User:Vtaylor/Y2012


 * important and interesting, collaboration, outdoors, other places / spaces, time value - 13mar


 * walk-to / urban density, educational opportunities, cultural dynamic, community - neighbors, groups of interest, civil society, library, cinema, performances, swimming, hiking, public transit - 13mar

== 30 Goals==


 * make a Prezi for CIS 2 /50


 * 7: Make A Global Connection - for me CCK12 ,CIS2 UN Millennium Goals, CIS50


 * 6: Investigate and Instigate Questions - CIS50 lifecycle no right answers, added discussion questions with keywords


 * 5. Feed Yourself Inspiration - motivators, lists, reminders - podcasts on morning walk, email lists, RSS feeds from great resources, interaction with other inspiring educators - Dana, Nancy, Sally, questions for students about things I want to know - they come up with the most amazing stuff -- 12:27, 15 February 2012 (UTC)


 * 4. Reveal their strengths - “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think” ~ Christopher Robin to Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne) - 3 words - self descriptions - will change to reflect strengths. -- 16:50, 9 February 2012 (UTC) Describe yourself in 3 words. These three words should tell us about your best traits, things you are good at and are proud of.


 * 3. Ask a learner [about their learning styles, ...] - VARK, brain color icebreakers, thinking about learning, CIS50 W12 personal learning environments


 * 2. Highlight Your Magical Teaching Moment - "This is the first time I have ever participated in a class discussion."

learning - self-serve, connection, collaboration, open, mobile, global, engineering, discovery, imagination eg. picture book, glogster
 * 1. Create Your Me Manifesto - Advocating universal access to science and engineering education. Promoting open education, personal learning networks and educator collaboration.

30 Goals - 2010, 2011 -  including Be a Beam Re-evaluate Value What Do You Believe About Learning? Leave it Behind! Reflect, Step Back, Act Invite Them In! Play and Have Fun!

30 Goals 2012 - Dare to Believe - lots of different things to use to improve teaching and learning, ongoing 2/week and 7000 participants sharing ideas and experience


 * Google group, Storybird art

== LIFO==


 * 12mar -- No learning is easy and some people have tremendous self-discipline, but most in my experience do need structure and deadlines and scaffolding. There is also another meaning of ‘discipline’ and that is an organised body of knowledge with certain requirements for ‘success’.


 * 12mar -- As Gibbon said, history is little more than a chronicle of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. ...


 * --7 March 2012 http://opendoorsgroup.mentorcloud.com - wikieducator - mentor / mentee - open engineering


 * Curatr - content as objects that one could choose – from ‘primer’ to ‘case study’ to ‘definition’ to ‘research study’ to ‘video’ to ‘webcast’ to ‘benchmarking data’ to ‘training and development’ to ‘ask the expert’ question responses.

Documentation   1 Problem Statement 2 Team Members 3 Summary by Documentor 3.1 Day1 ... 4 Flow diagram of Process 5 PoBL Learning Story 6 Resources used 7 Learning --Valerie Taylor 11:42, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Problem based learning PBL is both a curriculum and a process.[2] The curriculum consists of carefully selected and designed problems that demand from the learner acquisition of critical knowledge, problem-solving proficiency, self-directed learning strategies and team participation skills. The process replicates the common used systemic approach to resolving problems or meeting challenges that are encountered in life and career


 * ...a home is a consumption item, not an investment item. Government laws goosing home purchasing through many privileged lending agencies and homeownership through tax breaks created the temporary, though prolonged, illusion that a home is an investment. In fact, real home prices (factoring out inflation) stayed within a range for over a century until breaking out of that range in 1997. That's when the government and commercial lenders alike started lowering borrowing standards, and when potential buyers started thinking of homes as an investment.


 * SqueakLand - Etoys is . . . an educational tool for teaching children powerful ideas in compelling ways, a media-rich authoring environment and visual programming system, a free software program that works on almost all personal computers

. . Essential Questions: Student-driven learning experiences should be driven by standards-based  Essential Questions. These questions should be open-ended to allow for flexible learning paths. Devise question by looking at the standards that determine what we teach. -- 22 February 2012
 * Digital Differentiation - The goal is to design student-driven learning experiences that are fueled by standards-based Essential Questions and facilitated by digital tools to provide students with flexible learning paths.

the mobile learning no-brainer is phones and content... for kids who don't have schools.
 * mobile learning projects - sponsored by Nokia (Nokia Mobile Mathematics, Nokia Education Delivery, Nokia Data Gathering and FlashCard application for literacy); LIVES from the Commonwealth of Learning; Intuition Mobile learning; M4Read from iLearn4free; openEyA from ICTP; T Smart Learning from SK Telekom


 * autonomy, connectedness, diversity, and openness


 * LIFO - Last In, First Out - Many years ago, a some personal development course presenter suggested that there were many filing systems, but personally, he favored the LIFO system. I tried it and it works for me...


 * annoyed with delicious - whatever they are doing is not helpful. This has been my repository for links of interest to me and now it doesn't work very well, if at all. (I use Diigo for other groups [LookUp!], [Burns SciTech] because that's where the groups I subscribe to are located. Teachers Without Borders, Science, Math) -- 12:33, 30 January 2012 (UTC)


 * OCL4Ed #OCL4Ed Course homepage in WikiEducator (Use the navigation links on the top of your page to find relevant course resources.) Course homepage in Moodle Aggregated #OCL4Ed microblog feed


 * "Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life," wrote Bertrand Russell in the prologue to his autobiography: "the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."


 * A culture of entrepeneurial self-starting self-direction