Why use a Blog?

Excellent Video of Job Skills

Jan 27 - Notes

09/27/2010

Perception
·Our senses help us learn and remember our world.
·We gain experiences through using our senses.
· Our five senses
1. Touch
2. Taste
3. Smell
4. Sight
5. Hearing
· Perception is relative, not absolute.
· Learning is most concrete when we use multiple senses.
· Procedural (muscle) memory.
-Riding a bike.
-Driving a car.
-Dribbling a ball.
·Read page 26 in text.

Bloom's Taxonomy
·Has been around since 1956.
·Benjamin Bloom.

>Knowledge
>Understanding/Comprehension
>Application
>Analysis
>Synthesis
>Evaluation

·Have to know and give examples for the test.
·Used in understanding and testing.



Bloom"s New Taxonomy:
>Analysis
>Evaluating
>Remember
>Understanding
>Applying
>Creating



Great Link on Bloom's

Bloom's Resources

Appropriate Software
-Meets curricular needs.
-Always choose software before hardware.
-No dill and kill
-Should be open-ended.

·Effective Software
-Appeals to many senses.
-Must be toaster technology (easy to use).
-Must be interesting.
-Based on concrete experiences.
-Appeal to multiple intelligences and the learning modalities.

·Learning modalities
1. Visual
2. Kinaesthetic
3. Auditory.

·Software should be based on what they have already learned.

Thanks to Tamara for this posting!

Dustland Fairytale

Just because!!

Jan. 27 - SmartBoard Notes

Jan. 27 - Podcast

Jan. 25 - Creative Commons Video

Jan. 25 - Podcast

Jan. 25 SmartBoard Notes

January 25 - Notes

Instruction and Learning:

Types of Intelligence:
Gardner’s Definition: “...A set of skills problem solving...enabling the individual to resolve genuine problems or difficulties....”

The two main intelligences used in schools are:

1. Verbal Linguistic - Ex: Reading Comprehension Exams
2. Mathematical Logical – Ex: Math Exams

Technology allows the use of all the intelligences

9 Intelligences: Be prepared to give examples of these intelligences and how would you incorporate them into a specific class (Ex. Social Studies)for the final exam.
1. Verbal Linguistic – Typing Tutor
2. Mathematical Logical – Number Munchers, Excel
3. Musical – Singing, Musical Instruments, Download Music, Apple’s Garage Band
4. Spatial –Artists, Architect, Photostory
5. Bodily Kinaesthetic –Dance, Smartboard
6. Naturalistic – Nature Walk, Digital Cameras on Nature Walk
7. Existential – Philosophical Questions, Ex. Religion, Research on the internet
8. Interpersonal - Group Projects, Chatting, Text Messaging
9. Intrapersonal – Personal Reflection, Blogging

Cognitive Styles
- Cognition deals with how we think
- Metacognition deals with thinking about thinking
- Myers – Briggs Test (MBTI) – It gives you a series of questions to answer. Depending on your answers, it tells you what career would be suitable for you. It measures cognitive styles.

Motivation
1. Intrinsic – Personal motivation that comes from the inside, because you have a desire to do whatever you do. No one is forcing you to do anything.
2. Extrinsic – External motivation that you receive. Ex: Getting a gold star when you do a good job! It is anything that comes from somewhere else to motivate you.

A.R.C.S Model – Comes from John Keller
- Attention- Interacting with students
- Relevance – What you’re doing meets a goal or need
- Confidence – Being successful at something. You don’t want kids to “lose hope” by not providing them with activities to make them successful. So they will make their academic career to make your life miserable (they will be great at that)
- Satisfaction – The pay off! What benefits will come from your lesson. Will the student’s be able to understand where this info will benefit them.

Taylor Mali - What Teachers' Make?

Jan. 22 SmartBoard Notes

Jan. 22 - Podcast

Jan. 22 - Notes

Jan. 22nd 2010
EDIT 302-D

Learning Communities

*group interdependence
*team members rely on one another to complete the task
*BUT no one person can complete the task by themselves
*Examples – construction crew, sports teams, schools

*group identity – everyone needs to belong (William Glasser)
*Examples – mascots, teams

*individual accountability
*every team member has a job

Assessment
*Two types of assessment

Traditional
*Tests

Authentic
*No passive testing
*No rote learning
*Reflection over time
*Shows growth over time
Examples – portfolios , 2 types = showcase, comprehensive
*Short answers
*Investigation
*Project Based Learning
*Checklist
*Rubrics
*Rating Scales (Likert) Ex. 1__2__3__4__5

Thanks to Janene for posting these notes!

Jan. 20 - SmartBoard Notes

Jan. 20 - Podcast

Everything's Amazing, Nobody's happy!

Jan. 20 - Notes

January 20th
Software that is Constructivist
·Open-ended - Microsoft Word, Inspiration, PC Logo, Video games (Halo, the Sims), Power Point.

Behaviourist software is...
·Not open-ended- drill and kill, Typing tutors, Rabbit games, number munchers
·Remedial

All learning takes place in three ways
1.Individually

2.Collaboratively/Cooperatively
Cooperative Learning:
·Most recommended
·Develops communication skills
·Develops higher order thinking skills
·Develops positive self-esteem
·Develops social awareness
·Creates motivation
·Group work develops tolerance
·All of these are real world skills

3.Competitively à Set ground rules, mix it up so everyone has a chance at winning, sometimes there doesn’t have to be a winner or a loseràdon’t let kids pick teams

Thanks To Kyle H. for posting his notes!!

MS Publisher Demo

Here's the How-To video for our class newsletters we're working on in EDIT.

Jan. 18 - Podcast

Here is part 1 of chapter one for our lectures from Forcier.

Jan. 18, 2010

What Makes A Good Presentation?

Our Inspiration Mind Map



Ashten's Mind-Map Thanks :)



Sona's PPT (revised edition to come)

Edit Good Presentations

View more presentations from Red Deer College - EDIT.

The How Not To Use PPT YouTube Video



Chapter One Notes