The Maker Movement and the Rebirth of Constructionism Educational theory and practice have begun to appear more frequently in the popular press. Terms such as collaborative learning, project-based learning, metacognition, inquiry-based learning, and so on, might be new to some audiences, but they have a relatively long and well-documented history for many educators. The most widely-known and promising pedagogical approach is constructivism grounded on the work of Piaget, Vygotsky, and Bruner. Given how it has transformed my own understanding of pedagogy, teaching, and learning, constructionism seems ripe for a similar resurgence — like a phoenix rising from the ashes of Taylorization and standardized testing. Constructionism brings creativity, tinkering, exploring, building, and presentation to the forefront of the learning process. Over the last decade my teaching has undergone a dramatic transformation as I played with many methods for getting my students to learn not only through doing, but also through creating. [Photo by seier+seier]
27 Ways To Be A 21st Century Teacher You can’t swing an iPad in the hallway without hitting someone talking about becoming a 21st century teacher, 21st century student, or something involving the 21st century. While I personally am quite over that term, it fits and makes sense. I guess. (Personally, I think a better term is ‘modern’ teacher or ‘connected’ teacher rather than just stating that someone exists within this century. Kinda vague, no?) So what does it take to become a 21st century teacher? See Also: The 10 Skills Modern Teachers Must Have Think you got the chops to become a 21st century teacher, a modern teacher, or at least an educator who has a classroom of engaged students? Have I gotten you excited enough to start taking your own great leap into the world of modern education? What ways would you add to this visual?
How Course Design Puts the Focus on Learning Not Teaching This is the second post in a series of four on instructional design for online courses. The goal of this series is to introduce a fresh, innovative approach to course design. Instructional design, also known as learning design, appears to be making a comeback, which is most fortunate given that I am writing a series on this very topic. Massive open online courses [MOOCs] that mimic the classroom model where the learner is passive and the instructor is not, highlights the need for fresh, new approach to course design. And it’s not just MOOCs that need help, but numerous courses currently offered online; many are in need an overhaul to create an environment focused on learning, rather than one that focuses on instruction. My aim here is to provide readers with a course design framework, information and tools for designing online courses. Before I move on and provide further examples, I’ll review four learning orientations—beliefs in how people learn. Resources: Like this: Like Loading...
The Teacher's Guides To Technology And Learning Welcome to the official guide to technology and learning by Edudemic! This part of Edudemic is meant to offer you, the teacher, some of the best and most popular resources available today. We’ve combed through hundreds of resources in order to narrow down our guides into something easy to read, easy to use, and easy to share. Below are links to the guides we have made so far. They’re always a work in progress so be sure to let us know if we missed something or if you have more resources you want us to call out in the guides. We’re always looking for the best and most useful resources so don’t be shy, share! Just click on the title or image of each guide to view that particular resource. The Teacher’s Guide To Twitter Twitter has proven itself to be an indispensable tool for educators around the globe. The Teacher’s Guide To Flipped Classrooms We talk a lot about flipped classrooms on Edudemic. The Teacher’s Guide To Copyright And Fair Use The Teacher’s Guide To Google Glass
Open Badges Exobrain Looks Like An Awesome Mind Mapping Tool Visualizing the ideas that you have in your brain is a tall order. Many of us creative types tend to carry around pads of paper and gravitate towards white boards to jot down our thoughts and scribbles. A really helpful tool to extract exactly how our ideas might become an actual “thing” is by using mind mapping software, which basically lets you create a cloud of words, ideas and thoughts that can connect to one another. A service that will be entering beta soon called Exobrain could become the killer tool to take the mind mapping concept to the next level. Not much is known about the service, other than it was created by Colin Dunn and Nick Gauthier, and is still in development. There’s a demo that you can play around with though to see if this is something that might float your boat. This video will give you a good idea of what you can do with Exobrain: The service promises to store all of your maps in the cloud, being accessible from anywhere. ➤ Exobrain h/t Kyle Bragger
Bästa tankekarta-verktygen Popplet app och webbsida Text 2mindmap Bubbl.us Du kan bara skapa tre tankekartor gratis. Spider Scribe MindMeister Vackra tankekartor. ProcessOn En cool site för att skapa diagram online och att samarbete i realtid. TotSplash En rolig plats för att skapa och organisera idéer och skapa tankekartor. Diagrammr Skapa diagram genom att skriva meningar, ingen registrering krävs, lätt ! Appar www.dramatica.com/downloads/Dramatica paradigms-0707.pdf Digitala verktyg för formativ bedömning @ Nordström Education Skrivet av Daniel Nordström Här hittar ni en sammanställning på olika digitala verktyg som man kan nyttja för att stödja arbetet med formativ bedömning. Sammanställningen kommer att uppdateras löpande. Följ oss på sociala medier eller på vår hemsida för att ta del av nya uppdateringar med tips på digitala verktyg. Här hittar ni en sammanställning på olika digitala verktyg som man kan nyttja för att stödja arbetet med formativ bedömning. Sammanställningen kommer att uppdateras varje vecka. De olika verktygen är inte direkt kopplade till en specifik nyckelstrategi eller olika metoder utan det finns en stor flexibilitet och valfrihet att anpassa användandet av olika digitala verktyg i undervisningen efter behov. Foton, bilder och illustrationer För att synliggöra lärandet och förstärka texter så kan lärare och elever använda sig utav olika foton, bilder och illustrationer från t.ex. För er som vill hitta gratis fria bilder på Internet rekommenderas följande sajter: www.fotofinnaren.se Filmer
How Technology Wires the Learning Brain Kids between the ages of 8 and 18 spend 11.5 hours a day using technology — whether that’s computers, television, mobile phones, or video games – and usually more than one at a time. That’s a big chunk of their 15 or 16 waking hours. But does that spell doom for the next generation? “Young people are born into technology, and they’re used to using it 24/7,” Small said. “The technology train has left. The downside of such immersion in technological devices, he said, is that they’re not having conversations, looking people in the eye, or noticing verbal cues. But that’s not the headline here. Video games, for example, aren’t just about repetitive tasks – many of them have built-in social components that allow kids to communicate. “Texting is an expression of what it means to be human,” Small said. That’s why one well-liked teacher Small knows gives her students a five-minute texting break in the middle of class. “We can train empathic behavior,” he said. “The brain is complex,” he said.
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