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You don't know the half of it | The Learning Journey - 0 views

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  • Katy Vance on 11 Feb 13
     
    This is excellent homework! This comment on Jason's blog post is fascinating, and it is so appropriate to MYP ATL skills. "The fact that I can meet with a needs-based group and say to them after a mini-lesson, "Find an app or something that will help you learn, practice, and transfer this skill or process," highlights this. Sometimes that is my homework. We speed share it in the morning, and everyone in the group uses it for independent practice and homework the next night. I'll make sure that this page on my blog gets priority before the end of our break. This is some of what our phenomenal Tech Director is helping us to find: http://elearning.sis.org.cn .
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Edcanvas | Research On Graffiti - 0 views

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  • Katy Vance on 11 Feb 13
     
    Related to my post about Curation Tools, Edcanvas is another option for curating resources and guiding student research.
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The Innovative Educator: You can never replace the teacher. Or can you? 10 ways to lear... - 0 views

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shared by Ivan Beeckmans on 25 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • I never learned anything I was tested on. After I was forced to memorize and regurgitate onto the paper, the uninteresting, disconnected facts, stayed on the test. 
  • I don’t blame myself though. I did as I was told and I excelled in the game of school.
  • The reality for me is that I would have been much better off without the teachers in my life weighing me down and wasting my time.
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  • Unlike Jon and my friend though, many of us learn more effectively without teachers and there are more and more ways to do just that.
  • Ivan Beeckmans on 25 Jan 12
     
    An interesting post about whether a teacher is really useful. There are issues with this argument (student motivation being one) but it likely sums up the experiences of many and prompts the need for more individualized learning.
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What Composers and Copyright Lawyers Can Teach Each Other | The Means of Innovation - 0 views

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  • Ivan Beeckmans on 25 Sep 11
     
    How can you not like a blog with a title like this. Have not seen all the videos, but assume they are good. Wish I had seen this BEFORE I wrote my blog posts.
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Creating and Maintaining My PLN: A 12 Step Program | COETAILing from Taiwan - 0 views

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  • Chrissy Hellyer on 21 Dec 14
     
    Excellent example of a blog post demonstrating PLN (creation and maintaining) for Course 5! (by Jessica Faivre)
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TeachPaperless: The Problem with TED Ed - 1 views

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  • Ivan Beeckmans on 14 May 12
     
    An interesting post about the need for more doing in order to really learn.
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Teaching kids to be 'digital citizens' (not just 'digital natives') - The Answer Sheet ... - 10 views

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  • Jeff Utecht on 20 Mar 12
     
    I would bet that the education community's use of technology follows a "Two C's 10-90" rule: TEN percent to create, and NINETY percent to control. I mean 'control' broadly, everything from keeping the school's master schedule, monitoring attendance and grades, tracking teacher performance, and imparting the knowledge we believe kids need to have.
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Educational Leadership:Technology-Rich Learning:Our Brains Extended - 0 views

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  • When my 2nd grader needs to know the meaning of a word, I tell him to use my iPhone to ask Siri, an artificial intelligence program that's always happy to look it up for him. Siri, in turn, uses the free online program Wolfram Alpha, one of the most powerful data analysis tools in the world. If you enter into the Siri (or Wolfram Alpha) search box, by text or voice, "arable land in world divided by world population," in less than a second the phone or computer will find the relevant data; do the calculations; provide the answer—in square miles, acres, square feet, and hectares per person—and cite you its sources.
  • The only way to do almost all science today is with technology. No human can handle or analyze the volumes of data we now have and need. Ditto for the social sciences. The research study of the past focusing on 10 graduate students has been replaced by sample sizes of millions online around the world. Being perfect at language translation, spelling, and grammar is becoming less important for humans as machines begin to understand context and can access almost every translation ever done. Those who laugh at the mistakes that machines make today will no longer be laughing in a few short years.
  • call the process of envisioning such technically enhanced possibilities imag-u-cation. It's something every teacher and class should spend some time doing.
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  • With YouTube, for example, students can post their ideas to the world and get rapid global feedback. With tools like Twitter and its cousins, they can follow firsthand details of events unfolding anywhere in the world, from revolutions to natural disasters. With mashups and related techniques, they can combine sophisticated data sources in powerful new ways. One school group I know of created a Second Life model of Los Angeles, using the database of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to show each plane flying in its actual spot! With Skype-like tools, students can connect with experts and peers around the world in real time.
  • Effective Thinking, which would include creative and critical thinking as well as portions of math, science, logic, persuasion, and even storytelling; Effective Action, which would include entrepreneurship, goal setting, planning, persistence, project management, and feedback; and Effective Relationships, which would include emotional intelligence, teamwork, ethics, and more.
  • Instead of today's focus on pre-established subject matter, with thinking skills presented randomly, haphazardly, and inconsistently, the student and teacher focus would always be on thinking in its various forms and on being an effective thinker, using examples from math, science, social studies, and language arts.
  • These would range from small projects in earlier years ("I made this app or this website") to larger projects ("I collaborated with a class in another country to publish a bilingual novel"; "I started a successful company") to participation in later years in huge, distributed projects around the world ("Using Galaxy Zoo, I discovered a new, habitable planet").
  • Producing effective letters, reports, and essays was an intellectual need of our past. Working effectively in virtual communities, communicating effectively through video, and controlling complex technologies are what students need to be successful in the future. Thinking, acting, relating, and accomplishing—in the technological and fast-changing context of the future—are where we should focus our students' attention.
  • No longer is the unenhanced brain the wisest thing on the planet. Students who don't have technology's powerful new capabilities at their command at every turn are not better 21st century humans but lesser ones.
  • Katy Vance on 19 Mar 13
     
    You think of technology as a tool," one high school student told me. "We think of it as a foundation; it underlies everything we do."
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RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us - YouTube - 3 views

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  • This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace.
  • Melissa Enderle on 21 Jan 13
     
    I've watched this before - very good. Today I read Larry Ferlazzo's posting on the effects of praise on motivation http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2013/01/20/video-carol-dweck-on-the-effect-of-praise-on-mindsets/. Stresses the big differences and impact that praising intelligence vs. effort have on what people are willing to do and how they feel about themselves.
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Blogs vs. Term Papers - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • blog writing has become a basic requirement in everything from M.B.A. to literature courses. On its face, who could disagree with the transformation? Why not replace a staid writing exercise with a medium that gives the writer the immediacy of an audience, a feeling of relevancy, instant feedback from classmates or readers, and a practical connection to contemporary communications? Pointedly, why punish with a paper when a blog is, relatively, fun?
  • Because, say defenders of rigorous writing, the brief, sometimes personally expressive blog post fails sorely to teach key aspects of thinking and writing. They argue that the old format was less about how Sherman got to the sea and more about how the writer organized the points, fashioned an argument, showed grasp of substance and proof of its origin. Its rigidity wasn’t punishment but pedagogy.
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Common Core in Action: 10 Visual Literacy Strategies | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Melissa Enderle on 12 Mar 14
     
    Definition of visual literacy, examples of different types of visuals that students are exposed to, videos and resources on teaching visual literacy
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Why colleges shouldn't cheb50ck online life of applicants - The Washington Post - 2 views

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  • Kim Cofino on 15 Nov 13
     
    Colleges and checking candidate's activity online http://t.co/C2vcWRWewk #privacy #collegecounseling #footprint
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