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Michelle Krill

Welcome to the Group - 35 views

Go to Home>My Groups and find the CFF Group. On the bottom right, click Edit under Alerts to change the setting. Cathy DiPiano wrote: > But where do I set the email settings? Ann and I were look...

Organization

started by Michelle Krill on 30 Apr 08 2 follow-ups, last by Michelle Krill on 07 Nov 08
Michelle Krill

Tagging and Notes - 28 views

Right, I didn't want to force folks into using pre-defined tags from the the Group Tag Dictionary. I mainly want to avoid the no_tag on bookmarks. I will check that it's set for the 2nd option - to...

Organization

started by Michelle Krill on 10 Dec 08 2 follow-ups, last by Michelle Krill on 11 Dec 08
anonymous

Educational Leadership:Teaching for the 21st Century:What Would Socrates Say? - 0 views

www.ascd.org/..._Would_Socrates_Say%C2%A2.aspx

21st-century

shared by anonymous on 07 Sep 09 - Cached
  • The noted philosopher once said, "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." My fear is that instead of knowing nothing except the fact of our own ignorance, we will know everything except the fact of our own ignorance. Google has given us the world at our fingertips, but speed and ubiquity are not the same as actually knowing something.
  • Socrates believed that we learn best by asking essential questions and testing tentative answers against reason and fact in a continual and virtuous circle of honest debate. We need to approach the contemporary knowledge explosion and the technologies propelling this new enlightenment in just that manner. Otherwise, the great knowledge and communication tsunami of the 21st century may drown us in a sea of trivia instead of lifting us up on a rising tide of possibility and promise.
  • A child born today could live into the 22nd century. It's difficult to imagine all that could transpire between now and then. One thing does seem apparent: Technical fixes to our outdated educational system are likely to be inadequate. We need to adapt to a rapidly changing world.
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  • Every day we are exposed to huge amounts of information, disinformation, and just plain nonsense. The ability to distinguish fact from factoid, reality from fiction, and truth from lies is not a "nice to have" but a "must have" in a world flooded with so much propaganda and spin.
  • For example, for many years, the dominant U.S. culture described the settling of the American West as a natural extension of manifest destiny, in which people of European descent were "destined" to occupy the lands of the indigenous people. This idea was, and for some still is, one of our most enduring and dangerous collective fabrications because it glosses over human rights and skirts the issue of responsibility. Without critical reflection, we will continually fall victim to such notions.
  • A second element of the 21st century mind that we must cultivate is the willingness to abandon supernatural explanations for naturally occurring events.
  • The third element of the 21st century mind must be the recognition and acceptance of our shared evolutionary collective intelligence.
  • To solve the 21st century's challenges, we will need an education system that doesn't focus on memorization, but rather on promoting those metacognitive skills that enable us to monitor our own learning and make changes in our approach if we perceive that our learning is not going well.
  • Metacognition is a fancy word for a higher-order learning process that most of us use every day to solve thousands of problems and challenges.
  • We are at the threshold of a worldwide revolution in learning. Just as the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the wall of conventional schooling is collapsing before our eyes. A new electronic learning environment is replacing the linear, text-bound culture of conventional schools. This will be the proving ground of the 21st century mind.
  • We will cease to think of technology as something that has its own identity, but rather as an extension of our minds, in much the same way that books extend our minds without a lot of fanfare. According to Huff and Saxberg, immersive technologies—such as multitouch displays; telepresence (an immersive meeting experience that offers high video and audio clarity); 3-D environments; collaborative filtering (which can produce recommendations by comparing the similarity between your preferences and those of other people); natural language processing; intelligent software; and simulations—will transform teaching and learning by 2025.
  • So imagine that a group of teachers and middle school students decides to tackle the question, What is justice? Young adolescents' discovery of injustice in the world is a crucial moment in their development. If adults offer only self-serving answers to this question, students can become cynical or despairing. But if adults treat the problem of injustice truthfully and openly, hope can emerge and grow strong over time. As part of their discussion, let's say that the teachers and students have cocreated a middle school earth science curriculum titled Water for the World. This curriculum would be a blend of classroom, community, and online activities. Several nongovernmental organizations—such as Waterkeeper, the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and Water for People—might support the curriculum, which would meet national and state standards and include lessons, activities, games, quizzes, student-created portfolios, and learning benchmarks.
  • The goal of the curriculum would be to enable students from around the world to work together to address the water crisis in a concrete way. Students might help bore a freshwater well, propose a low-cost way of preventing groundwater pollution, or develop a local water treatment technique. Students and teachers would collaborate by talking with one another through Skype and posting research findings using collaborative filtering. Students would create simulations and games and use multitouch displays to demonstrate step-by-step how their projects would proceed. A student-created Web site would include a blog; a virtual reference room; a teachers' corner; a virtual living room where learners communicate with one another in all languages through natural language processing; and 3-D images of wells being bored in Africa, Mexico, and Texas. In a classroom like this, something educationally revolutionary would happen: Students and adults would connect in a global, purposeful conversation that would make the world a better place. We would pry the Socratic dialogue from the hands of the past and lift it into the future to serve the hopes and dreams of all students everywhere.
  • There has never been a time in human history when the opportunity to create universally accessible knowledge has been more of a reality. And there has never been a time when education has meant more in terms of human survival and happiness.
  • To start, we must overhaul and redesign the current school system. We face this great transition with both hands tied behind our collective backs if we continue to pour money, time, and effort into an outdated system of education. Mass education belongs in the era of massive armies, massive industrial complexes, and massive attempts at social control. We have lost much talent since the 19th century by enforcing stifling education routines in the name of efficiency. Current high school dropout rates clearly indicate that our standardized testing regime and outdated curriculums are wasting the potential of our youth.
  • If we stop thinking of schools as buildings and start thinking of learning as occurring in many different places, we will free ourselves from the conventional education model that still dominates our thinking.
  • anonymous on 07 Sep 09
     
