Dr. Jill Klefstad (klefstadj)'s Public Profile in the Diigo Community

Member since Jun 16, 2009, follows 2 people, 2 public groups, 22 public bookmarks (28 total).

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Recent Bookmarks and Annotations

Homeless Home Page on 2009-10-29
- Ending homelessness requires housing combined with the types of services
  supported by HHS programs.
How Can We Teach Critical Thinking? ERIC Digest. on 2009-09-04
- "It really boils down to whether teachers are creating an environment that
  stimulates critical inquiry."
- types of thinking skills
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- - teaching students to think while reading
The Art of Critical Thinking-pse on 2009-07-25
21st Century Teacher on 2009-07-15
- We too must continue to absorb experiences and knowledge
- We must model the behaviours that we expect from our studen
CAT: Strategies for Engaging Students on 2009-07-15
- ursue their own questions and interests whenever possible (in discussion, on pro
- talk to students about what is going right/wrong (use classroom assessment
  techniques)
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- - Encourage Student Self-Reflection on Learning
Active Learning on 2009-07-15
- a variety of strategies or pedagogical projects designed to place the primary
  responsibility for creating and/or applying knowledge on the shoulders of
  students
- Bonwell and Eison define active learning as "instructional activities involving
  students in doing things and thinking about what they are doing
Student centered classroom on 2009-07-15
- the teacher shares control of the classroom and students are allowed to
  explore, experiment, and discover on their own. Their diverse thoughts and
  perspectives are a necessary input to every class.
- Student centered classrooms focus on the needs and abilities of students (rather
  than the adults) and on topics that are relevant to the students’ lives,
  needs, and interests.
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- - there is a higher motivation to learn as students feel they have a real stake in
    their own learning
  - focused on quality and continuous improvement
Critical Evaluation Information on 2009-07-12
IMSA Evaluation Wizard on 2009-07-12
Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger and communities of practice on 2009-06-28
- learning involved a process of engagement in a 'community of practice'.
- Communities of practice are formed by people who engage in a process of
  collective learning in a shared domain of human endeavour
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- - However, members are brought together by joining in common activities and by
    'what they have learned through their mutual engagement in these activities'
    (Wenger 1998).
  - shared practice
  - The domain
  - 'It has an identity defined by a shared domain of interest
  - commitment to the domain
  - shared competence
  - The community
  - joint activities and discussions
  - build relationships that enable them to learn from each other'
  - develop a shared repertoire of resources:
  - organizing around some particular area of knowledge and activity gives members a
    sense of joint enterprise and identity
  - develop various resources
  - social relationships – situations of co-participation
  - concept of situatedness involves people being full participants in the world and
    in generating meaning.
  - formal education institutions have been less ready to embrace these ideas.
  - Learning is in the relationships between people
  - Educators work so that people can become participants in communities of
    practice
  - There is an intimate connection between knowledge and activity

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Groups

E-Learning for Educators

154 members, 1329 items

A group for participants in UW-Stout's E-Learning for Educators online class.
Social Studies Fall 2009

20 members, 105 items

This site will share the resources students used to create a unit in Social Studies. The categories of Political Science, Economics, Behavioral Science, Geography and History will be covered in the unit.