The past two weeks we have been exploring the model Community of inquiry. The model is presented in the previous post. A couple of things caught my attention. Cleveland-Innes, M. (2018) presents categories of teacher presence. She says the teacher presence is seen in three dimensions: Design and organization Facilitating discourse Direct instruction This is … Continue reading Designing for learning →

Frustration is a necessity for learning. Without some level of frustration, there is no learning. When you struggle to learn something new, you are going to feel frustrated. When you get new information or facts that requires an update of your way of thinking, it causes frustration. Capdeferro & Romano are investigating frustration in online … Continue reading Embrace the frustration! →

Collaboration has been on my mind for the past weeks. What is the difference between collaboration and traditional group work? Jane A. Scheuermann (5.2.2018) writes that collaborating learning needs a group, the learners are accountable to each other and the social skills are improved. There is also is culture of sharing and helping. In collaborative … Continue reading How to encourage curious, collaborative learning as a teacher →

“Openness is about sharing and being generous”, says David Wiley on a Ted talk. That made me think of my own practice. How open am I? Is there a 2-year old in me saying “I don´t want to share”? There probably is, because I reacted on this point. And when Davis continues his argumentation he … Continue reading Openness in online learning →

Sharing is not scary; I guess everyone I work or collaborate together with, are way passed the point where you feel that sharing or openness is something you even need to question. However, my subject area is language writing and communication – obviously we don´t have secrets or do research on sensitive materials that can´t … Continue reading Sharing is caring! →

Being born in the 80´s has given me the opportunity grow up during the time when digitization entered our every day life. I usually find myself somewhere in between of wanting to hold on to the much simpler and slower times where your questions would be answered by looking it up in a book or … Continue reading Active or passive participation →