Kyle

Kyle - Staff Tutor

The application of technology in the classroom is a definite benefit that is being seen applied to education. Unfortunately it advances at such a pace that it can be discouraging to those who are new to its implementation. It also requires the students to ‘buy into it’ which varies from student to student and classroom to classroom. The genearlized application that it always engages students more is untrue, especially for those students who are older, or with less experience with technology. I would like to the see the cross-section that Shibley used for determining increased test scores. I think it is a good idea, but it needs to be applied with the audience in mind, as all teaching needs to be. Not just the right tool for the right job, but the right technology for the right students, you don’t want half the class trying to learn the tech for a week instead of engaging the learning material.
 * Sept 18, 2012**

​Flipped Classroom []
 * Sept 25, 2012**

I have known about the Khan Academy for a few years now, and when I first heard about it made me shout "yes!" The teacher's role was what I do for a living, not marginalized as something on the side. It is the flipped classroom, where the students learn the material on their own time, and use the classroom time to practice and get clarification on what they are working on.

The article in Time magazine looks at what Salman Khan has done in creating the [|Khan Academy], which at the time of the article is unofficially used in 2,000 schools in the US (and officially in one school district). It started when Khan put up youtube videos to help teach his cousin in a different city. Now along with all of his educational videos online [] there is a whole system for education that he and his company have created to assess and help change education in the classroom. And others saw what he was trying to do and gave him millions of dollars to do this. Who? You might have heard of Bill Gates and Google.

How does it work? The student watches the video, and then when they come to class the teacher is no longer, as Khan puts it "sage on the stage" but instead they are the "guide on the side." The classroom now allows for students to progress at different paces, and while they will always be some instruction in the classroom, most of it is focused on helping the students understand it, instead of telling them what they can learn on their own. It is using computer technology correctly.

The whole concept is my job. I teach students after they have received the lecture. I sit with them and work through the problems with them. I help them when they are stuck and frustrated. What a traditional classroom does not have enough of. You might say "oh but I just taught them the material, so they should be practicing it right now." Too bad the student can't hit replay...oh wait, with a youtube video they can. They can watch it as many times as they need. What I think is so brilliant that is not discussed much in the article, is the assessment software and pacing allow students to move ahead, but also identify when they are struggling, and can match students up together to assist each other when one has mastered a concept already. Brilliant. Teaching is the best way to learn something, and if you can get them doing this young, it will only benefit them for the future. This could be the future of teaching.

Scott: I enjoyed reading what you wrote here Kyle. It sounds to me like you have looked into this method a fair bit. I'd be willing to give it a go in one of my classes in some short topic lessons. I guess it wouldn't hurt to try. I expect my opinion of it might change more if I experienced some success with it. Would you let the students know up front as to what was expected from them, or would you point it out afterwards? I think it would be better if adult students were informed of the intended learning process, but I'm not sure if it would taint the results. Good job, very well presented.

Derek: I really like your enthusiasm, and I agree that all this technology can be useful in and out of the classroom. I guess that situation would play a large part in deciding what you can and cannot use. I teach in the electrical apprenticeship program and only have ten weeks with each class at an average of nine hours a week. That being said not all my students are computer savvy. Heck, some of them do not even have a computer. So with the limited time I have with them and the lack of technological back ground some of the students have, I find that I am limited to what I can do. Remember, we shouldn’t teach to the higher level of the class but we should teach to the whole class.


 * Oct 2, 2012**


 * Kolb - Experiential Learning Supplementary Notes to the presentation**
 * Prezi Presentation - media type="custom" key="21078552"**

//Slide 1 //
 * His theory is based on experiential learning by others in the 1900's, including Rogers, Jung, and Piaget.
 * Part of a much bigger range of concepts and content
 * personality, self-awareness, self-development, and the development of mutual understanding and teams, etc.,
 * Use in adult careers, work, business, management, human resources, and commercial training, BUT also applicable to children's education
 * Builds on Carl Jung's assertion that learning styles result from people's preferred ways of adapting in the world

//Slide 2 //
 * Step 1 to Step 2: Immediate or concrete experiences lead to observations and reflections.
 * Step 2 to Step 3: These reflections are then assimilated (absorbed and translated) into abstract concepts with implications for action
 * Step 3 to Step 4: the person can then actively test and experiment with those concepts, which in turn enable the creation of new experiences.
 * Back to Step 1.
 * Repeat
 * Many people will start the cycle at different steps. It is a cycle so you do not have to start at Step 1.

