UNILAG ASUU Chapter Cancels Post UTME Results

ASUU President(UNILAG CHAPTER ), last night on TVC news declared the PostUme Results invalid, due to the fact that the body was on strike when the examinations held and that no school staff was involved in <!--more--> the running and
overseeing of the exam. However Unilag V.c has said that the Asuu strike wouldn't affect the screening of new students  and that admission processes will go on. For now, no one knows whether or not this was just a threat. Do you think  asuu would carry actions on this?

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Digital Storytelling Through Creaza

One of my favorite things to do with students is to teach them how to write their own storybook.  This project helps to strengthen their grammar, usage, and mechanics (GUM) skills as well as help them work on writer's craft.  It is a long haul for a 4th grader to brainstorm, draft, revise, edit and finally publish, so the promise of a digital storybook at the end of the process is what can keep students motivated.

Creaza is a great way for student so improve their computer skills and at the same time help students think creatively about how to illustrate their story.  Students upload their own media files or choose from a variety of backgrounds and characters.


Once students have illustrated their stories, they can either type their text onto the slides or use the sound recorder to tell the story themselves!  What a great way to improve language fluency, written communication, and computer skills!

Strengthening Rigor in STEM- The Art of Questioning

As teachers, we are constantly checking for understanding.  We question and probe students daily to test their depth of knowledge, but are we asking the right kinds of questions that will help our students exercise their critical thinking skills and develop better problem solving skills?

Asking rigorous questions is determining where a student is ability-wise and asking them to consider further possibilities to push their thinking. (Remember that ALL students benefit from rigor, not just high-performers!).  It is also providing students with key elements to help them be successful.

While I was observing a 7th grade math class, the teacher asked the class to find 15% of 65. Surprised that no one was talking (about anything), I asked the two students closest to me what they thought of the problem.  They seemed surprised that I was talking to them, but before I could even start into a discussion with them, the teacher was on to the next problem.

This scenario illustrates some key elements that help us to focus on how to use questioning to build rigor:

• Rigor is carefully crafting and presenting a problem or question.   A rigorous math class may only work on a few questions for the entire period, but it is the careful consideration of each problem and the various solutions students share that help students to develop critical thinking skills.
• Rigor is accepting different solutions. Depending on the question posed to the class, there may truly only be one answer, but students should feel comfortable driving their thinking and arriving at that answer through different strategies.
•  Rigor is providing time.  Students need adequate time (and space- both on paper and physically) to think through solutions to problems.
• Rigor is collaborative.  Students should be encouraged share their ideas with their team/classmates and use each other as sound boards for possible solutions.
• Rigor is being supportive. Students need to feel supported and know that a wrong answer is an opportunity to examine their work to find out what happened, not the equivalent of a demerit. They also need to feel secure in asking their own questions to clarify a concept or confine a problem.

By keeping these key elements in mind, using questioning to build rigor in the classroom becomes less elusive and helps students to think deeper to build problem solving skills.

Strengthening Rigor in STEM- Interactive Notebooks

In the Rigor/Relevance Framework, we learned that in order to establish and maintain rigor in the classroom, students need to be performing in Quadrant D.  In other words, students need to think in complex ways and apply their knowledge and skills to find solutions to problems.
One way to keep students performing at these higher levels of thinking is for students to keep an interactive notebook.  May teachers already do this, but just DOING it is not enough.  To establish and maintain rigor, we need to be sure that we are asking the right questions and developing higher-thinking skills through the notebook process.

First, though, before we focus on content, it's important to discuss the organization of the notebook.  Every Interactive Notebook should have the following components to help students get and stay organized:

• Table of Contents (either teacher-created or student-created)
• Numbered Pages
• Dated Pages
• Page Dividers for Different Sections (I personally like the self-adhesive kind like this)
• Glossary

You can adapt these sections to reflect different age groups or different subject focus, but starting students off by modeling the way that an interactive notebooks works is a good skill for students to learn and helps them to better understand the process.

Once students are organized, they can begin to use their notebooks to grow their thinking skills by putting elements in their notebooks such as:

• Drawings/ Diagrams
• Charts
• Reflections
• Graphic Organizers
• "Notes" to Solve Problems
• Investigations/ Labs

Depending on age group, the teacher may be responsible for deciding which elements are most appropriate for the skill that we are looking to develop.  Older students may be responsible for their own content, but either way,  choosing meaningful elements for the notebook are essential.  To help us to make these meaningful choices, the teacher or student can ask themselves key questions:

• What skill(s) do I hope to develop through this lesson?
• What element will best exhibit/develop/sharpen this skill?
• How will using a ______ (graphic organizer, etc.) help to further this skill?
• How can students leverage this ______ (graphic organizer, etc.) to take their learning further?

