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2015
Aug
2015
teacher to student
categories: teaching
Searching for "teach"
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Aug
2015
Aug
2015
20 Digital Skills Every 21st Century Teacher should Have
The 20 Digital Skills Every 21st Century Teacher should Have
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/06/33-digital-skills-every-21st-century.html
1- Create and edit digital audio
2- Use Social bookmarking to share resources with and between learners
3- Use blogs and wikis to create online platforms for students
4- Exploit digital images for classroom use
5- Use video content to engage students
6- Use infographics to visually stimulate students
7- Use Social networking sites to connect with colleagues and grow professionally
8- Create and deliver asynchronous presentations and training sessions
9- Compile a digital e-portfolio for their own development
10- be able to detect plagiarized works in students assignments
11- Create screen capture videos and tutorials
12- Curate web content for classroom learning
13- Use and provide students with task management tools to organize their work and plan their learning
14- Use polling software to create a real-time survey in class
15- Understand issues related to copyright and fair use of online materials
16- Use digital assessment tools to create quizzesHere are some tools for teachers to develop this skill
17- Find and evaluate authentic web based content
18- Use digital tools for time management purposes
19- Use note taking tools to share interesting content with your students
20- Use of online sticky notes to capture interesting ideas
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Aug
2015
Aug
2015
good teaching
New Teacher Advice – ‘Hold On To Your Optimism & Idealism’
Your job is to grow your students to become independent, self-directed learners not for someday in the distant future, but right now. Students deserve to have clarity on the following questions:
- Why do I have to learn this? What value is it to me?
- How will I be assessed?
- How will I be judged?
- How will I be supported during the learning experience?
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Aug
2015
Aug
2015
crowdfunding for teachers
categories: Digital literacy, open learning
Can Crowdfunding Pay for Teacher Professional Development?
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/the_startup_blog/2015/08/crowdfunding_feedback_for_teachers.html
Crowdfunding as a movement gained initial traction among platforms such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo, where people began soliciting a high volume of small donations to fund a litany of causes, ranging from starting a new comedy club, to funding innovative new products
For educators, platforms like DonorsChoose.org and PledgeCents can similarly be used to crowdfund donations for education-related causes.
Recently, however, I and many of my colleagues have been put off a bit by the proliferation of countless GoFundMe crowdfunding campaigns on Facebook, where individuals seek funding for their college tuition and personal debt. Does the spread of questionable personal campaigns make the general public less willing to invest in worthy campaigns
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Apr
2015
Apr
2015
Teaching & Learning Colloquium
categories: announcement
7th Annual Teaching & Learning Colloquium
Learning Space Innovation: here, there and anywhere
April 17, 2015. Guest Speaker Bryan Alexander
http://facultycenter.stonybrook.edu/events/StonyBrookColloquium2015
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2015
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2015
Academy of distinguished teachers
Academy of distinguished teachers, Innovation
University of Minnesota, McNamara Alumni Center – Twin Cities Campus. April 8, 2015
Full program available here: https://guidebook.com/g/adt/
Randy Bass
Randy Bass
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/randall-bass/14/94/77
flipping disruption into Design
there are two type of universities: the ones that are in control of change and the ones, which are pressed to change.
what kind of education is needed at this moment of history.
Assumptions: 5-10 years will be for a first time outcompeted in terms of delivering information and degrees. What is that the university can do distinctively well that WWW cannot do: mentored learning and the arc of learning (beyond collection of granular separate learning)
book: The New Division of Labor. http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Division-Labor-Computers/dp/0691124027
External forces of potential disruption: 1. MOOCs, nearly free education, 2. skilled-based learning (Codeacademy, Udacity), 3. data analytic 4. public pressure on access, metrics of impact.
Gartner group (http://www.gartner.com/technology/home.jsp) hype cycle : overvalued in a short term and undervalued in a long term. MOOC is excellent example.
NMC: competing models of education.
learning analytics. adaptive learning, intelligent tutoring etc. Open Learning Initative. http://oli.cmu.edu/
In the 19th century, railroads companies which were in the business of railroad companies went under; the ones which were in the business of transportation survived. Parallel, universities, which are in the business of delivering information will die out; the ones, which will survive must look to a very different picture.
formative wider outcomes
integration and dis-integration
high impact integrative curriculum
what makes high inpact practices high impact
formal versus informal
Selected sessions:
The Value of Assessing Outcomes of Teaching Methodologies to guide instructional design
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10594685/
game-based learning:
Upping your Game – Best Practices in Using Game-Based Learning
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10594684/
Implementing Game Dynamics in Moodle
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10693434/
visuals:
Engaging Students through Video Integration
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10676389/
Innovative Options for Recording Your Own Course Videos
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10676375/
Using Flipgrid Video Commentary to Share Student Learning
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10676361/
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Enhancing learning with online narrated presentations using VoiceThread
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10676372/
flipped:
Essential Technology & Tools for Flipping Your Classroom
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10676385/
Improving Delivery of Technical Course Content through Incremental Use of Classroom “Flipping”
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10676376/
Flipping our classrooms: Faculty from UMD’s Flipped Classroom Community of Practice sharing their experiences.
