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4 Stages: The Integration Of Technology In Learning

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From www.teachthought.com - April 21, 2013 7:28 PM
What are the stages of technology in learning, and how can these stages be used as a framework for improving learning?
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This post is an infographic plus a description of four stages that one might use to view integration of technology in learning. After considering a variety of ways that technology might be used the 4 stages are introduced and described. The infographic provides additional information on the learning process as well as how digital media also plays a role.

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Drora Arussy's comment, April 24, 2013 7:06 AM
Emerging, Engaging, Extending and Empowering, that is wonderful! Technology can be used across the board, and definitely empowers/self-directs. You're right they do line up.
Bobbi Capwell's curator insight, May 6, 2013 9:10 AM

Good explanation of how to bridge integration to learning
Jody Beesley-Lazarski's curator insight, October 13, 2014 11:31 AM

Digital Media, included music, video, game based learning and various digital platforms are discussed in this article about how to effectively  integration these technologies into class curriculum.
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Moving Beyond KWL Charts To Assess Prior-Knowledge

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From www.teachthought.com - March 12, 2013 10:08 PM

"Recently, a curriculum coordinator at a Montreal IB World school asked me how we might assess students’ prior knowledge without using the standard KWL chart format.

It occurred to me that one of the most powerful means of challenging students to think of what they already know is by using a problematic scenario. Such a scenario is usually a complex, ill-structured situation that embeds within it significant curricular concepts that stimulates inquiry at the beginning of a unit and can be used as one of the summative assessments."

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Have you considered moving the KWL Chart into a new realm? This post provides a number of examples about how you can move the chart to be one that addresses inquiry, helping learners become more self-directed. Below is one way to look at what the KWL might stand for...and check out the post for some great examples! (The text below is quoted from the post.)

* K  What do we already know about the problem?  Identify important facts. (Kinds of ingredients? 8 and 24? birthday party? How to multiply and divide?)

* W  What do we need to find out? What are they asking us to do?  What’s the problem to solve?

* H  How will we go about finding out how to make 24 cookies?  What’s our plan?

* L  What are we learning along the way?  At the end of the process?

 

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Darren Smith's curator insight, March 13, 2013 11:36 PM

 Already use aversion of this with my classes KWIRL. The focus is on the I for inquiry, the HOW? of student engagement, R is knowing exactly what the REPORT form is so that you and students can work together to backward map and co-construct rubrics so that they have an enhanced undressing of what the LEARNT.
Delia Esquivel-Pearsons's curator insight, January 31, 2014 2:02 PM

Creative!
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27 Actions That Promote Self-Directed Learning

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From www.teachthought.com - March 19, 2013 10:04 PM

"So I'm trying to better understand how people learn--not now they're taught in terms of teaching strategies, but more so learning strategies--only not really strategies...Learning actions, or cognitive actions."

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How can we help out students become more self-directed in their learning? What tools can we provide them with to help them become self-directed learners (using 21st century tools and skills)? 

This post provides a list of 27 actions. The post states:

"The big idea is that these kinds of “brain actions” are not only the kinds of tasks you can use to create assignments, but more importantly are the kinds of acts that promote inquiry-based understanding. So rather than start with a topic–fractions, metaphors, or racism–you can simply insist on the cognitive action itself. Learners can choose topics of their own, or you can offer a range of topics."

With that as a background five of the actions are listed below. There is additional material in the post as well as another 22 actions.

* Challenge something

* Test the validity of a model

* Study the relationship between text and subtext

* Critique something

* Transfer a lesson or philosophical stance from one situation to another

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JoAnn Delaney's curator insight, August 6, 2013 12:08 PM

27 cognitive actions #edchat #21stedchat
Don Berg's curator insight, July 10, 2014 3:53 PM

Interesting how much of challenge it is to distinguish between teaching and learning. That is one of the obstacles to getting self-directed learning to become a mainstream feature in schools.
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