    Some very interesting points in this article. Why not add your coments?
  • anonymous on 07 Sep 09
     
    A VERY interesting article. If you've got Diigo installed, why not add your comments
Steven O'Donnell

Playing History - 4 views

playinghistory.org

shared by Steven O'Donnell on 07 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Search For Games Ues the search box that appears in the uper right corner any playing history page to search through the directory of games.
  • Darcy Goshorn on 07 Jul 09
     
    AWWWSOME!
  • Darcy Goshorn on 07 Jul 09
     
    There are tons of free historical games, interactives and simulations on the web. Playing history aggregates info on these resources in a simple, searchable database making it easy to find, rate, and review historical games. There are currently 128 shared games.
  • Steven O'Donnell on 22 Oct 09
     
    History games online!
Mary Schwander

YouTube - User Rights, Section 107 Music Video - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

copyright fairuse

shared by Mary Schwander on 30 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Mary Schwander on 30 Apr 09
     
    Learn about copyright and fair use with this engaging music video from the Media Education Lab. T
anonymous

Google Student Blog: Introducing Google Buzz - 6 views

googleforstudents.blogspot.com/...introducing-google-buzz.html

google_buzz gmail google socialnetworking social web2.0

shared by anonymous on 10 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Google Buzz is a new way to start conversations about the things you find interesting. It's built right into Gmail, so you don't have to peck out an entirely new set of friends from scratch — it just works. If you think about it, there's always been a big social network underlying Gmail. Buzz brings this network to the surface by automatically setting you up to follow the people you email and chat with the most.
anonymous

Math Worksheet Generator - 11 views

www.educationlabs.com/...default.aspx

math worksheets generator microsoft_office

shared by anonymous on 07 Apr 10 - Cached
  • »  Sign In to participate in discussions. Math Worksheet Generator Do you spend a lot of time searching for worksheets with practice problems to give your students? Now you can easily create your own in just a few seconds with the Math Worksheet Generator. This is a tool that generates multiple math problems based on a sample, and then creates a worksheet that you can distribute. By analyzing the math problem you provide, or one of the built-in samples, the generator determines the structure of the expression and provides similar problems. We tack on an answer sheet too.
Kristin Hokanson

