Assignment 3: Find something I’ve always wanted to do. 5-6 hours of learning and research. What would I like to do? Facebook? Photos? How to download my BB to my computer and upload the photos to Facebook? Nope. I need to think about what I’m interested in. Maybe the BB. I need to learn it before I change phones. coursera.org: free courses __https://www.coursera.org/#course/slavesouth__ Olaudah Equiano,__The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano; Or, Gustavus Vassa__ (1789) State of Virginia, "__Enactment of Hereditary Slavery__" (1662) State of South Carolina, "__An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing Negroes and Other Slaves in this Province__" (1740). Charles Ball,__Fifty Years in Chains; Or, The Life of an American Slave__ (1859) January 22nd Daniel Pink and the Power of Motivation I use this in Management Principles. If we want loyalty and we want employee engagement we need to stop doing more of what doesn’t work. They are coming into the workplace with more tools than previous generations. Let them THINK. Give them value! Show them you trust them. Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose. Pay people what they are worth. In class we need to get out of the way. Give them autonomy, let them learn the components that would be relevant to them! My students teach a session in groups. January 29th New Horizon Report I’m stressing over the idea of finding something I want to learn. There’s nothing I want to learn, that I don’t tackle. If it crosses my mind I look into it. I have a full schedule. I’m learning to be a better teacher, I will learn that forever. I’m learning how to help my son with school. How to train my dog (he’s not bright. Cute. Not bright). The stuff I really want to learn is house repairs which is outdoors! I teach courses that I have to be constantly researching. I’m in a constant state of learning. If I’m interested I’m relentless. I just don’t know what to do. If I’m not interested, I’ll not care. For Assignment 7 these topics can be used: Multiple Intelligence- 8 intelligences not just one measurement 1. Logical (mathematical) 2. Visual (spatial) 3. Musical (sounds) 4. Intrapersonal (ability of understanding emotional intelligence) 5. Kinesthetic (learn by doing) 6. Interpersonal (learn best from others) 7. Naturalistics (an ecological approach) 8. Linguistic (strong written word) 9. Existential (a spiritual connection) It is amazing what science does not understand. People who have a high IQ often, have low social skills. This type of testing is valuable to say we need to acknowledge different types of personalities and learning styles. That functioning in society requires “smarts” in more than just the cognitive area. Learning Styles- 1. David Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory designed to establish a person’s learning style preference 2. Gerald Grow’s Model of Learning Styles
Situational Leadership
3. Are you visual, auditory or kinesthetic Learning Styles are important to understand. For ourselves and for our students. Metacognition: Thinking about thinking! shoe, car, fish, egg, ball, bike, ball, chair.dish, 9 out of 12! dog, cat, horse, cow, pear, grape, orange,socks, shirt, shoes, pants I added a horse instead of a pig! STRATEGIES to retain learning! self testing, rehearsing, practising, skimming Encourages students to develop a sense of their own learning--this is awesome. Self discovery in general creates better self learners Multicultural Education: everyone should have the chance to learn regardless of background
age
gender
new to Canada
ethnicity
culturally competent
not a learning style
diversity is enrichment
socioeconomics as well
can create clics
equal opportunity to learn
Read James A Blakey
Testing:
religious beliefs
language barriers
cultural situations
reading and writing skills
Think About: How did this exercise work for you. Highlights of the week. I learned Tomm jumped on it, good partner in group work. I do NOT like when a person in the group doesn’t do their work. Makes me think about my students and how that must frustrate them. I enjoy others presenting. I like your lectures, but others speaking breaks the class up. Discussions are fantastic. I like getting something from the other instructors! But I choose this course, because of the way Eva does her courses. The night is over very quickly!!! I actually do this format in a number of classes! Assignment number 2, click on the link. Scroll through, read through and comment on one. Then we are going to Blog. Yuck. Too much technology for me. Blog comment: Learning from Mistakes: A Different Approach to Partial Credit By: Kelly A. Jackson in Educational Assessment- See more at: __http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/educational-assessment/learning-from-mistakes-a-different-approach-to-partial-credit/#sthash.iNo44MUL.dpuf__ As an instructor I find the area of tests and exams frustrating. Students choke, some are great at memorization, and there is little room to learn from their mistakes. It is hard to be creative when everyone is pushing us to conformity. When one doesn't want to do the extra work, there is little room for change. In my classes, I always allow for corrections, if the students choose. I like projects that require research into what they require, and an association with the area of life that interests them. they have guidelines, but they do the work in the area they choose. Wherever possible they can do test corrections for marks and I do give partial marks when part is correct! Then they will work harder to reach a higher goal, and LEARN more! Students long after have told me the value of the assignments and the test corrections. (posted) The best is when students from other countries get curious about why they get another chance! When I explain that we need to be allowed to make mistakes, and that is the best way to learn from them, some begin crying! My Chinese students