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Learning Needs
Create a learning community in the cloud that meets the learner needs, including learning styles (audiovisual), learning processes and habits (academic rituals), and personal motivation (choice). Cloud technologies increase a teacher's ability to facilitate varied outcomes and can foster independence and adaptability to changing needs.
Academic Rituals
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How to provide rituals of learning in the cloud:
Call to Learning
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Core (Re)Direction (Readily available as needed)
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Make your own photo slideshow at Animoto. |
Contemplative Closure
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Audio Visual Access
How to provide access in the cloud:
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Active Choice
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How to provide choice in the cloud:
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Research Lessons with Audiovisual/Multimedia Access, Academic Rituals, & Choice
Learning Outcomes
Student & Real World ExemplarsStudents often struggle to see the long-term benefits of their education and need to be exposed to real-world application of practiced skills. Learning goals include two high frequency targets: 1) Establish collegial relationships between students, prepping them for the workforce (I work well with others), and 2) Establish adaptable and transferrable learning and work skills to independent and shared goals (I build on previous knowledge and apply understandings to current pursuits) -- so, show them what this means in their future and connect the classroom work practice procedures to honing their success skills:
Real world example of independent and collaborative work practice:
"This Is the Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds" (Wired, 2013) -- This article discusses the successful abilities of Melody Meckfessel, an engineer at Google. A colleague notes her ability as a team leader, and she notes the necessity of understanding people, team building and the collaborative process as key to everything from software development to winemaking. Real world example of multimedia products: Students are surrounded by media, and yet quality examples of multi-media essays and other media messages must be examined and compared to the rubric with which they will be graded. Huffington Post's Talk Nerdy to Me series offers a selection of examples on current science related topics. |
Cloud-Based Student OutcomesRESEARCH UNITS: For stage one of the research project, in one class students developed their own driving questions while another class was assigned an interdisciplinary research question. The students used textbooks if applicable and the internet to review the related literature, and then created Glogster pages exhibiting their research findings.
During stages 2-4 of the research project students were asked to transform their initial research into a final project -- they either choose a written research essay, a multi-media essay, or a digitally produced creative short story or narrative (students used Storyjumper.com to create the illustrated stories, then took screenshots to upload to the Weebly powered class display website). |
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