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Dean Mantz

Texting in the Classroom: Not Just a Distraction | Edutopia - 10 views

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    Interesting research of how texting is used and impacts a variety of age groups.
Dean Mantz

Summer PD: New Teacher Boot Camp Week 3 - Using Storybird | Edutopia - 6 views

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    Very nice writing that introduces Storybird as a digital storytelling tool.  It provides an overview as well as advice on how-to use the resource. 
Dean Mantz

How to Use New-Media Tools in Your Classroom | Edutopia - 24 views

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    7 video tips from great educators regarding the use of "New Media" in the classrooms. 
Bonnie Feather

Life on the Screen: Visual Literacy in Education | Edutopia - 29 views

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    From Edutopia, The role of visual literacy in education.  ...from the article: "When people talk to me about the digital divide, I think of it not being so much about who has access to what technology as who knows how to create and express themselves in this new language of the screen. If students aren't taught the language of sound and images, shouldn't they be considered as illiterate as if they left college without being able to read or write?"
Tom McHale

Kids Create -- and Critique on -- Social Networks | Edutopia - 0 views

  • "With Web 2.0, there's a strong impetus to make connections," says University of Minnesota researcher Christine Greenhow, who studies how people learn and teach with social networking. "It's not just creating content. It's creating content to share."
  • And once they share their creations, kids can access one of the richest parts of this learning cycle: the exchange that follows. "While the ability to publish and to share is powerful in and of itself, most of the learning occurs in the connections and conversation that occur after we publish," argues education blogger Will Richardson (a member of The George Lucas Educational Foundation's National Advisory Council).
  • In this online exchange, students can learn from their peers and simultaneously practice important soft skills -- namely, how to accept feedback and to usefully critique others" work.
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  • "I learn how to take in constructive criticism," says thirteen-year-old Tiranne
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  • Using tools such as the social-network-creation site Ning, teachers can easily develop their own networks, Mosea says. "It is better to create your own," he argues. "If a teacher creates his or her own network, students will post as if their teacher is watching them, and they'll tend to be more safe.

    "You can build social networks around the curriculum," Mosea adds, "so you can use them as a teaching resource or another tool." An online social network is another tool -- but it's a tool with an advantage: It wasn't just imposed by teachers; the students have chosen it.

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    "Self-Directed Learning

    When students are motivated to create work that they share online, it ignites an independent learning cycle driven by their ideas and energized by responses from peers."
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    Self-Directed Learning

    "When students are motivated to create work that they share online, it ignites an independent learning cycle driven by their ideas and energized by responses from peers."
Jennifer Dorman

World Without Walls: Learning Well with Others | Edutopia - 0 views

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    How to teach when learning is everywhere. - Will Richardson
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