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Electronic Journal for the Integration of Technology in Education - 0 views

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learning_styles

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  • Characters in alphabets began as pictures with meaning (West, 1997).
  • As history repeats itself, we may find that a great deal of information is better presented visually rather than verbally.
  • culture's
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  • predominant mode of literacy depends on the technology and mass media it embraces (Sinatra, 1986).
  • Kellner (1998) proposes that multiple literacies are necessary to meet the challenges of today's society, literacies that include print literacy, visual literacy, aural literacy, media literacy, computer literacy, cultural literacy, social literacy, and ecoliteracy.
  • Learning through orderly, sequential, verbal-mathematical, left-hemisphere tasks is a pattern seen frequently in education (West, 1997). Those whose thought processes are predominantly in the right-hemisphere where visual-spatial and nonverbal cognition activities rule frequently may have difficulty capitalizing on a learning style that is not compatible with their abilities.
  • If visual literacy is regarded as a language, then there is a need to know how to communicate using this language, which includes being alert to visual messages and critically reading or viewing images as the language of the messages.
  • Technology, particularly the graphical user interface of the World Wide Web, requires skills for reading and writing visually in order to derive meaning from what is being communicated.
  • Because visual literacy precedes verbal literacy in human development,
  • learning evolves from the concrete to the abstract; visual symbols are nonverbal representations that precede verbal symbols (Sinatra, 1986).
  • West (1997) conveys an innovative mathematics approach whereby students “do” mathematics rather than “watch” mathematics. The technique emphasizes learning through interactive graphics without words. “The words go into an idea only after the idea has already settled in our mind”(West, p.
  • The literature suggests that using visual elements in teaching and learning yields positive results.
Cindy Edwards

PRESS RELEASE: USDLA 2013 International Awards Presented for Excellence in Distance Lea... - 0 views

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distance learning

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  • Cindy Edwards on 01 May 13
     
    Congratulations to all those receiving a USDLA 2013 award for their work in distance learning.
Cindy Edwards

What are the 4 R's Essential to 21st Century Learning? | HASTAC - 0 views

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education

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  • Cindy Edwards on 21 Mar 13
     
    What are the 4 $'s Essential to 21st Century Learning?  This is an intriguing article.  I would be interested in hearing your thoughts.  Go to my facebook page:  www.facebook.com/tech4edbuffet to share.
Cindy Edwards

Are You Ready for Mobile Learning? (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE.edu - 0 views

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ipads

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  • Avoid overly complex material that includes lots of facts and figures. Complex subject matter is often more effectively conveyed through handouts and readings than through a podcast.
  • Always keep in mind the learner's context when selecting content for a podcast.
  • Only use lectures as podcasts when you have a strong pedagogical rationale for doing so.
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  • imit the scope of the content to only a few main themes.
  • Cindy Edwards on 26 May 13
     
    This article is a good overview of mobile learning and not just ipods and ipads.
Cindy Edwards

Learning Analytics: Lots of Education Data... Now What? - 0 views

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    Do you know what learning analytics is?
Cindy Edwards

Are You Ready to Flip? - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education. - 0 views

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flipped classroom

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  • A good teacher always knows where they're headed, and that is never more important than with the flipped classroom
  • you absolutely must begin by first deciding what the end product looks like.
  • quality learning resources. 
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  • ent students learn well in a variety of ways, and the resources we supply should provide multiple avenu
  • it is up to the teacher to provide the students with opportunities in class to place the content they learned into context. 
  • Cindy Edwards on 19 May 13
     
    Good information for those you have and have not ventured into the flipped classroom.
Cindy Edwards

Practical Ways to Use Digital Images in Teaching and Learning - JISC Digital Media - 0 views

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learning_styles

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  • To encourage team work and foster collaboration and the sharing of a learning experience (e.g. group-based project work)
Cindy Edwards

