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Action Research: A Self-Directed Approach to Professional Development - 4 views

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shared by Teachers Without Borders on 29 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • The best part about being a teacher is that you get to remain a student forever. Teachers are lifelong learners. To be an effective educator, you must constantly pursue learning through workshops, conferences, on-site or online training modules, and seminars. Professional development can help teachers stay up-to-date with new trends and learn new techniques, strategies, and methods for dealing with various classroom challenges. But all professional development is not the same.
  • If you feel frustrated by not being able to find what you need, how about creating your own solutions? Every classroom challenge is as individual as the students in the class. Sometimes, instead of looking for solutions out there somewhere, it helps if a teacher learns to understand the challenge and experiments to find the answer that suits her class or students. Most teachers shy away from the word "research," thinking it is scholars' job to conduct research and come up with condensed data or analysis. But all of us are researchers, consciously or otherwise.
  • Teachers can do action research by formally defining a problem, drafting a hypothesis, collecting and organizing data, and coming to a conclusion about the effect of the hypothesized change. And the conclusion you derive will be more meaningful and effective because it deals with your challenges and your solutions, keeping in mind your circumstances and resources.
  • Teachers Without Borders on 29 Jul 11
     
    Action Research: A Self-Directed Approach to Professional Development
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Virtual classroom project coming to a close « Learn Online - 0 views

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shared by Teachers Without Borders on 03 May 08 - Cached
  • learning about architecture, sustainability, and SL rendering.
  • The simplicity in learning the drawing tools, coupled with the ability to meet numbers of other people in the actual model who would then discuss and help me build the model was a very potent learning experience.
  • people who would be there for me, who would look at and discuss my drawings as I did them, and who would share with me links and other information relating to what I was doing for the simple enjoyment of sharing and helping.
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  • It doesn’t matter if the ideas I had - or the way I was trying to express them were any good or not.. what I’m talking about is the need we all have for encouragement and motivation to improve on and further our own learning. I could have enrolled in a course and paid a teacher to give me that … attention, but even then it would have felt disingenuous and limited by what that one teacher could muster after 20 years of putting up with it.
  • This amazing project that Konrad has taken me on boils down to is this: I have drawn a concept for a building I want to one day build, using Second Life and its communities to draw and develop the model. I have used numerous online networks to research and inform the model, and this drawing is only one step in many for this long term plan I have. That network has given me the motivation to take it all further. In the process I have learned a lot about sustainable building, drawing in SL, communicating with online networks beyond my normal peers, and in that I have gained new confidence. Now I am coming to an end with the VirtualClassroomProject, having reached the limitations of the model in SL Jokaydia, and want to take it further. I have made numerous attempts to connect with a local group who are developing sustainable building designs, but what was that I said about powering down? I think it will turn out that I will install the model somewhere more permanently in SL and continue to tweak the model, make variations and details, do a costing analysis for a real build, develop a website for it, and continue to try and find useful contacts who I can work with and possibly take something like this further - no doubt I will find them online… I already have one lead in Melbourne!
  • this project has helped me to render my private and two dimensional ideas into a public and socially supportive domain.
  • Teachers Without Borders on 03 May 08
     
    "polished, finished, packed with closure" - these are important words for educators in SL because the environment offers the opposite of that - it encourages creativity and makes it easy to engage in the process of constructing spaces.
  • Teachers Without Borders on 03 May 08
     
    Leigh Blackall reflects on his virtual residency in the Virtual Classroom Project
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Action Research Resources - 0 views

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  • Teachers Without Borders on 30 Mar 08
     
    Action research resources, including definitions, key researchers and texts.
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Creating a learning space for real life, in second life, in under 1 month « L... - 0 views

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  • As for a learning space, I want to put some thought into what would be feasible in a local community today.. I’m not sure if it will be a space for an Institution yet. But I’m looking for efficient use of space and resources; space design that is conducive to inquiry learning and skills training; and with every single aspect serving some form of opportunity for learning.
  • Real life needs so much work, it is so wanting of good ideas implemented, and almost impossible to get new ideas tested! So, my design will focus mainly on innovations for real life, that include room for Second Life too.
  • e needs so much work, it is so wanting of good ideas implemented, and almost impossible to ge
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middleclassgirl.com » Elaboration on my rationale: thanks to Ezra Pound - 0 views

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  • I hope that the space in the Virtual Classroom Project enables students to build upon their knowledge that they may have gained from a textbook, history book, documentary or museum visit by critically analysing, debating and deciding upon the way their understanding of the past is represented.
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7 Ways My Classroom Is Better Because I Connect | EdSurge News - 7 views

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shared by Colleen Broderick on 28 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Being connected is not easy.
  • ways that my students benefit from the online Professional Learning Network I have built over the years
  • I learn from the collective wisdom of the crowd
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  • Being a connected educator brings with it many opportunities to grow
  • seeing me taking risks
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