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Amanda Nichols

Kansas City school allows students to bring laptops, smartphones to class - KansasCity.com - 0 views

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    From the article: South Forsyth High School in Georgia made the leap to BYOT in 2009 and saw the number of discipline referrals for technology abuse drop dramatically, principal Jason Branch said. In its first year of BYOT, the school had four discipline referrals for technology abuse, after amassing 400 over the previous two years. Instead of working to subvert tech barriers, students were protecting their privilege with what Branch called a "mutual respect and instructional understanding between teachers and students." Sion made its leap trusting students - and trusting teachers. "We have to change the way we teach," said Sion world history teacher Beth Ingram. "Our concept of what knowledge is is changing.
Amanda Nichols

The Library as a Digital Learning Space -- THE Journal - 0 views

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    From the article: With 33 years of experience as a school librarian under her belt, Snyder said getting adults to understand the changing role and "look" of the library is an ongoing battle. "A lot of people still think of the library as a warehouse where you go to get a book or a magazine," she said. "To deal with it we just strive to be a model for helping people understand that a media center is a lot more than just a place for physical books."
Amanda Nichols

Education Week Teacher: Redefining Instruction With Technology: Five Essential Steps - 1 views

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    From the article: "The problem, I began to realize, was my own understanding of how the iPads should be utilized in the classroom. I had seen them as a supplement to my pre-existing curriculum, trying to fit them into the structure of what I'd always done. This was the wrong approach: To truly change how my classroom worked, I needed a technology-based redefinition of my practice."  Interesting to think about going forward.
Amanda Nichols

In Some Cash-Strapped Schools, Kids Bring Their Own Tech Devices | MindShift - 0 views

  • “cell phones are not computers! They may both contain microprocessors and batteries, but as of today, their functionality is quite different…The computer is an intellectual laboratory and vehicle for self-expression that makes it possible for children to learn and do things in ways unthinkable just a few years ago. We impair such empowerment when we limit educational practice to the functionality of the least powerful device.”
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    From the article: "Why not let kids use the tech tools they're already familiar with to enhance their learning? But as schools try to figure out the best way of transitioning to this new world, some thorny issues must first be sorted out. How do teachers and school systems prepare for all the different platforms, when some kids are bringing in tablets, others are bringing their parents' old laptops, and the remainder are on mobile phones? And what effect does this change have on the dynamics of a classroom?"
Amanda Nichols

Eight Tech Trends for Librarians (and Teachers too!)| The Committed Sardine - 0 views

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    The changing roles and resources available through, and for, school libraries and librarians
Amanda Nichols

FACEBOOK: LIKE? | More Intelligent Life - 0 views

  • The internet allows three things, broadly speaking: access to content (video, music, things to read), self-expression (blogs, Twitter) and communication (e-mail, chat, Skype). Facebook competes with it on all these fronts
  • “If you’re a start-up today, you can leverage the world’s largest social network. For free. Why would you want to do the really hard thing, which is recreate a social network, when what you can do is focus on the technology you want to build, and use the one that already exists?”
  • “You didn’t come to Facebook because we’re so awesome. You came to Facebook because your friends are awesome. They’re doing interesting things and you want to know about it. Time that you’re spending conscious of Facebook as a thing probably means we made a mistake.”
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  • The culture of “why not this too?” keeps the giant growing and constantly changing. 
  • The plain lower-case logo looks almost sorry to bother you. Tiffani Jones Brown, who oversees the writing of much of the text on the site, says that its personality must be nothing more than “simple, human, clear and consistent”. The music app is called…Music. The photos app is called Photos. The message service is called Messages. Everything on the site is to be written so that an 11-year-old can read it—even though Facebook likes its users to be at least 13.
  • This highlights a key feature of Facebook: it is the anti-Apple. Apple’s products are designed down to their molecules so that you never forget who made them. The colours, fonts and distinctive shapes give Apple an ever-present personality. This reflects the top-down, “we know best” culture cultivated for decades by the brilliant authoritarian Steve Jobs. Facebook could not be more different. “‘Authority’ is just not a word here,” Bosworth says with a laugh. “It’s not a thing we use.”
  • “The things people complain about in real life, it’s like they rediscovered them on Facebook. It’s like gossip never existed before, as if your history never followed you around before. I’m not saying there’s not some differences—but these aren’t Facebook problems, they’re just fundamentally human problems.”
  • Even if Facebook should fall—as Friendster and MySpace rose and fell—its reverberations will be lasting. Google made the internet navigable. Apple made it portable, through intuitive, brilliant devices. Now Facebook has made it social, raising a generation that will never again expect things to be otherwise.
  • Facebook has not replaced social life. It has tightened the social fabric, in a way that fits many people, and which many just as clearly chafe against. The social ills ascribed to it are, by and large, not new. Once people suffered from hysteria and melancholy; in the modern age, they have anxiety and depression. Once they suffered gossiping and bullying; now it’s “Facebook official” drama and cyber-bullying. Once they could envy the greener grass on their neighbour’s side; now it’s “Facebook anxiety” about his (or, more likely, her) online photos. Once they wondered if their social lives were fulfilling enough; now they suffer FOMO—fear of missing out—and get to see all the pictures from the party they weren’t invited to. New labels for old problems. But these problems are larger-looming and becoming ever-present for the mill
  • ions who can’t get enough of their social networks
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    Interesting article on how Facebook permeates daily life and online interactions
Amanda Nichols

Journey North: A Global Study of Wildlife Migration and Seasonal Change - 1 views

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    Cool free app from Annenberg Learner geared toward scientific exploration
anonymous

Changing Gears 2012: rejecting the "flip" - 5 views

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    A perspective on the "flipped" classroom. 
Amanda Nichols

The End Of Multiple Choice? The Quest To Create Accurate Robot Essay Graders | Co.Exist... - 1 views

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    From the article: " the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation said it is creating a $100,000 competition for software that can 'reliably automate' grading essays on state tests." Very interesting idea; is it feasible?
Matt McCarty

Measuring 1:1 Results -- THE Journal - 1 views

  • McCrea: What were the hard parts of this initiative? Smith: Staff development was a big issue. Before the 1:1 rollout we spent at least six months on staff development. Going from 30 kids in a room opening textbooks to 30 kids opening computers is a significant shift. We wound up with a number of early adopters who bought into the change and a bunch of others in the middle who were saying, "Give me time and we will get there." Then there were staff members who refused to participate and threatened to retire. We stuck to our guns and told everyone that we were moving in this direction and that everyone had to be on board. Four years later we're still not there yet but we've definitely made progress. Getting to 100 percent is going to take a while.
arharrison

Irving ISD One to One Laptop Program - 1 views

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    Please explore the resources compiled on this site, and join the discussion on changing instruction, empowering students and challenging our schools to explore new ways of teaching and learning. Check out our One-to-One Symposium Videos! View a Quality Example of Project Based Learning
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