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Diane Kasaczun

The Tempered Radical: Organizing Learning Teams in a PLC - 0 views

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  • Rather than resisting this reality, refocus the work that learning teams are doing.  Make short-term projects with specific objectives and outcomes the norm.  Have self-selected teams define exactly what it is that they plan to study during your in-service days in August.  In January, require progress reports backed up by student learning results.  In June, share what each team has learned with the entire faculty and plan new focus groups for the fall. 
  • Rather than resisting this reality, refocus the work that learning teams are doing.  Make short-term projects with specific objectives and outcomes the norm.  Have self-selected teams define exactly what it is that they plan to study during your in-service days in August.  In January, require progress reports backed up by student learning results.  In June, share what each team has learned with the entire faculty and plan new focus groups for the fall.
  • Do I know colleagues who will choose to meet with teachers that share planning periods because they’ve got busy personal lives and can’t find the time to meet outside of school hours?  Sure.  In fact, I’d even bet that the majority of your teachers would choose to work with peers in the same grade level and content area.
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  • But you’re also going to reenergize professional learning for some of your employees, too.  Teachers that are motivated to learn with one another and who can get into the meat of collective study without having to muddle their way around in the relationship-nightmare that cause new teams to stumble are going to love their time together
  • self-selected learning teams clearly articulate their purpose and their plan of study for the year.  If teams can’t connect their intentions to your school’s mission or vision,
  • elf-selected teams would have to use meaningful data to make decisions and would have to show how they were assessing student learning and changing direction to ensure student success.
Randy Ziegenfuss

Cobocards » Study flashcards and vocabulary online - 0 views

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 19 May 09
     
    Cobocards are virtually created flashcards. You can print them and study offline, edit them again and again, compare with older versions, check the status of your knowledge, upload pictures and graphs, include formula with LaTeX, share your flashcards with friends, set a deadline for exams,...
Randy Ziegenfuss

Study tests effectiveness of podcasts vs. lectures - 0 views

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shared by Randy Ziegenfuss on 28 Mar 09 - Cached
  • The results showed that the podcast viewers did considerably better than those who attended the lecture in person. The podcast group averaged nine points (out of 100) higher on the test than those in the live audience. Moreover, those who took notes during the podcast scored even higher, averaging 15 points higher than their live-lecture counterparts.
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      Randy Ziegenfuss on 28 Mar 09
       
      Not exactly the best pedagogical practice, but the idea of lectures being done differently is pretty significant.
  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 28 Mar 09
     
    It's not often that a professor tells her students to skip class. But that's what SUNY Fredonia Psychology professor Dani McKinney did to support a recent study - and its results have thrust her into the national spotlight, with stories appearing in media ranging from the "New York Times" to "New Scientist" magazine.
Randy Ziegenfuss

Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUC... - 0 views

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  • virtually any place on earth can be connected to markets anywhere else on earth and can become globally competitive.
  • continuous learning and for the ongoing creation of new ideas and skills.
  • f access to higher education is a necessary element in expanding economic prosperity and improving the quality of life,
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  • much of what we will need to know will not be what we learned in school decades earlier
  • It is unlikely that sufficient resources will be available to build enough new campuses to meet the growing global demand for higher education—at least not the sort of campuses that we have traditionally built for colleges and universities.
  • created a series of building blocks that could provide the means for transforming the ways in which we provide education and support learning.
  • Open Educational Resources (OER) movement,
  • support and expand the various aspects of social learning.
  • based on the premise that our understanding of content is socially constructed through conversations about that content and through grounded interactions, especially with others, around problems or actions. The focus is not so much on what we are learning but on how we are learning.5
  • Light discovered that one of the strongest determinants of students’ success in higher education—more important than the details of their instructors’ teaching styles—was their ability to form or participate in small study groups.
  • The Cartesian perspective assumes that knowledge is a kind of substance and that pedagogy concerns the best way to transfer this substance from teachers to students.
  • Mastering a field of knowledge involves not only “learning about” the subject matter but also “learning to be” a full participant in the field.
  • networked communities of practice
  • its principles have been adopted by communities dedicated to the creation of other, more widely accessible types of resources
  • In a traditional Cartesian educational system, students may spend years learning about a subject; only after amassing sufficient (explicit) knowledge are they expected to start acquiring the (tacit) knowledge or practice of how to be an active practitioner/professional in a field.
  • change the game in education
  • using technology to enhance social learning within formal education, it also seems likely that a great deal of informal learning is taking place both on and off campus via the online social networks that have attracted millions of young people.
  • By enabling students to collaborate with working scientists, this movement provides a platform for the “learning to be” aspect of social learning.
  • what happened when his students were required to share their coursework publicly
  • As more of learning becomes Internet-based, a similar pattern seems to be occurring. Whereas traditional schools offer a finite number of courses of study, the “catalog” of subjects that can be learned online is almost unlimited. There are already several thousand sets of course materials and modules online, and more are being added regularly. Furthermore, for any topic that a student is passionate about, there is likely to be an online niche community of practice of others who share that passion.
  • We need to construct shared, distributed, reflective practicums in which experiences are collected, vetted, clustered, commented on, and tried out in new contexts.
  • We now need a new approach to learning—one characterized by a demand-pull rather than the traditional supply-push mode of building up an inventory of knowledge in students’ heads.
  • embedded in a community of practice
  • emergence of new kinds of open participatory learning ecosystems
  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 03 May 09
     
    The most profound impact of the Internet, an impact that has yet to be fully realized, is its ability to support and expand the various aspects of social learning. What do we mean by "social learning"? Perhaps the simplest way to explain this concept is to note that social learning is based on the premise that our understanding of content is socially constructed through conversations about that content and through grounded interactions, especially with others, around problems or actions. The focus is not so much on what we are learning but on how we are learning….
Randy Ziegenfuss

Thanks for the Add. Now Help Me with My Homework - News Features & Releases - 0 views

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 28 Mar 09
     
    A new study by alum Christine Greenhow finds social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook have more educational potential than you might think.
Randy Ziegenfuss

iCivics | The Democracy Lab - 0 views

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 02 Jul 10
     
    iCivics is a web-based education project designed to teach students civics and inspire them to be active participants in our democracy. iCivics is the vision of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who is concerned that students are not getting the information and tools they need for civic participation, and that civics teachers need better materials and support.
Randy Ziegenfuss

Collection: Library of Congress Flickr pilot - 0 views

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 May 09
     
    The Library of Congress invites you to explore history visually by looking at interesting photos from our collections.
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