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Catherine Strattner

Robot avatar allows sick boy to go to school - TODAY Health - TODAY.com - 0 views

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robot avatar allows boy school

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  • But now, a 4-foot-tall chrome and steel robot takes Lyndon’s place in classes and allows him to interact with teachers and fellow students. His face is displayed on a screen near the top of the robot and his voice is projected through its speakers. Lyndon can see and hear everyone through signals transmitted to his laptop from the robot’s camera. It's like a video conference — on a robot.
  • The technology that changed Lyndon’s life costs about $6000.
  • Catherine Strattner on 15 Aug 12
     
    Another story about a boy attending school via robot.
diane hamilton

Making Boys at Home.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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nichols cormack male disengagement

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  • diane hamilton on 20 Jun 12
     
    The importance of engaging boys in literacy at school.
diane hamilton

Informit - New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies - Boys and Literature: Challengin... - 0 views

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male disengagement conversation

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  • diane hamilton on 22 Jun 12
     
    study of changing boys views on masculinity through literature discussion
Heather Kurto

Facts about Autism | | Autism Speaks - 0 views

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facts autism

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  • Autism now affects 1 in 88 children and 1 in 54 boys
  • Boys are nearly five times more likely than girls to have autism
diane hamilton

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male disengagement

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  • diane hamilton on 21 Jun 12
     
    Discussion of successful boys - high achieving AND popular.
diane hamilton

From Storybooks to Games, Comics, Bands, and Chapter Books: A Young Boy's Appropriation... - 0 views

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male disengagement appropriation literacy practices

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  • diane hamilton on 22 Jun 12
     
    article on "Max" a boy who takes on family literacy practices
diane hamilton

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male disengagement identification appropriation literacy practices

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  • Today, Donny is in high school and a reader, Purcell-Gates said. To wonder what may have been the result if Jenny had not sought out Purcell-Gates, she points to a sobering statistic: a 78 percent drop out rate among urban Appalachians in many cities.
  • "One of the main conclusions in the book is that it is not just the presence of print for the child, it's the actual use of print that allows the learning to take place," she said. "Young children are paying attention to the people in their close circle or environment. They don't know in those very young ages that other people are reading and writing. To them, their world is what they experience where they live. And where the kids like Donny were living, no one read or wrote. So to them, reading and writing was not even something to reject. It didn't exist until they went to school.
  • "That is why it is so important to understand the worlds these children come from, so that you know what they are operating on.
  • diane hamilton on 22 Jun 12
     
    information about Purcell-Gates and her book on "Donny" a non-literate Appalachian boy
Kelly Gorcica

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants - Some Thoughts from the Generation Gap - 0 views

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  • describe the generation gap separating today's students (the "Digital Natives") from their teachers (the "Digital Immigrants").
  • Digital Natives are used to receiving information really fast. They like to parallel process and multi-task.
  • Prensky's analogy struck a chord for me. I could easily identify with the 12-year-old boy who moves with his family to the "new world," quickly assimilates into the new culture, and learns to speak without an accent.
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  • Prensky argues that the gap between Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants is the fundamental cause of the alleged "decline of education in the US," and he contends that our current educational system has not been designed to serve today's students
  • Digital Immigrants are attempting to teach the Digital Natives with methods that are no longer valid;
  • I find it hard to believe that neurological structures could change to such a dramatic extent from one generation to the next.
  • we may be doing them a disservice to de-emphasize "legacy" content such as reading, writing, and logical thinking, or to say that the methodologies we have used in the past are no longer relevant.
  • Kelly Gorcica on 06 Jun 13
     
    digital natives vs digital immigrants
alexandra m. pickett

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  • I think if I could focus on a few people’s posts, I could make more quality contributions. 
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 12 Jun 12
       
      i am kinda torn about the small group thing. i hate taking choice away - it seems to me that you can self select your own small groups. why don't you just do that? scan all the posts and then decide who you want to engage and then just pick them to interact with. Read all interact with a select few. In the discussion for this module (2) i have it split into several discussions. i am wondering if splitting it by topic like that will feel different to you. Let me know. ok? I have toyed with the idea of reducing the number of posts required... and just doubling your score on them. what would you think about that? i have never had so many people in the course. It is designed for a more intimate number of students. I am trying to come up with ways make my work more efficient yet still intimate, personal and effective. Work in progress. i am learnking too. : )
    • Lisa Martin
      Lisa Martin on 12 Jun 12
       
