Moving From Institutional Learning To Entrepreneurial Learning Outside of a handful of textbook conglomerates, entrepreneurship was not a concept connected to education until recently. In late 2012, start-ups are populating the educational landscape, and changing its tone completely. These start-ups, who often begin as a single platform, are altering the way people think about learning, and helpfully disrupting existing power sets in education in the process. In the video below, Jeff Brazil from the Digital Media and Learning discusses entrepreneurial learning, making more concrete the abstraction that has in the past been called, among other labels, “informal learning.” “How do you constantly look around you, all the time, for new ways, new resources, to learn new things? “As we move into the 21st century, we have to completely rethink the works-cape and the learning-scape. “You can now expect the half life of a skill…to have about five years.
Peer Learning Handbook | Peeragogy.org Bjork Learning and Forgetting Lab - Research Applying Cognitive Psychology to Enhance Educational Practice The primary goal of this research, which is funded by the James S. McDonnell foundation, is to promote learning and memory performance within educational contexts through the investigation of principles in cognitive psychology. Studies address issues of transfer-appropriate and material-appropriate processing between encoding and retrieval. Applying tests in order to enhance learning and determining the desirable amount and timing of feedback regarding an individual's memory performance are methods that are currently under investigation. The overlying theme of "desirable difficulties," first introduced by Robert Bjork (1994), is also explored through manipulations in the spacing of learning events and the study schedule produced by interleaving various to-be-learned items, such as English-Swahili translated word pairs or prose materials. I. In recent years, we have explored this phenomenon in a variety of ways. II. R. III. V.
August New Teacher Survival Guide | Scholastic.com From setting up your classroom to brainstorming icebreaker activities, these tips and tricks will have you prepped, relaxed, and ready just in time for the first day of school. Preparing Your Classroom Our Easy Guide to Setting Up Your Classroom (K–5) At last, a classroom of your own! Time to roll up your shirtsleeves and begin transforming that empty space into a warm and inviting place for your first class. The New Teacher's Crash Course on Setting Up Your Classroom (6–8) Preparing your classroom for the arrival of your students is probably high on the list of your priorities. How to Make an Old Classroom New Again As a new teacher, a big challenge will be setting up your new classroom and making it your own. Clip and Save Checklist: Get Ready for the First Day of School! Fit to Print: Use This Handy Seating Chart A seating chart to start your school year. First Day of School Icebreakers You're not the only one excited and nervous about the first day of school.
What Schools Will Look Like In The Year 2020 The Current State Of Technology In K-12 7.46K Views 0 Likes What is the next device most students will soon purchase? How Online Education Has Changed In 10 Years 11.37K Views 0 Likes We all know that education, specifically online education, has come a long way in the last few years. Deloitte - Reimagining Higher Education Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools: Home Tips for Creating Wow-Worthy Learning Spaces "Look at your learning space with 21st-century eyes: Does it work for what we know about learning today, or just for what we knew about learning in the past?” -The Third Teacher Does your classroom mirror the rectilinear seating arrangement popular in Sumerian classrooms, circa 2000 BCE? The Basics To rethink your student seating arrangement, use Kaplan's floorplanner and try out with names like lasso, the robot, and the big x. Flexibility: Students should be able to easily transition to functional spaces, such as a class library, literacy center, computer area, stage, reading nook, etc. Also, your classroom walls are important learning real estate -- spaces to fill with content-related murals, posters, banners, whiteboards, and bulletin boards. Make Sure Bulletin Boards Are Teaching Tools My first classroom bulletin board featured a hundred hand-colored carp. Consider creating a graphic organizer on a bulletin board in front of students while introducing a new concept. Perhaps not.
5 Free iPad Apps I Love Using In My Classroom My students love using their iPads for everything. Sometimes it’s hard to determine how to create activities that are meaningful and fun. Students who are encouraged to be an active participant in their learning, retain more information and are more engaged in their learning process. Listed below are 5 of my favorite app-tivities to use in my class. They all are free and very easy to create. Wordsalad This app creates word clouds in a quick, fast, fun way! Corkulous This app is a sticky note app that allows the creater to create sticky notes on a cork style board. BingoBaker Create free printable Bingo Cards with Bingo Baker (www.bingobaker.com). Think – Pair – Share Students can use an app such as Corkulous or Notes to create their thoughts of a passage, problem, etc. JigSaw Many apps (Notes, KeyNotes, SonicPics, StoryKit, Sock Puppet etc.) will allow you use the JigSaw method in your class.
Games For Learning Institute What does it mean to be a digital native? The war between natives and immigrants is ending. The natives have won. It was a bloodless conflict fought not with bullets and spears, but with iPhones and floppy disks. Now the battle between the haves and have-nots can begin. The post-millennial "digital native," a term coined by U.S. author Marc Prensky in 2001 is emerging as the globe's dominant demographic, while the "digital immigrant," becomes a relic of a previous time. The digital native-immigrant concept describes the generational switchover where people are defined by the technological culture which they're familiar with. Prensky defines digital natives as those born into an innate "new culture" while the digital immigrants are old-world settlers, who have lived in the analogue age and immigrated to the digital world. Although not Luddites, the immigrants struggle more than natives to adapt to hi-tech progress. The human race and its struggle to keep up with technology The new norm Digital poverty The call of the developing world
8 Simple Tech Tips For Teachers Looking for some practical ways to get more out of your classroom tech? Check out these eight tips for ideas on how to use technology to enhance your students’ learning: 1. Take a virtual field trip – You may not be able to take your students to the Louvre in person, but you can use the web to find photos, videos, articles, and guides that let them go there virtually. Use this virtual field trip idea to connect your students to literature, art, history, science, current events, and more without ever leaving the classroom. 2. Let everyone answer – Get a feel for how well students understand a concept by using electronic response devices. What are some tech tips that you’ve found useful? About the Author: Brian Jensen works with Dell.