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Phil Taylor

Educational Leadership:Learning in the Digital Age:The New WWW: Whatever, Whenever, Whe... - 10 views

  • counteract the New WWW's potentially harmful impact on youth, educators must use technology to create learning experiences that are real, rich, and relevant.
  • Next will come 4G, in which data rates are expected to be 100 times faster than those in this first 3G wave. As the delivery platform of broadband content and functionality shifts from computer to personal device, we will be surrounded by a multimedia aura that accompanies us wherever we go
  • The plan is that you'll use your phone to spend money everywhere, all the time.
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  • What choices do we expect them to make if their pockets are loaded with cash and the shelves bulge with penny candy—especially when there's no parent in sight? The choice won't be between yes and no, but between what kind? and what next? Maybe someone needs to watch over this New WWW.
  • We can “hand students over to themselves.” We can engage them in the joys of learning, of making meaning, of being part of something larger than themselves, of testing themselves against authentic challenges. We can shift them from passivity and consumption to action and creativity. And believe it or not, the New WWW can help us.
  • engaging in personally meaningful actions, and performing service to something larger than themselves.
  • we must also acknowledge that schools have too much of both. But the joy of learning has neither! One of the most powerful definitions of teaching I know comes from Maria Harris: “Teaching is the creation of a situation in which subjects, human subjects, are handed over to themselves”
  • Children believe that getting whatever they want will make them happy. As adults, we know otherwise.
  • New WWW shifts learning power to the students themselves.
  • students can demonstrate their learning in a persuasive essay, a sardonic blog, a moving short film, a robust wiki entry, or a humorous podcast, why would we demand deadening conformity?
  • I call this kind of Web site a ClassAct Portal: Class because the site involves a whole class of students; Act because it supports authentic, active learning; ClassAct because it provides a real-world forum for students to exercise their best efforts; and Portal because the site serves as a window to resources, information, activities, and communities.
John Evans

Listen A Minute: Easier English Listening and Activities - 21 views

  • One minute a day is all you need to improve your listening skills. Focus on new words, grammar and pronunciation in these short texts. Doing the online activities, discussion, survey and writing will help. Listen many times - enough for you to you understand everything. Listen A Minute.
Phil Taylor

At Calhoun School, Longer Classes in 5 Short Terms - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • If the subject matter was a bit unusual for high school students, the amount of time they had to grapple with it was more so — 2 hours 10 minutes, in what is called a class block. Long blocks became standard this year at Calhoun, as part of a radical attempt to alter the structure of the school day and school year.
John Evans

Do You Remember What "Social" Was Before Facebook? [Infographic] - SocialTimes.com - 2 views

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    "Do You Remember What "Social" Was Before Facebook? [Infographic]"
John Evans

Online Books, Poems, Short Stories - Read Print Library - 0 views

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    Free online books library for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.
John Evans

Yann Arthus-Bertrand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • On April 22, 2009 he was officially designated as the United Nations Environment Program Goodwill Ambassador (UNEP) and received the ‘Earth Champion’ award for his commitment towards the environment and his work on public environmental awareness. On Friday June 5, 2009 he released internationaly his new movie, "Home", a movie about the dangers human activities create to planet earth. On the night of the release many theaters offered screening for free and a giant open-air screening on Paris champ-de-mars drawed 20 000 spectators. Beautiful aerial photography, an omnipresent music score and great post-production make this movie more emotional than most previous movies about the subject. The simultaneous TV broadcast of the movie on France 2 TV channel draw more than 8 million people, more than a football match featuring France's national team (this is very unusual to beat a football match with the national team). The following sunday, at European Elections, ecologists made an unexpectedly high score and failed short of being France's second political party. Although the poll did predict that the ecologist would make a big score at these elections, they underestimated it widely. On the night of the elections, many political commentators expressed concerns that the movie screening may have had an immense effects on the results of the elections.
John Evans

Literacy with ICT | School Leaders - 1 views

  • Walk-throughs for School Leaders
  • A Literacy with ICT walk-through is a short (4 to 6 minute) informal classroom/lab/library observation by the school leader.
  • The walk-through is followed closely by informal conversation between the school leader and the teacher, to facilitate teacher reflection about how to maximize student literacy with ICT.
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  • Similarly, school leaders and teachers need to decide about the nature of the feedback, keeping in mind that the purpose of the walk-through is to promote reflective dialogue about promising teaching and learning practices related to student literacy with ICT.
  • Each school staff can modify their own walk-through procedures and develop a set of questions that school leaders could consider during their visits. The questions should be worded to encourage teacher reflection about their practice rather than to elicit a specific answer for the school leader.
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  • Part 2: Our Conversation
  • Part 3: My Reflections
  • Part 1: My Walk-through
  • It involves observing student engagement, teaching practices, and learning environment intended to develop student literacy with ICT in the context of curricular outcomes.
  • Walkthroughs are not teacher-evaluation sessions and should avoid evaluative comments.
Dean Mantz

Digital Booktalk - 5 views

  • video book trailers are short, minute and a half to two-minute videos that introduce the basic storyline.
  • in these productions the story is re-enacted with artistic and creative decisions made
Phil Taylor

Digital Bytes | Common Sense Media - 1 views

  • Digital Bytes is ideal for afterschool programs, community centers, or blended-learning classrooms that need short, relevant activities that teach digital citizenship and critical thinking about media consumption and creation.
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    "Digital Bytes teaches teens digital citizenship through student-directed, media-rich activities that tackle real-world dilemmas."
Sora Lee

Learning SEO Techniques through Online Courses - 1 views

Because of the recent economic downturn, I was planning of setting up a business that is unique from the common business ventures people go into. One time, I was searching through the Internet and ...

online course

started by Sora Lee on 06 Jan 11 no follow-up yet
Chiki Smith

The Handbook of Cheating Changed The Way I Want My Marriage to Work - 2 views

My hubby and I were married for 2 years but we have been with each other for seven years before we got married. So, it was devastating when I discovered he is cheating on me with his co-worker. I r...

relationships advice

started by Chiki Smith on 15 Nov 11 no follow-up yet
Steve Ransom

The History of Typography - Animated Short - YouTube - 0 views

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    A creative look at the history/evolution of print/typeface/fonts
tech vedic

EXTENDING YOUR IPOD BATTERY LIFE - 0 views

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    Are you a music lover? Love listening to music for hours and hours?? But, your iPod battery is not supporting you. Well, this tutorial will provide you tips and tricks to get the most out of your iPod battery.
Henry Jaxx

Learn It From The Expert - 1 views

started by Henry Jaxx on 21 Nov 12 no follow-up yet
Lee Ham

A Tale of two Cities by Charles Dickens - 0 views

The Tale of Two Cities,its original title ,is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens,written in 1859,the most famous works in the history of fictional literature.The story begins in 1775,du...

literature charle dickens novels ebook fiction books classics short stories literacy audio

started by Lee Ham on 27 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
ankita ojha

Management institutes in India - 1 views

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    SBM is one of best management institute of India; ISBA paves a path to early success in life through its fast-track short duration correspondence courses. SBM provide best online MBA degree program these courses consist of concepts and case studies that provide broad exposure to relevant business concepts and management specifics. This MBA program helps them to get started as "Managers" by enhancing their productivity, capability to formulate business policies, strategies and their implications for the organization.
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