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How This Tool Ended Teachers’ Tech Fears and Addressed Students’ Social-Emotional Needs

How This Tool Ended Teachers’ Tech Fears and Addressed Students’ Social-Emotional Needs | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
Josh Davis spent 14 years teaching high school special education and middle school history, so he’s well aware of a few classroom constants. He understands how students with learning difficulties can feel separated from the rest of their classmates, how issues at home sometimes manifest as classroom misbehavior, and that being singled out—for both positive and negative reasons—is panic-inducing for just about all students.

However, Davis discovered new constants when he moved out of the classroom and into his current role as instructional technology coach at Downey Unified School District in California. Over and over, he saw teachers resisting technology adoption because they didn’t want to look foolish trying something new in front of students.

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Scaffolding as a RoadMap: Guiding and Supporting Student Learning | Faculty Focus

Scaffolding as a RoadMap: Guiding and Supporting Student Learning | Faculty Focus | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
If there ever was a time to create a flexible structure for student learning and success, the time is now. One of the most empowering and compassionate practices that we can integrate into our classrooms is scaffolding, an instructional strategy that provides students with a framework to guide and support their learning (Wood, Bruner, & Ross, 1976). Scaffolding can offer a weekly structure that supports student growth, creates autonomous learners who are responsible for their own learning, and gives learners more confidence in acquiring new skills.
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Five Stage Model

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For online learning to be successful and happy, participants need to be supported through a structured developmental process. The five-stage-model provides a framework or scaffold for a structured and paced programme of e-tivities.


​The five-stage-model offers essential support and development to participants at each stage as they build up expertise in learning online.

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Implementing Instructional Design Approaches to Inform Your Online Teaching Strategies | Faculty Focus

Implementing Instructional Design Approaches to Inform Your Online Teaching Strategies | Faculty Focus | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

The primary focus of any instruction should be to focus on the learning outcomes or capabilities you are trying to achieve. Bloom (1956, 1964) identified three types of learning outcomes: cognitive (knowledge), affective (attitudes, emotions, and values), and psychomotor (skills). For each outcome, instructors should also consider the level of outcome they are trying to achieve. So, if you are teaching cognitive skills, such as mathematics or language, you should determine if you need your students to remember (level 1), understand (level 2), apply (level 3), analyze (level 4), evaluate (level 5), or create (level 6) (Krathwohl, 2002). Once you have determined the level(s) of outcome, you should align your assignments to those levels. A multiple-choice exam can assess level 1 and possibly level 2 outcomes, but it will not assess students’ abilities to apply, analyze, evaluate, or create. Consequently, you will need to devise more challenging assignments to elicit higher levels of performance from students, using essays, problem-based learning assignments, and case studies, for example.

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Move to Online Learning: 12 Key Ideas – Dave’s Educational Blog

Move to Online Learning: 12 Key Ideas – Dave’s Educational Blog | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

I got asked by a long time colleague if I was willing to do a post of all the things that I’ve learned in the last eight weeks about moving online. Not ’emergency teaching’ but actual lessons about people moving to teaching with the internet. I’ve worked with over 100 faculty at my own institution this past few months, taking them through a 1 week intensive course. I’ve also been in constant contact with folks from around the world both through my interviews on http://oliah.ca and in endless backchannels and side chats. Here’s what I got.

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Thoughtful blog post on issues to be considered when moving to online learning - timely for the new normal.

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Seven strategies for supporting student learning in a remote environment

Seven strategies for supporting student learning in a remote environment | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically upended traditional schooling and made remote learning the “new normal.” Teachers are scrambling to offer some form of continuing education using virtual technologies, with the recognition that traditional approaches to curriculum, instruction, assessment, and grading must be altered. While it might be more expedient to present online lessons, electronic worksheets, and resource packets, we propose that the learn-at-home circumstance offers an opportunity to present students with more engaging and meaningful learning experiences. More specifically, we recommend providing students with assignments and tasks that challenge them to find information from various sources, critically appraise what they find, and use what they learn to address interesting issues and genuine problems.
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What is Instructional Design?

