one component of mobile implementation is lecture podcasts, which allow students to consume much of the information typically delivered in the classroom on their own time and in their own dorm rooms.The idea is to free up teachers during class time for interacting with students and working through problems, a concept known as “flipping the classroom.”
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Revisualizing Composition: Mapping the Writing Lives of First-Year College Students :: ... - 1 views
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The primary aim of this study is to generate a large and uniform data set that leads to a better understanding of the writing behaviors of students across a variety of institutions and locations. Working from the assumption that students lead complex writing lives, this study is interested in a broad range of writing practices and values both for the classroom and beyond it, as well as the technologies, collaborators, spaces, and audiences they draw upon in writing.
Using Diigo in the Classroom - Student Learning with Diigo - 1 views
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Diigo is a powerful information capturing, storing, recalling and sharing tool. Here are just a few of the possibilities with Diigo: Save important websites and access them on any computer. Categorize websites by titles, notes, keyword tags, lists and groups. Search through bookmarks to quickly find desired information. Save a screenshot of a website and see how it has changed over time. Annotate websites with highlighting or virtual "sticky notes." View any annotations made by others on any website visited. Share websites with groups or the entire Diigo social network. Comment on the bookmarks of others or solicit comments to your shared bookmarks. To learn more about how Diigo can be used as as information management tool, visit these pages:
Collaborative Learning in Asynchronous Learning Networks: Building Learning Communities. - 0 views
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This paper presents evidence that collaborative learning strategies, which require relatively small classes or groups actively mentored by an instructor, are necessary in order for World Wide Web-based courses to be as effective as traditional classroom courses.
4 Ways Mobile Tech Is Improving Education - 1 views
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This is a strong key for Writing. Realized.
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In a pilot project of the book, students preferred the book over their traditional textbooks (no assessments were taken to see if BioBook resulted in deeper understanding). A final version of the book, which will be piloted at four universities starting in September, will include analytics, multimedia, short quizzes and other options for teachers to interact with students.
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This is a delightful writing opportunity for students: write the textbook for the class. It also transcends the semester term by extending from class to class and term to term.
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Students around the world are increasingly bringing their own mini-computers (or some connected device) to class. Whether this creates a distraction or a boon to learning is debatable, but these four uses of mobile phones in education - and countless others - could one day help prove the latter.
How Thumbs Can Facilitate Discussion in the Classroom - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of H... - 0 views
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“Okay, show me with your thumbs what your opinion is of the draft in front of you. Thumbs up? Thumbs down?”
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This is similar to Facebook or Amazon ratings of items, crowd-sourcing assessment.
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A simple thumbs-up/down technique for peer assessment.
Connectivism and Affinity Spaces: Some Initial Thoughts : E1n1verse - 0 views
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Starting the notion of spaces, rather than community, [Paul Gee] argues, can give us an analytical lens with which to examine classrooms and the activities that occur within them without the baggage that community of practice brings with it.
ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views
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Writing in class gives students direct access to me as they think through their ideas.
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This is a key benefit of flipping the classroom.
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I suspect that many of us ask students to do some kind of writing in class: whether reflecting on the day's topic, responding to a brief prompt, or outlining their ideas. I include those kinds of writing-to-learn activities in my classes as well.
Mapping Novels with Google Earth - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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The use of models and other abstract forms in literary study has recently seen a revival in a digital age that puts data and sophisticated data management systems in the hands of the literary scholar, teacher, and student. Pedagogical applications of these abstract models are rich with possibility for the literary classroom, and offer exciting opportunities for engaging non-English majors and non-traditional learners in the advanced study of literature, as well as challenging students to verbally articulate visual and spatial knowledge.
Looking for "Flippable" Moments | Flip It Consulting - 0 views
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For me, the FLIP is when you “Focus on your Learners by Involving them in the Process”
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This is the moment when you stop talking at your learners and “flip” the work to them instead. This is the moment when you allow them to struggle, ask questions, solve problems and do the “heavy lifting” required to learn the material.
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Students can look up the content on their own and find the answer to a question within a matter of seconds. What they can’t always do on their own is analyze, synthesize, and experience the process of engaging in higher levels of critical thinking. This is when they need to do the messy work of learning, evaluating, and critiquing. This is when they need your structure and guidance, but not your answers. They have to make meaning for themselves. This is a “flippable moment.”
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This is what Oprah would call an "aha" moment. I've always wondered EXACTLY how to utilize the lecture-free time during class. This puts it into perspective.
