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Keith Hamon

elearnspace. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age - 1 views

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    Behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism are the three broad learning theories most often utilized in the creation of instructional environments. These theories, however, were developed in a time when learning was not impacted through technology. Over the last twenty years, technology has reorganized how we live, how we communicate, and how we learn. Learning needs and theories that describe learning principles and processes, should be reflective of underlying social environments.
Keith Hamon

AJET 26(3) Drexler (2010) - The networked student model for construction of personal le... - 0 views

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    Principles of networked learning, constructivism, and connectivism inform the design of a test case through which secondary students construct personal learning environments for the purpose of independent inquiry. Emerging web applications and open educational resources are integrated to support a Networked Student Model that promotes inquiry-based learning and digital literacy, empowers the learner, and offers flexibility as new technologies emerge. The Networked Student Model and a test case are described in detail along with implications and considerations for additional research.
Keith Hamon

Connectivism - PhD Wiki - 1 views

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    Maintaining that learning theories should be reflective of underlying social environments, Siemens (2004) describes the limitations of behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism (and the epistemological traditions which underpin them - objectivism, pragmatism and interpetivism - and their representations of what is reality and knowledge) to introduce connectivism as 'a learning theory for the digital age.'
Keith Hamon

Connectivism - The Full Wiki - 0 views

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    Connectivism, "a learning theory for the digital age," has been developed by George Siemens and Stephen Downes based on their analysis of the limitations of behaviourism, cognitivism and constructivism to explain the effect technology has had on how we live, how we communicate, and how we learn.
Keith Hamon

A Simple Guide To 4 Complex Learning Theories - Edudemic - 1 views

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    This helpful infographic does a solid job of breaking down the basics of learning theories in a visual and understandable format.
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tengrrl v2.0 | p e d a b l o g i c a l - 0 views

  • Begin by establishing reasons for students to connect.
  • In the writing classroom, personal stories can be the best way to build quick connections
  • ask students to talk about their work as writers—their best work, their pet peeves, and their biggest challenges.
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  • Tend the fledgling connections writers make with activities that talk explicitly about community.
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    How do you take a group of individual, unrelated people and connect them in a supportive community quickly? … Here are some answers.
Keith Hamon

When Teaching the Right Answers Is the Wrong Direction | Edutopia - 0 views

  • Step off the soapbox, tone down that direct teaching, and become wondrous and inquisitive right along side your students. Take a break from what you are expert at and delve into unknown territory with new content, activities, or a concept. Here are ways to get started:
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      In QEP terms, this means ceasing to be THE content deliverer and become a co-content explorer and generator with your students.
  • Begin and end a lesson, unit, or project with an essential question or two. These are overarching questions that do not have a definitive answer
  • Take every opportunity to express to your students that you have no idea about an answer, even if you have to fake it a little.
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  • Dwindle down those teacher sentences that start with "This means" and replace them with, "I wonder," "What if," and "How might?"
  • Give students plenty of think time. When you stop rushing, students may seem a bit shocked and may even believe it to be some sort of trick or hidden tactic.
  • Be mindful of your tone. Try replacing a flat, authoritative, expert-sounding one with -- and this might sound corny -- a singsong intonation, the one we use when we are whimsically curious.
  • Make your classroom a place of wonderment.
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    Students are all too often on a quest for the Correct Answers, which has little to do with critical-thinking development. Our schools are about competition, merits, awards, and how to earn the Golden Ticket -- giving the right answers. And this focus often starts as early as kindergarten.  … Studies show that getting answers wrong actually helps students learn.
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http://family.lskc.edu.hk/files/dwn/LearningWithWeblogs.pdf - 1 views

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    Study of blogging in higher ed information systems course suggests that blogging is a significant predictor for learning outcomes while traditional coursework is not, that blogging has the highest predictive power for high & low students but much less for medium performers, and that blogging has a positive learning effect.
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