4.1.6

4.1.6 Organize personal knowledge in a way that can be called upon easily.

My old friend Soshiku really aides in fostering this skill. Click on the cool Presentation link to find out why!

4.1.6 Organize personal knowledge in a way that can be called upon easily  Soshiku is a free online service that allows you to keep track of all of your assignments in one place. It would be a virtual assignment book which would not be very exciting except for the fact that you can collaborate on it and even get text reminders of assignment due dates! This can keep even the most disorganized learner on track. You can keep your notes for a project on the site, send them to your group partners, and message back and forth amongst group members on the site. This is an excellent way to organize personal knowledge about assignments and projects you are working on in a way that can be called upon easily.  Standard 4.1.6 is important for people of all different types of intelligences to master since it’s an essential part of being an efficient learner and worker. Soshiku will especially support interpersonal learners due to its collaborative set up. It will also be great for verbal-linguistic learners, and visual learners. It is excellent for everyone who needs extra reminders to get things done and for people who are into technology since it texts you.  Aspects of Meaningful Learning that Soshiku Addresses • Active: Meaningful learning requires active engagement in a task in which they manipulate parameters of their environment and observe the results of these manipulations. This is accomplished both formally and informally by sharing skills and knowledge with other members—Soshiku helps foster this aspect. • Constructive: Learners integrate their new experiences with their prior knowledge and reflect on what the have learned. Soshiku can track their progression and help students move from known to new. • Intentional: Keeping track of assignments helps foster cognitive goal direction. Using computers and technology to plan and solve problems, lets them learn meaningfully. • Authentic: Embedding learning in useful contexts lets learners practice using new ideas. • <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Cooperative: Soshiku’s technology supports learners working in groups. They can socially negotiate an understanding of the task and methods to accomplish it. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">It can be difficult to wrap your head around educational uses for medias that have heretofore been considered distracting pests in the classrooms. However, some professionals argue that schools have to incorporate those technologies to keep up. Andrew Trotter explained it this way in a recent edition of Education Week: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">"In our district, we really feel students are bored with the instruction they are getting," he said. "It's not that instruction has become boring, it's that the outside world they interact with has become so engaging, but we haven't kept up." <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Soshiku especially applies to NES-S standard number two, parts b and d. Standard two is on Communication and Collaboration and it states that: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">b. communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">d. contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Trotter, Andrew. “Students Turn Their Cellphones On for Classroom Lessons.” __Education Week__ 28.16 7 Jan. 2009: 10-11. Editorial Projects in Education. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">9 May 2010. [].