Personal Learning Environment | iTeachU Information Fluency provides a model for educational activities; the Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is the place where those activities happen. Just as learning activities and their products map to the three areas that comprise Information Fluency, those activities and their products can be mapped to different tools and resources. About the “PLE” Personal The PLE is personal because the people, applications, tools, resources, and services are chosen to match our individual, idiosyncratic needs. Learning Many have given up on the call to rename the PLE to the Personal Living Environment. Environment In practice, the PLE is an environment, not a network. Visualizing the PLE Visualizing the PLE has become something of a pastime for education technology geeks. Similarly, Martin Weller clusters tools and services around himself, clustered by (primary) function: Even this kind of visualization can grow complicated rather quickly, such as this example by Jared Stein: Parts of the PLE (for me)
More Than 30 Google+ Tools, Extensions, Tutorials and Other Resources The Google+ honeymoon might be over but many people are still active on the site. As Google+ has some shortcomings, lacking features and usability flaws, there are now numerous tools to deal with these issues. I’ve compiled a list of the most promising ones. I haven’t tested all the tools, just a few, so please report issues in the comments. I have chosen only those that seemed to make sense and have been recommended by other publishers or social media friends of mine. Web Tools and Resources Google+ Statistics – Google+ statistics shows not only who the most popular users and posts on Google+ are; it also discloses the percentage of women on Google+. Firefox and Chrome Extensions There are lots of Chrome and Firefox extensions for Google+ now. G++ for Google Plus (Firefox/Chrome) – this extension adds Facebook and Twitter to your Google+ interface. Tutorials and Solutions Tools Lists Misc. Do you already use these or other Google+ tools? * CC image by Toby Bochan.
Google Chrome Can Now Talk Back to You You can now talk to your computer, kind of like you would a person — that is, if you're running Google's Chrome browser . The conversational search abilities that Google showed off last week at its I/O developer conference are now live. Although Chrome's voice search , which allows users to search for things just by speaking, has been around for a while, the update now lets your computer speak back to you. For example, if you asked, "Who is the prime minister of Canada?", Chrome will say out loud, "The prime minister of Canada is Stephen Harper." In theory, conversational search also lets you ask natural-language follow-up questions to Chrome such as, "Where does he live?" In practice, though, it's not nearly this seamless. The same is true today. However, for single-question searches that have clear right answers, conversational search works pretty well. Have you tried Chrome conversational search? Image by Pete Pachal, Mashable
L'apprentissage inversé : avancée ou régression ? Si vous fréquentez les sites américains de pédagogie, vous aurez sans doute été surpris de constater l'engouement des enseignants pour le « flipped learning », que l'on traduit par "apprentissage inversé". La tendance est lourde et les articles sur le sujet attirent de nombreuses visites et presque autant de commentaires. C'est la Khan Academy, un site qui offre des milliers de leçons gratuitement en vidéo, qui a déclenché le mouvement. L'expression "flipped learning" est due à deux professeurs de sciences, Jonathan Bergmann et Aaron Sams, qui ont utilisé cette méthode d'enseignement dès 2006. Rappelons les grandes lignes de ce principe d'apprentissage : L'arrivée en fanfare de l'apprentissage inversé a fait l'effet d'une bombe dans une Amérique qui cherche désespérément à renouveler ses modèles pédagogiques. Les enseignants aiment l'apprentissage inversé. Aux États-Unis, la création de Salman Khan s'attire beaucoup de commentaires élogieux. Une méthode vraiment nouvelle ?
How to Collect Student Files with Dropbox | K-5 Computer Lab Collect Student Assignments and Files with Dropbox and FileStork Dropbox is a free online file storage service that students can use to upload assignments and other digital files to the teacher's Dropbox account. Students do not need an email account or a Dropbox account. Teachers can use the basic free Dropbox account to collect and store up to 2GB of data. June 16, 2012 - UPDATE!! Unfortunately, This tutorial will no longer work as one of the companies, "FileStork" has closed their website as of June 15, 2012. How It Works: 1) You place an upload link on your website, blog, wiki, bookmark site, etc.. 2) Students click the link and are presented with a file upload form. 3) Students upload their file. 4) You collect the uploaded files from your Dropbox account. Get Started: You will use these two free services: Dropbox for up 2GB of free file storage. Filestork for you to create upload links and for students to send files to your Dropbox. 1) Go to Dropbox. 2) Go to Filestork.
Ruth Clark Claims “Games Don’t Teach” Ruth Clark posted at ASTD an article titled “Why Games Don’t Teach.” It’s a deliberately provocative title, meant to draw attention and cause controversy. A more accurate title would be “Some Games Aren’t Effective at Making People Remember Content,” but that’s a lot less likely to grab attention. Before I continue, I want to say that I enjoyed her book, eLearning and the Science of Instruction, and I have found some of the research there valuable. However, I think Clark didn’t do a very careful review of the literature before writing her post, and I don’t think that one study is enough for her to make such a broad claim dismissing games for learning. According to Ruth Clark, you didn’t learn anything playing Oregon Trail, Carmen Sandiego or Lemonade Stand Let’s look at her summary of the research: The goal of the research was to compare learning efficiency and effectiveness from a narrative game to a slide presentation of the content. For the brain, play is learning and learning is play.
