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Phil Taylor

Salman Khan, Transformer | Connected Principals - 3 views

  • all professionals need to be asking themselves how should our roles be changing such that we can ensure we are still offering a true “value-add?”
Phil Taylor

Dialogue New Literacies 2011: How to Use New Media to Teach Writing, Research and Analy... - 6 views

  • key to teaching new literacy skills is to change the focus of student writing.
  • the value of a written essay lies not in its format but in the skills students develop:  identify a thesis, research and analyze evidence to test the thesis, and then present the analysis results.
  • Why must these skills be confined to a written format?
John Evans

Literacy with ICT | School Leaders - 0 views

  • Role of School Leaders in Supporting Literacy with ICT Across the Curriculum
  • School Factors
  • Resources and timely access to ICT:
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  • Reporting to parents:
  • Ethics, responsibility, and safety:
  • Collegiality and professionalism:
  • Effective use of ICT:
  • Instructional strategies:
  • Policies Relating to Implementing Literacy with ICT Across the Curriculum
  • Classroom management
  • Professional use of ICT:
  • Student Factors
  • Home environment:
  • Exposure and prior knowledge:
  • Guiding Concepts for Implementing Literacy with ICT Across the Curriculum
  • Teacher Factors
  • Common planning time:
  • Budget
  • Technical support
  • Access to ICT in the classroom:
  • Reporting procedures:
  • Effective school leadership is the single most important influence on student learning
  • This does not mean school leaders act alone. It means that school leaders collaborate with teachers, parents, and support staff to develop the school culture, resources, and focus that support student learning.
  • Once school leaders begin to establish Literacy with ICT Across the Curriculum as a focus for initiating change, they can construct a plan to realize this vision. According to a comprehensive study that reviewed theory, research, and practice related to educational leadership, there are three critical factors related to increased student learning. These factors are the ability to maintain a positive school culture with order, discipline, support for teachers, and resources knowledge of curriculum, teaching practices, and student assessment as they relate to an increase in student learning understanding of how to increase student engagement in their learning (Waters et al.)
  • Professional learning
  • Effective leaders understand how to balance growth through change while, at the same time practising aspects of culture, values, and norms worth preserving
  • Procedures for Implementing Literacy with ICT Across the Curriculum
  • Procedures for Implementing Literacy with ICT Across the Curriculum
  • Procedures for Implementing Literacy with ICT Across the Curriculum
John Evans

Bringing The World To The Classroom With SMS « Mr Robbo - The P.E Geek - 0 views

  • The students were thinking about who would be likely to help them complete their questions, which ultimately helped them identify their own Personal Learning Networks.  Which is helpful for them establishing who they could contact for help in the future.
  • The students were able to use SMS to collectively gather responses from a wide range of people from outside the school community. As a result the broad range of views enabled a more diverse range of discussions to take place
  • The follow up discussion was much more richer than what had taken place in the past as I believe each of them was able to bring some sort of vested interest into the conversation
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  • The engagement levels of the student group were through the roof.
  • How else could  we be able to gather 50+ responses within the course of an hour that represented the views of the general public.
  • As answers started rolling in, they were sharing their responses with each other, comparing them and taking notice of the similarities and differences among the responses. This lead to a great level of discussion about the concepts the activity was hoping to cover.
  • At the moment we are learning about the different values people demonstrate towards nature. So with this in mind I got the students to choose 3 people who they could SMS who would be likely to respond quickly within our scheduled classtime. They then had 3 questions they needed to include in their SMS with only one question asked per person.
John Evans

mrmoses.org » Are We Still Talking About the Value of Cell Phones? - 0 views

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    A Charter Principal's rebuttal to school district policy on banning cellphones.
Phil Taylor

The high costs of running YouTube. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine - 0 views

  • User-generated content may have changed the Internet, but sites like YouTube are suffocating under the costs of storing it.
John Evans

Educational Networking - 0 views

  • "Educational Networking" is the use of social networking technologies for educational purposes. Because the phrase "social networking" can carry some negative connotations for educators, the phrase "educational networking" may be a way of more objectively discussing the pedagogical value of these tools
John Evans

FactCheckED.org - Lesson Plans - 5 views

  • Our aim is to help students learn to be smart consumers of these messages, not to accept them at face value; to dig for facts using the Internet, not to stop looking once they get to Wikipedia; and to weigh evidence logically, not to draw conclusions based on their own biases. The materials on this site, then, are meant to help students acquire the skills to see through the spin. Under the heading Tools of the Trade we’ve outlined a five-step framework for analyzing information and avoiding deception. That process is the essence of what we do at FactCheck.org, where we have been debunking false and misleading claims in politics since 2003.
Phil Taylor

