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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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Internet Safety and Responsible Use Conference 2011 - a set on Flickr - 0 views

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    Nice cartoon set on Internet Safety and Responsible use on Flickr.
Steve Ransom

Audio Notebook - Record Audio While Typing Notes | iPad Apps for School - 0 views

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    Audio Notebook is a handy iPad app for people who want to combine audio recording with their typed notes.
Steve Ransom

Creativity Becomes an Academic Discipline - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • “It says: ‘This person is not a drone. They can use this skill set and apply themselves in other parts of the job.’ ”
  • everyone is creative, and can learn to be more so.
  • clarifying, ideating, developing and implementing
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  • freshman seminar course at Penn State that he calls “Failure 101.”
  • “the frequency and intensity of failures is an implicit principle of the course. Getting into a creative mind-set involves a lot of trial and error.”
  • “As soon as someone in the class starts breaking the sticks,” he says, “it changes everything.”
  • “Examine what in the culture is preventing you from creating something new or different. And what is it like to look like a fool because a lot of things won’t work out and you will look foolish? So how do you handle that?”
  • be willing to fail but that failure is a critical avenue to a successful end.
  • Because academics run from failure, Mr. Keywell says, universities are “way too often shapers of formulaic minds,” and encourage students to repeat and internalize fail-safe ideas.
  • When ideas from different fields collide, Dr. Cramond says, fresh ones are generated.
  • rephrasing problems as questions, learning not to instinctively shoot down a new idea (first find three positives), and categorizing problems as needing a solution that requires either action, planning or invention. A key objective is to get students to look around with fresh eyes and be curious. The inventive process, she says, starts with “How might you…”
  • “A lot of people can’t deal with things they don’t know and they panic
  • make creativity happen instead of waiting for it to bubble up. A muse doesn’t have to hit you.”
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    Great article that has many applications to the classroom at all levels!
Steve Ransom

Noisli - background noise and color generator for working and relaxing - 0 views

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    An interesting writing tool in the browser... supposedly to help with distraction and focus. It did the opposite for me.
Steve Ransom

The Lexile Framework for Reading - 0 views

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    Find the right book for your reading level.
Steve Ransom

20 useful ways to use TodaysMeet in schools | Ditch That Textbook - 0 views

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    A nice collection of ideas here on using a backchannel in the classroom.
Steve Ransom

JeopardyLabs - Online Jeopardy Template - 0 views

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    Create jeopardy games in the browser. Keep score, too.
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

Why Teaching Digital Citizenship Doesn't Work | Looking Up - 0 views

  • Students who behave inappropriately in digital spaces misinterpret the digital space as private, when it is, of course, public. This misunderstanding leads students to believe that the regular rules of public behavior don’t apply in digital space, and so they behave in ways online that they never would in public. The fundamental error is in thinking that digital spaces are different, with different rules from the real world. They aren’t.
  • They don’t need a new set of rules, just to apply the rules they already know to their digital behavior.
  • Students don’t need more rules; they just need to apply the ones they’ve already got. The same ones they learned in kindergarten.
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