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Meet Generation Z - Getting Smart by Adam Renfro - commerce, gadgets, Gen Z, generation... - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 22 Sep 13
     
    Nice breakdown of attributes 
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How 3 Different Generations Use The Internet - Edudemic - Edudemic - 1 views

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Internet generations infographic education devices TV cellphone data

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    How 3 Different Generations Use The Internet
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Bounce - A fun and easy way to share ideas on a webpage - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 05 May 14
     
    A great and easy web-based app to capture a screenshot of a webpage and annotate it, along with generating a URL to share your annotations with others.
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'Brilliant Bus' shrinking digital divide - CNN.com - 0 views

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bus computer lab digitaldivide gr8 technology

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  • Steve Ransom on 01 Nov 13
     
    This is certainly better than nothing, and what a generous spirit she is. But, kids need ubiquitous access. This has to change.
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A Must Read Google Plus Guide for Schools ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 08 Jan 14
     
    "In this short guide, Eric will walk you through a step by step process on how to tap into the educational potential of Google Plus. It starts with a general overview of Google Plus suite of tools then moves to  the second section where you will get to learn how to activate Google Plus for your school account. In the Profile and Setting section, Eric explains how to edit your profile information and how to manage your profile visibility settings. The last remaining parts of this guide provide some tips on how to search for people and manage your circles and communities, and how to post, share, and comment. Overall, the guide is a must read and I recommend that you share it with your colleagues."
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Why the Screen Debate Needs to Happen at App Level - Fred Rogers Center - Blog - 0 views

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screentime dap children mindfulness

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  • Above all, it's time for all of us, whichever side of the debate we fall, to admit that "screen-time" or "screen-based media" is a throwaway term, unless some specific context is provided.
  • Steve Ransom on 06 May 14
     
    Very valid points here raised about the "screentime" issue. In general, we all need to be much more specific in our critiques.
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Noisli - background noise and color generator for working and relaxing - 0 views

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writing distraction browser ambiance soundeffects

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  • Steve Ransom on 05 Feb 14
     
    An interesting writing tool in the browser... supposedly to help with distraction and focus. It did the opposite for me.
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Creativity Becomes an Academic Discipline - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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creativity failure gr8 highered

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  • “It says: ‘This person is not a drone. They can use this skill set and apply themselves in other parts of the job.’ ”
  • everyone is creative, and can learn to be more so.
  • clarifying, ideating, developing and implementing
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  • freshman seminar course at Penn State that he calls “Failure 101.”
  • “the frequency and intensity of failures is an implicit principle of the course. Getting into a creative mind-set involves a lot of trial and error.”
  • “As soon as someone in the class starts breaking the sticks,” he says, “it changes everything.”
  • “Examine what in the culture is preventing you from creating something new or different. And what is it like to look like a fool because a lot of things won’t work out and you will look foolish? So how do you handle that?”
  • be willing to fail but that failure is a critical avenue to a successful end.
  • Because academics run from failure, Mr. Keywell says, universities are “way too often shapers of formulaic minds,” and encourage students to repeat and internalize fail-safe ideas.
  • When ideas from different fields collide, Dr. Cramond says, fresh ones are generated.
  • rephrasing problems as questions, learning not to instinctively shoot down a new idea (first find three positives), and categorizing problems as needing a solution that requires either action, planning or invention. A key objective is to get students to look around with fresh eyes and be curious. The inventive process, she says, starts with “How might you…”
  • “A lot of people can’t deal with things they don’t know and they panic
  • make creativity happen instead of waiting for it to bubble up. A muse doesn’t have to hit you.”
  • Steve Ransom on 06 Feb 14
     
    Great article that has many applications to the classroom at all levels!
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No Child Left Untableted - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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1:1 tablets personalizedlearning critique debate Amplify joeklein

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  • Entrepreneurs
  • disrupting an industry
  • K-12 isn’t working
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  • or just to profit from it
  • commercial opportunities
  • 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
  • potential customers
  • looking for higher test scores
  • exploit
  • “If it’s not transformative,” Klein told me, “it’s not worth it.”
  • “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.
  • It provides immediate feedback
  • The teacher’s tablet also has an app blocker and monitoring functions that can see and control what’s happening on student tablets
  • must equip our students to compete with counterparts in India and China
  • 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.
  • 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.”
  • 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.
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44 QR Codes Resources For Teaching & Learning - 0 views

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qrcodes resources generators

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  • Steve Ransom on 30 Oct 13
     
    Nice collection of QR resources
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Tip 110 - Auto Generate QR Codes in Google Spreadsheet! - 1 views

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qrcodes google spreadsheet

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  • Steve Ransom on 17 Oct 13
     
    Great tip!
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Multitasking while studying: Divided attention and technological gadgets impair learnin... - 0 views

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multitasking attention distraction mindfulness research highered

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  • It’s multitasking while learning that has the biggest potential downside
  • 80 percent of college students admit to texting during class; 15 percent say they send 11 or more texts in a single class period.
  • Texting, emailing, and posting on Facebook and other social media sites are by far the most common digital activities students undertake while learnin
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  • “Young people have a wildly inflated idea of how many things they can attend to at once
  • “Under most conditions, the brain simply cannot do two complex tasks at the same time. It can happen only when the two tasks are both very simple and when they don’t compete with each other for the same mental resources.
  • They may like to do it, they may even be addicted to it, but there’s no getting around the fact that it’s far better to focus on one task from start to finish.”
  • the assignment takes longer to complete
  • The moment of encoding is what matters most for retention
  • memory of what they’re working on will be impaired if their attention is divided
  • This ability to resist the lure of technology can be consciously cultivated,
  • “even if distraction does not decrease the overall level of learning, it can result in the acquisition of knowledge that can be applied less flexibly in new situations.”
  • leads to more mistakes
  • texting and using Facebook—in class and while doing homework—were negatively correlated with college students’ GPAs.
  • “There’s a definite possibility that we are raising a generation that is learning more shallowly than young people in the past,” he says. “The depth of their processing of information is considerably less, because of all the distractions available to them as they learn.”
  • academic and even professional achievement may depend on the ability to ignore digital temptations while learning
  • kids who were better able to delay gratification not only achieved higher grades and test scores but were also more likely to succeed in school and their careers.
  • hose who were interrupted more often scored worse on a test of the lecture’s content; more interestingly, those who responded to the experimenters’ texts right away scored significantly worse than those participants who waited to reply until the lecture was over.
  • students who used Facebook during the 15-minute observation period had lower grade-point averages than those who didn’t go on the site
  • “Young people’s technology use is really about quelling anxiety,” he contends. “They don’t want to miss out.
  • Device-checking is a compulsive behavior that must be managed, he says, if young people are to learn and perform at their best.
  • ‘This is a time when you will concentrate on just one thing.’ ”
  • Just make sure when they’re doing schoolwork, the cellphones are silent, the video screens are dark, and that every last window is closed but one.
  • Steve Ransom on 22 Aug 14
     
    Great piece on the deleterious effects of multitasking on learning and the importance of teaching mindfulness and attention literacy in a highly digital and connected landscape.
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