Voice Thread MD6 Assignment

This was a lot of fun.

In Voice Thread I uploaded the documentation for my Personal Finance's semester final project.  I have recorded my voice in other formats, but not in Voice Thread.  Each time I share a link that has my voice on it my students (high school students) say it freaks them out to hear my voice outside of the classroom.

I shared with my Personal Finance team members as well.  Unfortunately, I did not get a written response from them.  The end of the semester is very busy.  One member of our team is not very technologically driven and honestly, she may not have opened the link to listen.  The other team member is also one of our coaches for the after school sports departments.  He often calls me to ask what was emailed to him from me or the rest of the CTE team.  In his case, it is a time constraint more than not wanting to use technology.

In the future for any assignment that I need to or want to receive honest feedback from, I will start sharing with friends and family.  I do have friends that are teachers in other districts and coincidentally I have two friends, a married couple, that are both following the same curriculum path as I am, but at a local St. Louis area university.  They just started their program this past September.

I envision using Voice Thread or a technology like it, to keep my students engaged in projects.  I am already imagining some assignments and communications to start off with, "Your mission class A3 is to......."  A Mission Impossible theme.

Students are so tired of lessons that are sterile and scripted, and so do teachers.  I can envision a lot of interesting lessons in the future. 

https://voicethread.com/share/13466328/

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This is a link to a Scholarly paper on Social Learning.  I think if you liked the video you will also find the information in the article useful too.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1745691618815165

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Psychology is very important when learning about learning theory and other components of education. This is an article from 2016 https://simplypsychology.org/bandura.html  #6711sm6

While doing research on Social Learning Theory, this source came up many times for me. Albert Bandura talks deeply about how we learn through social interaction an observation. https://www.learning-theories.com/social-learning-theory-bandura.html

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This is a TedTalk video that you may not is about Social Learning Theory, but it talks about how our trauma is part of what we learn. This is social learning. https://youtu.be/gGa9yieENKM

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I shared the same source.  I find that when I do research on Social Learning, the number one author is Bandura.  I do enjoy his articles on the subject, so for me, it is a win-win.  #6711SM6

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Through diigo.com and my class Blog, https://learningthroughwaldenu.blogspot.com

Scholarly Article

https://diigo.com/0gaw5k

Applying Theory for Human Betterment

Albert Bandura Department of Psychology, Stanford University

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1745691618815165

Popular Article

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LEARNING DELIVERY

Social Learning: An Ongoing Experiment

Social learning buy-in may require rethinking what is being measured to assess impact.

Ashley St. JohnJune 5, 2019

https://www.chieflearningofficer.com/2019/06/05/social-learning-an-ongoing-experiment/

Assignment: Blog: Constructivist Learning Theory, Teaching, and Learning MD5 #6771

Constructivist Learning Theories: Constructivism in education has roots in epistemology. The learner has prior knowledge and experiences, which is often determined by their social and cultural environment. Learning is therefore done by students' “constructing” knowledge out of their experiences. (Wikipedia)

Instructional Strategies: Instructional strategies are techniques teachers use to help students become independent, strategic learners. These strategies become learning strategies when students independently select the appropriate ones and use them effectively to accomplish tasks or meet goals.

(Instructional Strategies - Alberta Education
https://education.alberta.ca › media)

            Technology tools in education: Technology has the ability to enhance relationships between teachers and students. When teachers effectively integrate technology into subject areas, teachers grow into roles of adviser, content expert, and coach. Technology helps make teaching and learning more meaningful and fun.Feb 12, 2015

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Search for: How technology is useful in education?0

Relationship connections with the above 3 subjects is number one, the student.  The connection to how the information (regardless of subject) is taught by the teacher.  For a student to gain education from what is being taught a foundation of that knowledge needs to be set.  That steppingstone is set by the teacher with strong information to the student.  In the 21^st Century, technology is a great source to start with. 

The teachers need to have a strong technology skill to share that with students.  I thought I had a strong base of technological knowledge to share with my students.  Able to take what I know, share, and teach my students that information and they have taught me also. 

Students in my personal finance course produced a final project.  Many of my students used only their cell phones to achieve this goal.  I am very impressed with those students that did the entire 20 plus page project on with the use of their cell phones.  This showed me that they have deeper technology knowledge than even they know about.

Students used their current knowledge of the internet and search tools, along with what their handheld technology could do, to produce some exceptionally good pieces of work.  I did instruct them to turn on their spelling and grammar tools for their mobile apps.  I walked them through on how to do this.  I also instructed them to save their mobile work to whatever cloud service they had available to them.  If they did not have or want to use their cloud service, I had them save it to GoogleDocs.  CYA, always save your work with producing documents and saving them for submission.

