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Online Professional Development

by Mark December 23, 2010 cooperative_learning

Massive Open Online Course, is one model for online professional collaboration and development which might work well.

This is What I’m All About As a Instructional Technology Resource Teacher

by Mark December 15, 2010 instruction

This is What I’m All About As a Instructional Technology Resource Teacher

Design A Computer Lab

by Mark October 2, 2010 classroom_culture

The Four Best Computer Laboratory Layouts for Schools have a lot of similarities to subdivisions in southern Florida.
Subdivisions are built to squeeze the most humans into one place while keeping them from interacting, “We love our neighborhood, but no, we haven’t really gotten to know the neighbors yet.” It seems both traditional computer lab setups and subdivisions are designed for individual, parallel play, in a confined space.
But all the research points in the other direction. In computer labs there should be talking. Groups of children talking, sharing, collaborating.

Repost from July 2008 – What I learned about Professional Learning Communities

by Mark August 19, 2010 instruction

A PLC is not a thing. As Heidegger put it, there are “thingly” things and “unthingly” things and a PLC is a very unthingly thing, unless of course you happen to be lucky enough to find yourself in one and then a PLC is everything. I’ve worked for principals who could count the number of [...]

How Media Works … A Synopsis

by Mark May 21, 2010 cooperative_learning

Nike captures how new media works–the social aspects–we need to know this. We’re just starting to scratch the surface of the motivating aspects of social media as a tool for learning.

How To Build A Meeting

by Mark May 18, 2010 cooperative_learning

150 or so technology teachers gather once a month for a meeting … an old fashioned, analog, meeting. Announcers announce announcements (which were sent out in email beforehand). Managers manage. Specialists present their specialities. Pointers point at points with pointers. Counterpoints are made. Facsimiles of discussions are had. Askers ask questions. But in the active [...]

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