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Steve Ransom

When kids are skilled navigators of our networked world | NetFamilyNews.org - 1 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 19 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Even when we talk about “digital citizenship,” we talk more about behavior or “Netiquette” than agency, which is essential to the participation of any citizen in participatory democracy.
  • I think that, as a society, we’ve been entirely too focused on taking agency away from children, representing them more as potential victims and passive consumers than as stakeholders in their own wellbeing and that of their peers and communities and active participants in user-driven media
  • as we stop focusing on blocking media and monitoring and controlling children and start helping them develop the skills of effective navigation and participation – they will not only be safer now, while still children, they will also be safer, more effective participants in participatory media and culture all their lives, long after they’ve left home and high school.
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  • the goal is helping them develop the skills of effective participation in this connected world
  • Steve Ransom on 19 Nov 13
     
    Yes!!! "...the goal is helping them develop the skills of effective participation in this connected world..."
Steve Ransom

Should my class blog, tweet, Google App, Moodle, Desire2Learn, or Edmodo? Arrghhh!!! | ... - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 17 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 17 Jun 13
     
    A handy little matrix to help you make decisions regarding creating an online component to your classroom.
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Noisli - background noise and color generator for working and relaxing - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 05 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • 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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analog twitter wall to build relationships and digital citizenship - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 18 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 18 Feb 14
     
    Great idea to help kids express themselves appropriately as they prepare to transition to the online/digital world that has few safety nets.
Steve Ransom

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

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shared by Steve Ransom on 13 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • 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.
Steve Ransom

No Child Left Untableted - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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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

▶ Re-Imagine Your Professional Development Experience... with Twitter! - YouTube - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 15 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 15 Oct 13
     
    This could be a helpful video to share with those getting started or considering geting started.
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Our Screwed Up Approach to Instructional Technology - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 23 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Rather than building instructional technology into regular budgets, schools and districts seem to constantly fall into this kind of big burst, headline-making, "special occasion" spending. Why do they do it that way? Simple. Administrators, along with many teachers, parents, and other voting members of the community continue to view computers as a nice-to-have extra, something to play with after we finish all that regular school stuff.
  • We don’t help kids at all by teaching them specific software, except for the few in specific vocational certification programs. Instead, how about helping kids understand how to use and be productive with any technology they might encounter? The flexibility to adapt to whatever new tools enter that workplace is a far more valuable skill than learning PowerPoint inside and out.
  • Steve Ransom on 23 Jun 13
     
    How does your district make IT/learning decisions?
Steve Ransom

MentorMobEDU Blog Guide to an Interactive Flipped Classroom - MentorMobEDU Blog - 0 views

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flipclass flippedclassroom camtasia quizzing feedback

shared by Steve Ransom on 06 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 06 Nov 13
     
    This teacher does a great job explaining how she helps students process video content better with interactive quizzing. and feedback. The previously windows-only feature of creating interactive quizzes with Camtasia is coming sometime in the near future to the Mac platform.
Steve Ransom

Non-Digital Twitter - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 10 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 10 Nov 13
     
    Great post and idea by Ryan Bretag to help those on the outskirts of twitter see that it IS indeed doable and valuable.
Steve Ransom

The Ultimate Directory Of Free Image Sources - The Edublogger - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 24 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 24 Jul 14
     
    "So, you need an image for your blog? We've spent some time categorizing our favorite sources for free images and organizing them in such a way as to help you find what you're looking for."
Steve Ransom

The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids -- New York Magazine - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 09 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • For a few decades, it’s been noted that a large percentage of all gifted students (those who score in the top 10 percent on aptitude tests) severely underestimate their own abilities. Those afflicted with this lack of perceived competence adopt lower standards for success and expect less of themselves. They underrate the importance of effort, and they overrate how much help they need from a parent.
  • According to a survey conducted by Columbia University, 85 percent of American parents think it’s important to tell their kids that they’re smart. In and around the New York area, according to my own (admittedly nonscientific) poll, the number is more like 100 percent. Everyone does it, habitually. The constant praise is meant to be an angel on the shoulder, ensuring that children do not sell their talents short.
  • Carol Dweck
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  • The “smart” kids took the cop-out.
  • Steve Ransom on 09 Dec 13
     
    Great read!
Steve Ransom

Cyber Security eBook Helps Parents and Teachers Educate Teens About Cyber Safety (Free ... - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 05 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 05 Nov 13
     
    Great resource for parents, teens and teachers!! Free eBook (PDF)
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