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Anne Bubnic

Digital Literacy: Skills for the 21st Century - 3 views

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  • Anne Bubnic on 22 Mar 10
     
    Teachers wishing to foster digital literacy in their classrooms and states wishing to demonstrate it in their students face a common challenge: no comprehensive, established approach exists to guide the teaching, learning, and assessment of specific digital literacy skills. To begin addressing this challenge, we have developed this website, which was part of a two-year project funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies. The site articulates the skills comprising digital literacy with the goal of helping schools and districts implement a new approach to digital literacy teaching.
Anne Bubnic

Student Technology Assessment | SimpleK12 - 0 views

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  • Anne Bubnic on 28 Mar 10
     
    How will you prove your students meet NCLB requirements to be "technology literate" by 8th Grade? This free assessment is based on the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS-S). The assessment questions are available in both Mac and PC versions. In other words, the screen shots used in the assessment questions match those of a Mac or PC. (The actual assessment is web-based and platform-independent).
Anne Bubnic

Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading? - 0 views

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shared by Anne Bubnic on 27 Jul 08 - Cached
  • hildren like Nadia lie at the heart of a passionate debate about just what it means to read in the digital age. The discussion is playing out among educational policy makers and reading experts around the world, and within groups like the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association.
  • As teenagers’ scores on standardized reading tests have declined or stagnated, some argue that the hours spent prowling the Internet are the enemy of reading — diminishing literacy, wrecking attention spans and destroying a precious common culture that exists only through the reading of books. But others say the Internet has created a new kind of reading, one that schools and society should not discount. The Web inspires a teenager like Nadia, who might otherwise spend most of her leisure time watching television, to read and write.
  • n fact, some literacy experts say that online reading skills will help children fare better when they begin looking for digital-age jobs.
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  • ome children with dyslexia or other learning difficulties, like Hunter Gaudet, 16, of Somers, Conn., have found it far more comfortable to search and read online.
  • Some Web evangelists say children should be evaluated for their proficiency on the Internet just as they are tested on their print reading comprehension. Starting next year, some countries will participate in new international assessments of digital literacy, but the United States, for now, will not.
  • Some traditionalists warn that digital reading is the intellectual equivalent of empty calories. Often, they argue, writers on the Internet employ a cryptic argot that vexes teachers and parents. Zigzagging through a cornucopia of words, pictures, video and sounds, they say, distracts more than strengthens readers. And many youths spend most of their time on the Internet playing games or sending instant messages, activities that involve minimal reading at best.
  • Anne Bubnic on 27 Jul 08
     
    The Future of Reading: Digital Versus Print.
    This is the first in a series of articles that looks at how the Internet and other technological and social forces are changing the way people read.
Anne Bubnic

Free tool for Student Technology Assessments - 0 views

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  • Anne Bubnic on 28 Aug 08
     
    Free Tech Literacy Assessment tool for students in grades K-12, specifically geared toward middle schoolers. who are required to be technology literate by 8th grade.
Anne Bubnic

Tech Literacy Assessment - 2 views

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  • Anne Bubnic on 30 Mar 10
     
    TechLiteracy Assessment uses a blend of interactive, performance-based questions and multiple choice, knowledge-based questions to measure and report technology literacy for elementary and middle school students
Anne Bubnic

Digital Literacy Assessment - Atomic Learning - 1 views

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  • Anne Bubnic on 22 Mar 10
     
    Atomic Learning's Tech Skills Student Assessment helps you gauge technology skill levels, demonstrating that skills can actually be applied.
Anne Bubnic

Tech giants vow to change global assessments - 3 views

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  • Anne Bubnic on 08 Apr 10
     
    Microsoft, Intel, and Cisco-three technology giants that last year vowed to increase their efforts aimed at global education reform-have banded together to develop the next generation of assessments: tests that measure 21st-century skills and provide a global framework for excellence.
Anne Bubnic

Protecting Students in the 21st Century | SimpleK12 - 0 views

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  • Anne Bubnic on 11 Sep 09
     
    Protecting Students in the 21st century is a comprehensive, online internet safety program that involves your students, teachers, and parents to keep teens safe online and with their cell phones. In addition to the online curriculum and training lessons, the program includes assessments, quizzes, and a safety pledge for students, safety plans for teachers, and a self-assessment and resources for parents.
Anne Bubnic

Stranger Danger? Online Safety - 0 views

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  • Anne Bubnic on 11 Jun 08
     
