Learning+Management+System

What are the keep principles of your beliefs regarding how students learn? How do students learn? Develop a community of inquiry? Take on the role of researchers. Do you value each child as an individual?

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Learning Management System aka online learning is where 50% of all learning will take place over the next 10 years according to Clay Christensen's book, "Disrupting Class". The private sector is using this type of learning almost exclusively for training employees. A very concise definition and explanation of a [|Moodle] is linked here on the K20 Cloud site.

Examples of ways to use a Moodle

1. Reteach

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Dr. Marzano's research shows that it takes a student on average 24 repetitions to commit something to automaticity and that's just to get to the 80% range of mastery.

2. Communication Tool with Parents

Meteorologists are looking into the human behavior with regards to the tornado warnings during the recent May 20th and May 31st tornadoes in central Oklahoma. What they're finding out is that the use of social media may have saved lives.

Bryan Painter, journalist for The Daily Oklahoman, had an [|interesting article in the Sunday Oklahoman] this morning, June 2, 2013, entitled "Learning From the Storm".

A. Norman Forecast Center's FB received 10,000 likes from May 18th to May 28th. B. Twitter followers went up from 14,373 to 19, 626. C. Traffic patterns in 2011 where after forecasting tornadic weather, 5,000 to 7,000 less vehicles were on the road as detected by sensors.

3. Documentation and Monitoring

[|Reading Plus] and [|Cambium Voyager] reported the amount of time each student spent logged on and the number of times they logged in.

4. Students must be 21st Century Ready [|Jayshri Prakash]