Learning Scenario
Imagine that a government agency produces a large number of documents outlining a new vision for teaching and learning, one that is more in tune with changes currently transforming other professions and even daily life. Imagine that this agency “got it right”.
The Question/ Task / Challenge:
How would you make sense of this new direction, survey the ramifications for your own professional learning and then begin the task of translating a good vision into “best practice”?
Background for Everyone
Core document: MCEETYA’s Digital Education – Making Change Happen
Experts’ Areas
Educational Goals
Core document: MCEETYA’s Contemporary Learning
- Other MCEETYA documents – note: below are pdf files.
- 21st Century Pedagogy – from 21st Century Connections
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Pedagogies
Core Document: Thinking Dispositions: A review of current theories, practices, and issues, by Shari Tishman and Albert Andrade
- The High-Stakes Testing Controversy – a perspective from Self-Determination Theory
- Costa’s 16 Habits of Mind
- Knowledge Building, by Marlene Scardamalia (+ additional resources and 12 Principles and a video)
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ICTs & Web 2.0
Core Document: The Hive – Atlantic Monthly article about Wikipedia
- E-learning 2.0 – By Stephen Downes, National Research Council of Canada
- The Wisdom of Crowds, From Wikipedia
- Know it All – New Yorker Magazine article about Wikipedia
- Advance personalized learning: Instruction can be individualized based on learning styles, speeds, and interests to make learning more reliable.
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Group Transformation
1. View and discuss Presentation
2. Go to the AISV private network and address the group question:
How best can we integrate pedagogy, ICTs and educational goals?
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