have not been allowed the art of failure, and they are so excited to have this opportunity. Today one started crying, she said, “You mean you care?” How truly beautiful is that for a teacher to hear?! Feb 2 Review curriculum and choose 3 learning outcomes for last presentation Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts I use this video in my classes! People who are introverts feel ostracized by society. It’s great to view the positive. We need to think about what we do as teachers, that continues this negative pattern of behaviour towards introverts. I give them the choice. Do your work in a group, or on your own. Another teacher in a different section was furious with me. She refused to offer this option, because it created more work for her. I refused to relent. I said for max benefit they need to have the choice. I had to grade a whooping 4 extra projects! And guess what? The best projects came from the people who worked on their own. The Chair was brought into it. And I said I want to do what’s best for the student, and group work is not always necessary or the best choice for a project. And if its extra work for the teacher, THAT’S OUR JOB. I refused to relent on my choice. And the Chair agreed that the situation was not a big deal. 1. Stop the madness of constant group work 2. Go to the wilderness! Unplug! 3. Take a look at what’s in your own suitcase! Let people see who you are! Extroverts give others the opportunity to show you who they are! Introverted students think through the project, they can be great partners, if they can be convinced it is a good idea! Tracy Goodwin I sell the course! I also ask them, what they would like to learn. Organizational Behaviour is a great course because….and I know all the ways it is useful in the kitchen and it shows I care about them and their needs. Love that line, “You have learned it, but can you master it?”!! Great line! I never sit when I teach, I like to walk around. I’m very involved in my classes. For me, I generally have good rapport with them. I let them know that if they do not email me on absences, I will not allow resubmissions. Give and take. I rarely have issues. But if there is a side conversation and it is bugging me, I will ask them to let the class in on the conversation.
I had a situation with a transgender student who was targeted by another student. They had an issue in the class before mine, and it was not dealt with by the instructor. It boiled over in my class, and I asked the student who was verbally abusive to step outside with me. Outside the class, I told her to meet me in the Chair's office, and that she would not be admitted into my class without his permission. She wanted to go back in for her stuff, and I informed her that another student and I would bring in to the Chair's office. When I went into to class I let the class know that under absolutely no circumstances would bullying be tolerated, and that if we needed to discuss this further we would. The class said they were happy someone with authority stood their ground. There was a much more relaxed attitude from the class. The Chair met with the "offending" student, and they would not let her back in without a behavioural contract. After which, she kept to herself, at least in my class.
Transforming Your Teaching Style
When I was learning to teach, they handed me a textbook, and the Learning Outcomes, and said to be there on Monday nights. I think back to that course, and those poor students often. I wish I could have them back! I’m better I swear!
My focus has definitely changed, from being PowerPoint focused, to knowing my material and researching it to death. I’m not completely student focused, but I would sayI am closer to half/half. We watch videos, and they find videos and articles and explain them and teach a portion of the course. One has to be careful, some students feel they are doing the teachers work, I think you have to gauge your audience. Heather Lundy and I often look for projects and we were look for ways to encourage the students to take charge. We find things that will be fun and entertaining. We do midterm course evaluations to see what they think, it gives us time to change our focus. I would like to think as a teacher I will be in a constant state of learning myself.
Sugata Mitra Video
I think we take education for granted. I look at students in high school and believe they do not know how lucky they are. How do you reach the masses in India and Africa? How amazing the way he has utilized technology. You have to love the innocence, “the emails hop across the ocean.” I found The Granny Cloud to be amazing (Eva you should do this). What a great way to get great teachers involved in the places they need to be! You have to love the little girl who taught herself to be the teacher. Remember when we played school before we were in school? But the only real way out of poverty is education. And this man has a level of dedication that is admirable. Maybe when I retire I will be a Granny Cloud.
Student Centered Approached in Education http://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_build_a_tower.html This is an example of what I do when we discuss teamwork in Organizational Behaviour. It’s intriguing because the older adults in the evenings spend a lot of time analyzing. The daytime Culinary students dive right in. Always a leader emerges to give direction. Great for collaborative learning.
I have a Logo Board Game for my Marketing students and we take an afternoon to kick back and play, and they get really competitive. I invited our Chair to the class after when she asked what they learn. They talked about Brand Blocking(when you know you have the wrong brand but cannot get it out of the way to know the right brand), and the dates, and owners and creations under the various brands. She was surprised at the demonstration of an entire hour worth of discussion on what they learned with a silly board game.
