Harnessing Innovation to Support Student Success: Using Technology to Personalize Education
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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: New Study: Stranger Danger is not the Risk but FRIENDLY FIENDs are - 0 views
Transitions at Work » Archive » Commentary: Tuckman's team model (forming, st... - 0 views
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American psychologist Bruce W. Tuckman developed an influential model of team development, first enunciated in a 1965 article “Developmental sequence in small groups,” published in Psychological Bulletin. Tuckman’s model traced the evolution of a team through four stages: forming, storming, norming and performing. Tuckman argued that these stages were necessary to build an effective team.
Virtual classroom project coming to a close « Learn Online - 0 views
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learning about architecture, sustainability, and SL rendering.
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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.
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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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"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.
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Leigh Blackall reflects on his virtual residency in the Virtual Classroom Project
BTW, teen writing may cause teachers to :( - CNN.com - 0 views
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It's a teachable moment," said Amanda Lenhart, senior research specialist at Pew. "If you find that in a child's or student's writing, that's an opportunity to address the differences between formal and informal writing. They learn to make the distinction ... just as they learn not to use slang terms in formal writing.
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It's also a great opportunity for teachers who use blogging in their classes. At the same time, I don't think discouraging informal writing is the right thing to do. Students should have the freedom to use the kind of language they feel is most appropriate given their audience and content. Teaching to adjust one's voice based on audience is therefore crucial.
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Teens who consider electronic communications with friends as "writing" are more likely to carry the informal elements into school assignments than those who distinguish the two.
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I'd be interested to learn how many teachers use emoticons or other informal elements when writing on blogs or communicating with students outside of formal class assignments. For example, do teachers use informal elements when leaving comments on student blogs. Shouldn't they if they want to be seen as readers rather than evaluators?
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Teens who keep blogs are more likely to engage in personal writing. They also tend to believe that writing will prove crucial to their eventual success in life. Parents are more likely than teenagers to believe that Internet-based writing such as e-mail and instant messaging affects writing overall, though both groups are split on whether the electronic communications help or hurt. Nonetheless, 73 percent of teens and 40 percent of parents said they believe Internet writing makes no difference either way.
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If the teacher models informal and formal writing well then this kind of informal writing is not likely to affect students' grasp of formal writing. However, the freedom to use informal, expressive writing might help students develop a stronger sense of voice in all kinds of written work, leading to improved confidence.
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blog of proximal development » Blog Archive » Virtual Classroom Project Refle... - 0 views
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Reflection on the Virtual Classroom Project with comment by Clay Burrell
Creating a learning space for real life, in second life, 2 weeks on. « Learn ... - 0 views
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I don’t believe that institutions are the ideal place for learning. Actually, I think it could be proven so… Instead, I’m going for a family home.. but one that can accommodate up to 15 people if need be
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In our many conversations over the last few weeks, Leigh has made clear that what he is interested in is a family home that can also be a learning place. Leigh has inspired me to think of everyday places as places for learning. This of course relates to Oldenburg's notion of the third place, except that Leigh is interested increating a kind of a third place in our homes, defined by Oldenburg as our first places. I'm really looking forward to our discussion this weekend in SL because I want to further explore this notion of one's dwelling as an informal learning place that exists not only in addition to the formal places of learning but also, and perhaps primarily, as THE place for learning.
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disruption through architecture
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a powerful term! Need to explore this further with Leigh.
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my design is for a family house that is large enough to host 15 or so people from time to time; that is fully self sufficient in providing for its own energy, water and food needs; that is a system that produces no waste; and that uses building materials and structures that are reused, portable and make minimal impact on the area being occupied
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Leigh Blackall, the first Educator-in-Residence at the Virtual Classroom Project in jokaydia (SL) reflects on the first two weeks of his residency.
Pearson Foundation: Empowering the 21st Century Superintendent - 0 views
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In March, 2008, the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) launched a new initiative dedicated to helping superintendents, aspiring superintendents and district leadership teams build their knowledge, skills and confidence as effective technology leaders.
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.
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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.
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e needs so much work, it is so wanting of good ideas implemented, and almost impossible to ge
21st Century Learning: 9 Principles for Implementation: The Big Shift - 0 views
In defence of student centric IWB use - 0 views
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Warning to parents over children 'being raised online' | Society | The Guardian - 0 views
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British children are spending more than 20 hours a week online, most of it at social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Bebo, and are in effect being "raised online", according to research from the Institute for Public Policy Research.
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British children are spending more than 20 hours a week online, most of it at social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Bebo, and are in effect being "raised online", according to research from the Institute for Public Policy Research.
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The research reinforces the belief of big online brands that social networking sites are the way to get advertisers in front of the lucrative youth market
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12 Screencasting Tools For Creating Video Tutorials - 0 views
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Great post listing available screencasting tools!
Is Twitter Being Used As A Training Tool? | New Learning Playbook - 0 views