למידה, אינטרנט ... ומה שביניהם

The question of ‘how simple can we make it’ is not one that is usually asked.

... if you want eportfolios to work, then it’s individuals that need to like them and be motivated to use them.

Blogs are good enough for eportfolios, if what you want from an eportfolio is for people to actually, you know, use them.

Human beings do not behave as educationalists would like them to behave. That’s because education has a flawed and simplistic view of human nature (usually behaviourist). ... People are lazy, procrastinators, messy, change their minds and quite often want to forget what they’ve done.

תוויות: פורטפוליו

תוויות: ספר, ספרי לימוד

Here is where I turn from improvising jazz and basketball rebounding to classroom decision-making. Non-teachers would be amazed at the total number of decisions teachers make during a 45-minute lesson, the frequency of on-the-fly, unplanned decisions, and the seemingly effortless segues teachers make from one task to another. Decisions tumble out one after another in questioning students, starting and stopping activities, and minding the behavior of the class as if teachers had eyes in the back of their heads.

There will be lots of talk at next week’s ISTE Conference about “those of us in the industry.”

You can keep your industry! I’m an educator!

Better yet, keep your industry away from my professional community.

תוויות: הוראה

תוויות: דיגיטאליות, חיפוש, כתיבה

תוויות: חיפוש

Searching for Educational Resources Online Is About to Get Much Easier

תוויות: חיפוש

Laptops make learning and schoolwork more interesting, students and teachers said. “When kids are engaged, you can teach them anything,” said Jeff Mao, who oversees instructional technology for the Maine Department of Education.

In class, teachers set boundaries, he said. “Some say, 'It's OK to check your Facebook if you're done with your work, but you have to let me know you're doing it.'”

Besides, he said, the laptops go home, where kids have access to all sites. And students are going to grow up, go out into the world where there is all kinds of social networking.

King recalled Mt. Ararat High School students who interviewed him last spring about energy. The students came over, opened their laptops, pushed a tape recorder button and began asking questions.

“As I'm answering, one student's Googling things I said, asking follow-up questions. This went on for 45 minutes,” he said.

King said he watched and smiled, pleased to see how at ease the students were using their laptops.

Learning happens best when you make mistakes

תוויות: 1:1, שימוש בבתי ספר

While I understand the desire for convenience, I have long argued that when students take classes online, they are learning not only the subject matter but technology skills. Being exposed to more than one system means they are learning transferability of those skills, which I think is important in the workplace. And it’s more important than the inconvenience of using a second log-in (which they do anyway because they have Facebook open at the same time).

They know just enough to be dangerous. They have enough experience to want convenience and not enough to understand the larger issues of pedagogy, including the restrictiveness of an LMS on what the instructor wants to do. They can drive but have no sense of how traffic works.

In a world dominated by look-alike online classes, the tendency will be to assume all classes should be that way.

In a world featuring variety and creativity, the tendency will be to assume these as part of learning online.

תוויות: ילידים, סביבה לימודית, פלטפורמות