Critical Issue: Technology Leadership - 0 views

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Leadership

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  • ISSUE: Knowledgeable and effective school leaders are extremely important in determining whether technology use will improve learning for all students.
  • on leadership qualities of superintendents and principals, responses to change, and effective uses of technology as major themes associated with technology leadership.
  • This Critical Issue uses several definitions of leadership. In Leadership Without Easy Answers, Heifetz (1994) says leadership is a change or adaptive process "to address conflicts in the values people hold, or to diminish the gap between the values people stand for and the reality they face" (p. 22). In The Elements of Leadership, Noonan (2003) defines leadership as "developing potential and building community" (p. 3). In Developing the Leader Within You , Maxwell (2000) defines leadership as simply "influence."
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      In the definitions of leadership given, it is intriguing to see, whether it is a long or short definition, the variety and different characteristics given to leadership.
  • "At a minimum, we can be sure they [school districts] want someone who can carry out a long list of specific duties. The new principal will be expected to arrange class schedules, resolve discipline problems, administer a labor contract, evaluate teachers, and apply the oil of public relations to points of friction with the community. And that's just in the morning." (Lashway, Mazzarella, & Grundy, 1995, p. 15)
  • Identifying and articulating an organizational vision. Fostering acceptance of group goals. Having high performance expectations. Providing appropriate models. Providing intellectual stimulation. Developing a strong school culture (Lashway, Mazzarella, & Grundy, 1995, pp. 60-62)
  • A strong sense of moral purpose. An understanding of the dynamics of change. An emotional intelligence as they build relationships. A commitment to developing and sharing new knowledge. A capacity for coherence making (enough coherence on the edge of chaos to still be creative). (Fullan, 2002, p. 15)
  • (1) the coordination and maintenance of the organization as a whole, and (2) the purpose and direction of the organization
  • Vision and moral purpose
  • Relationships
  • Complexity:
  • Change
  • School leaders at all levels must collaborate with staff members and school personnel to create a vision for the future and a process for change, ensuring that schools and school districts are viable and thriving learning communities for students, staff, and community members.
  • The role of leaders and managers is to " be-in-the-world with responsibility "
  • in planning and policy creation within longer time horizons
  • more frequently with external organizational constituencies
  • more network development and consensus-building activities
  • broader and more comprehensive cognitive map or frame of reference of an organization and its environment
  • Successful leaders recognize that each situation may require them to modify their style or even stretch their typical or preferred way of working with others to meet the needs of people and the requirements of the situation:
  • Given the multifaceted nature of leadership, it becomes clear that transformational as well as versatile leadership skills are necessary in making decisions.
  • Clue sense
  • Cue sense
  • Negotiating sense
  • Perhaps the most important asset of an organization is people and their capacity to learn.
  • A strategic plan provides a blueprint for achieving educational excellence.
  • The change should have a clearly articulated reason that has urgency and a possible solution
  • Any needs assessment should accurately convey the internal and external weaknesses, challenges, strengths, and opportunities
  • A vision needs to define the why of the change,
  • be communicated to stakeholders at all levels
  • understood clearly
  • meaningful
  • specific actions, clearly visualized.
  • Possible different skill requirements in jobs
  • These reasons include the following: (1) the need to prepare students to function in an information-based, Internet-using society; (2) the need to make students competent in using tools found in almost all work areas; and (3) the need to make education more effective and efficient.
  • technology keeps changing
  • rarely provide optimal conditions
  • Technology's impact on teachers and their practice should be considered as important as student effects, for students move on but teachers remain to influence many generations of students." (p. 1)
  • technology may be most effective when it is used in
Cindy Edwards

Challenge Based Learning - Resilience on Vimeo - 0 views

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ipads

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    Australian school that used iPads for an Apple "Challenge Based Learning" project.
Cindy Edwards

Exploring the Use of the iPad for Literacy Learning - Hutchison - 2012 - The Reading Te... - 0 views

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ipad

shared by Cindy Edwards on 03 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • capabilities of a desktop or laptop computer, but with additional unique affordances, such as a multitouch screen and a seemingly endless variety of applications, that promote previously unseen possibilities for mobile learning.
  • digital, interactive books.
  • different affordances that create new modes of reading and writing
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  • digital texts can require different skills, strategies and dispositions, collectively referred to as new literacies
  • Yet, many literacy teachers still struggle to efficiently and effectively integrate and teach both traditional literacy skills and new literacy skills within a confined curriculum and with limited time (Hutchison & Reinking, 2011).
  • For example, the iPad has numerous downloadable books that allow students to read text with audio support, word-by-word tracking, and picture animation, with options for the reader to further interact by recording and replaying their own voice with the text. Other features of these books also include the ability to acquire the definition and pronunciation of any word on the screen by simply touching it and to add notes or highlighting to any section of text by tapping the screen.
  • making the reading experience more individualized, interactive, and engaging
  • it is imperative to examine how the tool can help teachers meet curricular goals to engage in what has been termed curricular integration as opposed to technological integration (Hutchison & Reinking, 2011).
  • one learning goal for her classroom was to focus on the reading comprehension strategy of visualization
  • selected a story from her basal reading series and then chose the pedagogical approach that would best teach the skill.
  • the researchers located an iPad app called Doodle Buddy that students could use to draw their illustrations
Cindy Edwards

K-12 Digital Learning Platform | Haiku Learning - 0 views

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e-learning

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  • Cindy Edwards on 09 Sep 14
     
    Need a LMS? Check out Haiku. Looks extremely easy to use with many features.
Cindy Edwards

Spelling & Vocabulary Website: SpellingCity - 0 views

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educational_games

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    For K-8 this is this ideal way for students to learn their weekly spelling words.
Cindy Edwards

Flipped Learning Network Ning - A professional learning community for teachers using sc... - 0 views

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flipped classroom

shared by Cindy Edwards on 19 May 13 - No Cached
  • Cindy Edwards on 19 May 13
     
    This is a great place if you are wanting to or are already using flipped classrooms.
Cindy Edwards

Best Websites for Teaching and Learning 2013 - @joycevalenza NeverEndingSearch - 0 views

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Websites

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  • Cindy Edwards on 08 Jul 13
     
    There something for everybody in this list!
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