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Part 2 of 4 Group Personalized Learning Engaging Screenagers Yesterday I was asked, “How can we personalize learning for group work?” Thinking about it, isn’t that what group work is based on? Don’t group mates take tasks or activities that suit their own strengths and interests? What if students could learn to focus their own group tasks for finding information to personalize their learning? When I was in graduate school, I had a professor tell me, “When ever you are in class and you have an option to select (personalize) the topic for your assignments, chose a topic that is related to your thesis or dissertation.” Basically he taught me to personalize my learning, and as a bonus I was getting ongoing feedback from my instructors. Having tried many different techniques to improve engagement in my courses, I’ve found learning with eWorkbooks is one of the more effective engagement methods because we encouraged students to personalize their learning. Although ...

Part 1 of 4 Curate to Personalize Learning Engaging Screenagers Did you ever sit in class and wonder, “Why are we learning this?” Don’t you remember that frustration of wondering how this learning applies to you and what is important in your life? Wouldn’t it be great to teach our Engaging Screenagers to adapt what they are learning to personalized their content? A while back, I saw a great quote from O. E. Wilson: “We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.” What if students could learn to synthesize information to personalize their learning? When I was in graduate school, I had a professor tell me, “When ever you are in class and you have an option to select (personalize) the topic for your assignments, chose a topic that is related to you...

7 Reasons to Create Your Own eJournal Engaging Screenagers You know how all the big time professional speakers who are crazy wealthy say to  record  your thoughts in a journal? Well it’s true, the journal is a great way to get your ideas from the emotional side of your head to the logical side. Why don’t people journal more often? Isn’t it because our world is going so fast and everything is changing? Who can keep a journal with them at all times(?) and if you’re driving… Often we don’t have a long period of time to ponder life. This all sounds pretty tough. If there was a better way you would like to know it wouldn’t you? Dr Warren preparing to speak on Mobile Learning Engagement IMLF 2017 Conference For years I’ve been using eJournals to capture quick  reflections  when I’m hiking, driving, etc. An eJournal (like an  eWorkbook ) is made with a Google Form and you can just save it on your phone homescreen or des...