is, "Knowledge or Imagination - which has the greater impact on society?" My students have "respectfully" agreed to disagree on this topic the past few days.
  • Go Fish, a card game that requires students to apply their knowledge of place values. “They’re more apt to … think things through and connect them with their prior knowledge if they can play a game and it’s fun,” she says. “They don’t realize that they’re learning.”
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      lkmace on 21 Feb 16
       
      Noise and lots of student movement within the classroom can be confused with mismanagement if one doesn't understand the importance "play" can have on learning. The current generation of student is used to more animated entertainment and learning is more successful and fun when it plugs into a similar format. Learning should be fun!
  • Continue building your strategies and tools. If you add and master just one at a time, refining the best techniques as you go, eventually you'll have a big arsenal.
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      lkmace on 21 Feb 16
       
      One of the buildings I work in is really targeting building strategies and tools this year. They have worked really hard at building differentiated units by using formative assessments to tier instruction. I want to share this entire article with the teachers as it reinforces all their hard work.
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Adaptive Learning System Articles - 0 views

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  • Adaptive learning products track how each student is doing and provide teachers with class reports. Teachers won’t have to work individually with students for hours to assess which skills each student needs help with, because they’ll have on-demand data aggregating that information.
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      lkmace on 12 Feb 16
       
      Being split between two buildings can limit the collaboration time with staff, as well as time spent with students served. The "on-demand data" plays a key role in giving teachers quicker feedback, having information to drive the instruction that is readily available, and assists students to self reflect on their own personal learning.
  • Students trying to balance college with other big life responsibilities are going to have a hard time keeping up with the work. If they fall behind or especially struggle to get past a particular hurdle, they’re more likely to give
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      lkmace on 12 Feb 16
       
      Working with gifted students, a common concern can be lack of motivation, or students doing bare minimum to get by. They may have evolved from having learning experiences that didn't present challenges which builds a relaxed attitude due to everything coming so easy with academics. Adaptive learning could significantly move towards elimination of this concern. This could be a great tool to show and design learning that will reach those one year growth levels that can be difficult for those students already above grade level to achieve/show.
  • That umbrella term covers a range of approaches and models, Newman said, including competency-based learning, differentiated instruction and tutorial models, as well as adaptive learning.
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      lkmace on 12 Feb 16
       
      This brings clarification to what I was trying to decipher between meanings of personalized learning and adaptive learning. I like the idea that the umbrella offers a variety of models to provide a variety of learning to fit the needs of students best.
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  • An adaptive learning system can be "facilitator-driven," which means it provides instructors with actionable student and cohort profiles, typically via a dashboard; or it can be "assessment-driven," which means it provides close-to-real-time ("dynamic") adjustments of the instructional content that lay out a student's learning path. Facilitator-driven systems provide information instructors can (and
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      lkmace on 12 Feb 16
       
      Just like the service design my position is responsible for, using adaptive learning systems successfully can and does include a variety of tools. This resembles the variety of data analyzed to design extensions using variety of formats. Analyzing the need for services also utilize a variety of data, Though technology tends to be a students choice to drive much of their learning, it still requires strong communication skills.
  • "One of the benefits of adaptive learning is that it frees up faculty members to spend more time with students, to work with them in small groups and individually, essentially flipping the classroom,"
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      lkmace on 12 Feb 16
       
      Can I just say, "This sounds like a perfect scenario!"
  • A Diverse Marketplace
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      lkmace on 12 Feb 16
       
      How do we get schools to buy into these platforms. As I read through the following examples, I wonder what the cost involved is? What data is available to support changing your instruction style that a school board would accept the proposal? Are there grants available for start up? These are just a few of the questions that I have as I begin processing how this might work in my classes.
  • Adaptive learning technologies are potentially transformative in that they may be able to change the economics of tutoring. Imagine if every student in your class could have a private tutor
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      lkmace on 12 Feb 16
       
      How often have we engaged in conversations with colleagues regarding not having enough time to reach every student in a timely manner? How often do I hear from students that they get to read or work on free choice why they wait for other students to catch up to where they are? I'm not feeling that adaptive learning "tutors" can replace the caring and experienced classroom teacher, but it could give assistance and direction to the student until teachers have the time to hold those valuable conversations/teaching moments.
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Create a personal learning environment with Symbaloo | Instructional Design Fusions - 0 views

