Teachers I talked to seemed uninterested, almost dismissive, of animations and gamelike apps. Instead, the tablets were intended to be used as video cameras, audio recorders, and multimedia notebooks of individual students’ creations. The teachers cared most about how the devices could capture moments that told stories about their students’ experiences in school. Instead of focusing on what was coming out of the iPad, they were focused on what was going into it.
This is how I have always used them with my students. The are amazing creation tools once you get the workflow right.
Most of the apps on the iPads for the lower grades are aimed at creating and expressing ideas. In addition to Explain Everything, they include MyStory, iMovie, Animation HD, Google Earth, Book Creator, Show Me, Brushes, and Comic Life.
Hello, I am Origo. I am a 3D printer for ten year olds.
You can draw your very own things in 3Dtin and I'll build them for you in plastic.
Right now, I am just an idea. I will be as easy to use as an Xbox or Wii. I'll be as big as three Xbox 360s and as expensive as three Xbox 360s. I will sit on your desk and quietly build your ideas, drawings and dreams.
There are other 3D printers. But none will be as easy to use as I will. None will be as reliable or work as hard for you. I'm not a kit or an industrial machine. I'm not complicated. I'm an appliance, like a toaster or a microwave. Only I'm purple and make your stuff.
But if we shift the purpose of education from consuming knowledge and stating answers to creating knowledge and exploring solutions, the fallacy of Khan Academy “reinventing education” is blatently apparent.
"The website launched in April with a zinger: Jon Krakauer's 22,000-word expose on the alleged fraud and fabrications of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Greg Mortenson, best-selling author of "Three Cups of Tea." Within three days, Krakauer's piece, "Three Cups of Deceit," had been downloaded by more than 75,000 people."
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"Keep that status update to yourself.
That's the advice teachers are being given as the education system grapples with the expanding use of social media by students.
Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation has been conducting workshops with high school teachers in Algoma in recent months after the Ontario College of Teachers issued an advisory that teachers should keep their distance from students when it comes to Facebook, Twitter and other electronic communication."
With twitter it would be worth encouraging teachers wanting to use it with students to keep one that is private/professional pln related and create different accounts for their classrooms using alternative emails.
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