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Why Curation Will Transform Education and Learning: 10 Key Reasons - 1 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 05 Sep 12
     
    "Content curation will play a major role both in the way we "teach" and in the way we educate ourselves on any topic. When and where it will be adopted, it will deeply affect many key aspects of the educational ecosystem." I feel that Diigo is a way to help with that curation. This is a great article by Robin Good.
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How Educators Are Using Learnist | MindShift - 1 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 21 Jul 12
     
    "Learnist, as many have already pointed out, works much like Pinterest - a way to catalog online resources on a topic and share them with the user's social network. And like Pinterest, it looks like a digital bulletin board with pictures and messages, and connects with Facebook accounts. In fact, the site's "learning boards" look quite a bit like Facebook's timeline feature, and Facebook membership is required to use Learnist at this point. In its current closed beta form, Learnist, launched by Grockit, is still very much in its infancy, but some curious teachers have already jumped on the wagon. Time will tell whether educators will stick with Pinterest, or migrate to Learnist because of its association with Grockit, which already has a large and loyal following as a social learning tool." Nice article on how educators are using Learnist. Hope this one makes it past Beta.
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A Primer for EdTech: Tools for K-12 and Higher Ed. Teachers | Tools | HYBRID PEDAGOGY - 0 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 02 Dec 13
     
    "Every educator, from kindergarten to graduate school, should contribute to the important and significant work of teaching students to use online sources and social networks for educational and professional goals. To ignore the technology, or assume that our students already know it because they use it every day, is to participate in educational malpractice." A very sensible article about what main tools are used to move kids from social media to academic purposes -- and how to get them there. Speaks to PLNs, PLEs, Pinterest, curation with Diigo, Symbaloo, Netvibes, Twitter. Very good explanation of how the work, the advantages, and the possible problems. Hybrid Pedagogy is a Digital Journal with a team of editors and writers.
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Free Technology for Teachers: 19 Educational Games About U.S. Civics - 3 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 02 Jul 14
     
    "iCivics is an excellent source of educational games that offer lessons in civics. Since its launch a few years ago, iCivics has steadily grown to the point that it now contains nineteen educational games for students. All of the games require students to take on a decision making role. To succeed in the games students have to apply their understanding of the rules and functions local, state, or Federal government. Some games require an understanding of the U.S. court system and or the Constitution." Sounds like a great site for advanced adult learners getting ready for citizenship, or for high school students studying civics. I can also see this being used in an American culture class overseas. t/h R. Byrne
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20 YouTube Channels for Educators - Shake Up Learning - 1 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 09 Aug 15
     
    One of many articles from this prolific educational blog. You are invited to add your own favorite YouTube Channel to the collection here. Shake Up Learning also has occasional articles on pedagogy. The list of 20 includes professional development (ISTE) and various Google help sites, richard Byrne and other bloggers, and the Office Ed Tech at the U.S. Dept of education.
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Google For Educators - 5 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 08 Aug 10
     
    "The Google Teacher Academy is a FREE professional development experience designed to help primary and secondary educators from around the globe get the most from innovative technologies. Each Academy is an intensive, one-day event where participants get hands-on experience with Google's free products and other technologies, learn about innovative instructional strategies, receive resources to share with colleagues, and immerse themselves in an innovative corporate environment. Upon completion, Academy participants become Google Certified Teachers who share what they learn with other primary and secondary educators in their local region." To get into the Academy, you must submit a one-minute video--more instructions on the page.
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Shaping the Way We Teach English - 6 views

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  • Deborah Healey on 09 May 09
     
    Teacher training website with links to video content from a US Department of State funded project with the University of Oregon. All content is freely available.
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 24 Oct 11
     
    "Shaping the Way We Teach English is a video-based training product for English language educators. It has 14 modules (topics). The videos showcase classroom scenes from around the world and have an accompanying training manual plus additional readings. "The University of Oregon developed and produced the materials through funding from the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Office of English Language Programs ©2007. All materials are free of charge and copyable for non-commercial Educational use."
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elearnspace. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age - 3 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 30 Nov 09
     
