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The power of "blend" in blended learning SmartBlogs - 0 views

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blended blended learning extend the blendedlearning

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  • Taking the time to offer a “mini lesson” each day, alongside a flipped classroom set of videos and collaborative learning spaces, is a valuable and often overlooked component of blended learning.
  • anonymous on 21 Aug 14
     
    "Not surprisingly, I am an unreserved proponent of blended learning. Creating an environment that fosters collaboration, respect and passion - that thinks outside of the educational box - reaps so many rewards for student engagement and embraces the dynamic nature of education. "
anonymous

There's no app for good teaching | ideas.ted.com - 0 views

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  • Keep learning goals ahead of the technology.
  • What’s the pedagogical goal?
  • “We’re trying to help learners parse and make sense of the world.”
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  • Use technology to nudge students away from looking for confirmation for what they already know. Instead, challenge them — encourage risk and confusion that can’t be solved with a few clicks
  • Opt for the open-ended.
  • suggests using technology as a starting point, a way to introduce new experiences and modes of expressions.
  • Let kids get comfortable with the messiness of life and learning.
  • Don’t let tech make learning easy.
  • Keep learning challenging, but not impossible. Look for technology that uses questions to foster curiosity and the joy of discovery.
  • When a caring adult — a teacher, mentor, or parent — also shares that interest and is able to demonstrate that the skills they’re developing are relevant to the adult world or school, that’s a profound transformation for kids.”
  • Take feedback seriously.
  • “What’s the conceptual mistake that someone made to get that common wrong answer? The students’ next step is to write the message to kids who actually make this error going forward.
  • Brainology and Math 180
  • Stay skeptical of individualized learning — for now.
  • a culture that values failure and where confusion doesn’t mean you’re stupid.”
  • Bring in student interests, authentically.
  • look to “connect with kids’ interest-driven practices through sites and educational technology that are authentically tied to classroom learning.”
  • Pedagogy and content, Mishra says, can’t be considered independently of each other; the same goes for tech and content.
  • Start conversations.
  • Look for technology that supports social interaction
  • Make it open, make it better.
  • There’s a movement online for teachers to share content, lesson plans and professional development. Known as open educational resources (OERs), these online materials are freely and openly available.
  • We’ve found that teachers see BLOSSOMS’ lessons both as a content resource and as professional development.
anonymous

Common Core - News | 21st Century Skills: An Old Familiar Song - 2 views

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21st_Century education

shared by anonymous on 20 Jun 10 - Cached
  • The latest fad to sweep the wonderful world of pedagogy is called 21st Century Skills
  • In the land of American pedagogy, innovation is frequently confused with progress, and whatever is thought to be new is always embraced more readily than what is known to be true.
  • old-fashioned or traditional, these terms being the worst sort of opprobrium that can be hurled at any educator.
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  • "it is no longer important what bits of information a student knows, but only that students be able to locate information" in the new 21st Century model...
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      I have never thought content knowledge was unimportant. I have just wanted it applied and therefore retained through some relevant application.
  • Unfortunately the field of pedagogy is subject to frequent bouts of infatuation with fads and of lemming-like behavior in adopting the latest fad as holy writ.
  • Jones wanted black children to "learn to do by doing," which was considered to be the modern, scientific approach to education.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      So if I want content knowledge to be relevant to students, I am racist?
  • their children couldn't read but spent an entire day baking nut bread
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      Who is advocating this?
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 21 Jun 10
       
      I have seen instances where teachers interpreted real world connections similarly. I think it requires conversation and leadership.
  • another stab at getting rid of subject matter
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      Again...Who is advocating this?
  • This deeply ingrained suspicion - hostility, even - towards subject matter is the single most significant reason for the failure of the standards movement in American education over the past generation.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      Show me an educator who wants a war against content knowledge...Please!
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 21 Jun 10
       
      Well said!
  • determine ways to light up young minds and to generate excitement about historical imagination or scientific discovery.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      WOW! All of the staff development I have taken has been for the sole purpose of disengaging the student. Excitement over learnning stuff - what a waste of time!
  • We have neglected to teach them that one cannot think critically unless one has quite a lot of knowledge to think about.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      So the critical thinking comes only after you have the content knowledge? Who decides when one has the requisite knowledge? Graduate studies advisors? Doctoral thesis committees?
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 21 Jun 10
       
      Isn't the whole consume, critique, and produce model refuting this argument?
  • Until we teach our teachers and our students to love knowledge and to love learning, we cannot expect them to use their minds well.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      I thought the goal was to teach the love of learning through interesting and relevant means ALONG with the content.
  • Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
     
    Thoughts on the fadism of the 21st Century Skills movement - Diane Ravitch
  • anonymous on 21 Jun 10
     