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  • webmixes.
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      lkmace on 11 Feb 16
       
      Not familiar with webmixes? I'll need some further understanding with this. I'm excited to have more tech tools to use as my students are connected to their ChromeBooks 24/7.
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Social Networking - PersonalizedLearningEnvironments - 0 views

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  • Personal Learning Environments provide tools to support lifelong learning and can be used throughout all levels of education (k-20) and beyond. They can be used as part of formal learning or as an ongoing personal (and self-directed) learning tool that is owned by the learner rather than a learning institution.
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      lkmace on 10 Feb 16
       
      To spiral student understanding of PLEs and building upon skills necessary to use PLEs successfully might be considered an addition to K-12 curriculum.
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How To Create a Personal Learning Environment to Stay Relevant in 2013 | Online Learnin... - 0 views

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  • Create a diagram of the PLE. The purpose of the diagram is to provide a framework for learning goals, identify tools and provide a digital footprint and record of the PLE.
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      lkmace on 10 Feb 16
       
      Wondering if a way to involve students with the design of their PLEs could start here with students creating a diagram that maps their interests and selecting Web 2.0 tools.
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PLE Articles - 1 views

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  • Personal learning environments (PLE) are a new approach to personalized learning that allows students to direct and manage their own learning experience while pursuing educational goals.
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      lkmace on 10 Feb 16
       
      Every Wednesday my district has a late start for students while teachers are receiving PD. Just this morning a discussion at my table involved brainstorming how to move students past doing just what's expected of them. How do we get their thinking to move past, "How many paragraphs/sentences do I need to write?" PL could be a tool to develop that independent learner.
  • The concept of PLE is not a way to replace classroom learning,
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      lkmace on 10 Feb 16
       
      This is an important declarative to use when persuading teammates or administration to support the personal learning environment in your school. Like any differentiation piece, collaboration, individual student consideration of needs, and building a rigorous, yet attainable structure to learning is included with that design. Creating the PL to include technology students are frequenting, motivates students buying in to the idea at first.
  • parents, email conversations, Facebook posts or even twitter hashtags. These interactions among their learning community reinforces learning and combats the often negative stereotypes associated with traditional learning techniques. Because PLEs are learner controlled, they are easily adapted to the learner’s day-to-day activities and interests both inside and outside of the classroom
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      lkmace on 10 Feb 16
       
      This all sounds great! I could easily believe my students would enjoy these social network interaction learning communities. However, it does form a question connecting to student safety. I'm wondering how districts already implementing PLEs are assuring students they are responsible for will be involved with a secure/safe learning experience?
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  • my main priority is for students to have a tool they can use to organize their information streams and to create their own topic webmixes, and from what I’ve seen so far, Symbaloo definitely will meet those needs. As we begin venturing into our research the next two weeks and students begin developing their Symbaloo webmixes, I’ll continue to collect feedback from students on how this learning tool is working for them and how they are using it for themselves as well as within their groups–I’m excited to see what will happen.
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      lkmace on 11 Feb 16
       
      This grabs my interest! Not quite ready to plunge into this just yet, but could envision how this could greatly enhance students' research connected to problem-based learning situations I propose as extended learning projects with classroom teachers.
  • ymbaloo EDU
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      lkmace on 11 Feb 16
       
      In taking a glimpse at the Symbaloo EDU page, I was glad to find out it's compatibility with tablets. My students have personal Chrome Books, we often find certain apps and programs that aren't available to use with these.
  • ruth be told, I could stand to be more savvy in my own organizing of online learning and networking: I’ve been slow to use tools and develop skills for managing online resource, such as the use of vehicles like Symbaloo, Evernote, or Diigo, and I want to take inspiration from the 7th grade student in the video above to move forward in this way and learn and practive better these skills and with these tools.
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      lkmace on 11 Feb 16
       
      I often feel the same - slow to utilize the tools available. It's always well intent, but priority address other items at hand. I'm hoping this evolves as I develop more understanding of PLEs and their use for enhancing learning opportunities of those I instruct.
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