By selecting meaningful elements, we can help students start to think deeper, faster.  By asking key questions sooner and providing a notebook element as a scaffold, we help the student to spend more time thinking critically.

Next Generation Science Standards

About a week ago, on January 8,  the second draft of the Next Generation Science Standards were released for public comment.  This state-led effort headed by the National Research Council and the NSTA, aims to develop new K-12 science standards based on the most current research in science and science learning.

Describing a vision of what it means to be proficient in science, each standard will be made up of three dimensions- Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Disciplinary Core Ideas.

 

Practices emphasizes the skills necessary to engage in inquiry-based science as well as to investigate engineering design and STEM principles such as critical thinking and problem solving.  As many teachers agree, teaching the "T" and "E" in STEM are the most difficult, so these new standards will be a useful guide in strengthening a state or district curriculum.

Cross-cutting Concepts are a way to incorporate skills that bridge multiple disciplines.  Most of us would probably call them cross-curricular skills.  "These concepts need to be made explicit for students because they provide an organizational schema for interrelating knowledge from various science fields into a coherent and scientifically-based view of the world."

 

Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCI) are are grouped in four domains: Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, Earth & Space Science and Engineering, Technology and Applications of Science.  These content areas strive to meet selected criteria that identify the DCI as critical in the K-12 science curriculum.

 

Engineers as Educators FREE Workshop

As I've mentioned before, I do a lot of work with AIAA as the Chair of their STEM K-12 Outreach committee.  On 9 Jan 13 at the Aerospace Sciences Meeting in Grapevine, Texas, I'll be presenting the 2013 Engineers as Educators workshop.

Engineers as Educators workshops are designed for aerospace professionals (or any other parties) who are interested in providing STEM outreach to K-12 students.  Participants learn strategies and STEM activities that they can take into classrooms and work with students...AND, National Science and Engineering week is coming up soon, so what better way to be prepared!  Registration is completely FREE as a service provided by AIAA.   For more information and/or to register for the workshop, please click here. 

Strengthening Rigor in STEM- The Rigor/Relevance Framework

Now that we've discussed what rigor looks like in the classroom, we need to introduce the Rigor/Relevance Framework.  The Rigor/Relevance Framework is a graphical representation of Bloom's Taxonomy meets the Daggett Application Model.  It is a great visual for how and why we need to establish and strengthen rigor in STEM.

Each quadrant below shows where students are performing during a particular lesson or project.  Quadrant A represents basic understanding and recall.  Quadrant C represents more sophisticated comprehension, but still is demonstrating knowledge in one discipline.  Quadrant B represents students showing knowledge and applying it and Quadrant D (where we want students to be) represents students solving problems and using their knowledge to create unique solutions.

As teachers plan lessons and create/research engagements for students, consideration should be given to where students would fall on this Framework.  In order to establish and strengthen rigor, students need to be performing in Quadrant D, which allows students to think in complex ways and use strategies for solving problems creatively.

In this series, we'll examine different strategies for how to get (and keep) students performing consistently at a high level.

Strengthening Rigor in STEM- Defining Rigor in the Classroom

Merriam Webster has many definitions for rigor.  Among the most relevant are:

1: a (2) :  the quality of being unyielding or inflexible

    b :  an act or instance of strictness, severity, or cruelty

3:  a condition that makes life difficult, challenging, or uncomfortable

Yuck! That doesn't really sound like how we want our children to learn- unyielding or inflexible- or become contributing members of society.  So, in the sense of education, what does rigor actually mean? 

According to Barbara Blackburn, author of Rigor is not a Four Letter Word, rigor is: 

  

creating an environment in which each student is expected to learn at high levels, and each is supported so that he or she can learn at a high level, and each student demonstrates learning at a high level.

Achieving this definition in the classroom then consists of three basic parts- the content, the instruction, and the achievement.  Most teachers have little to no control over the curriculum, but we try to make each standard as engaging as possible through instruction.  The high-quality instruction that students participate in helps them to take charge of their learning through collaboration and reflection.  When these basic parts intersect, students excel.

Now that we've defined rigor, it is probably becoming clearer how rigor looks in the classroom.  Before we talk about what rigor looks like, we should talk about what it isn't.  Rigor is not:

• more homework
• "doing" more
• only for accelerated students
• something else on top of everything else

So how does rigor look in the classroom?  Rigor is:

By establishing and strengthening rigor in the classroom, students will become stronger and more critical thinkers and will become better collaborators and learners.

