Daily Bookmarks 04/04/2009

  • Google Docs and legal issues–good reading for US teachers who want to use Google Docs with their students, especially those with students younger than 14

    tags: google, education, k-12, privacy

  • Free online tutorial for making online learning accessible, in 10 parts

    tags: accessibility, e-learning, education

  • Presentation with numerous resources for e-learning accessibility, plus tips for instructors

    tags: accessibility, e-learning, education, text-to-speech

  • The author calls this a new learning theory combining behaviorism & cognitivism. I see a new instructional design model that combines elements from a number of different sources, but I’m not sure I see a new learning theory. The model seems very complex; how long would you have to work with this before you internalized all the separate parts of the model?

    Student results were better using this model. However, the control group was tested before doing a roleplaying game and the experimental groups did the game prior to testing. This could just show that roleplaying helps students understand characters in the Aeneid. Free registration required.

    tags: learningtheories, instructionaldesign, technology, education, k-12, games

    • With its inclusion of game elements, which foster attention, memory, and motivation, SCCS provides a bridge between behaviorist and cognitivist learning theories.
    • SCCS learning theory focuses on the formation of schemata in the process of learning, particularly social-connectedness and cognitive-connectedness schemata.
    • Students engage their social-connectedness schema in a set of behaviors that I describe as “link, lurk, and lunge”: Students link up with others who have the knowledge they need; they lurk, watching others who know how do to what they want to do; and they lunge, jumping in to try new things often without seeking guidance beforehand (Brown 2000).
    • The cognitive-connectedness schema structures a student’s ability and desire to know how what they are learning connects to a larger picture.

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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