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Kerry J

YouTube - Educators won't be able to watch this video - 0 views

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educators internet filtering censorship Education.au

shared by Kerry J on 20 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Kerry J on 20 Mar 09
     
    Greg Black, CEO of Education.au in Adelaide, South Australia, poses a challenge regarding the barriers teachers and students face in using web-based tools.
Kerry J

Internet access on NSW student laptops restricted to whitelist - Somebody Think Of The ... - 0 views

www.somebodythinkofthechildren.com/aptops-restricted-to-whitelist

censorship government filtering

shared by Kerry J on 28 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Kerry J on 28 Jan 09
     
    The Digital Education Revolution not going so well.
  • Kerry J on 28 Jan 09
Gary Miller

Big Ideas for Education - 0 views

landmark-project.com/bigideas

education collaboration

shared by Gary Miller on 11 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Shift teaching away from teacher as lecturer toward constructivism where students are construction their own knowledge (id 272)
    • Gary Miller
      Gary Miller on 11 Nov 08
       
      What a great idea. It would mean teachers would have to give up control, but would invigorate students.
  • Keeping powerful Web 2.0 tools out of students' reach during the school day doesn't prepare them for life. Internet filtering is detrimental (id 234)
  • Gary Miller on 11 Nov 08
     
    Combining ideas from educators everywhere, they will eventually be combined and prioritized into action statements in order of importance.
J Black

When NOT to Use Social Media - ReadWriteWeb - 0 views

www.readwriteweb.com/...en_to_not_use_social_media.php

socialmedia rules

shared by J Black on 11 Apr 09 - Cached
  • You fight with your employees: In some businesses, management and employees are constantly at odds. (An example was given of a unionized workforce where management-labor strife was common). This is also not the type of company that should encourage employees to communicate directly with customers via social media. Management skepticism: If management doesn't believe in social media, then employees who have been told for years that public communication needs to be filtered will be hesitant to try out a new medium which requires them to speak openly. In this scenario, management needs to encourage and reward participation to make social media work. If they don't, it will fail. Strategic Vacuum: Don't do social media just to do social media. If a company doesn't know what they're trying to accomplish, then there will be nothing to measure and no way to determine success. Just as with any other initiative a company takes on, there needs to be an objective...and that objective shouldn't be to distribute a press release.
  • only 2% of businesses are using Twitter as a marketing tool. Only 2% - can you believe that?
  • J Black on 11 Apr 09
     
    Educators would be wise to examine if these are some of the reasons email, admin blogging and other forms of social media are failing in the public school systems.
Kathleen N

Wordle Blog: How to make Wordle safe for classroom use. - 0 views

blog.wordle.net/...wordle-safe-for-classroom.html

wordle filter internet safety

shared by Kathleen N on 21 Aug 09 - No Cached
  • Kathleen N on 21 Aug 09
     
    FROM the Creator/Owner of WORDLE: "I'm happy to announce that from now on, the Wordle front page will never feature images or links that are inappropriate for classroom use. It's now possible to configure an institution's "site-blocking" software to keep Wordle safe for classroom use." Simply have your networking administrator block the following base URLs1: * http://www.wordle.net/gallery * http://www.wordle.net/next * http://www.wordle.net/random
Philippe Scheimann

NodeXL: Network Overview, Discovery and Exploration for Excel - 9 views

www.codeplex.com/NodeXL

nodexl visualization network OpenSource tools

shared by Philippe Scheimann on 22 Feb 10 - Cached
  • NodeXL is a template for Excel 2007 that lets you enter a network edge list, click a button, and see the network graph, all in the Excel window. You can easily customize the graph’s appearance; zoom, scale and pan the graph; dynamically filter vertices and edges; alter the graph’s layout; find clusters of related vertices; and calculate a set of graph metrics. Networks can be imported from and exported to a variety of data formats, and built-in connections for getting networks from Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and your local email are provided.
  • Philippe Scheimann on 22 Feb 10
     
    might be interesting to see what;s going on in the classroom
Kerry J

Resource collection re: Assessment and 21st Century Skills - 49 views

www.21stcenturyskills.org/...index.php

RICTAT Assessment Assessmenttools tools education collaboration

shared by Kerry J on 10 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Kerry J on 10 Mar 10
     
    Collection of resources around assessment and 21st Century skills - provides ability for resources to be rated by members of the 21st Century skills partnership org. 
Steve Ransom

