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Maurice Valley's Blog (3)

Co-operation in SL?

Is there any teachers who would like to try some innovationsollutions with me in SL? Let me know and send me a message.

 

Maurice, Mauri in Finnish language

Added by Maurice Valley on February 19, 2011 at 10:09pm — No Comments

Participate learning.How about teaching?

I had marvelous oppornity to hear Yrjö Engeström's lecturen in Finnish board of education. He was worried about the  relationship of net and realworld  in schools. He thinks that it's important to watch out that pupils will not drown in the net. 

Embedded learning might be the right way to find out the way where we engage pupils to learn by doing,…

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Added by Maurice Valley on February 14, 2011 at 10:52pm — No Comments

Pbl via Rp

Roleplaying in problem based learning is my way to teach. I try to chains different games. I use embedded learning and different kind of wikistorytelling. 

 

At the time I am interessed of playing by blogwriting, facebook and tweeting. I have written rolecards to my colleaques in different parts of Europe and for my students. They are writing blogs of their real motherland or of another land witch is in their rolecards. They are telling of myths, history and the everyday heroes…

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Added by Maurice Valley on January 16, 2011 at 11:00pm — No Comments

General Announcements

Let's talk protocols!
Info from IPA here

Nice prezi from Hualalai here

Good Resource from National School Reform Faculty here:


Great Resource for 21st Century Education:
Classroom20
Future of education

These sites have loads information, weekly webinars with leading experts, etc!

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Grant Possibility - Next Generation Learning Challenge

Here is an interesting grant possibility to design a module for middle school students to improve their ability to successfully learn core content standards. Information about the script is here: http://nextgenlearning.org/

they do give two examples of the kind of projects they are looking for:
 A modularized online course of study that may be composed and sequenced with a variety of other materials and deployed in a variety of learning environments. Note: there is not an expectation that an entire year-long course of study be completed.
 An online, collaborative environment in which students are asked to practice and show mastery of literacy Common Core Standards within the context of solving biology problems.

Hawaii ISTE Affiliate Forms

There is a Hawaii ISTE affiliate now! Please join, as the more members we have the larger our opportunity for advocacy for Technology In Education. Visit http://www.hste.org for information and registration (free!). There is a membership flyer attached here:

 

HSTE_Membership_Flyer.pdf

 

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