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Bradford Saron

Needed: A New Model of Pedagogy : : Don Tapscott - 1 views

  • We need to move to a customized and collaborative model that embraces 21st century learning technology and techniques.  This is not about technology per se – it’s about a change in the relationship between the student and teacher in the learning process.
  • So Portugal launched the biggest program in the world to equip every child in the country with a laptop and access to the web and the world of collaborative learning. To pay for it, Portugal tapped into both government funds and money from mobile operators who were granted 3G licenses. That subsidized the sale of one million ultra-cheap laptops to teachers, school children, and adult learners. Here’s how it works: If you’re a teacher or a student, you can buy a laptop for 150 Euros (U.S. $207). You also get a discounted rate for broadband Internet access, wired or wireless. Low income students get an even bigger discount, and connected laptops are free or virtually free for the poorest kids. For the youngest students in Grades 1 to 4, the laptop/Internet access deal is even cheaper — 50 Euros for those who can pay; free for those who can’t. That’s only the start: Portugal has invested 400 million Euros to makes sure each classroom has access to the Internet. Just about every classroom in the public system now has an interactive smart board, instead of the old fashioned blackboard.
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    Don Tapscott is the author of a number of books on understanding the digital native. 
Bradford Saron

This Week's Live, Interactive, And Free Webinars In Elluminate « Virtual Scho... - 0 views

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    From Scott McLeod and his program CASTLE.
Bradford Saron

15 Great Mindmapping Tools and Apps | SpyreStudios - 1 views

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    I am a fan of mindmapping web 2.0 sites, especially how they are embeddable in other media. Here are a list of (most free) mindmapping tools/apps. Happy exploring!
Bradford Saron

Free PowerPoint Template & Simple Way to Share Files » The Rapid eLearning Blog - 0 views

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    Overview of file sharing websites. 
Bradford Saron

14 Free and Simple Digital Media Tools | MindShift - 1 views

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    Great collection. Dig in. I'd love feedback on the quality of the tools. 
Bradford Saron

Brain scan: Making data dance | The Economist - 0 views

  • “THE biggest myth is that if we save all the poor kids, we will destroy the planet,” says Hans Rosling
  • that it no longer makes sense to consider the world as divided between developing and industrialised countries; and that people everywhere respond similarly to increasing levels of wealth and health, with higher material aspirations and smaller families.
  • The best measure of political stability of a country, he believes, is whether fertility rates are falling, because that indicates that women are being educated and basic health services are being provided.
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  • Within a year Google had bought Gapminder, and a version of the bubble-graph software is now available free online under the name Google Motion Chart.
  • Do the data give any sneak previews of our future? “For most of human history, the world has been dominated by Asia, and it will be again within 40 years,” he says. “While nothing now can stop the surge to 9 billion, if the poorest 2 billion get improved child survival and the ability to buy bicycles and mobile phones, population growth will stop. We cannot have people at this level looking for basics like food and shoes. Lower-middle-income countries will also forge forward—but only if we invest in the right technologies to avoid severe climate change.”
  • “We can stop population growth, we can eradicate poverty, we can solve the energy and the climate issues but we have to make the right investments,” he says. “I know a good world is possible if we leave emotion aside and just work analytically.”
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    The data minded Hans Rosling allows us to peek into his mind and how he approaches the presentation of data and how we can learn from it. I love his approach to change: "Leave emotion aside, and just work analytically." 
Bradford Saron

WatchKnow - Free Educational Videos for K-12 Students - 0 views

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Bradford Saron

The Technium: The Positive Balance of Technology - 1 views

  • More importantly the sum of all these technologies form an interacting whole much like a technological ecosystem. I call this super system of codependent inventions the technium. Like life itself, this whole system exhibits behavior that its parts do not. Just as we cannot detect any “hiveness” in an individual honeybee (only in the total system of the hive), we cannot see the behavior of the technium in a lone iPhone, knife, or refrigerator. The true influence of technology is felt in its whole system.
  • The patterns by which living organisms mutate and diversify in evolution so resembles the way technological varieties transform over time, that we can think of the technium as the “seventh kingdom of life.” Technology is an extension and acceleration of the same forces of evolution that crafted the other six kingdoms of life.
  • I would suggest that most of the problems in the world tomorrow will be caused by technologies that we are still inventing today.
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  • Each new invention also creates more than one new moral choice for us, and this accumulation of free will over time supplies a positive charge to the technium. Over the long term technology gives us greater differences, diversity, options, choices, opportunities, possibilities, freedoms. This is the definition of progress.
  • We are involved in much more than just inventing novelty. When we create and use technology we're actually involved in something that's bigger than ourselves. We are extending the same forces that make life, accelerating evolution into the future, and we're increasing the possibilities, both for us, our children, and for the world at large. That is what technology wants.
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    Great article on the evolution of technology and us. 
Kelly Burhop

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Bradford Saron

Free Technology for Teachers: Three Purposes for Classroom Blogs - 1 views

  • Here's a cartoon explanation that I made about one of the benefits of teachers having blogs. 
  • Better yet, make students authors on a blog and have them post prompts for their classmates to respond to
  • Demonstrating:By making students authors on a group blog or by having them maintain their own individual blogs they can demonstrate what they've found through research, what they learned, and what they have created to demonstrate their learning.
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    Great article about blogging in a blended classroom. 
Louie Ferguson

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    Leadership Traits 21st Century Administrator
Bradford Saron

The Outboard Brain and Me | Technology Story - 0 views

  • I am sure that there are a few of you at this moment who really want to rage against the concept that we need an outboard brain. I get it, you have lived a lot of your life without the need. The problem is we have them now, and we are quickly raising a generation that is integrating with these devices, and the massive information source that is the Internet that comes along with them. Game over.
  • ow I want more. I want a brain computer interface so I don’t need to type and can work at the speed of thought. I want the screen projected on my retina so I do not have to carry around 15” devices just to gain information. I want to build rules based rivers of information that flow to me automatically when I need them. I want my outboard brain to offload everything that is not uniquely human so I can spend my brainpower on building good relationships, creativity and innovation. I want to focus more on the spiritual side of life, and the family and friends around me. Instead of dragging me away from them, I want it to be sophisticated enough that it frees me from many of the tasks I do today that take up time.
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    The outboard brain and mobile access. 
Guy Leavitt

iPads help Salem County students learn | NJ.com - 1 views

  • Superintendents say they are attracted to the devices for two reasons: It’s user friendly and inexpensive compared to other technology like laptops.
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      high touch, high interest learning
  • apToTalk, a free app, turns the iPad into an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device. Kidd said children who have a hard time with speaking can use the application to tap on a picture and the iPad will say the word.
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    Ways I-pads are being used
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