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USDLA article. Content and technology are continually changing. This article reminds us that learners are also changing. For the past decade, faculty who won awards for teaching expressed concern that they could no longer hold the attention of their students. John Seely Brown, Chief Scientist at Xerox and director of its Palo Alto Research Center, hired 15 year olds to design future work environments and learning environments. He observed that the students did not conform to the traditional image of learners as permissive sponges. It requires us to rethink and redesign education for the Digital Age.
Differentiated Instruction | Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age
This post offers a long list of links to ideas for or about differentiated learning
CITE Journal - General
This paper describes a framework for teacher knowledge for technology integration called technological pedagogical content knowledge (originally TPCK, now known as TPACK, or technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge). This framework builds on Lee Shulman’s construct of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) to include technology knowledge
Making Teaching Public: A Digital Exhibition
An exhibition slide show and accompanying discussion (pdf) address 3 questions: * What aspects of teaching and learning can best be represented using multimedia? * How can those aspects be represented with multimedia most effectively? * How can multimedia representations of teaching and learning be used to support teachers'
Half an Hour: Standards for Pedagogically Relevant Learning Environments - Where Are we?
Stephen Downes: standards for pedagogically relevant learning environments.Where are we?
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teachers
A post, by Milton Ramirez, paraphrasing the popular The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, a business self-help book. Secrets effective teachers put into practice: 1. They build confidence 2. They’re not afraid to make difficult decisions 3. They develop others 4. They’re good communicators 5. They’re non-conformists 6. They thrive in the company of others 7. They see the bigger picture But what makes teachers highly effective? We should start with two basic premises: Teachers are facilitators and not entertainers even though occasionally have to play that role. The second point to have in mind is that learners are not anymore the passive subject who only listens, new technologies put students in charge of the information they access, they are able to save, reformat and share it.
Enquiring Minds
Enquiring Minds is an approach to teaching and learning that takes students' ideas, interests and experiences as its starting point, and provides them with more responsibility for the direction and content of their learning. Free guide and supporting resources available online.
Socratic questioning
Socratic questioning seeks to get the other person to answer their own questions by making them think and drawing out the answer from them.
Technology's Impact on Learning Outcomes: Can It Be Measured? : May 2009 : THE Journal
A piece discussing the ongoing debate on the effectiveness of technology use for student learning outcomes. There still does not seem to be any clear answers. Recently, some institutions have decided to end their laptop programs for students because of the economic challenges facing those institutions
Digital Citizenship | the human network
Looks at social connectivity and digital citizenship, with an emphasis on youth. It is a Mark Pesce essay on digital citizenship: "This paper outlines the basic features of this new world we are hurtling towards, pointing out the obvious rocks and shoals that we must avoid being thrown up against, collisions which could dash us to bits."
Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning - Emerging Technologies for Learning
"This Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning (HETL) has been designed as a resource for educators planning to incorporate technologies in their teaching and learning activities." Web and PDF versions available. Cites research. Gives information about technologies, how can be used.
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What Works Well is a UK site that offers case studies of best-practise examples of strategies used to improve teaching and learning
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Educational Origami is a blog and a wiki, about the integration of ICT into the classroom. Its about 21st Century Learning and 21st Century Teaching
How To: Use Social-Networking Technology for Learning | Edutopia
Chris Lehmann, principal of Philadelphia's Science Leadership Academy explains why teachers should embrace networking and how they can use it
History Engine: Tools for Collaborative Education and Research | Home
A University of Richmond project tool is designed to provide a way for teachers in higher education to have their students share their writing about history with the world. The purpose is to develop a huge online database of stories about historical events.
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