Our students need adults to stop being afraid, and stop hiding, so education can get out of the shadows and into the light of the world in which our children live.
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World's Simplest Online Safety Policy « My Island View - 3 views
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were not created to keep students stuck in the past, educated in a disconnected school environment that shares little resemblance to the real world for which we should be preparing our children.
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Students can access websites that do not contain or that filter mature content. They can use their real names, pictures, and work (as long it doesn’t have a grade/score from a school) with the notification and/or permission of the student and their parent or guardian.
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Tiny Bursts of Learning | Betchablog - 2 views
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In contrast to all this is the general sentiment among many teachers that "we need more PD!", or the always-amusing "How can they expect us to learn new things if all we get is a few PD days a year?"
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That model is no longer sustainable and the days of PD as something that is done "to you" by "experts" a couple of times a year are over.
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Learning needs to be ongoing. The world is changing. There are new tools that can help students learn, new ideas about learning, new brain research, new emerging technologies, new social structures, and so on
psdtechPD - Apps - early years - 3 views
Parent Advice - Bullying is Everybody's Business - Common Sense Media - 1 views
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But there are also kids who act as upstanders. These are the kids who actively try to break the cycle, whether by sticking up for the target, addressing the bully directly, or notifying the appropriate authorities about what's going on.
Bing Director Stefan Weitz On The Future Of Search (VIDEO)| The Committed Sardine - 1 views
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think about the web more as a representation of the physical world in a digital format. "
Online Learning is so last year… | 21st Century Collaborative - 9 views
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Here are the kinds of things I believe need to be happening as learners come together in online communities of practice.
Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" | Video on TED.com - 2 views
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As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview.
TEDTalks as of 06.24.11 - 2 views
SLJ Unveils 'Touch and Go' Apps Review Blog - 0 views
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Each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Touch and Go will bring readers reviews, commentary, and news about this exciting new format that's making its way onto iPads and into pockets via phones and iPods. Our focus will be on book and original story apps and enhanced books, but we plan to push those parameters as we move forward.
How to Record Screencasts as Animated GIFs - 10 views
More powerful pencils: 1:1 Laptop Programs and 21st century learning « 21k12 - 6 views
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it is not because they had a 1-1 program in itself that made them so, but because they had a classroom culture of student inquiry, of research, collaboration, and on-line publishing, all of which were well supported by the laptops in students’ hands.
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“Laptop computers [would not be] technological tools; rather, [they would be] cognitive tools that are holistically integrated into the teaching and learning processes of their school.”
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One of the best sections of this article speaks right to this, as it advocates schools to bring the students to the table: But it’s not just teachers who experts say must be involved in the 1-to-1 planning process—students should be, too.
iPad in every TEACHER'S hand | Opening Doors and Turning On Lights - 15 views
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. I use Evernote for all my notes for school, student council meetings and PD’s. I also use Google docs to help me with assessment as I wander the room too.
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Downloading great content from iTunes U and having the ability watch or listen without internet is such an advantage with this device
iPad as Doc Cam - YouTube - 9 views
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"In this episode, we show how you can create a document camera using an iPad and some common school materials."
Stagnant Future, Stagnant Tests: Pointed Response to NY Times "Grading the Digital Scho... - 3 views
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they are understanding a complex text and making sense of it within the context of their own lives. No parent wants more, no teacher does, than for kids to be able to not just "read" Shakespeare but to understand why his work still speaks urgently to the present, why it is worth taking the time to read all that odd English from another time
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We are not responsible as educators unless we are teaching not just with technology but through it, about it, because of it. We need to make kids understand its power, its potential, its dangers, its use. That isn't just an investment worth making but one that it would be irresponsible to avoid.
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