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Megan Haddadi

Why I still want MS and HS to have a Laptop | The Thinking Stick - 0 views

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    1:1 school, iPads versus laptops
Demetri Orlando

The Culture of a 1:1 school - 0 views

  • When identifying important elements of a school culture, would you have placed the learning culture as the most important element?
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    I don't think we'd have anyone who'd say "never use the device" but I do think we have work to do in order to expand some departments' vision for how laptops can be used.
Demetri Orlando

Why I Just Asked My Students To Put Their Laptops Away… - Medium - 0 views

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    good article about the negative aspect of computer use during lectures
Demetri Orlando

The American School in London: High School laptop program - 0 views

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    BYOM - might be good for MS
Demetri Orlando

UVA Med School Embraces Innovative Teaching - 0 views

  • they are expected to graduate with the habits of mind—curiosity, skepticism, compassion, wonder—that will prepare them to be better physicians
  • About half of all medical knowledge becomes obsolete every five years. Every 15 years, the world’s body of scientific literature doubles.
  • better integration of formal knowledge and clinical experience and a learning process that is individualized, not one-size-fits-all
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  • One of the goals of this whole model—of having students do a lot of the learning themselves rather than passively listening—is that they need to be lifelong learners
  • Gone is the traditional 50-minute lecture. (Also gone is paper, for the most part.) The students have completed the assigned reading beforehand and, because they’ve absorbed the facts on their own, class time serves another purpose. Self-assessment tests at the start of class measure how well they understand the material. Then it’s time to do a test case, to reinforce their critical thinking and push their knowledge and skills to another level.
  • The room’s interactive technology allows her to link to students’ laptops; it also enables their work to be broadcast onto the big screens. Instead of a blackboard, she can use a document camera, which is like an overhead projector, allowing her to write or draw a diagram that will project on the screens. Absentees can view a podcast of the session.
  • We’re trying to create a situation in which they are thinking as a physician working with a patient, not as a professional test taker,
  • Immediately following the exercise, students move to a separate room where, still highly energized, they watch the video and reflect on their decision making as physicians in that particular situation.
  • studies in modern learning theory indicate that hour-long lectures are not the best way to teach students because the average attention span for listening to one is about 12 minutes.
  • The circular learning studio, Pollart notes, is designed for learning, not teaching.
  • There was some initial resistance. Some faculty felt a little offended
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    a lot of these ideas are applicable to k-12
Megan Haddadi

Documents To Go Adds PowerPoint Creation - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • you can create basic PowerPoint presentations on iPhones, Androids and BlackBerrys, as long as you have Documents To Go Premium
  • But for those who want to create a rough draft of a presentation, or who worry about their laptop crashing on the eve of a big business meeting, Documents To Go offers the ability to cobble together a passable piece of work on the phone
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    PowerPoint for SmartPhones
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