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?
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. In the process, I adapted Rick's original matrix, re-imagining the vertical axis as a spectrum of conversation, ranging from monologic to dialogic, and redefining the horizontal axis as a measurement of student activity, ranging from passive to active. How about you?
7 Useful Twitter Tools To say that Twitter is popular and lots of people use it, would be a massive understatement. But the more popular a web service becomes, the more people you have wishing it could do more. Thankfully, there are some of these people that are willing to act on their wishes and build tools to enable this “missing” functionality and help make a service like Twitter even better. Here are 7 of these tools that will help you do more with Twitter. TwileShare TwileShare is a free service that allows you to share files on Twitter. dlvr.it dlvr.it provides bloggers, publishers and brands a way to instantly syndicate content directly to twitter. Nurph Nurph gives users an easy way to extend conversations by chatting in real-time with your Twitter friends and giving followers the ability to watch. The Archivist Qwerly Qwerly is a whois for Twitter. Twoolr Twoolr provides Twitter users with loads of statistics about their account. Buffer Buffer makes your life easier with a smarter way to schedule tweets.
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. Do you have other ideas or suggestions that you can add to the list?
Questioning Skills to Engage Students May 4, 2011 By: Nachamma Sockalingam PhD in Teaching and Learning Questioning skills are essential to good teaching. Teachers often use questions to ensure that students are attentive and engaged, and to assess students’ understanding. However, students may say “Yes, I am listening” or “Yes, I have understood” simply to avoid embarrassment. Questions that tap higher level thinking One of the commonly used questioning techniques is to employ the 5W and 1H questions: Who, What, Where, When, Why and How. One of the goals of teaching is not only to evaluate learning outcomes but also to guide students on their learning process. Going one step further it would be really engaging and motivating for the students (as well as the teacher) to have the whole class participate in a discussion, which would allow cross fertilization of ideas. To plan the questions, it is not just the type of questions that is important, but also the timing, sequence and clarity of questions. Recent Trackbacks
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. 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. Please check out the incredible thoughts shared by many educators in this Voicethread!
Лучшие Web 2.0 ресурсы для учащихся Предыдущий пост, посвященный ответу Дейвида Андраде на вопрос какими веб-технологиями он пользуется ежедневно в своей работе, неожиданно получил продолжение. Сразу вслед за ним Дейвид опубликовал свое "Резюме лучших Web 2.0 ресурсов для учащихся". 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Google является отличным ресурсом для студентов. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. И последний, но не по важности, ресурс - ваши учителя. Moving beyond self-directed learning: Network-directed learning This site has been created to foster discussion on how our thinking, learning, and organizational activities are impacted through technology and societal changes. Since the original publication of Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age, I've been approached by many people requesting additional thinking and discussion. Four tools are available to provide dialogue: Blog for my personal reflective thoughtsWiki for collaborative content creationDiscussion forums for discussion on issues impacted by a connectivist view of learningEmail list for discussions on technology, networks and learning Most resources on this site are intended for public viewing, but contributing to the wiki or discussion forums requires registration. If you are interested in general learning and technology trends, please visit my elearnspace site.
40 tips for using twitter effectivelyBridie's Typing Services Twitter is a fabulous networking tool for any small business or freelancer. But are you using it effectively? Check out these simple tips that’ll have you using Twitter like a pro in no time! Twitter Basics 1. 2. 3. Add a url to your bio to encourage clicks 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Twitterfy your website 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Twitter Dos 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. Twitter Don’ts 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. General Twitter Tips 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. The most important Twitter tip of all 61. Yes, it’s been mentioned twice already, but if you don’t interact you’re missing the whole point. View Twitter as a networking event or a virtual coffee shop, somewhere to chat, get to know other people and, you guessed it, interact! Bridie Jenner More Posts - Website Follow Me:
My Top 10 Ways To Use Evernote | A Primary Blog For The 21st Century Posted by grade1ad on March 19, 2011 in Uncategorized | Last year, I saw a tweet from Zoe Branigan-Pipe (@zbpipe) talking about Evernote , and based on her recommendation, I signed up for an account. Since then, I’ve been using Evernote in a variety of different ways, and it’s definitely become one of my favourite tools to use. During Elementary Chat ( #elemchat ) tonight on Twitter, I replied to a tweet by @NancyTeaches about Evernote, and shortly after that, @NancyTeaches , @BarbaraDay , and @mbfxc asked me to blog about how I use this tool. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. So why do you use Evernote? Aviva
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. 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. CubeTree is a free service designed for companies that would like to build a social network of wikis, shared items, and microblogs for their employees.
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. 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. If organizations can find ways to maximize the potential of Web 2.0 tools for training and minimize their disadvantages, that’s when these tools live up to their billing.
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? The following list of 13 skills (an excerpt from my book) is based on the responses of leaders in both colleges and businesses when asked what skills K-12 education should be providing for the students of tomorrow. 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:
100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Teaching Students About Social Media | Teaching Degree.org By Tara Miller Some educators have expressed an appreciation for the irony of experienced instructors who have had to learn about social media later in their careers teaching it to younger students who have grown up in an Internet environment. Despite what may seem to be somewhat of a disadvantage, the experienced teacher brings life lessons and the ability to guide students in a positive direction no matter the topic being taught. The following tips, tools, and resources can assist any teacher with the basics about social media and ways to share that information with students. Tips and Resources for Educators From tips on combating fear of social media to tools and articles to help guide you, these resources will get you off to a good start. Social Media Classroom. Networking Help students learn about networking with these tips and resources. Networking. Creating a Positive Web Presence Keep Your E-Image Clean. Blogging Blogging in the Classroom. Social Networking Sites Student.com. Twitter