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Professional development. Best / great teacher. Teaching & learning resources. Web tools. YouTube videos. Flipped Classroom. Distance and online Learning. Learning / Taxomonies. Feedback. Team Collections - Education. Collated by others - Education. TED-Ed. Teacher and Class Blogs. How To Get Involved in the Peeragogy Project. Hello and welcome! The peeragogy project was kicked off around the time of Howard Rheingold’s January 23, 2012 Regents Lecture at UC Berkeley on Social Media and Peer Learning: From Mediated Pedagogy to Peeragogy. We have put together a handbook about peer learning: you’re reading it — maybe on our website, or in your hammock with the beverage of your choice and our print on demand paperback.
Or maybe you grabbed our free PDF or some other remixed version in some other format or flavor from some other place (which would be cool!). But: there’s still more work to be done. We created this page because you might be interested in getting involved in improving the book or furthering the project in other ways. What you do here is largely up to you. The goal we have in mind for our book is for it be a useful guide to peer learning! It’s up to you. We regularly use Google+, Google Hangouts, forums, and email to communicate asynchronously and pretty much continuously. Questions? Post Revisions: The Thinking Classroom: Ways of Thinking. Effective thinking-centered instruction aims to achieve two educational objectives: To cultivate the active use of knowledge, and To help students become self-regulated learners. Toward that end, this section of The Thinking Classroom highlights four thinking-centered approaches for infusing high-level thinking instruction into your regular curriculum.
The Ways of Teaching Thinking region features a preview and description of each of the approaches. Why These Four Approaches? The four approaches to teaching thinking represent some of the research and products of the Harvard's Cognitive Skills Group. But more important, the four approaches together broadly attend to the core components of the instructional enterprise - from curriculum design, to implementation, to assessment.
Ways of Teaching Thinking: 4 Instructional Approaches. This Will Make You Smarter: 151 Big Thinkers Each Pick a Concept to Enhance Your Cognitive Toolkit. Cational Psychology: 20 Things Educators Need To Know About How Students Learn. 11 Reasons Teachers Should Make Their Own Videos. The Busy Person’s Guide To Social Media. No Excuse List. C. M. Rubin: The Global Search for Education: More Arts Please. More Arts Please Sir (Photo Courtesy of Beechwood Sacred Heart School UK) "To lose our culture is to lose our memory. " More Leonardo da Vincis, more Martha Grahams, more Ludwig Van Beethovens, more Luciano Pavarottis, more Marlon Brandos, more Antoni Gaudis, more Coco Chanels, more Bob Dylans, more Zhang Xiaogangs, more William Shakespeares, more Julia Margaret Camerons, more Gustav Vigelands, more Andrew Lloyd Webbers, more Francis Ford Coppolas, more Meryl Streeps, more Alice In Wonderlands, more Anna Pavlovas, more Michael Jacksons, more Vincent van Goghs, more Harry Potters, more Phil Knights, more Rabindranath Tagores, more Pablo Picassos, more John Steinbecks...
Please Sir - can we have some more? Sir Ken Robinson, PhD, is one of the internationally recognized leaders in the development of education creativity and innovation. He has received numerous honorary degrees from universities, and many awards from cultural organizations and governments, all over the world. Sal Khan: the man who tutored his cousin – and started a revolution. Sal Khan has a simple mission: a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Naturally, people think he's crazy. The craziest part is not the "world-class education" part, because plenty of people want that.
And it's not even the "for anyone, anywhere" part. It's the "free" part. Crazy or not, it's an idea that has attracted attention from Downing Street to Washington DC. Khan – working as a financial analyst in 2004 after earning degrees from MIT and an MBA from Harvard – started remotely tutoring his cousin, Nadia, in Louisiana, who was struggling with maths. "YouTube? Since 2009, Khan has devoted himself full-time to his Khan Academy, a tutoring, mentoring and testing educational website at khanacademy.org that offers its content free to anyone with internet access willing to work through its exercises and pithy videos, the majority narrated by Khan himself.
