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What is Community of Learners

Chapter 28
Handbook of Research on Teacher Education and Professional Development
The collection of participants in a course who work cooperatively and collaboratively in solving tasks that lead to consensus and collective understanding of ideas.
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Innovative Instructional Strategies for an Online Community of Learners: Reconstructing Teachers' Knowledge
Margaret L. Niess (Oregon State University, USA) and Henry Gillow-Wiles (Southern Oregon University, USA)
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 28
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1067-3.ch028
Abstract
This qualitative, design-based research identifies innovative instructional practices for teacher professional development that support an online community of learners in reconstructing their technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) for teaching mathematics. This analysis describes instructional practices that guide inservice teacher participants in inquiring and reflecting to confront their knowledge-of-practice conceptions for integrating multiple technologies as learning tools. The research program describes an online learning trajectory and instructional strategies supporting the tools and processes in steering the content development in a social metacognitive constructivist instructional framework towards moving from “informal ideas, through successive refinements of representation, articulation, and reflection towards increasingly complex concepts over time” (Confrey & Maloney, 2012). The results provide recommendations for online professional development learning environments that engage the participants as a community of learners.
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Chapter 12
Social Media in Education: Gains in Student Learning and Instructor Best Practices
A community of learners “can be defined as a group of people who share values and beliefs and who actively engage in learning from one another-learners from teachers, teachers from learners, and learners from learners. They thus create a learning-centered environment in which students and educators are actively and intentionally constructing knowledge together. Learning communities are connected, cooperative, and supportive. Peers are interdependent in that they have joint responsibility for learning and share resources and points of view, while sustaining a mutually respectful and cohesive environment” (Learning and the Adolescent Mind, p.1).
Published in Chapter: Social Media in Education: Gains in Student Learning and Instructor Best Practices; From: Handbook of Research on Mobile Technology, Constructivism, and Meaningful Learning
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Chapter 2
The Dialogic Nature of Meaning Making within a Hybrid Learning Space: Individual, Community, and Knowledge-Building Pedagogical Tools
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Chapter 24
Engaging Google Docs to Support Collaboration and Reflection in Online Teacher Education
A group of people who: 1) share a joint enterprise that is understood and continually negotiated by its members, 2) have a mutual engagement that binds members together into a social entity, and 3) have created a shared repertoire of communal responses (ways of thinking, being, and doing) that members have developed over time (Lave & Wenger, 1998 AU59: The in-text citation "Lave & Wenger, 1998" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).
Published in Chapter: Engaging Google Docs to Support Collaboration and Reflection in Online Teacher Education; From: Handbook of Research on Teacher Education in the Digital Age
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Chapter 13
TAP (Teacher Learning and Application to Pedagogy) through Digital Video-Mediated Reflections
Group of teachers who are actively engaged in collectively constructing meaning. In our research, the broad community of learners was the group of teachers taking the practicum course together. The teachers who engaged in CPVA together also constituted a smaller subset of the community of learners.
Published in Chapter: TAP (Teacher Learning and Application to Pedagogy) through Digital Video-Mediated Reflections; From: Handbook of Research on Teacher Education in the Digital Age
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Chapter 16
Development of Language and Identity Through Author's Chair and Draw and Tell in the Context of Storytelling in Early Childhood Classrooms
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Chapter 15
Co-Production and Educational Change: Moving From Formulaic to Flexible Scaling Strategies
An instructional model based on all members of a group actively contributing to the structure and direction of shared endeavors.
Published in Chapter: Co-Production and Educational Change: Moving From Formulaic to Flexible Scaling Strategies; From: Processual Perspectives on the Co-Production Turn in Public Sector Organizations
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Chapter 13
Biography-Driven Instruction: Disrupting Monocultural Pedagogy for Emergent Bilingual Learners
Students collaborate and engage in dialogue using their assets to maximize learning.
Published in Chapter: Biography-Driven Instruction: Disrupting Monocultural Pedagogy for Emergent Bilingual Learners; From: Handbook of Research on Social Justice and Equity in Education
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Chapter 8
Development and Sustainability of Learning Societies
A group of learners on the edge of new learning and under continuous reflection, the new community learning comes in various shapes and sizes; it is not one size fits all mentality.
Published in Chapter: Development and Sustainability of Learning Societies; From: Handbook of Research on Technologies for Improving the 21st Century Workforce: Tools for Lifelong Learning
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Chapter 447
Implicit Cognitive Vulnerability
This term is an overarching understanding of the group of students, also including the instructional facilitator, who come together with the intention to learn information while also supporting the larger group’s instructional understandings and efforts. This term reflects a philosophical understanding, that learning is not a singular activity but, instead, is a socially supported effort.
Published in Chapter: Implicit Cognitive Vulnerability; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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Chapter 15
Fostering Online Communities of Practice in Career and Technical Education
A place were student learners are made to feel that their prior knowledge, the knowledge that they are acquiring, and the skills that they are learning to acquire future knowledge are all tied together.
Published in Chapter: Fostering Online Communities of Practice in Career and Technical Education; From: Handbook of Research on E-Learning Applications for Career and Technical Education: Technologies for Vocational Training
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