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Multitasking while studying: Divided attention and technological gadgets impair learnin... - 0 views

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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.
Steve Ransom

Expanding the Definition of a Flipped Learning Environment | Faculty Focus - 0 views

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  • “Ultimately, flipping a classroom involves shifting the energy away from the instructor and toward the students and then leveraging educational tools to enhance the learning environment.”
  • This allows students to spend time problem solving, creating, critiquing, and synthesizing in class with their peers and with their instructor. Students are more active in flipped environments which add a new level of complexity to the classroom.
  • Instructors focus on higher level learning outcomes during class time and lower level outcomes outside of class
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  • focus on involving students in the process of learning during class.
  • The true essence of the flip is really to focus on the student.
  • Flipped classrooms are interactive— sometimes even ‘messy’—because students are working together and solving problems rather than sitting passively listening to a lecture
  • are also risky. Instructors relinquish a degree of control when the energy in the classroom shifts to the students
  • “What do the students need to DO to achieve the learning outcome?”
  • Steve Ransom on 04 Mar 14
     
    An excellent synthesis of flipped learning... no smoke and mirrors.
Steve Ransom

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
  • 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.
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.
  • "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.
  • There were tests, but they just gave information about what's going on. This is something we ought to be doing better.
  • It doesn't matter how much you learn in school; it's whether you learn how to go on and do things by yourself.
  • 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.
  • Control from above, control by the administrators. No respect for the working person, whether it's a teacher or machinist.
  • 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

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

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

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!
Karen Vitek

5 Wonderful Twitter Cheat Sheets for Teachers and Students ~ Educational Technology and... - 1 views

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Twitter technology PLN

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  • Karen Vitek on 20 Oct 13
     
    " While digging into the resources I have posted in Twitter for Teachers section here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning I picked out for you these awesome posters. These are some of the most popular graphics available online and which are also good guides for teachers and students seeking to learn more about Twitter. I am inviting you to have a look and let us know what you think of them. Enjoy"
  • Steve Ransom on 21 Oct 13
     
    Great tips. Thanks for sharing those here.
Steve Ransom

Digital summer camp Part 2: Of managing a child's Minecraft time - NetFamilyNews.org | ... - 0 views

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  • Learning and play are one and the same to kids; it’s we adults who have been conditioned to believe that play is the opposite of work, a time-waster. In fact, the opposite of play is not work but depression
  • Joy is a much a sign of learning as concentration. Look for how much joy is involved in what they’re doing
  • Steve Ransom on 10 Jun 14
     
    "Learning and play are one and the same to kids; it's we adults who have been conditioned to believe that play is the opposite of work, a time-waster. In fact, the opposite of play is not work but depression"
Steve Ransom

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  • “Spaced repetition” is one example of the kind of evidence-based techniques that researchers have found have a positive impact on learning.
  • Eighth-grade history students who relied on a spaced approach to learning had nearly double the retention rate
  • “retrieval practice,”
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  • Every time we pull up a memory, we make it stronger and more lasting, so that testing doesn’t just measure, it changes learning. Simply reading over material to be learned, or even taking notes and making outlines, as many homework assignments require, doesn’t have this effect.
  • When we work hard to understand information, we recall it better; the extra effort signals the brain that this knowledge is worth keeping. This phenomenon, known as cognitive disfluency
  • interleaving
Steve Ransom

The Power of Educational Technology: A Design Thinking approach to Digital Citizenship - 1 views

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digitalcitizenship bullying lesson idea

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  • Steve Ransom on 15 Nov 13
     
    A great example of keeping kids involved in the process of learning and keeping learning relevant... even with the topic of digital citizenship and more specifically, cyberbullying. By @lizbdavis
Steve Ransom

In Digital Age, Schools That Succeed are Schools That Connect | MindShift - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 18 Dec 13
     
    Schools must be intentional and informed about facilitating powerful learning with social media and new learning spaces... not simply tolerate it.
Steve Ransom

Teaching for Understanding (Harvard GSE) on Vimeo - 0 views

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teaching understanding knowledge learning video davidperkins

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  • Steve Ransom on 01 Sep 13
     
    Great video to watch and think about what learning should look like
Steve Ransom

Scenario design: Why you want to lead with the scenario - 0 views

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learning design

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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

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  • Steve Ransom on 13 Jun 14
     
    Stephen Downes expands on 8 Ideas That Will Permanently Break Education As We Know It... important shifts to recognize and reconcile.
Steve Ransom

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

A Must Read Google Plus Guide for Schools ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 0 views

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google+ guide school education

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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

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  • Steve Ransom on 23 Jan 14
     
    Great interview with Canadian primary teacher and author, Kathy Cassidy. Listen to her application of technology in the classroom with primary age students as she builds literacy and facilitates learning.
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