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Dean Mantz

CAST: What is Universal Design for Learning? - 0 views

  • Recent research in neuroscience shows that each brain processes information differently. The way we learn is as individual as DNA or fingerprints. In its research, CAST has identified three primary brain networks and the roles they play in learning.
  • Learning disabilities such as dyslexia English language barriers Emotional or behavioral problems Lack of interest or engagement Sensory and physical disabilities
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    What is Universal Design for Learning? In today's schools, the mix of students is more diverse than ever. Educators are challenged to teach all kinds of learners to high standards, yet a single classroom may include students who struggle to learn for any number of reasons, such as the following: * Learning disabilities such as dyslexia * English language barriers * Emotional or behavioral problems * Lack of interest or engagement * Sensory and physical disabilities
Ginger Lewman

A New Culture of Learning by Doug Thomas & John Seely Brown - 1 views

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    Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change: The 21st century is a world in constant change. In A New Culture of Learning, Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown pursue an understanding of how the forces of change, and emerging waves of interest associated with these forces, inspire and invite us to imagine a future of learning that is as powerful as it is optimistic. Our understanding of what constitutes "a new culture of learning" is based on several basic assumptions about the world and how learning occurs:
Dean Mantz

Learning Spaces | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

  • Space, whether physical or virtual, can have a significant impact on learning. Learning Spaces focuses on how learner expectations influence such spaces, the principles and activities that facilitate learning, and the role of technology from the perspective of those who create learning environments: faculty, learning technologists, librarians, and administrators.
Sheryl A. McCoy

Learning & Social Networks - Rise of the Personal Learning Network | Distributed Learni... - 0 views

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    interest resides most specifically in the development of personal learning networks (PLNs) in teaching and learning.
Dean Mantz

Learning Tools Directory - 0 views

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    This Directory contains over 2,600 tools for learning in two main sections: 1. for creating, delivering and managing learning and performance support solutions 2. for personal learning and productivity, for sharing resources, as well as group collaboration (also includes some enterprise tools) The tools in this Directory are both freeware/open source and commercial.
Clif Mims

Technology Integration Matrix - 0 views

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    The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells..."
Dean Mantz

Free Project Based Learning Resources That Will Place Students At The Center ... - 0 views

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    Project Based Learning activities and resources.
Dean Mantz

Apple - Education - Think Ahead: Roadshow - Learn More - 0 views

  • Think Ahead: What a difference a day makes. How do we create a dynamic 21st-century learning environment where today’s students can achieve and thrive? The Think Ahead event provided a day to explore, experience, and reflect on effective tools for 21st-century learning. The Apple digital learning environment is optimized for 21st-century learning by enabling collaboration, as well as content creation, distribution, and access, to maximize learning for today’s mobile lifestyle. Use the following resources to further explore creating and supporting a 21st-century learning environment.
Dean Mantz

Online tech literacy, supplemental curriculum, assessment for K8 schools - 0 views

  • Learning.com, the premier provider of Web-delivered curriculum and assessment, partners with schools across the United States to improve student learning outcomes.
Dean Mantz

To Inspire Students, Aim for the Goldilocks Zone | Edutopia - 0 views

  • The Innovative Teaching and Learning Project (ITL) is a global study sponsored by Microsoft Partners in Learning and managed by SRI International and Langworthy Research.
  • improve student outcomes:
  • three practices
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  • Student-centered methods, including project-based learning, collaboration, and personalized instruction Learning that extends beyond the traditional classroom to promote global awareness and real-world exploration Technology integrated to encourage deep student learning
  • The quality of an assignment strongly predicts the quality of student work.
  • f you want students to innovate, collaborate, or think critically,
  • emphasize these 21st-century skills
  • "begin with the end in mind."
  • common vocabulary for what innovative teaching and learning looks like
  • teacher collaboration is one of the key conditions that supports classroom-level innovation.
Dean Mantz

Mobile Learning Institute - 0 views

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    The Mobile Learning Institute's film series "A 21st Century Education" profiles individuals who embrace and defend fresh approaches to learning and who confront the urgent social challenges that are part of a 21st century experience. "A 21st Century Education" compiles, in short film format, the best ideas around school reform. The series is meant to start, extend, or nudge the conversation about how to make change in education happen.
Clif Mims

About - eduMedia | Interactive animations and simulations for science teaching and lear... - 0 views

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    Innovative and truly interactive resources for learning math and science.
Dean Mantz

Interactive Learning Modules | The Center On Congress at Indiana University - 0 views

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    Interactive learning modules covering U.S. Congress
Dean Mantz

CAST: About UDL - 0 views

  • The "what" of learning
  • The "how" of learning
  • The "why" of learning
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  • How we gather facts and categorize what we see, hear, and read.
  • How we organize and express our ideas.
  • How learners get engaged and stay motivated.
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    Understanding how folks learn and the parts of their brains stimulated by different methods or components.
Clif Mims

ThinkQuest - 0 views

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    ThinkQuest is a protected, online learning platform that enables teachers to integrate learning projects into their classroom curriculum and students to develop 21st century skills.
Clif Mims

2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning - 0 views

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    This 2020 Forecast is a tool for thinking about, preparing for, and shaping the future. It outlines key forces of change that will shape the landscape of learning over the next decade. The forecast does not predict what will happen, but rather serves as a guide to the as-yet-unwritten future. It is designed to help you see connections among things that once seemed unrelated and to help you consider the changes and challenges that you are facing today within the context of wider patterns of change. Ultimately, the 2020 Forecast aims to provoke your own thinking about what role you want to play in creating the future of learning.
Dean Mantz

Meta-Analysis: Is Blended Learning Most Effective? -- THE Journal - 0 views

  • The United States Department of Education reported recently that it's found some evidence to support the notion that blended learning is more effective than either face to face or online learning by themselves. Further, between online and face to face instruction, online is at least as good and may even have the advantage in terms of improving student achievement and potentially expanding the amount of time (and quality time) students spend learning.
Dean Mantz

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 - 0 views

  • Here's the emerging Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009  list, where you can compare the rankings of the tools with the last two years.  Note, by "learning" we mean both formal and informal learning .
Clif Mims

Next Vista for Learning - 0 views

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    An online library of free videos for learners everywhere - find resources to help you learn just about anything, meet people who make a difference in their communities, and even discover new parts of the world. And Next Vista for Learning wants to post your educational videos online, too.
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