ISTE standards used by students for creating work for submission using technology: In Personal Finance the final project was to research items and create a collection of items they would need or want if they had a million dollars to spend.  The final project is called, The Million Dollar Scrapbook.

Students and teacher both employed the standard of Citizenship.  The other standards were used also, Citizenship was used the most by researching information on the internet.  Students used their research skills and their writing skills producing their work submitted for grading. 

Students used the Hour of Code day to explore finance-related coding applications like, Cryptocurrency: Explore the Bitcoin Ledger.  After an hour of coding and exploring programs like this, I had students researching more about cryptocurrency and bitcoins. 

I look forward to both these activities with my next Personal Finance 


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Link #2 – Popular: https://www.simplypsychology.org/constructivism.html

In Simply Psychology I located this article: Constructivism as a theory for teaching and learning by Saul McLeod, published 2019.

I was hooked right from the beginning.  Part of the explanation of what is constructivism Mr. McLeod quotes, ‘Constructivism is ‘an approach to learning that holds that people actively construct or make their own knowledge and that reality is determined by the experiences of the learner’ (Elliott et al., 2000:256).

As an educator, I agree.  In high school, I see the results faster with students than I did in elementary school.  Students “construct” in their previous years of education when learning something new, or the next steps (scaffolding).  Adults will do this too, but few admit it. #6771 #EDUC6771

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Link #1 - Scholarly

https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/68162/1/Grose_Karen_L_201411_PhD_thesis.pdf

From 21^st Century Learning to Learning in the 21^st Century: Influences on Transforming Teacher Knowledge of Constructivist Practices in Technology-rich Learning Environments

By Karen Louise Grose (2014)

This scholarly article, of 192 pages are worth the read.  Here thesis contains information about how increasing a personal cognitive base it will/could in turn increase a community’s cognitive base. She also discusses how a cognitive process reflects a person’s state of mind.  Ms. Grose also discusses deeply the subject of technology being the key to deep education. 

            In her abstract she starts off getting to the subject of 21^st Technology, “Using technology to support a constructivist approach to K-12 education”.  She supports her thesis with information on how to influence education with 21^st Century technology.  Another quote from Ms. Grose, “Employing a qualitative constructivist grounded theory design, the findings indicate that teachers believe the use of technology in classrooms will only be successful when it is effectively used as a tool to support sound pedagogical practices, and the tools used are connected to authentic teaching and learning.”

            I am happy to share this scholarly article.

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Link #2 - Popular: https://edtechreview.in/dictionary/2723-cognitive-learning

In EdTechReview author Priyanka Gupta asks and answers the question What is Cognitive Learning? She has found some great videos to accompany her article as well.  The fun video, This short video explains the learning theory of cognitivism, (click the link) is informative and not painful at all for those learning about Cognitive Learning. 

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Cognitive Theory

Link #1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6401598/

Frontiers in Psychology authors Ming Kuo, Michael Barnes, and Catherine Jordan look into the connection between nature and learning.  Their research strongly suggests that experiences with nature boost academic performance and personal development. 

            I hope you find it as interesting as I did.  
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MD4 Assignment

 

 

 

Assignment: Cognitive Learning Theory, Graphic Organizers, and Virtual Field Trips

Module4 – Assignment

Angela Williams

Walden University

Kathryn Arnold

EDUC 6771J

Bridging Learning Theory, Instruction, and Technology

November 24, 2019

Assignment: Cognitive Learning Theory, Graphic Organizers, and Virtual Field Trips

            Virtual field trips can not replace an actual, let’s go see it, field trip, but sometimes it is the only alternative. In Orey, under The Kinesthetic/Tactile Learning Style one of the points in this category is; Take in information through field trips, laboratories, trial and error, exhibits, collections, and hands-on examples. (Orey, 2010, p. 90).  Here the subject is a physical field trip where students can experience the sight, touch, smell, and sound.  But again, not all students can go on a physical field trip.

            For a student to take a ‘Virtual’ field trip the teacher must prepare.  Quoting Orey, “Select resources in a variety of formats which can include diaries, WebQuests, original documents, newspaper articles, magazine articles, games, poems, reference books, nonfiction books, experts, videos, museums, maps, charts, the Internet, works of art, plays, CD-ROMs, musical compositions, costumes, exhibits, PowerPoint presentations, and field trips.” (Orey, 2010, p. 250)  WebQuests can be a great source for a virtual field trip. 

