All Blog Posts Tagged 'learning' (188)

Teaching English Speaking to Korean Staff...a New Wiki for Staff and Employed Koreans

English4Koreans

Many Koreans have already studied English for a minimum of 10 years.

These Koreans already have a knowledge of English.

They have very good English Skills.

What they lack is:

* the opportunity to speak English

* the need to speak English

* the confidence to speak English

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Now there are many English teachers… Continue

Added by Maggi Carstairs on October 26, 2008 at 7:34pm — No Comments

How Boys and Girls Learn Differently

At a primary school Manning, a small town 65 miles east of Columbia, South Carolina, second grade teachers Holly Garneau and Anna Lynne Gamble are convinced that segregating elementary-age boys and girls produces immediate academic improvement—in both genders.

Eager to capitalize on their past progress, the two created a teaching plan for the upcoming semester. The kids will be in a coed environment for homeroom, lunch, and recess, then divide up for four hours each day to learn… Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on October 17, 2008 at 6:00am — 1 Comment

Free Manuals for Free Software

FLOSS Manuals, located at flossmanuals.net, is a collection of manuals that explain how to install and use a range of free and open source software.

The FLOSS acronym stands for Free/Libre/Open-Source Software. The manuals are friendly and simple, and they are intended to encourage people to explore the wide range of free, open source alternatives to expensive and restrictively licensed software.

Added by Kevin Chilton on October 13, 2008 at 5:19am — No Comments

Building a network of non-school tutor/mentor programs

This is a map of the Chicago region showing concentrations of poverty and locations of poorly performing schools (according to state information). Our aim is that people use these maps to focus attention, and resources, on neighborhoods where non-school volunteer- based tutoring, mentoring, arts and/or technology programs might help keep kids safe, model different careers and aspirations than might be modeled in a high poverty area, and help… Continue

Added by Daniel Bassill on October 9, 2008 at 1:45pm — 2 Comments

A Brave New World-Wide-Web

Wow, I put this up less than two weeks ago and I just checked the number of views... 2,000+ on blip.tv and 700+ on YouTube. I am pleasantly surprised:-)

Find more videos like this on Classroom 2.0

I wrote about this video in a post called, Who are the people in your… Continue

Added by David Truss on September 26, 2008 at 9:12pm — 1 Comment

Report Wisely: Make Sense of Your Online Assessment Results

To maximize the learning efforts of online tests in virtual classroom, teachers need quick insights of miscellaneous test results in a simple yet smart report.

September 25th, 2008 - More and more teachers are benefiting greatly from the simplicity and flexibility of online tests and exams to measure learning performances. Teachers would have obtained the value of assessment results for effective teaching and learning, with detailed test items and responses in an… Continue

Added by William Peterson on September 26, 2008 at 8:19pm — No Comments

More than Online Tests, Get Values from Your Assessment Results

To measure learning performance in a flexible approach, many instructors have successfully implemented online tests and exams with e-learning authoring tools. Theoretically instructors would obtain all test items and responses in detail, and generate analysis report of scoring statistics for effective teaching and learning. However, due to the lack of system-based tracking support or tech knowledge, most instructors are muddled by these enormous raw data of test results from participants.… Continue

Added by William Peterson on September 18, 2008 at 9:18pm — 1 Comment

Techno Kids

On fathers day I decided to take dad out for a meal at a local eatery. My younger four year old half sister also came along, which was good as I rarely get a chance to catch up with her. From the moment she walked in I was blown away by how mature she appeared, this was compouded by the fact that the last time I saw her was probably 6 months prior. After lunch she reached into her bag and pulled out a camera, which at first I thought… Continue

Added by Jarrod Robinson on September 9, 2008 at 8:49pm — 2 Comments

Link to my recent post about technology, engaged learning, "back-to-school" reflection, UDL, RTI, and thought-provoking video clips for educators...

http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com/2008/08/digital-studentsanalog-school-videoclip.html

Be sure to budget enough time for your visit, since I link to another blogger's posts, and several of my own.

-Lynn

Added by Lynn Marentette on August 23, 2008 at 8:06pm — No Comments

Building E-Assessment: The Practical Guide to Online Quizzes in Moodle

Feedback on performance is a critical part of a learning environment and assessment is one of the most important activities in education. It seems like lately a lot of educators have been trying to make quizzes in Moodle, as a part of their online learning courses for effective practices.

