The Top 5 Skills Students Need For Their Future: The Results Are In! Thank you to everyone who responded to my survey calling for the Top 5 Skills students need for their future. The list to choose from initially came from one included in my book, ‘Tween Crayons and Curfews: Tips for Middle School Teachers. Now, I’m not saying that there aren’t more that I would like to see on the list, but my point was to examine what the Elementary and Secondary Education Act has to say as it relates to its goal of College and Career Readiness. So, I initially asked myself, what does that mean exactly to those in higher education and business? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. So this past weekend, I asked colleagues and friends and followers and readers to answer a survey to help me whittle the list down to the top 5. And the winners are: Collaboration Communication Problem-Solving Questioning Independent Learning The next question is, are teachers at least using these 5 in their everyday lesson planning? Take care and thanks for participating! Tweet This Post
Online Student Portfolios: What Tools Are Best? <div class="greet_block wpgb_cornered"><div class="greet_text"><div class="greet_image"><a href=" rel="nofollow"><img src=" alt="WP Greet Box icon"/></a></div>Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to <a href=" rel="nofollow"><strong>subscribe to the RSS feed</strong></a> for updates on this topic.<div style="clear:both"></div></div></div> I received the following question via email recently, and am posting it here along with my thoughts. I wonder if Moodle is a suitable platform for what I want to do? Here’s my response: Moodle is definitely a flexible platform, and it can be adapted for a myriad of uses as a content management system. The portfolio options visible to a user depend on their assigned rights. This is a view of Deb’s professional portfolio interface. On this day..
Advantages of Web 2.0 as a Training Tool Posted by elearningtyro in : Useful Resources , trackback This guest post is contributed by Mark Davies who regularly writes on the topics of Online Masters Degree. He welcomes your comments at his email id: markdavies247@gmail.com For a few years now, it’s been all about Web 2.0, the new and current avatar of the evolving face of the Internet. This version is more interactive, it allows you to voice your opinion and be heard, and it lets you take an active part rather than just be a passive bystander. While we all know that Web 2.0 can be used for marketing and entertainment purposes, we’re still unaware of how it can be used as a training tool. Information can be tailored to the needs of any organization. However, in spite of all these advantages, Web 2.0 tools for training work only when: There are ways to authenticate and validate information from multiple sources that contradict each other.
7 Tools to Build a Social Network for Your School Yesterday, I wrote a post containing resources to help schools understand social media. Hopefully, you've passed that post along to the people at your school that need to read it (using the Add This button at the bottom of each post is an easy way to email the post). Hopefully, after reading and watching the resources in yesterday's post you will have administrators ask you about creating a social media presence for your school. One way to do that is to create a Facebook page for your school. The next step could be creating a social network and or message board forum for your school. Wall FM is a service that anyone can use to create a social network. Edmodo is a microblogging system designed specifically for teachers and students. ShoutEm allows you to make your own public or private network. Jabbster is a free service that allows families and groups to create private online communication networks. Lefora allows anyone to create a public or private message board in three easy steps.
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.
11 Free Resources About Creativity Want some ideas about creativity? I found some files and ebooks that might be of value to you. Note: these are all PDF files. How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity. (updated because the old article crashed.) Creativity – Its Place in Education. EyeWire Creativity Cards. The Nature of Creativity. From Creative Economy to Creative Society. The Impact of Culture on Creativity. Harnessing Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace. Creativity and Personality. Creativity Management – the New Challenge for BPM. Creativity and Innovation in Europe. Having Fun at Work. The other creative thing, I should mention, is that this took me about 20 minutes of searching and then proofing the articles to ensure that they’re what I was searching for, and compiling them into a useful list for people interested in learning more about creativity. What’s your take? ChrisBrogan.com runs on the Genesis Framework The Genesis Framework empowers you to quickly and easily build incredible websites with WordPress.
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Cooperative Learning: Effective Team Work! 20+ Resources Posted by Shelly Terrell on Friday, November 19th 2010 Part of the Cool Sites series Every Friday I am presenting free webinars thanks to American TESOL! We have an incredible time. Recently, we discussed the benefits of cooperative learning. Accountability– students realize the contribution of each individual will determine the success of the task.Team building– students learn how to listen to each other, resolve conflicts, delegate tasks, set deadlines and support each other. The teacher acts as the facilitator walking around the class and ensuring teams are supporting each other. Team formation– It’s important that teams consist of students with different abilities, skills, and cultural backgrounds.Structuring of tasks– Tasks should be designed so that one student cannot complete the task but each member’s contribution is needed. Students will need to learn how to effectively work with others on problem solving when they enter college and the workforce. Alfie Kohn Resources Challenge:
Learning Objects Community - Objects of Interest As we get closer to the next school year, it is a good time to re-think some lesson ideas and find ways to refresh them, and, ideally, incorporate some technology into our day-to-day teaching and learning. Here are some ideas for using Social Media in the Classroom. Course Blog - Create a class blog and share it publicly to let others know what your class is learning and doing. Add an RSS feed so students can subscribe to the blog and get updates on the go.Individual Student Blogs - Enable students to blog on their own to learn how to share their work with others. Journals for critical reflections.Post homework, notes, and lectures - provide easy access for students. Do you have other ideas or suggestions that you can add to the list?
A Framework for Teaching with Twitter Faculty are increasingly experimenting with social media, and it's exciting to find more and more courses incorporating Twitter, a ProfHacker favorite. Just last week on ProfHacker Ryan provided an excellent introduction to Twitter, while earlier in the summer Brian reflected on his use of Twitter in the classroom during Spring 2010. As we gear up for the Fall 2010 semester, I wanted to revisit the idea of teaching with Twitter. I'll address my own pedagogical use of Twitter in a future ProfHacker post, but for today I want to share a general framework for Twitter adoption in the classroom, originally sketched out in late August 2009 by Rick Reo. Rick is an instructional designer at George Mason University, and he'd been keeping tabs on the different ways instructors were using Twitter in their teaching. Even a cursory glance at the matrix reveals the myriad ways Twitter might be an effective tool in and outside of your classroom. How about you?
Back to School with Web2.0 - List of Resources - Social Learning Blog I don’t think it matters how old we get there is something about a new school year starting that makes many of us think of new pencils, crayons and paper. And while school looks very different from when many of us went to school there is still that excitement about starting fresh and learning new things. So for the start of this new school year I went in search of new technology tools for students and teachers. The increase of teachers using blogs and wikis, and students networking and utilizing online tools, the demand for easier and more efficient ways of learning is on the rise. So what’s new? I came across a great list of fun and helpful tools from Solution Watch by Brian Benzinger ( that I think you will find useful as you head back to school or just back to work after a great summer – Organizers Gradebooks Teacher! For Teachers, Clubs, and Management Mathematics Resume Building To Do’s and Note Taking
Conveying Tacit Knowledge in eLearning By Shelley A. Gable Tacit knowledge can be challenging to teach in formal training, but it's not impossible. So how can we convey tacit knowledge in eLearning? Ikujiro Nonaka has been researching knowledge creation in organizations for over 15 years, which includes trying to understand the nature of tacit knowledge. If you’ve ever stumped subject matter experts by asking how they made certain decisions, you may have stumbled upon tacit knowledge. Can you clearly explain how to maintain balance when riding a bicycle? So, back to our original question: How can we convey tacit knowledge in eLearning? Storytelling is an excellent approach to tacit knowledge. You can include stories in eLearning via text, audio, and/or video. Social interactions can also help. Scenarios with consequences can help learners practice and test their tacit understanding of concepts and decision making. What examples can you think of? What are other examples of tacit knowledge that come to mind?