History of Educational Technology

There isn't a prepared research that may inform us just who features coined the key phrase educative technologies. Diverse educationists, experts as well as philosophers from different moment times have placed forwarded different classifications connected with Educational Technologies. Educational technologies is really a diverse as well as integrated process involving folks, process, concepts, products, as well as firm, where technologies by different grounds connected with scientific disciplines is actually coppied much like the need as well as dependence on education pertaining to putting into action, considering, as well as controlling ways of these issues interested in many areas of human being learning.

Educational technologies, generally conversing, features passed by way of 5 development.

The first level connected with educative technologies is actually paired with the use of helps like chart, road directions, designs, products, examples as well as cement supplies. The word educative technologies had been used because word to help audio-visual helps.

The second level connected with educative technologies is actually associated with the 'electronic revolution' using the launch as well as organization connected with complex electronics as well as computer software. Using various audio-visual helps like projector, wonder lanterns, tape-recorder, stereo as well as tv added a new innovative change inside educative scenario. Keeping that in mind, educative technologies notion had been taken regarding these types of complex devices as well as pieces of equipment pertaining to effective speech connected with easy-guide supplies.

The next level connected with educative technologies is actually connected with the advancement connected with media which in turn concluded in 'communication revolution' pertaining to easy-guide purposes. Computer-assisted Teaching (CAI) useful for education given that 1950s in addition became common within this time.

Your final level connected with educative technologies is actually noticeable through the individual procedure for coaching. Your invention connected with hard-wired learning as well as hard-wired coaching supplied a fresh sizing to help educative technologies. A method connected with self-learning depending on self-instructional supplies as well as teaching devices blossomed.

The most recent reasoning behind educative technologies is actually motivated by simply the very idea of process architectural or maybe process tactic which usually concentrates on language laboratories, teaching devices, hard-wired coaching, multimedia systems systems as well as using the pc throughout coaching. In accordance with it, educative technologies is really a methodical technique of designing, undertaking as well as considering the total procedure for teaching as well as learning regarding certain targets depending on study.

Educational technologies throughout the Natural stone Age group, the Bronze Age group, along with the Straightener Age group
Educational technologies, despite the skepticism with the foundation with the expression, can be traced to time with the three-age process periodization connected with human being prehistory; that is the Natural stone Age group, the Bronze Age group, along with the Straightener Age group.

Duringthe Natural stone Age group, ignition connected with hearth by simply take off gems, manufacture of various made by hand gun as well as utensils by gems as well as clothes training had been some of the straightforward scientific trends very important. The small percentage connected with Natural stone Age group folks produced ocean-worthy outrigger raft deliver technologies to help migrate collected from one of destination for a yet another across the Marine, through which that they produced their particular 1st laid-back education connected with knowledge of the ocean currents, conditions, embarking training, astronavigation, as well as celeb road directions. Over the later Natural stone Age group interval (Neolithic period), pertaining to farming training, finished rock methods had been created from a variety of difficult rocks generally by simply rooting underground tunnels, that is viewed as the first ways throughout exploration technologies. Your finished axes had been and so effective of which even though overall look connected with bronze as well as metal; folks used it pertaining to paying off forest along with the organization connected with crop gardening.

While Natural stone Age group civilizations remaining zero prepared information, yet archaeological evidences demonstrated their particular shift by nomadic existence to help farming negotiation. Historic methods conserved in numerous museums, cave work like Altamira Cavern throughout The country, and other prehistoric skill, including the Venus connected with Willendorf, New mother Goddess by Laussel, Portugal and so forth. are generally some of the evidences towards their particular civilizations.

Neolithic Emerging trend connected with Natural stone Age group come to the overall look connected with Bronze Age group having advancement connected with agriculture, pet domestication, along with the use connected with everlasting funds. Pertaining to these types of routines Bronze Age group folks additionally produced metal smelting, having birdwatcher as well as later bronze, an mix connected with jar as well as birdwatcher, getting the supplies of these decision.

Your Straightener Age group folks replaced bronze as well as produced the ability connected with metal smelting technologies to reduce the price of dwelling given that metal utensils had been tougher as well as more cost-effective when compared with bronze equivalents. In lots of Eurasian civilizations, the Straightener Age group had been the past interval prior to a advancement connected with prepared scripts.