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10594850/
The Pros and Cons of Flipping the Classroom
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10676323/
Using Google Forms for Student Group Evaluations
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10734863/
Library:
The University Libraries Partnership for Affordable Content – Enhance Student Learning and Save Them Money!
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10676358/
CRS Tophat:
Using Classroom Debates as an Interactive Learning Tool in a Course on Companion Animal Ethical Issues
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10676369/
online:
Adapting the Harvard Case Method for Online Courses
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10595018/
Readiness Assessment for Online Courses
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10595040/
technology showcase general view
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Mar
2015
Mar
2015
games for teaching, learning, assessment
Zondle
https://www.zondle.com/publicPagesv2/
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Oct
2014
Oct
2014
A Problem-Solving Game For Teachers and Administrators
categories: gamification, gaming
A Problem-Solving Game For Teachers and Administrators
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/10/a-problem-solving-game-for-teachers-and-administrators/
This activity empowers all stakeholders. It gives everyone an opportunity to share pain points and observations and to brainstorm solutions. By building a card deck of context-specific pain points and observations, there’s buy-in from the start. All participants have a vested interest in the cards they create. Likewise, the activity has enough structure built in to drive toward solutions.
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Oct
2014
Oct
2014
Teaching Professor Conference
categories: announcement
The 2015 Teaching Professor Conference is the place to hear about the latest pedagogical strategies.
The cut-off date for submitting a proposal to the
2015 Teaching Professor Conference is approaching fast!
All proposals must be submitted by October 31, 2014.
The Teaching Professor Conference is known for attracting a roster of high-quality, engaging presenters; that’s why we’re asking you to be a part of next year’s event. If you have previously submitted a proposal for past conferences, we sincerely ask you to submit again. And if you have never submitted a proposal for a session or poster session, we ask that you seriously consider this opportunity to share your expertise at the conference.
The 12th annual Teaching Professor Conference will be held May 29-31, 2015 at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta, GA.
Featured topical areas are:
Topical Area 1: Instructional Design
Topical Area 2: Activities that Engage Students
Topical Area 3: Teaching Specific Types of Students
Topical Area 4: Instructional Vitality: Ways to Keep Teaching Fresh and Invigorated
Topical Area 5: Teaching and Learning with Technology
Topical Area 6: Creating Climates for Learning
Topical Area 7: Faculty Development
For more information about the proposal process and how to submit your proposal, please click here: http://www.teachingprofessor.com/conference/proposals.
The Teaching Professor Conference is three intensive days of plenary sessions, preconference workshops, sessions, poster sessions, and more. Here is your chance to be a part of it in 2015.
Deadline for proposal submissions is Friday, October 31st, 2014.
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2014
Oct
2014
10 Design Questions to improve teaching
categories: teaching
10 Design Questions by Marzano will improve your teaching
http://teacherswithapps.com/10-design-questions-marzano-will-improve-teaching/
In The Art and Science of Teaching: A Comprehensive Framework for Effective Instruction, author Robert J. Marzano presents a model for ensuring quality teaching that balances the necessity of research-based data with the equally vital need to understand the strengths and weaknesses of individual students.
the basis of the ten design questions are to be used by teachers to plan effective units and lessons as well as execute them. Remember what works well with one child may not with another.
1.What will I do to establish and communicate learning goals, track student progress, and celebrate success?
2. What will I do to help students effectively interact with new knowledge?
3. What will I do to help students practice and deepen their understanding of new knowledge?
4. What will I do to help students generate and test hypotheses about new knowledge?
5. What will I do to engage students?
6. What will I do to establish or maintain classroom rules and procedures?
7. What will I do to recognize and acknowledge adherence and lack of adherence to classroom rules and procedures?
8. What will I do to establish and maintain effective relationships with students?
9. What will I do to communicate high expectations for all students?
10. What will I do to develop effective lessons organized into a cohesive unit?