Instructional Design

Dallas McPheeters Three Artifacts • Most Rewarding • Most Challenging • Most Demonstrative

Recent Research •How to Engage Young Minds for Learning •Efficacy of VLEs for Online Learning •Global Perspectives of Ubiquitous Learning

Most Recent Course Design •Professional Development within VLEs

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Three Artifacts Most Rewarding New Learning Framework

Most Challenging Transforming Best Practices

Most Demonstrative Instructional Design

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Cyborg Learning Framework by Dallas McPheeters

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Cyborg Learning Framework Posthuman Blurred boundaries Nomadic Embrace ephemeral Indefinable by nature

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How to Engage a Cyborg...

Present future of fascination not fear Flex boundaries collectively Explore Remove the pedestal Visionize Create social networks

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1: THE ENTRY

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4: NAPTIME

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BEST PRACTICES IN A DIVERSE WORLD

APPLYING TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES TO EMPOWER DIVERSE LEARNERS IN SIX STEPS...

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The Technology Component

...a simple way to add it to any lesson plan

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Google Docs Group Powerpoint •

Teams of 3 Share Computer

Collaborate...

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Each Team builds 1 slide within class-wide project

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Members help one another solve problems.

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Research

“An Examination of Online Learning in Virtual Environments” 11

Collaborative Environments Time-to-Adoption according to 2009 Horizon Report: One Year or Less Collaborative environments are virtual workplaces where students and teachers can communicate, share information, and work together.

A growing emphasis on collaboration in education — and an increasing recognition that collaboration is the norm in many modern workplaces — has led more teachers to seek tools to facilitate group interaction and teamwork in their classes. Online spaces designed to support groups of students working together take many forms, from relatively simple tools that lend themselves to multiple simultaneous authors all the way up to full-fledged classroom environments in both the flat web and the 3D world of virtual environments.

Collaborative environments provide the means for students to work with peers both local and distant, practice creative teamwork, and develop peer relationships.

2009 K12 Horizon Report, p9.

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“The real innovation in SL clinical simulations is that they bring people together in a clinical space—you are standing next to an avatar who is a real patient, and the doctor avatar to your right is a resident at Massachusetts General Hospital and the nurse to your left is at the University of Pennsylvania hospital,” says John Lester, the Education and Healthcare Market Developer at Linden Labs, the company that created Second Life. SL can also give students greater access to experts in a field. “If there’s an expert in Brussels who is a specialist in a procedure that I want to teach my students, I can bring him or her into the virtual space to train them,” Lester says.

by Melissa Lafsky published online July 16, 2009

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Learning in VLEs... What are the possibilities?

• Constructivist • Connectivist • Immersive • Creative • Professional Development •?

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Instructional Design

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Constructivist Design Strategies that promote collaboration and social negotiation, multiple perspectives, exploration, and self-directed learning provide the strongest support for constructivist learning (Johnson & Aragon, 2003).

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Technology Standards* Five Lessons...

1. Intro to VLEs 2. Virtual Field Trips 3. Connect Sloodle Set 4. Affordances / Gameshow 5. Assessments

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Assessment Strategies • Pre & Post-Surveys • Informal Discussions • Portfolio Creation • Self Reflection • Peer Evaluations

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Lesson 1: Intro to Constructivist Learning • Quiz Chair • Scavenger Hunt • Toolbar Blogger • Post-Survey

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Lesson 2: Virtual Field Trips • Activity • How to Write P.O.s • Self Evaluation • Post-Survey

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Lesson 3: Build Your Own • Activity • Connect 3D

Virtual & 2D Web

• Port database • Post-Survey

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Lesson 4: Constructivism

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Lesson 5: Fireside Chat • Activity • Self Reflection • Peer Evaluation • Post-Survey • Gift for

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Choose Your Ideal Teaching Environment Instruction Oriented Organized Directed Punctual Clear Rules Duties

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Thanks so much for this Dallas.

I was easily able to transfer my learning to my own Moodle and now have a MetaGloss object set up in my SL learning space connecting back to my Moodle. I plan to set up a few more objects soon and I look forward to your next session.

Regards Glen Gatin, Ed.D.

Hola Dallas: Un millon de gracias por tu tiempo y paciencia. saludos S.E., Professor, Panama

Good Morning.

Your class was a good experience.

I had not given "assessment" in SL education a thought until you had invited me to your class.

R.S., Teacher

This is a fantastic cost-effective way to get first hand experiences of the world!

M.R., Teacher Your classroom is so impressive! I am visiting.

S.S., Teacher

I teach Caribbean studies at a NYC university. It is not possible for students to go back in time in RL and going to the Caribbean is cost prohibitive. Virtual learning environments open up the possibility of exploring these places as though we were there. - O.W. 32