Learning Digitally

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Digital Learning in the 21st Century May Give the Next Generation a Wider View of The World, a Clear View of How the Universe Evolved and That Together We are God

Digital learning is here to stay.

What will you learn digitally?
How to read, write, prepare meals for yourself and/or your family, learn how to treat a wound or medical issue, learn how to drive, etc.?

Digital Learning in the 21st Century May Give the Next Generation a Wider View of The World, a Clear View of How the Universe Evolved and That Together We are God

Schools of the future will most likely be housed in the safety of a home instead of schools where students might be killed. Instead, they may learn online interacting with other students with the guidance of a certified home schooling teacher.

I have created a half-digital, half face-to-face learning environment in which he chose the topic he wanted to study that would not only teach him about the mechanics of course and how the Hadron Collider at the CERN Lab in Switzerland works.

More and more programs like the one in which I am enrolled are providing teachers with the tools to be online instructors with the proper training and equipment to assess students’ grasp of a particular concept related to their learning.

Unlike homeschooling that prevented students from socializing with other children, online interaction will broaden a students’ circle of friends across states, nations, and continents.

I am glad to be part of this “newer”age of education regardless of where you are and the excitement of actually hearing how French, Spanish,German,Swahili,Chinese, etc. as spoken by the natives of those countries where they can communicate with devices that immediately translate what’s being said.

This kind of learning is far past textbooks for reading and math drills (not that we don’t need them,they’ll just be in a digital format) and at some time in the not too far in the future, learning may be put into your brains by some soon-to-be mechanism will allow us to have an encyclopedia in our brains allowing us to just think of an scientific fact, a mathematical equation, recite a soliloquy, or explain evolution.

The next “new world” won’t be the across an ocean but totally in our heads which will be the data bank of a millions, maybe billions or even trillions of facts and questions that are immediately answered and like a computer can hold an astronomical data that will make that apple that held all of the world’s knowledge.

Then we’ll know once and for all that the mind of God is not that of a single entity but a shared knowledge that we all can access and use for either good or evil. We won’t have to wonder what the entity that we call God is our collective minds that can only function in their “god-mind” if we “join together as one” because we really are the world and all that it has to offer. 17159192_10208721337652794_2604443366468045527_oGeneva J. Chapman, B.A., M.Ed., Ed.Sp. is a retired teacher/behavior specialist/supervisor and part-time journalist, novelist, playwright, poet, composer, screenwriter, and poet. My works have been accepted for theatre festivals in Chicago and New York twice for each. Some of her theatre and fiction is sold on Amazon Kindle, as well as self-help books. My best-selling book, Moving From Crayons Toward Critical, is how I supported staff during a work outage for adults with developmental disabilities lost their auto company jobs that helped them learn a work ethic and paid them for their work. With nothing else to do staff printed pages from coloring books and gave those that could read word games. Although I did not supervise the staff that worked with the factory workers needed assistance in creating training in adult living. Due to my education background, I was tasked by the building supervisor to guide staff toward creating adult living training. The staff were enthusiastic, imaginative, and excited about creating some novel and very needed skills like something as simple as sewing on buttons to create and care for a memorial garden for those that were deceased. During my year as a manager, I took a certification course (required for my position) in marketing – best online class ever – and used what I learned to market my book about that incredible year at a statewide conference for people in my field. Although I didn’t bring the book and only mentioned it throughout the presentation, I brought a pamphlet that was a gift to people that worked in the field and were dealing with integrating them into becoming members of local neighborhoods. My pamphlet showed them how to introduce their clientele to their new neighbors by inviting them to a house warming. That pamphlet caused people all over the country to buy my book. My second best marketing success was having conference bags printed by VistaPrint at a theatre festival promoting my vampire novel. My now deceased brother had two of his works in the festival and let two of his actors distribute them for me. Their tactic was genius. There were booths and other venues where people could buy things from various sellers. The two actors watched for people that didn’t have a way to carry all of their merchandise. They offered the buyers a bag. It didn’t take long for 500 bags with a picture of a vampire and the title of the book to be given away. When they got home, a large percentage of those shoppers that got the bag bought the book, making it my second best-selling books. I learned these marketing tactics from the course in marketing that I took at the University of Phoenix. It was my first online course. I’m now on number five since retiring. Excerpts from two of my musicals were featured in the New York New Works Festival in 2017 and 2018. The festival producer wants me to meet with some Broadway producers when I go back this year with an excerpt with one of my musicals. I’m hoping for a theatre venue whether it’s Broadway, off-Broadway or     off-off Broadway. Meanwhile, I’m taking courses in online keeping my mind busy while recovering from cancer surgery with the best doctors on the planet almost fourteen years ago. I’m fine now but I’m not the Amazon woman I used to be. So I write.

