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$16.4 million funding boost for teacher education program | Newcastle Herald
Working in groups, teachers across all experience levels – from new graduates to school principals – are empowered to refine their practice collaboratively in a way that ensures ongoing improvement.
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more fertile discussion points for #dscholar @mweller #INF537 https://t.co/NOGANdmUhF
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How Information Studies Can Make a Difference In Your Community | Career FAQs
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4 ways to thrive in the robotic age without losing your humanity - an HfS FORA keynote review
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The NEW home of TeachMeet NSW!
Sunday, July 29, 2018
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
Sunday, July 15, 2018
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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2018 Update: What Happens In An Internet Minute by Lori Lewis | Merge | AllAccess.com
See the interesting graphics shared cia this blog post on social media use
tags: education socialmedia
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A big list of options for connecting globally — @joycevalenza NeverEndingSearch
Joyce says - A little while back I began to collect a list of my favorite discoveries for engaging in global connections and participation for my pre-service grad students.
tags: education globalcollaboration globalconnections globalprojects flatconnections
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Global Collaboration/Connection Ideas | Pearltrees
A PearlTrees curation by Joyce Valenza of global collaboration and connection opportunities in education.
Friday, July 13, 2018
T21C Conference - Getting started with online collaborative learning
What a lovely school! We were in purpose built classrooms with a socratic approach to learning and furniture arrangement.
It was good to catch up with friends (and former students of mine in the MEd Knowledge Networking and Digital Innovation degree at CSU) Jacques du Toit, and Yvonne Barrett. Jacques is the Assistant Director of Academic Performance and Innovation at Hillcrest, and Yvonne is a teacher librarian about to head back out of Australia to take up a position in an international IB school in Turkey.
My session was about 'Getting started with online collaborative learning: Tools and strategies to move from 'local to 'global'.
Sunday, July 08, 2018
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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ISTE | It's time to commit to digital citizenship!
tags: education ISTE DigitalCitizenship
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Visual & Graphic Design | The Rapid E-Learning Blog
tags: education learningdesign elearning
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Digital Skills Framework | All Aboard
The Digital Skills metro map is now interactive! Hover over lines or stations to explore…
tags: education digitalskills framework
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(HE) Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching - Canvas Network | Free online courses | MOOCs
This teaching induction course provides key introductory learning and teaching concepts and strategies for those who are in their first few years of university teaching. The self-paced course is comprised of 11 expert-developed modules plus specialty modules and documents.
tags: education HigherEducation teaching open
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This non-profit organisation shares opportunities to connect and learn with the world.
tags: education globalcollaboration theglobaleducator globalprojects
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The Key to 21st Century Classrooms Isn't Tech. It's Evolved Teaching. | EdSurge News
To explain the difference between adding technology and powerful teaching and learning, I want to share examples of three different types of classrooms I’ve visited recently. | Related to SAMR. A good read
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How Virtual Reality Improves Memory - InformED
Researchers at the University of Maryland have found that people remember information better when it’s presented in an immersive Virtual Reality (VR) setting. Link to research paper. Interesting!
tags: education virtualreality
Monday, July 02, 2018
IUT Conference 2018 - Holistic approaches to online collaborative learning design
This post focuses on the 'Paper presentation' which was a 45 minute session where I talked about my topic based on a slideshow, and then we had discussion and questions in the room. The outcome of this session is an academic paper (yet to be finalised!). Here are some essential artefacts to learn from in the meantime. Thanks to Judy O'Connell for tweeting this out during the session!
Abstract
Digital learning environments using the affordances of Web 2.0 technologies support holistic learning design for connected and collaborative pedagogies.
Essential Discussion
This session shared research-based holistic implementation of Web 2.0 tools (tools that allow for multimodal communication, interaction and collaboration as well as online publishing and media creation), or the ‘collaboration web’ (Harasim, 2017) as a design feature for online subjects in higher education. Emerging pedagogies based on participatory and collaborative online learning were examined with current examples of learning space design using Web 2.0 tools shared via the Case Study of INF537 - Digital Futures Colloquium. This is the capstone subject I co-wrote and teach at Charles Sturt University as part of the Master of Education degree in Knowledge Networking and Digital Innovation.
These three essential understandings frame the presentation content:
- Subject and learning design in conjunction with management of Web 2.0 tools is crucial. There needs to be a pedagogical purpose for each tool and transparency around why and how each tool is implemented. Design must respect student time and workflow, and not all activities may be mandatory.
- Teacher presence in conjunction with online agility and flexibility is a key factor. The ideal approach is for academics to be in the online spaces with the students. Teacher presence is the glue that holds this holistic approach together.
- Open scholarship in conjunction with networked and digital learning should be the norm when using Web 2.0 tools. Leaving a digital legacy is a goal afforded by Web 2.0 tools. It can be exciting to see where the learning grows and interconnects with others beyond the class (experts, peers etc.).
Veletsianos (2016) believes that sociocultural factors make technologies and practices emergent. Participatory technologies like online social networks and blogging have become an integral part of open scholarship. However, he questions what effect online socialisation with peers via social networking sites might have for online learners, as well as the pedagogical affordances of these sites. Tensions between Web 2.0 use and educational practice in higher education are shared in research by Bennett, Bishop, Dalgarno, Waycott and Kennedy (2012) where more successful outcomes saw alignment between educational and Web 2.0 practices and highlighted the potential learning benefits from effective use, through student content creation and sharing. Lock and Johnson (2016) discuss the need for careful consideration of technology to support student completion of collaborative learning tasks, and at the higher education level students should be empowered to make those decisions. Kuit and Fell (2010) found that constructivism underpins the use of Web 2.0 technologies, and the role of the academic in this process is pertinent to foster judgement, synthesis, research and collaborative practices.
As part of the INF537 Case Study discussion one of the tools shared is FlipGrid. This is a vital communication and collaboration tool that has recently been bought out by Microsoft. Kudos to FlipGrid creators for their inspiration and we will wait to see what MS does with the tool - so far it has been made FREE to educators but with the implementation of a mandatory password on each Grid. My thoughts about that as an educational imposition will be shared in a subsequent blog post.....
Meanwhile you can access the INF537 FlipGrid where students discuss preliminary ideas for their Research Assignment. Password is INF537-17
REFERENCES
Koehler, A. A., Newby, T. J., & Ertmer, P. A. (2017). Examining the Role of Web 2.0 Tools in Supporting Problem Solving During Case-Based Instruction. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 49(3-4), 182-197.
Kuit, J. A., & Fell, A. (2010). Web 2.0 to pedagogy 2.0: A social-constructivist approach to learning enhanced by technology. In R. Donnelly, J. Harvey, & K. O’Rourke (Eds.), Critical design and effective tools for elearning in higher education: Theory into practice (pp. 310-325). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Lock, J., & Johnson, C. (2017). From Assumptions to Practice: Creating and Supporting Robust Online Collaborative Learning. International Journal on E-Learning, 16(1), 47-66.
Veletsianos, G. (2016). Digital Learning Environments. In N. Rushby & D. Surry (Eds.), Handbook of Learning Technologies (pp. 242-260): Wiley.
Sunday, July 01, 2018
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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How Blockbuster MOOCs Could Shape the Future of Teaching | EdSurge News
tags: education MOOCs openlearning
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Microsoft Buys Video-Discussion Platform Flipgrid | EdSurge News
Changes to FlipGrid through MIcrosoft purchase. Free for education BUT now all grids have a password slapped on them - there is no choice.