    School Library Journal [Jan 07] Practical advice from attorney and cybersafety expert, Nancy Willard, on a common sense approach to online safety. Nancy proposes that library media specialists add "stranger literacy" to their curriculum for information literacy to help teens and children learn to assess the safety and trustworthiness of online encounters. She also offers helpful guidelines.
Anne Bubnic

Teaching Media Literacy: Helping Kids Become Wise Consumers of Information - 0 views

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  • Anne Bubnic on 28 Jul 08
     
    Analyzing and assessing sources is an essential part of all inquiry-based learning projects, but our multimedia world means that we have to teach kids not just how to assess data and arguments, but also how to discern emotional appeals made through pictures, music and video.
Anne Bubnic

iCritical Thinking: Digital Literacy Assessment - 0 views

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  • Anne Bubnic on 07 Apr 10
     
    The test, iCritical Thinking Certification, created by the Educational Testing Service and Certiport, reveals whether or not a person is able to combine technical skills with experiences and knowledge. Today's students need to be able to think critically and effectively solve problems while using technology going beyond simply searching for information. They also must evaluate the legitimacy of the information, put it in context, and then apply problem-solving and decision-making skills.
Anne Bubnic

The Millennials Are Coming! - 0 views

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  • Most agencies manage sensitive citizen data: addresses, Social Security numbers, financial records and medical information. You name it, some state or local office has it, and probably electronically. The problem? Many theorize that the Millennials' penchant for online openness could unintentionally expose private information, leaving it ripe for the picking. Millennials bring innovative ideas about technology's use, but for that same reason, do they also pose new security risks?
  • Anti-virus vendor Symantec released a study in March 2008 assessing this issue. Symantec commissioned Applied Research-West to execute the study, and 600 participants were surveyed from different verticals, including government. Survey participants included 200 IT decision-makers, 200 Millennial workers and 200 non-Millennial workers born before 1980. The data revealed that Millennials are more likely than workers of other ages to use Web 2.0 applications on company time and equipment. Some interesting figures include: 69 percent of surveyed Millennials will use whatever application, device or technology they want at work, regardless of office IT policies; and only 45 percent of Millennials stick to company-issued devices or software, compared to 70 percent of non-Millennials.
  • How might young people be workplace assets? Could all that time typing or texting make them speedy typists, able to whip up memos at the drop of a hat? Does familiarity with new and emerging technologies have its benefit? You bet, according to Dustin Lanier, director of the Texas Council on Competitive Government. The council brings state leaders together to shape policy for government departments, including IT. "I think they've built an approach to work that involves a lot of multitasking," Lanier said of the Millennials. "Something will be loading on one screen, you alt-tab to another application and pull up an e-mail, the first process loads, you flip back, start a new process, flip to a forum and pull up a topic. It's frenetic but normal to that group." Lanier doesn't think Millennials present more of an IT threat than their older co-workers. After all, young people don't have a monopoly on being distracted in the office. "I can't tell you how many times I've walked by people's desks of all ages and seen Minesweeper up," he said. He thinks employers should embrace some Web 2.0 applications. Otherwise, Millennials might be discouraged from sticking around. According to Lanier, this younger work force comprises many people who think of themselves as free agents. Government should accommodate some of their habits in order to prevent them from quitting.
  • Anne Bubnic on 06 Aug 08
     
    Get ready CIOs. They're coming. They have gadgets and doohickeys galore. They like their music downloadable and portable, and they grew up with the Internet, not before it. Their idea of community is socializing with people in other cities or countries through Facebook, MySpace or instant messages, and they use e-mail so often they probably think snail mail is an endangered species. They're the Millennials - those tech-savvy, 20-somethings and-under bound to warm up scores of office chairs left cold by retiring baby boomers. There's a good chance many will come to a government workplace near you, but their digital literacy could prove worrisome for security-conscious bosses.
Anne Bubnic

Google Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum - 22 views

Google has partnered with child safety experts at iKeepSafe to develop classroom lesson plans. Three classes are now available with pre- and post-assessments.