Educational technologies during the period of Historic cultures
In accordance with John Saettler, 2004, Educational technologies can be traced to time any time tribal priests systematized body connected with information as well as early civilizations invented pictographs or maybe sign creating to help file as well as transfer data. Atlanta divorce attorneys level connected with human being the world, there are an easy-guide method or maybe list of procedures that will put into action a certain lifestyle which are in addition helped by simply amount of brought on as well as evidences. The more advanced the lifestyle, greater complex became the technologies connected with coaching meant to indicate unique methods for person as well as cultural behaviour that will work an educated contemporary society. Around hundreds of years, every single important shift throughout educative valuations, targets or maybe targets concluded in different systems connected with coaching.

The best innovations throughout technologies as well as architectural included the rise with the early cultures. These types of innovations stimulated as well as educated different organisations on earth to adopt fresh methods for dwelling as well as governance.

Your Indus Pit The world had been an earlier Bronze Age group the world which was found in the northwestern spot with the Indian Subcontinent. Your the world had been largely blossomed across the Indus Water pot with the Indus along with the Punjab spot, stretching upto the Ghaggar-Hakra Water vly along with the Ganges-Yamuna Doab, (most with the part is actually within present day Pakistan along with the western states connected with modern-day Indian together with many the main the world stretching upto southeastern Afghanistan, along with the easternmost part of Balochistan, Iran).

There is a long term dispute to make sure concerning the language that the Harappan folks spoken. The assumption is of which their particular creating had been at the very least looks like it's or possibly a pictographic screenplay. Your screenplay appears to have experienced with regards to four hundred fundamental indications, having lots of versions. People write their particular screenplay using the direction typically by to remaining. Almost all of the creating had been found on elephant seals as well as sealings which are most likely utilized in trade as well as official & administrative operate.

Harappan folks acquired the ability with the measuring methods connected with duration, bulk, as well as moment. We were looking at the first on earth in order to develop a process connected with homogeneous weight loads as well as methods.

Inside a examine completed by simply V. D. Rao et 's. just last year, printed throughout Scientific disciplines, pc experts observed that the Indus script's structure is actually closer to of which connected with talked text, which usually helped the offered theory which it rules to have an as-yet-unknown language.

In line with the Far east The world, some of the significant techno-offerings by China and taiwan incorporate cardstock, early on seismological sensors, potty cardstock, matches, metal plough, the multi-tube seed starting exercise, the suspension bridge, the wheelbarrow, the parachute, natural gas because energy resource, the permanent magnet compass, the raised-relief place, the crank heater, the propeller, the crossbow, the Southern Aiming Chariot, as well as gun powdered. While using invent connected with cardstock they've got given their particular 1st action to trends connected with educative technologies by simply additionally culturing different made by hand merchandise connected with cardstock because means of aesthetic helps.

Historic Egyptian language had been from a single stage one of many top making it through as well as used languages on earth. Their screenplay had been consisting of photographs with the actual such things as chickens, pets, different methods, and so forth. These types of photographs are generally popularly called hieroglyph. Their language had been consisting of over 500 hieroglyphs that happen to be often known as hieroglyphics. Within the rock monuments or maybe tombs which are found as well as rescued last option upon supplies the evidence of everyday living of many kinds of artistic hieroglyphics throughout early Egypt.

Educational technologies through Medieval as well as Modern Time period
Cardstock along with the pulp papermaking process which was produced throughout China and taiwan throughout the early on next millennium AD, had been maintained for the Middle East as well as had been distribute to help Mediterranean through the Muslim conquests. Evidences help a cardstock mill had been in addition set up throughout Sicily inside twelfth millennium. Your breakthrough connected with spinning tire greater the efficiency connected with twine making process with a excellent extent then when Lynn White-colored additional the spinning tire having raising cause of towels, this kind of concluded in the output connected with cheap cardstock, which was a new leading take into account the advancement connected with publishing technologies.

Your invention with the publishing media had been happened throughout about 1450 AD, by simply Johannes Gutenburg, a new German creator. Your invention connected with publishing media had been a new leading developing take into account bicycles connected with educative technologies to mention the coaching much like the need with the complex as well as advanced-technology cultured contemporary society.

Inside pre-industrial periods, though industry had been this is the handwork from artist amount, the easy-guide procedures had been relied intensely on straightforward such things as the standing, the horn publication, the blackboard, as well as chalk. It absolutely was limited by 1 wording publication that has a several cases. Educational technologies had been regarded as interchangeable to help straightforward helps like chart as well as photographs.

The season 1873 might manifest as a landmark inside early on record connected with technologies connected with education or maybe audio-visual education. The convention was held throughout Vienna from international amount in which an Us classes received the appreciation with the school teachers with the convention connected with road directions, chart, references and other pieces of equipment.