Twitter CHATTER - Winnipeg Free Press - 2 views

  • Best of all, many of these links connect to legitimate media websites, where reporters still adhere to the quaint, time-tested practices of checking facts, attributing quotes to sources and engaging in first-hand reporting, all of which generally involves talking to human beings.
  • more to prove the value of conventional journalism than any innovation by the mainstream media itself.
  • Facebook is like living in a mall. Twitter is like living in the street.
John Evans

MEDIA LITERACY ONLINE PROJECT GATEWAY - 2 views

  • The Media Literacy Online Project and the Media Literacy Review are no longer maintained as Internet sites. Both served their purpose and now, with so many excellent resources online, it has come time to close both projects. We are keeping this single page updated as a gateway to resources educators find of value.
International School of Central Switzerland

Debate on School Libraries in South Africa | Equal Education - 1 views

  • The meaning of school libraries
  • One panellist suggested that a library should be regarded as a function, with its resources tying in with the school curriculum and meeting the needs of both staff and learners.
  • The panellists were in agreement that while the digital information revolution could not be ignored, it did not undercut the value of libraries and skilled librarians.
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    On Tuesday, 21 June 2011, EE hosted a debate on school libraries in South Africa at the University of Cape Town. The night before, the debate took place at Wits University in Johannesburg. The panel brought together library experts from Europe, Australia, South America and Africa as well as local library experts. The panellists were asked to provide insight into the importance of school libraries, share unique perspectives on challenges in advocating for their provision and to address the challenges and opportunities that information technologies (e.g. e-books) present in the campaign for school libraries in South Africa.
Phil Taylor

10 Reasons You Should Be Pumped for Education in 2015 - A.J. Juliani - 2 views

  • The more we talk about technology as a tool for learning (and one that has extreme merit and value when used purposefully) the easier it will be to integrate it for the right reasons.
Dennis OConnor

Emerging Asynchronous Conversation Models : eLearning Technology - 0 views

  • The standard model for asynchronous conversations is discussion forum software like vBulletin.  I've talked before about the significant value that can be obtained as part of Discussion Forums for Knowledge Sharing at Capital City Bank and how that translates in a Success Formula for Discussion Forums in Financial Services.  I also looked at Making Intranet Discussion Groups Effective.
  • However, I've struggled with the problem of destinations vs. social networks and the spread of conversation (see Forums vs. Social Networks). 
  • Talkwheel  is made to handle real-time group conversations and asynchronous ones.  It can act as an instant messaging service a bit like Yammer, HipChat for companies and other groups, but the layout is designed to make these discussions easier to see, archive, and work asynchronously.
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  • Talkwheel’s design makes class conversations easier to follow, more interactive, and more effectively organized. It eliminates the problem of navigating multithreaded conversations, enables real-time group conversation, and makes referencing asynchronous conversations much easier. Talkwheel’s dashboard organization allows teachers to organize all their classes and projects in one centralized location, while Talkwheel's analytics helps teachers and administrators quantitatively monitor their students’ progress throughout the year.
  • Quora is a Q&A site nicely integrated with Facebook that has done a good job providing a means to ask questions and get answers.
  • Quora has been able to form quite an elite network of VCs, entrepreneurs, and other experts to answer questions.  They've also created topic pages such as: Learning Management System. 
  • Finally, Namesake, is a tool for real-time and asynchronous conversations.  It's a bit like Quora but more focused on conversation as compared to Q&A and it allows real-time conversation a bit like twitter.  You can see an example of a conversation around phones below.
  • All of these point to new types of conversation models that are emerging in tools.
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    Threaded discussion is an old technology. It's inspiring to think of new ways we can talk together at a distance that allow integration of both synchronous and asynchronous technology. I often thing we'll look back on the course management systems we use today and think of them as something like a 300 baud modem. Eyes Front! What's over the horizon line?
David McGavock

Weblogg-ed » Personal Learning Networks (An Excerpt) - 0 views

  • Seventh/eighth grade teacher Clarence Fisher has an interesting way of describing his classroom up in Snow Lake, Manitoba. As he tells it, it has “thin walls,” meaning that despite being eight hours north of the nearest metropolitan airport, his students are getting out into the world on a regular basis, using the Web to connect and collaborate with students in far flung places from around the globe.
  • there is still value in the learning that occurs between teachers and students in classrooms. But the power of that learning is more solid and more relevant at the end of the day if the networks and the connections are larger.”
  • But, what happens when knowledge and teachers aren’t scarce? What happens when it becomes exceedingly easy to people and content around the things you want to learn when you want to learn them?
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  • given these opportunities for connection that the Web now brings us, schools will have to start leveraging the power of these networks. And here are the two game-changing conditions that make that statement hard to deny: right now, if we have access, we now have two billion potential teachers and, soon, the sum of human knowledge at our fingertips.
  • The kids have made contacts. They have begun to find voices that are meaningful to them, and voices they are interested in hearing more from. They are becoming connectors and mavens, drawing together strings of a community.
  • What happens when we don’t need schools to manage the delivery of content any more, when we can get it on our own, anytime we need it, from anywhere we’re connected, from anyone who might be connected with us?
  • And it’s not so much even what we carry around in our heads, all of that “just in case” knowledge that schools are so good at making sure students get these days. As Jay Cross, the author of Informal Learning, suggests, in a connected world, it’s more about how much knowledge you can access.
  • If you’re seeing a vision of students sitting in front of computers working through self-paced curricula and interacting with a teacher only on occasion, you’re way, way off. That’s not effective online learning
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    Most schools were built upon the idea that knowledge and teachers are scarce. When you have limited access to information and you want to deliver what you do have to every citizen in an age with little communication technology, you build what schools are today: age-grouped, discipline-separated classrooms run by an expert adult who can manage the successful completion of the curriculum by a hundred or so students at a time. We mete out that knowledge in discrete parts, carefully monitoring students progress through one-size-fits all assessments, deeming them "educated" when they have proven their mastery at, more often than not, getting the right answer and, to a lesser degree, displaying certain skills that show a "literacy" in reading and writing. Most of us know these systems intimately, and for 120 years or so, they've pretty much delivered what we've asked them to.
David McGavock

