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Mary Ann Scott

Materials for Faculty: Methods: Syllabus and Assignment Design - 0 views

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assignment design

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  • Are your goals for the course significantly content-directed?
  • Is one of the goals of your course to introduce students to the important research and writing conventions of your particular discipline?
  • Is the primary purpose of your course to improve your students' critical thinking skills?
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  • Professors who don't use writing prompts argue that an important part of scholarship is learning to raise questions that will yield a good academic argument
  • Whatever you decide, do note that a prompt-less writing assignment needs a good infrastructure in order to succeed
    • Mary Ann Scott
      Mary Ann Scott on 30 Mar 11
       
      a "good infrastructure" is essential in any assignment, not just English/Composition assignments.
  • Consider what you want the assignment to do, in terms of the larger thematic goals of your course.
  • Consider what kinds of thinking you want students to do
  • your prompt should address the importance of context and suggest things that you want students to consider as they write
  • Provide context
  • Break the assignment down into specific tasks
  • Break the assignment down into specific questions
  • Craft each sentence carefully
  • Be clear about what you don't want
  • Be clear about the paper requirements
  • Try to write (or at least to outline) the assignment yourself
    • Mary Ann Scott
      Mary Ann Scott on 30 Mar 11
       
      While this can't be done for all assignments, choosing a few pivotal moments to model for your students will have a significant impact on how they learn overall.
  • Discuss the assignment with the class
  • Mary Ann Scott on 30 Mar 11
     
    Some excellent questions for building an assignment. Look beyond the writing assignment pedagogy to the general aspects of any assignment.
Stephanie Cooper

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/HR2011.pdf - 0 views

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HorizonReport technology trends education 2011

shared by Stephanie Cooper on 07 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Stephanie Cooper on 07 Apr 11
     
    The internationally recognized series of  Horizon Reports is part of the New Media Consortium's Horizon Project, a comprehensive research venture established in 2002 that identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact over the coming five years on a variety of sectors around the globe. This volume, the  2011 Horizon Report, examines emerging technologies for their potential impact on and use in teaching, learning, and creative inquiry. It is the eighth in the annual series of reports focused on emerging technology in the higher education environment. 
Mary Ann Scott

Designing Effective Online Assignments - Do Your Job Better - The Chronicle of Higher E... - 1 views

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effective designing assignments online

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    • Mary Ann Scott
      Mary Ann Scott on 30 Mar 11
       
      This is a good goal.
    • Mary Ann Scott
      Mary Ann Scott on 30 Mar 11
       
      Be sensitive to both what you are looking for from the student and what they may be bringing to their approach to the assignment. It may depend on the level of the course or the student and his experience with writing in general.
    • Mary Ann Scott
      Mary Ann Scott on 30 Mar 11
       
      When it's possible
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    • Mary Ann Scott
      Mary Ann Scott on 30 Mar 11
       
      We definitely want them thinking rather than filling in the blanks. A well-written prompt gives them a clear framework where they can learn and share their their insights clearly.
    • Mary Ann Scott
      Mary Ann Scott on 30 Mar 11
       
      I don't know why my highlighter isn't working here. Scope is an important element for the student to understand, especially if you are going to evaluate their work based on specific criteria. While writing should be considered as a learning tool, it is also an assessment tool that is usually attached to a grade. Give them the tools for success.
Keith Hamon

Gibbon Fairfax Winthrop - 1 views

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iPad

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  • Keith Hamon on 18 Oct 11
     
    "This is the second year of the GFW High School One-to-One iPad Initiative where every GFW High School student has access to an iPad tablet to use in their classes. Students can use their iPad: -as an organizational tool to track assignments, homework and class projects. -to access the internet to research information needed for class projects. -to create on-line presentations -to word process class papers and projects -to run a variety of applications to enhance their learning experience in class -to read electronic books, tests, newspapers and magazines"
Stephanie Cooper

Technorati - 0 views

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Education 2.0 education blog search technorati elearning

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  • Stephanie Cooper on 19 Oct 11
     
    Searching blogs through a service such as Technorati.com will help identify new repositories of learning objects: videos, etc. to use in your lessons.
Keith Hamon

10 Unique Lesson Ideas for BYOD and BYOT | Getting Smart - 3 views

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Sarah Cargill BYOD BYOT mLearning Education 2.0 Web 2.0 elearning

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  • Keith Hamon on 20 Oct 11
     
    "Bring your own device (BYOD) and bring your own technology (BYOT) policies are growing in education and the workplace. Teachers are taking advantage of mobile devices for "m-learning,""
  • Keith Hamon on 20 Oct 11
     
    These techniques can provide lots of access points to information.
Stephanie Cooper

32 Habits That Make Thinkers - 2 views

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critical thinking thinkers learning higher education thinking education

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  • So below are 32 habits–or strategies, actions, or behaviors–that can lead to that critical shift that moves students from mere students to learners who are able to think critically for themselves.
  • Stephanie Cooper on 14 May 14
     