Using the internet to widen access to education is not itself revolutionary. But the Khan Academy is different. ICT-Atelier: MWUCE. Byrdseed Gifted Classroom Ideas. The Differentiator. Try Respondo! → ← Back to Byrdseed.com The Differentiator The Differentiator is based on Bloom's Taxonomy, Kaplan and Gould's Depth and Complexity, and David Chung's product menu. Try It In: French Dutch • Tweet It • Like Byrdseed • Pin It Students will judge the ethics of the [click to edit] using a textbook and create an essay in groups of three. Revised Bloom's Taxonomy adapted from "A Taxonomy for Learning,Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives" by Anderson and Krathwohl Depth and Complexity adapted from The Flip Book by Sandra N.
Depth Big Idea Unanswered Questions Ethics Patterns Rules Language of the Discipline Essential Details Trends Complexity Multiple Points Of View Change Over Time Across the Disciplines Imperatives Origin Convergence Parallels Paradox Contribution Key Words Consequences Motivations Implications Significance Adapted from David Chung and The Flip Book, Too by Sandra N. Group Size One Two Three Four. US idea of 'cultural literacy' and key facts a child should know arrives in UK. What are your views on ED Hirsch?
Never heard of him? If so, you're in good company: only a small number of people in the UK have. But you might be well advised to look Hirsch up – his philosophy could be coming to a primary school near you, very soon. Hirschism, if there is such a thing, is spreading fast through the English school system. Moreover, a new primary curriculum – due to be implemented in 2014 – has Hirsch at its heart. So who is ED Hirsch? Eric Donald Hirsch Junior is an 84-year-old retired professor – originally of English literature – from Virginia. The result was a hugely influential book, first published in 1983, on what he calls Cultural Literacy. In the ensuing years – during which Hirsch was greeted by the American right as a prophet and a saviour, and by the left as a scion of the empire of evil – these ideas solidified. Several years ago, Nick Gibb – then shadow minister for schools – came across Hirsch and began reading his books.
"Oh, I did not know that. Acorns. Schools find active kids make smarter students. When students at Meadowview Elementary in Farmington needed to improve their reading scores last fall, they were turned over to physical education teacher Joe McCarthy. Each morning for months, McCarthy had the students spend 15 minutes running or shuttling from side to side in the gym. It wasn't any type of punishment, but part of a growing trend in education that focuses on increased physical activity to improve learning.
The students were selected based on their scores on fall state assessments. When the kids took the tests again earlier this year, after McCarthy's exercise regimen, they showed the greatest improvement of any students at Meadowview, double the school average, McCarthy said. "And all we did was move more," McCarthy said. "It's more than a theory. It's a well-established fact," said Jack Olwell, incoming president of the Minnesota Association for Health, Physical Education and Dance, the group representing the state's thousands of physical education teachers. Role models. Why Learning Should Be Messy. The following is an excerpt of One Size Does Not Fit All: A Student’s Assessment of School, by 17-year-old Nikhil Goyal, a senior at Syosset High School in Woodbury, New York.
Can creativity be taught? Absolutely. The real question is: “How do we teach it?” In school, instead of crossing subjects and classes, we teach them in a very rigid manner. “Today’s problems — from global poverty to climate change to the obesity epidemic — are more interconnected and intertwined than ever before and they can’t possibly be solved in the academic or research ‘silos’ of the twentieth century,” writes Frank Moss, the former head of the M.I.T. Schools cannot just simply add a “creativity hour” and call it a day. After indicating the problem at hand, scoop out the tools, research, networks, and people required to get it solved. In practice, this means the elimination of English, mathematics, history, and science class. The first phase of the arc is called exploration. Similarly, the M.I.T. Related. Donald Clark Plan B: Blog marathon: 50 blogs on learning theorists over next 50 days.
The six secrets of a happy classroom - Schools - Education. Apparently it is the same minority of top pupils, usually sitting at the front, who raise their hands to answer questions, while the majority switch off and opt out. According to the education expert Professor Dylan Wiliam, this ingrained, almost sacrosanct, classroom habit is widening the achievement gap in our schools.
"Only a quarter of pupils consistently put their hands up," he says. "They can't wait to take part, while others switch off completely. " Some sort of randomisation process is required, Wiliam long ago decided, and his unorthodox solution, as demonstrated in a new BBC2 series, The Classroom Experiment (part of the channel's very welcome School Season of programmes), is to write the pupils' names down on lollipop sticks, the teacher then pulling them at random from a pot. No one can hide – everyone is potentially in the firing line. "The programme is a crystallisation of things I've been doing for a long while," Wiliam says. Hence the lollipop sticks. Tales of a 6th Grade Classroom. Elyse Eidman-Aadahl - Communities of Practice for Professional Learning: Connected Learning for Adults. Top 5 tools for collaborative teaching « Learning Activist. This is a summary of the 5 tools that i have found most useful. Some have even been developed collaboratively over time by my team.