In Law we do debates, and case studies. Both require the student to do their prep work or they will look foolish if they don’t (that usually only happns once).
Blogs in Higher Education
I don’t find Blogs fun or interesting. I think we sometimes overdo technology and to be fair the college does not have enough labs for us to utilize. We cram a lot of information (too much) for me to implement technology. For areas like the BIT students who come with their computers and prior knowledge of technology, we can do more and they are more interested in the idea of Blogging. But for now I choose to use the LEARN discussion boards.
JEFF:
How long will it take to actually create a 15 min movie?
Self-assessment was neat as you went through the video.
Is the green screen expandable? AMANDA:
Do you have kids? That could be a Barbie blanket!
It is really neat because with the next generation it is a dying art.
If you could join a knitting club would you learn faster by demonstration? (I think the women would love to teach you!) DAN L:
As you learn to meditate properly, distractions can be ignored. We meditate in my culture, and we are taught early on.
Meditation isn't supposed to be associated with sleep!
Try the Celtic form of meditation.
What is the type of meditation you have learned? LAURIE: I find LEARN time consuming! I now create on-line courses, but for my day courses I do not have time!
I sooooo agree with the grades set up wizard. Sean helped me!
Cool Animoto! And wow you photograph well!
Do you not have access to tech support? Can they go into your computer and help you off site? DORIS:
I was one of the top students on Violin in highschool! My grandfather was a fiddler!
Music is your soul's expression.
Will you stay with it? MITCH:
Would you take lessons?
Choosing some tough songs! RANDY:
I actually think drawing on the computer is really cool, but too advanced for me.
Does it take longer than by hand? It seems like it would.
Learning as excitement! Sometimes we are our own worst enemy! JENNIFER:
Whenever I here cannoli, I think of The Godfather 3!
I did not know Cannoli is deep fried?! MAGGIE L:
I love doing stuff like that! I refinished my doors.
1 weekend?! How! Looks amazing! KENNY:
History was awesome!
Got to wonder if the cotton ball story was real!
I thought it was good to learn what you learned!
I think stopping a presentation can be hard on a student's learning and self esteem, not sure I would take that approach.
I understood you were showing us what you learned while explaining how...great PPT?! RICK:
I did not know we had someone in charge of Social Media!
I'm so far behind on this!
La Senza insisted that we do not use texting at all. But I'd send a group text when I needed a shift covered and within minutes someone would take it. That by phone would have taken me hours!
Way too much social media! Loved the PP!! TONY:
I would love a log building!
Could you hire someone to work with you on this?
Are some woods better then others? TOM:
Great take on the 5 W's!
So true on the frustration of Google! It drives me crazy!I asked Google for stats on Gen Y and Romanian abortion came up! Say what?! DANH:
Oh thank god we are talking about paintballing! It felt like I was in the US!
It wouldn't be cheaper to buy a used one?
I think it is really cool that you had the ability to try something like that!
STUDENT CENTRED LEARNING
RANDY
I like the way you have incorporated other learner-centred approaches together.
Not sure I could critique you on this. You cover everything really well/ I like that you lecture as you teach, breaks things up for the student who is anxious to try what they are learning. DANH
That is funny about the computers!
