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John Evans

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shared by John Evans on 14 Dec 08 - Cached
  • According to William Rust, research director for the IT research and consulting firm Gartner, there is a new digital divide occurring in schools. Whereas this divide used to refer to whether or not students had access to technology, now it concerns whether schools are using technology effectively to achieve results.
  • Regarding the changing nature of learners, Gartner believes that so-called "digital natives" will demand, and need, new types of learning experiences.
  • "The biggest shift we're seeing right now is student preference shifting from print to digital resources," Rust noted. "It's all about the web."
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  • And technology's broad accessibility, Gartner believes, is changing the paradigm for how students receive instruction. Like the growing trend of telecommuting to work, Rust predicted, virtual and distance education soon will trump the delivery of instruction via brick-and-mortar classrooms.
John Evans

World Without Walls: Learning Well with Others | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 16 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Her response blew me away. "I ask my readers," she said. I doubt anyone in the room could have guessed that answer. But if you look at the Clustrmap on Laura's blog, Twenty Five Days to Make a Difference, you'll see that Laura's readers -- each represented by a little red dot -- come from all over the world. She has a network of connections, people from almost every continent and country, who share their own stories of service or volunteer to assist Laura in her work. She's sharing and learning and collaborating in ways that were unheard of just a few years ago.
  • Welcome to the Collaboration Age, where even the youngest among us are on the Web, tapping into what are without question some of the most transformative connecting technologies the world has ever seen.
  • The Collaboration Age is about learning with a decidedly different group of "others," people whom we may not know and may never meet, but who share our passions and interests and are willing to invest in exploring them together. It's about being able to form safe, effective networks and communities around those explorations, trust and be trusted in the process, and contribute to the conversations and co-creations that grow from them. It's about working together to create our own curricula, texts, and classrooms built around deep inquiry into the defining questions of the group. It's about solving problems together and sharing the knowledge we've gained with wide audiences.
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  • Inherent in the collaborative process is a new way of thinking about teaching and learning. We must find our own teachers, and they must find us.
  • As connectors, we provide the chance for kids to get better at learning from one another. Examples of this kind of schooling are hard to find so far, but they do exist. Manitoba, Canada, teacher Clarence Fisher and Van Nuys, California, administrator Barbara Barreda do it through their thinwalls project, in which middle school students connect almost daily through blogs, wikis, Skype, instant messaging, and other tools to discuss literature and current events. In Webster, New York, students on the Stream Team, at Klem Road South Elementary School, investigate the health of local streams and then use digital tools to share data and exchange ideas about stewardship with kids from other schools in the Great Lakes area and in California. More than learning content, the emphasis of these projects is on using the Web's social-networking tools to teach global collaboration and communication, allowing students to create their own networks in the process.
  • Collaboration in these times requires our students to be able to seek out and connect with learning partners, in the process perhaps navigating cultures, time zones, and technologies. It requires that they have a vetting process for those they come into contact with: Who is this person? What are her passions? What are her credentials? What can I learn from her?
  • Likewise, we must make sure that others can locate and vet us. The process of collaboration begins with our willingness to share our work and our passions publicly -- a frontier that traditional schools have rarely crossed. As Clay Shirky writes in Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, "knowingly sharing your work with others is the simplest way to take advantage of the new social tools." Educators can help students open these doors by deliberately involving outsiders in class work early on -- not just showcasing a finished product at the spring open house night.
doris molero

Educational Leadership:Giving Students Ownership of Learning:Footprints in the Digital Age - 0 views

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shared by doris molero on 27 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Picture a bus. Your students are standing in the front; most teachers (maybe even you) are in the back, hanging on to the seat straps as the bus careens down the road under the guidance of kids who have never been taught to steer and who are figuring it out as they go.
  • In short, for a host of reasons, we're failing to empower kids to use one of the most important technologies for learning that we've ever had. One of the biggest challenges educators face right now is figuring out how to help students create, navigate, and grow the powerful, individualized networks of learning that bloom on the Web and helping them do this effectively, ethically, and safely. The new literacy means being able to function in and leverage the potential of easy-to-create, collaborative, transparent online groups and networks, which represent a "tectonic shift" in the way we need to think about the world and our place in it (Shirky, 2008). This shift requires us to create engaged learners, not simply knowers, and to reconsider the roles of schools and educators.
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      doris molero on 21 Mar 09
       
      creating engaged learners... that's the most difficult... we need more than simply knowers... How do we do it? we have tried and keep o trying... but at he end of the day .. students are the ones that decide what to do....
  • As the geeky father
John Evans

