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The Impact of Digital Tools on Student Writing and How Writing is Taught in Schools | P... - 0 views

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    Asked to assess their students' performance on nine specific writing skills, teachers tended to rate their students "good" or "fair" as opposed to "excellent" or "very good." Students received the best ratings on their ability to "effectively organize and structure writing assignments" and their ability to "understand and consider multiple viewpoints on a particular topic or issue." Teachers gave students the lowest ratings when it comes to "navigating issues of fair use and copyright in composition" and "reading and digesting long or complicated texts."
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No Child Left Untableted - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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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.
Steve Ransom

The Twitteraholic's Ultimate Guide to tweets, hashtags, and all things Twitter | The Ed... - 0 views

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    Many well-organized tips and resources here.
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Blendspace - Create lessons with digital content in 5 minutes - 0 views

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    A great and easy tool to organize/package learning content for students. Allows adding all sorts of content, including your own text and simply quizzes. You can create "classes", too.
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    Nice set of organized resources here.
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The Ultimate Directory Of Free Image Sources - The Edublogger - 0 views

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    "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."
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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

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    DebateGraph lets you explore and view individual debate and dialogue maps (and the graph of interrelated maps) through different types of bubble, box, tree and outline views that have complementary strengths, and that are accessed via the Views menu (above the map).
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