Pedagogy

"JE: But you're not saying that technology is a bad thing, to have it there is a good thing, isn't it? AS: Well, absolutely. I think technology is there to stay. Technology has huge potential to transform, to fundamentally transform, learning processes. You know it can create a much more open pedagogical environment, it can connect the home environment and the school environment, it can give students access to the most advanced knowledge, anywhere, anytime, rather than giving them a textbook that was printed last year and maybe designed five years ago.  So, there's huge potential for technology to transform learning, but what our report clearly shows is that's not what's happening today."

"A Comprehensive Framework For Student Motivation"

"Learning analytics is the "measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimising learning and the environments in which it occurs," according to the 1st International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge.1 The NMC Horizon Report: 2012 Higher Education Edition notes that this promising set of practices and tools aims to "harness the power of advances in data mining, interpretation, and modeling to improve understandings of teaching and learning, and to tailor education to individual students more effectively."2 Finally, George Siemens and Phil Long have even proposed that learning analytics should ultimately be focused on disruption and transformation in education, changing the very nature of teaching, learning, and assessment as we know it.3"

"Teaching Methods: Inquiry with Kath Murdoch"

"Revisiting The Differentiated Classroom: Looking Back and Ahead with Carol Ann Tomlinson"

The Virtual Design Center provides resources and guidelines for designing learning activities for scientific inquiry. The principles of the Virtual Design Center are based on contemporary educational research and guided by the experts of various disciplines.

Currently, researchers advocate constructivist practices over predominantly didactic models. This preference is supported by research indicating that when basic skills are taught via constructivist approaches, students: ¨ Retain knowledge better; ¨ Transfer concepts flexibly across situations; and ¨ Exhibit a deeper understanding of content.

Giving professors gadgets without training can do more harm than good in the classroom, students say

Gov of South Australia - Pedagogy

Our Googley advice to students: Major in learning 7/15/2008 05:48:00 PM Management guru Peter Drucker noted that companies attracting the best knowledge workers will "secure the single biggest factor for competitive advantage." We and other forward-looking companies put a lot of effort into hiring such people. What are we looking for?

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) attempts to capture some of the essential qualities of knowledge required by teachers for technology integration in their teaching, while addressing the complex, multifaceted and situated nature of teacher knowledge.

Developing Online From Simplicity toward Complexity: Going with the Flow of Non-Linear Learning

Although YouTube has been blocked from many/most schools, for obvious reasons and not so obvious ones. YouTube does provide great resources and content for teachers and students. View the list of the Top 100 Videos for Teachers.

Usable Knowledge - Leadership & Policy - Decisions through Data - Teaching and Curriculum

Whether it's chorus, band or just violin lessons, music impacts Americans' lives. While singing in a chorus or playing an instrument is fun, it can also provide important skills like creative problem solving that can help lead to higher education and incomes as well as personal fulfillment.

I define technological fluency as "the ability to determine and use the appropriate technology tool(s) for the task at hand in a manner that allows seamless transfer of created objects and documents to flow easily between the selected tools without outside intervention."

List of publications - Games and Virtual - learning

Self Evaluation for Potential Online Students