The details of this chart are less important than the process of creating it. After playing with the iPad, reading/watching how others use it in the classroom, and trying it out with your own students, get together with a few other educators and fill out your own chart. Here's a blank chart we give out as a part of a Think-Pair-Share. You might want to divide it into sections and consider the affordances and constraints by user (teacher/student/special needs student/administrator), use (reading/word processing/movie making/note taking/etc.), subject, or taxonomy (Bloom/SAMR/etc.). Hopefully you'll revise the chart as you use the tool in a wider variety of ways. This can definitely be combined with ideas of balancing technology, content and pedagogy. (Check out this podcast on TPaCK and SAMR.)
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iPad - Affordances & Constraints - BalancEdTech - 19 views
What's Fuzzy, Thin, and Bendable? « Co-Creating Solutions: A Blog by CTL - 37 views
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Read Ashley Perkins' thoughts on embedding the arts into instruction to help students create meaning.
Social Media and the Professional Learning Community - Networks, Collaboration & Commun... - 2 views
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The research has been clear and consistent for over 30 years-collaborative cultures in which teachers focus on improving their teaching practice, learn from each other, and are well led and supported by school principals result in better learning for students. Fullan, M. (n.d.). Learning is the Work. Retrieved from http://www.michaelfullan.ca/
BalancEdTech - Blogging Workshop - 48 views
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Professional development designed to be completed by small or large groups in a day, two half days, or several before/after school sessions.
WIKId Wide Walls - Wiki Professional Development Workshop - 47 views
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Professional development designed to be completed by small or large groups in a day, two half days, or several before/after school sessions.
BalancEdTech - Apps Taskonomy - 77 views
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The iPad (or iPod touch or iPhone) with its apps opens many new opportunities for learning. At the same time, it offers a slightly different wrapper for older learning opportunities. Both can be worthwhile, but it would be a shame if teachers missed the former for the latter. And, if past experience and research is any indication, educators are much more likely to co-opt the new technology to accomplish the status quo.
This activity is designed to help teachers think through both opportunities and to categorize those apps that lend themselves to either or both. Teachers will start by exploring a variety of apps, some that lend themselves to learning content such as math facts or spelling words and others that can be used in open ended content creation such as storytelling or photography. Then, teachers will examine a set of lessons that use these apps. Finally, teachers will use a "taxonomy" such as Bloom's Taxonomy, SAMR, LoTi, ETaP, Prensky, etc. and attempt to classify/categorize where the apps fall. Most likely teachers will need to contextualize the app to a particular use/activity. Ideally, teachers will realize that in most cases it is not the app itself, but the use that detrmines where it falls and that the apps belong in multiple places.
About | Edge - 0 views
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Edge is different from the Algonquin Roundtable or Bloomsbury Group, but it offers the same quality of intellectual adventure. Closer resemblances are the early seventeenth-century Invisible College, a precursor to the Royal Society. Its members consisted of scientists such as Robert Boyle, John Wallis, and Robert Hooke. The Society's common theme was to acquire knowledge through experimental investigation. Another inspiration is The Lunar Society of Birmingham, an informal club of the leading cultural figures of the new industrial age — James Watt, Erasmus Darwin, Josiah Wedgewood, Joseph Priestly, and Benjamin Franklin.
The online salon at Edge.org is a living document of millions of words charting the Edge conversation over the past fifteen years wherever it has gone. It is available, gratis, to the general public.
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Edge.org offers "open-minded, free ranging, intellectually playful ... an unadorned pleasure in curiosity, a collective expression of wonder at the living and inanimate world ... an ongoing and thrilling colloquium."
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encourages people who can take the materials of the culture in the arts, literature, and science and put them together in their own way. We live in a mass-produced culture where many people, even many established cultural arbiters limit themselves to secondhand ideas, thoughts, and opinions. Edge.org consists of individuals who create their own reality and do not accept an ersatz, appropriated reality. The Edge community consists of peole who are out there doing it rather than talking about and analyzing the people who are doing it.
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If you love TED this is possibly more rivetting!
What Will You Learn this Summer? 23 Professional Development Resources | Teacher Reboot... - 144 views
Teacher-Led Professional Development: Eleven Reasons Why You Should be Using Classroom ... - 108 views
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"I'm done talking ... it's time to take this training into the classroom - that's where the teaching is going on. Besides, you need to build your local capacity."
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f the large group is "the lecture," the CWT is the "lab."
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Another great post by Peter Pappas
TIGed Professional Development - TIGed - 21 views
Curriculum-based Technology Integration Reframed - Harris, Mishra & Koehler, republished - 93 views
Stephen Downes: The Role of the Educator - 121 views
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The Learner
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The Collector
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The Curator
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This isn't just about online learning! How many of these roles do you fulfill as a teacher, "facilitator," or admin? How successful have professional development efforts been in getting teachers to try out new roles? How successful have they been in getting kids to try out some of these roles? What other roles are there for students?
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Article comparing the lack of knowledge about the role of the educator at the moment with the blame put on 'bad teachers'.
Concept to Classroom: Course Menu - 78 views
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FREE, self-paced workshops covering a wide variety of hot topics in education including assessment, multiple intelligences, constructivism, inquiry-based learning, and cooperative learning.
NSTA Learning Center - 46 views
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professional development and student activities for a variety of science topics - if you need a refresher before teaching this is a good resource. Also lots of simulations are available. Requires sign in but does not require NSTA membership and many are free. Can save to My Library
Web 2.0 Training - 78 views
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Here is a LiveBinder with resources used for a Virtual Summer Camp (technology camp for teachers). Again, using LiveBinders makes it a snap to organize resources you want to share.
Wikispaces Webinar - Birmingham Public Schools - August 18, 2010 - 53 views
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Ellumiate session with the second half focusing on the ways Birmingham Public Schools have used wikis throughout the district. Links to dozens of wiki ideas are mentioned.
http://ignite.wikis.birmingham.k12.mi.us/Wikispaces
Twittering, Not Frittering: Professional Development in 140 Characters | Edutopia - 15 views
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Although some people argue that Twitter is one more distraction in a tech-saturated world, David Cosand says it's been a time-saver for him. He was writing a grant proposal recently to buy more technology for his school and realized he needed to learn more about document cameras. "I put a tweet out asking people which cameras they have found useful. In half an hour, I got great feedback from all over the country," he says, and he wound up narrowing down the list to an AVerVision CP300 model.