FRONTLINE: growing up online: readings and links | PBS - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 13 Oct 08 - Cached
  • John Evans on 13 Oct 08
     
    Informmation links for parents
John Evans

About | FreshBrain - 4 views

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shared by John Evans on 10 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Technology is advancing at an accelerating rate. Schools are providing teens with a traditional education, but they are unable to keep up with this evolution. Limited individual computer accessibility, minimal hands-on training for teachers, and insufficient technical support are all obstacles many schools face. While the availability of curriculum continues to grow, the lack of time and skills required to select, integrate, and teach with technology continues to be a barrier. In addition, funding to provide updated computers, ongoing maintenance, training and support will always be a challenge. The result is an inability for schools to provide the time, space, or platform for teens to fully utilize technology, either individually or in groups. This lack of integration prevents teens from gaining skills and extending their abilities with technology. Therefore, teens miss the opportunity to find their passion with, or through the use of technology, including the chance to interact with others.
John Evans

Let's Stop Making Students Power Down at School - 3 views

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shared by John Evans on 16 Dec 09 - No Cached
  • As an educator of innovative educators, I urge you to remember these students, their voices, their passions and don’t force students to power down when they come to school. Encourage and embrace their excitement, their passions, their enthusiasm, their need for socializing and authenticity. Help make school a place your students want to be, discover, grow, learn and share.
Phil Taylor

PBS and Grunwald National Research Indicates Lack of Technology Infrastructure in Classrooms -- ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 10 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Cost continues to grow as the main barrier to using fee-based digital resources, with 46% of teachers citing this as a barrier, and 33% citing time constraints.
Phil Taylor

In Digital Age, Schools That Succeed are Schools That Connect | MindShift - 3 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 01 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • The trickiest of the cracks to get our heads around is the “connected divide,” separating those who are proficient in collaborative, creative and connected social networks and those who are not. It is growing exponentially wider on a daily basis.
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

Education Week's Digital Directions: Tech Literacy Confusion - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 21 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Teaching literacy—reading and writing—is a core mission for schools, but today's young people increasingly "read" 3-D computer simulations and "write" via social networks such as Facebook. A growing chorus of experts say schools should add these forms of communication to their literacy mission as "technology literacy."
John Evans

NIBIPEDIA : Together We Learn - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 20 Apr 09 - Cached
  • A nib is a visual bookmark on a video timeline. Nibs also recommend related videos. As the Nibisphere grows, it will find more and cooler stuff that makes you smarter, faster. We have a team of experts nibbing away engaging educational conten
John Evans

Free Music Archive - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 13 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Welcome to the Free Music Archive, a social music website built around a curated library of free, legal audio. It's a work in progress, and your participation will help us continue to grow.
anonymous

Changing- Shifting a School Culture- Train of Thought by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 17 May 09 - No Cached
  • Gable uses a powerful analogy when she compares playing basketball barefoot with teaching without technology. You COULD play without shoes, but why would you want to, when there is a tool that would allow you to grow, expand, soar higher and further than without it? The sport of Basketball is NOT about the shoes… Teaching and learning is not about technology!
John Evans

5 Reasons Why Educators Need To Embrace Internet Technologies - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 21 May 09 - Cached
  • Reason No. 1: Professional Development
  • Reason No. 2: The Power To Engage
  • Reason No 3: Students Use Them Already
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  • Reason No. 4: It’s Not Going Away (It Will Only Grow)
  • Reason No. 5: Businesses Want to Hire Workers Who Understand The Internet
John Evans

Education Week: Students Often Use Technology to Cheat, Poll Finds - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 07 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The prevalence of cheating on tests, plagiarizing online content, and helping classmates do the same using digital devices suggests a growing need for school lessons around technology use and ethics,
Nigel Coutts

Promoting a Growth Mindset - 1 views

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shared by Nigel Coutts on 24 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Nigel Coutts on 24 Jan 15
     
    We all want to see our students and our children grow into happy, balanced and successful adults but exactly what that means and how it is to be achieved are areas of uncertainty. Into this debate comes Carol Dweck's research into 'Mindsets' and how individual differences in our approach to the world dictate our ultimate experiences of success or disappointment.
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