Noodle in Moodle: Adding free Resources from @LSIS_updates Welcome to Moodlenews.com A resource site for all Moodle-related news, tutorials, video, course content information and original resources. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe: RSS feed| Weekly Email Newsletter | Moodle News Twitter Thanks for visiting! NLN is a collection of learning objectives and resources available on the web which are now maintained by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) and were created with funding from the UK’s Skills Funding Agency. The NLN Materials are small, flexible ‘bite-sized’ episodes of learning. As a bonus, there’s a Moodle resource integration which you can add to make it very easy to add these resources to a Moodle classroom. Grab the module files and read more about NLN at Adding a new nln resource is very simple, once installed, this is the basic process: 1. 2. 3. 4. Hat tip to Moodlefacts.nl for first showing this cool resource.
To be an effective designer it helps to understand how people learn In the course of my work, I get to meet hundreds of l&d professionals every year, not just the managers, but those who work day in day out designing, developing and delivering courses for their organisations or their clients. Almost without exception I find that they're enthusiastic, intelligent and great fun to work with. Unfortunately (and you knew there'd be a 'but'), very few of them are remotely up-to-date with what we know about adult learning. I'm not claiming this is a global phenomenon, but I've certainly experienced this consistently across Europe. Does this matter? There's book a I've been meaning to write which I hoped would address the problem. Design for how people learn is available as a paperback but I read it on the Kindle (which was fine, except some of the diagrams didn't reproduce so well). Like Cathy Moore and Connie Malamed, Julie knows how to write for the l&d audience. P.S.
How To Do Everything On Wordpress This is the latest installment of Ultimate Guides from Edudemic. What are Ultimate Guides? They’re detailed looks at particular topics that you may not get anywhere else. From Twitter to Google+ to Bastille Day , the library continues to grow. WordPress powers many of the world’s most popular websites (including Edudemic!). Now for the long-form tutorial version: rather than venture into the world of WordPress alone, Edudemic is here. Introduction So your current or future website runs on WordPress. First, let’s understand what it is. It’s also easy to add functionality: twitter feeds, Facebook integration, slideshows…if you’ve seen it on the web before, chances are it can be integrated into your site. Logging In and the Admin panel Use the credentials provided by WordPress and then go to to log in). There’s a lot going on here, but you won’t have to worry about too much of it. First things first: you’ll probably want to change your password. Posts and Pages
The new workplace Six years ago few people believed that informal learning made much of a difference. Today’s common wisdom is that most workplace learning is experiential, unplanned, social, and informal. Informal learning tops many training department agendas. We’ve shifted how we think about learning since the Informal Learning book came out. We used to think that communities of practice could only sprout up organically. I’m convinced that working smarter by boosting informal performance is a key to survival in today’s topsy-turvy business climate. Like this: Like Loading...
The 21st Century Version So much have been written about Bloom’s taxonomy; one click in a search engine will flood your page with hundreds of articles all of which revolve around this taxonomy. Only few are those who have tried to customize it to fit in the 21st century educational paradigm. As a fan of Bloom’s pedagogy and being a classroom practitioner, I always look for new ways to improve my learning and teaching, and honestly speaking , if you are a teacher/ educator and still do not understand Bloom’s taxonomy then you are missing out on a great educational resource. The following article is a summary and a fruit of my long painstaking research in the field of Bloom’s taxonomy. Bloom’s taxonomy of learning as Wikipedia has put it is “ a classification of learning objectives within education proposed in 1956 by a committee of educators chaired by Benjamin Bloom ”. 1 – The cognitive : The intellectual or knowledge based domain consisted of 6 levels . Let us now go through the different domains stated here.
The Future of Work and Learning I have been asked to speak to a group of 14 to 16 year olds about the importance of finishing high school and attending college. It’s one of my favorite topics. But as I thought about the talk I realized that I better say something about the future of work and why college has become more important than ever. It’s fun but risky to speculate about the future of work and learning. The world is changing so fast. As leaders, we should be thinking about the future, including whom we will be leading and what they will be doing in our organizations. A good place to start is with the tech industry because that industry will affect the nature of everyone’s work in the future. More independent workers (one estimate is 20 million by 2013) – These are the independent consultants, contract workers, free lancers, free agents, and temps who cycle in and out of organizations in a constant flow. To Jablonski’s list, I would add five more trends:
Crucipresentaciones Ahora estamos en pleno proceso a la espera de los resultados, pero como ya hemos completado la primera parte os presento el documento: crucipresentaciones Desarrollo de la primera sesión: Primero los alumnos han elaborado un perfil de mi persona a partir del crucigrama. Además, he salpicado el crucigrama de conceptos lingüísticos, que he destacado en negrita.