I find Culinary students like to work in groups, Hospitality not so much. But you are right they can learn off each other. I love the traffic lights! Would love one for my rec room! What were the outcomes? Not sure I understood. Probably distracted from the traffic lights.I do like the students analyzing themselves, they are usually harder on themselves than I am (USUALLY)
Look up Kahn academy
Where are the Outcomes was one of my questions. DAN
Piping Trades. I didn't understand how the drawing was related to student centered learning. Te wedquest made sense. Again, I did not catch the LO? I understood playing with the pumps to learn how they work. But without the LO I do not know where their learning is to be focused? Tests are not really Student focused learning, are they? Maybe too focused on the course as a whole? LAURIE
Learning Outcomes were Awesome! My son's biology teacher has them choose a "disease" that interests them. I like the way you teach the empathy. I love journals, and we use them in Organizational Behaviour. I cannot fathom being quadropoligic. I don't think I could even think about it, but awesome way to teach it. I hate role play as a student but it is valuable. I use it in Customer Service, they get only one side of the conversation! WOW! Great job!! I wish I could figure out if I could implement simulation, for instance in Industrial Relations, to use for negotiating a contract between union and management? I need to think that one through? MITCH
Equipment Operating. Equipment verses classroom. That is an interesting way to do the popplet, without the actual website. Again, Learning Outcomes? Those are more discussion questions, not LO? We do a webquest for our Entreprenuership course. Again what LO does this webquest apply to? Look up Blooms taxonomy, really great resource for creating LO. It will help. I use monthly LO for myself on the things I need to learn, it keeps me focused. Video is cool! But not sure where it fits, but do you use this for your students to critique? JENNIFER
I can see posting the comments on the wiki, you can see what others think, but also, you can see if there are common elements they like, or common items they are struggling with. LO's were well done! I really like the way you did the simulation, neat idea! I'm thinking with role playing, I could prep someone from outside the class to be the customer, ready to react a certain way, so that the student doesn't know what is happening?! Then they could discuss what they could do, etc.! Peers could evealuate! I've never been good at peer techniques. KENNY
Cooperative Learning makes sense, and definitely would be beneficial. Kenny, where are your learning outcomes. Those are the results of what they get out of it. Problem based learning, I'm not good at but they use it in Culinary. I can't believe they are responsible for cosmetic damage? What does that mean? The sheer nature of that job I would think that cosmetic damage would be inevitable! Nicely done, very presise. Again, wish we could see the video. ALAN
Apprentice for the transport trade. Do practical training through cooperative learning. Reading the notes?! ALAN! Are your LO not already in your course outline? Problem based learning, if it is tweeked could have great value. What do you do if? I too like scaffolding, especially for apprentices, we use scaffolding for our Entrepreneur course. Need a rewrite on the LO, verbs! The student SHOULD be able to: then your outcomes. Verb first. But otherwise nicely done. JEFF
I was on that committee. I tried to tell them it is way too much. The idea is not to overwhelm them but to intrigue them. Give Taras and Maria your feedback. Great job! Because I teach those courses, I know what you are talking about. EP is completely student centered, and the students hate it!!! So there needs to be balance. LO were good! Much of what we do is lecture, especially in year one. If we stopped this often, we would never get through our material. And we are knowledge based on Blooms overall. And I was listening, but computer wasn't cooperating! MAGGIE
I don't think we can use understand? I remember doing ROE with my business! I learned on-line and with Canada Service website. All the stuff I did in my own business. I would say if they think this is boring they need to maybe not go into accounting! I can see you doing graphic organizers! I know from students that you are extremely popular, you take the ordinary and get them involved. Great job! DORIS
Where are the LO? Not sure which was the actual LO?Great assessment job on why you chose the methods you chose. I use the discussion boards on LEARN. Should the LO be grouped into elements of LO? I think they may not be specific enough. Overall, presentation very well done. Great presentation.You are a very detailed person! I understand a lot of what you are talking about because I have my Child Care 1 and 2 from Red River (a million years ago), and I grew up in my mom's daycare! MAGGIE L
You are always so entertaining!!! You would be a great teacher! Jeopardy is available on-line, we use it! PP are wordy! Great LO's! Really great videos. You demonstrate your material well. I'm still trying to figure out how to insert an image into a PP! Heather gets the students to create the questions for quizzes. AMANDA
I cannot believe you have to deal with this, it makes me sad. And that it is increasing. Again brutally sad. What on earth are they so mad about. I like what you are saying about flipping the classroom. It's true about helping it make sense. Even in self defense training we do it over and over again. and air brakes take time too. It's old school to worry about losing your job when you do a great job.Creativity is essential in today's workplace. Nice job! JASON
LOVE the creation of ethnic menus! I have a hard time with the webquests! Really neat concept!! Great job with implementing cooperative, discovery and scaffolding learning into the idea of the webquest. And great job on the whys. I think I'm your biggest fan! Love the idea. You will be a great teacher. RICK
The quiz idea ia awesome, Heather does that as well. I've been thinking about trying this. Webquests, interesting that they work. We tried to implement it but it didn't work with our entrepreneurship students. Scaffolding makes complete sense. Usually we start with The student should be able to...then list the outcomes. It removes liability if they don't make the outcome. You are entertaining. TONY
Great LO's!! There's that webquest. I notice the trades seem to like webquest and co-op learning. Very well laid out overall. I love that line "allow students to take pride in their work". Really great job. TOM
Are we allowed to use it for the end evaluation? That is not really about them learning. Course evaluation is not a LO. Second part was better on flipping the classroom.Did you not learn from your project with me?! PP were too wordy!!! Cooperative Learning makes sense. The trades seem to use that one well in general. ALAN
Looks like a long journey. I know animation is expensive to get into. Take to our department, we have some amazing animators that work for the college that could help you.
Find something I’ve always wanted to do. 5-6 hours of learning and research.
What would I like to do?
