All Blog Posts Tagged 'learning' (41)

First impression: promising.

Following discussions on creativity, play, tinkering, 21st century learning, and a few other relevant topics on Fireside and elsewhere, I decided to depart from the norm. My grade 11 physics students, in particular, seemed to be ready for something a little different - by which I mean they seem bored to tears with the same... So today as I started the electricity unit, I announced to my class that I would not be lecturing, because it is wasting their time and mine. They have, at their disposal,… Continue

Added by Ed Hitchcock on November 25, 2009 at 11:12pm — 4 Comments

Fear of Failure

We have all seen people - not just our students or children, but friends and colleagues as well - who are afraid of failure. As Sir Ken Robinson points out, this fear of failure is tied to (but not the esclusive domain of) the crushing of creativity by structured education in schools. I have certainly noticed an increase in this perfectionist attitude in students, but there is one small, seemingly insignificant indicator that really has me worried. Lately, my students have been leaving answers b… Continue

Added by Ed Hitchcock on November 23, 2009 at 11:08am — 3 Comments

Prior Knowledge and The Flow of Learning

Engagement A friend gives you free tickets to an upcoming concert. Although the group is fairly popular, you are not familiar with the artist’s body of work. Assuming you elect to go, what do you do next? Between now and the day of the concert, here’s betting tha… Continue

Added by Sean Nash on October 18, 2009 at 11:14pm — No Comments

Learning Evolution & Connectivism Resonance

I have to admit that there is no question that I am learning differently now than I was five or ten years ago. For one, I was able to complete my Master’s degree from a Chicago university, after moving to Boston, by completing three online courses. This was nearly five years ago and that wasn’t even my first foray into online learning. The blossoming of the internet into a faster and easier vehicle for communication has changed much of how everyone learns. Have a question, search for an answer.… Continue

Added by Fred Haas on September 22, 2009 at 10:37am — 1 Comment

Sorting Initial Impressions of Connectivism

As I learn more about connectivism, I find it to be a remarkably comforting knowledge and learning theory. My first impression is that it is a theory that fills in a lot of gaps present in its predecessors, as well as building on them and extending them with new, insights. I am still working a lot of this out, but her is my initial take. In truth, the world in which we now live is a different place than it once was. If we accept the premise that since the rise of digital networks, in particular… Continue

Added by Fred Haas on September 21, 2009 at 1:34pm — No Comments

Investigating Connectivism

Having casually followed the work of George Siemens for well over a year now, I jumped at the chance to enroll in the second run of the open course Connectivism & Connective Knowledge, co-taught with Stephen Downes, someone who resurfaced on my radar last spring when I was working on the… Continue

Added by Fred Haas on September 19, 2009 at 9:30pm — 5 Comments

NETWORK BUILDING - Meet some of my network

This is a graphic I use to illustrate all of the different types of people that I'm trying to connect with each other, and information, that they can use to… Continue

Added by Daniel Bassill on September 12, 2009 at 10:13am — No Comments

On Sandboxes and Classrooms

Have you ever wondered why we build sandboxes for children? That’s exactly what I did today. Today I wondered while wandering about the yard, putting the finishing touches on a landscape and backyard garden update. I wondered long and hard about the role of play in learning n… Continue

Added by Sean Nash on August 31, 2009 at 9:18am — 2 Comments

If Textbooks Go Digital, Do We Lose Deep Learning?

It really is a fascinating time to be living and to be an Educator. Why? Because it's… Continue

Added by Andrew on August 13, 2009 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

A quick analogy

I like analogies. I find they are one of the quickest ways to get students to latch onto an idea. This morning I was going back over the "first day advice" discussion, and another analogy occured to me. You know the old practical joke where students (typically engineers) disassemble a car and reassemble it in a dorm room (or the Dean's office)? Well, as a teacher, that is in a sense what I do. I take ideas, disassemble them into their component parts, and reasemble them inside my student's heads… Continue

Added by Ed Hitchcock on August 13, 2009 at 9:32am — 2 Comments

Facilitating A Squirrelly Strategy

This post features a video that a colleague recently added to a… Continue

Added by Sean Nash on August 2, 2009 at 5:00pm — 3 Comments

Spheres of Influence

How fun is this?

Three years ago I moved into a position of instructional coach for my building. The majority of my days are now spent as a content-generalist coach focused on helping teachers improve pedagogical skills. Our opt-in model keeps the conversation f… Continue

Added by Sean Nash on July 6, 2009 at 2:19pm — 3 Comments

Games are the new School

Original post here and I welcome your comments. - - - - - Games development is slowly becoming a central and one of the largest global industries. Right after our basic human needs, where satisfaction and esteem start, and self-actualization follows, right there you will find games. It’s not news that games promise entertainment, and looking at cubs playing you can easily deduct the relationship between play and development, bu… Continue

Added by Or-Tal Kiriati on June 15, 2009 at 5:02am — 2 Comments

Teaching Digitally: The Power of PDF

The Paradigm is shifting. One word encompasses the new global paradigm which affects… Continue

Added by Andrew on June 10, 2009 at 10:43am — No Comments

It's About Connection

As a middle school teacher, if I have learned anything about being an effective teacher, I have learned it's all about connection. Not connection with 'the class' because there's no such thing as 'the class'. The connection(s) you must cultivate are those between you and each and every student. Students will largely forget what you say to them but they will never forget how you made them feel. Connection offers the opportunity for you to build trust in s… Continue

Added by Andrew on June 8, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Learning Effectively & Efficiently

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Learning Effectively & Efficiently

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Added by Sukhpreet Kaur on June 2, 2009 at 6:58am — No Comments

The Changing Nature of Professional Development In Education

Just posted this at Ed. Paradigms---->This blog and it's sister blog has as its focus bringing to light the game changers of 21st century technologies and globalization as related to Education and how teaching and learning gets done in (U.S.) schools. The very first posts were critical commentaries about the perceived fear and obstruction of schools in terms of adopting new a… Continue

Added by Andrew on May 29, 2009 at 9:30am — 4 Comments

Pedagogy Lessons from a 3-Year Old

My son, who is three, has a new hobby of building elaborate "mouse houses" o

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Added by Andrew on May 28, 2009 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments

A facilitator or a teacher?

Which is it? A learning facilitator or a teacher? Which of those would better serve the future of education? The future of today’s students? .... My full blog post is here: http://ortals.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/facilitatorteacher/ and it is following the blog post by our member, WMChamberlain here : http://attheteachersde… Continue

Added by Or-Tal Kiriati on May 18, 2009 at 9:26am — No Comments

My name is Nellie (Muller) Deutsch. I have been teaching English as a foreign language for over 30 y…

My name is Nellie (Muller) Deutsch. I have been teaching English as a foreign language for over 30 years. I have been integrating technology into the ESL/EFL classroom since the 1990s. I have been involved in international collaborative projects and WebQuests via Moodle for the past 5 years. My first website, Nellie's English Project… Continue

Added by Nellie Deutsch on April 5, 2009 at 4:34am — 3 Comments

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