In this first DepEd Analysis we have projects that had some success
with knowledge changing. Percentile change was the change measure.
Too good for Violence, Too Good for Drugs and Violence and Building Decision
Skills were the three projects that had sufficiently extensive evidence (rightmost
column, “Extent of Evidence”) that also reported large percentile changes
(“Improvement Index”)
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Access to multiple new and wonderful ideas about learning/teaching in increasingly wiredup/connected world.
One MUST have a teaching model that includes helping the learner develop her his development/integrity/learning model AND grading/teaching/communicaating accordingly. When done it will be VASTLY different from the usual educational experience.
“Connectivism course starts Monday…
As mentioned in June, we are offering an open online course on Connectivism. The course begins on Monday and is freely available to anyone with an interest in learning more about the topic. You can sign up for free here. The course outline is also available. And, for a bit more information, I’ve put together a short introductory presentation on how the course operates.
For learners wishing formal credit through University of Manitoba, a paid enrollment option is also available.”
Teaching to Power and Powerful Teaching:: Consequences of Extraordinary Enhancements of Abilities to Construct and Communicate Ideas
Whether you’re a teacher or a researcher the combination of weblogging and the proliferation of incredible knowledge-making/communicating tools is causing, I believe, a knowledge and power explosion.
We’ve barely accounted for the change in communication content that derives from the removal of corporate and governmental stranglehold on what information and knowledge is disseminated to whom. The internet, we are seeing, does quite a bit to equalize access to information and to forums in which one can, if one’s argument and information are sufficiently compelling, move public opinion. It’s a big, No!, HUGE, topic but not the one I want to talk about at the moment.
My emphasis is upon the tools for thinking and communicating that are now available that were unavailable, say, twenty years ago. Let’s look at what a professional educator and communicator had 30 years ago: chalk, blackboard, overhead, book, movie. S/he was bounded both in what was learned or constructed and what s/he disseminated by those tools.
We’re only indirectly talking about machines. Yes, this thinking and communicating is done on machines and with the aid of thinking devices made possible by machines. But all of this has magnified our ability to know, to teach, to communicate and to organize– as I will explain below:
The addition of tools for thinking and communicating thought
Now add personal abilities to
With these tools we’ve considerably aided our ability to think and communicate as individuals.
It’s not just that we’ve empowered groups of people to think and decide as a group. We have! (Bravo!!)
It’s that we’ve given tools for thinking and communicating to individuals which considerably enhance each person’s processing, organization communication of complex ideas to others.Individuals with enhanced idea processing and accessing power are working with others who have been similarly transformed.
We should expect a magnified ability for learners to conduct self-directed learning and for teachers to communicate information directly and, more importantly, to aid individuals in their quest for information and skills that give them the power to manage their own life spaces.
If part of the ability to rule is to control information flow and to minimize subject peoples’ understanding and organizing power, then government that aims to benefit the few off the backs and lives of the many will be crippled by
this change. Former stooges will do an end-run around ignorance and become empowered.
I eagerly await new developments. There will be lots of adjustments
In the meantime, Teachers! Get busy learning and communicating using the new tools of enlightenment.
So much has happened to the potential to teach in 6 years since I started blogging.
At that time my choices were limited to just one two system which was leased to and controlled by institutions . Subsequently open source tools have been developed and made freely available to all who have the interest and skill to teach and an audience, or the ability to recruit an audience.
25 tools (from the introductory page at 25 tools):
More than just a browser with 100s of extensions available to provide an enormous range of extra functionality not found with other browsers.
No more worrying about an email client on your desktop and dealing with spam and viruses – and tons of free storage space.
* Resource gMail/Google Mail: Mini Tutorial
An easy way of not only text messaging your contacts but also free voice calls – with low charges out to landlines.
Store your bookmarks online, tag them and share them with others, students, colleagues and so on.
Subscribe to website and blog feeds and the news is delivered automatically to you. Effortless!
* Resource Google Reader : Mini Tutorial
If you want to stay in touch with people no matter where you are or what you’re doing.
Don’t keep your calendar to yourself, share it and make scheduling events an easier process.
* Resource Google Calendar : Mini Tutorial
An online suite of office tools for personal use or to collaborate with other. It can read in Microsoft Office documents too.
* Resource Google Docs : Mini Tutorial
For organising your thoughts or just brainstorming
Aggregate all your resources, mail, RSS feeds, etc, in one place.
Use it to create a personal or professional blog
A versatile web authoring to build web pages and web sites.
Create editable websites for collaborative writing and working.
* Resource PBwiki : Mini Tutorial
Host your personal or professional picture collection, and share them with friends, colleagues and others.
Upload presentations, tag them and share them with others. Synchronise them with an audio file to create a narrated presentation
A large collection of shareable videos – host your own there tool.
Create a slideshow around images and invite comments (audio or text) from others.
* Resource Voicethread : Mini Tutorial
Record and edit audio and, with the extra encoder, convert your audio files into MP3 podcasts
* Resource Audacity : Mini Tutorial
An “always-ready” program that instantly captures and shares images and video.
* Resource Jing : Mini Tutorial
Want to get some quick feedback? Set up a poll, and track responses.