Facebook? Photos? How to download my BB to my computer and upload the photos to Facebook? Nope.
I need to think about what I’m interested in. Maybe the BB. I need to learn it before I change phones.
coursera.org: free courses __https://www.coursera.org/#course/slavesouth__
Olaudah Equiano,__The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano; Or, Gustavus Vassa__ (1789)
State of Virginia, "__Enactment of Hereditary Slavery__" (1662)
State of South Carolina, "__An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing Negroes and Other Slaves in this Province__" (1740).
Charles Ball,__Fifty Years in Chains; Or, The Life of an American Slave__ (1859)
January 22nd
Daniel Pink and the Power of Motivation
I use this in Management Principles. If we want loyalty and we want employee engagement we need to stop doing more of what doesn’t work. They are coming into the workplace with more tools than previous generations. Let them THINK. Give them value! Show them you trust them. Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose. Pay people what they are worth.
In class we need to get out of the way. Give them autonomy, let them learn the components that would be relevant to them! My students teach a session in groups.
January 29th
New Horizon Report
I’m stressing over the idea of finding something I want to learn. There’s nothing I want to learn, that I don’t tackle. If it crosses my mind I look into it. I have a full schedule. I’m learning to be a better teacher, I will learn that forever. I’m learning how to help my son with school. How to train my dog (he’s not bright. Cute. Not bright). The stuff I really want to learn is house repairs which is outdoors! I teach courses that I have to be constantly researching. I’m in a constant state of learning. If I’m interested I’m relentless. I just don’t know what to do. If I’m not interested, I’ll not care.
For Assignment 7 these topics can be used:
Multiple Intelligence- 8 intelligences not just one measurement
1. Logical (mathematical)
2. Visual (spatial)
3. Musical (sounds)
4. Intrapersonal (ability of understanding emotional intelligence)
5. Kinesthetic (learn by doing)
6. Interpersonal (learn best from others)
7. Naturalistics (an ecological approach)
8. Linguistic (strong written word)
9. Existential (a spiritual connection)
It is amazing what science does not understand. People who have a high IQ often, have low social skills. This type of testing is valuable to say we need to acknowledge different types of personalities and learning styles. That functioning in society requires “smarts” in more than just the cognitive area.
Learning Styles-
1. David Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory designed to establish a person’s learning style preference
2. Gerald Grow’s Model of Learning Styles
- Situational Leadership
3. Are you visual, auditory or kinestheticLearning Styles are important to understand. For ourselves and for our students.
Metacognition: Thinking about thinking!
shoe, car, fish, egg, ball, bike, ball, chair.dish, 9 out of 12!
dog, cat, horse, cow, pear, grape, orange,socks, shirt, shoes, pants I added a horse instead of a pig!
STRATEGIES to retain learning! self testing, rehearsing, practising, skimming
Encourages students to develop a sense of their own learning--this is awesome. Self discovery in general creates better self learners
Multicultural Education: everyone should have the chance to learn regardless of background
- age
- gender
- new to Canada
- ethnicity
culturally competent- not a learning style
- diversity is enrichment
- socioeconomics as well
- can create clics
- equal opportunity to learn
- Read James A Blakey
- Testing:
- religious beliefs
- language barriers
- cultural situations
- reading and writing skills
Think About:How did this exercise work for you. Highlights of the week. I learned Tomm jumped on it, good partner in group work. I do NOT like when a person in the group doesn’t do their work. Makes me think about my students and how that must frustrate them. I enjoy others presenting. I like your lectures, but others speaking breaks the class up. Discussions are fantastic. I like getting something from the other instructors! But I choose this course, because of the way Eva does her courses. The night is over very quickly!!! I actually do this format in a number of classes!
Assignment number 2, click on the link. Scroll through, read through and comment on one. Then we are going to Blog. Yuck. Too much technology for me.
Blog comment: Learning from Mistakes: A Different Approach to Partial Credit By: Kelly A. Jackson in Educational Assessment - See more at: __http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/educational-assessment/learning-from-mistakes-a-different-approach-to-partial-credit/#sthash.iNo44MUL.dpuf__
As an instructor I find the area of tests and exams frustrating. Students choke, some are great at memorization, and there is little room to learn from their mistakes. It is hard to be creative when everyone is pushing us to conformity. When one doesn't want to do the extra work, there is little room for change.