    Very interesting thoughts.  How many of these traits do you have?  This might be an interesting introductory class activity that can help students determine how engaged they are with their studies and the world.  
Keith Hamon

How the Flipped Classroom Is Radically Transforming Learning - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smar... - 1 views

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Jonathan Bergmann Aaron Sams flip teaching technology elearning social networking PLN Education 2.0 Web 2.0 connectivism JiTT

shared by Keith Hamon on 18 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • One of the greatest benefits of flipping is that overall interaction increases: Teacher to student and student to student.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 18 Jan 11
       
      This interaction across the network of a classroom is key to QEP's approach to education.
  • Keith Hamon on 18 Jan 11
     
    Flipping the classroom has transformed our teaching practice.  We no longer stand in front of our students and talk at them for thirty to sixty minutes at a time.  This radical change has allowed us to take on a different role with our students.
Keith Hamon

Brainstorm in Progress: Why MOOCs Work - 2 views

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Geoff Cain connectivism elearning Education 2.0 social networking

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  • Keith Hamon on 20 Jul 12
     
    For Connectivism, the medium is the message - teaching Connectivism any other way than a MOOC is as ridiculous as buying a book about free, open text books from Amazon.Com. I hope that the critics of MOOCs take the time to actually take a course, even as a lurker - they will gain immensely from the experience, and who knows? They might even learn something.
Stephanie Cooper

What Will Higher Education Look Like in 25 Years? - 1 views

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higher education future technology Education 2.0 elearning

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  • Futurists surveyed for The Future of Higher Education report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project pontificated on what higher education would look like in 2020. Thirty-nine percent said higher education wouldn’t look much different than it does today. But 60 percent said higher education would be different, complete with mass adoption of teleconferencing and distance learning. In their written responses, however, many of them painted scenarios that incorporated elements of both.
  • Futurists view the coming decades as an opportunity for teacher/student relationships to occur almost purely through technology — an approach known as technology-mediated education. But faculty members look to maintain the university model that’s been in place for centuries, with a sprinkle of technology integration.
Keith Hamon

What You Need to Know About MOOCs - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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MOOC online learning MOOCs elearning Education 2.0 connectivism

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  • Keith Hamon on 26 Mar 13
     
    Colleges and professors have rushed to try a new form of online teaching known as MOOCs-short for "massive open online courses." The courses raise questions about the future of teaching, the value of a degree, and the effect technology will have on how colleges operate. Struggling to make sense of it all? On this page you'll find highlights from The Chronicle's coverage of MOOCs.
Keith Hamon

Five Ways to Flip Your Classroom With The New York Times - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Holly Epstein Ojalvo Shannon Doyne flipped classroom

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  • Keith Hamon on 22 Apr 13
     
    Five ways to use The New York Times to "flip" your classroom.
Keith Hamon

2012 KPCB Internet Trends Year-End Update - 0 views

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Mary Meeker edFutures mobile learning trends

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  • Keith Hamon on 07 Feb 13
     
    Slide show of data about Internet growth and developments.
Keith Hamon

Flipped Learning Journal - Welcome - 0 views

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flipped classroom

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  • Keith Hamon on 05 Feb 13
     
    An online journal about flipping the classroom, mostly grade school.
Keith Hamon

The Writing Revolution - Peg Tyre - The Atlantic - 0 views

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writing Peg Tyre critical thinking writing to learn

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  • Keith Hamon on 24 Oct 12
     
    Deirdre DeAngelis began a detailed investigation into why, ultimately, New Dorp's students were failing. By 2008, she and her faculty had come to a singular answer: bad writing. Students' inability to translate thoughts into coherent, well-argued sentences, paragraphs, and essays was severely impeding intellectual growth in many subjects. Consistently, one of the largest differences between failing and successful students was that only the latter could express their thoughts on the page.
Thomas Clancy

Educanto Marches On - Paul Greenberg - [page] - 1 views

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back-to-basics Education 2.0

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  • It's a firm rule in educanto: The vaguer the idea, the wordier its description.
  • the educantists' inflated language is a sure sign of their insecurity, which they try to mask by ever more convoluted language. Pretension remains the first symptom of a profession unsure of itself.
  • American society's in this postmodern, robotic, deconstructed age. We confuse data with information, information with knowledge and knowledge with wisdom.
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  • if a quality can't be quantified -- like intuition, say, or poetry or faith or insight -- it doesn't exist. At least not to the well-trained mind. With each such "reform" in basic education, the basics grow dimmer. We seem bent on learning more and more about less and less till we finally succeed in knowing everything about nothing.
  • Thomas Clancy on 26 Jun 12
     
    I'm not familiar with this term "Educanto," but the article hits a concept that is close to us--assessment. If "grades" don't reflect a grasp of "basics," then what is it that we want to measure?
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