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Stephanie Cooper

The Electric Educator: Using Google Calendar for Lesson Planning - 1 views

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  • A new feature currently in calendar labs adds the ability to attach a Google Doc to a calendar event. This makes using Google Calendar for lesson planning a powerful tool. After create a lesson or unit, you can share your calendar and relevant documents with other teachers in your building or district, fostering collaboration.
  • Stephanie Cooper on 30 Mar 10
     
    This site has a "how-to" video for using Google calendar to create and share lesson plans. This might be something useful for our QEP faculty to learn.
Keith Hamon

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.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 03 Aug 10
       
      This is a big part of the intrinsic, and fun, motivation for writing online.
  • Take advantage of over 20 digital tools for students (Sidebar #2 - Digital Tools for Students).
  • 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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  • reflect on the teacher's role in the writing workshop, and the technology available to organize the writing workshop.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 03 Aug 10
       
      One of our tasks in QEP is to devise tools and strategies to make the instructor's job easier, not more difficult. Technology can help, and we want to explore how.
  • Create a Self-Editing checklist that is actually a GoogleForm or the Questionnaire Module in Moodle so you can quickly see class progress in graphs. Students complete this information via a web-based form that allows you to quantitatively track progress in class. Create a bank of online mini-lessons that students can watch and listen to again and again in an archive. Build that in your GoogleSites Wiki or Moodle. Facilitate sharing using recording tools in a discussion forum or Sites wiki. When doing the Group Share during a Writing Workshop, you can either play the students' presentation of the audio (which they recorded when they were ready) or record the feedback students get so that it can be added to the written piece/recording shared. That way, students can come back and reflect on the advice provided by their peers.
  • Using a Moodle or wiki, you can create a reference point that can house your mini-lesson content, including audio and/or video recordings.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 03 Aug 10
       
      Perhaps we could build a mini-lesson space on the Writing Labs wiki?
  • VoiceThread.com - Enables teachers to create an enhanced podcast about the MiniLesson content, but also allow students to contribute audio, text, or video content as comments. This enables many to many interactions.
  • GoogleDocs Presentation Tool - Enables teachers to create a slideshow that students can participate in chat, as well as contribute slides to.
  • As wonderful as a writing workshop teacher may be, s/he cannot offer the feedback that ALL students may need. However, online discussion forums through Moodle, attached to wikis, or with blog postings and comments CAN facilitate student to student interaction independent of the teacher. While many fear these kinds of interactions, in online learning, these interactions make or break an online course...or a face to face one.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 03 Aug 10
       
      Fostering this kind of online conversation is key to QEP. It's what we are about, but we recognize that most of our students are unaccustomed to conversing about academic issues among themselves. We want to teach them to talk college.
  • Collaborative word processors can also serve as a way for students in groups to interact with ONE text online.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 03 Aug 10
       
      This is an excellent entry point into many different kinds of exercises: group editing, group writing, group brainstorming, group illumination (adding images and video). I like this.
  • Shelly Blake-Pollock, the teacher and author of the TeachPaperless blog (http://teachpaperless.blogspot.com), encourages his students to publish online. Beyond that step, though, he offers feedback on their writing online as well via screencasts, or video recording of his computer screen. Screencasts, or "JingCrits," that he creates are short, less than 5-minute video clips where he highlights student work on screen and offers feedback (View an example - http://bit.ly/bsgVQQ).
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 03 Aug 10
       
      This could be a wonderful strategy for moving our QEP Writing Labs into the online world, enabling writing specialists to engage student writing, and offer useful feedback, online.
  • Keith Hamon on 03 Aug 10
     
    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!
Stephanie Cooper

Learning through Presentations | The Thinking Stick - 2 views

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  • Stephanie Cooper on 11 Mar 14
     
    Example lesson for presentations using the pecha-kucha format.
Keith Hamon

What's the Trick to Building Community in the Classroom? | p e d a b l o g i c a l - 0 views

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  • the key to a successful community is “connecting a group of people online and making them feel a part of something special.” Students aren’t going to launch into discussion just because we throw them together. We have to give them reasons to connect.
  • Give students time to bond and make connections.
  • the class needs to do things together.
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  • community challenges can also be effective.
  • Consider community participation projects as well.
  • do all you can to encourage authentic conversation. Allow students to discuss topics freely and without fear of criticism.
  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    Online or off, getting students to talk to each other is a tricky task. … The FeverBee Primer About Successful Online Communities can help. While meant more for corporate and public community building, the lessons apply to the classroom just as well.
Keith Hamon

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

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  • 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:
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
       
      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.
  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    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.
Keith Hamon

Google Earth for Educators: 50 Exciting Ideas for the Classroom | Associate Degree - Fa... - 0 views

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Google Earth

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  • Keith Hamon on 18 Mar 10
     
    these exciting ways to use Google Earth are sure to infuse your lessons with plenty of punch.
Keith Hamon

AJET 27(2) Guo and Stevens (2011) - Factors influencing perceived usefulness of wikis f... - 0 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 05 Sep 11
     