Education for learning to live together | The Nation - 0 views

  • 16 years ago, a UNESCO world commission came up with a blue-print of Education For the 21st Century. It was headed by J. Delors, a former prime minister of France and included 12 outstanding education leaders and experts from all over the world.
  • (1) Learning to Know----(fomal/informal education) (2) Learning to do—(skills) (3) Learning to Live Together-----and Learning to Be-----(self-realization)
  • in the present day and age, crucial that we addressed the need to learn about other people, their history and cultures and thus by “recognizing interdependence as well as the risks and challenges involved, we will be able to develop more effective solutions to manage and minimize conflicts
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  • The report also spoke about 7 over-arching tensions, these being:1.    The tension between the global and the local.2.    The tension between the universal and the individual.3.    The tension between tradition and modernity.4.    The tension between long term and short term considerations.5.    The tension between competition and concern for equality of opportunity.6.    The tension between expansion of knowledge and our capacity to assimilate it.7.    The tension between the spiritual and the material.
  • proposed the promotion of citizenship values, respect for others’ cultures, appreciation of differences, creating awareness of commonalities leading to resolving conflicts through dialogues and working peace and development.
  • He made a spirited plea for making concerted efforts to ensure that Learning To Live Together (LTLT) is universally accepted as an educational response to resolving of differences and conflicts.
  • Pakistan today is a frightfully faction-and-conflict-ridden society. We have to reckon with a daily toll of a number of innocent lives all over the country.
  • More than perhaps, any other country, Pakistan needs to take up without delay, besides other necessary measures, well-devised educational programmes aimed at imparting the art and strategies of Learning To Live Together
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    7 over-arching tensions, these being: 1. The tension between the global and the local. 2. The tension between the universal and the individual. 3. The tension between tradition and modernity. 4. The tension between long term and short term considerations. 5. The tension between competition and concern for equality of opportunity. 6. The tension between expansion of knowledge and our capacity to assimilate it. 7. The tension between the spiritual and the material.
Natalia Giacosa

Critical Thinking and Technology - 0 views

  • to recapture the significance of our inquiries,
  • We must help them understand why anyone might want to solve this problem or answer this question. We must remind them of the connection between today's smaller question and the larger issues.
  • faith in their ability to succeed, if we ask about their attitudes and their values as well as about their ability to understand, if we act excited, and if we ask them both to understand abstract concepts and to see the relevance of those concepts to people's lives. We must appeal directly to their curiosity.
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  • teaching students to understand, analyze, synthesize, evaluate evidence, and so forth.
  • specific abstract reasoning capacities.
  • ess telling and more asking.
  • bring models of knowledge with them to our classes, preconceptions that have a profound influence on what they think they learn and how they react to what we tell them.
  • Relatively few people have fixed styles of learning in which they can learn from only one kind of experience, but many people do have learning personalities in which they often express preference for one approach or another.
  • If we provide that diversity, we can speak to different personalities while encouraging everyone to expand their preferences, and to consider the joys of learning in new ways.
  • feel comfortable,
  • uneasiness, the tension that stems from intellectual excitement, curiosity, challenge, and intense concern with a particular question, the tension that emerges primarily from the questions that we ask, the challenges that we issue,
  • provisions an author must make are the ones that lead a student to rectify incorrect responses.
  • work collaboratively in solving important problems.
  • Think about uncovering it so your students can better understand it.
  • sustained, substantial, and positive influence on the way they think, act, or feel)
  • solve
  • create
  • a sense of control over their own education;
  • work will be considered fairly and honestly
  • try, fail, and receive feedback from expert learners
  • Good Practice Emphasizes Time on Task
  • paradigms of reality are students likely to bring with them that I will want them to challenge
  • challenge students to rethink their assumptions and examine their mental models of reality?
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