Professor Boyer believes in “Just in time learning”.
I like how the presenters used the thumbs in the air trick for when we were all ready. I also liked how he qouted himself. There are 3 different types of schooling: Distance learning, home schooling, and traditional learning. For distance learning you sit with your classroom and you have a teacher from a distance on a computer. distance learning is a lot like skype. Home schooloing is the use of computers or having students learn at home. Then traditional is the classic school system.
I liked how we commented on the blog to compare what different groups thought was the most effective way of schooling. In my opinion, homeschooling is the most effective way to learn. The most people chose traditional schooling. Their biggest debate was based on socialization. This is not a matter of effective learning, but social learning. Children in home school get the highest test scores out of all students. Look on Chris’s blog (http://boomingreflections.blogspot.com/ ) to compare the pros and cons of each.
Technical certifications are better because you can learn specifics of topics. But I believe that Adult education is necessary. A student becomes better rounded at an average adult education. Although if you want to learn a specific, such as sailing, than technical learning would be the way to go. So a technical certification would be in high school more specialized towards what they want to learn. This would have been terrible for me. I am a mind changer. I cannot decide what I want to do with my life. If I had to decide in high school, I would have been in an absolute pickle. Go to michael’s blog to find out more about the differences in schooling.
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one has learned in school” –Albert Einstein
Reflecting on the presentations:
1. Thumbs up good, but make sure everyone does thumbs up before progressing.
2. Anticipate size of small groups.
3. Cntrl + increases size of text Cntrl- decreases size
4. Too much is better than too little (regarding information)
5. Blog responses was cool
6. I like that they had the option to look at additional resources
7. Blended or hybrid learning is more effective than online learning is more effective than brick and mortar learning (side note….. proven)
8. Works best in online environment (self-disciplined, written expressions, willing to work with strangers)
9. Don’t use the word better…. Choose different. What truly makes something better? Talk more about perspectives when using the word better.
SCRATCH!!!!!!! Putting together our iRLO
· We have to see him when we are working on this to make sure we understand it.
· How to download scratch to a campus computer
o Go to scratch website (scratch.mit.edu)
o Click on download scratch
o Don’t click on any of the top options. Instead click on the link under “Having trouble with windows installer?”
o Save to documents folder
o Go to start button
o Click on documents (under name)
o Right click on file and choose extract all
o Press extract
o Click through documents then and click on cat button
· How to go about doing this….
o 3 steps to designing an iRLO
§ Pick content
§ What will my students do to interact with content
§ Open up scratch and do the work
o 3 things in scratch
§ Create any object I am going to use in my project
· Anything I want the students to see
· Create a new sprite 3 buttons under the big cat
o Question mark= random sprite
o To get to library of sprite
o Star with folder= library of sprite
o Paint brush= make your own
§ T is the text tools… this can be used for labeling (you still need to use it on the make your own)
§ Go to costumes after you click on sprite (esp for words) put an outline around word so the whole object is movable
§ Rubber stamp tool to clone part of the plant
§ To delete use the scissors on the top of page and click on sprite
§ Select a stage
· Selest white box= stage= and follow same rules as before
§ Do scripts now
· Select sprite
· Select control button
o The ones with the wavy top are triggers
· Then choose looks to do actionand add to script
· Left click on object for explanation
o On file –open- examples has ideas of what other people did
Read chapter six for the next chapter and do blog post. He wants a working prototype for SCRATCH…. Similar to the IWB lesson…. Post in discussions. Attach scratch project. Make sure to address the notes. Look on interactive white board lesson to see if he posted notes. email the scratch to him when we come to see him for help. Look at 3 of my peers IWB to review. go to class organization wiki to find peer review groups. provide feedback.... make sure it is constructive and ways they can improve their project. Find their work in D2L IWB forum. don't forget to search for inquiry question and add resources to delicious account.
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