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stephknox24

Design Thinking for Educators - 3 views

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    Design Thinking for Educators The Design Thinking Toolkit for Educators contains the process and methods of Design, adapted specifically for the context of education.
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Handbook of typical school design - 0 views

  • This document presents general practices of safe school construction and the retrofitting of existing school buildings through typical design and drawing of schools as developed and practised in Aceh and West Sumtra Earthquake Response programmes. The programmes aim to create greater awareness of safer school construction in new schools, while at the same time making sure that the existing school buildings are safe.
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    This document presents general practices of safe school construction and the retrofitting of existing school buildings through typical design and drawing of schools as developed and practised in Aceh and West Sumtra Earthquake Response programmes. The programmes aim to create greater awareness of safer school construction in new schools, while at the same time making sure that the existing school buildings are safe. 
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Designing for Education: Compendium of Exemplary Educational Facilities 2011 - 0 views

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    Designing for Education: Compendium of Exemplary Educational Facilities 2011
Martyn Steiner

Design Features for Project-based Learning - 1 views

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    Design Features of the Physical Learning Environment  for Collaborative, Project-based Learning. Includes a simple infographic.
Martyn Steiner

MIT OpenCourseWare | Media Arts and Sciences | MAS.714J Technologies for Creative Learning, Fall 2009 | Home - 0 views

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    This course explores the design of innovative educational technologies and creative learning environments, drawing on specific case studies such as the LEGO® Programmable Brick, Scratch software and Computer Clubhouse after-school learning centers. Includes activities with new educational technologies, reflections on learning experiences, and discussion of strategies and principles underlying the design of new tools and activities.
Tiffany Hoefer

Project-Based Learning Teaching Module | OER Commons - 1 views

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    PBL teaching modules from Edutopia. Part of Edutopia's professional development series. Designed to increase engagement and retention in the classroom. Designed to be used as a 2-3 hour class or a 1-2 day workshop. Divided into 2 parts.
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An international digital library for children | A World Bank Blog on ICT use in Education - 0 views

  • At the heart of Bederson's wide-ranging talk (and indeed at the heart of the ICDL itself) is a belief in the value and importance of child-centered design. Notably (and rather famously, in some quarters) the ICDL utilizes children as design partners in the development of the digital library, and how it is used.  Adopting this approach sometimes yields approaches that, at least for many in the audience in Hangzhou, were rather surprising.
  • The ICDL (not to be confused with the International Computer Driving Licence, which shares the same acronym) is dedicated to building a collection of "outstanding children's books from around the world and supporting communities of children and adults in exploring and using this literature through innovative technology designed in close partnership with children for children". The ICDL, which is part of the World Bank-funded READ project in Mongolia, currently features children's books in over 50 languages and receives over 100,000 visitors a month to its web site.
  • These are representative questions of some of the desires for books that children express to the ICDL, and its on-line presence is organized and searchable in a way that can help meet such demands.   Observing that children are not well served by most existing dictionaries, Bederson and his colleagues use definitions from children themselves, and then enable children to rate each other's definitions. By incorporating teams of children into all stages of the design and development of the various component parts of the library, the ICDL team is able to be guided by what children want, and how children act.  Given the strong research focus of project principals, findings from the ICDL experience are being well documented and made publicly available.
stephknox24

Virtual Campus for Development & Peace | Virtual Campus for Development & Peace - 0 views

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    The Virtual Campus for Development and Peace (VCDP) is an extensive online learning environment designed to advance economic development and peace building in Africa by increasing human capital in the formal and informal sectors, especially among disadvantaged groups such as school dropouts, women and learners in conflict and post-conflict zones. The VCDP is designed to build upon synergies between the AVU and development agencies and non-governmental organizations that are interested in eLearnin
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UNICEF - Basic education and gender equality - School design and construction - 0 views

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    School design and construction
Tiffany Hoefer

Commonwealth of Learning - Training Educators - 0 views

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    Nice resource from which to pluck particular needs. Module 1 & 9 could help ict, module 2 with teaching theory, design principles, module 5 with methods of delivery and learner support - other modules could help back up theory and/or practice - modules for guides, needs analysis, etc.
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Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning David H. Rose & Anne Meyer ASCD, 2002 - 0 views

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    Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning David H. Rose & Anne Meyer ASCD, 2002
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A Talking Book for Africa | A World Bank Blog on ICT use in Education - 1 views

