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Robert Ryshke

Teachers Use Cell Phones in the Classroom - High School Notes (usnews.com) - 1 views

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shared by Robert Ryshke on 28 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Robert Ryshke on 28 Oct 11
     
    You won't find Willyn Webb telling her high school students to put away their cell phones, even though they are technically banned in her Colorado district. She's been using cell phones to augment her lessons at Delta County Opportunity School for years.
  • Robert Ryshke on 28 Oct 11
     
    Teachers talk about this problem from a 'restrictive" perspective, can it be a learning tool?
  • Beth Holland on 04 Nov 11
     
    Greg Kulowiec has done some great work with cell phones in his classroom. You can learn more on his blog: http://kulowiectech.blogspot.com/ Specifically, he has used them for blogging and as a student response tool: http://kulowiectech.blogspot.com/search?q=cell+phones
Chris Harrow

Home - 1 views

www.cellcraftgame.com/Home.html

gaming biology cell game science

shared by Chris Harrow on 20 Sep 11 - Cached
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  • Chris Harrow on 20 Sep 11
     
    OK, this is a biology game, but image the power of a math game that could accomplish what this does for cell biology.
  • Robert Ryshke on 20 Sep 11
     
    OK! I just played the game, Cell Craft. Very interesting and potentially a good classroom or study tool to make the learning of cellular respiration interesting. What do you all think?
Chris Harrow

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Magazine - The Atlantic - 1 views

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google technology brain attention information thinking

shared by Chris Harrow on 22 Jan 12 - Cached
  • media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought.
  • what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation
  • Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the Internet, not to mention the popularity of text-messaging on cell phones, we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking—perhaps even a new sense of the self. “
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  • “For us, working on search is a way to work on artificial intelligence.”
  • In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book, or by any other act of contemplation, for that matter, we make our own associations, draw our own inferences and analogies, foster our own ideas. Deep reading, as Maryanne Wolf argues, is indistinguishable from deep thinking.
  • Chris Harrow on 22 Jan 12
     
    Older article saying technology may be changing our ability to read, think, and produce deep works.
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