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Practical Ed Tech - 0 views

practicaledtech.com

edtech news rss tips technology

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  • Steve Ransom on 24 Oct 14
     
    EDTECH practical news by Richard Byrne.
Steve Ransom

The Twitteraholic's Ultimate Guide to tweets, hashtags, and all things Twitter - The Ed... - 1 views

www.theedublogger.com/...ashtags-and-all-things-twitter

twitter about guide tips howto resource nyscate gr8

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  • Steve Ransom on 18 Sep 14
     
    Wow... a really long, but great, guide to all things twitter.
Steve Ransom

ScratchJr - #peel21st Blog Hop | Making things... Learning Things - 0 views

makelearn.org/...scratchjr-peel21st-blog-hop

scratch scratchjr kids programming coding

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  • Steve Ransom on 18 Sep 14
     
    works on iPad
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Project-Based Engineering for Kids - 0 views

www.instructables.com/...ect-Based-Engineering-for-Kids

engineering science projects construction

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  • Steve Ransom on 16 Sep 14
     
    These are great!
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Tech Transformation: Flipping Grade 4 and Flipping Bloom's Taxonomy Triangle - 0 views

www.maggiehosmcgrane.com/...ade-4-and-flipping-blooms.html

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."
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Turning Pain into a Movement with Kevin Honeycutt - 0 views

unmistakablecreative.com/-movement-with-kevin-honeycutt

interview podcast kevinhoneycutt change education passion kids technology edtech

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  • Steve Ransom on 11 Sep 14
     
    Take some time and listen to this interview with Kevin Honeycutt. You'll gain much more than the few minutes it takes to listen.
Steve Ransom

Welcome to the Next Golden Age of Animated GIFs - Medium - 0 views

medium.com/...-of-animated-gifs-56c4851ae33e

animatedgif animation tools

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  • Steve Ransom on 11 Sep 14
     
    Great examples of and free tools for making animated gifs
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Tynker - 0 views

www.tynker.com

programming coding program curriculum

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  • Steve Ransom on 01 Sep 14
     
    "Tynker's self-paced courses provide built-in tutoring, visual tools and more for kids to learn programming."
Steve Ransom

Clyp - Record and share audio, simply. - 0 views

clyp.it

audio voice record share browser recorder

shared by Steve Ransom on 29 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 29 Aug 14
     
    Looks like a great browser-based tool for recording or uploading audio and sharing it.
Steve Ransom

A Copyright-Friendly Toolkit - 0 views

www.smore.com/7-a-copyright-friendly-toolkit

copyright creativecommons images music media multimedia helps tips resources

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  • Steve Ransom on 27 Aug 14
     
    Nice set of organized resources here.
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10 tiny tips for trainers and teachers - 0 views

www.slideshare.net/...tips-for-trainers-and-teachers

presentation training teachers education inservice tips workshop

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

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

www.slate.com/...hnological_gadgets.single.html

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.
  • “Young people have a wildly inflated idea of how many things they can attend to at once
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  • Texting, emailing, and posting on Facebook and other social media sites are by far the most common digital activities students undertake while learnin
  • “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
  • memory of what they’re working on will be impaired if their attention is divided
  • The moment of encoding is what matters most for retention
  • 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.”
  • students who used Facebook during the 15-minute observation period had lower grade-point averages than those who didn’t go on the site
  • 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.
  • leads to more mistakes
  • “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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