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William Russo

23 Things about Classroom Laptops « - 2 views

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shared by William Russo on 11 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Work avoidance just went digital
  • ou need to find ways to bring that into class, not try and ban it.
  • Find ways in which one or two students can ‘share’ work with many. Create online spaces where students can use ‘friend-networks’.
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  • 11. Don’t be boring! Using a laptop to type in answers to textbook questions, print them out and hand it is absolutely facile. Your textbook is NOT compatible with student motivation towards technology. Boring computer activities lead to work avoidance strategies and self-interest use of the internet.
  • 12. Don’t try to win the proxy war Filters can be got around, they will always find a way. Entering a proxy war means more wasted time trying to work out what sites will work – You have to test your lessons using THEIR proxy (web access) – as you’ll find that things you want to use are blocked. Overtly policed and blocked networks are counter-productive.
  • 15. The wipe-board is no longer the hub of activity – unless you put it online. The board is not the place to ‘look’. Consider how it can be used to work with ‘small groups’ to workshop ideas – and use the laptops as a student management tool to keep them busy and focused on work – not you or the board.
  • 18. Empower and enlist your Library Librarians are teachers with an additional skill – enlist them in your classroom as a team-teacher. Don’t ask them to find online resources for you – that’s lazy, as them to teach you how to do it, or teach your students.
  • Powerful learning, comes from passionate, motivated teachers who never stop learning. Don’t lock-step these people by industrialist notions of hierarchical power play – or resort to moral or ideological pressure to teachers to do more. It is a long slow process to renew learning, not overnight change. Recognise how important the goodwill of staff is – given the absolute lack of central government funding to invest in teachers – the way it is investing in infrastructure. The criteria used to target ‘future leaders’ is not going to be as effective as it once was, so be prepared for innovation to come from the grassroots.
  • William Russo on 11 Oct 09
     
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  • William Russo on 11 Oct 09
     
    Intersting thoughts in this article regarding 1:1. When you read the section on leadership, think of ways we can nurture our teacher tech leaders.
William Russo

Bloom's Taxonomy Poster for Elementary Teachers - 3 views

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shared by William Russo on 24 Oct 09 - Cached
  • William Russo on 24 Oct 09
     
    An oldie byt goody...this time as a cute butterfly
William Russo

Don't Forget To Use the Phone - Gina Trapani - HarvardBusiness.org - 2 views

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shared by William Russo on 02 Nov 09 - Cached
  • William Russo on 02 Nov 09
     
    From Harvard Business - the benefits of a phone call vs. email
William Russo

Google co-founder Sergey Brin wants more computers in schools | Technology | Los Angele... - 2 views

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shared by William Russo on 31 Oct 09 - Cached
  • William Russo on 31 Oct 09
     
    Interesting thoughts by Google's founder. Consider this in light of how we approach our work.
William Russo

Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas: How to Teach Summarizing: A Critical Learning Skill for S... - 4 views

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  • William Russo on 11 Nov 09
     
    Nice artice that brings insight on how to work through levels of cognition for students. So many of them cannot summarize, because, for the most part, teachers may not be using the best techniques to elicit good responses.
  • Siu Connor on 11 Nov 09
     
    While it may be true that teachers may not use the best techniques, summarizing is a difficult skill to teach in and of itself.Most students will equate summarizing with " giving a book report" and misconstrue what summarizing truly entails. Having students sift through details and information to arrive at "the important details" is a continuous cognitive process that children reach at different levels at different times in their cognitive development which is one reason why I think this skill is so difficult to teach.
Ken Fuller

A Taste for Telepresence -- THE Journal - 0 views

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shared by Ken Fuller on 29 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • He envisioned that telepresence would allow the district to participate in cultural exchanges among local students and those in other countries. It could be used to deliver staff development courses and enable people to get together for district business meetings without the time, expense, or carbon emissions associated with physical travel.
  • VoIP was a revelation to the district. Teachers have become more immediately accessible to parents, who no longer have to leave messages in the main offices and hope to be available when teachers call back. And now, when a teacher or staff member moves to another location in the district, the phone and a person's number can follow along; all it requires is a simple update through software. "We know who's got that device, where they have it, where they have it plugged in," Devkota explains. In short, VoIP gave the district community a taste for location-free communications, which naturally led to the next best thing to being there: telepresence.
  • Ken Fuller on 29 Apr 11
     
    I think this an interesting article. The only aspect that gave me pause, other than cost, was the idea of location-free_communications. I'm envisioning PA systems on steroids. I opened a topic "Telepresence" to see if anyone wanted to weigh in on the topic.
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