Skype in the classroom strives to enrich students' learning experiences to discover new cultures, languages and ideas without leaving the classroom.
Skype in the classroom strives to enrich students' learning experiences to discover new cultures, languages and ideas without leaving the classroom. Skype in the classroom now features each individual organization's dynamic content, projects and available guest speakers
To join Skype in the classroom and view these exclusive resources, teachers should:
Sign up at education.skype.com using their Skype account details
Create a profile which includes their interests, location and the age groups they teach
Once complete, teachers will have full range to explore the Skype in the classroom organization microsites, utilize vast content from these organizations and engage in conversations with select guest experts.
For more information or to register for Skype in the classroom, please visit http://education.skype.com.
I created an interactive learning experience designed to provide students and teachers with opportunities to focus on digital citizenship while engaging in constructive play.
This free project has students sharing their December Traditions. Students will create either a digital or paper/pencil representation of a December tradition their family celebrates. Using a Web 2.0 tool, students can add a verbal component to their drawing and then publish their work to share other students around the world. Finally, students and teachers will have the opportunity to view and comment on the work of other students.
With newly introduced Glogster and Tinypic partnership, you can now upload any photo from Tinypic to your Glog and access your own photos stored on Tinypic. Just go to your Glogster images menu and click Tinypic! It's that easy.
Additionally, you can edit your photos on Tinypic with Glogster's unique graphics tool! Each picture will include a "Posterize with Glogster" link, making it very simple for Tinypic users to access Glogster's edit solution.
"Teens gather in networked public spaces to negotiate identity, gossip, support one another, jockey for status, collaborate, share information, flirt, joke, and goof around,"
To the uninitiated, however, the photos, videos, and cryptic comments that kids post on their personal pages often appear as impenetrable as a tenth grader's cluttered locker. Because schools tend to block access to social-networking sites, many educators have a tough time harnessing their potential as a teaching tool and modeling appropriate networking-site behaviors.
Yes... even younger and younger students can start to learn 3D modeling for computational thinking
It was hard to keep away my oldest daughter, who is 12, so we could finish.
It was hard to keep away my oldest daughter,
who is 12, so we could finish.
Taylor told her teacher what she did and asked if I could bring in my
Lap Top to show her. She asked if I would show the whole class as well.
Sketchup is remarkably user-friendly! Technology in the classroom is a great
tool... it motivates students, stimulates learning, and often levels the playing
field. Sketchup is a terrific example... there were gasps of delight and
exclamations of enthusiasm as Brian demonstrated just a few of the basics. We
all wondered why we had spent so much time with pencil and paper... this looked
to be a whole lot more fun and more versatile. Needless to say, every child
wanted to try it and they were all able to quickly master a few simple steps
with Brian's guidance. I think they would have gladly designed an entire city
had we given them time!"
So it's worth taking a careful look at whether the company will once again create a new category of device that make waves in education -- as it did with personal computers, digital music players, and smartphones -- or whether the iPad and other tabletss might be doomed to remain a niche offering.
Mr. Jobs did mention iTunesU twice when listing the kinds of content that could be viewed on the iPad, referring to the company's partnership with many colleges to offer them free space for multimedia content like lecture recordings. But he otherwise focused on consumer uses -- watching movies, viewing photos, sending e-mail messages, and reading novels published by five trade publishers mentioned at the event. That does not mean that the company won't later promote the iPad's use on campuses, though, since it waited until after iPods and iPhones were established before beginning to work more heavily with colleges to promote those in education.
the biggest impact of the iPad would be in the textbook market.
only 2 percent of students said they bought an e-textbook this past fall semester.
The City University of New York, for instance, is looking closely at encouraging e-textbooks as part of an effort to lower student costs. "At end of the day, it's how do you drive savings for our students, who are feeling a great economic impact," said Brian Cohen, CUNY's chief information officer.
If students do buy them and begin to carry them around campus, they could be a more powerful educational tool than laptop computers.
Jim Groom, an instructional technologist at the University of Mary Washington, expressed weariness with all the hype around the Apple announcement. He said he is concerned about Apple's policies of requiring all applications to be approved by the company before being allowed in its store, just as it does with the iPhone. And he said that Apple's strategy is to make the Web more commercial, rather than an open frontier. "It offers a real threat to the Web," he said.
