Slide 1 : CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Stimulating Creativity with Smart and Web 2.0 Technologies. Ludmilla Smirnova, Ph.D
IT4ALL
Mount Saint Mary College
NY, USA
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Slide 3 : Warm UP: Web 2.0 & Moodle
Slide 4 : Schools Kill Creativity What is
CREATIVITY?
Slide 5 : Five Assumptions of Learning We are all potential teachers as well as learners. We learn a lot by watching others. We learn well by creating and expressing for others. Understanding others transforms us. We learn well when the learning environment is flexible and adaptable to suit our needs. These are 5 fundamental Principles of Engaged Learning
Slide 6 : CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: What is Learning & Teaching in the context of the new Educational Landscape? What is Learning?
The process of acquiring, exploring, inquiring and applying new content, concepts through testing, playing, sharing the info with different audiences; it brings the learner on a different level of operating – global, participatory, motivated, meaningful and rewarding.
What is Teaching in the Information Age?
The process of constant learning of how to create conditions for students’ learning & surviving in contemporary world of free flowing information.
Slide 7 : J. Bruner, 1960 B. Bloom, 1956 Collaborating,
Learning Together
Slide 8 : MODELS Behavioral
Information-
Processing
Social Interactive
Personal Direct/Deductive Indirect/Inductive Indirect/Interactive Indirect/
Independent Study METHODS, ICT Strategies How? Lectures, Presentations, Tutorials, Drill & Practice Inquiry, WebQuests, WIPs, WebBits Jigsaw, Role Play, Collaborative Internet Projects, PBL Derived from : Joyce & Weil, 1986 http://www.sasklearning.gov.sk.ca/docs/policy/approach/instrapp03.html
Slide 9 : What Makes Web 2.0 Tools a good Context for the for Creative Learning? User-friendly interface
Short Learning Curve
Constructivist nature and premise
Design structure and functionality
Interactivity
Availability of Tools:
* Forum * Blogs * Wiki
Choices/Polls
Compatibility with lots of other programs and tools
A Supportive Team behind the programs
FREE
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Slide 12 : Nik's Blog on Wordle Tagxedo
Slide 13 : Timer
Slide 14 : PicLits
Slide 15 : Let's Try It
Slide 16 : Jigsaw
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