3-2-1 Revisited
Reflecting on Facilitating in Digital Environments Three thoughts: Digital Facilitation and digital learning environments have grown exponentially in the last couple of years. A global pandemic has made it necessary for students and educators to pivot learning to digital spaces. It is imperative that educators in digital spaces make every effort to ensure best practices in delivering the content. It is the facilitator’s role in a digital learning environment...
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Community of Inquiry Teaching Infographic Rationale for Design The Community of Inquiry model is a framework that allows educators to align their online courses/learning environments with research that shows positive outcomes in learning satisfaction and overall learning (Garrison & Arbaugh, 2007). In my own teaching context, I coach and mentor other teachers in the public K-12 education system. Since I am working with colleagues who are often knowledgeable and keenly aware of curriculum...
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Facilitating in Digital Environments Three thoughts… I imagine if we looked at the google searches for this particular concept, the numbers would be drastically different in April 2019, then in April 2020 and beyond. I also believe facilitating and teaching have two different meanings, but often get used as synonyms. My final thought on facilitating in digital environments for the purpose of this post is a confession; if you’d had asked me 5 years ago if I want to participate in online...
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The End Result of Creating a Useful Digital Learning Tool For this particular project, I started with an organizational Problem of Practice (PoP). The organization is a 10-12 secondary online school. The problem was; early identification of mental health barriers in online 10-12 students is not practiced effectively. The solution I designed aimed to capture student disengagement (often a symptom of mental health challenges) at the early stages by using a quick and easy, digital assessment...
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What Can I Say?…. The journey this last eight weeks of learning has taken me was both invigorating and exhausting. I was lucky enough to be a part of a perfectly eclectic team of individuals who needled each other just enough to bring about that great synergy of creative drive – so thanks Patrick, Shelley and Wendy! Branching scenario technology was new to me. H5P was not. I had tinkered with it in past musings and found other applications for plugins to the LMS we use at my place of...
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