    "In the original 2004 article I stated: "The pipe is more important than the content within the pipe. Our ability to learn what we need for tomorrow is more important than what we know today. A real challenge for any learning theory is to actuate known knowledge at the point of application" (Conclusion section, � 1). I find Verhagen�s (2006) critique falls at precisely this point. The core of what I wrote in the initial article is still valid: that learning is a network phenomenon, influenced (aided) by socialization and technology. Two years is a lifetime in the educational technology space. Two years ago, web 2.0 was just at the beginning of the hype cycle. Blogs, wikis, and RSS�now prominent terms at most educational conferences�were still the sandbox of learning technology geeks. Podcasting was not yet prominent. YouTube didn't exist. Google had not released its suite of web-based tools. Google Earth was not yet on the desktops of children and executives alike�each thrilled to view their house, school, or business in satellite images. Learning Management Systems still held the starting point of most elearning initiatives. Moodle was not yet prominent, and the term PLEs (personal learning environments) did not exist. In two years, our small space of educational technology evolved�perhaps exploded is a more accurate term."
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iNACOL-State-Policy-Frameworks-5-Critical-Issues-to-Transform-K12-Education-Nov2014.pdf - 0 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 12 Dec 14
     
    A pdf file which discusses critical issues with referenced support. the 5 issues are (predictably): 1.Create competency based education systems 2. Improve student access and equity 3. Measure and assure quality inputs and outputs 4. Support innovative educators 5. Support new learning models through connectivity, data systems, security. (Sounds like that last is thrown together...
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Prowise Presenter entirely free of charge - UKEdChat - 0 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 14 Nov 18
     
    "With Prowise Presenter you create lessons or presentations easily, quickly and interactively. This smart education software is 100% free for everyone. Presenter is bursting with educational content and interactive options for teachers (instruction), groups (collaborative learning) and students (tasks and assignments). For both primary and secondary education. Consider, for example: images, videos, tools, Touch Table tools and 3D models, but also ready-made curriculum strands, quizzes and mind maps." Free tool.
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Office 365 Education delivers the next wave of innovation - 0 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 26 Apr 19
     
    "Today's updates to Office 365 Education include enabling students to write a paper using only their voice, thanks to Dictation in Office, the latest feature to join Microsoft Learning Tools, as well as improved access to assignments and class collaboration with the Microsoft Teams iPhone and Android apps. What's more, we are delivering on the number one most requested feature from teachers, page locking in OneNote Class Notebook-allowing teachers to provide students with read-only access-and we will further help teachers save time through assignment and grade integrations with leading Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Student Information Systems (SIS), including Capita SIMS in the U.K. Office 365 Education gives teachers and students the power to unlock limitless learning. And best of all, it's free for teachers and students." Update on new features (2019), including dictation to Office apps.
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The less flexible the teaching, the more poorly boys read - UKEdChat - 1 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 11 Feb 19
     
    "n their study, Van Hek, Kraaykamp and Buchmann show that the structure of the education system influences the differences in reading performance by boys and girls. The less freedom that teachers and schools have to design their own teaching methods, the worse their pupils perform, especially boys. So the more standardised the education in a country becomes, the bigger the differences in reading performance by boys and girls. The researchers found the biggest difference between the sexes in Bulgaria, where education is very strictly standardised. The smallest difference was in Chile, where there is a lot of freedom to adjust teaching to the individual student. In the Netherlands the difference between boys and girls is also relatively small and the freedom for schools and teachers relatively large. "
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News & Media Literacy | Common Sense Education - 1 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 11 Nov 17
     
    "EDUCATOR TOOLKIT News & Media Literacy In today's 24/7 digital world, we have instant access to all kinds of information online. Educators need strategies to equip students with the core skills they need to think critically about today's media. We teach foundational skills in news and media literacy through our Digital Citizenship program, specifically through our Creative Credit & Copyright and Information Literacy topics. Built on more than 10 years of expertise and classroom testing, these lessons and related teaching materials give students the essential skills to be smart, savvy media consumers and creators. From lesson plans about fact-checking to clickbait headlines and fake news, we've covered everything. To learn more about our approach, read the Topic Backgrounder on news and media literacy."
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The Black Box & Educational Technologies | W. Ian O'Byrne - 0 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 12 Nov 19
     
    "Overall, Behaviorism, although controversial in the modern educational settings, continues to remain a tool at every educator's disposal to construct foundations for lessons and help students to succeed. The incorporation of current and burgeoning technologies will further fuel the debate regarding the use of behaviorist instructional/behavior modification strategies, however, these same technologies can help even the most struggling student to succeed and thrive in their educational career. We must ask whether we, as adults, like the ways in which our behaviors are modified by these digital, social spaces. Only upon some honest reflection can we answer whether we want to do the same to our children." A thoughtful examination of how behaviorism applies in the uses of technology and generally in classroom practices.
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educational-origami - home - 0 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 27 Feb 13
     