He also pointed out that several PC manufacturers have sold tablet computers before, which have been tried enthusiastically in classrooms. Their promise is that they make it easy for professors to walk around classrooms while holding the computer, while allowing them to wirelessly project information to a screen at the front of the room. But despite initial hype, very few PC tablets are being used in college classrooms, he said.
Now that Apple's long-awaited secret is out, the harder questions might be whether the iPad is the long-awaited education computer.
It’s now become so incredibly complex and enmeshed, that each of us now has access to EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON THE PLANET in less than 6 steps. Even with billions of people on the planet, we can reach literally anyone in 6 steps. That means we can access anyone’s resources in 6 steps. Their skills, their knowledge, their capital, their influence. Any resource.
ANET in less than 6 steps. Even with billions of people on the planet, we can reach literally anyone in 6 steps. That means we can access anyone’s resources in 6 steps. Their skills, their knowledge, their capital, their influence. Any resource.
My strength is the ability to see patterns.
It’s what enabled me to write this post. People call me “insightful.” I have the ability to see stuff that other people don’t see, even when it’s staring them right in the face. (I’ve been calling this process “metathinking,”
I started writing about the patterns I was seeing. Explaining trends I was seeing in simple language, distilling down big concepts into words that people could “get.
they’ve provided you with a free resource. They’re publicly exposing you to their network.
What I did was go to Listorious.com. I looked at all the Top Lists that were interesting to me, and started following every single person who I thought I could learn from. That means I looked through their tweetstream to see if it was filled with potentially useful links to info, and I also clicked through to their personal website.
This takes effort and time. It’s work. And it’s unpaid.
So why on Earth would you waste your time doing this?
Because something interesting happens when you start sending people links to information that they can turn around and apply in the real world,
It builds trust.
This was literally a revelation for m
As I started interacting more with these real life humans in an online space, I couldn’t understand why people were being so nice to me and sharing information with me and providing me with resources.
Do you know how this makes me feel?
Empowered.
All of this free giving and sharing actually does something tremendously valuable.
It enables us.
It’s networks.
The answer is networks.
Networks solve the problem of complexity
It turns out, life is EXACTLY like a game. If you can access the right resources, you can win.
Now here’s the kicker.
Everyone can win.
complex system can only function with independently acting agents who collaborate.
a globally cooperative society, as we’ve assumed. She showed, in practice, that this could actually work.
This whole online thing is essentially a simulation – it mimics the actual world
Turns out, we’re all actually in this together, all trying to figure out a way that we can all utilize our strengths, connect, collaborate, and survive. If helping each other and building trust is the way to make it work, let’s make it work.
Networks self-organize.
The point is that we want to build trust
What happens when your entire organization of people, as a unit, is a network in itself, but each person also has their personal networks of relationships to draw on, which extend beyond the organization?
The world will keep moving. It’s accelerating at an accelerating rate. The ONLY WAY to deal with it is not to cling to the old hierarchies and silos and pride and egos. We have to understand that we can only deal with this as a fully connected system.
And the really crazy part is: we already have everything we need to make this happen. It’s already in place.
All that needs to change is the mindset.
We’ll be flexible, adaptive, and intelligent, because we’ll be able to quickly and freely allocate resources where they’re needed in order to make change.
If you think so too, pass it on.
I thought that made this an idea worth spreading.
It’s an option that seems not only possible, but preferable, and comes with a plan that’s implementable immediately.
A missing element, in my view, is a simple way for participants to tangibly contribute to the growth of the network. I would love to see a curated version of Pledgebank.org woven into blogs like EBD, where ideas for enhancing the network could be proposed.
These crowdfunding/crowdsourcing elements might spark donations of funds and time to enrich the commons and help the network to grow.
Systems – biological, social and economic – are driven by avoiding risk and moving forward. Moving forward is life – no choice. Avoiding risk is the constraints and dangers of the environment – no choice. But life does make a choice.
that the transparency provided by social media, especially in its revealing the structure of networks, drives the growth of trust.