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Sheri Edwards

What is the value of social media for your professional learning? : KQED Education | KQ... - 0 views

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TeachDoNow #teachdonow social media professional learning education value

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  • Critical thinking, the old mainstay of higher education, is no longer enough to prepare our youth for this world. We must create learning environments that inspire a way of being-in-the-world in which they can harness and leverage this new media environment as well as recognize and actively examine, question and even re-create the (increasingly digital) structures that shape our world.
  • Sheri Edwards on 06 Aug 14
     
    " Critical thinking, the old mainstay of higher education, is no longer enough to prepare our youth for this world. We must create learning environments that inspire a way of being-in-the-world in which they can harness and leverage this new media environment as well as recognize and actively examine, question and even re-create the (increasingly digital) structures that shape our world."
onewheeljoe

Is It Time to Give Up on Computers in Schools? - Hybrid Pedagogy - 0 views

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  • The sorts of hardware and software that were purchased had to meet those needs — the needs and the desire of the administration, not the needs and the desires of innovative educators, and certainly not the needs and desires of students.
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      And the needs of the IT -- not teachers and students
  • we must stare critically at the belief systems that are embedded in these tools.
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      identity -- what identity must education take?
  • The mainframe never went away. And now, virtualized, we call it “the cloud.” Computers and mainframes and networks are a point of control. Computers are a tool of surveillance. Databases and data are how we are disciplined and punished. Quite to the contrary of Seymour’s hopes that computers will liberate learners, this will be how all of us will increasingly be monitored and managed.
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      I hope she suggests a solution. #clmooc would be leaders. How to share this perversion of possibilities.  The "adjacent possible" of the good became the priority instead of adjacent.
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  • The latter should give us pause
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      I'm pausing. So many things reeling in my head: how can bad be the most powerful? people: identities unaccepted; control;  We're supposed to be civilized. But are we -- if this is what we do?
  • challenge it
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      When we challenge it, we will see HOW the data will be used against us as those controlling it will want to silence us, not find another way to work with people.
  • little thought about the Terms of Service,
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      I do read the terms of service, and I know that Google wants me to share, so gives me my ownership. Yes, collecting data. Advertising.  So how do we as those sharing, work with Google, etc. to to make a better world? What is a "better world" ? Aren't there Google aspects reaching out to help identify environmental and social problems? Is everything here bad? I don't want it to be.
  • control over our access to knowledge.
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      There it is control. What do you want them to do? What is the people's goal?
  • “Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.”
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      I remember. My brother made a keypunch card with "the finger" on it. 1970s  I wonder where I put that? His quiet push back.
  • you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      And, again, where is the HOW? How do we push back? The optout movement has started, and the pushback on them is fierce; fierce to keep the testing going. What do "the people" do? This is the alarm. We have no firetruck. Give us some tools. Now. Please.
  • ISTE is the perfect place to question what the hell we’re doing in ed-tech in part because this has become a conference and an organization dominated by exhibitors. Ed-tech — in product and policy — is similarly dominated by brands. 60% of ISTE’s revenue comes from the conference exhibitors and corporate relations; touting itself as a membership organization, just 12% of its revenue comes from members. Take one step into that massive shit-show called the Expo Hall and it’s hard not to agree: “Yes, it is time to give up on computers in schools.”
    • onewheeljoe
      onewheeljoe on 30 Jun 15
       
      What are some ways we can evaluate the knowledgeable others who inform our practice, or the organizations that supply the tools we adopt in schools, to always understand the market motivations at work?
  • The stakes are high here in part because all this highlights Google’s thirst for data — our data. The stakes are high here because we have convinced ourselves that we can trust Google with its mission: “To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
    • onewheeljoe
      onewheeljoe on 03 Jul 15
       
      We've convinced ourselves that we can trust Google with its mission because to investigate the way Google might influence us by monopolizing search is beyond most people's ability or inclination to understand the inner workings of the Internet. 
Sheri Edwards

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gaming traits gamification parents info 6traits

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  • Sheri Edwards on 05 Jul 14
     
    "7/16/13: Back in the 2011-12 school year, I piloted an ELA-specific game overlay titled, "The Kingdom of Diddorol." Although the classroom content remained the same -- standards-based, and true to the district's curriculum maps -- delivery, record-keeping, and a few other educational components were changed. The students became players, and they created avatars. Free-choice writing became "adventuring," lessons became "trainings," quizzes and tests were recast as efforts to tame nefarious creatures, and so on."
Sheri Edwards

How Thomas van Linge Mapped Islamic State - SPIEGEL ONLINE - 0 views

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clmooc learning interest-powered integration

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  • Sheri Edwards on 29 Aug 15
     
    serious, not play: interest driven education
Terry Elliott

No Need to Justify | hokament - 0 views

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  • I realize, it’s as much to convince and reassure myself.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 12 Mar 15
       
      Very wise grasshopper
  • education is a big deal
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 12 Mar 15
       
      Learning is the big deal, education can go hang.
Terry Elliott

StoryDesk- A Powerful Alternative to PowerPoint and Prezi ~ Educational Technology and ... - 0 views

