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John Evans

Quest Atlantis - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 03 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Quest Atlantis (QA) is an international learning and teaching project that uses a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-15, in educational tasks. QA combines strategies used in the commercial gaming environment with lessons from educational research on learning and motivation. Participation in this game is designed to enhance the lives of children while helping them grow into knowledgeable, responsible, and empathetic adults. Explore our site and learn more about this exciting project.
John Evans

Literacy with ICT | School Leaders - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 30 Apr 09 - Cached
  • 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:
  • Instructional strategies:
  • Effective use of ICT:
  • Policies Relating to Implementing Literacy with ICT Across the Curriculum
  • Classroom management
  • Professional use of ICT:
  • Student Factors
  • Home environment:
  • Exposure and prior knowledge:
  • Teacher Factors
  • Guiding Concepts for Implementing Literacy with ICT Across the Curriculum
  • Common planning time:
  • Budget
  • Technical support
  • Reporting procedures:
  • Access to ICT in the classroom:
  • 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

iconPot - totally free icons - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 20 Apr 09 - Cached
  • The aim of this site is simple. We list a whole bunch of icons which are all great to use for your web development projects. But we are different to other icon-related websites because we only list icons which you can use for free on personal AND commercial projects AND without having to provide back-links/credit to the author. These types of icons can be tough to find, so here is a while list for your convenience!
John Evans

Recommendations for Rural Minnesota Schools - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 30 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Comprehensive research released today by The Center for Rural Policy and Development offers policymakers a series of recommendations on how to help and improve rural Minnesota schools.
  • Develop collaboration instead of consolidation: A state policy should be developed to help foster collaboration with and between school districts. While consolidation has been used in rural districts with declining enrollment, the authors’ research on cost-effective policies strongly cautions against this strategy as the negatives outweigh the positives.
  • Use technology to its best advantage: Online professional learning communities should be established to help rural educators share best practices and reduce isolation, and online general subject or enrichment courses should be made available to isolated rural learners.
  • John Evans on 30 Apr 09
     
    Use technology to its best advantage: Online professional learning communities should be established to help rural educators share best practices and reduce isolation, and online general subject or enrichment courses should be made available to isolated rural learners.
John Evans

Japanese Private School to issue cell phone to every student - GIGAZINE - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 29 Jun 09 - Cached
  • While there are many schools prohibiting the possession of cellphone, the board judged it more important to educate the proper usage than to ban it.
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      John Evans on 29 Jun 09
       
      Can we haver a collective "YES" to this admission?? John Evans
John Evans

Driven to Distraction - Britain Sets Tough New Laws for Texting While Driving - Series ... - 2 views

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shared by John Evans on 02 Nov 09 - Cached
  • John Evans on 02 Nov 09
     
    "When Texting Kills, Britain Offers Path to Prison "
International School of Central Switzerland

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

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shared by International School of Central Switzerland on 25 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • 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.
  • International School of Central Switzerland on 25 Jun 11
     
    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

Study reveals how many times you should be checking email daily to reduce stress - 1 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 14 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • While the average person checks email 15 times a day, the study suggests three times is the right amount to keep added stress away.
John Evans

What if Finland's great teachers taught in U.S. schools? - The Washington Post - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 07 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • In many under-performing nations, I notice, three fallacies of teacher effectiveness prevail.
  • The first belief is that “the quality of an education system cannot exceed the quality of its teachers.”
  • The second fallacy is that “the most important single factor in improving quality of education is teachers.” 
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  • The third fallacy is that “If any children had three or four great teachers in a row, they would soar academically, regardless of their racial or economic background, while those who have a sequence of weak teachers will fall further and further behind”.
  • Lessons from high-performing school systems, including Finland, suggest that we must reconsider how we think about teaching as a profession and what is the role of the school in our society.
  • First, standardization should focus more on teacher education and less on teaching and learning in schools.
  • Second, the toxic use of accountability for schools should be abandoned.
  • Third, other school policies must be changed before teaching becomes attractive to more young talents.
Web Design Saudi

Excellent Saudi Web Design Team - 1 views

I wanted to make a website to promote my Riyadh-based travel agency, after all my travel agency was the only remaining agency which has no online presence then. I noticed that my competitors had al...

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Dennis OConnor

The Wrath Against Khan: Why Some Educators Are Questioning Khan Academy - 0 views

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shared by Dennis OConnor on 28 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • While "technology will replace teachers" seems like a silly argument to make, one need only look at the state of most school budgets and know that something's got to give. And lately, that something looks like teachers' jobs, particularly to those on the receiving end of pink slips. Granted, we haven't implemented a robot army of teachers to replace those expensive human salaries yet (South Korea is working on the robot teacher technology. I'll keep you posted.). But we are laying off teachers in mass numbers. Teachers know their jobs are on the line, something that's incredibly demoralizing for a profession already struggles mightily to retain qualified people.
  • it's hard not to see that wealth as having political not just economic impact. Indeed, the same week that Bill Gates spoke to the Council of Chief State School Officers about ending pay increases for graduate degrees in teaching, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan issued almost the very same statement. What does all of this have to do with Sal Khan? Well, nothing... and everything.
  • One of education historian Diane Ravitch's oft-uttered complaints is that we now have a bunch of billionaires like Gates dictating education policy and education reform, without ever having been classroom teachers themselves (or without having attended public school). But the skepticism about Khan Academy isn't just a matter of wealth or credentials of Khan or his backers. It's a matter of pedagogy.
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  • No doubt, Khan has done something incredible by creating thousands of videos, distributing them online for free, and now designing an analytics dashboard for people to monitor and guide students' movements through the Khan Academy material. And no doubt, lots of people say they've learned a lot by watching the videos. The ability pause, rewind, and replay is often cited as the difference between "getting" the subject matter through classroom instruction and "getting it" via Khan Academy's lecture-demonstrations.
  • Although there's a tech component here that makes this appear innovative, that's really a matter of form, not content, that's new. There's actually very little in the videos that distinguishes Khan from "traditional" teaching. A teacher talks. Students listen. And that's "learning." Repeat over and over again (Pause, rewind, replay in this case). And that's "drilling."
Dennis OConnor

Search Engines List - Listed by Types of Searches and Categories | Professional Web Ser... - 0 views

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shared by Dennis OConnor on 10 May 11 - No Cached
  • This list of the various search engines, is posted here mainly for research and education purposes.
  • While the list below does not cover each and every search engine online, it does provide a broad list of most of the major search companies that are available.
  • The best way to compare different search engine results, is to open search engines in multiple tabs in your web browser and quickly reference back to this page.
  • Dennis OConnor on 10 May 11
     
    Knowing where to look is an essential aspect of information fluency.  Google, Yahoo, Bing are just the top of the pyramid.  Here's a list of search engines.  How many have you even heard of, let alone used?
Dennis OConnor

Emerging Asynchronous Conversation Models : eLearning Technology - 0 views

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shared by Dennis OConnor on 24 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • 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.
  • Dennis OConnor on 24 Jun 11
     
    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?
milesmorales

The Dry Erase Board: A Cool Tool For Learning - 0 views

The dry erase board or whiteboards as some know it has been a great help in providing knowledge to the youth today. It has many sizes to choose from and has always been the best tool for many mento...

started by milesmorales on 04 Aug 14 no follow-up yet
milesmorales

Homeschooling Tips That Will Really Help You Out - 0 views

Kids in public schools face many hurdles today, the bulk of which we never had to deal with when we were young. The best way to help your kids avoid these pitfalls is to homeschool them, and the he...

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