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• Helping Students Develop Voice While Blogging - Work in Progress - Education Week Teacher

  "Revision isn't a suggestion, it's a necessity - sometimes writing the same thing three different ways or more offers perspective, this perspective provides choice to the writer later for what best suits the finished piece."

  tags: blogging mistakes skills wink_students writing

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• Tomorrow's Professor eNewsletter: 1357. Blended Learning as Transformational Institutional Learning (Part 1 of 2)

  tags: blended learning education institutions learning online learning strategies technology

  • Just as the curriculum can become a collection of courses instead of a cohesive and meaningful curriculum, the same may be true for blended learning when the approach does not provide the mechanisms and support to fundamentally redesign the student learning experience across the curriculum. 
  • larger concerns may relate to the lack of time, support, or incentives

• Tomorrow's Professor eNewsletter: 1358. Blended Learning as Transformational Institutional Learning (Part 2 of 2)

  • Even though the examples of an institutional approach to blended learning are scarce, presenting best practices for blended learning only in the context of individual courses prevents constituents from grasping the larger institutional strategy.  Situating all specific course examples within the framework of the larger institutional strategy allows the rationale for blended learning to remain at the forefront of the conversations, as well as at the forefront of any specific processes and support mechanisms the institution puts into place.  Delving into specific course strategies should always be preceded by reminding constituents of the larger institutional strategy. 
    • Drysdale, J., Graham, C., Spring, K., & Halverson, L. (2013).  An analysis of research trends in dissertations and theses studying blended learning. Internet and Higher Education, 17, 90-100. 
  • Fink (2013) notes that the prevailing view of faculty work (teaching, research, and service) does not provide any "in-load" time for faculty to work on their own professional development around teaching (p. 222). Therefore, a critical condition necessary for the achievement of a blended learning institutional strategy is adequate time. 

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• Tomorrow's Professor eNewsletter: 1354. Principles for Design of Powerful Learning Communities (LCs)

  "The posting below looks at principles for the design of learning communities (LCs).  It is from Chapter 2 - Preparing for Powerful Learning Communities, in the book, Powerful Learning Communities: A Guide to Developing Student, Faculty, and Professional Learning Communities to Improve Student Success and Organizational Effectiveness, by Oscar T. Lenning, Denise M. Hill, Kevin P. Saunders, Alisha Solan, and Andria Stokes."

  tags: communities design learning learning communities principles professional development

• Tomorrow's Professor eNewsletter: 1353. Dealing with Disruptive Student Behavior

  This extract from Chapter 6 of Race and Pickford (2017) provides sound advice for post-secondary educators. Race, Phil, & Pickford, Ruth. (2007). Making Teaching Work: 'Teaching Smarter' in Post-Compulsory Education. London, England: Sage Publications.

  tags: classroom practices discipline student behaviour teacher development teacher education teaching teaching practices

• [Jacobs Educator:] Inquiry-Based Learning

  This Indiana University, Bloomington, page outlines characteristics of inquiry-base learning, and includes "detailed information about effective problem-based learning environments" (2014.10.08).

  tags: inquiry-based learning learning problem-based learning teacher development teacher education teaching teaching practices technology

• Raise-a-Reader: Is childhood art key to developing language literacy?

  Following the news article, there are "Tips from Bob Steele, a retired UBC professor of art education, for parents or caregivers on using art as a tool for developing a child’s literacy" (Drawing for learning, deck).

  tags: art childhood developing drawing esthetic nergy language literacy mental development parenting

• Survival International - The movement for tribal peoples

  "Watch this short, satirical film, written by Oren Ginzburg and narrated by actor and comedian David Mitchell, which tells the story of how tribal peoples are being destroyed in the name of ‘development’."

  tags: development environment indigenous peoples issues property rights satire self-sufficiency sustainability video

• Schooling the World: Resources: Essays & articles

  Essays on this Schooling the World resource page (2014.10.06) include: The Other Way of Knowing To Hell With Good Intentions Education is Ignorance Do Indigenous Peoples Benefit from “Development?” Indigenising Curriculum: Questions Posed by Baiga Vidya Indigenous Knowledge Systems / Alaska Native Ways of Knowing Childhood in an Indian Village

  tags: articles development education educational philosophy essays indigenous peoples issues

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• ALTs to be placed in all primary schools - The Japan News

  "The government has decided to increase the number of Assistant Language Teachers considerably over a five-year period, starting from the next school year, to strengthen English education at primary schools" (¶1).

  tags: ALTs education English Japan JET Program(me) MEXT primary schools

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