//Slide 3 //
 * Diverging
 * Look at things from different perspectives
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Watch rather than do
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use imagination to solve problems
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Idea generators - good at brainstorming
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Interested in people and emotional
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Work in groups with an open mind
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assimilating
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Concise and logical approach
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ideas and concepts more important than people
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Require good clear explanations
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Excel at understanding wide-ranging information
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Organise information in a clear logical format
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Prefer to have time to think things through
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Converging
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Prefer technical tasks
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Find practical uses for ideas
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Like to experiment with new ideas
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Find solutions to practical issues
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Less concerned with people and interpersonal aspects
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Accommodating
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“hands-on”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Relies on intuition rather than logic
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Practical approach based off the doing
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rely on others for information and analysis
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Take on roles requiring action and initiative
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Like to work in teams

//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Slide 4 (first diagram) //
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">choice of style/learning style is the product of two pairs of variables
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lines of axis, each with 'conflicting' modes at either end; you have a choice of one or the other for where you want to be
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Concrete Experience - CE <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__(feeling)__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> vs. Abstract Conceptualization - AC <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__(thinking)__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Active Experimentation - AE <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__(doing)__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> vs. Reflective Observation - RO <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__(watching)__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kolb's two continuums
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">east-west axis is called the Processing Continuum (how we approach a task)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">north-south axis is called the Perception Continuum (our emotional response, or how we think or feel about it).

//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Slide 5 - Summary Diagram //
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cycle of experiential learning that applies to us all
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A cycle of experiencing, reflecting, thinking, and acting
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Show the connections and the path of Kolb’s learning style model
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Used to understand people’s different learning style

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Oct 9, 2012**

Blog - [|Wil Wheaton] Personal blog. Relevant to my me personally and professionally as an aspiring writer in the uses of social media. One of the first 'famous' people to fully embrace social media and use it extensively.


 * Learner Centred Approaches - Popplet**


 * WebQuest**
 * [|Principles of Accounting]
 * [|Debits and Credits]
 * [|Practices and Standards]


 * 1) An example of an accounting practice and instance where it may have not followed all the correct procedures - the students needs to identify what was done incorrectly after searching through the websites.
 * 2) A set of words to find the definition for - understanding the terminology, but also making sure the student has read the core concepts underlying all of accounting.
 * 3) Give an example transaction common in a business - apply the rules of debits and credits and showing understanding and not just rote memory.

Scott:

I agree with you Kyle, it would be awesome to enable learners to gain the vocabulary of almost any course. The sites are bound to be using the terminology.


 * Oct 16, 2012**

__**Learning-Centred Individual Presenation**__

//Kyle//

[|Presentation Notes] [|Google Presentation]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__How to assess?__ Is the student creating a plan of attack? Have the created a list of what they know and what they need to know? Especially around exam time. Do they treat this list like a checklist where they have accomplished their learning once everything on the list is understood? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__Learning Outcome:__ Create a checklist of understanding that shows what you you need to learn and the understanding can later be demonstrated
 * K-W-L**

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__How to assess?__ Are they doing the work on their own apply the rules correctly. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__Learning Outcomes:__ Journalize the accounts using the rules of debits and credits to show complete understanding of how to apply the rules correctly.
 * Scaffolding**

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__How to assess?__ Are they finding their strenghts and weaknesses? Are they taking it seriously? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__Learning outcome:__ Demonstrate an improved understanding of business practice applied in subsequent roleplays.
 * Roleplay**

//Melanie// Really enjoy her poignant response to her students to open their eyes to their own comments on religion. I think Cooperative Learning is so important, and it sounds like it is going really well. And yes, Popplet is awesome.

//Danya// I think learner centres are very valuable to students, especially with access to an instructor/teacher who can assist them when it is needed. So many times students are not engaged, which most often happen with teacher-centred approaches, while it is a very valuable tool, it is overused.

//Rob// Loves his webquests! But wow, those slides were packed with text. Needed to find my reading glasses. Promotion of student learner is definitely a passion Rob has, and his approaches sound very affective. Putting a bug into the design for the student to find sounds like a great way for the student to develop problem solving that is needed for that kind of work.


 * Hey Kyle...** Yeah I really would have helped all of you had I asked you all to go full-screen with the prezi. I definitely will not make that mistake again. Thanks for the feedback, it's always appreciated. **(Rob)**

//Bitia// Encouraging peer evaluation to promote participation is an excellent way for students to keep each other accountable in the and out of the classroom.

//Carol// Application of the different models in appropriate places is really important, and your explanation of Roleplay for your purpose seems to be an exceptionally good way to teach them the skills they need. This seems to be very effective and popular in medical fields. Being put in a position of restraint is essential for the learner to understand both perspectives.

//Darrel// The cooperative learning seems that with the learning of the DART system might be very useful with two students working together to work through the planning and execution. The discussion at the end about teacher-centred presentations rely on personality and topic. Right tool for the right person AND situation.