            During a virtual field trip, students engage with the sights and sounds of the location visited. I would consider a virtual field trip to be a resource-based learning experience. Like a physical field trip, there is a lot of planning that goes into your virtual field trip as well. 

            In Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works (Howard Pitler, 2012, pp. 91-104) explains a lot of resources for educators to use.  The one that stuck out to me the most is on page 95 and recommends that teachers use explicit cues when using organizing and brainstorming software. An organizing software that educators could use is something as accessible as Microsoft Excel for creating a spreadsheet for data tracking.  On page 98, in figure 4.2, an example of the use of Inspiration software is shown. 

            Other then the sources we were provided for this assignment I located a site that appeals to me.  Common Sense Education is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization (Common Sense Education, n/a).  There are 4 virtual field trip lessons on Digital Citizenship that I will be implemented in all my classes next semester that I located on this site.  The reason I will be teaching these lessons is because of the poor digital citizenship I have witnessed in my students and all my classes. The link for these lessons: https://www.commonsense.org/education/search?contentType=dclessons&page=1&limit=25&includeFacets=true&search=personal%20finance&sort=&grades=21938,21939

            Note taking will be very important during the virtual field trip.  There are a lot of different types of note-taking that can be done.  As an educator, it is my responsibility to provide a solid format for success. Guided note-taking template will be provided to students on the virtual field trip (VFT).  The educator needs to take the VFT themselves first to know what items need to be paid attention to in the notes, should there not be a note template provided. 

           

References

Common Sense Education. (n/a, n/a n/a). Retrieved November 24, 2019, from https://www.commonsense.org/: https://www.commonsense.org/education/top-picks/virtual-field-trip-apps-and-websites

Howard Pitler, E. R. (2012). Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works (2nd ed.). Alexandria, Virginia: ASCD.

Orey, M. (2010). Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching, and Technology. Zurich, Switzerland: The Global Text Project.

           

Appendix

Link to Frayer Model

https://alaureatena-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/angela_williams27_waldenu_edu/ERNd4JtT-1dEldndjtFdf48B4lfm5bfwCS7IMjKLMr8PCw?e=GN9OXh

Are you digitally responsible?

What problems, either in school, community or in the world, are you concerned about?

What positive points did you observe?

Digital Footprint Purpose Responsibility

Grade 12 – the Change You Want To See – Turning Purpose Into Impact

Lesson: https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/lesson/the-change-you-want-to-see

Student Handout

Part 1 Directions 

In your group, review two to all four of the resources below. For each resource, click the link to open it. As you review them, consider this question: How can someone's digital footprint show their purpose and have a positive impact on the world? Capture your ideas in the Notes Tracker below.

Resource 1   

Read: "Valedictorian Anonymously Posted Kind Words About Classmates on Instagram for Nearly a Year" CAMERON KEADY, HUFFPOST.COM, 12/6/2017 (8 MINS.)

Resource 2

Watch: "How Social Media Is Propelling the Anti-gun Violence Movement" THE BEAT WITH ARI MELBER, MSNBC, 3/24/2018 (7 MINS.)

Resource 3

Watch: "Game Changers: Marley Dias and the #1000BlackGirlBooks" HOT 97, YOUTUBE.COM, 2/26/2019 (6 MINS.)

Resource 4

Read: "We're Not Okay with It. We'll Fight Back." WE DON'T HAVE TIME, MEDIUM.COM, 1/28/2018 (8 MINS.)

 

 

Notes Tracker:

Resource #	How does this example show someone using their digital footprint to showcase their purpose?	1.  What do you think of this example? 2.  Would you consider doing something similar? 3.  Why or why not?
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Use another sheet of paper should you need the space. Part 2 Directions 

Now it's your turn. What do these examples inspire you to think about in terms of your own purpose? How can you use your digital footprint to make a positive impact on the world? To begin answering these very big questions, choose two of the brainstorming questions (one from each group) and write a short response for each. When you're done, be prepared to share your ideas with a partner.

Brainstorming Questions

Response 1 Questions (Choose one)

1.    What problems, either in your school or community, or in the world, are you concerned about? Which ones do you most want to be solved?

2.    What person, group, or event inspires you the most? Why? How could they or it be a model for your own life?

3.    What activities or experiences in your life have been the most enjoyable? Why do you think that is?

Response #1

I chose question #
	My notes and thoughts:

Response 2 Questions (Choose one)

1.    If you wanted to make an emotional impact on people, how would you do it? What would you show them? What would the message be?

2.    If you had to get a message out to a large amount of people in a short amount of time, how would you do it? What kind of message would you send?

Response #2

I chose question #
My Notes and thoughts:

 https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/lesson/the-change-you-want-to-see

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