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LinkedIn : Professional networking site that allows educators to connect, exchange ideas, and find opportunities. Educators can join a variety of groups that cater to their individual learning interests and engage in discussions as well as submit, read, and comment on articles. For more information on wikis check out this video.
Over the years, I have noticed that student engagement tends to decrease in my classes around this time and I reach out to my personallearningnetwork (PLN) for ideas or tools to boost engagement. Additionally, it is important that we ask for their feedback so we can continue to provide the best learning opportunities for them.
Social media: platforms like Twitter help teachers build their personallearningnetwork and share teaching tips and tricks. Some of them prefer to seek classroom collaborations directly. Lock from the University of Calgary has developed a four-item framework to help teachers design authentic collaborativelearning.
Invite teachers to determine how their shared preps can be used for any study group they can imagine. Organize some regular large group activities for children. Some schools have a weekly K-2 sing-along run by the music teacher on Friday mornings, allowing K-2 teachers to meet in a weekly study group. I want more ».
All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular. This is a group enrollment via Google Classroom.
However, as we become increasingly connected to each other through technology, and our social ties strengthen, so there is greater scope for students to learn together, sharing their resources and ideas, and approaching their study collaboratively. Collaborativelearning does not undermine or contradict personalised learning.
Finally, we cannot afford to ignore the growing influence of mobile phones and apps as a disruptive force and the capability they have of enabling any time, any place learning. The Network Society. Retrieved 7 February, 2014. van Dijk, J. London: Sage. Wheeler, S., Yeomans, P. and Wheeler, D. Wheeler, S. and Lambert-Heggs, W.
There is however a growing number of educators using Twitter who look for strategies to better serve them in social media for collaborativelearning. First, we must understand that the worst advocates for collaborating with Twitter are more often educators who are collaborating through Twitter. I follow over 3,000.
Google Plus - Is the highly publicized social network by Google. While it is still in its early release there are a lot of features that make this an attractive option for education such as: hangouts - the impressive group video chat and circles - the way to control posts w/ privacy settings.
The two themes that stood out the most for me during Week 4 of Teaching With Technology were "cooperative/collaborativelearning" and "contextual/situational learning". As a teacher I have asked students to cooperatively complete assignments and projects over the years, and I have been on many collaborative teams.
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