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UF COE Online Learning Community: Infographic: Deconstructing the Myth of Learning Styles. College of Education University of Florida Become an Educator GatorLink Login Daniel Stewart Mccoy@dmccoy Daniel Stewart Mccoy Senior Director of E-learning, Technology and Creative Services Tag cloud community of practice, teamwork, dysfunction, management, lencioni, faculty, incentive, policy, distance education, propaganda, tagging, tags, social bookmarking, ontology, folksonomy, emergent semantics, k12, alternative, flexibility, online learning, anthropology, science, theory, complexity, iphone, travel, international, roaming, data, messaging, multimedia, email, airplane, olc, ict, learning community, adoption, online learning community, motivation theory, self determination theory, competence, autonomy, relatedness, nike, fuelband, gamification, motivation, infographic, elearning, learning styles All site tags Infographic: Deconstructing the Myth of Learning Styles Public By Daniel Stewart Mccoy 772 days ago College of Education, 140 Norman Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611, (352) 392-0726 top.

How Do Online Learning Communities Make Learning More Effective – An Infographic | Custom training and elearning, anywhere anytime! Using Technology as a Learning Tool, Not Just the Cool New Thing. Ben McNeely North Carolina State University © Ben McNeely I fully realized the digital age when I first spoke to my grandparents over the "talk" feature on AOL Instant Messenger. How cool is it, I thought, to have grandparents that not only have a computer, but know how to use it?

What was more striking was that my grandfather, a man who never had much formal technical education, built not one, but two, computers from parts—motherboard, disk drives, hard drives, and so forth—with the help of my cousin. He has high-speed Internet access, sends and receives e-mail, burns CDs, and chats online using IM. He even built a computer for my grandmother, who uses it to check the obituaries daily on the Winston-Salem Journal Web site and does online jigsaw puzzles.

Growing Up with Technology In kindergarten, I was introduced to the Apple II computer. For my classmates and me, computers were just tools to get things done. As a Boy Scout, my troop would participate in scout shows at the local mall. 10 Teaching with Technology Mistakes You Want to Avoid Making.

Are you tentative about how to go about integrating technology in your classroom? Are you already doing it, but want to make sure you’re doing the right thing by your students? Teaching with technology can be fun and engaging, but it’s easy to make a few errors in your approach that can lead to unfortunate consequences for your students, or discourage them from fully participating. Here’s a set of issues you would do well to avoid when assigning technology based work to your students (note that many of these apply to students of all ages). Using technology that you don’t have a basic understanding of: If you are asking students to use a specific application, it is highly advisable that you have basic knowledge of how it works, so you can offer some guidance.

Students may struggle excessively and become frustrated, or do things they really shouldn’t do. Learn the basic ins and outs of applications that you plan to use in assignments. About Kelly Walsh Print This Post.