Dr. Mark Bullen demystifies instructional design by providing a simple and easy to understand explanation of the concept. His key point is that instructional design is all about crafting learning objectives at a level appropriate for the knowledge and skills that are being developed, then
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Best Practices for Online Instruction in the Wake of COVID-19

Best Practices for Online Instruction in the Wake of COVID-19 | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
As schools across the country move to some form of online learning for students in response to COVID-19, there is great diversity in how schools are implementing their online programs. As a resource, IDRA has compiled this listing of researched-based strategies for K-12 educators.
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E-tivities | Gilly Salmon

E-tivities | Gilly Salmon | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

E-tivities are frameworks for enabling active and participative online learning by individuals and groups. E-tivities are important for the online teaching and learning world because they deploy useful, well-rehearsed principles and pedagogies for learning as well as your choice of networked technologies. They focus on the learners- the people I call the participants, who are contributing, providing, reworking, interpreting, combining most of the knowledge. They overturn the idea that learning depends on one big expert and his/her conveying of knowledge. They are based on the strong idea that knowledge is constructed by learners through and with others.

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Useful tips for planning your online activities/e-tivities.

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Learning And Instructional Design Trends 2020

Learning And Instructional Design Trends 2020 | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
Are you up to date on the upcoming learning and Instructional Design trends for 2020? Read this article to find out everything you need to know.
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UDL and 21st Century Learning

UDL and 21st Century Learning | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) invites students to acquire and share information in novel ways while using 21st century learning tools.

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EDTECH@UTRGV's curator insight, January 14, 2020 11:32 AM

UDL is not just for online learning. Students and teachers can benefit from developing classroom print and digital resources using UDL.

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Understanding Instructional Design Basics

Understanding Instructional Design Basics | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
This article covers the basics of Instructional Design that should be considered when designing content. Download the eBook: Instructional Design 101.

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Instructional Design Basics | Faculty Focus

Instructional Design Basics | Faculty Focus | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

Instructional designers can help with many different course-based problems and challenges, including helping you figure out where and how to start with your course design. When a course is new or needs a little design love, knowing where to start can be difficult. By starting with your main goals and then moving to assessments and content, it is easier for your course to stay in alignment with your goals than working from topics and assessments to objectives. Starting is as easy as asking yourself one simple question.

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12 Things Every Lesson You Teach Should Have

12 Things Every Lesson You Teach Should Have | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
What should every lesson have?

It’s a challenge to say what every single lesson imaginable should always have every single time no matter what. There are always exceptions.

But what elements should be in nearly every lesson nearly every time? I could’ve kept the list shorter and gotten closer to ‘every single lesson every single time,’ but didn’t see the point in that when the goal here is to help you think about what you plan and how you plan it.

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EDTECH@UTRGV's curator insight, June 23, 2021 12:23 PM

Great list! It really provides food for thought on how I'm developing my lessons.

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Designing Engaging Learning Experiences: Part 1

Designing Engaging Learning Experiences: Part 1 | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
The term "the Prime Directive" harkens back to the days of the TV show "Star Trek." This directive was the binding force that united the federation of planets in a common goal and mission. Can we learn something from this that could give us direction for Instructional Design in the 21st century?

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5 Things to Remember When Designing a UX for Digital Learning

5 Things to Remember When Designing a UX for Digital Learning | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

"UX creation is essential because its purpose is to help learners easily navigate through digital learning modules and classes without getting confused. The learner shouldn’t have to think about the learning process—the learning material should guide them through the module or class. But this is easier said than done. These days, digital learning classes are no longer simple slide decks, but fully-fledged learning experiences consisting of interactive videos, gamified activities, links to learning portals, simulations, and whatnot. This is why there are five  basic points every instructional designer should keep in mind when designing modern digital learning classes."


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Not only is UX design important for creating an uncomplicated and pleasurable learning experience, effective UX design can also help to set the tone for the eLearning experience. First impressions are important and a sloppy user interface can leave a bad taste with learners that may extend throughout the learning experience. What does your UX design say about you?

