Use of humor in classroom can inspire teachers and learners. YouTube has funny celebrities who can provide the right kind of motivation for the teachers.
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Student engagement is one of the keys to educational success - this collection looks at ways of facilitating this in online contexts.
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When information is available in abundance, teachers will still be subject matter experts, but their true value will lie in their ability to facilitate and share the expertise of their students. Via John Clayton
John Clayton's curator insight,
April 24, 2014 9:48 PM
Like the line "Teacher as Conductor in the Classroom Orchestra"
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On social media, I’ve seen an uptick in professors’ complaints about their students. Recently, I read a thread on a social-media site that minimized a student’s struggles because she had asked for an extension on a deadline. Faculty members castigated her and welcomed her to “the real world.” One suggested how to avoid dealing with her. Are we serious? If we don’t understand students’ real-world dilemmas, what are we doing teaching?
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The 6 Note Taking Skills Every Student Should Master ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning on Content Creation, Curation, Management curated by massimo facchinetti (The 6 Note Taking Skills Every Student Should Master ~ Educational Technology...
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Empowering students is not the same as abdicating control of your classroom. The ASCD’s journal Educational Leadership defines student empowerment as “student ownership of learning.” That is a good way to look at it – helping students take control of their own education. But how do you do that? Via Andrea Zeitz, Mary Perfitt-Nelson, Peter Bryant
Steve Vaitl's curator insight,
February 4, 2014 10:45 AM
Excellent post about using student empowerment techniques for your assessments and for your classroom. 
Lia Goren's curator insight,
February 9, 2014 8:37 AM
"Empoderar a los estudiantes no es lo mismo que abdicar el control de su clase." El empoderamiento de los estudiantes alude a la apropiación de la tarea de aprendizaje. "Esta es una buena manera de verlo - ayudar a los estudiantes a tomar control de su propia educación. ¿Cómo lo hacemos?"
Lia Goren's curator insight,
February 9, 2014 8:39 AM
"Empoderar a los estudiantes no es lo mismo que abdicar el control de su clase." El empoderamiento de los estudiantes alude a la apropiación de la tarea de aprendizaje. "Esta es una buena manera de verlo - ayudar a los estudiantes a tomar control de su propia educación. ¿Cómo lo hacemos?"
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Digital natives co-author articles, theses, and books online and in real-time. If you're still sending back and forth emails with file attachments to collaborate on a document, you're doing it wrong. Unless you share the same office, online collaborative writing is generally safer, more reliable, and more efficient than emails. On top of that it's… Via Carlos Pinheiro
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This is the third post in a three-part series featuring strategies and skill development for instructors wanting to create, facilitate and encourage collaboration among students working in groups. ... Via Ana Cristina Pratas
Jeremy Cooke's curator insight,
March 17, 2014 6:18 AM
Making online collaborative groups work - useful skill for future digital creatives ! 
Theophilus's curator insight,
March 21, 2014 4:18 AM
There is great value in understanding the impact and design of group work or collaborative work strategies, from the student's point of view. I appreciate the effort made to get to the view of the student and at the same time I wonder if the research indicate any radical difference between the teacher's view and the student's view related to online collaboration.
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Looking at the impact Of technology on curiosity is also a look at the impact of technology on learning Via Nik Peachey
Kim Flintoff's insight:
Curiosity is probably the greatest intrinsic motivator for learning... foster curiosity and you create a learner...
Tonya Ward Singer's curator insight,
January 31, 2014 11:57 AM
Provocative article, especially the questions at the bottom, including: What happens when students don't know what they don't know?
I ask this for us as communities and a socieity, what happens when we don't know what we don't know?
History has some terrifying answers on what people can do collectively when locked into a set idea of "knowledge."
How can we best leverage technology to support students as critical thinkers, curious and empowered?
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A sense of isolation is a leading cause of dropout among online students. CT looks at proven strategies for building an inclusive, collegial atmosphere in online classes.
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“Learning is not a spectator sport.” Chickering & Gamson, excerpt from the Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education, (1987). Principle number three, ‘Good practice encourag...
