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Steve Ransom

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."
Steve Ransom

Noam Chomsky on Democracy and Education in the 21st Century and Beyond - 0 views

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  • The people who concentrate wealth don't do things just out of the goodness of their hearts for the most part, but in order to maintain their position of dominance and then extend their power.
  • One can at least be suspicious that skyrocketing student debt is a device of indoctrination. It's very hard to imagine that there's any economic reason for it. Other countries' education is free, like Mexico's, and that is a poor country.
  • There are a lot of factors. And one of them, probably, is just that students are trapped.
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  • Your future depends on it; my salary depends on it.
  • until I got to Central High, I literally didn't know I was a good student, because the question never came up.
  • There were tests, but they just gave information about what's going on. This is something we ought to be doing better.
  • "How can mosquitoes fly in the rain?" And then, but why is there a problem? Well, you study the force of the raindrop hitting a mosquito - it's like a person being hit by a locomotive.
  • It doesn't matter how much you learn in school; it's whether you learn how to go on and do things by yourself.
  • Control from above, control by the administrators. No respect for the working person, whether it's a teacher or machinist.
  • Kids are naturally creative, and of course, you don't have to beat it out of them. That's why they're asking, "Why?" all the time.
  • You can't let teachers control the classroom. That's teaching to test; then the teachers are disciplined. They do what you tell them. Their salaries depend on it; their jobs depend on it. They become sociopaths like everyone else. And you have a society where it's only, "Look after me; I'll forget everyone else."
  • Steve Ransom on 04 Jun 13
     
    Best read of the day. "It doesn't matter how much you learn in school; it's whether you learn how to go on and do things by yourself."
Steve Ransom

The Wejr Board - Why I Took Facebook and Twitter Off My Phone - 0 views

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connectedness distraction addiction socialmedia blogpost

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  • Steve Ransom on 21 Sep 13
     
    Great post about one person being mindful of how hyper-connectedness was impacting him. We don't all need to do this, but we DO need to always be mindful of how our tools are affecting us.
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Our Screwed Up Approach to Instructional Technology - 0 views

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  • 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

Asking the wrong questions | Learn Different - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 03 Jan 14
     
    It's not really about how old you are, but more about what you understand and how you behave.
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Academic Teaching Doesn't Prepare Students for Life - 0 views

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  • 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!
Steve Ransom

How 3 Different Generations Use The Internet - Edudemic - Edudemic - 1 views

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    How 3 Different Generations Use The Internet
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ASCD Express 9.03 - How to Take Two-Column Notes - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 07 Nov 13
     
    Great example of how a tool like a smartphone with video can be used to create really clear instructional segments to support of flip instruction. It doesn't have to be fancy... only clear and developmentally appropriate.
Steve Ransom

We Don't Like "Projects" | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 09 Jun 13
     
    How sad that we've coopted the "project" in such ways. We can change this.
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How Not to Be Alone - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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turkle alone technology intimacy relationship critique

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  • Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.
  • The phone didn’t make me avoid the human connection, but it did make ignoring her easier in that moment, and more likely, by comfortably encouraging me to forget my choice to do so.
  • The more distracted we become, and the more emphasis we place on speed at the expense of depth, the less likely and able we are to care.
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  • Most of our communication technologies began as diminished substitutes for an impossible activity.
  • These inventions were not created to be improvements upon face-to-face communication, but a declension of acceptable, if diminished, substitutes for it.
  • we began to prefer the diminished substitutes.
  • it’s easier to check in without becoming entangled.
  • Each step “forward” has made it easier, just a little, to avoid the emotional work of being present, to convey information rather than humanity.
  • My daily use of technological communication has been shaping me into someone more likely to forget others.
Steve Ransom

Teachers have mixed feelings on using social media in classrooms - Denver Business Journal - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 12 Feb 14
     
    Survey finds over half of teachers have no plans to use social media with students/in classroom... largely because they don't understand it/don't know how to leverage it.
Steve Ransom

Creativity Becomes an Academic Discipline - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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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!
Steve Ransom

accents on a Google Preso - Google Drive - 0 views

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    Alice Keeler's document on how to add spanish accents to letters using keyboard shortcut
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Scenario design: Why you want to lead with the scenario - 0 views

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  • The designers would think, “First, we’ll tell them the common concerns about heat, to make sure everyone knows them. Then we’ll tell them what our own research shows about the heat and why it’s not a big deal. Then we’ll tell them how to respond to heat objections, and finally we’ll let them practice with a scenario.” Why did I label this “boring and inefficient?” The learners have to trudge through many screens before they finally get to use their brains. Some people already know the stuff presented on the many screens. The how-to info is presented immediately before the scenario, making the scenario a simple check of short-term memory.
  • Steve Ransom on 21 Aug 13
     
    Great rationale. Less talking; more doing. Less us; more them. Situated learning.
Steve Ransom

How Do I Get a PLN? | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Personalized Learning Network
  • many established thought leaders develop PLNs to maintain relevancy, following good ideas, rich discussions and resources. PLNs accept people for their ideas, not their titles.
  • The PLN is a mindset
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  • requires effort.
  • Steve Ransom on 19 Nov 13
     
    Nice, clear piece by @tomwhitby. I love the primary emphasis on developing a personalized learning network [PLN] as a mindset, not a toolset. It's about learning... and it takes work.
Steve Ransom

How Twitter Tore Down My District's Walls | EdSurge News - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 01 Oct 13
     
    Great post by Pam Moran to share with your administrators!
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Live-tweeting the #Gettysburg Address - Yahoo News - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 05 Dec 13
     
    An example of how students can re-tell and make sense of ideas using new [social] media
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EdTechSandyK: How to Decode a Tweet - 1 views

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twitter tweet anatomy vocabulary blogpost

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  • Steve Ransom on 09 Dec 13
     
    Great blog post to accompany the anatomy of a tweet postcard from #nyscate13
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