Category for LET Introductory Studies
We visited the Oulu University Teacher Training School (OUTTS) and were introduced to the UBIKO (ubiqutous technology enhanced learning) project by Heikki Kontturi. UBIKO is a pedagogical development project, consisting of 110 4th and 5th graders working with their teachers. The aim is to create a learning environment and teaching/studying culture that promotes Collaborative learning […]
Read more "Ubiko visit"Planning Describe your solo phase task Read the articles, make ICE notes and reflect. What topics and concepts are related to your task? Rubrics and Self-assessment Scripts Self-Regulation Training Programs Set a goal for this work period Learn more about assessment and interventions as they pertain to SRL. How confident are you that you will […]
Read more "Self-regulated Learning course – Solo phase 4"Planning Describe your solo phase task My task is to read and understand the lecture material and three articles about SRL and make ICE notes. More specifically, define three main concepts from each paper and describe 2 ideas that arose while studying this material and make notes ICE notes for them. What topics and concepts […]
Read more "Self-regulated Learning course – Solo phase 3"Planning Describe your solo phase task My task is to read and understand the lecture material and three articles about SRL and make ICE notes. More specifically, define three main concepts from each paper and describe 2 ideas that arose while studying this material and make notes ICE notes for them. What topics and concepts […]
Read more "Self-Regulated Learning course – Solo phase 2"Planning Describe your solo phase task My task is to read and understand the lecture material and three articles about SRL and make ICE notes. More specifically, define three main concepts from each paper and describe 2 ideas that arose while studying this material and make notes ICE notes for them. What topics and concepts […]
Read more "Self-Regulated Learning course – Solo phase 1"The term affordance was introduced by James J. Gibson (1977). An affordance is a quality of an object, or an environment, which allows an individual to perform an action. These “action possiblities” are objectively measurable and independent of the individual, but always in relation to the actor and therefore a product of an interaction between […]
Read more "INTRO course: Portfolio assignment 4 – Evaluating affordances of blogs"My Personal Learning Environment The term personal learning environment (PLE) describes the tools, communities, and services that constitute the individual educational platforms that learners use to direct their own learning and pursue educational goals. PLEs represent a shift away from the model in which students consume information through independent channels such as the library, a […]
Read more "INTRO course: Portfolio assignment 3 – My Personal Learning Environment"We made a presentation about the state of educational technology in Mexico (embedded below). Here is my blog post on the same issue. Educational technology in Mexico I won’t go into details and statistics here, they can be found in the presentation and the resources used in it. Here I have just briefly written about […]
Read more "INTRO course: Portfolio assignment 1"Our task was to practice embedding media to our blog. So, here we go: A youtube video I watched while researching our presentation ‘Educational Technology in Mexico’. An early version of our Powerpoint presentation, embedded from slideshare. You can find the final version (made in Prezi) here. My mindmeister mindmap.
Read more "ICT Workshop: Blogging skills"I read the article in the reading materials for the INTRO course, Optimising Learning: Implications of Learning Sciences Research (R. Keith Sawyer). I will not go much into it here, but I did want to bring up the naive attitude in the article towards Behaviorism (as is typical of adherents of Consctructivism). For example, claims such […]
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Synapsifier in the Sky 