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talking word processor | Free Resources from the Net for EVERY Learner - 0 views

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tts text2speech msword word addin

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  • Steve Ransom on 26 Sep 13
     
    WordTalk is a powerful free tool that ought to be on every computer in every school where Microsoft Word is installed on a Windows computer! This is a tool that has the potential to benefit ALL learners, especially any who struggle with reading or writing. I'm adding WordTalk to my list of Extra Special Learning Resourses.  WordTalk is a high quality free add-in that provides convenient, versatile and customizable text-to-speech for any document written or opened in Microsoft Word. It works in every version of MS Word, from Word 97 through Word 2010; and it's available to run on every version of Windows from Windows 98 through Windows 7.
Steve Ransom

No Child Left Untableted - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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1:1 tablets personalizedlearning critique debate Amplify joeklein

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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

Meet Generation Z - Getting Smart by Adam Renfro - commerce, gadgets, Gen Z, generation... - 0 views

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generation z

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  • Steve Ransom on 22 Sep 13
     
    Nice breakdown of attributes 
Steve Ransom

The Wejr Board - Why I Took Facebook and Twitter Off My Phone - 0 views

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connectedness distraction addiction socialmedia blogpost

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  • Steve Ransom on 21 Sep 13
     
    Great post about one person being mindful of how hyper-connectedness was impacting him. We don't all need to do this, but we DO need to always be mindful of how our tools are affecting us.
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

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

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blogs primary photos faces pictures policy letters example parents permission

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  • 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.
Steve Ransom

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

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school socialmedia students freeespeech policy discipline AcceptableUsePolicies

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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.
Steve Ransom

#MysterySkype - Skype in the classroom - 0 views

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mysteryskype

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  • Steve Ransom on 05 Sep 13
     
    Follow the #mysteryskype hashtag on Twitter as well.
Steve Ransom

blubbr - Play & create video trivia games - 0 views

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youtube quizzes tools quiz assessment

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  • Steve Ransom on 03 Sep 13
     
    create interactive quizzes that are based on YouTube clips. Your quizzes can be about anything of your choosing. The structure of the quizzes has a viewer watch a short clip then answer a multiple choice question about the clip. Viewers know right away if they chose the correct answer or not.
Steve Ransom

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video notes googledocs youtube googledrive

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  • Steve Ransom on 03 Sep 13
     
    A great tool to take notes on video content from popular video hosting sites and sync notes with the video itself as well as in Google Drive.
Steve Ransom

as the school year begins: a better way to handle homework - 0 views

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homework studying research tips

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  • “Spaced repetition” is one example of the kind of evidence-based techniques that researchers have found have a positive impact on learning.
  • Eighth-grade history students who relied on a spaced approach to learning had nearly double the retention rate
  • “retrieval practice,”
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  • Every time we pull up a memory, we make it stronger and more lasting, so that testing doesn’t just measure, it changes learning. Simply reading over material to be learned, or even taking notes and making outlines, as many homework assignments require, doesn’t have this effect.
  • When we work hard to understand information, we recall it better; the extra effort signals the brain that this knowledge is worth keeping. This phenomenon, known as cognitive disfluency
  • interleaving
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