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John Evans

Wufoo for Education - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 14 Apr 09 - Cached
  • What is Wufoo? Wufoo is an online HTML form builder that helps you create contact forms, web surveys and invitations so you can collect information, registrations and payments without writing a single line of code.
David McGavock

MediaShift . Learning in a Digital Age: Teaching a Different Kind of Literacy | PBS - 0 views

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shared by David McGavock on 11 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • "Education," scholar and writer Ralph Ellison once said, "is a matter of building bridges." And perhaps, no bridge is more important than the bridge to the future. As educators, it's our responsibility to prepare students for the world of tomorrow. Yet tomorrow isn't what it used to be.
  • How do we prepare students for work that hasn't been invented yet? While it's difficult to predict what the social and economic climate will be like in the years to come, we can analyze trends and extrapolate future scenarios.
  • While these 21st century skills are essential, they aren't enough. There is a growing expectation for these abilities to be leveraged and expressed using digital tools.
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  • Our global environmental, economic and social challenges require non-standardized skills such as creativity, problem-solving and collaboration.
  • literacy vs. technical skills
  • While a certain amount of technical skills are important, the real goal should be in cultivating digital or new media literacies that are arising around this evolving digital nerve center. These skills allow working collaboratively within social networks, pooling knowledge collectively, navigating and negotiating across diverse communities, and critically analyzing and reconciling conflicting bits of information to form a clear and comprehensive view of the world.
  • These new media literacy skills are expanding our definitions of literacy but must be cultivated from the foundation of traditional literacy.
  • "Traditionally we wouldn't consider someone literate if they could read but not write. And today we shouldn't consider someone literate if they can consume but not produce media."
    • David McGavock
      David McGavock on 11 Oct 11
       
      Key point
  • Those of us living in this digital age are required to learn, unlearn and learn again and again.
  • David McGavock on 11 Oct 11
     
    How do we prepare students for work that hasn't been invented yet? While it's difficult to predict what the social and economic climate will be like in the years to come, we can analyze trends and extrapolate future scenarios.
Phil Taylor

EquatIO Math Writing Software. A Digital Math Tool For Teachers & Students Of All Abili... - 1 views

www.texthelp.com/...equatio

EquatIO

shared by Phil Taylor on 29 Nov 17 - No Cached
  • Phil Taylor on 29 Nov 17
     
    Now free for teachers
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