12 Curriculum Planning Tips For Any Grade Level Or Content Area
12 Curriculum Planning Tips For Any Grade Level Or Content Area by Terry Heick Learning is really just a growth in awareness. From not knowing to knowing is part of it, but that’s really too simple because it misses all the degrees of knowing and not knowing. One can’t ever really truly understand something any more than a shrub can stay trimmed. There’s always growth or decay, changing contexts or conditions.
8 Steps to Creating a Virtual Employee Onboarding Program
5. Use breakout rooms, frequent check-ins, and superanimated facilitators to keep new hires engaged When Kelly’s team switched to an all-virtual footing, they had never heard the term “Zoom fatigue,” but they immediately understood how much more work they would need to do to keep participants engaged. “I am about one and a half to two times more animated when facilitating virtually than nonvirtually,” Kelly says. “A lot of it is how am I using nonverbal communication, like how am I using my hands, how am I using my facial expressions, am I looking at the camera, am I pointing at people, am I using names?
6 Tips For Creating Effective Student Groups
6 Tips For Creating Effective Student Groups by TeachThought Staff Grouping students is easy; creating effective student groups is less so. The following infographic from Mia MacMeekin seeks to provide some ideas to help make group work easier in your classroom.
Empathy: Beyond the Jargon - Microsoft Design
5 insights from relationship therapy, zoos, ethics, and journalism on bringing empathy to the forefront Empathy has long been touted as a critical component for business success and positive employee and customer outcomes. As designers, we frequently discuss the value of empathy in our industry. But the word has become almost meaningless through its regurgitative over use, frequent misuse, and under implementation.
UDL + Design Thinking = Designing for All Learners
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and design thinking frameworks advance instructional design practice and should frame design from the start. In the first steps of design thinking, effort is focused on understanding by empathizing with the users and exploring the users’ challenges. Then you start to identify by ideation with resulting prototyping steps. Following these, you test the prototypes and implement your new design for the users.
Gold Standard PBL: Essential Project Design Elements
It’s encouraging that Project Based Learning is becoming popular, but popularity can bring problems. Here at the Buck Institute for Education, we’re concerned that the recent upsurge of interest in PBL will lead to wide variation in the quality of project design and classroom implementation. If done well, PBL yields great results.
What is Facilitation?
What Are the Differences Between Facilitation, Presentation, and Training? Trainers help others improve their performance by teaching, instructing, or facilitating learning. As such, facilitation and presentation are both tools in a trainer’s toolkit. In most cases, effective and engaging trainers will spend less time presenting content through lectures or lecturettes and more time facilitating learning around that content.
The key ingredients for successful project-based learning [INFOGRAPHIC]
Most people today live in a world of projects. No matter what we do for a living, work projects are everywhere. We need to do research and planning, work in teams, constantly adapt to feedback, all while trying to find the best solutions and keep within budgets. And even life outside of work is full of projects. Whenever we need to bake a cake, plant a flower, paint a room, repair something around the house or organize a birthday party, we still need to do research and planning, communicate and collaborate with other people, constantly adapt to feedback and manage budgets.
Don't Overlook Accessibility in E-Learning
As online learning expands, organizations need to adapt courses for all learners. In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying social distancing guidelines, many organizations have had to bring more learning online, converting traditional classroom training into self-paced e-learning and live virtual classroom formats. And while those efforts have enabled many employees to continue learning amid extraordinary circumstances, companies may be leaving out some learners. Advertisement According to the Association for Talent Development’s E-Learning: The Evolving Landscape report, 26 percent of organizations do not make accessibility considerations in their e-learning programs for individuals with disabilities. The consequences should worry talent development leaders.
Gamification in Education: 4 Ways To Bring Games To Your Classroom
What is gamification? Gamification is the use of game design and mechanics to enhance non-game contexts by increasing participation, engagement, loyalty and competition. These methods can include points, leaderboards, direct competitions and stickers or badges, and can be found in industries as varied as personal healthcare, retail—and, of course, education. We’ve seen gamification already in a variety of settings: completing a punch card to win a free sandwich, receiving a badge for being the first of friends to check in at a particular restaurant, or expanding our profiles on LinkedIn to bring the “completion bar” up to 100%. Gamification has even worked its way into the automotive industry with the innovative dashboard of the Ford Fusion hybrid. A high-resolution display features a rendering of vine-like leaves.
4 Favorites for Phenomenal Virtual Facilitation
During college, childhood fantasies of stage and screen turned into nightmares of clumsy waitressing. Leaving Broadway dreams behind, I joined an HR firm. But the thespian within awoke as I watched my boss facilitate a workshop. Here she was, paid to be in front of a rapt audience for eight hours. I was enthralled. “Glad you like it,” she said.
The 10 Best Educational Apps that use Gamification for adults in 2018
This post was recently updated to reflect the 10 best educational apps for adults that use Gamification for 2019 Click here to view our full list of our Gamification examples. Get ready to learn, the fun way! We have scoured the internet and app stores to find the 10 best educational apps that use Gamification for adults. See how companies and organizations are making learning languages, music, coding, art, history, and more fun and exciting for everyone!
5 Ways to Prepare for Adobe Flash Expiration
Adobe has announced that, as of December 31, Flash-based content will no longer work, and the company will no longer support the technology. Plan ahead to ensure that learning content isn't left in the dark. 1. Audit and assess.