* Resource PollDaddy : Mini Tutorial
For small meetings of up to 10 people, to whiteboard, annotate and share files. You can even use Skype.
* Resource Yugma : Mini Tutorial
Live interactive video broadcasting to a global audience. All it takes is a camera and an internet connection.
* Resource Ustream : Mini Tutorial
Create and customise a private (secure if required) community for a group of like-minded people, large or small.
* Resource Ning : Mini Tutorial
Create SCORM-compliant learning content that doesn’t require you to be proficient in HTML or XML markup.
* Resource eXe : Mini Tutorial
* SCORM/AICC eXe Tutorial
Host a complete course or program or simply provide user authentication for other training materials.
* Resource Moodle : Mini Tutorial
June 17, 2008 Untitled: “The jist of it? Have to get a syllabus prepared.
The complication. 25Tools and, specifically, eXe. We have Clemme, Ray, Spike and now Ron Miller all agreeing to teach and
taking Rays lead by preparing syllabi (as part of the Viterbo clearance to teach).
I think eXe is a really fine way to get anything put together for the web”
edu2.0 seems good too (free and many features)
Oh!, how huge my frustration, no doubt shared by millions of other teacher-types, who are quite incredible interactors! Back in the early nineties, say 1992, my original frustration surfaced when I realized the potential of the web and also that web technique was not within my reach not without a major mindset operation and lots and lots of training. Now, with eXe, we can take our teaching online orders of magnitude less of both sweat and radically different skill acquisition. And, in the bargain, eXe allows the learning of good lesson and course principles which will serve both online and in the face-to-face classroom.
The real difficulty is to find people who have both the wish and the ability to teach. I’ll leave that very large topic until another time. Abandoned, for the moment, so that we can talk about the already competent face to face teacher [another time, remember] and the web.
But at least a preface about the the teacher as an existential “type”. There is, as far as I can tell, no theoretical limitation to human capabilities and inclinations as they are parceled out to us as individuals. In my own experience, however, there are existential and developmental limits on this special combination of human abilities and inclinations.
For example, the wish to interact with and nurture the becoming of others is relatively rare as a primary, or close to primary, individual drive (I am not here discussing the “wired-in” protectiveness that seems to be part of the human and mammalian package). Also, the wish to and ability to communicate effectively in multiple situations with varying ages, genders, groups and personalities is also fairly rare. While related, these two skills are more rarely found in one person. For a “teacher-type” add to these two, wishing to support/nurture the achievement/becoming of others and comprehensive set of one-to-one and group communication skills two other skills, the ability to “sense” and/or “deduce” the conceptual processing of another, and the ability to communicate about and structure situations such that the learner can move from their own position on something like a learning ladder of skills to a next level of learning . This, based only upon the teacher/student transactions and the information and learning experiences and informational materials provided to the student.
As you can see this is a relatively unlikely combination of human skills, having one may increase the motivation to develop another in the set but does not guarantee that that skill will develop.
I hope you now see that nothing in this teacher disposition (my reference to this set of motivations and skills) relates directly to mathematics, logic, technology. And, one could argue, for personalities inclined in this direction, the development of such skills would require a distinctly different set drives and predispositions than those which drive the teacher we have described above.
In short, I would argue that it is a very rare combination indeed that finds both in depth computer language skills (html among them) and teacher skills in the same person. Particularly in adults who received elementary, secondary and postsecondary training prior to, say, 2000.
It is far more likely, however, that such teaching inclined adults, those born before 2000, have acquired lesson design skills, and even curriculum development skills, on top of their “package” of skills and inclinations that move them to teach. The gift of eXe is that it allows such a person to put lessons and teaching online by means which are in reach. With eXe the face-to-face teacher can reach out to construct for her/himself a teaching and learning environment which can work work her/his live classroom or even for students who we will be doing online learning alone.
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Links
eXe blog
25tools for eXe and other online learning support applications. (All are Open Source, incidentally. There is now much less
in the form of technical or fiscal limit that stops the teacher type from trying to reach out online. Hooray)
I can make entries from several “locations” into my Becoming Connected, WordPress weblog. This might be a generally useful/adaptable factoid for other blog writers.
As my previous entry indicates I’ve a number of online set ups.
| Clearly WordPress has been a friendly set up environment to me. |
| My history of weblogging wouldn’t be complete without including my first blog, the one with the most entries and the one that has been around the longest : Connectivity where I’ve written entries since 2002. |
| The rss feed for education/special education is here — I’ll work on putting together links of the entries as they cluster around single topics. Among those topic past, present and future [in brackets] would be: teaching, schools, personalization, research processes, ethics/justice, personal development, weblogging experience [and -- possibly, learning to drive a hybrid as a personal contribution to saving the planet and to building energy independence]. |
All of them WordPress
| Potentiality – at incsub.org |
| Becoming Connected which is an entry system via opml at this site. |
| Interwoven Supports for Personal Development on my interwoven website |
| SET also on my interwoven website |
| SWIS on my interwoven website as well |
This plugin gets you more organized for google-find and public listing of your entries. Once the plugin is installed (see site at wp.uberdose.com/2007/03/24/all-in-one-seo-pack). There are some usage tips:
