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Designing learning that matters? How might shift in understanding be captured?
This session by Sarah Martin and Chris Bradbeer was opened and the presentation team was introduced. The Stonefields School was also described (it is pretty new, and only opened its gates in Feb 2011), as well as their focus on the … Continue reading
Posted in All, Design, Evaluation
Tagged design, evaluation, Learning, learning spaces
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Designing learning spaces…some thoughts and resources
English: The media suite at Albany Senior High School, New Zealand. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) There is a growing interest in designing flexible learning spaces that will provide opportunities for students (of all ages) to learn in a space that best … Continue reading
Posted in All, Design, Future, Student voice
Tagged design, designing learning spaces, ecology, elearning, flexible learning spaces, High school, JISC infoNet, learning spaces
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How are we engaging all learners? Ideas and examples
Tody’s webinar (25 July 2012) was facilitated by Karen Melhuish (Enbling eLearning), and focussed on ways that we are engaging learners. The first thing the group did was reflected on a time when participants felt there were learning effectively. Some … Continue reading
Change at the speed of…so, who has got it right?
There is, perhaps, a perception that change is happening at great speed. However, some of the big institutions (e.g. education, health) appear to be positively glacial with the rate they are responding to change, and what is more, there seems … Continue reading
Posted in All, Design, Future
Tagged architecture, change, design, empowerment, future, innovation, mindshift, Technology
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Thoughts on design: The 100,000-student classroom
This video was shared by Peter Allen, and a few things caught my attention. The first was the use of written notes captured by a camera…it feels counter-intuitive, but they had good feedback about the sense it created a more … Continue reading
Prompting good learning and setting the stage for authentic student achievement
I have been reading and listening to Gary Stager for several years now, and much of what he says resonates with where I hope education in particular, and approaches to learning in general, are heading. In A Good Prompt is … Continue reading
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Tagged assessment, design, empowerment, Facilitator, gary stager, Learning, prompts, Research, Student voice, trust, voice
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What do you think is the teacher’s worst enemy? A convenient untruth
Learning styles have been under the spotlight for the last few years (see for example, this discussion). If you are still sitting on the fence with your thinking about learning styles, or maybe you are totally convinced…I’d strongly advise your … Continue reading
Culturally responsive design: Pacific peoples
I would like to thank Diana Ayling who put together these suggestions and links to resources (the original from which the below has been adapted can be accessed here), which are a great start to thinking about the enhancement of existing courses, or … Continue reading
Bringing Maslow screaming into the 2012s: Maslow’s Model Rewired for Social Media
Peter Allen (The Learning Wave) shared this great article, prefaced by the comment “Came across this interesting article … brings Maslow screaming into the 2012′s…. “. To give you a taster of the article here is a couple of paragraphs and … Continue reading
Wins and hurdles – the ups and downs of providing professional development in eLearning
Image by London College of Fashion short courses via FlickrJacqui Kelly, Judy Schrape, & Kuki Singh highlighted a few of the most effective things that they do as part of PD at Curtin. The main PD is around a weekly … Continue reading
