Higher Learning

unengaged in the lesson, sometimes a small change can make a difference.” p.2) The above statement summarizes the articles main point. If students are not engaged in the lesson, change must occur in order for learning to be present. Students are in school for 7-8 hours of their day learning new information all the while their brain neurons are being worked and open. Therefore, although routine is essential to maintain classroom order, it is imperative for teachers to use a variety of teaching…

Supporting teachers and building leaders as blended learning and personalized learning among schools increases, requires explicit professional development (PD). Too often that PD is one-size-fits-all without allowing for teachers and administrators to learn at their own pace. In this interactive session, participants will learn three (3) essential lessons to shift schools to a Personalized Mastery Learning (PML) model for teachers, administrators, and students. PML Defined: Advisor and learner…

reading a book or drawing a picture of a place that I read about in a book in my free time. Unlike other kids my age, I loved reading and learning about new things. And my love for learning showed in school, I was always one of the top students in my class, even though I was a year younger than my classmates. But my love and excitement for reading and learning changed when I had to move to America with my family. Moving to America changed everything for me. I couldn’t even open a book without…

At what age does education genuinely start and why are people so likely to put off obtaining a higher education? Enjoying the act of learning is a basic skill that is exceptionally effective when taught appropriately at an early age. The focus of this essay is learning through structured play during the early stages of childhood and how it affects educational development in later years of life. Learning and discovering through freeform activities as a toddler improves literacy levels, artistic…

and apprehension of technology. The fast-paced digital world has overwhelmed the majority of teachers who did not grow up in the digitally immersed era. Teachers are working to prepare students for the 21st century, however most are unaware of the higher level of engagement achieved through cutting-edge media tools such as gaming and simulations. Virtual simulations and gaming initially entered the school systems via programs such as Mine Craft and Second Life. Not only do they provide both…

Many people believe that because the students aren’t being lectured within the old fashion “bricks-and-mortar” classroom, that they aren’t learning like typical students at a university. They also believe that online teachers are just playing pretend. In his essay Combating Myths About Distance Education which is published in the Chronicle of Higher Learning, Todd Gilman effectively appeals to his audience of educators, professors, and scholars, to confront the myths and misconceptions about…

After giving and discussing the lesson with the class. I will show the students a video giving different reasons of what causes global climate change. In order to assure active learning of lower level students, I will assign the students an activity where they sit in groups of four. The four students in each group have to create two collages, one for natural causes and one for human causes, and give five statements on each collage of why global warming is a natural cause or a human cause. Two…

Nowadays, distance learning is among the famous technologies offered in education. The relationships between computer technologies have offered a lot of promises in the field of education. Many users like using this kind of technology and continue seeing it grow. However, there will always be pros and cons due technology, administration, instructional method or students. Before we go into details, distance learning has a lot of terms in the past and the term can be described in a variety of…

1-a. Share the learning outcome(s) you either wrote or revised using the steps outlined in the module. One of the course objectives I used to use for Music Cultures World was “Students will be able to identify and discuss the differences and similarities among musical performances from a variety of cultural contexts.” After taking the ACUE 1A module, I decided to revise the course outcome as follows: 1) Students will be able to illustrate the connection between music and dance in African music…

Thrown association offers a various of instructive projects in such the adolescent are creating basic intuition abilities. Thrown Professional learning is one more of the numerous instructive system CAST advances; it offers numerous instructors, educators, heads, and associations to advance enhance their expert under-remaining of Universal Design for Learning. UDL is a system outline that is based upon psychological neuroscientific standards. What is truly extraordinary about this project is…