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This infographic is as much about flipping online as it is about online teaching in general. If we, as instructors, can maintain the connected feel of a class, our students will feel valued. Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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When information is available in abundance, teachers will still be subject matter experts, but their true value will lie in their ability to facilitate and share the expertise of their students. Via John Clayton
John Clayton's curator insight,
April 24, 2014 9:48 PM
Like the line "Teacher as Conductor in the Classroom Orchestra"
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Using Peerwise, students develop course-based multiple-choice questions and accompanying explanations to share with other learners. These questions are used by others for studying, critiquing and discussing. Each question is rated for difficulty and quality. The process of answering, evaluating and discussing questions developed by their peers enables students to compare their performance and understanding with that of other students studying the same material.
Author- Paul Denny, University of Auckland
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When students use tool technologies to create content, their engagement is largely based on how successfully teachers craft the learning assignments, rather than on the technology itself. This is dif Via Kathleen Cercone
Fátima Hernández's curator insight,
May 11, 2014 4:58 AM
Dear students, remember that you have to read this text an do a summary for next Monday. Have a nice weekend!
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Professors at Northwestern University are training students to build online identities that can advance their academic and professional careers. Via Ana Cristina Pratas
Ana Cristina Pratas's curator insight,
April 22, 2014 12:02 PM
"Because a 2-year-old can swipe their finger on an iPad, suddenly every young person, every child, is just universally knowledgeable about digital media," she says. "But there is so much more to using digital media than turning it on or starting an app." 
Inma Contreras's curator insight,
April 22, 2014 5:25 PM
Siempre he dicho que lo de los nativos digitales era un cuento chino,ahora,documentado.
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Forget exam-centered courses and £9k tuition fees, there are other ways to learn. But if you're going to educate yourself, you'll need more than motivation
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By voice, I mean the ability to recognize their own beliefs, practice articulating them in a variety of forms, and then find the confidence -- and the platform -- to express them. The platforms par... Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge
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What keeps students motivated to learn? Relevance, connections, and their teachers' emotional investment, among just a few criteria. Via Grant Montgomery
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In this prickly NYT op-ed, Pamela Paul bemoans the rise of game-based learning, pointing the finger directly at education technologists who "believe computer games (the classroom euphemism for video games) should be part of classroom lessons at... Via Ana Cristina Pratas, EDTECH@UTRGV, TWoA_IT
Sen Amit's curator insight,
April 15, 2013 2:50 AM
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Beth Case's comment,
April 17, 2013 12:56 PM
Technology is a TOOL, not a goal. Just because students learned before the invention of TV doesn't mean education can't be improved. While it can be annoying to jump on every new gimmick, it's just as annoying to be resistant to trying anything new.
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Studies show students' cognitive styles play a key role in their success in online courses.1 As one researcher noted, "Satisfying online learners' cognitive styles was a critical success factor for online instruction"2 and suggested further research studies to identify instructional strategies addressing online learners' cognitive styles to improve learning outcomes were also provided."
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To achieve deeper engagement, different approaches are required. Engagement is often ambiguous, tough to define and therefore problematic to measure/quantify.
Engagement is not a synonym for motivation or conformity. It also involves self-discovery, collaborative intent, it is attuned to emotional investment and personalised to embrace passion and interest – a lot of things PISA find difficult to measure. It is also rigorous, but not excessive to the detriment of wellbeing. Engagement in learning connects to real-world contexts, bringing relevance and horizontal connection to learning in other areas.
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Few vice-chancellors planning for life after REF will want to dispense with the services of good teachers, says Tony Kelly Via Peter Mellow
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by Katherine Robertson, PhD
"Underachievement in college students is linked to lack of motivation (Balduf, 2009 and references therein). Two major factors that contribute to poor motivation are inability of students to see the relevance of classroom activities to their chosen careers (Glynn et al., 2009) and lack of a sense of autonomy (Reeve and Jang, 2006; Reeve, 2009).
"In this article, I provide examples of how I addressed these two issues with activities that promote experiential learning and encourage students to be more active participants in their learning. These techniques were used mainly in science courses but could be adapted to other disciplines." Via Jim Lerman
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Like the quote "any teacher that can be replaced by a computer deserves to be" :-)