EdTechTalk's feed | Diigo Group

» An Open Letter to Teachers Bud the Teacher

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:07:17 -0000

As you gear up in whatever way that you do, I selfishly wanted to jot down a few reminders that I’d be telling myself if I were about to get started.

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

I hope you take lots of risks for the sake of learning this year. Not just for your students, but also for you. Make it a goal to try to learn something in a sustained and meaningful way that has little to do with your classroom life.

You need no one’s permission to postpone a due date or modify an assignment for the benefit of a student, or to delay some grading for the benefit of yourself or your family.

Be an expert when you need to be. Be a learner always. You are probably the most experienced learner in your classroom. But don’t assume you’re the most knowledgable person or object. If you’ve a computer handy, then you’re not. Embrace that. Relationships and mentoring cannot be outsourced or Googled. They take time and genuine concern.

And share the good stuff. Your stories are all human ones, and they are all special, just as each one of you, and each of your students, is special. There is always someone curious about what you’re up to.

Tags: admin pedagogy studentteacher teaching

Posted by: datruss

1-to-1 Learning

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:52:59 -0000

Of interest may be a look at the following site. EQ has done a range of research around the area of 1:1. It has recently released a 1:1 Smart Classrooms Byte on the topic which may help in some ways answer some of the issues on 1:1.

The website is:

http://education.qld.gov.au/smartclassrooms/strategy/dp/one-2-one.html

The downloadable PDF titled "Smart Classrooms Byte: 21 Steps to 21st Century 1-to-1 Success" is listed in the first line.

On the page is also some base information on the trials currently underway using some of the Ultra mobiles mentioned in this thread (i.e. eeePC, etc)

Comments:

Of interest may be a look at the following site. EQ has done a range of research around the area of 1:1. It has recently released a 1:1 Smart Classrooms Byte on the topic which may help in some ways answer some of the issues on 1:1. The website is: http://education.qld.gov.au/smartclassrooms/strategy/dp/one-2-one.html The downloadable PDF titled "Smart Classrooms Byte: 21 Steps to 21st Century 1-to-1 Success" is listed in the first line. On the page is also some base information on the trials currently underway using some of the Ultra mobiles mentioned in this thread (i.e. eeePC, etc) posted by lsa_paul

Tags: 1-to-1 laptops leadership pedagogy

Posted by: lsa_paul

Visual Understanding Environment

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:39:11 -0000

The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) project at Tufts is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information.

Tags: pedagogy presentation software tool visualization

Posted by: tsuomela

A Seismic Shift in Epistemology ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:26:23 -0000

Comments:

Response to Chris Dede article on the "Seismic Shift in Epistemology" posted by tsuomela

Tags: education epistemology open-education pedagogy philosophy psychology web2.0

Posted by: tsuomela

A Seismic Shift in Epistemology (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:24:06 -0000

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

At first glance, this evolution might seem to be simply a shift in agency, from publication by a few to collective contribution by many. But in fact, the implications of Web 2.0 go much deeper: the tacit epistemologies that underlie its activities differ dramatically from what I will call here the “Classical” perspective—the historic views of knowledge, expertise, and learning on which formal education is based.

In contrast, the Web 2.0 definition of “knowledge” is collective agreement about a description that may combine facts with other dimensions of human experience, such as opinions, values, and spiritual beliefs. As an illustration, the Wikipedia entry on “social effect of evolutionary theory” wrestles with constructing a point of view that most readers would consider reasonable, accurate, and unbiased without derogating religious precepts some might hold. In contrast to articles in the Encyclopedia Britannica, Wikipedia articles are either undisputed (tacitly considered accurate) or disputed (still resolving through collective argumentation), and Wikipedia articles cover topics that are not central to academic disciplines or to a wide audience (e.g., the cartoon dog Scooby-Doo).