For those of you that don't know Moodle, it is the best one of free, open source course management system (CMS) designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online… Continue

Added by William Peterson on August 19, 2008 at 2:16am — No Comments

Online Training Needs Assessments: How to Measure Learning Performance Effortlessly

For online training instructors, creating meaningful performance assessments for online training is a critical issue.

Nowadays, most online training instructors like to evaluate what learners learnt during the learning process through traditional summative evaluation. However, this assessment approach needs to be changed, as it only considers final learning outcomes without considering the learning process of learners. Actually, learning performance can be tracked by related… Continue

Added by William Peterson on August 18, 2008 at 11:38pm — No Comments

Trying to keep up!

How do you best stay afloat in a sea of new widgets, gadgets, nings, blogs, wiki's, podcasts, gcasts, photocasts, and the list continues? When I finished my PhD in Special Education - Ed. Tech emphasis, I was feeling quite confident that I would never be one of those who fell behind. I took a great deal of pride in my abilities to keep "in the know". Those days are long gone!

Rather than feeling like a relic I'm doing the best that I can to keep up with what seems an ever quickening… Continue

Added by ChristyZ on August 2, 2008 at 6:09pm — 4 Comments

Santa's Alphabet

I hope you are enjoying your summer!

I want to create a Christmas Alphabet to help teach Children. I will put it up @http://www.santalivenow.com. It will have a free down load so you can share with your students. Any ideas please help Santa out.

Thanks

SANTA’S ALPHABET

Advent Calendar (Dino)

B

CHRISTMAS

D

ELF

F

G

HO! HO! HO! (Dino)

I

Jolly… Continue

Added by Santa on June 17, 2008 at 12:26pm — No Comments

I Have Merged My Blogs

Dear Friends,

I have merged my Education-themed weblogs. It was a marriage that seemed inevitable. In reality, I was testing the waters with Typepad and Wordpress (self hosted) and Wordpress won. The content on both blogs was similar and was centered around provoking thought about school/teaching practices at this particular point in the evolution of Education.

I will continue this work, though, with a greater intensity and focus as I am no longer "split" by the… Continue

Added by Andrew on May 21, 2008 at 7:45am — 1 Comment

THANK YOU!

EVERY DAY SHOULD BE NATIONAL TEACHERS DAY! YOU TRUELY ARE OUR HERO'S. AND SANTA HAS CHECKED HIS LIST AND YOU ARE ALL ON THE NICE LIST!

Added by Santa on May 6, 2008 at 8:12am — 2 Comments

Set the Data Free

I'm at the Web 2.0 Conference here in San Francisco, my second year attending. Last year felt very entrepreneurial and this year feels a little more serious and corporate. A lot of the products are starting to shift from a focus on the end user to enterprise deployments. Still no one from education here. Even though under 20 are the early adopters and most adventurous users of many of the technology, no one puts that together with what they do in school.

What are the trends this… Continue

Added by Karen Henke on April 24, 2008 at 4:37pm — No Comments

eSchool News: How multimedia can improve learning

New research sheds light on students' ability to process multiple modes of learning

By Meris Stansbury, Assistant Editor, eSchool News

An analysis of existing research supports a notion that already has begun to transform instruction in schools from coast to coast: that multimodal learning--using many modes and strategies that cater to individual learners' needs and capacities--is more effective than traditional, unimodal learning, which uses a single mode or… Continue

Added by Jack Olmsted on April 16, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0

"If access to higher education is a necessary element in expanding economic prosperity and improving the quality of life, then we need to address the problem of the growing global demand for education, as identified by Sir John Daniel. Compounding this challenge of demand from college-age students is the fact that the world is changing at an ever-faster pace. Few of us today will have a fixed, single career; instead, we are likely to follow a trajectory that encompasses multiple careers. As we… Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on April 13, 2008 at 7:30am — No Comments

Interview with David Flink,

Click to Play Interview

Yesterday, Melinda interviewed David Flink, the Executive Director & Co-Founder of Project Eye-To-Eye. Project… Continue

Added by Jack Olmsted on April 12, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

Barriers to Personalized Learning in Schools

At the CoSN conference in March 2008, I led a birds of a feather discussion about Long Tail Learning. Our discussion hit on trust, student privacy, and school district liability. We came up with a list of barriers/challenges:

# The classroom model of traditional education: 1 teacher, 25-30 students

# The Carnegie units system of measuring learning by time and place

# The ability for students to self… Continue

Added by Karen Henke on April 6, 2008 at 4:53pm — No Comments