    This study reports the findings of an investigation of the factors influencing the use and usefulness of wikis in an introductory, undergraduate information systems course. Informed by the media choice, technology acceptance model from information systems research, and group collaborative learning research from the education literature, a survey instrument was developed and administered across the entire course. The study found that wiki use was influenced by the student's prior expertise with wikis, with their perceived usefulness of wikis being strongly influenced by their teachers' attitudes towards the technology, and the ease of access to the wikis. The students' overall attitude towards wikis was largely influenced by the extent to which they saw wikis as helping with their assignment work, and their intention to use wikis in the future was driven by their perception of wiki's usefulness. The paper concludes with an outline of the lessons learned from the study and recommendations for instructors who are thinking of using wikis in their teaching.
Keith Hamon

Frontal Cortex | Wired Science | Wired.com - 0 views

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Jonah Lehrer neuroscience critical thinking pedagogy Learning failure

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  • Because the subjects were thinking about what they got wrong, they learned how to get it right.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 11
       
      This suggests one of the strengths of reflective writing & ungraded writing: a space where people can be free to fail without a grade penalty and then reflect on that failure and learn from it. This works very much against our usual drive to transfer the "right answer" to our students.
  • The problem with praising kids for their innate intelligence — the “smart” compliment — is that it misrepresents the psychological reality of education. It encourages kids to avoid the most useful kind of learning activities, which is when we learn from our mistakes. Because unless we experience the unpleasant symptoms of being wrong — that surge of Pe activity a few hundred milliseconds after the error, directing our attention to the very thing we’d like to ignore — the mind will never revise its models. We’ll keep on making the same mistakes, forsaking self-improvement for the sake of self-confidence. Samuel Beckett had the right attitude: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 11
       
      Let's find ways to reward those who are willing to stretch into failure and then learn from those experiments-NOT those who seek only the safe, sure answer.
  • Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 11
     
    The physicist Niels Bohr once defined an expert as "a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." Bohr's quip summarizes one of the essential lessons of learning, which is that people learn how to get it right by getting it wrong again and again. Education isn't magic. Education is the wisdom wrung from failure.
Keith Hamon

How Do You Teach Networking? - Do Your Job Better - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 09 Apr 11
     
    If business happens through networking, then what should I be doing to help my students understand both why, and how, to network? Do I have an obligation to teach the importance of networking to students in my English courses, or can I safely leave that lesson to my colleagues in the business department?
Keith Hamon

#PleaseHelp: Learning to Write (Again) on Twitter | Digital Is ... - 0 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 28 Jun 11
     
    My experiences with Twitter made me revisit important lessons as a writer and as a teacher of writing. What I learned through tweeting has applications for each writing teacher and writer.
Stephanie Cooper

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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

How To Easily Implement Blended Learning in the Classroom | WPLMS - 0 views

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  • you should set-up an introductory questionnaire or forum for them to introduce themselves and to ask any initial questions.
  • include a help forum
  • Topics on your LMS should include a course overview before students enter into the actual lessons and quizzes. The course overview can be as elaborate as you like, include videos, printable instructions, documents, and so forth.
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  • When possible, offer the content via audio, video, and text so that multiple learning styles are addressed.
  • The greatest part of introducing a blended learning approach to your classroom is that you can encourage (and manage) communication.
Keith Hamon

dy/dan » Blog Archive » Easy. Fun. Free. - 1 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 23 Mar 10
     
    If [x] is going to change teaching practice at scale, then [x] needs to be easy, fun, and free for both the teacher and her students. [x] needs to be all three of those things at the same time.
Keith Hamon

Every Child Is A Scientist | Wired Science | Wired.com - 0 views

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Jonah Lehrer learning ambiguity research problem-based learning problem solving Education 2.0 critical thinking

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  • The lesson of the research is that even little kids react to ambiguity in a systematic and specific fashion. Their mode of playing is really a form of learning, a way of figuring out how the world works. While kids in the unambiguous condition engaged in just as much play as kids in the ambiguous condition, their play was just play. It wasn’t designed to decipher the causal mechanisms of the toy.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 11
       
      The drive for the "correct answer" undermines the role of ambiguity in promoting creativity and critical thinking in students.
  • According to the psychologists, the different reactions were caused by the act of instruction. When students are given explicit instructions, when they are told what they need to know, they become less likely to explore on their own. Curiosity is a fragile thing.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 11
       
      In our drive to "cover the material," we too often destroy the very curiosity of our students that we so much want to encourage. And public ed has done such a fine job of destroying curiosity with its battery of standardized tests (one correct answer only), that even if we college profs try, we have to work against the learned behaviors and attitudes of our students, esp. our best students who have thoroughly learned & mastered the rote learning game. Free writing can help us create a space in our classes for experimentation and risk-taking, for creativity and critical thinking.
  • Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 11
     
    Pablo Picasso once declared: "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." Well, something similar can be said about scientists. According to a new study in Cognition led by Claire Cook at MIT, every child is a natural scientist. The problem is how to remain a scientist once we grow up.
Stephanie Cooper

Flipped Classroom: Beyond the Videos | Catlin Tucker, Honors English Teacher - 1 views

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  • Ramsey Musallam, defines “flip teaching” as “leveraging technology to appropriately pair the learning activity with the learning environment.” This flexibility is why technology has the potential to be so transformative in education.
  • The goal of the flipped classroom should be to shift lessons from “consumables” to “produceables.”
  • Blake-Plock makes a strong point when he says we learn by “doing.”
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  • In my presentations on the flipped classroom, I’ve advocated for 3 things that I think would make this model more appealing to most of educators:
  • Stephanie Cooper on 01 Apr 13
     
    This author presents a practical view of implementing the Flipped Classroom model.  
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