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It Is Not About the Gadgets - Why Every Teacher Should Have to Integrate Tech Into Thei... - 0 views

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technology integration critique choice teachers

shared by Steve Ransom on 09 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • On the other hand, I work with teachers now that are often running scared – very scared at times. They are blocked from using much technology, teachers that use drill and skills based software are praised, those that ask about doing anything online are scoffed at … they have to go out of their way and jump through 5 hoops all the time knowing that if things aren’t 100% smooth they will be questioned about safety, educational value, whether they have their students best interest and safety in mind and on and on. They are told (in error) that they will lose the district their e-Rate funding by having student work online or even have students working online … COPA laws will be broken, … in some schools and districts its not about making teachers integrate technology, its making administration, politicians and others see it as having value and creating an environment where it is at least OK and at best encouraged and supported. I never thought I would write such a comment, but believe me it is very ugly in places … I support 6 school districts, about 100,000 students and 8-10,000 teachers … some districts and some schools are very open and supportive of tech integration, others are extremely scared of all the things that they’ve heard of, more so than I would have thought. Good news is we are starting to make real progress … much too slowly, but progress. Yes, tech integration should not be an option, but there are still many places where it is not an option really. That’s the thinking we still need to overcome.
  • Steve Ransom on 09 Jan 14
     
    Great comment by Brian Crosby in the comment section. Does your school/district really support teachers as they aim to integrate technology... or treat them like novice children?
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

Teachers Avoid Social Media Use for Classroom Learning, Survey Finds - Digital Educatio... - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 16 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • in their personal lives
  • due to concerns about negative repercussions
  • only 18 percent said they had integrated social media into their own classrooms
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  • more than half of teachers said they had no plans to use social media with their students.
  • they're concerned about conflicts that can occur," Cook said. "The main thing they're concerned about is parents checking up on them, combining their personal life and their professional life."
  • Eighty percent of teachers surveyed worried about negative outcomes arising from the use of social networking
  • Nearly 70 percent said they believe that parents use social networking to monitor teachers' work or personal lives.
  • establishing a clear and consistent policy on social media use
  • there are barriers
  • Only 28 percent of teachers said they could access social networking sites via computers in their schools
  • Steve Ransom on 16 Jan 14
     
    Much work to be done and knowledgeable, experienced leadership needed. Eric Sheninger is a prime example of the positive outcomes when strong leadership leads the way. http://ericsheninger.com/esheninger
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

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

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  • Steve Ransom on 17 Jul 13
     
    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."
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

10 tiny tips for trainers and teachers - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 25 Aug 14
     
    Good tips on running workshops with teachers.
Steve Ransom

What's the Impact of Overzealous Internet Filtering in Schools? | MindShift - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 03 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • “The over-filtering that occurs today affects not only what teachers can teach but also how they teach,”
  • “creates barriers to learning and acquiring digital literacy skills that are vital for college and career readiness, as well as for full participation in 21st-century society.”
  • “It’s not a magazine, we’re not just consumers, we’re creators, we’re users.”
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  • most students have unfettered access to these forbidden sites through the phones in their pockets and backpacks, on their home computers and in many public libraries – often with no adult guidance
  • it has to be learned in context in a supportive environment,”
  • (a) obscene; (b) child pornography; or (c) harmful to minors.”
  • defining the three measures is up to each community, creating widely varied implementation from district to district
  • and their answer to any requests was usually no.
  • Their view was that if the filter is blocking it, there’s no reason for you to see it,”
  • Krull implemented a teacher login system that lets staff override some blocked sites. He’s working on a similar system for students that would grant varying degrees of access depending on grade level.
  • nearly three times as many teachers of low-income students than those with middle- and high-income students said this lack of access was a “major challenge” in their ability “to incorporate more digital tools into their teaching.”
  • eliminating filters isn’t the answer to debugging the problems with CIPA.
  • There’s not a right or wrong; it’s a lot about community values
  • “It’s not if you have a filter or not, it’s really about to what degree do you filter, how do you filter?”
  • Steve Ransom on 03 Jul 14
     
    Teachers should have the professional courtesy of managing blocked/filtered sites
Steve Ransom

Stranded Driver Teaches Class From Pa. Turnpike During Massive Pileup « CBS P... - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 16 Feb 14
     
    You can't stop a teacher!!
Steve Ransom

Social Media for Teachers: Guides, Resources and Ideas | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 06 Mar 14
     
    Social Media for Teachers: Guides, Resources and Ideas
Steve Ransom

Teachers - The 10 Stages of Twitter | dedwards.me - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 15 Oct 13
     
    Teachers - The 10 Stages of Twitter: Good for newbies to see how this evolution can happen and that their struggles are normal and just part of the evolution.
Steve Ransom

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

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shared by Steve Ransom on 04 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • 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

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

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  • Steve Ransom on 05 Nov 13
     
    Great resource for parents, teens and teachers!! Free eBook (PDF)
Steve Ransom

Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: No Longer Optional: Tech that Makes Life A Little Less D... - 0 views

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  • If you are in the position to make policies that impact educators, you better get into their classrooms, learn, and understand their world. —
  • Steve Ransom on 09 Jan 14
     
    How does your district approach technology adoption decisions? Are they largely imposed upon teachers?
Steve Ransom

http://novemberlearning.com/podcasts/Cassidy_Final.mp3 - 0 views

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Kathycassidy podcast interview technology edtech primary literacy writing

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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.
Steve Ransom

Los Alamitos High School Teacher Tweets - YouTube - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 11 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 11 Mar 14
     
    Hello, students!!! Social media is public. Nice approach, using humor to make a serious point
Steve Ransom

Class Blog: Student Faces Are Not Necessary to be Successful - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 19 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 19 Sep 13
     
    Yes, you can use photos of students successfully in online spaces without showing faces. There are a few nice sample teacher permission slips here to take a look at. Taking photos is so easy today. Even studens can take them for blog posts. Cropping off or blurring faces if necessary is also easily done.
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