    "Educational Origami is a blog and a wiki, about 21st Century Teaching and Learning. This wiki is not just about the integration of technology into the classroom, though this is certainly a critical area, it is about shifting our Educational paradigm. The world is not as simple as saying teachers are digital immigrants and students digital natives. In fact, we know that exposure to technology changes the brains of those exposed to it. The longer and stronger the exposure and the more intense the emotions the use of the technology or its content evokes, the more profound the change. This technology is increasingly ubiquitous. We have to change how we teach, how we assess, what we teach, when we teach it, where we are teaching it, and with what." A most interesting site that tells us what the learner needs to know. [Thanks to Bee.]
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4 surprising lessons about education from data collected around the world | TED Blog - 3 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 01 May 13
     
    In this TED talk, Andreas Schleicher describes a new scale, "PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment), an initiative of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). PISA not only tests students on their mathematical understanding, reading level and ability to apply learning to new problems, but also looks at what teachers get paid, how long the school day is, what the average class size is and whether quality of education is uniform across schools and social stratifications. It even measures cultural attitudes, like whether people in the country expect all students to achieve or only a small segment of them to. It's this broad approach to data collection that makes PISA so powerful, says Schleicher." An interesting way for a country to compare where it is and how it compares globally.
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Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • “The data is pretty weak. It’s very difficult when we’re pressed to come up with convincing data,”
  • he said change of a historic magnitude is inevitably coming to classrooms this decade: “It’s one of the three or four biggest things happening in the world today.”
  • schools are being motivated by a blind faith in technology and an overemphasis on digital skills — like using PowerPoint and multimedia tools — at the expense of math, reading and writing fundamentals. They say the technology advocates have it backward
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  • tough financial choices. In Kyrene, for example, even as technology spending has grown, the rest of the district’s budget has shrunk, leading to bigger classes and fewer periods of music, art and physical education.
  • The district leaders’ position is that technology has inspired students and helped them grow, but that there is no good way to quantify those achievements — putting them in a tough spot with voters deciding whether to bankroll this approach again. “My gut is telling me we’ve had growth,” said David K. Schauer, the superintendent here. “But we have to have some measure that is valid, and we don’t have that.”
  • Since then, the ambitions of those who champion educational technology have grown — from merely equipping schools with computers and instructional software, to putting technology at the center of the classroom and building the teaching around it.
  • . The district’s pitch was based not on the idea that test scores would rise, but that technology represented the future.
  • For instance, in the Maine math study, it is hard to separate the effect of the laptops from the effect of the teacher training.
  • “Rather than being a cure-all or silver bullet, one-to-one laptop programs may simply amplify what’s already occurring — for better or worse,” wrote Bryan Goodwin, spokesman for Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning, a nonpartisan group that did the study, in an essay. Good teachers, he said, can make good use of computers, while bad teachers won’t, and they and their students could wind up becoming distracted by the technology.
  • Larry Cuban, an education professor emeritus at Stanford University, said the research did not justify big investments by districts. “There is insufficient evidence to spend that kind of money. Period, period, period,” he said. “There is no body of evidence that shows a trend line.”
  • “In places where we’ve had a large implementing of technology and scores are flat, I see that as great,” she said. “Test scores are the same, but look at all the other things students are doing: learning to use the Internet to research, learning to organize their work, learning to use professional writing tools, learning to collaborate with others.”
  • It was something Ms. Furman doubted would have happened if the students had been using computers. “There is a connection between the physical hand on the paper and the words on the page,” she said. “It’s intimate.” But, she said, computers play an important role in helping students get their ideas down more easily, edit their work so they can see instant improvement, and share it with the class. She uses a document camera to display a student’s paper at the front of the room for others to dissect. Ms. Furman said the creative and editing tools, by inspiring students to make quick improvements to their writing, pay dividends in the form of higher-quality work. Last year, 14 of her students were chosen as finalists in a statewide essay contest that asked them how literature had affected their lives. “I was running down the hall, weeping, saying, ‘Get these students together. We need to tell them they’ve won!’ ”
  • For him, the best educational uses of computers are those that have no good digital equivalent. As examples, he suggests using digital sensors in a science class to help students observe chemical or physical changes, or using multimedia tools to reach disabled children.
  • engagement is a “fluffy term” that can slide past critical analysis. And Professor Cuban at Stanford argues that keeping children engaged requires an environment of constant novelty,
    • TESOL CALL-IS
      TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Feb 13
       
      Engagement can also mean sustained interest over a long term, e.g., Tiny Zoo.
  • “There is very little valid and reliable research that shows the engagement causes or leads to higher academic achievement,” he said.
  • computers can distract and not instruct.
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      TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Feb 13
       
