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Steve Ransom

InCtrl :: Cable in the Classroom - 0 views

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digitalcitizenship program lessons

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  • Steve Ransom on 30 Jan 14
     
    Cable in the Classroom brings you a series of free, standards-based lessons that teach key digital citizenship concepts. These lessons, for students in grades 4-8, are designed to engage students through inquiry-based activities, and collaborative and creative opportunities. - 
Steve Ransom

Students Battle School Districts Over First Amendment Rights On Social Media - 0 views

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school socialmedia students freeespeech policy discipline AcceptableUsePolicies

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  • Steve Ransom on 13 Sep 13
     
    Seems more reactionary and controlling. Stronger vision, leadership, and willingness to model social media use and engage students in these spaces likely would help a gread deal here. Conversation leads to learning/understanding. Harsh discipline simply leads to compliance much of the time.
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No Child Left Untableted - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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1:1 tablets personalizedlearning critique debate Amplify joeklein

shared by Steve Ransom on 24 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Entrepreneurs
  • disrupting an industry
  • K-12 isn’t working
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  • or just to profit from it
  • potential customers
  • Plenty of research does indeed show that an individual student will learn more if you can tailor the curriculum to match her learning style, pace and interests; the tablet, he said, will help teachers do that
  • commercial opportunities
  • looking for higher test scores
  • exploit
  • It provides immediate feedback
  • “Now your job is not to dispense knowledge,” Britt told the trainees. “It’s to facilitate learning. No longer is the teacher the bottleneck between students and knowledge. Rather, the teacher architects the environment — in the classroom, on the tablet, online, everywhere.”
  • The Amplify tablet helps make personalization possible.
  • “If it’s not transformative,” Klein told me, “it’s not worth it.”
  • The teacher’s tablet also has an app blocker and monitoring functions that can see and control what’s happening on student tablets
  • Companies with vested interests are pitching themselves as the solution to the country’s educational problems, he says, “but we don’t have research proving it’s true.”
  • magic bullets. “There are a lot of hucksters out there,” he said.
  • apostles of disruption,
  • depend on good teaching
  • it can be easier to find money for cool new gadgets than for teachers.
  • must equip our students to compete with counterparts in India and China
  • Where technology makes a difference, it tends to do so in places with a strong organization dedicated to improving teaching and where students closely engage with teachers and one another.
  • Where technology makes a difference, it tends to do so in places with a strong organization dedicated to improving teaching and where students closely engage with teachers and one another.
  • for sale to schools
  • gaze tracking
  • For data to work its magic, a student has to generate the necessary information by doing everything on the tablet.
  • “We become smitten with the idea that there will be technological solutions to these knotty problems with education, but it happens over and over again that we stop talking to kids.”
  • “You learn how to broadcast, which is not the same thing as what you and I are doing now. Posting strong opinions isn’t a conversation.”
  • wouldn’t it make more sense to devote our resources to strengthening the teaching profession with better recruitment, training, support and pay? It seems misguided to try to improve the process of learning by putting an expensive tool in the hands of teachers we otherwise treat like the poor relations of the high-tech whiz kids who design the tool.
  • Steve Ransom on 24 Sep 13
     
    What a convoluted mess. Important to see what's happening, trends and initiatives, and the marketing/big business vs. learning in these issues.
Steve Ransom

Tech Transformation: Flipping Grade 4 and Flipping Bloom's Taxonomy Triangle - 0 views

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flippedclassroom flippedlearning bloomstaxonomy

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  • "Flipped learning is a bridge from traditional teaching methods which are heavily dependent on content, to more engaging learning methods that focus primarily on the acts of thinking and learning."
  • this approach "does not require content mastery prior to embarking on the creative or evaluative process, but allows access to content whenever it becomes necessary during the process."
Steve Ransom

Optimal Video Length for Student Engagement | edX - 0 views

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length engagement video flipped classroom

shared by Steve Ransom on 01 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 01 Nov 13
     
    Not much empirically controlled "evidence" here (at least not provided), but still good to seriously consider.
Steve Ransom

Facebook Makes Us Sadder And Less Satisfied, Study Finds : All Tech Considered : NPR - 0 views

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facebook study loneliness depression happiness

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  • social comparison.
  • "When you're on a site like Facebook, you get lots of posts about what people are doing. That sets up social comparison — you maybe feel your life is not as full and rich as those people you see on Facebook," he says.
  • "It suggests that when you are engaging in social interactions a lot, you're more aware of what others are doing and, consequently, you might be more sensitized about what's happening on Facebook and comparing that to your own life,"
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  • The prescription for Facebook despair is less Facebook. Researchers found that face-to-face or phone interaction — those outmoded, analog ways of communication — had the opposite effect. Direct interactions with other human beings led people to feel better.
  • Steve Ransom on 21 Aug 13
     
    Facebook Makes Us Sadder And Less Satisfied, Study Finds
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I Am Leaving Social Media - Joel Comm - 0 views

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socialmedia quit quitting distraction addiction

shared by Steve Ransom on 21 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Do I live for the approval of others? Is my ego so fragile that I crave the pavlovian response of warm fuzzy feelings that result from a like, comment, share, favorite or retweet?
  • What if Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google Plus ceased to exist? Would the human race survive without the habitual behavior we have become accustomed and addicted to in just a few short years?
  • The online world has become a meaningful, yet flawed, method for interacting, dialoguing, engaging, debating, sharing and experiencing our world and our relationships with others in real time.
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  • Citizen journalists are slowly transforming the way we receive and interpret current events. But who directs the conversation? Millions of people all striving to have their voice heard? Is this what freedom of speech has come to? Let’s face it. It’s a beautiful mess.
  • Steve Ransom on 21 Aug 13
     
    Fun to think about: "What if Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google Plus ceased to exist?"
Steve Ransom

Academic Teaching Doesn't Prepare Students for Life - 0 views

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teaching students learning change life

shared by Steve Ransom on 11 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • e need to build environments that allow our students to get messy and build things. Places where students learn how to learn, and know how they learn best. Where students engage in significant research, and learn how to identify credible resources amidst a plethora of information that, at times, may seem overwhelming.
  • They need to be able to communicate powerfully using the mediums of print, photography and video.
  • Steve Ransom on 11 Nov 13
     
    A fantastic post by Shelly Wright (@wrightsroom). The old adage is, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."  Well, it IS broke(n). Time to get fixing!
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