Tags: epistemology expertise knowledge open-education open-information pedagogy philosophy

Posted by: tsuomela

The Pulse: Willfully Ignoring the Lessons of the Past

Wed, 21 May 2008 10:51:39 -0000

Comments:

The following video clip is a 1940s-era news-reel style report on the latest thing, "progressive education." Beware the ideas are quite radical! Schoolwork is relevant, learning-by-doing is advocated posted by datruss

Tags: blc08 education newliteracy pedagogy

Posted by: datruss

Digital immigrants or digital natives? A discussion of digital competence… A spectrum, not a dichotomy! | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

Thu, 15 May 2008 04:38:38 -0000

Comments:

So if I were to make the post title into a statement it would be: Rather than a Digital Native/Digital Immigrant dichotomy, students have a wide spectrum of digital competence positively correlating to their digital exposure. posted by datruss

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

Rather than a Digital Native/Digital Immigrant dichotomy,
students have a wide spectrum of digital competence
positively correlating to their digital exposure.

Tags: digitaldivide digitalexposure pairadimes pedagogy schools2.0

Posted by: datruss

Wikis in the classroom: a reflection. | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

Thu, 15 May 2008 04:16:33 -0000

Comments:

The thoughtful/reflective effort it took to write this has made this one of the most powerful things I’ve done for professional development as a teacher. posted by datruss

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

here it is

Before reading the feedback, my initial impression was given in my Some Assembly Required post

1. Scaffolding

2. Time Line

3. Experts

Grades

The thoughtful/reflective effort it took to write this has made this one of the most powerful things I’ve done for professional development as a teacher.

Tags: blc08 pairadimes pedagogy reflection wiki

Posted by: datruss

The New Face of Learning: The Internet Breaks School Walls Down | Edutopia

Thu, 15 May 2008 03:28:58 -0000

Comments:

I can say without hesitation that all my traditional educational experiences combined, everything from grade school to grad school, have not taught me as much about learning and being a learner as blogging has. My ability to easily consume other people's ideas, share my own in return, and communicate with other educators around the world has led me to dozens of smart, passionate teachers from whom I learn every day. It's also led me to technologies and techniques that leverage this newfound network in ways that look nothing like what's happening in traditional classrooms. posted by datruss

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

I can say without hesitation that all my traditional educational experiences combined, everything from grade school to grad school, have not taught me as much about learning and being a learner as blogging has. My ability to easily consume other people's ideas, share my own in return, and communicate with other educators around the world has led me to dozens of smart, passionate teachers from whom I learn every day. It's also led me to technologies and techniques that leverage this newfound network in ways that look nothing like what's happening in traditional classrooms.

In many schools and even states, it's been, rather, a movement to block and bust: no blogs, no cell phones, no IM. We take away the powerful social technologies our kids are already using to learn and, in doing so, tell them their own tools are irrelevant. Or, instead of using the complex and challenging phenomenon of a site such as Wikipedia to teach the realities of navigating information in this new world, we prohibit its use. In fact, at this writing, the U.S. legislature is in the process of deciding whether schools and libraries should have access to any of the potential of the Read/Write Web at all. When you read this, blogs and wikis and podcasts (and much more) may be things that students (and teachers) can access and create only from off-campus.

I wonder whether, twenty-five or fifty years from now, when four or five billion people are connecting online, the real story of these times won't be the more global tests and transformations these technologies offered. How, as educators and learners, did we respond? Did we embrace the potentials of a connected, collaborative world and put our creative imaginations to work to reenvision our classrooms? Did we use these new tools to develop passionate, fearless, lifelong learners? Did we ourselves become those learners?

Tags: future learningconversations pedagogy techintegrator technology web2.0

Posted by: datruss

YouTube - 21st century pedagogy

Wed, 14 May 2008 02:57:47 -0000

Comments:

Need to develop a new pedagogical dna for schooling in todays world in order to break from the past posted by datruss

Tags: admin learningconversations pedagogy squarepeg video

Posted by: datruss

What I Want to Talk About - Practical Theory

Thu, 01 May 2008 08:26:19 -0000

Comments:

Chris Lehmann writes a Brilliant post: "I want to tell them..." about the things he would really like to say for a presentation. Fantastic posted by datruss

Tags: admin assessment blc08 future learningconversations pedagogy schools2.0

Posted by: datruss

Futurist: To fix education, think Web 2.0 | Tech News on ZDNet

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:32:22 -0000

Seely Brown argued that education is going through a large-scale transformation toward a more participatory form of learning.

