Peering Into Learning The aim of the Peeragogy Handbook is to establish effective peer-learning techniques that you can implement “on the ground.” We suggest that you look through the Handbook, try a few of these suggestions, and see how they work for you. Then we invite you share your experiences, ask for feedback, and work with us to improve the Handbook and the field we affectionately call “Peeragogy.”In this part of the Peeragogy Handbook, we “peeragogues” have summarised the most important and applicable research and insights from two years of inquiry and discussion. Although there’s been no shortage of experimentation and formal research into collaborative, connective, and shared learning systems in the past, there is a new rumbling among education thinkers that suggests that when combined with new platforms and technologies, peer-learning strategies as described here could have a huge impact on the way educational institutions evolve in the future. The interplay of individual and group References
12 Principles Of Mobile Learning 12 Principles Of Mobile Learning by Terry Heick Ed note: This post has been updated and republished from a 2012 post Mobile Learning is about self-actuated personalization. As learning practices and technology tools change, mobile learning itself will continue to evolve. It is only within these communities that the native context of each learner can be fully understood. 1. A mobile learning environment is about access to content, peers, experts, portfolio artifacts, credible sources, and previous thinking on relevant topics. 2. As mobile learning is a blend of the digital and physical, diverse metrics (i.e., measures) of understanding and “performance of knowledge” will be available. 3. The cloud is the enabler of “smart” mobility. 4. Transparency is the natural byproduct of connectivity, mobility, and collaboration. 5. Play is one of the primary characteristics of authentic, progressive learning, both a cause and effect of an engaged mind. 6. 7. 8. With mobility comes diversity. 9. 10.
Building a professional learning network on Twitter January 12, 2013 by tomwhitby For those who do not know, here are two basic Twitter principles: 1. If you only follow 10 people you will only see the general tweets of those 10 people. 2. If only 10 people follow you, only those 10 people will see your general tweets. Although some might argue that the right ten people might be enough, I would argue that ten educators is a very limited Professional Learning Network. The never-ending task of building a PLN is to continually follow really good educators to get the information they put out. I often say that the worst advocates for using Twitter as a PLN are power users. Building a professional Learning Network consisting of quality educators, who responsibly share quality information and sources, takes time and requires a plan. How do you find those quality educators to follow in order to add value to your PLN? The very best sources for good people to follow on Twitter are the best people you already follow. Hashtags add range to Tweets.
7 Fun Ways to Use QR Codes In Education QR Codes Quick Response are so fun to integrate in classroom. Quick Response codes are bar codes with information. QR Codes can include contact information, websites, text, SMS, pictures and so much more. Here are some ways to Integrate QR Codes in Your Lessons 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Quick Response Codes are so easy to create. Try it…your kids will love it! Seven steps to vocabulary learning You might expect that, after having been exposed to a word in ten, twenty, or maybe at the very most thirty, contexts, a learner will gradually piece together the word's meaning and start to use it correctly, appropriately and fluently. Classroom context Seven steps to vocabulary learning Conclusion Classroom context Of course we cannot expect a learner to acquire difficult words in the same way as a young child acquires their first language, but, perhaps as teacher we can somehow help learners to arouse their 'learning monitor' by, for example, providing rich contexts containing the target language and by giving our learners time to reflect on what the language item means. In this way teachers can use the EFL classroom to replicate the real world and nurture strategies to help students understand and produce difficult language items which often seem beyond their grasp. Seven steps to vocabulary learning Here are some practical steps that I have used to help my students. Paul Bress
The Personalized Learning Umbrella Personalized Learning is the "umbrella" or the big picture of transforming teaching and learning. Schools and districts are confused about all the initiatives and how they fit with personalizing learning. Many of the initiatives and programs that are implemented in a school or district can contribute to personalized learning. The term "Personalized Learning" is confusing. Personalized learning means learners... know how they learn best.self-direct and self-regulate their learning.design their own learning path.have a voice in and choice about their learning.are co-designers of the curriculum and the learning environment.have flexible learning anytime and anywhere.have quality teachers who guide their learning.use a competency-based model to demonstrate mastery.are motivated and engaged in the learning process. Blended learning means combining face-to-face with online learning opportunities or a hybrid model. 1:1 means that each learner has some type of device for learning.
