Online science education may be at a fork in the road, but its creative and resourceful leaders are lighting the path to ensure we’re headed toward quality and improvement. As the demand for online science courses rapidly grows, new initiatives and studies help resolve the concerns from opponents and help answer the curiosities from proponents.…
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Loading...As teachers it is our role to engage the students in learning. One way to accomplish this is through activating prior knowledge. Likewise, when teachers activate their own prior knowledge it can add depth to the lesson. As soon as I saw POUGHKEEPSIE, New York streaming across the top of a news article followed by, “No More Snow Days,” my prior knowledge was activated.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading... (No Ratings Yet)Loading...Well it took a while to finally get started but I think I am finally wrapping my head around this learning and integrating technology assignment. I have decided to learn the iBooks Author application available on the iPad as a new technology. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...By demonstrating that you could build a very “open” course on Coursera, the University of Edinburgh team in charge of E-learning and Digital Cultures succeeded in breaking down some walls between the large-scale free course (called xMOOC by some critics) and the cMOOC connectivist learn-fest.…
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Well I just finished watching an amazing video from Alan Levine. He is looking for people to share “true stories” from connected experiences. Have you ever met that amazing blogger or shared a photo and where then asked to participate in something or speak somewhere?…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...While technology helps to increase engagement and interaction in online courses, it also provides instructors the means for leaving behind a one-size-fits-all approach to teaching and moving towards methods that personalize student learning. Technology is the reason (and the vehicle) for how Dr.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Being literate means many things for me.
On a basic level, it means being able to read, write, and talk in English and/or any other given language. On a greater level, being literate means expressing ideas and feelings. It means using the language to access new realities and to transform them; it means to play an active role in society and to seek to develop a better dialogue between its members.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Taking day-long hikes into an exquisite national park like Desolation Wilderness, west of Lake Tahoe, provides a wonderful metaphor for learning: just when we think we’ve reached a destination we have established for ourselves—a summit, a pristine lake, or a meadow—we realize there are even more to pursue.…
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