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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

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: Samrl model - 0 views

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SAMR examples model collection resources

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  • Steve Ransom on 19 Sep 13
     
    think about SAMR model as a blueprint scaffolding your technology integration into education. It is a framework through which you can assess and evaluate the technology you use in your classroom.
Steve Ransom

How Not to Be Alone - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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turkle alone technology intimacy relationship critique

shared by Steve Ransom on 10 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • 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.
Karen Vitek

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

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Twitter technology PLN

shared by Karen Vitek on 20 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • 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

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

Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Classroom Technology Planning #chromebook #ipad #linux - 0 views

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classroom technology planning matrix devices choice edtech adoption capabilities

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  • Steve Ransom on 09 Jan 14
     
    Nice matrix of devices and capabilities by Miguel Guhlin
Steve Ransom

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

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Kathycassidy podcast interview technology edtech primary literacy writing

shared by Steve Ransom on 23 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • 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

David Pogue: 10 top time-saving tech tips - YouTube - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 02 Jan 14
     
    Send this to your technology-challenged colleagues.
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
  • 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

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

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technology leadership adoption teachers decision computers purchase

shared by Steve Ransom on 09 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • 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

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

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multitasking attention distraction mindfulness research highered

shared by Steve Ransom on 22 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • 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

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

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writing digital report study research kids students technology

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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."
Steve Ransom

18 Ways to Secure Parent Permission to Use Technology | Cool Cat Teacher Blog - 0 views

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permission consent form permissionforms consentforms parents

shared by Steve Ransom on 21 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 21 Nov 13
     
    A nice collection of permission forms by @coolcatteacher Vicki Davis
Steve Ransom

http://www.kenttrustweb.org.uk/UserFiles/CW/File/Childrens_Services/Childrens_Safeguard... - 0 views

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education socialmedia aup policies planning risk tips pdf handbook

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  • Steve Ransom on 12 Dec 13
     
    Using Social Media and Technology in Educational Settings Considerations, guidance and risk assessment templates for schools and educational settings considering the use of Social Media
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