Rather than treat pedagogy as the transfer of knowledge from teachers who are experts to students who are receptacles, educators should consider more hands-on and informal types of learning. These methods are closer to an apprenticeship, a farther-reaching, more multilayered approach than traditional formal education, he said.

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

Seely Brown argued that education is going through a large-scale transformation toward a more participatory form of learning.

Rather than treat pedagogy as the transfer of knowledge from teachers who are experts to students who are receptacles, educators should consider more hands-on and informal types of learning. These methods are closer to an apprenticeship, a farther-reaching, more multilayered approach than traditional formal education, he said.

Here is a post in which I argue a similar concept: http://tinyurl.com/2j42pm posted by drichards

Tags: learning pedagogy web2.0

Posted by: drichards

LearningBeyondBoundaries » The Conversation

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:00:20 -0000

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

Part of the Story

While I was at ASCD 2008 in New Orleans in March 2008, I started a conversation with some ASCD Leadership Council members and my online network of educators about the need for educators familiar with Web 2.0 pedagogies to spread the word about how they are successfully using the new 21st Century technology to improve student learning. That conversation has continued until today, April 3, 2008. We have less than a month to pool our collective intelligence to help ASCD do a "bang up" job for it's membership in Orlando in March 2009 on technology and engaging students in learning. See the home page of this wiki for more details.

Go here to read the conversation as it developed on Professional Development 2.0 from March 16, 2008 to April 3, 2008 when I then created this wiki. Join this wiki and help us develop a comprehensive proposal. In the process we will show how the online nextwork of educators works. If nothing else, at least that will be impressive. If you help out!

While I was at ASCD 2008 in New Orleans in March 2008, I started a conversation with some ASCD Leadership Council members and my online network of educators about the need for educators familiar with Web 2.0 pedagogies to spread the word about how they are successfully using the new 21st Century technology to improve student learning. That conversation has continued until today, April 3, 2008. We have less than a month to pool our collective intelligence to help ASCD do a "bang up" job for it's membership in Orlando in March 2009 on technology and engaging students in learning. See the home page of this wiki for more details.

Go here to read the conversation as it developed on Professional Development 2.0 from March 16, 2008 to April 3, 2008 (Dennis Update - ongoing as of 4.17.08) when I then created this wiki. Join this wiki and help us develop a comprehensive proposal. In the process we will show how the online nextwork of educators works. If nothing else, at least that will be impressive. If you help out!

Thank you for connecting through Twitter. You have really hit the nail on the head that the Web 2.0 tools are not meeting mainstream, and I am right there, we need to change that!

There are a number of ways in which technology can better facilitate the learning of adults:

Email, iChat/IM, Twitter: connects learners as collaborators
Blogs: provides a forum for reflection and discussion
Wikis/Google Docs/Zoho: provides a place to co-learn and build shared knowledge.
Shared server/network space: provides a place for learners to swap/store documents
iPods/MP3 players: allows anytime/anywhere learning
Moodle/Blackboard: a place to learn from instructor-assigned tasks and discussions
Interactive technology: (student response systems and interactive boards) engages adult learners in much the same way as students
Online survey tools: collect opinions and perceptions
Social Bookmarking tools: helps to share the knowledge
RSS: critical tool for managing information.
Digital cameras (still and video): use to record learning for later playback/review.
Online streaming (uStream): collaborate online during a presentation, revisit the archive later.
Nings; places like this to brainstorm and share strategies.
Web: unlimited possibilities!

I agree with your thinking that the tech presentations need to move to other conferences. Thanks for starting that shift.

This is something I have seen at many conferences and I am glad you are making it more obvious to others! One of my niches is using technologies with young children... when I spoke as a featured speaker at FETC (Florida) this year there were only 3 sessions for early learning... so when we add to ASCD, let's also remember to add content for elementary!! I can add an application or two myself. Do you have any specific pointers to help us add more technology, especially Web 2.0 to ASCD?