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Great advice and tips for using the "Flipped" model
Creating a flipped video lesson using PowerPoint 2010 | Digital Education - 1 views
Eric Mazur on new interactive teaching techniques | Harvard Magazine Mar-Apr 2012 - 1 views
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This innovative style of learning grew into "peer instruction" or "interactive learning," a pedagogical method that has spread far beyond physics and taken root on campuses nationally. Last year, Mazur gave nearly 100 lectures on the subject at venues all around the world. (His 1997 book Peer Instruction is a user's manual; a 2007 DVD, Interactive Teaching, produced by Harvard's Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, illustrates the method in detail.)
450 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free | Open Culture - 4 views
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Download hundreds of free audio books, mostly classics, to your MP3 player or computer. Below, you'll find great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
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Keith, this is amazing, astounding, and literally science-fiction come to life for us oldsters -- throws the concept of "home schooling" into an entirely new light, not to mention expanding the conventional classroom. In just poking around a little at the site, I also found "gutenberg.org" and "librivox.org" mentioned as sources of more and more treasures. Thanks for this gift!
From the Campfire to the Holodeck: Creating Engaging and Powerful 21st Century Learning... - 0 views
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Author David Thornburg explores the importance of a balanced learning environment. An article by The Atlantic sums up his main ideology. http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/11/lectures-didnt-work-in-1350-and-they-still-dont-work-today/281514/
Lectures Didn't Work in 1350-and They Still Don't Work Today - Hope Reese - The Atlantic - 1 views
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To be read with "From the Campfire to the Holodeck: Creating Engaging and Powerful 21st Century Learning Environments"
Personal Learning Network - 2 views
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An important part of learning is to build your own personal learning network -- a group of people who can guide your learning, point you to learning opportunities, answer your questions, and give you the benefit of their own knowledge and experience.
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Okay, so PLNs as an educational concept have been around for a while, at least since 1998. And not just in education, but in the "real world." The significant change today is that we cannot speak of PLNs without talking about online networks.
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we are all inundated with data (Stage 1) -- all those manuals, brochures, memos, letters, reports, and other printed material that cross our field of vision every day, not to mention all that we receive electronically
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Data overload has simply been complicated and exacerbated by the Internet. We have WAY more data than we can possibly deal with. We have moved from an age of information scarcity to information glut.
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when you take data and give it relevance and purpose, you create information. Information (Stage 2) is the minimum we should be seeking for all of our learning activities.
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This is a key component of QEP: to find ways to make the class data relevant and purposeful information-purposeful beyond simply making a good grade. We suspect that most students never move beyond memorizing the class data so that they can repeat it on the test and then forget it. They never turn the data into useful and purposeful information, much less turn the data into knowledge or wisdom.
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An important part of learning is to build your own personal learning network -- a group of people who can guide your learning, point you to learning opportunities, answer your questions, and give you the benefit of their own knowledge and experience.
Reflections on open courses « Connectivism - 0 views
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MOOCs reduce barriers to information access and to the dialogue that permits individuals (and society) to grow knowledge.
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We have yet to truly explore this reduction of barriers to information access, but it is emerging before our eyes. When lectures by Nobel-prize physicists and writers are online for free, then what do we local physics and English teachers have to offer our classrooms? We need to think through that.
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Knowledge is a mashup. Many people contribute. Many different forums are used. Multiple media permit varied and nuanced expressions of knowledge. And, because the information base (which is required for knowledge formation) changes so rapidly, being properly connected to the right people and information is vitally important.
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This captures nicely the shift from learning as a solitary activity within the individual mind to learning as a networked, interconnected activity within a personal learning network.
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MOOCs share the process of knowledge work – facilitators model and display sensemaking and wayfinding in their discipline. They respond to critics, to challenges from participants in the course. Instead of sharing only their knowledge (as is done in a university course) they share their sensemaking habits and their thinking processes with participants. Epistemology is augmented with ontology.
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Online, our knowledge-making becomes explicit, and we shift from traditional teaching methods back to older apprenticeship methods. We let our students see us struggle to create new knowledge out of data and experience.
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Siemens' thoughts about the impact of open courses on learning and the Academy.
Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: 5 Steps to Digitizing the Writing Workshop #edchat #writing - 3 views
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Expecting students to write in our classrooms for hit-or-miss praise is criminal. Their nimble fingers can text an entire piece of writing via their mobile device to a relevant audience online at the same time they publish to a worldwide network. For them, the pay is in the joy of publication, in the act of making their work known, and of partaking of the work of others.
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This is a big part of the intrinsic, and fun, motivation for writing online.
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Take advantage of over 20 digital tools for students (Sidebar #2 - Digital Tools for Students).
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You can easily transition from notes and highlights kept in Diigo.com social bookmarking tool to a written piece that appropriately cites content. Check Sidebar #3 for Electronic Citation Resources.
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This article is about 5 steps you can take, as a writing teacher, to digitize your writing workshop. There are many more, though, so "stay tuned" for future articles!
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