{"id":44175,"date":"2014-01-03T09:24:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T14:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=44175"},"modified":"2014-01-08T16:37:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T21:37:14","slug":"deeper-learning-101-mooc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2014\/01\/03\/deeper-learning-101-mooc\/","title":{"rendered":"Deeper Learning 101 MOOC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dlmooc.deeper-learning.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44176\" alt=\"MOOC-On-DeeperLearning-2014-2\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MOOC-On-DeeperLearning-2014-2.jpg\" width=\"476\" height=\"593\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MOOC-On-DeeperLearning-2014-2.jpg 476w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MOOC-On-DeeperLearning-2014-2-120x150.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>From DSC:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I originally saw this via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/the-4th-era\/p\/4013552658\/2014\/01\/02\/diving-into-deeper-learning-with-high-tech-high-s-mooc-edsurge-news?_tmc=qWf5_Ui0SGOY3KfwBYNWtmgj0BB0NP5vDhDsUA6ZzhQ\" target=\"_blank\">a Scoop from Jim Lerman<\/a> who pointed out the article:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/n\/2013-12-23-diving-into-deeper-learning-with-high-tech-high-s-mooc\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Diving Into \u2018Deeper Learning\u2019 with High Tech High\u2019s MOOC<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>One school network takes charge, offering a glimpse into innovate school models<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It combines the principles behind project-based learning, inquiry-based learning and Maker activities to give students more agency through collaboration, communicating, and thinking critically.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">HTH Chief Academic Officer Ben Daley says, \u201cShallow learning is about racing to the textbook, trying to cover all the topics before the year rolls to an end. Deeper learning is about covering a smaller number of topics in a greater depth, making things, and presenting to a real audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Over the course of nine weeks, the MOOC will offer a glimpse into how Deeper Learning is applied in schools like Expeditionary Learning, Big Picture Learning, Envision, and of course, High Tech High. Activities will include looking at student work from these schools, experiencing a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsrfharmony.org\/protocol\/doc\/tuning.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">protocol<\/a>\u201d where teachers use a structured framework to guide a conversation, and a final project that will ask participants to design and implement their own deeper learning activity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dlmooc.deeper-learning.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44178\" alt=\"MOOC-On-DeeperLearning-2014-1\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MOOC-On-DeeperLearning-2014-1.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MOOC-On-DeeperLearning-2014-1.jpg 694w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MOOC-On-DeeperLearning-2014-1-150x97.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> In briefly reviewing this endeavor, what I appreciated about these efforts was:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Giving more agency to the students &#8212; I took this to mean, &#8220;More choice. More control.&#8221; It seems to encourage student voice.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">It encourages self-directed learning, something we all will need in our lifetimes &#8212; but does so in combination with other forms of learning that involve collaboration and communication (two other skills we all need)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">It seems to have been a team-based approach &#8211; something I think will often be required to be successful in the future<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The active, well-thought through experimentation going on; putting learning theories into practice in new ways that will hopefully connect with learners more and engage them at deeper levels<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also, slightly-related items\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Standardized Achievement Tests: What Are They Good For? Hint: Not Cognitive Ability.\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/beautiful-minds\/2013\/12\/20\/standardized-achievement-tests-what-are-they-good-for-hint-not-cognitive-ability\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Standardized Achievement Tests: What Are They Good For? Hint: Not Cognitive Ability.<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from blogs.scientificamerican.com by Scott Barry Kaufman<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psfk.com\/2013\/10\/college-course-google-glass-app.html#!reELN\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>College course asks students to develop Google Glass apps as homework<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from psfk.com by John Pugh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; From DSC: I originally saw this via a Scoop from Jim Lerman who pointed out the article: Diving Into \u2018Deeper Learning\u2019 with High Tech High\u2019s MOOC One school network takes charge, offering a glimpse into innovate school models Excerpt: It combines the principles behind project-based learning, inquiry-based learning and Maker activities to give students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,127,433,271,347,141,46,7,223,505,199,62,269,89,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-collaboration","category-communications","category-creativity","category-education-reform","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-k-12-related","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-theories","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-more-voice-more-choice-more-control","category-online-learning","category-professional-development","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44175"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44232,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44175\/revisions\/44232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}