Как понравиться инвестору (и не только). 10 ошибок при презентации проекта / Блог компании Luxoft Хочешь презентовать как Стив Джобс? Искусству презентаций можно обучиться довольно быстро. Но на первом выступлении сознание путается, и рассказчик повторяет все типичные ошибки. Я собрал самые очевидные из них. Это не советы из умных книжек, а недавний живой опыт таких же как ты. Тайминг Самая частая ошибка начинающего докладчика. Было: Добрый день. Простые тезисы Не перегружайте презентацию. Было: сервис обмена мультимедиа контентом для сообществ любителей экстремального спортаСтало: твиттер для сноубордистов Не читай со слайдов Нет ничего печальнее, чем чтение со слайда. Было: Наши преимущества перед конкурентами… эээ… отзывчивый пользовательский интерфейс… эээ… мощный функционал ленты новостей… эээ… наличие кота в логотипе… [забыл что хотел сказать, а слайд на 40 секунд расчитан]Стало: Почему будут использовать именно нас?! Расскажи историю Это уже наверно из книжек, но очень важно. Не пересказывай и не исправляйся Было: твиттер для сноубордистовСтало: фэйсбук для горнолыжников Будь проще
Peeragogy The Peeragogy Handbook. How to Use this Handbook. Working together is how things get done. This free, open, crowd-sourced wiki-book shows us the best ways to get there. Intro: If you want to learn how to fix a pipe, solve a partial differential equation, write software, you are seconds away from know-how via YouTube, Wikipedia and search engines. A problem with this video is that it makes it look like Howard Rheingold was calling the shots all along, and that is not the case. (notes and pics of howard, well days) From Peer Learning to “Peeragogy” “The idea that we needed a new theory arose out of the challenges we faced doing peer learning. As this idea took form, we reflected more on how learning and organizations work. So, paragogy became a set of proposed principles for understanding learning (and working) together. The Workscape, a learning platform for corporations (My main contribution.) Peeragogy. Like this: Like Loading...
Assessment in the Modern Classroom: Part Three- Blog Writing I believe we are on our way of taking a modern classroom learning opportunity and upgrading assessment forms to match new skills and new literacies while not forgetting traditionally assessed ones. We took a classroom Twitter feed (Part One) , looked at the conversation skills students exhibited during the Skype call (Part Two) and now are moving on to looking at “blog post writing” as assessment. Keeping a previously created blogging rubric in mind, we took a closer look at the blog posts written by the 4th and 5th graders during the actual skype call and edited and formatted after the call had ended. (If you have a minute, take the time to give the 4th and 5th graders (“outside of the classroom”) feedback). There is not enough time to allow students to write the blog post, but still require them to write, in addition, in their paper journal. [Sidenote: not all the time... students don't have to only write on their blog, just as they should not only write in physical paper journals.]
Twitter – A Teaching and Learning Tool I think I have found the perfect place to reflect on the way a network, and specifically how Twitter, can impact on what goes on in the classroom. No mains gas, no telephones, no mobile signal, no internet connection, no possible way to interact with my personal learning network (PLN). Tucked away in the Cornish countryside the location of the cottage we are staying in provokes vocabulary such as: isolated, severed, detached and remote. But similar rhetoric could also be applied to the lack of connection I have with my network. Twitter: a communication tool In my experience, and in the short time that I have used it, Twitter has grown quickly to play a major part in the way that I interact with fellow colleagues and professionals from around the world. This diagram is a simplistic representation of my network in terms of numbers. Unique communication Twitter is primarily a communication tool and has often been described as filling the gap between email and instant messaging (IM). Data
Reflections On Being A Teacher I’m sitting in one of these chairs, in “god’s country”, lakes and rocks and trees, trees, lakes, rocks, rocks, rocks, lakes, trees, trees, no people. Divine. My last few days before beginning a return to the classroom. I’ve spent the evening, refreshed by the lapping of the lake and solitude of nature, reading “Getting Schooled” by Garret Keizer, in this month's Harper's Magazine. If you have the time, you can read nothing better about education and what it is to be a teacher. I’ve now been a teacher exactly 20 years. 1. If there is any one thing wrong with our educational system, it is that it doesn’t cultivate and focus on building more towards creating relationships between students, between students and teachers and between teachers. 2. 3. Teacher's days are deadening. What we need is earnest action to remedy this fact. 4. I’ve learned that the simple things remain. I look at my students today and they remain the same as 20 years ago. 5.