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2. Autism and Operant Conditioning. From Skinner’s Mice to A Better Life for Children with Austism?

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3. iNACOL Standards A-K.

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Online Education

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This is the last week of this certificate program. I’ve enjoyed posting to Word Press.

Week 8:
Read this peer reviewed article: Boling, E.C., Hough, M., Krinsky, H., Saleem, H. & Stevens, M. (2012). Cutting the distance in distance education: Perspectives on what promotes positive online learning experiences. Internet and Higher Education, 15, 118-126. doi: http://dx,doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2011.11.006

Read this peer reviewed article: Hargis, J. & Wilcox, S.M. (2008). Ubiquitous, free, and efficient online collaboration tools for teaching and learning. Turkish Online Journal for Distance Education, 9(4), 9-17.

Review: Evergreen Education Group. (2013). Keeping Pace With K-12 Online and Blended Learning: An annual review of policy & practice.
Sloan-C has provided a great deal of information regarding online learning. This publication provides information regarding policies at state levels, the similarities and differences in various states’ approaches for online learning, and how each state deals with the complexities of sustaining eLearning depending on each state’s educational practices. Blended learning when coupled with online learning provides students with opportunities to help create their curricula depending on the provider and institution. While this particular learning approach is becoming more and more acceptable, state laws regarding education vary from state-to-state. However, despite the asynchronous nature of digital learning, this approach to learning is growing at a high rate in many states. States are required to develop their individual policies regarding digital learning. There are quite few differences in how each state approaches and development of this trend in their individual approach to blended online learning. Perhaps, if these programs are successful there might have national guidelines for online blended learning.

I am currently working on a certificate at Post University, where I’ve completed two other certificate programs (game design and HR). It’s a great university with great programs. I am making it my Personal Learning Environment during my current program which is in online learning.

Week Six:

Rusk, M. (2002). Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) working toward quality standards for online courses Community and Junior College Libraries, 11(1), 65-68. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J107v11n01_07
In 1993 Aflfred P. Sloan’s Foundation sponsored The Sloan Consortrium with the goal of providing higher education communities with the primary goal of providing information for the higher education community. Existing online program along with tools and materials provided support for online courses. Going a step further, The Sloan Consortium went a step further, providing information cataloging online programs and publications “from the the Seventh Sloan-C International Conference Online Learning in November 2001.” Sloan C’s stated objectives include sharing knowledge, as well as, effective practice with the intent to improve online education. Sloan-C created a set of criteria for online programs as a beginning toward creating standards. Criteria Asynochronus Learning Networks’ guidelines focuses in four areas: learning effectiveness, faculty satisfaction, student satisfaction and access. The Sloan Consortrium may be a giant step in the fight direction toward true quality in online courses and in unifying the efforts of participation by higher education.

Wang, C., Shannon, D.M. & Ross, M.E. (2013). Students’ characteristics, self-
regulated learning, technology self-efficacy and course outcomes in online learning. Distance Education, 34(3), 302-323. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2013.835779

Berridge, G.G., Renney, S. & Wells, J.A. (2012). eFact: Formative assessment of classroom teaching for online classes. Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 13(2), 119-130.
Both students and instructors face challenges regarding online courses. One of those challenges is to provide excellence and quality for online learning. There is a need for more scholarship in the delivery of online courses, participating related to assessment and evaluation which are essential in designing instruction and learning. This article takes a look at a pilot of student learning through anonymous feedback using evaluating student learning mid-semester rising seven online courses. Feedback was anonymous gathered with eFACT (Electronic Formative Assessment of Classroom Teaching) gathered anonymously using emails. This method allowed time to adjust how the courses were delivered during the duration of the course. Useful and meaningful information the instructors were able to change how their formats were delivered. Student learning improved as a result of features online that improved social interaction. “This social aspect was absent for online learners. affecting the quality of delivery method of the course by giving instructor immediate feedback as students reflect on their learning midway through the course” (Berridge, Renney, & Wells, 2012).

This week I am sharing some research with my professor, Stephen Moskowitz, and two of my fellow learners, Marilyn Stenehen, and Danesha Ware, regarding the pros and cons of using rubrics from two of the three peer-reviewed papers listed:

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