Pedagogy

"Characteristics of Constructivist Learning & Teaching"

Best web 2.0 education apps

"33 Essential Resources for Developers & Designers"

"Howard Gardner and Five Minds for the Future"

Book resources

"explores learning, education, digital technologies, books, poetry, literature, teaching, photography & the impact of social media. Your commentary, collaboration and participation is encouraged & highly valued!"

The presentation which Matt passed on to me looks at the response to this through the creation of Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. This identifies the nature of the learning which can take place within our digital environments and classifies this into levels. Well worth 5 minutes of your time and really made me reflect all over again on how important collaboration is within our 21st Century learning environments.

Bloom's Taxonomy divides educational objectives into three "domains:" Affective, Psychomotor, and Cognitive. Within the domains, learning at the higher levels is dependent on having attained prerequisite knowledge and skills at lower levels (Orlich, et al. 2004). A goal of Bloom's Taxonomy is to motivate educators to focus on all three domains, creating a more holistic form of education.

"Quest to Learn "builds on the best of what we know about how kids learn but does it with a 21st-century twist,"

The term personal web means a collection technologies that offer the ability to reorganize, configure and manage online content rather than just viewing it. The personal web emerged with the advent of Web 2.0 and includes innovations such as personalized home pages, RSS feeds and aggregators, and customizable widget. (Horizon Report, 2009)

TPACK - examples

"Getting Started in the 1:1 Classroom (e-Learning for Educators) This course is offered as a part of the e-Learning for Educators project, a partnership between LEARN NC, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University College of Education, UNC-TV, DPI, and the North Carolina Virtual Public School. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Education under Grant No. U286A050018."

Diagrams on collaborative professional development

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Voice Thread

"How Might Our Students Benefit from a Flipped Classroom? Harvard Physics Professor, Eric Mazur, uses peer instruction and just-in-time teaching to promote better learning. In the details of his strategy, students use class time to grapple with, discuss and find solutions to problems that have traditionally been given as homework assignments. Mazur believes this collaborative deconstruction and application leads to deeper discussions and better learning."

"Action eLearning as a model for effective teacher professional development"

"Welcome to this blog on Connectivism" What's new in Connectivism?"

Tammy is delivering a one-hour session on her grade 4-6 football unit, in which she strives to incorporate both inquiry-based learning and technology.

"Introduction Since early in 1995, teachers everywhere have learned how to use the web well by adopting the WebQuest format to create inquiry-oriented lessons. But what exactly is a WebQuest? What does it feel like to do one? How do you know a good one when you see it? In the space of 90 minutes, you're going to grapple with these questions and more. "