In my classes, I always allow for corrections, if the students choose. I like projects that require research into what they require, and an association with the area of life that interests them. they have guidelines, but they do the work in the area they choose. Wherever possible they can do test corrections for marks and I do give partial marks when part is correct! Then they will work harder to reach a higher goal, and LEARN more! Students long after have told me the value of the assignments and the test corrections. (posted)
The best is when students from other countries get curious about why they get another chance! When I explain that we need to be allowed to make mistakes, and that is the best way to learn from them, some begin crying! My Chinese students have not been allowed the art of failure, and they are so excited to have this opportunity. Today one started crying, she said, “You mean you care?” How truly beautiful is that for a teacher to hear?!
Feb 2
Review curriculum and choose 3 learning outcomes for last presentation
Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts
I use this video in my classes! People who are introverts feel ostracized by society. It’s great to view the positive. We need to think about what we do as teachers, that continues this negative pattern of behaviour towards introverts. I give them the choice. Do your work in a group, or on your own. Another teacher in a different section was furious with me. She refused to offer this option, because it created more work for her. I refused to relent. I said for max benefit they need to have the choice. I had to grade a whooping 4 extra projects! And guess what? The best projects came from the people who worked on their own. The Chair was brought into it. And I said I want to do what’s best for the student, and group work is not always necessary or the best choice for a project. And if its extra work for the teacher, THAT’S OUR JOB. I refused to relent on my choice. And the Chair agreed that the situation was not a big deal.
1. Stop the madness of constant group work
2. Go to the wilderness! Unplug!
3. Take a look at what’s in your own suitcase! Let people see who you are!
Extroverts give others the opportunity to show you who they are! Introverted students think through the project, they can be great partners, if they can be convinced it is a good idea!
Tracy Goodwin
I sell the course! I also ask them, what they would like to learn. Organizational Behaviour is a great course because….and I know all the ways it is useful in the kitchen and it shows I care about them and their needs. Love that line, “You have learned it, but can you master it?”!! Great line!
I never sit when I teach, I like to walk around. I’m very involved in my classes.
For me, I generally have good rapport with them. I let them know that if they do not email me on absences, I will not allow resubmissions. Give and take. I rarely have issues. But if there is a side conversation and it is bugging me, I will ask them to let the class in on the conversation.
My Blog
Classroom Management Discussion
http://psychinthewp.blogspot.ca/
I had a situation with a transgender student who was targeted by another student. They had an issue in the class before mine, and it was not dealt with by the instructor. It boiled over in my class, and I asked the student who was verbally abusive to step outside with me. Outside the class, I told her to meet me in the Chair's office, and that she would not be admitted into my class without his permission. She wanted to go back in for her stuff, and I informed her that another student and I would bring in to the Chair's office. When I went into to class I let the class know that under absolutely no circumstances would bullying be tolerated, and that if we needed to discuss this further we would. The class said they were happy someone with authority stood their ground. There was a much more relaxed attitude from the class. The Chair met with the "offending" student, and they would not let her back in without a behavioural contract. After which, she kept to herself, at least in my class.
Transforming Your Teaching Style
When I was learning to teach, they handed me a textbook, and the Learning Outcomes, and said to be there on Monday nights. I think back to that course, and those poor students often. I wish I could have them back! I’m better I swear!
My focus has definitely changed, from being PowerPoint focused, to knowing my material and researching it to death. I’m not completely student focused, but I would sayI am closer to half/half. We watch videos, and they find videos and articles and explain them and teach a portion of the course. One has to be careful, some students feel they are doing the teachers work, I think you have to gauge your audience. Heather Lundy and I often look for projects and we were look for ways to encourage the students to take charge. We find things that will be fun and entertaining. We do midterm course evaluations to see what they think, it gives us time to change our focus. I would like to think as a teacher I will be in a constant state of learning myself.
Sugata Mitra Video
I think we take education for granted. I look at students in high school and believe they do not know how lucky they are. How do you reach the masses in India and Africa? How amazing the way he has utilized technology. You have to love the innocence, “the emails hop across the ocean.” I found The Granny Cloud to be amazing (Eva you should do this). What a great way to get great teachers involved in the places they need to be! You have to love the little girl who taught herself to be the teacher. Remember when we played school before we were in school? But the only real way out of poverty is education. And this man has a level of dedication that is admirable. Maybe when I retire I will be a Granny Cloud.
Student Centered Approached in Education
http://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_build_a_tower.html This is an example of what I do when we discuss teamwork in Organizational Behaviour. It’s intriguing because the older adults in the evenings spend a lot of time analyzing. The daytime Culinary students dive right in. Always a leader emerges to give direction. Great for collaborative learning.
I have a Logo Board Game for my Marketing students and we take an afternoon to kick back and play, and they get really competitive. I invited our Chair to the class after when she asked what they learn. They talked about Brand Blocking(when you know you have the wrong brand but cannot get it out of the way to know the right brand), and the dates, and owners and creations under the various brands. She was surprised at the demonstration of an entire hour worth of discussion on what they learned with a silly board game.
