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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Steve Ransom

Steve Ransom

Los Alamitos High School Teacher Tweets - YouTube - 0 views

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    Hello, students!!! Social media is public. Nice approach, using humor to make a serious point
Steve Ransom

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

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    Social Media for Teachers: Guides, Resources and Ideas
Steve Ransom

Grammatically Speaking - 0 views

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    Test your grammar savvy. It presents the most common grammar errors. This would be good for students to do as well.
Steve Ransom

"It's Complicated" with danah boyd - 0 views

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    If you want to understand teens and their new social spaces and all of the implications that come along with that, Danah Boyd's new book, It's Complicated: The social lives of networked teens is a must-read. This interview is on the topic of this research and her book.
Steve Ransom

Expanding the Definition of a Flipped Learning Environment | Faculty Focus - 0 views

  • “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?”
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    An excellent synthesis of flipped learning... no smoke and mirrors.
Steve Ransom

Teaching in the Connected Learning Classroom | DML Hub - 0 views

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    Free eBook/PDF
Steve Ransom

Easily Remove Image Backgrounds Online - Clipping Magic - 2 views

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    Great online tool for creating image masks, cutouts, and more.
Steve Ransom

http://www.alfiekohn.org/f_news/fullnews.php?fn_id=8 - 1 views

  • or even call for more rigorous or competitive grading and testing.
  • The point may not have been to produce a better outcome for students at all but to make sure they don’t “get away with” something.  If you do something bad, something bad must be done to you -- regardless of the effect.
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    I don't often tweet a "MUST READ", but this is one of them. Easy to read... harder to self-assess and implement.
Steve Ransom

analog twitter wall to build relationships and digital citizenship - 0 views

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    Great idea to help kids express themselves appropriately as they prepare to transition to the online/digital world that has few safety nets.
Steve Ransom

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

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    You can't stop a teacher!!
Steve Ransom

accents on a Google Preso - Google Drive - 0 views

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    Alice Keeler's document on how to add spanish accents to letters using keyboard shortcut
Steve Ransom

Teachers have mixed feelings on using social media in classrooms - Denver Business Journal - 0 views

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    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

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

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