Comments on: How Does Making Connections Affect Learning? http://lessonslearned.edublogs.org/2008/01/21/how-does-making-connections-affect-learning/ Teaching History in Morocco Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:12:56 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Chris O'Neal http://lessonslearned.edublogs.org/2008/01/21/how-does-making-connections-affect-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Chris O'Neal Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:33:32 +0000 http://lessonslearned.edublogs.org/2008/01/21/how-does-making-connections-affect-learning/#comment-16 Fantastic thoughts, David. I'm teaching a Web 2.0 for Teachers class right now, and our discussion on motivating students fits right in with this topic. There's something about turning in assignments to teachers that sometimes simply equates to compliance. Adding these additional global and communicative layers takes that to a whole new level that's just nearly impossible to get to otherwise. Thanks for some thought provoking for the weekend! ~Chris Fantastic thoughts, David. I’m teaching a Web 2.0 for Teachers class right now, and our discussion on motivating students fits right in with this topic. There’s something about turning in assignments to teachers that sometimes simply equates to compliance. Adding these additional global and communicative layers takes that to a whole new level that’s just nearly impossible to get to otherwise.

Thanks for some thought provoking for the weekend!

~Chris

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]]> By: Justin Medved http://lessonslearned.edublogs.org/2008/01/21/how-does-making-connections-affect-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Justin Medved Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:20:20 +0000 http://lessonslearned.edublogs.org/2008/01/21/how-does-making-connections-affect-learning/#comment-10 "The obvious interpersonal and group dynamic skills of working together are powerful. But it is the sharing of ideas, hearing different viewpoints, and building off each other’s thoughts to clarify understanding and create new thinking that is the most dynamic." This quote from your post above resonated with me as it was connected to my thoughts on teacher grade team dynamics and where we want them to be in order to push thinking forward. The skills we so passionately want our student to have must first be modeled by us as teachers so we can practice what we preach. Sometimes I wish we were a little more malleable. Looking forward to more SOS talks. Justin “The obvious interpersonal and group dynamic skills of working together are powerful. But it is the sharing of ideas, hearing different viewpoints, and building off each other’s thoughts to clarify understanding and create new thinking that is the most dynamic.”

This quote from your post above resonated with me as it was connected to my thoughts on teacher grade team dynamics and where we want them to be in order to push thinking forward. The skills we so passionately want our student to have must first be modeled by us as teachers so we can practice what we preach. Sometimes I wish we were a little more malleable.

Looking forward to more SOS talks.

Justin

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