Maria Montessori (1870-1952), worldwide well known little one educator along with the inventor connected with Montessori Technique exerted a new vibrant influence on educative technologies by way of the woman's advancement connected with ranked supplies meant to give the best sequencing connected with subject matter for every single person novice. Modern educative technologies implies many extension connected with Montessori's notion of organized little one focused environment.

In1833, Charles Babbage's design and style of a normal function processing product lay the inspiration with the modern day pc as well as throughout 1943, the first processing machine much like hi there design and style had been built by simply Global Enterprise Models Business throughout UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Your Pc Served coaching (CAI) where the pc characteristics fundamentally being a trainer in addition to the Talking Type copy writer was made by simply To. E. Moore throughout 1966. Due to the fact 1974, desktops are generally strangely enough utilized in education throughout educational facilities, colleges and universities.

To start with with the nineteenth millennium, there are noteworthy adjustments in the field of education. Uk Broadcasting Business (BBC), right from it is begin connected with classes broadcasts throughout 1920 acquired looked after quick rate making sound share to help proper education. In north america, by simply 1952, 20 states acquired the provision pertaining to educative broadcasting. Parallel to this particular moment with regards to 98% with the educational facilities throughout Uk had been designed with radios as well as there are regular everyday programs.

Sidney L. Pressey, a new shrink connected with Oh condition university or college produced a new self-teaching machine called 'Drum Tutor' throughout 1920. Mentor Skinner, even so, throughout his popular write-up 'Science connected with Studying as well as skill connected with Teaching' printed throughout 1945 pleaded pertaining to the use of the ability derived from attitudinal mindset to help class room procedures as well as recommended computerized teaching products because means of doing so.

Although the 1st practical by using Typical tv broadcasts was at Philippines throughout 1929 as well as throughout 1936 the Olympic Game titles throughout Berlin had been showed by way of tv programs throughout Berlin, Open routine tv started to double largely pertaining to broadcasting programs pertaining to entertainment throughout 1950. Due to the fact 1960, tv can be used pertaining to educative purposes.

With 1950, Brynmor, throughout The united kingdom, used educative scientific ways pertaining to once. This is to be cared of which throughout 1960, because of business emerging trend for the majority of as well as Italy, different nations around the world in addition started growing inside recorded connected with educative technologies. In this manner, the beginning of educative technologies took place throughout 1960 by The united states as well as Italy and today it's got reached The united kingdom, The european union as well as Indian.

During the time of about 1950s, fresh technocracy had been turning it interest to help educations any time there were a new extreme lack connected with teachers for the majority of and as a consequence an vital have to have connected with educative technologies had been experienced. Doctor. Alvin H. Eurich and a very little later his associate, Doctor. Alexander J. Stoddard unveiled bulk output technologies for the majority of.

Workforce teaching acquired it is foundation for the majority of inside mid connected with fifties as well as was initially started in 4 seasons 1955 from Harvard University or college began this morning internship approach.

Inside year 1956, Benjamin Full bloom by UNITED STATES OF AMERICA unveiled the taxonomy connected with educative targets by way of his book, "The Taxonomy connected with Educational Objectives, Your Category connected with Educational Objectives, Manual I: Cognitive Domain".

With 1961, Small teaching method was initially acquired by simply Dwight N. Allen as well as his co-workers from Stanford University or college throughout UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Technology will be the main technologies getting produced initially connected with 21st millennium. Broadband Access to the internet became common as well as active almost all quite practices as well as educative places and in some cases in common places throughout produced nations around the world having the advantage of attaching home desktops having tunes libraries as well as cellphones.

Current class room is actually prone to become a technologies laboratory, a space having rows connected with college students employing internet related or maybe Wi-Fi allowed notebooks, palmtops, notepad, or maybe college students are generally participating a new online video media conferencing or maybe electronic class room or maybe might have been hearing a new podcast or maybe eating a new online video media pitch. Quick scientific adjustments in the field of educative have created fresh ways to educate and understand. Technological adjustments in addition motivated the teachers to access a variety of home elevators a universal range by way of the internet, to reinforce their particular classes together with to produce them capable specialist in their part of concern. At the same time, college students can make use of vast methods with the Internet to help enhance their particular learning expertise to cope way up having adjusting pattern with the contemporary society. More recently college students at the same time teachers are generally participating classes, meetings, work spaces from nationwide as well as international amount when using the multimedia systems techno-resources like PowerPoint and in some cases that they follow a variety of critical classes of these decision throughout length method by way of online learning approaches. On the web learning service features popped boundless amount of doorways connected with opportunities pertaining to present day novice to produce their particular existence more content than any other time.