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Bradford Saron

Michael Wesch: It's a Pull, Pull World. - 1 views

  • “Instead, we should be concentrating on making them truly knowledge-able. Imagination and curiosity are the heart of that idea; if we have those qualities, learning becomes joyous.”
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    @mwesch is quoted in this article. 
Bradford Saron

E-Mail's Big Demographic Split - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    What a great graphic to ponder. Apparently, email is not instantaneous enough for generations new to technology. Michael Wesch often quotes Marshall McLuahn who said, "We look at the present through a rear-veiw mirror. We march backward into the future." This is a perfect example of how older age groups adapt to new technologies, which is through their understanding of the past. 
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    I think this connects to your post about the youtube "cheating" video. We have to understand how the world is changing and, even if we do not like it, adapt to these changes. Just as email has become outdated, so has multiple choice tests from test banks developed by book publishers. I'd be inteersted in Michael Wesch's thoughts on the "cheating" incident.
Bradford Saron

10 recent books well suited for quoting in School-leader Graduation remarks «... - 0 views

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    Hope this helps in the upcoming graduation season!
Robert Slane

Do You Write with Your Students? | Edutopia - 0 views

  • "Books will soon be obsolete in the schools. Our school system will be completely changed in 10 years." -- Thomas Edison, 1913 Sound familiar? Ninety-nine years later, we are hearing nearly verbatim today. Educational technology is a wonderful addition to learning, and to our world, but it does not and will not replace the process of learning or the planning of teaching. Technology will also never replace the need to be literate. Students will always need to be able to read and write. And it's essential that they are able to do both incredibly well.
  • To help our students become writers, we need to write side by side with them.
Bradford Saron

Educational Technology and Life » Blog Archive » Personal Learning Networks f... - 2 views

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    Great resource for beginners. 
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    I love the Richardson's quote at the end of this piece about change, it makes a lot of sense.
Bradford Saron

Now You See It // The Blog of Author Cathy N. Davidson » What's the Problem t... - 2 views

  • nd here is the issue that I pose in Now You See It, the one that keeps me up at night:   how do you prepare kids for an increasingly indefinite, rapidly changing job world, in an era of high-speed technological change and global competitiveness, where what is required for success is (I’m quoting the first set of problems the bubble test is not intended to address) is:  “intellectual dexterity, higher order thinking, associational thinking, problem solving, collaborative thinking, complex analysis, the ability to apply learning to other problems, complexity and causality that do not have one right answer”
  •   What would be amazing is if we could solve the problems of variability and efficiency with a peer-driven system that actually motivates and rewards real learning.  What would be equally amazing is if we could find a system that solves variability and efficiency and, at the same time, supports learning communities (for informal learning), teachers (in the classroom), and workforce trainers (in the workplace) who strive for complex, ongoing, lifelong, connected collaborative learning.  
  • The bubble test solves the problem of variability and efficiency.   The profound problem of education that remains, once the issue of variability and efficiency is solved.  If we find a better solution to variability and efficiency than the bubble test, we can then concentrate on the real learning objective of school:  how best to prepare our kids to thrive in the life that they will lead once they are no longer in school. 
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    Thoughtful post about assessment. 
Guy Leavitt

Cell Phones Increasingly a Class Act - 5 views

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    Here is another article like the one Louie shared
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    I love this quote: "Look, this is just a part of who we are now," Spoor said of the personal technology. "It's a tidal wave." Maybe that's what we should rename this social bookmark group: The Tidal Wave.
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