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Inquiry Activities for Schools | PATHWAY: The Pathway to Inquiry Based Science Teaching The school constitutes the “epicentre” of formal comprehensive education. Most processes and educational models start there and revolve around the work carried out within its walls. Naturally, the same applies for activities involving the IBSE model, generally acknowledged as one of the most effective teaching approaches;2 the students start their acquaintance with inquiry-based learning at school, with the help of their teachers. Therefore, schoolbased work on the IBSE constitutes the cornerstone upon which any further activities can be built. Solid, engaging, well designed and time-tested practices are of the utmost importance for the successful implementation of the IBSE at schools and beyond.

Time for Some Social Media Parodies or are they? Playing with the Definition of “Game Thinking” for Instructional Designers Soon I will be presenting at the ASTD International Conference in Washington, DC. My title for the presentation is Three Mysterious Keys to Interactive Learning: Game-Thinking, Game-Elements, and Gamification. I am presenting Wednesday morning so, if you can make it—it would be great to have you in the session. As part of that presentation, I […] Continue Reading → CAC, RFP and Bigfoot I have had the privileged of teaching a great number of really talented and smart students, this semester has been no exception. Continue Reading → Harrisburg Presentation Resources Here are some resources from my presentation in Harrisburg. Continue Reading → 2014 DOE Symposium Conference Resources Here are my resources for the 2014 DOE Symposium Conference. Continue Reading → Great fun at ITEAA Conference & Introduction of Exciting Game-Based Learning Modules Continue Reading → Instructional Games and Narrative Continue Reading →

Using Technology Vs Technology Integration- An Excellent Chart for Teachers Are you using or integrating technology in your teaching ? At the face of it, it seems like a game of semantics but in fact it is more than that. When we talk about technology integration in the classroom we are talking about a planned and highly structured and purposeful use of technology with students whose ultimate goal is to engage students and help them develop new thinking skills. Using technology, on the other hand, is a random and sporadic process whose main goal is to instruct students on content not to engage them with content. The chart below from Teachbytes , offers a more detailed explanation of the difference between Using Technology and Integrating Technology. Have a look and, as always, share with us your feedback in the comment form below. Check out the full chart from this page.

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Syllabus / UC Berkeley Social Media Smart_Mobs.jpg Sociology 167 (Information 190) University of California, Berkeley Department of Sociology Spring 2008 Friday, 2-5, 126 Barrows Instructor: Howard Rheingold howard@rheingold.com Office 472 Barrows, Office Hours Friday 1-2 and earlier Friday by appointment readers: Elisa Oreglia elisa@ischool.berkeley.edu and Stephanie Gerson sgerson@nature.berkeley.edu (but please send all emails to Elisa) Course reader: available at Copy Central 2560 Bancroft (and Telegraph) 510 848 8649 Session One: January 25, 2008 Theme: When technology and community collide Introductions: Who are we, where do we think we're going in this class? Instructor and students introduce themselves, instructor explains goals, expectations and assignments. Lab: Introduction to Online Media Assignments: Words to know Discussion notes -- what is community? Instructor's Notes for Session One Session Two: February 1 Theme: Imagining community Getting into it: What did we find in our search for virtual community? Ronald E.

100 Inspiring Ways to Use Social Media In the Classroom Social media may have started out as a fun way to connect with friends, but it has evolved to become a powerful tool for education and business. Sites such as Facebook and Twitter and tools such as Skype are connecting students to learning opportunities in new and exciting ways. Whether you teach an elementary class, a traditional college class, or at an online university, you will find inspirational ways to incorporate social media in your classroom with this list. Ideas for K-12 Classrooms Implement these great ideas in your K-12 classroom to have students learning in a dynamic new way. Make literature real. Ideas for College Classrooms Integrate these suggestions into college classrooms for engaging learning opportunities. Window to daily life at school. Ways Students Can Use Social Media From practicing a foreign language to finding scientific research, these tips will have students using social media to enhance their education. Find scientific research papers. Offer a class. TweetDeck.

The WWW Virtual Library Frontload Your Lessons with Social Media Written by Mark Brumley At a recent education conference I discussed a simple yet powerful strategy…frontload your lessons with social media. Here’s how it works. First of all, you need some way for your students to communicate online (or via texting). So, I’m focusing on students who are older than elementary school but use your own judgment how far down you can take this. If you don’t have a way for students to communicate, there are numerous options that don’t involve any sign up. Next, introduce a topic that will be discussed the next day and assign an online discussion as homework. Go to this URL and have an online discussion. The topic that always comes up is what to do about chat-speak and other bad online grammar. Finally, you need to assess whether or not the classroom discussions are more meaningful with the frontloading the night before. This concept may seem simple but the results I have seen are amazing. Mark Brumley (112 Posts)

Authority System | Interface At the Berglund Center for Internet Studies and the Matsushita Center for Electronic Learning at Pacific University we have long searched for a means to indicate the level of authority of the electronic materials we post. We are well-established centers with well over five million hits per year into our servers. We publish several journals of significance and influence, such as Interface on the Internet and E-AsPac. However, we also publish many projects done by graduate and undergraduate students. We know that our audience often selects these materials indiscriminately, based more on their immediate research needs than on the reliability or authority of the materials. By Authority Level we do not mean to indicate “good” and “bad” but rather authoritative and non-authoritative or those with higher levels of trust and those with lower levels. These levels are explained below, but it should be noted that invariably some materials are in grey areas between categories.

What is Argument Mapping? Argument Mapping is the expression of an argument is in a structured visual form. Arguments have been expressed in prose since the time of Socrates. Modern information technology has made little impact on the expression and understanding of arguments. We now use word processing, electronic mail and spell checking instead of just the pen and paper but this has little changed the way arguments are understood. Argument mapping allows you to move from prose to a visual structure expressing premises, reasons, objections, assumptions and general commentary. Look at the Wikipediaentry for more detailed definition. Some good examplefiles can be found on the Philosophy Programme - University of Natal, Durban site. A tutorial series in PDF may be found at Jamel Ostwald's site on his Classespage. Other Argument Mapping software packages exist with Rationalebeing the best, in my opinion. There is an Argument Map group on Yahoo Groups here .