//Andrew// Journaling to measure growth seems like the exact thing it would be good to see. That and the dialogue with comments. And I like that you are not shying from technology by claiming they might not have it. Everyone can get access to computers in one form or another for schooling/learning.


 * Oct 23, 2012**

//Aaron// The understanding of why is, like "why it fails" as a learning motivator, using materials provided, but leaving a large part in the students hands. The use of discussion board for something like automechanics seems an excellent application of a specific forum. Problem solving and discussion when working through their school work, like re-building engines, would such a useful support.

//Cindy// Putting the students into the role of the children is excellent! And discussing when it should be applicable is important to put the information discussed in context. The outtakes at the end was a nice bit of humour that I think we all appreciated.

//Don// Providing space to develop skills, such as simulations, is as Don said invaluable. It gives the students experience before they are onsite at a job.

//Harry// Distinction on when an applicable learning technique is appropriate is good understanding. I would like to know more why it is or is not appropriate. Decision making with defense forces the student to weigh the decisions makes them accountable for their plan, which seems to be the point.

//Stephen// The challenge that many instruction suffers from is the different levels of our learners understanding, and in Steve case it might be more of challenge than most. Ensuring there is cooperative learning, and that there is both individual and group learning seems an excellent way to go.

//Johana// The colour wheel and theory and its application seems very individual, and I think you have recognized the small degrees of variance in what people think. Having each student evaluate and comment on each others is very useful when learning.

//Ruth// Collecting and compiling information to be presented to class sounds excellent! Making it public so others can use your webquest is great. Giving the students responsibility where their mark is truly reflective of their end result is the way all assessment should be done of final product.

//Derek// Liked the setting students expectations through simulations, by showing them really how it works in the real world.

//Scott// Blogging to see what each other has written does encourage interaction between the learners. Peer assessment, by passing along your design means the student will have more invested in it.

//Michele// One of the first you talked about was the way to affirm the childrens' behaviour by saying what they did. I have been unhappy with my the way I affirm my adult learners work with "yes" "good" "exactly" and I will try this method with them, which as I am writing this I am remembering that I do sometimes.


 * Oct 30, 2012**

//Ruth// YA dropbox! Very interactive with the videos and explanations. The order of explanations mixed with medium kept me engaged, and made sense. Your personal stories blended with the project seamlessly and it felt very natural.

//Scott and Derek// Very useful for me. I am buying a condo and my wife and I might need to replace some windows. It seems they were able to get some information from the companies, even when some companies were worried about trade secrets getting out.

//Michele// The project reminds of all the ways you can take old things and make it new again. I am a big fan of taking objects and finding new uses for them, or fixing them.

//Rob and Bitia// I paint miniatures and can honestly say they picked up the painting quickly. It took me years to really understand to paint minatures well. A lot of the concepts are the same, layering, highlights, etc. What I had not had was a good teacher, and I can see how much that must have helped their understanding!

//Cindy// Her comments about not giving up reminded me on my frustration on my current project. Must stick with it.

//Melanie// Very sombre reminder of mortality to us all. Often discussion like this, underscores our own concerns about ourselves. Death is the prime example where death of a loved one, is as much a shock to realize our own mortality as it is for the loss of that person.


 * Nov 6, 2012**

//Don// Very detailed steps that you presented. I think I would be able to save quite a bit of time now that you have explained the process in knowing what is and is not possible, and what you need.

//Carol// I have made sushi many times, and I without someone to guide you through the options it can be overwhelming the whole process and options. There is also all the stuff they //tell you// to do, and then there is all the things you can fudge and don't really need to do and still end up with almost the exact same result. So much was by the book I think even the most hardcore sushi expert would be impressed.

//Harry// It sounds like a technological treasure hunt making use of today gps on phones. There seems to be a success factor that becomes competitive if you are logging on the site, and seeing what others have done.

//Stephen// Enjoyed the top tips! Very inspiring to try something new.

//Johana// The process was wonderfully detailed. All the pictures were very descriptive with lots of little tips all along the way even for those of us who are confident and frequent cookers. Making sure that we are teaching and not the doing for the student.

//Danya// The thought to even do this as a pbl is just great. A very risky, in the sense that you were brave, in doing something like this. But really it is something we should all be brave enough to do, to go beyond our own personal relationships to help others. Too bad youtube has been problematic today.

//Darrel/Andy// Very tactile presentation, I could feel the fiddle in my hands as you were both talking about it. I like the worry of breaking another string, as Eva said, as adult learners we are worried about breaking things.

//Kyle' Presentation//

Rooting and Moding Your Android Phone Prezi XDA Developers How to Root - You need find the correct file for your phone Wikipedia - Android Rooting

//Aaron// I have thought that many times I would like to grow, splice, my own plants and trees. This is an excellent prezi that I will save and use later.