What we’ve decided is that we will no longer use the web filter as a classroom management tool. Blocking one distraction doesn’t solve the problem of students off task – it just encourages them to find another site to distract them. Students off task is not a technology problem – it’s a behavior problem.
Universal Charter for Compassion: Unveiling on 11.12.09 | innovation3 - 0 views
Clip Art Homepage - 0 views
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Very cool clipart
» Would You Please Block? Bud the Teacher - 1 views
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A brilliantly worded statement that needs to be said!
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This opens up possibilities for students and staff using websites for instructional purposes that in the past were blocked due to broad category blocks. It requires that staff and students manage their technology use rather than relying on a third party solution that can never do the job of replacing teachers monitoring students.
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What we've decided is that we will no longer use the web filter as a classroom management tool.
Google Moderator This I Believe about Learning - 0 views
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Google Moderator Demonstration: Nine Beliefs about Learning Drawn from Stephanie Pace Marshall's The Power to Transform
Half an Hour: What Connectivism Is - 0 views
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*At its heart, connectivism is the thesis that knowledge is distributed across a network of connections, and therefore that learning consists of the ability to construct and traverse those networks.
*Hence, in connectivism, there is no real concept of transferring knowledge, making knowledge, or building knowledge. Rather, the activities we undertake when we conduct practices in order to learn are more like growing or developing ourselves and our society in certain (connected) ways.
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The EdQuotes List allows for multiple quotes from a single source. - 5 views
For some reason, the multiple quotes are now showing up in the description on the EdQuotes group page. Go figure.
metacool: Designing at the Boulder Digital Works - 0 views
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As John Maeda recently noted, the missing partner to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) is IDEA (Intuition, Design, Emotion, Art). As a person who was trained on both sides and now works and plays across STEM and IDEA, I feel strongly that our education programs need to combine both in order to create the T-shaped people that can go out and make a difference in the world (Principle 6).
Op-Ed Contributor - Your Baby Is Smarter Than You Think - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Great article on the intelligence and learning capabilities of infants and toddlers -- has implications for how we approach pre-school learning with children.
Famous Quotes: Educational Quotes for the 21st Century - 0 views
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This is the second edition of quotes we have complied to complement the philosophy that underpins our website www.leading-learning.co.nz
We believe that the quotes provide unified collection of thoughtful ideas to transform education. It is often said that we are entering the 'Information Age' but we prefer to believe that we are entering an 'Age of Ideas, Talent and Creativity'. We present the quotes as part of on ongoing dialogue to give all who read them the courage to transform schools so as to meet the exciting challenges of the 21stC.
One suggestion is to as a staff reflect on the quotes in any one section (or any selected quotes) and discuss what they might mean for your school. Others people select suitable quotes for school newsletters of school brochures and other school documents.
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Author & Book Views On a Healthy Life! - LIVING GREEN - 2050: 75 Million Possibly... - 0 views
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Oxfam Australia says that climate change could leave up to 75 million people in the Asia-Pacific region homeless by 2050. The Future is Here: Climate Change says that these island nations are already suffering from drought, food shortages and rising water levels.
Kerry: Climate change will depend on China - 0 views
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"Unless we act dramatically and act fast, science tells us our way of life is in jeopardy," [Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Kerry] said.
Presentation Zen: The slideshow... - 0 views
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The tools are there, what we need now is more design education, more understanding about how to present information, and how to tell compelling, relevant stories that matter.
Isabel Allende tells tales of passion | Video on TED.com - 0 views
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What is truer than truth? Answer, the story.
Book Review: How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer, by Debbie Millman - Core77 - 0 views
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Whether it's said about the graphic design grid, Picasso's cubism, or a Zen book of koans, once the student learns the rules, they can throw out the book. The value comes in the contrast of expectation with the arrival of the truly new.
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Whether it's said about the graphic design grid, Picasso's cubism, or a Zen book of koans, once the student learns the rules, they can throw out the book. The value comes in the contrast of expectation with the arrival of the truly new.
Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On: Web 2.0 Summit 2009 - 0 views
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7.21.09
*...Web Squared. 1990-2004 was the match being struck; 2005-2009 was the fuse; and 2010 will be the explosion.
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7.21.09
*...Web Squared. 1990-2004 was the match being struck; 2005-2009 was the fuse; and 2010 will be the explosion.
*...we're constantly asked about "Web 3.0." Is it the semantic web? The sentient web? Is it the social web? The mobile web? Is it some form of virtual reality? It is all of those, and more.
*...successful network applications are systems for harnessing collective intelligence.
*The question before us is this: Is the Web getting smarter as it grows up?
