This document discusses using myPortfolio as a learning tool and 21st century pedagogy approaches like inquiry learning and collaboration. It provides results from students on using forums to co-construct knowledge, with some students concerned about others stealing ideas, while others saw benefits to learning from a range of information. Reflections touched on the positives of being in control of one's own learning pace, but also challenges like getting distracted or not knowing what information is true. Overall, myPortfolio has potential to support the learning process through collaboration and assessment if students persist and develop critical evaluation skills.
Rosie Sherry, Founder and CEO of Software Testing Club and Ministry of Testing delivered a presentation exploring her journey in home schooling her children and how the changes she had to make in their approach to life as a result of unschooling were also applicable to the Testing world.
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Have you ever struggled with how to guide and mentor interns?
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Presentation about the Flipped Classroom model as it applies to ELT. More readings here - http://teachers.schooloftefl.com/forum/topics/the-flipped-curriculum
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Introduction to Learning and Learning Theory used on Oxford Brookes University's First Steps in Teaching and Learning Course http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsld/staffcourses/newlecturers/first-steps.html
Have you ever struggled with how to guide and mentor interns?
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Brief discussion about knowledge using quotes from google images. Raises a lot of questions about how to define knowledge and how the discussion of knowledge is pertinent to life inside a classroom, whether as a teacher or student.
Introduction to Learning and Learning Theory used on Oxford Brookes University's First Steps in Teaching and Learning Course http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsld/staffcourses/newlecturers/first-steps.html
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The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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9. REFLECTIONS
Positives Negatives
“ I want you to teach me”
“I can learn things at my own
pace and am in control of my
learning. I love being in control “ I can’t be bothered finding the
:D” answers myself”
“It's really easy to get side tracked
“That we can find out a range of and get behind on work. I personally
different information that we may learn a lot more through classroom
not find out through a discussion and personal interaction”
classroom.”
“its hard to focus and to know whats
“Learning to be independent” actually true when there are several
different answers”
10.
11. REFLECTION – TIPS FOR NEXT
TIME
Persistence
Critical evaluation
skills
15. “A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply
be the best one can do under the circumstances.
The real mistake is to stop trying.”
-BF Skinner
Editor's Notes
I started off with a vision wthwat teaching wouldLook like, feel like, sound like students teaching each opther, collaborative, engaged in learning... So I showed up keen and ready to do this and this is what I found. …I found students who thought successful learning was having a book full of notes, students who were passive learners and were expecting me to spoon feed them knowledge.Rope learning , passive learners, students who felt they learnt something when they had a book full of notes
The pedagogy which I wanted to apply in my classroom was Inquiry learning, student centrerd learning, collaboration, and improved engagement through student voice... and of course following the process of teaching through inquiry
My first question of teaching as inquiry was…
I used myportfolio to set up a forum. I posed a number of questions on the forum and assigned these questions for homework. My vision was for the students to share their ideas and construct model answers together. So then they could have resource of model answers online.Another way I used the discussion board was to evaluate studies eg. Usefullness of studies.
So I was very excited about this .. But it was a HUGE FLOP!!! They did not use the forum despite it being assigned for homework. I learnt a lot from this experienceWhy it didn’t work, what it taught about students, what I will try next timeStudents are competitive, want to achieve, don’t understand how collaboration improves their learning. COMPETITIVE nature of students. Passive studentsIndependent learners with a dislike of working together.
Part of problem forgot passwordsweremt using it regularly, didn’t have access , didn’t buy into it. Initially Cant be seen as an add on, kids looked at it as an extra . Used as a regular basis. Process of learning, relevance to their learning. , remind students. Achievement increase.10 people- they feel like what they would have said is already in there, They feel guilty that they didn’t understand. Share perspectives, opinions, attitudes- not a definite answerLow courage questions.
Enagage in an individual inquiry where their learning outcomes, tasks, resources and internet links were posted on myportfolio.Went away for a week….
IT WAS A FLOP!!! Work was incomplete…
I collected some of their student voice.. Learnt about the students.. Schema of learningBattling against schema, identity as a learner… and this was reinforced when I asked them their preferred style of learning
Change wont happen over night
Overall, feedback from students was extremely positive. Biggest success was using myportfolio as a study tool to revise. Had all the resources, website links, online quizzes etc, youtube videos. that students could access from home.
This is so exciting and there is so much potential for my portfolio..Teaching community- one of the things I would like to see is everyone here on myportfolio. We can create units of work together. Why are we working in isolation . Working together and creating resources together. Creating Learning community.Choice of how they can present their learning. Create pages for their assessment On their page they can put pictures, videos, screen casts etc. Resubmissions
Im on a windy road ups and downs but you must persist in the face of failure as there is so much potential for this tool and it is so exciting how we can use it. It is also developing itself..