The field on Web 2.0 is wide open for ASCD 2009. See here. I can tell you that 2009 at the annual conference will be different if we "seize the day." ASCD is ready to embrace a new definition of literacy for the 21st Century at its annual convention in Orlando, but they need our help. It's now time for those whose pedagogies utilize web 2.0 tools to send the word out to their networks to submit proposals by May 1.
I also agree on a stronger focus on elementary programming is also needed.

Hi Dennis,
Are you on the committee or have some strong influence to be sure the proposals get accepted?

Hi Charlene,
It's not that simple. In life nothing worth having ever is. Hope this helps. I'm also going to post more on my blog so I can explain the context, but I can start the conversation by saying a few things here.

- I am president of the Massachusetts affiliate of ASCD,
- I am on the ASCD Leadership Council.
- I attended the Position Statement Committee discussion in New Orleans, ASCD 2008, last month on 21st Century education and was a strong advocate for ASCD beginning to help the staff, leadership and membership understand Web 2.0 pedagogies.
- I advocated in the same fashion for Web 2.0 pedagogies with Valerie Truesdale, current President of ASCD.
- Valerie pointed out that ASCD 2009 has a major theme on technology, **Imagine: Connecting Learners in an E-World**, and a major theme of engagement, **Imagine: Challenging Minds to Engage and Learn More Deeply**.

Based on what I know, I am optimistic that ASCD is ready for our message. I still have work to do, but if I have the names of a network of presenters like you, Gail and others interested with solid proposals, I will approach ASCD to advocate for an understanding of how significant our contribution could be on ASCD 2009. It would obviously help if I had ten or more people so I could say, "Hey, look at us; we have something to offer ASCD that will move the educational technology strand from successful to significant! Not sure what will come of it, but it sure beats complaining that no one listens to us.
Dennis

Dennis,
Thanks for the encouraging information. I think that in the past some technology-rich presenters have felt discouraged by not having applications accepted. I will apply and also encourage others to do so!

Now if I'm going to advocate for you and others who apply, I think it would help for me to know who applies and what the proposals look like. It would also makes sense for people not to duplicate similar topics. How can we orchestrate that?

Well, let's see, we can use Twitter, this site, and others to gather information about people planning to apply OR perhaps a more proactive approach -- offer to ASCD some expertise in helping them fill a technology-infused or technology-rich strand by helping them select the sessions which will be hosted in a specific room or rooms throughout the conference (thus pooling the higher technology needs (high speed internet and projectors, sound, IWB or whatever) into a specific set of rooms. We could serve to help them make this a dynamic, meaningful and important part of their conference. We could help them balance grade levels, technologies, levels of experience required of participants, etc.... I wonder what others think...

Great ideas, almost create a "package" of well balanced presentations, balanced grade levels and interest. I like Gail's thinking about hosting in specific rooms using appropriate technology that helps spread the message. For example instead of going to an IWB session, actually see the board in action during a presentation. I would also like to extend the buzz by having "meet-ups" or a networking sessions on various topics. These could be informal sessions to promote conversations. I will be working on topic ideas this week.

I do like this idea - a bit like NECC's OpenSource Lab concept. A suite of Web 2.0 tools demonstrated and presented.

I think we need to LEAD with the content (curriculum, learning, etc) and USE the tools as much as possible and then intersperse that a bit with the tool "how tos" and "whiz bang"... this conference will draw people who want to learn about using technologies IN curriculum and not so much the techies, at least that would be my first take. We may have sessions that people come to to find out the basics (Like "What IS Web 2.0?") but perhaps MORE who wonder about having learners participate in global learning communities or who ponder making curriculum more differentiated through technology.... it will be important to not ONLY "preach to the choir" of the technology-lovers at ASCD, but to snag a few through the content... am I making any sense?

Tags: ascd learning pedagogy web2.0

Posted by: drichards

Fourteen Pedagogical Patterns

Tue, 08 May 2007 17:17:56 -0000

Tags: 20070422 delicious education imported instructionaldesign pedagogy

Posted by: edtechtalk

Internet Pedagogy - a Net Pedagogy Portal -

Tue, 08 May 2007 17:15:43 -0000

Tags: delicious elearning imported pedagogy web2.0

Posted by: edtechtalk