Effective Memory & Study Practice
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Sep
6
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May
20
This project, represented so artfully by Jenna Welsh’s creative skill is one part of the interaction – the other equally important part of the communication is the comments (156 of them!) related to the video’s message. We carry our culture in our language and with this project, since our language is mathematics and technology – we share a common culture! Here is a word cloud of the key words* that we have generated together in this forum.
May
13
How does collaborative STEM project-based learning change when the participating students represent fundamentally distinct cultures, countries, economic, and social backgrounds, and work together over synchronous and asynchronous internet settings?
Does the use of videoconferencing in such STEM project-based learning settings alter intersubjectivity or shared meaning in ways that might have broad social impact?
Differences in where people live and in our cultures factor deeply into social and economic fractures in US and global society. Can students working together across such boundaries experience virtual presence and shared meaning-making through project collaborations in ways that allow deeper appreciation of each other’s differences, and reduce such fractures?
Does such collaboration from the context and comfort of one’s own cultural settings helped to neutralize anxiety and distrust of others, and in ways that are promising for the next generation learning settings that will feature more abundant international collaboration at middle and secondary school levels?
Featuring students who collaborate with one another from sixteen sites in the US, Kenya, Finland, Namibia, Mexico, Iran, and India, the IC4 project explores the intersection of learning, culture, and collaboration. Supported by NSF’s AISL Program, the project provides an international, collaborative, and digital makerspace that explores these questions and seeks to understand how student learning changes when collaborating teams identify themselves as teachers seeking to help peers understand STEM topics.
NSF Awards: 1612824
Apr
2
Several action item requests emerged from the recent IC4 Advisory Board meeting. One of the action items came from teachers who noted that high school students needed opportunities to develop research skills in other courses besides ELA and the traditional research paper project.
I am working on just such a resource. One of the main starting points for all research is the ability to wonder and then turn wonder into an essential research question.
Given that most students learn best from visual resources, I’m using the StoryboardThat app to create the masthead for the emerging researchers resource.
Mar
26
After our team meeting, with both face-to-face and virtual participation from teachers, graduate students, professors, team leaders, and students, the following themes appeared across the transcripts of digital notes:
Mar
20
The catalytic component of mathematics instruction and video technology makes great strides in learning for high school students, thanks to the NSF-sponsored research of the IC4 team, directed by Dr. Eric Hamilton, principal investigator.
Feb
22
Happy Digital Learning Day! Digital Learning Day was created in 2012. This year, 2018, is the 7th annual occurrence. There are over 1500 events occurring in celebration of digital learning and computer-mediated instruction. The focus and activities center around this essential question: How technology can enhance student learning?
There was an engaging and dynamic webinar today. I am so glad to have spent my lunchtime attending this webinar. You can see my tweets and the tweets of other attendees at the following hashtag: #DLDayWebinar
If you missed the #DLDaywebinar, Digital Learning Day 2018: Blending Teaching and Technology to Improve Student Outcomes, you can watch it here on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1FxcZX5DQr0
Here are my webinar notes:
Alliance for Excellence in Education: Webinar – all4ed.org/webinar
Showcase quote at timestamp ~~46:00
Digital Learning Day is a “safe place for educators to try something new with technology” ~ Tom Murray, webinar moderator
Great example from a teacher’s lesson plan is a QR-code to log miles
Transformational technology
What I love that I’m learning
Systemic process
Adapt on the fly
Challenges:
Stagnant feeling when you want to do something
What is Step 1?- start to break the (thought) paralysis
Performance-based learning is distinctly different from online learning
“It’s not about us-it’s about the kids-student autonomy emerges”- Joe Vagt
“Academic urgency is for students vs teacher-centered instruction” ~Nikolaus Namba, @NikNamba
“Be thoughtful about the norms and culture you create” ~Tom Murray
Stop Waiting!
Cyclical progress of program assessment-students working in blended modalities with their families
Not a digital worksheet storage hub by a high-quality culture of innovation ~Tom Murray
Lagging metric tools layer ~
1st start measuring steps focus on implementation metrics – implementation leading metrics
student voice metric and also lagging metric tools. ~ Beth Rabbitt
Regarding the use of devices- ask “what are the coalition of the willing” ~Tom Arnett
(Agree!) I am fully of the belief that our 5 & 6 year-old learners can do anything (with technology) that our high school learners can do. ~ Nikolaus Namba, @NikNamba
Under the mental processes that our learners are using as they encounter and as they come up with their solutions
Beyond a Digital Divide to a Digital Use Divide
Active use vs. consumption use
Download this report at futureready.org/blendedlearning
See additional Digital Learning Day posts here
Nov
3
Just added a new discussion on The Global Education Conference Network.
I am proposing to present:
Would a session addressing Participatory Spontaneity be of interest to you?
Any volunteers to co-present?
Click here to learn more and/or submit your own idea(s) for a presentation: The Global Education Conference Network
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Oct
5
When observed, the engagement concept of Participatory Spontaneity resonates with the following key words:
The key that is the central concept for me is one I learned about over 30 years ago while in undergraduate courses. My professor, Dr. Chantrey Fritts, emphasized the importance of Collegiality in teaching and learning. Collegiality is relational.
Collegiality is the relationship between colleagues (Link). Colleagues are those explicitly united in a common purpose and respecting each other’s abilities to work toward that purpose (Link).
Because of new media opportunities, our audience of colleagues grows beyond borders.
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