    Thoughts on the fadism of the 21st Century Skills movement - Diane Ravitch
Kenneth Jones

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - 2009 MILE Guide: Milestones for Improving Lea... - 0 views

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skills learning 21st_Century

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  • Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
     
    Good place to start honestly thinking about where you are.
  • Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
     
    This is probably not new, but the self-assessment caused me to really think about my edu-community and more importantly, how I contribute to the findings and what I might do to be a part of any positive change.
Kenneth Jones

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edtech technology web2.0 blog education 21st_Century learning ahs

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  • Kenneth Jones on 15 Jun 10
     
    Carl Fisch's site at Arapaho HS
  • Kenneth Jones on 15 Jun 10
     
    In case you missed it at the training.
Kenneth Jones

Apple Learning Interchange - iPod touch. Touching student lives in the classroom. - 1 views

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learning apple ipod

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  • Kenneth Jones on 12 Jul 10
     
    Using the ipod Touch
Kenneth Jones

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web2.0 education technology 21st_Century

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  • Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
     
    This brings the other side of the argument. Is this argument necessary?
  • Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
     
    I ran across this in AFT's American Journal. It sites Dianne Ravitch's essay "A Century of Skills Movements". I'd like to take a closer look at the arguments made re skills vs. content as the focus. It this creating a straw person? I thought the goal was that student's learn modern day skills while acquiring the content.
Kenneth Jones

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science anatomy 3d images

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  • Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
     
    Great for science adventures, might even be useful for discussions on the use of details in language/literacy arts classes
  • Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
     
    I came across this at a Promethean workshop during a discussion of using images to Bloom-up the discussion. This was part of explaining the SUCCESSs model in Made to Stick. It costs, but I might try to see if it can geneerate some ewww, that's so gross, yet I am fascinated....learning!
Kenneth Jones

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schools reform

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    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
       
      Are these goals worthy of attention? Do they assume 21st Century skills? What century's aspirations do these address?
  • This is partly because the international assessments demand more advanced analysis than do most US tests. They require students to weigh and balance evidence, apply what they know to new problems and explain and defend their answers. These higher-order skills are emphasized in other nations' curriculums and assessment systems but have been discouraged by the kind of lower-level multiple-choice testing favored by NCLB.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
       
      SOunds like we have to work 3-4 times as hard and long at what we've been doing or we might shift gears and try a new approach!
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  • inequality has an enormous influence on US performance. White and Asian students score just above the average for the European OECD nations in each subject area, but African-American and Hispanic students score so much lower that the national average plummets to the bottom tier
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
       
      WOW! Politics DO matter!
  • This is because of greater income inequality and because the United States spends much more educating affluent children than poor children, with wealthy suburbs often spending twice what central cities do, and three times what poor rural areas can afford.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
       
      Now hold on just a dagum minute! Sounds like you're talking an inadequate wealth distribution system at odds with a national priority...I think lower taxes, less regulation and Drill, Baby Drill should suffice!
  • At a time when three-quarters of the fastest-growing occupations require postsecondary education, our college participation rates have slipped from first in the world to seventeenth. While more than half of young people are becoming college graduates in many European and Asian nations, fewer than 40 percent of American young people—and fewer than 20 percent of African-American and Hispanic youth—receive a college degree.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
       
      The Flattening of the World is truly an Inconvienient Truth!
  • States that would not spend $10,000 a year to ensure adequate education for children of color in under-resourced schools later spend more than $30,000 a year to keep them in jail.
  • we have not pointed our schools at the critical higher-order thinking and performance skills needed in the twenty-first century.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
       
      I WAS Right!
  • Finland dismantled the rigid tracking system that had allocated differential access to knowledge to its young people and eliminated the state-mandated testing system that was used for this purpose, replacing them with highly trained teachers educated in newly overhauled schools of education, along with curriculums and assessments focused on problem-solving, creativity and independent learning. These changes have propelled achievement to the top of the international rankings and closed what was once a large, intractable achievement gap.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
       
      How do their politicians know when to pat themselves on the back? Aren't they Socialists?
  • South Korea has transformed itself
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
       
      OK, now I'm mad! On who's dime did they do this? How much do we spend on maintaining the DMZ?
  • "experience, investigate and create"
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      Sounds like a Problem, Project, Passion Based, LoTI curriculum.
  • Teachers, meanwhile, engage in research sponsored by the government to evaluate and continually improve their teaching.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      How do adminstrators get to play Gotcha?
  • Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
     
    Use this as a starting point to get others to use diigo...
anonymous

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  • This is about recognizing what types of learning you are doing in class and when technology makes it richer and when it dilutes.
  • Schools no longer have information and knowledge as their greatest asset but rather community and relationships.
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