Students Find Ways to Thwart Facebook Bans - NYTimes.com - 17 views

www.nytimes.com/...s-to-thwart-facebook-bans.html

students Facebook ban filters proxy school blocking

shared by Steve Ransom on 03 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • But schools persist. “We know there is no education in social networking,” said Ken Sanders, the principal of a middle school in Michigan that has one of the firmest bans: students can work only on computers provided by the school, and cellphones are banned, too, since smartphones can’t be blocked on schools’ systems. “Kids should be in school to learn, so we have a system that blocks all personal access,” he said.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 03 Sep 11
       
      A common sentiment for many. Kids need to learn how to resist the urge to get distracted and use Internet services for personal reasons. This is no different for adults! We all need to learn to resist things that distract us from the current task/goal at hand. However, to simply ban this doesn't help anyone learn digital social and coping skills necessary for success beyond the school walls.
Steve Ransom

Can a Playground Be Too Safe? - NYTimes.com - 13 views

www.nytimes.com/...19tierney.html

playground safe safety learning danger

shared by Steve Ransom on 20 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • “If children and parents believe they are in an environment which is safer than it actually is, they will take more risks. An argument against softer surfacing is that children think it is safe, but because they don’t understand its properties, they overrate its performance.”
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 20 Jul 11
       
      True in online social spaces, too!
  • “What happens in America is defined by tort lawyers, and unfortunately that limits
  • “Children need to encounter risks and overcome fears
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  • The best thing is to let children encounter these challenges from an early age, and they will then progressively learn to master them through their play over the years.”
  • “Risky play mirrors effective cognitive behavioral therapy of anxiety,
  • “Older children are discouraged from taking healthy exercise on playgrounds because they have been designed with the safety of the very young in mind,” Dr. Ball said. “Therefore, they may play in more dangerous places, or not at all.”
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 20 Jul 11
       
      Yet another parallel to be found here with online interactions and social/learning spaces. Banning children from these spaces does nothing the teach them how to use them wisely... and they find ways around our filters anyway without the benefit of wise adult guidance.
erikerickson

How Does the Brain Learn Best? Smart Studying Strategies | MindShift - 41 views

blogs.kqed.org/...best-smart-studying-strategies

brain studying strategies

shared by erikerickson on 09 Sep 14 - Cached
  • pupils today can change the way they study to exploit the brain’s quirky learning processes, using the strategies revealed by memory and learning research
  • Students need to understand that learning happens not only during reading and studying, but in all sorts of ways, so that they can examine their own habits to know which ones may be helping or not, and make adjustments
  • We can be tactical in our schooling.
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  • forgetting serves as a powerful spam filter
  • when the brain has to work hard to retrieve a half-forgotten memory (such as when reviewing new vocabulary words you learned the day before), it re-doubles the strength of that memory.
  • The brain is a foraging learner.
  • The human brain evolved to pick up valuable pieces of information here and there, on the fly, all the time, and put it all together
  • and it’s not only during study or practice
  • By foraging in this way, the brain is “building knowledge continually
  • Forgetting isn’t always bad.
  • Breaking up and spacing out study time over days or weeks can substantially boost how much of the material students retain, and for longer, compared to lumping everything into a single, nose-to-the-grindstone session.
  • Varying the studying environment
  • can help reinforce and sharpen the memory of what you learn.
  • A 15-minute break to go for a walk or trawl on social media isn’t necessarily wasteful procrastination. Distractions and interruptions can allow for mental “incubation” and flashes of insight — but only if you’ve been working at a problem for a while and get stuck, according to a 2009 research meta-analysis.
  • Quizzing oneself on new material, such as by reciting it aloud from memory or trying to tell a friend about it, is a far more powerful way to master information than just re-reading it
  • Experimenting With Learning Tactics
  • benefits of sleep (which improves retention and comprehension of what you learn), perceptual learning modules and mixing up different kinds of related problems or skills in practice sessions instead of repetitively rehearsing just one skill at a time.
  • teachers see all sorts of reforms come and go, and they’re skeptical
  • Surviving the Modern Jungle
  • Paul Beaufait on 09 Sep 14
     
    Chen sums up an interview about Benedict Carey's book, How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where, and Why It Happens, highlighting and exemplifying take-away messages for self-directed learners as well as teachers.
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