  • The 'Talking Book' is a low-cost audio device device with recording capabilities -- imagine a rubbery MP3 player about the size of a grapefuit -- rather ingeniously engineered (and re-engineered) to meet specific needs and usage scenarios in very poor communities in Africa.  It is designed for use in local languages, using locally produced content, as tool to promote literacy among primary school children (to cite just one goal and target group). One way to think of the device, Cliff said, is as a  'small portable computer without a display'.  While the project is still in its pilot stages, it is notable for its express interest in investigating solutions that are low cost and scalable from the beginning, and in rigorously monitoring and evaluating the impact of its interventions.
  • Literacy Bridge began, he said, with the idea that the most effective approach towards ending global poverty requires empowering people with better access to knowledge, and that those in greatest need are impeded by illiteracy, disability, and inadequate infrastructure. (Here's video from a talk Cliff gave at Google about the project's goals and approach to development.) The project is operationally very lean, supported financially by hundreds of individual donations and by thousands of volunteer hours. 
  • I have never heard a presentation from a project proponent about the development of an ICT device (of whatever sort) meant to be used by poor people that contained so many comments like what I heard from Cliff: "our users told us"; "we learned from our users that ..."; "what we found out when speaking with and observing our users caused us to radically change how we were thinking, and so we re-designed ..." etc.  The iterative, user-centric design process the Literacy Bridge has been engaged in to develop the Talking Book stands in stark contrast to that demonstrated by most (almost all?) of the 'ICT for development' initiatives in the education sector that come through our offices here at the World Bank. 
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Handbook of typical school design - Documents & Publications - Professional Resources - PreventionWeb.net - 2 views

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    "This document presents general practices of safe school construction and the retrofitting of existing school buildings through typical design and drawing of schools as developed and practised in Aceh and West Sumtra Earthquake Response programmes. The programmes aim to create greater awareness of safer school construction in new schools, while at the same time making sure that the existing school buildings are safe. It is based on good practices from Indonesia, the most seismic prone country in the world. It is intended to be used by other countries facing similar challenges as well as other organizations working on building the capacities of local authorities to effectively implement safe and child friendly school buildings."
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Teacher Evaluator Training & Certification: Lessons Learned From the Measures of Effective Teaching Project - 1 views

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    Teacher Evaluator Training & Certification: Lessons Learned From the Measures of Effective Teaching Project Makes recommendations for the design and implementation of programs to train and certify principals in conducting teacher evaluations, including content, format, and length of training, scoring practice, and criteria for certification tests.
Martyn Steiner

Project Based Learning - 2 views

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    Website that gives information of how to design a PBL project, and acts as a resource bank for existing PBL projects.
Tiffany Hoefer

Authentic Problem-based Collaborative Learning Practices for Professional Development in Teacher Education | OER Commons - 2 views

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    Reports on the use of PBL in initial teacher education itself i.e. for training teachers.
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    Research paper outlining the strategies of designing effective learning environments for multidisciplinary collaboration and problem-based learning and reports the effectiveness of those strategies. NCPEA peer reviewed/approved.
Tiffany Hoefer

Teaching Assistant's Handbook - Janet Kay - Google Books - 1 views

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    This is a free, online handbook that is designed for those who consider becoming involved in working as a teaching assistant with primary age children. The role of the teaching assistant has been expanded today, and those considering the role may be given responsibility for classroom teaching and management. Although one can purchase the book here, it can be read in its entirety for free. Nice resource to help us reaffirm some basics of teaching. Explains standards and gives some nice basic information.
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    can be read freely and could be a good link/resource for the curriculum. is copyrighted to author.
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A New Face of Education: Bringing Technology into the Classroom in the Developing World | MobileActive.org - 0 views

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    Our goal is to provide a broad overview of some of the common education challenges facing the developing world and the range of different technologies that are available to help address them. We look closely at the different enabling conditions that frequently shape the success or failure of technology interventions in education and derive a set of seven basic principles for effective technology use. These principles can provide guidance to decision-makers designing, implementing or investing in education initiatives. In doing so, we look both at the primary and secondary, as well as at the higher levels, of education systems.
Martyn Steiner

Education for an Information Age | Teaching in the Computerized Classroom | 7th Edition - 0 views

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    A *very* comprehensive e-book designed for K-12 teachers, seeking to support them in integrating ICT into their classrooms. Covers all manner of subjects, from details of hardware through to theoretical considerations.
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