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One-to-one is about more than just giving students laptops. It provides a necessary component to learning in the 21st century and makes it possible to provid... 
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Far from an educational flash in the pan, project-based learning has been proven to engage and motivate learners, improve comprehension and retention, aid the transfer of knowledge to new contexts, lead to better collaboration, and help students master critical-thinking skills.
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If you are interested in authentic, transformative use of 1:1 devices in education - Project Based Learning is a good step in the right direction!
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Love the analogy of Lego Bricks - to customize a next generation learning platform so that we are not "blueprinting" 20th century teaching "delivery" practices with 21st century tools!
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The Top 100 Tools for Learning was compiled by Jane Hart from the votes of 1,038 learning professionals from 61 countries worldwide - in both education and wor… Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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So - the title of my Scoop-It is Online Learning, so this is a must-have to consider all sorts of tools for online learning...not just LMSs.
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An under-utilized high school library becomes a constant learning organization and a place of cloud literacy where students send their avatars into 3-D virtual classrooms.
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I love, love, love the library/virtual learning connection!
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In yesterday’s post I described where I (and many others) see the LMS market heading in terms of interoperability. At the same time, the LMS does a very poor job at providing a lot of the learning technologies desired by … Continue reading →
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I love the analogy of a "walled garden" for the LMS. Safe and nurturing environment inside --we just need to "unlock" the garden from time to time and let our students explore outside, share their thinking. Gradually remove the training wheels.
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Imagine if, during the LTI initial connection, the blog told the LMS about what it is and what it can provide. The LMS could then reply, “Great! I will send you some people who can be ‘authors’, and I will send you some assignments that can be ‘tags.’ Tell me about everything that goes on with my authors and tags.” This would allow instructors to combine blog data with LMS data in their LMS dashboard, start LMS discussion threads off of blog posts, and probably a bunch of other nifty things I haven’t thought of.
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OMG - I love this concept! It is great to know that the technical wizards are out there trying to help us make the LMS tool work better for learning.
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*long, rambling post alert. it’s been awhile since I’ve posted, so lots of things have been stewing. bear with me.* It’s fashionable to hate the LMS. It’s the poster child for Enterprise Thinking a...
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Currently my thinking is leaning in the same direction --there is room for both...an LMS and open web tools & resources. But how do we get our "late majority" and "laggard" teachers there? Would they be more likely to use tools like blogs and wikis for learning if they were part and parcel with the LMS? But once those tools are "inside" the LMS - doesn't that cancel out their "open" status?
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It’s been a busy summer leading workshops at many schools and districts with one-to-one iPad, Chromebook, and laptop programs. Many of these schools are years into a one-to-one program, and my conversations with school administrators often focus on the success of their program.
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Vision has to come first --even if teachers aren't ready for it, at least it is clear what the purpose is - the end goal - it is about learning - not technology. Technology is the enabler.
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Excellent questions that guide towards a focus on learning rather than technology.
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Ok, judging from the pictures, this is an older site, but I think much of the content is relevant today. We need to think about what the best online learning environment should include for elementary students -I believe it could be quite different than for high school students.
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Asked how they would redesign their learning management systems, 46 percent of students said the features needed to improve -- far outpacing any other response. The students listed alerts, methods of communication and mobile access as some of the features that needed to be revamped.
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The article goes on to point out that maybe it shouldn't be considered a faculty problem -but the systems should be more "intuitive and meaningful." I would agree with this - though professional development is also critical. Perhaps we should require all teachers to take an online class and experience it as a student (with a teacher who has mastered the LMS) so that they can see and understand the more advanced features?
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This is the article that started my "Rabbit Hole" learning on the LMS.
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Brief post on why LMS will continue to evolve towards openness.
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Interesting look back at the evolution of the LMS
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D’Arcy Norman has an excellent blog post up titled “On the false binary of LMS vs. Open” that captures a false framing issue. We’re pushed into a false binary position – either you’re on the side of the evil LMS, working … Continue reading →
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Insight from the LMS field: " the coexistence of the LMS with open tools will be central to the market’s future." >>Lets hope so. For a K-12 LMS, we need to be able to gradually remove the training wheels.
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As schools move towards 1:1 learning through BYOD or providing devices for students, the teacher role shifts and blended learning becomes the norm.