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primarily for ABE/GED/ESOL teachers, but useful for anyone wanting to integrate technology
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Generating and Facilitating Engaging and Effective Online Discussions (pdf)

Online educators who use discussion boards successfully estimate that their interaction with students can be as much as three times the interaction with face-to-face students, and that peer-to-peer interaction is even many times more than that.

 

For instructors facilitating a robust discussion board, the fervor of activity may prove overwhelming. How do you make the most of this new form of learning experience? And what if your discussion board is more like a ghost town than a boom town? How can you get students to participate thoughtfully and frequently?

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Do Teachers Need to Relearn How to Learn?

Do Teachers Need to Relearn How to Learn? | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it

I suspect that the main reason many teachers don’t transfer their knowledge and actively seek answers to their questions about tech is that they simply aren’t very interested in learning it. The key to David Warlick’s statement is that people can leverage the internet to learn anything they want to learn. But let’s put that aside for now and assume for the sake of argument that teachers need to learn how to use tech whether they want to or not. Why do they often profess helplessness and state that they can’t learn it without PD?


Via Nik Peachey, Jenny Pesina
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