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Steve Ransom

Power Searching with Google - 0 views

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google search searching course

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  • Steve Ransom on 24 Jun 13
     
    A nice self-directed course to become more proficient at Google searching and understanding related concepts.
Steve Ransom

Our Screwed Up Approach to Instructional Technology - 0 views

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  • 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

Should my class blog, tweet, Google App, Moodle, Desire2Learn, or Edmodo? Arrghhh!!! | ... - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 17 Jun 13
     
    A handy little matrix to help you make decisions regarding creating an online component to your classroom.
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Radio Show » Mapping Media to the Common Core - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 16 Jun 13
     
    Good tips and resources on podcasting/creating a radio show by Wesley Fryer.
Steve Ransom

The web's 'echo chamber' leaves us none the wiser (Wired UK) - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 13 Jun 13
     
    Important in all worlds, analog and digital.
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Slicereader - Easy reading for Mac - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 11 Jun 13
     
    A great, free text chunking app for those who need textual information processing accommodations or those with short attention spans or distractability... Mac-only
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How Not to Be Alone - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • 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.
Steve Ransom

We Don't Like "Projects" | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 09 Jun 13
     
    How sad that we've coopted the "project" in such ways. We can change this.
Steve Ransom

SearchReSearch: Be prepared: What will happen to your content when you die? - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 08 Jun 13
     
    Google takes you through its Inactive Account Manager so that you can tell it what to do when you are no longer responsive. You'll have to appoint at least one trustee.
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2013 Internet Trends - Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 04 Jun 13
     
    A good souce of current data if you need it for any projects or presentations.
Steve Ransom

Noam Chomsky on Democracy and Education in the 21st Century and Beyond - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 04 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • The people who concentrate wealth don't do things just out of the goodness of their hearts for the most part, but in order to maintain their position of dominance and then extend their power.
  • One can at least be suspicious that skyrocketing student debt is a device of indoctrination. It's very hard to imagine that there's any economic reason for it. Other countries' education is free, like Mexico's, and that is a poor country.
  • There are a lot of factors. And one of them, probably, is just that students are trapped.
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  • Your future depends on it; my salary depends on it.
  • until I got to Central High, I literally didn't know I was a good student, because the question never came up.
  • There were tests, but they just gave information about what's going on. This is something we ought to be doing better.
  • "How can mosquitoes fly in the rain?" And then, but why is there a problem? Well, you study the force of the raindrop hitting a mosquito - it's like a person being hit by a locomotive.
  • It doesn't matter how much you learn in school; it's whether you learn how to go on and do things by yourself.
  • Control from above, control by the administrators. No respect for the working person, whether it's a teacher or machinist.
  • Kids are naturally creative, and of course, you don't have to beat it out of them. That's why they're asking, "Why?" all the time.
  • You can't let teachers control the classroom. That's teaching to test; then the teachers are disciplined. They do what you tell them. Their salaries depend on it; their jobs depend on it. They become sociopaths like everyone else. And you have a society where it's only, "Look after me; I'll forget everyone else."
  • Steve Ransom on 04 Jun 13
     
    Best read of the day. "It doesn't matter how much you learn in school; it's whether you learn how to go on and do things by yourself."
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