*The Web is growing up, and we are all its collective parents.
*Key takeaway: A key competency of the Web 2.0 era is discovering implied metadata, and then building a database to capture that metadata and/or foster an ecosystem around it.
*The Net is getting smarter faster than you might think.
*The increasing richness of both sensor data and machine learning will lead to new frontiers in creative expression and imaginative reconstruction of the world.
*All of these breakthroughs are reflections of the fact noted by Mike Kuniavsky of ThingM, that real world objects have "information shadows" in cyberspace.
*In adding value for ourselves, we are adding value to the social web as well. Our devices extend us, and we extend them. -
7.21.09
*...Web Squared. 1990-2004 was the match being struck; 2005-2009 was the fuse; and 2010 will be the explosion.
*...we're constantly asked about "Web 3.0." Is it the semantic web? The sentient web? Is it the social web? The mobile web? Is it some form of virtual reality? It is all of those, and more.
*...successful network applications are systems for harnessing collective intelligence.
*The question before us is this: Is the Web getting smarter as it grows up?
*The Web is growing up, and we are all its collective parents.
*Key takeaway: A key competency of the Web 2.0 era is discovering implied metadata, and then building a database to capture that metadata and/or foster an ecosystem around it.
*The Net is getting smarter faster than you might think.
*The increasing richness of both sensor data and machine learning will lead to new frontiers in creative expression and imaginative reconstruction of the world.
*All of these breakthroughs are reflections of the fact noted by Mike Kuniavsky of ThingM, that real world objects have "information shadows" in cyberspace.
*In adding value for ourselves, we are adding value to the social web as well. Our devices extend us, and we extend them.
*Data analysis, visualization, and other techniques for seeing patterns in data are going to be an increasingly valuable skillset. Employers take notice.
*Anyone who searches Twitter on a trending topic has to be struck by the message: "See what's happening right now" followed, a few moments later by "42 more results since you started searching. Refresh to see them."
*Businesses must learn to harness real-time data as key signals that inform a far more efficient feedback loop for product development, customer service, and resource allocation.
*But 2009 marks a pivot point in the history of the Web. It's time to leverage the true power of the platform we've built. The Web is no longer an industry unto itself - the Web is now the world.
*...we must take the Web to another
The Case for Working With Your Hands - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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7.21.09
* The Princeton economist Alan Blinder argues that the crucial distinction in the emerging labor market is not between those with more or less education, but between those whose services can be delivered over a wire and those who must do their work in person or on site.
* A gifted young person who chooses to become a mechanic rather than to accumulate academic credentials is viewed as eccentric, if not self-destructive.
* As I sat in my K Street office, Fred's life as an independent tradesman gave me an image that I kept coming back to: someone who really knows what he is doing, losing himself in work that is genuinely useful and has a certain integrity to it.
* It would probably be impossible to do such work in isolation, without access to a collective historical memory; you have to be embedded in a community of mechanic-antiquarians.
* Good diagnosis requires attentiveness to the machine, almost a conversation with it....
* The regularity of the cubicles made me feel I had found a place in the order of things. I was to be a knowledge worker.
* A good job requires a field of action where you can put your best capacities to work and see an effect in the world. Academic credentials do not guarantee this.
* In the boardrooms of Wall Street and the corridors of Pennsylvania Avenue, I don't think you'll see a yellow sign that says "Think Safety!" as you do on job sites and in many repair shops, no doubt because those who sit on the swivel chairs tend to live remote from the consequences of the decisions they make.
* Our peripheral vision is perhaps recovering, allowing us to consider the full range of lives worth choosing. For anyone who feels ill suited by disposition to spend his days sitting in an office, the question of what a good job looks like is now wide open.
Julius Shulman Film » Blog - 0 views
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"What good is a dream house if you haven't got a dream?" -Julius Shulman
Clay Shirky: How social media can make history | Video on TED.com - 0 views
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7.20.09
*The media landscape that we knew, as familiar as it was... that professionals broadcast messages to amateurs is increasingly slipping away.
*We are increasingly in a landscape where media is global, social, ubiquitous, and cheap.
*...a world of media where the former audience are now increasingly full participants.
*...media is less and less about crafting a single message to be consumed by individuals and is more and more often a way of creating an environment for convening and supporting groups.
*The really crazy change...the fact that people are no longer disconnected from each other.
*The size of the network, the complexity of the network is actually the square of the number of participants.
*As recently as last decade, most of the media available for public consumption was produced by professionals. Those days are over, never to return.
*They [barackobama.com] had understood that their role with MyBO.com was to convene the supporters, but not to control their supporters.
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