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The First Days of the School Year: It’s About the Learners Not the Content

User Generated Education

You will be expected to engage in the learning activities during class time. You will be expected to do collaborative learning during the class time. I will introduce the learning activities, but you will be responsible for the actual learning. 2009). ( Community Building in the Classroom ).

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New Posted Resources 12/05/2009

The Web20Classroom

is highly interactive, accessible and collaborative. Learn how to utilize it in your classroom with free videos, activities and more from CDW-G and Discovery Education. Prestwick Cafe: Building Something New: There’s Always Demolition Required tags : change , favorite Web 2.0 tags : web2.0 , resources , favorite Posted from Diigo.

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Engaging online learners 2

Learning with 'e's

I also mentioned a very useful model that promotes creative, collaboration online writing. It can be adapted for a number of contexts, especially to promote various kinds of collaborative learning. Wheeler, 2009, p 487) Read more in the next post. 2009) Destructive creativity on the social web. Wheeler, S.

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Engaging online learners 1

Learning with 'e's

In order to rationalise activities within such a collaborative space, it is prudent to identify a framework within which activities can be defined. Several activities have been used often in recent wiki based learning with my trainee teachers and it is possible to locate these within the phases proposed by Gunawardena and her colleagues.

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Making is in Our DNA

A Principal's Reflections

Jonan Donaldson sums it up nicely: 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. It is out there.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Accomplished teachers are most knowledgeable about how students in their school or district learn, and thus they are ideal candidates to lead professional-learning and curriculum development efforts (Vescio et al., 2008; Webster-Wright, 2009 ; Accomplished California Teachers, 2012 ).

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What is Blended Learning?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

This definition aligns with the broader understanding of blended learning as an educational approach that integrates traditional classroom instruction with digital and online methods, offering a holistic learning experience that leverages the strengths of both modalities.