BBC News - Is it time to defend our rights? - 3 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8544935.stm

copyright

shared by Kristin Hokanson on 29 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Kristin Hokanson on 29 Apr 10
     
    We are on the verge of building so many restrictions into online activity that the creativity, inventiveness and sheer joy of life on the net will be squeezed out just to ensure that over-hyped comedians are able to censor videos of their fans waiting for the show to begin. This is not the way forward, but if we do not act now then it will shape the internet that we offer to the billions waiting to get online and change the world.
anonymous

Tilapia Film - 5 views

tilapiafilm.com

film tilapia documentaries politics environment environmentScience art

shared by anonymous on 06 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 06 Jan 11
     
    Real interesting conversation starters for many different content areas. Click the documentaries on the right.
anonymous

See a Nifty Animated Short Made Entirely in Google Docs -- Vulture - 9 views

nymag.com/...google_docs_animation.html

shared by anonymous on 19 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • See a Nifty Animated Short Made Entirely in Google Docs 12/17/10 at 09:55 AM Comment 9Comment 9Comments get_comment_count({ container_id: "entry-111734", article_url: "http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/12/google_docs_animation.html" }); This is what all PowerPoint presentations look like, right? Charts: so beautiful.
  • anonymous on 19 Dec 10
     
    Wow, Google Docs rock.
anonymous

DIALOGUE DRAFT -- "My Brother, My Keeper" - 3 views

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change

shared by anonymous on 05 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Dr. Townshend: What the hell's this all about? Dr. Kelso: Nothing! I was, uh, just looking over your files and, um...well...your osteoporotic patients aren't on Bisphosphonate; your diabetics aren't on ACE inhibitors. Doug, a lot of your treatments are pretty out of date. Dr. Townshend: Come on, Bob, I'm--guys like us, we're set in our ways. Dr. Kelso: Well, this is not an age thing, Doug. Hell, these days if you've been out of med school five years, half of what you learned is obsolete. Why do you think I spend every other weekend at a seminar in some two-star hotel ballroom that still stinks of last night's prom vomit? I do it because I have to keep up. Dr. Townshend: Also, it gives you two days away from the missus, right? [laughs] Once again, I am sorry I was the one who introduced you in the first place! Dr. Kelso's expressions remains serious. Dr. Townshend: Look, Bob, I just...I don't have the energy for all that stuff. Dr. Kelso: Well...then we got a problem.
  • anonymous on 05 Nov 09
     
    This is the part of the dialog thati's important. Down the, "Then we got a problem."
anonymous

DIALOGUE DRAFT -- "My Brother, My Keeper" - 1 views

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change

shared by anonymous on 05 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Dr. Townshend: What the hell's this all about? Dr. Kelso: Nothing! I was, uh, just looking over your files and, um...well...your osteoporotic patients aren't on Bisphosphonate; your diabetics aren't on ACE inhibitors. Doug, a lot of your treatments are pretty out of date. Dr. Townshend: Come on, Bob, I'm--guys like us, we're set in our ways. Dr. Kelso: Well, this is not an age thing, Doug. Hell, these days if you've been out of med school five years, half of what you learned is obsolete. Why do you think I spend every other weekend at a seminar in some two-star hotel ballroom that still stinks of last night's prom vomit? I do it because I have to keep up. Dr. Townshend: Also, it gives you two days away from the missus, right? [laughs] Once again, I am sorry I was the one who introduced you in the first place! Dr. Kelso's expressions remains serious. Dr. Townshend: Look, Bob, I just...I don't have the energy for all that stuff. Dr. Kelso: Well...then we got a problem.
  • anonymous on 05 Nov 09
     
    A dialog from Scrubs that could easily apply to some teachers, don't you think?
Lymin Jay

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