      Alex - Seeing that module 2 was split into several discussions was a HUGE relief to me! It seems much less overwhelming and easier to be organized :-)
    • Tina Bianchi
      Tina Bianchi on 13 Jun 12
       
      Now that some more time has passed, I actually have done what you're suggesting here...reaking all and interacting with a select few. With this approach, it became more manageable. I haven't done my first post for module 2 yet (just finished the readings) but I do think the split into several discussions will make a huge difference. I can only imagine the work you have cut out by having read/rate ALL THESE POSTS! It seems overwhelming, and I am considering the implications of it as I think about designing my course. Thanks for the feedback!
  • We could still have been required to complete the same number of posts, but perhaps had fewer count toward our grade on this first run.  I
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 12 Jun 12
       
      hmmm. i don't count them all. the first couple with my feedback are the grace period... "if i were to rate this it would be a ..."
    • Tina Bianchi
      Tina Bianchi on 13 Jun 12
       
      I understand what you're saying here...I don't know what I missed and where I missed it, but I "assumed" (there's that pesky word again!) that all posts, beginning with the initial introduction, would be rated. I did fewer posts than I should have considering this. There were a few (though admittedly not of high quality as they were early in the Module and I hadn't yet gotten the hang of things) that weren't scored, so what I thought my score would be for discussion in the first module was not even close to my actual score. Live and learn...
  • BOY, WAS I WRONG!
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 25 Jun 12
       
      : ) welcome to social learning!
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  • As we continue to interact with content and then share that learning with each other, we construct our own meanings and apply what we’re learning in a variety of contexts.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 25 Jun 12
       
      E U R E A K A !!! brilliant!! : )
  • is imperative that I stop thinking about how to transform my F2F materials to suit the online environment.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 25 Jun 12
       
      it is impossible to duplicate the f2f environment online. to try to do so is folly. you must reconceptualize. you have to leverage the options and mitigate the limitations of any environment in which you teach.
  • I hit “Publish” only to find half of my post showed up and no way to retrieve what was lost.  Therefore:
  • I am very interested in the hyper-content design. I like the idea that with this model, students determine the order of their own learning activities. In this model, there may be a few things that could be tricky; for example, setting up group activities might be left to the students to manage since they wouldn’t all be completing the same activities at the same time.
    • Lisa Martin
      Lisa Martin on 22 Jul 12
       
      I've been thinking the same things about this model. I think it's so hard for me to envision because of my lack of experience with it. I also have a hard time applying some of the things we've learned in this course to that design.
  • Whatever it takes.
  • Yet, as I continued reading I realized that my grasp of the content was continuing to evolve.  I feel that I have a deeper awareness of what teaching presence looks like, not only in an online course but also in a traditional classroom, as well.
  • Perhaps it’s time I move from measuring in coffee spoons to taking in the big picture.
    • Maria Guadron
      Maria Guadron on 27 Jul 12
       
      Love your "How To" section! Can't wait to see your screencasts.
  • Even though the course won’t start until January, I know it’ll be here before I know it.
  • has led to me a realization–the course I’ve created will never (and should never) be finished!  It makes sense.  I never teach the same lesson twice in exactly the same way, so it should go without saying that every time I look at this course and eventually start using it, I will continue to add, remove, and change what’s there.
Arnaldo Robles

Mexico Detains Unlikely Band Of Alleged Drug Traffickers - 0 views

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Mexico drugs media

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  • Mexico Detains Unlikely Band Of Alleged Drug Traffickers
    • Arnaldo Robles
      Arnaldo Robles on 03 Jun 14
       
      Another U.S. source focusing to heavily on the negative aspects of Mexico.
  • Arnaldo Robles on 03 Jun 14
     
    Another media article published a U.S source focusing to heavily on the negative.
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