In Law we do debates, and case studies. Both require the student to do their prep work or they will look foolish if they don’t (that usually only happns once).
Blogs in Higher Education
I don’t find Blogs fun or interesting. I think we sometimes overdo technology and to be fair the college does not have enough labs for us to utilize. We cram a lot of information (too much) for me to implement technology. For areas like the BIT students who come with their computers and prior knowledge of technology, we can do more and they are more interested in the idea of Blogging. But for now I choose to use the LEARN discussion boards.
JEFF:
How long will it take to actually create a 15 min movie?
Self-assessment was neat as you went through the video.
Is the green screen expandable?
AMANDA:
Do you have kids? That could be a Barbie blanket!
It is really neat because with the next generation it is a dying art.
If you could join a knitting club would you learn faster by demonstration? (I think the women would love to teach you!)
DAN L:
As you learn to meditate properly, distractions can be ignored. We meditate in my culture, and we are taught early on.
Meditation isn't supposed to be associated with sleep!
Try the Celtic form of meditation.
What is the type of meditation you have learned?
LAURIE:
I find LEARN time consuming! I now create on-line courses, but for my day courses I do not have time!
I sooooo agree with the grades set up wizard. Sean helped me!
Cool Animoto! And wow you photograph well!
Do you not have access to tech support? Can they go into your computer and help you off site?
DORIS:
I was one of the top students on Violin in highschool! My grandfather was a fiddler!
Music is your soul's expression.
Will you stay with it?
MITCH:
Would you take lessons?
Choosing some tough songs!
RANDY:
I actually think drawing on the computer is really cool, but too advanced for me.
Does it take longer than by hand? It seems like it would.
Learning as excitement! Sometimes we are our own worst enemy!
JENNIFER:
Whenever I here cannoli, I think of The Godfather 3!
I did not know Cannoli is deep fried?!
MAGGIE L:
I love doing stuff like that! I refinished my doors.
1 weekend?! How! Looks amazing!
KENNY:
History was awesome!
Got to wonder if the cotton ball story was real!
I thought it was good to learn what you learned!
I think stopping a presentation can be hard on a student's learning and self esteem, not sure I would take that approach.
I understood you were showing us what you learned while explaining how...great PPT?!
RICK:
I did not know we had someone in charge of Social Media!
I'm so far behind on this!
La Senza insisted that we do not use texting at all. But I'd send a group text when I needed a shift covered and within minutes someone would take it. That by phone would have taken me hours!
Way too much social media! Loved the PP!!
TONY:
I would love a log building!
Could you hire someone to work with you on this?
Are some woods better then others?
TOM:
Great take on the 5 W's!
So true on the frustration of Google! It drives me crazy!I asked Google for stats on Gen Y and Romanian abortion came up! Say what?!
DANH:
Oh thank god we are talking about paintballing! It felt like I was in the US!
It wouldn't be cheaper to buy a used one?
I think it is really cool that you had the ability to try something like that!
STUDENT CENTRED LEARNING
RANDY
I like the way you have incorporated other learner-centred approaches together.
Not sure I could critique you on this. You cover everything really well/ I like that you lecture as you teach, breaks things up for the student who is anxious to try what they are learning.
DANH
That is funny about the computers!
I find Culinary students like to work in groups, Hospitality not so much. But you are right they can learn off each other. I love the traffic lights! Would love one for my rec room! What were the outcomes? Not sure I understood. Probably distracted from the traffic lights.I do like the students analyzing themselves, they are usually harder on themselves than I am (USUALLY)
Look up Kahn academy
Where are the Outcomes was one of my questions.
DAN
Piping Trades. I didn't understand how the drawing was related to student centered learning. Te wedquest made sense. Again, I did not catch the LO? I understood playing with the pumps to learn how they work. But without the LO I do not know where their learning is to be focused? Tests are not really Student focused learning, are they? Maybe too focused on the course as a whole?
LAURIE
Learning Outcomes were Awesome! My son's biology teacher has them choose a "disease" that interests them. I like the way you teach the empathy. I love journals, and we use them in Organizational Behaviour. I cannot fathom being quadropoligic. I don't think I could even think about it, but awesome way to teach it. I hate role play as a student but it is valuable. I use it in Customer Service, they get only one side of the conversation! WOW! Great job!! I wish I could figure out if I could implement simulation, for instance in Industrial Relations, to use for negotiating a contract between union and management? I need to think that one through?
