Social change is demonstrated through the change in public schooling from the pre-Civil war era to the late twentieth century. It is remarkable that such change in the way schools are organized too...
Lisa Durff Scenario 2, in which Bernie and Rita Turner founded Walden in order to provide a graduate education to people not economically able to seek doctoral degrees at traditional brick and mort...
Would Sputnik have been such a wake-up call to the nation if Dewey's ideas had not become so widespread in public education?
Week 2: Rubric for Defense of Innovation for Multimedia Presentation You identify and describe one innovation, including its potential use and benefit to your industry, as the topic of your course ...
Learning in a complex, chaotic system is not cyclical nor is it linear. The learning brain, i.e. any alive brain, resembles a jungle -> from Caine & Caine way long ago in undergrad work and I since...
How does your definition of educational technology reflect the times in which you live?
Week 1 Possible innovations: * Geocaching in schools - unsuccessful at my school * Podcasting - unsuccessful at my school * Online newspaper - unsuccessful and reverted to paper versio...
Reading Bruner interview in Nucci p.102: Aristotle claimed that stories begin with what is ordinary in the world and then there is something that intrudes upon the ordinary, some dissonant event. ...
I'm filling in a critical thinking chart from EDUC8112 to organize my thoughts. It is originally from Paula Dawidowicz.
I wrote on a pyramid of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs which "hat" a manager wear's for employees at the different levels. For the bottom, I didn't think any hat applied, since those are basic surviva...
Palloff, R. M., & Pratt, K. (2007). Building online learning communities: Effective strategies for the virtual classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Chapter 2 discusses community building in onlin...
Would mixing the behaviorist theory with Driscoll's definition of a learning theory give one a theory of learning which involves an observable and persistent change? Is there more or less to it?
Does our knowledge truly reside in the connections we form http://www.connectivism.ca/?p=116
I urge you all to thoughtfully listen to Steve Hargadon's Keynote for the reform symposium virtual conference last July while you consider the disruptions that have occurred in our epistemological,...
I think we all are familiar with Madeline Hunter's Lesson Plan Format. How does her lesson plan template compare with Keller's ARCS model?
I feel exceedingly ignorant of the fads they mention. Anyone else feel this way? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-JYFlacckuDFs_gQTL8ce0S8k-3xCGirN5NOumqqTcw/edit?hl=en
While reading the Kohlberg article, I took some notes: Kohlberg's levels: Level I. Pre-Moral Level Type 1. Punishment and obedience orientation. - Motive => Punishment by another. Type 2. Naive ins...
While reading the article, I took some notes: Module 3 Shaver notes Attachment as measured by the AAI (Adult Attachment Interview) , changes over the lifespan. Highly predictive of infants attachi...
Notes on Palloff Chap 2 Stages of Collaboration * Set the Stage * Create the Environment * Model the Process * Guide the Process * Evaluate the Process Tools for Collaboration * Explanation of Col...