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The Role Of Color Psychology In Instructional Design

The Role Of Color Psychology In Instructional Design | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

"Understanding how to use color to design better digital learning is something every Instructional Designer should know. In this article, we'll have a look at the subject of color psychology, or how colors affect a person’s psyche."


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A Renewed Case for Student Success: Using Transparency in Assignment Design When Teaching Remotely

A Renewed Case for Student Success: Using Transparency in Assignment Design When Teaching Remotely | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

In response to the worldwide spread of COVID-19, most erstwhile face-to-face and hybrid courses have now transitioned into remotely delivered ones. In these new educational spaces, designing for student success poses some specific challenges, especially because many faculty have had to plan and design to teach remotely at relatively short notice. While instructional designers and technologists are doing their best to help faculty transition to remote teaching during this challenging time, there appears to be relatively little discussion about designing courses for maximizing student success. During these times (perhaps especially now), we need to intentionally design for student success, leveraging tools and pedagogical strategies to support the success of all—especially struggling students.

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The Building Blocks of an Online Lesson

The Building Blocks of an Online Lesson | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

"Even though teaching online may feel like a different animal than teaching face-to-face, there are many similarities in terms of the building blocks of a lesson. The tools teachers use to engage students online are indeed different. It is also true that engaging students in learning activities online will require (at least initially) that teachers onboard students to those technology tools and support them in learning how to navigate online tasks. However, the activities and tasks teachers use to create their lessons offline can be transferred to the online environment if teachers know what tools to use."


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Dirk K's curator insight, May 14, 2020 7:02 AM
Fundamental resource to building and structuring an online class
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6 Strategies For Teaching With Bloom's Taxonomy

6 Strategies For Teaching With Bloom's Taxonomy | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

Bloom’s Taxonomy can be a powerful tool to transform teaching and learning.

By design, it focuses attention away from content and instruction, and instead emphasizes the ‘cognitive events’ in the mind of a child. And this is no small change.

 

For decades, education reform has been focused on curriculum, assessment, instruction, and more recently standards, and data, with these efforts only bleeding over into how students think briefly, and by chance. This means that the focus of finite teacher and school resources are not on promoting thinking and understanding, but rather what kinds of things students are going to be thinking about and how they’ll prove they understand them.

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10 Resources to Assist Faculty with Teaching Online 

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How can you take your teaching online? - OpenLearn - Open University

How can you take your teaching online? - OpenLearn - Open University | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
A number of schools and universities may be required to close due to the coronavirus outbreak, but how can you quickly move your teaching online?

The sudden closure of universities and schools across the globe has created a demand in delivering educational content online. The Open University has long been a front-runner in distance learning, specifically online. Did you also know that we provide FREE content on OpenLearn, written by Open University academics? We offer a variety of FREE courses, interactives, academic insights and animations on a range of subjects.
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Tips for Designing an Online Lesson Using the 5 Es Instructional Model

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Covid 19 has educators and educational institutions worried about and preparing for possible school closures. What happens if students have to stay home for days or even weeks? How can we keep them learning remotely? What strategies and technology tools

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Instructional Design for Distance Librarians (Recording) | Information Literacy Weblog

Instructional Design for Distance Librarians (Recording) | Information Literacy Weblog | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

Following on from the last post there is a recording and and breakout session notes from the ACRL DLS IC: Instructional Design for Distance Librarians webinar. The recording is here: https://youtu.be/Cwx3i_AW19Q and the breakout notes are here

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A Practical Strategy for Infusing Multicultural Content into Any Lesson

A Practical Strategy for Infusing Multicultural Content into Any Lesson | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

The important role professors play in helping our students appreciate cultural diversity cannot be overvalued. There has been much written about what a Culturally Responsive educator can do to help his or her students engage with the course content, their peers, and their professors in a more meaningful way. In my quest to simplify the process of integrating multicultural content into my classes, I developed a graphic organizer that combines several approaches onto one page. Thus, making it easier for me to select an instructional strategy and set the level of rigor for the learning activity at an appropriate level.

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