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Paolo Friere's defined learning as an "act of knowing". The interaction used was between a teacher with his/her maximally systematised knowing and a learner, with minimally systematised learning.
Could we relate this model to two adult learners? To adult learners who, whilst not expert, were in charge of their own learning and so to some extent autonomous?
Elena Aguilar, an experienced K-12 educator, is an transformational leadership coach in the Oakland, Calif., school district.
Via Susan Bainbridge
Are you looking for an easy way to create an embeddable form? You can create a form from the survey builder and embed the form in any website or blog. You can create any type of question and then send out the URL or embed the form. Why is this different than other forms? It's easy and you can read the results or send yourself reports in an easy format. I tried other forms and got so frustrated with trying to read the results in a spreadsheet. I needed an easier way so converted the survey builder to forms with one click. You can even use the text editor to add images, embed videos, and more so each question or field is more visual. Go ahead and try it and let me know what you think! http://my-ecoach.com
This is a site about learning theorists that was developed by a team of educators. We wanted to provide thoughtful summaries of each theorist. We know we are missing some theorists and are still building the site. We have had thousands of graduate students use our site and provide input. Now I thought I'd open it to my PLN. Please check it out and give us feedback. Thanks - Barbara
"In this documentary Ruth McDonald meets Sir Ken Robinson on a return visit to Northern Ireland, where he's supporting Derry~Londonderry's plans as the first UK City of Culture in 2013. Plagued over years by violence, unemployment and mass emigration, Derry is a complex city. The organisers of the City of Culture see the year-long event as an opportunity to 'tell a new story' but already there have been bomb attacks by dissident terrorists. Sir Ken Robinson sees 2013 as a golden opportunity for Derry to become a 'creative city'. Ruth discovers how his ideas are being received."
Via Dennis Richards
Need to step up your social media marketing results? As someone who lives and breathes social media, I am seeing the power of this new way of marketing for business and education. This article provides some good tips on how to connect with your customers. Students and their families are your customers. Here's a few of the ways the author shares and how they can be used with educators: 1. Set up a Google+ hangout and meet on a personal level. Cool idea! How about using Google+ Hangouts for counseling, connecting to your families. 2. Set your goals and measure them. How do you want to use social media with your teachers and students? How about your families? Are they using social media? 3. Listen and respond. Maybe social media can be a great way to promote what is happening at your school. Lots of great ideas here.
With word that Facebook is testing a 'want' button to add to its stock of verbs, it got us wondering: How can we choose between the old standby 'like' and its not so distinct brother "want"?
By Andrea Kurland Substantial interview with Sir Ken Robinson -JL "If the first stage of leading a culture of innovation is acknowledging that ‘organisations are not mechanisms and people are not components’, stage two is accepting that there’s no quick fix. “There are all kinds of things that will get in the way of creativity, but there is no guaranteed formula for making it happen,” says Robinson. "He continues: “Very often people are looking for silver bullets: ‘How do we do it?’ There are rules and conventions you can learn from the past, but the great thing with creativity is there is always a chance you can come up with something completely different that no one has ever thought of before, and there is no set formula to get to that. It’s about recognising that this isn’t just about efficiency. It’s about a frame of mind. It’s a state of possibility that people have to engage with.”
Via Jim Lerman
TED Talks Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.
Via JackieGerstein Ed.D.
Ted-Ed offers lessons in the form of YouTube videos. There are 62 videos and 312 Flipped Lessons. You can watch, adapt or use them with your classroom, homework, or just to learn.
The flipped classroom is an exciting new instructional approach. As it is relatively new, much of the information about it only is available in the popular press. Little research can be found. On this page, I am pulling together what I can find relevant to flipped classrooms. Enjoy!
Via Susan Bainbridge, Jim Lerman
This guide is organized into two parts: Part One is a Guided Process
>Introduction
>Why Is PBL Important?
>What Is PBL About?
>How Does PBL Work? Part Two assigns readings and activities for experiential PBL.
Connected Learning.tv offers information and webinars about connected and participatory learning, production centered, peer culture, being networked, and reimagining the experience of education in the information age.
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Implementing the principles of universal design in online learning means anticipating the diversity of students that may enroll in your course and planning accordingly. These ten key elements will greatly enhance the accessibility and usability of your course for students with and without disabilities. Step 1: Develop content first, then design.
Step 2: Provide simple, consistent navigation.
Step 3: Include an accommodation statement.
Step 4: Choose CMS tools carefully.
Step 5: Model and teach good discussion board etiquette.
Step 6: Use color with care.
Step 7: Provide accessible document formats.
Step 8: Choose fonts carefully.
Step 9: Convert PowerPoint™ to accessible HTML.
Step 10: If it's auditory make it visual; if it is visual make it auditory. See explanation of these steps on www.ualr.edu
Via Kathleen McClaskey
Communities are based on trust and respect. Here are some ideas of building a learning community right from the beginning of school. This is a culture shift for many. A few tips for the first days of school including: - meet and greet each student at the door with a smile and a handshake.
- invite everyone to contribute to the class rules — include some off the wall, funny rules.
- use an icebreaker or have them tell a story so everyone has a voice the first few days. How would you build a community of learners where there is trust and respect?
The 21st century is already here but teachers are still talking about learning technology skills. Barbara takes a stance to flip learning so students are more involved. There is a lot of talk about flipping the classroom where the teacher is doing all the work. Let's focus back on the learner so they are doing the real work so they learn. They will need to unlearn to learn and relearn. This is a culture shift. How about teachers being partners in learning with their learners It is already 12 years into this century and several generations have been 21st century learners and only know digital.
As I recall, I was thinking about networking as part of the DNA of connectivism, and the DNA comment elicited a comment from Stephen Downes about my confused attempt to reconcile connectivism and essentialism.
Via Susan Bainbridge
There’s no shortage of books, articles, blogs and journals focusing on the topic of leadership. Specifically, many write about the key behaviors, actions and experiences that are needed to achiev...
Via Susan Bainbridge
A visualization of geocoded tweets is a good illustration of how wide is the Twitter world (RT @TheAtlantic: Where do the world's tweets come from? And the Twitter world is growing. 140 characters at a time...
rethink how to conceptualise the relationship between projects and CoPs. In many organisations projects are the lifeblood. It’s how things get done. These projects consist of teams striving to kick goals and hit targets. Communities of practice, on the other hand, are designed for learning and improving the capabilities of their members.
Be aware of the insidious and unspoken lessons you learned as a child. To thrive in the world outside the classroom, you’re going to have to unlearn them.
I met John Boyer and saw him present a session on his instructional methods at SXSWedu 2012 in March of this year. While there is a bit more flexibility at the college level, I do think that some of his strategies could be equally effective at the secondary level in terms of engaging a diverse group of students and providing them with more options & choice in terms of accessing content and demonstrating learning. -- SDS
Via Stephanie Sandifer
My focus is the key importance of spatial awareness in redesigning spaces for learning. I hope the second decade of this century will be marked by an awareness that redesigning spaces will be as important to change processes, as describing the new skills deemed necessary for learning and career creation in the last decade. I will focus on our journey of change as a case study for education redesign.
Via JackieGerstein Ed.D.
Masola: "one universal value that seems to be truistic: good, quality #education can change the world"
Via Susan Bainbridge
Here is a shambles.net website that compiles links and resources about a topic that include SlideShares, YouTube videos, podcasts, infographics, twitter streams using the hashtag #flippedclassroom, and Prezis.
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