Overview This is an essential document and it should show the sequence of units through the year. It should also include key mapped syllabus dot points and outcomes. Assessment tasks would also be mapped on this document. You can also call this a scope and sequence Lesson schedule This document will show the classes that are on, the teacher that is on that class,and where they are during their lessons. Learning Activity Template As a team leader, head of department or facilitator, one of the best things you can do for your team is to specify guidelines and structures that act as springboards to creativity.
Backwards planning Clear instructions on what students do with the outcome of a learning activity are also essential. Time to plan and communicate Like this: Like Loading... One way to grow a networked teacher, is to grow a networked learner #pln. In my new role as Lecturer in Blended Learning, a part of my role is staff development. Staff development has always been a part of my roles, both in how do you do staff development in a networked world? It was one of the big questions at the national AITD conference on training and development where I was invited to be a keynote. Much of the discussion in the keynotes and sessions where how traditional trainers/developers could adapt their traditional approaches capitalise on working and training in a networked world and in networked organisations.
Some issues overheard: Traditional training is unpopular. And even though I wouldn’t call most higher education institutions networked organisations just yet, there are nascent networks inside them. A networked professional has a Personal Learning Network I’ve long thought that it is impossible to truly assess the potential of networked technologies for learning, when you only learn about them in a 2 hour workshop. Setting it up… Virtual Community/Social Media Stanford 2012 Course Wiki. Articles. Obviously not exhaustive, but here are a few ‘creative’ ideas for using Apple’s brilliant free piece of software, iBook Author, rather than the traditional ways you might use it. 1 – An obvious use is to write your own iBook about your teaching practice, so that you can share your ideas with the wider education community. The end result is very professional, and with time spent, the skills needed to use it are not too hard to learn.
If you want to extend your book further too, there are lots of widgets you can add in such as the ones in iAd Producer and other third party widgets from other developers. 2 – It would be a really effective way of collecting and presenting the work of an action research group, so that you can publish your findings if appropriate. The flexibility of the software means that you can present all types of data, as well as embed videos and so on. Towards alternative lifelong learning(s): what Freire can still teach us.
Judith Walker, Doctoral Candidate [1] Educational Studies, University of British Columbia I am hopeful, not out of mere stubbornness, but out of an existential, concrete imperative (Freire, 1999, p.8) Introduction In the first edition of the Rizoma Freireano, McLaren and Jaramillo (2008) contributed an article calling for ‘alternative globalizations’. In this paper, the authors firmly reject the inevitability of a global neoliberal capitalism, which has come to dominate our understandings of the nature of globalization, and instead put forward the alternative ideals of ‘critical globalization studies’ and ‘critical globalization pedagogy’. By using the term ‘alternative’ the authors reframe the word ‘globalization’ and reappropriate it to some extent rather than endorsing a binary understanding of a pre-destined and already-defined concept, which would have occurred had they relied on the term ‘anti’.
The Dominant Lifelong Learning Imperative The Development of Lifelong Learning… Digitalstorytellingebook. Learning in a Digital Age - extending higher education opportunities for lifelong learning. View or download the publication (PDF )1 View the publication in ePub format2 View the publication in Kindle format3 View or download the publication in text only format (PDF )4 Order print copies5 An increasing number of students are benefiting from education later in life, bringing diverse experiences, skills and needs and adding value to employers and society. Learning in a Digital Age – extending higher education opportunities for lifelong learning demonstrates, through a range of case studies, how institutions are already using technology to attract and retain these diverse groups of learners, offer professional development opportunities for their own staff, and enhance engagement and collaboration with employers and other organisations with a stake in effective lifelong learning, for example, by improving access, streamlining institutional processes and providing more efficient and effective support at entry, while on course and beyond What the publication offers Tables and diagrams 1.
Co-genT. Gazelle. Use Google Forms to Make Grading More Efficient. Untitled. Ed: what's the purpose of education? Join the debate. | 11 Tools to Turn Your Students Into Academic Superstars - Getting Smart by Guest Author - edchat, EdTech. How do you stop online students cheating?