Yvette Prior

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Educator, researcher, work psychologist, author. I have been teaching in Higher Eduction on and off since the 1990s and my area of research is work motivation. My past work experience has included teaching art, counseling, hospitality management, and doing outreach. Yvette finds refreshment from yoga, exploring the arts, and writing.

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Teaching with personalization in mind....

My favorite takjeaway from the adaptive learning module was that teachers can approach their lessons with the aim of customzing. This can get the creative juices flowing and allows us to cater to stduents who often have a mix of needs as they learn. Also, if adaptive learning helsp the stduents to gain a depper graps of material (by being more engaged and by pacing their progress so they learn with less anxiety to know material by rote) well then society is better as a whole because edcuated indiviudals make society a better and richer place. Don't you agree?

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LMS

Wanted to say how interesting I found it that LMS is one of the many tech advances we have for learning adaptively.

Other advances inlcude websites, data aquisition, gaming, cloud based storage and apps, etc. I think this makes for a nice time to be an Educator... lots of options. :) don't you agree?

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Tech Fear

Reply to Anne Clancy's post:

Great idea Anne. Thx for the tip to run thru the tech

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Tech Fear

I think just set realistic goals and learn a little more tech each week. Also, be confident in the fact that you might still be developing your techy skills - it should not pull from your role as trained instructor. So get comfortable and let that exude as you let students know you might still be learning. They will likely respect the honesty (and they will notice it anyhow, so just get comfy).

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Lecture

Reply to marla Schlesinger's post:

I agree - wel saud

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Lecture

I agree - lecture is only part of the information delivery - we need to have spurts of lecture with time to intercat and apply material - we also need to have time to digest. Some students might only initioally get 1% of what was said - so repeating the info is key - and then light bulbs come on and people start to make more an dmore an connections.

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