      Student learns the game, not the concept. But this is "skills-based," not a thinking game. Technology mis-applied?
  • t Xavier is just shooting every target in sight. Over and over. Periodically, the game gives him a message: “Try again.” He tries again. “Even if he doesn’t get it right, it’s getting him to think quicker,” says the teacher, Ms. Asta. She leans down next to him: “Six plus one is seven. Click here.” She helps him shoot the right target. “See, you shot him.”
  • building a blog to write about Shakespeare’
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      TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Feb 13
       
      These are activities tat can't be measured with a standardized test. Can standardized tests encompass thinking skills beyond the most modest level?
  • classmates used a video camera to film a skit about Woodrow Wilson’s 14-point speech during World War I
  • Professor Cuban at Stanford said research showed that student performance did not improve significantly until classes fell under roughly 15 students, and did not get much worse unless they rose above 30. At the same time, he says bigger classes can frustrate teachers, making it hard to attract and retain talented ones.
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      TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Feb 13
       
      How much incremental improvement is made by having one student more or less? Ed research can't determine that, but it can be felt palpably in a classroom.
  • he resisted getting the interactive whiteboards sold as Smart Boards until, one day in 2008, he saw a teacher trying to mimic the product with a jury-rigged projector setup. “It was an ‘Aha!’ moment,” he said, leading him to buy Smart Boards, made by a company called Smart Technologies.
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      TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Feb 13
       
      So it has to be teachers who find the creative uses.
  • . Sales of computer software to schools for classroom use were $1.89 billion in 2010. Spending on hardware is more difficult to measure, researchers say, but some put the figure at five times that amount.
  • “Do we really need technology to learn?”
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Ten Engaging Digital Education Sites For Any Social Studies Classroom | 21 st Century E... - 3 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 19 Nov 16
     
    "If you have performed a recent search you may have found there is a countless number of social studies resources on the internet. In this post the goal was to find ten sites that addressed the area of Social Studies across all the diversified areas found in the discipline. Below, you will find the results of some extensive searching! You will discover a wide variety of materials including readings, OER (Open Education Resources), primary documents, textbooks, lessons, activities, interactives, videos, audios, and some great blog readings. There is bound to be something for any teacher. Best of all many of these resources will help build a Social Study Classroom e-curriculum while facilitating those important 21st century skills and engaging students! "
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Journal of Cognitive Affective Learning - Vol. 2, No. 2 (2006) - 1 views

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  • Presence, a sense of “being there,” is critical to the success of designing, teaching, and learning at a distance using both synchronous and asynchronous (blended) technologies. Emotions, behavior, and cognition are components of the way presence is perceived and experienced and are essential for explaining the ways we consciously and unconsciously perceive and experience distance education. A more complete understanding of the integration of the cognitive, behavioral, and emotional components of presence into distance education teaching and learning will impact the design, instructional facilitation, and experience of distance education faculty and learners. This paper focuses on a literature review of the research in the areas of: emotion as indispensable to the perception of reality, and presence and the role of emotion in creating presence. It builds on models from this research and presents: (a) a framework for creating presence in the blended distance education experience, (b) implications for practice, (c) implications for future research, and (d) a suggested combination of methods for measuring presence in distance education experiences.
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Techlearning > > Think Outside the Blog > January 15, 2006 - 1 views

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  • Wikis at School Educators at all levels are finding ways to incorporate wikis into their teaching. For every assignment that asks students to research a particular topic, there is a possible application for a wiki. Take, for example, a collaborative writing project. With a simple wiki, students from one class, multiple classes, or even multiple schools can post their writing samples for comment (see "High School Online Collaborative Writing"). The wiki structure makes it possible for several students to work on an assignment concurrently. Most wiki software packages track changes to a page so students and their teachers can see when and by whom the writing was edited. Or consider a different scenario: Students who are studying a complex topic such as the U.S. Constitution are broken into teams to research and present information about different aspects of the document and its history. In the past, this kind of student work might be shared with the rest of the class. With a wiki, it can be shared on the Web for anyone to read and use. Perhaps more exciting, parents, students in different classes or schools, and invited guests can add details, correct errors, and comment on what's been posted, making learning a truly collaborative process. Outside of the classroom, teachers and administrators are using wikis as tools for school planning and interaction with parents. The traditional printed newsletter, for example, can be replaced by a wiki that continuously provides announcements and other key information to parents. Some schools have chosen to use wiki software to build their entire Web sites.
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 16 May 12
     
    Educational uses of wikis - "Wikis at School Educators at all levels are finding ways to incorporate wikis into their teaching. For every assignment that asks students to research a particular topic, there is a possible application for a wiki."
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