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A Web 2.0 Approach To Cybersafety [Nancy Willard] - 0 views

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    An effective school-based strategy to address the issue of online safety should include these six key components:
    EDUCATIONAL USE - Schools must ensure that when students use the Internet, their activities have an educational purpose -- class assignments, extra credit work, and perhaps some high quality enrichment activities as a reward
    SUPERVISION AND MONITORING Schools must shift focus from reliance on filtering to better supervision and monitoring.
    MEANINGFUL CONSEQUENCES Misuse of the Internet must lead to a meaningful consequence -- but it should be recognized that suspension of Internet access privileges just causes more work for teachers. Requiring a service contribution to the school and establishing "close monitoring status" for all Internet use are preferable consequences.
    ACCIDENTAL ACCESS TO PORN - All students and staff must know that if inappropriate material appears, they should quickly turn off the monitor or turn it so it can't be seen, and then report it. Following any incident or discovery, there must be a responsible assessment of culpability.
    INAPPROPRIATE BLOCKING Selected staff in every school building must have the authority and ability to quickly override the filter to provide other staff or students access to sites that have been inappropriately blocked
    INTERNET SAFETY AND RESPONSIBLE USE EDUCATION Schools must provide effective Web 2.0 Internet safety and responsible use education to students and parents.

Anne Bubnic

So Sayeth Thy Blog: Lesson Plan - 0 views

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  • Anne Bubnic on 28 Mar 10
     
    Curriculum-based lesson plan on blogging with activities and assessment. Part of the EasyTech Curriculum from http://www.learning.com/easytech/index.htm
Chris Hoelzer

Technology Integration Matrix - 0 views

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  • The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells as illustrated below.
  • Levels of Technology Integration into the Curriculum
  • Basic technology skills and integration of technology into the curriculum go hand-in-hand to form teacher technology literacy.
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      Chris Hoelzer on 16 Apr 08
       
      To often we ask teachers to impliment technology tools without the proper explanation or PD.
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  • professional development planning and needs assessment resource
  • evaluate teachers’ current levels of proficiency with technology
  • Vicki Davis on 16 Apr 08
     
    Technology integration matrix from Florida. This amazing resource was picked up from Lucy Gray. Really amazing.
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  • Vicki Davis on 16 Apr 08
     
    This technology matrix is just a great example of what Florida is looking at doing.
  • Chris Hoelzer on 16 Apr 08
     
    This is a great guide. I would love to use something like this as a model for how we develop our PD.
  • Chris Hoelzer on 16 Apr 08
     
    The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students
Anne Bubnic

Students: Misinformation - Truth or Spoof? - 0 views

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  • Anne Bubnic on 15 Apr 10
     
    One of eight interactive case studies for kids (GR 4-8) from Cable In the Classroom: Power to Learn.
    With no central authority or librarian to help students separate valid information from junk online, assessing the credibility of a site is an important part doing internet research. This unit explores evaluation of web sites and other online resources for authenticity. The graphics are Nickelodeon style. There is a quiz on spoof sites. For the entire series, check out: http://powertolearn.com/internet_smarts/interactive_case_studies/index.shtml
Vicki Davis

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  • Vicki Davis on 15 Apr 08
     
    Phenomenal page about integrating ICT into the classroom witha wide variety of rubrics based upon Bloom's taxonomy. You'll see blog journaling, wiki editing, threaded discussion, bookmarking rubrics, search rubrics, podcasting rubrics, audio conferencing, data analysis, and collaborative rubrics. I haven't been through all of these but would love it if we could go through them and work on them. They are in PDF format, but it would be great to share and edit them collaboratively. Very nice website.
  • Vicki Davis on 15 Apr 08
     
    Important example of how leading edge schools assess podcasting, searching, digital publishing, collaboration, threaded discussions, blog, wikis, and more. Excellent resource for parents or teachers to take to school administrators to advocate for these sorts of programs in their school. I highly recommend this site.
Anne Bubnic

Fact or Folly - For Teachers | Introduction - 0 views

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  • But the Internet is different. In most cases it has no such gatekeepers: anyone and everyone can appear to be an "expert." So to get the most out of the Internet, students need to learn two things: first, how to find good information online; and second, how to evaluate the information they find.
  • Using the template The Five Ws of Cyberspace as a guide, young people can examine the authorship, purpose, perspective and presentation of Web sites, in order to determine their credibility.
  • Deconstructing Web Pages provides a step-by-step application of the five Ws to an actual Web site - with some interesting results.
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  • And finally, Quick Tips for Authenticating Online Information offers some simple and effective strategies for assessing sites.
  • Anne Bubnic on 14 Aug 08
     
    Anybody can post information on the Internet, making it possible to find "proof" of any ideas or beliefs you can imagine. Yet to many students, "If it's on the Internet, it must be true."
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