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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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  • Steve Ransom on 23 Oct 13
     
    So many great presentations and ideas from the K12 online conference this year. Check out the schedule and join in! They are all recorded ahead of time, so you can participate at your own convencience any time after sessions go live.
Steve Ransom

Peter T. Coleman, PhD: The Consequences of Our Games - 0 views

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  • "At a time when games are becoming ever more realistic, reality is becoming more gamelike."
  • The problem is not that games are inconsistent with many aspects of our lives; it is that they provide a limited and skewed lens on the world
  • It stresses the strategic interdependent interests of humans and assumes that in games there is always a rational choice which is the best counter-choice to your opponent's.
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  • Seeing more and more aspects of our lives as games to win through maximization has a sort of self-perpetuating effect with perverse consequences, not the least of which is the impairment of what Diesing terms social rationality; the cherishing of unique relationships, personal connectedness, cooperative functioning, solidarity and sentiment.
  • If winning efficiently is the goal, then the rules (ethical, moral, legal, and spiritual), are essentially obstacles to game.
  • In our schools, competition for access to elite preschools, for grades, for social status, in sports, over positions of leadership, and for admission to exclusive colleges transforms one of our most basic institutions for fostering community, ethics and learning into competitive, individualistic corporate training-grounds. In these settings, the importance of competitive sports becomes paramount, for both financial and training purposes, and the artistry of cheating (see this year's Stuyvesant High School cheating scandal) and rule-bending (see Joe Paterno) revered. Such intense competition encourages the professionalization of parenting -- through tutors, highly-educated nannies, prep courses, and professional training camps (such as investment camps). You can imagine the deleterious effects these trends have on the ethos of care and moral responsibility in our families and schools, a critical buffer against bullying and violence in the lives of our children.
  • We become hyper-connected through technologies, boasting our number of "friends" on Facebook, and have less and less intimacy.
  • We choose friends with benefits or Internet porn over romantic relationships as they are less messy, more efficient.
  • Life is a race and we are losing.
  • Steve Ransom on 21 Jul 13
     
    A great piece worth the time to reflect on. Mindfulness needs to be practiced frequently.
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!
Steve Ransom

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  • Steve Ransom on 09 Oct 13
     
    Nice app for creating time lapse video. Not free, but there is a free version.
Steve Ransom

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  • Steve Ransom on 24 Oct 13
     
    More chats and times to connect!
Steve Ransom

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

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  • 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

Timely for Safer Internet Day: Game-changing insight into Internet risk | Safer Interne... - 0 views

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  • “A risk-averse society will, paradoxically, exacerbate rather than reduce the very vulnerabilities it seeks to protect by undermining the development of resilience.
  • Steve Ransom on 12 Feb 14
     
    Confirms Danah Boyd's research in her new book, "It's Complicated:..."
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

Students Battle School Districts Over First Amendment Rights On Social Media - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 13 Sep 13
     
    Seems more reactionary and controlling. Stronger vision, leadership, and willingness to model social media use and engage students in these spaces likely would help a gread deal here. Conversation leads to learning/understanding. Harsh discipline simply leads to compliance much of the time.
Karen Vitek

197 Educational YouTube Channels You Should Know About - InformED : - 1 views

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  • Karen Vitek on 13 Nov 13
     
    "If you don't have a YouTube channel as an education provider, there's a good chance you're behind the times. Nearly every major educational institution in the world now hosts its own collection of videos featuring news, lectures, tutorials, and open courseware. Just as many individuals have their own channel, curating their expertise in a series of broadcasted lessons."
  • Karen Vitek on 13 Nov 13
     
    informED has links to other good resources from this page also.
Steve Ransom

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  • Steve Ransom on 14 Nov 13
     
    Great collection of Infographics by Slideshare
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  • Steve Ransom on 06 Dec 13
     
    Great resource for finding and actively participating in a topical edchat on Twitter
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  • Steve Ransom on 10 Oct 13
     
    Many who have not yet experienced and come to understand the power of connected learning see it as trivial and a waste of time. Much work is yet to be done in this regard.
Steve Ransom

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  • Steve Ransom on 22 Apr 14
     
    Times are a changing... Are we?
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Net safety's '3 alarmist assumptions': Researcher - NetFamilyNews.org | NetFamilyNews.org - 0 views

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  • The problems that turn up in the digital environment are not unique to it but rather “extensions of social interactions or media consumption problems that cut across environments” and are better understood in the context of a child’s life as a whole. He points to “several strands of research” that show support for this counter hypothesis and poses this question for further investigation: “Should we define problems as being unique to a technology, like cyber-bullying or cyber-stalking?”
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  • most ISE is not evidence-based and “not based on established effectiveness principles
  • Steve Ransom on 10 Jun 14
     
    This series of posts (follow the links) is really worth your time. The current fear and danger narrative impedes adults and leaders from really empowering kids in a new, digitally-augmented reality.
Steve Ransom

Keeping Teens 'Private' on Facebook Won't Protect Them | TIME.com - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 03 Nov 13
     
    As teachers and parents, we must never expect that our tools exempt us from raising and teaching our children/students well. Be involved. Be informed. 
Steve Ransom

Why the Screen Debate Needs to Happen at App Level - Fred Rogers Center - Blog - 0 views

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  • Above all, it's time for all of us, whichever side of the debate we fall, to admit that "screen-time" or "screen-based media" is a throwaway term, unless some specific context is provided.
  • Steve Ransom on 06 May 14
     
    Very valid points here raised about the "screentime" issue. In general, we all need to be much more specific in our critiques.
Steve Ransom

The Ultimate Directory Of Free Image Sources - The Edublogger - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 24 Jul 14
     
    "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."
Steve Ransom

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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.
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