MITCH
Equipment Operating. Equipment verses classroom. That is an interesting way to do the popplet, without the actual website. Again, Learning Outcomes? Those are more discussion questions, not LO? We do a webquest for our Entreprenuership course. Again what LO does this webquest apply to? Look up Blooms taxonomy, really great resource for creating LO. It will help. I use monthly LO for myself on the things I need to learn, it keeps me focused. Video is cool! But not sure where it fits, but do you use this for your students to critique?
JENNIFER
I can see posting the comments on the wiki, you can see what others think, but also, you can see if there are common elements they like, or common items they are struggling with. LO's were well done! I really like the way you did the simulation, neat idea! I'm thinking with role playing, I could prep someone from outside the class to be the customer, ready to react a certain way, so that the student doesn't know what is happening?! Then they could discuss what they could do, etc.! Peers could evealuate! I've never been good at peer techniques.
KENNY
Cooperative Learning makes sense, and definitely would be beneficial. Kenny, where are your learning outcomes. Those are the results of what they get out of it. Problem based learning, I'm not good at but they use it in Culinary. I can't believe they are responsible for cosmetic damage? What does that mean? The sheer nature of that job I would think that cosmetic damage would be inevitable! Nicely done, very presise. Again, wish we could see the video.
ALAN
Apprentice for the transport trade. Do practical training through cooperative learning. Reading the notes?! ALAN! Are your LO not already in your course outline? Problem based learning, if it is tweeked could have great value. What do you do if? I too like scaffolding, especially for apprentices, we use scaffolding for our Entrepreneur course. Need a rewrite on the LO, verbs! The student SHOULD be able to: then your outcomes. Verb first. But otherwise nicely done.
JEFF
I was on that committee. I tried to tell them it is way too much. The idea is not to overwhelm them but to intrigue them. Give Taras and Maria your feedback. Great job! Because I teach those courses, I know what you are talking about. EP is completely student centered, and the students hate it!!! So there needs to be balance. LO were good! Much of what we do is lecture, especially in year one. If we stopped this often, we would never get through our material. And we are knowledge based on Blooms overall. And I was listening, but computer wasn't cooperating!
MAGGIE
I don't think we can use understand? I remember doing ROE with my business! I learned on-line and with Canada Service website. All the stuff I did in my own business. I would say if they think this is boring they need to maybe not go into accounting! I can see you doing graphic organizers! I know from students that you are extremely popular, you take the ordinary and get them involved. Great job!
DORIS
Where are the LO? Not sure which was the actual LO?Great assessment job on why you chose the methods you chose. I use the discussion boards on LEARN. Should the LO be grouped into elements of LO? I think they may not be specific enough. Overall, presentation very well done. Great presentation.You are a very detailed person! I understand a lot of what you are talking about because I have my Child Care 1 and 2 from Red River (a million years ago), and I grew up in my mom's daycare!
MAGGIE L
You are always so entertaining!!! You would be a great teacher! Jeopardy is available on-line, we use it! PP are wordy! Great LO's! Really great videos. You demonstrate your material well. I'm still trying to figure out how to insert an image into a PP! Heather gets the students to create the questions for quizzes.
AMANDA
I cannot believe you have to deal with this, it makes me sad. And that it is increasing. Again brutally sad. What on earth are they so mad about. I like what you are saying about flipping the classroom. It's true about helping it make sense. Even in self defense training we do it over and over again. and air brakes take time too. It's old school to worry about losing your job when you do a great job.Creativity is essential in today's workplace. Nice job!
JASON
LOVE the creation of ethnic menus! I have a hard time with the webquests! Really neat concept!! Great job with implementing cooperative, discovery and scaffolding learning into the idea of the webquest. And great job on the whys. I think I'm your biggest fan! Love the idea. You will be a great teacher.
RICK
The quiz idea ia awesome, Heather does that as well. I've been thinking about trying this. Webquests, interesting that they work. We tried to implement it but it didn't work with our entrepreneurship students. Scaffolding makes complete sense. Usually we start with The student should be able to...then list the outcomes. It removes liability if they don't make the outcome. You are entertaining.
TONY
Great LO's!! There's that webquest. I notice the trades seem to like webquest and co-op learning. Very well laid out overall. I love that line "allow students to take pride in their work". Really great job.
TOM
Are we allowed to use it for the end evaluation? That is not really about them learning. Course evaluation is not a LO. Second part was better on flipping the classroom.Did you not learn from your project with me?! PP were too wordy!!! Cooperative Learning makes sense. The trades seem to use that one well in general.
ALAN
Looks like a long journey. I know animation is expensive to get into. Take to our department, we have some amazing animators that work for the college that could help you.