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gamify

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  • Terry Elliott on 28 Jun 14
     
    Can any app be turned into a game? Worht looking thru everything as a game for short periods, yes?
Terry Elliott

DID AMAZON JUST CHANGE THE WORLD? Unlimited Kindle Books is a Game Changer (if they can... - 0 views

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  • Terry Elliott on 21 Jul 14
     
    " Unlimited Kindle"
Sheri Edwards

Gamification in the Classroom: The Right or Wrong Way to Motivate Students? | NEA Today - 0 views

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gamification classroom right wrong students nea

shared by Sheri Edwards on 05 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Kathy Sierra, a popular technology blogger, author and game developer, believes that incentivizing learning-related behaviors poses risks. Sierra says rewards should be left at the classroom door. She is critical of the way gamification is practiced in the classroom, and believes well-intentioned educators may be missing the mark.
  • “A well-designed game only deploys certain mechanics to support an intrinsically rewarding experience,” Sierra explains. “When you remove that experience but keep the mechanics, you are now working from an entirely different psychology than actual games, and it is one that, in essence, uses mechanics to drive mechanical behaviors.”
  • Matthew Farber is not keen on the term “gamification”
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  • instrinsic game elements like narrative, creativity and collaboration, rather than just badges.
  • What’s missing, Farber says, is a narrative structure that places the student on a “journey,” similar to what the best games do.
  • “The journey is to build mastery,” Farber says. “The better way to gamify is to put students in an inquiry-based or project-based learning experience. Or give them a task in a narrative frame.”
  • create the right balance of challenge and skill, deeper knowledge and high-quality feedback.
  • Try to find what is inherently interesting in a subject and exploit that. It doesn’t matter if students roll their eyes. A good teacher can capture their attention and engage them before they even have a chance to think they aren’t interested
  • Sheri Edwards on 05 Jul 14
     
    "using instrinsic game elements like narrative, creativity and collaboration, rather than just badges."
onewheeljoe

What's 'Value Added' About Tech Tools in the Classroom? | DMLcentral - 0 views

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  • More than any other aspect of digital texts, this sense of malleability is what I find most exciting as an educator because it helps us expand the definition of what constitutes writing and it reminds us that writing, just like all forms of creation, is a social practice in conversation with others in the world around us.
    • onewheeljoe
      onewheeljoe on 24 Jun 15
       
      If all forms of creation are a social practice how do we facilitate and highlight the social aspects of the creative work we do in #clmooc, a space designed for collaboration and connecting. 
Terry Elliott

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  •    Career Ladder - Helping Inner City Youth Through School to Careers by Daniel F. Bassill
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 13 Dec 15
       
      I am reading Henry Jenkins, et al's latest book, Participatory Culture.  Everything I see here fits what I have read so far.  And also asks the question: how do we get youth to participate in this particular culture--the one that moves them through poverty and into careers.   I will have to make this one of the core questions as I read Participatory Culture.
  • "What Will it Take to Assure that all Youth Born or Living in High Poverty are Starting Jobs and Careers by Age 25?"
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 13 Dec 15
       
      Trying to imagine what this meant to me in my life.  I don't think it was the skills so much that my parents gave me as the attitude to keep on.  
  • the ideas exchanged by participants, and the relationships created, are as important as the learning that takes place.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 13 Dec 15
       
      the "c" in cMOOC stands for 'connectivism', a learning philosophy that argues that connection is the secret sauce the element in the play that makes learning inevitable.  Part of that connection is exchange (what I call reciprocation) and relationship (the fruit of reciprocation).
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  • Last night the hangout focused on a platform called Youth Voices, where youth from around the country are connecting and sharing ideas and reflections. 
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 13 Dec 15
       
      I feel badly that I have not made a better attempt to connect/facilitate between others. That's why I tried to get Daniel and Simon together in a Hangout.  
  • encourage him to use concept mapping tools like Kumu
  • I found one under the topic of "How Can We Reduce Costs and Still Get the Care We Need?"  
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 15
       
      A valuable tool.  Here is a quick response: https://farm1.staticflickr.com/741/23114808664_5298e18c36_b.jpg
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 15
       
  • They could be learning many new skills and habits (see article about passionate employee). 
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 15
       
      This has always been an issue in education--where is the best leverage for improving learning? where the best place to use any resource to get the most value?   Is this too narrow a way of looking at the problem?  too bottom line?  Seems to value "cost" efficiency over all other values?   So...do we need to be putting our magic into tutors/mentors and teachers or into learner/employees?
  • This process could engage youth in thousands of locations, focusing on many complex problems, not just health care or poverty.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 15
       
      I have always been for the idea that learners need to be more responsible for their own learning.  They should begin to be responsible for the problems they generate in their own lives and the ones they see generated around them.  It is the distribution of these problems and the relative inequity of this distribution that is most troubling.  Those who have the greatest opportunity to face the most difficulty problems are also those who are given the least resources to deal with them.  How fair is it to ask children to deal with the large issues of safety, health care, and poverty around them?  
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