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garth nichols

Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud - YouTube - 2 views

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school cloud Cohort21 education

shared by garth nichols on 28 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • garth nichols on 28 Feb 13
     
    Sugata Mitra...again! A great summary of where education came from and where it came. "A global computer made up of people" to the Internet, a more democratic form of the bureaucratic administrative machine, to how we, at Cohort 21 are envisioning the future...
  • Domenica Michela on 03 Mar 13
     
    Excellent talk.
Justin Medved

http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/literacynumeracy/inspire/research/CBS_ThirdTeacher.pdf - 1 views

www.edu.gov.on.ca/...CBS_ThirdTeacher.pdf

learning_spaces

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  • Justin Medved on 21 Apr 13
     
    Designing the Learning Environment for Mathematics and Literacy, K to 8 Imagine the ideal learning environment for today's learner. What would it look like? Think about how much the world has changed in the last three decades and how rapidly it will continue to change in the years to come. How do we ensure that the instruction we provide is responsive to the shifting demands of the 21 st century? Researchers and practitioners in a wide range of disciplines - early childhood and developmental education, psychology and cognitive science, school architecture and design - maintain that the key to learning in today's world is not just the physical space we provide for students but the social space as well(Fraser, 2012; Helm et al., 2007; OWP/P Architects et al., 2010). The learning environment, they suggest, is "the third teacher" that can either enhance the kind of learning that optimizes our students' potential to respond creatively and meaningfully to future challenges or detract from it. Susan Fraser, for example, writes: "A classroom that is functioning successfully as a third teacher will be responsive to the children's interests, provide opportunities for children to make their thinking visible and then fosterfurtherlearning and engagement." (2012, p. 67)
Justin Medved

Embedding Videos from Video Sharing Websites into Your Posts -Edublogs Help and Support - 0 views

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worpress

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  • Justin Medved on 22 Oct 12
     
    Cohort 21 Members read this post as it outlines how to embed video into your posts.
garth nichols

Three Ways to Transform Ed-Tech Professional Development - By Involving Students - Nove... - 0 views

novemberlearning.com/...development-involving-students

PD instructionalcoaching

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  • garth nichols on 14 Apr 16
     
    Great resource that supports our Cohort 21 Model :)
garth nichols

Great Teachers Don't Always Want to Become Principals - Liz Riggs - The Atlantic - 1 views

www.theatlantic.com/...281483

teacher leadership cohort21

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  • garth nichols on 17 Jan 14
     
    Here's a great article that highlights what Cohort 21 is trying to create: informal, meaningful teacher leadership
mardimichels

21 Things 4 iPads - Home - 3 views

www.21things4ipads.net

iPad ipads apps resources

shared by mardimichels on 18 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Justin Medved on 18 Nov 13
     
    "21 Things 4 iPads"
  • mardimichels on 18 Nov 13
     
    Nice streamlined site offering resources for iPads. Thanks again Justin for sharing this!
garth nichols

Life of an Educator by Justin Tarte: The educators of the future... - 3 views

www.justintarte.com/...the-educators-of-future.html

21st Century Learning life educator

shared by garth nichols on 25 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Don't feel the need to know everything.
  • Don't need someone to plan, organize, and lead their professional development.
  • Don't fear making mistakes.
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  • Don't treat technology as if it is a fad
  • on't focus just on teaching their content
  • Don't work in isolation
  • Don't allow what's been done in the past get in the way of what can be done in the future
  • garth nichols on 25 Sep 13
     
    This is a great picture of what we look for in a Cohort 21 member as well! Great quick read!
su11armstrong

21 Things That Will Become Obsolete in Education by 2020 - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter.... - 0 views

www.thedailyriff.com/...e-in-education-by-2020-474.php

Technology education learning future 21st century

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  • su11armstrong on 26 Nov 13
     
    "Within the decade, it will either become the norm to teach this course (high school Algebra I) in middle school or we'll have finally woken up to the fact that there's no reason to give algebraweight over statistics and IT in high school for non-math majors (and they will have all taken it in middle school anyway)."
garth nichols

How Should Schools Navigate Student Privacy in a Social Media World? | EdTech Magazine - 2 views

www.edtechmagazine.com/...ent-privacy-social-media-world

policy cohort21 social media

shared by garth nichols on 10 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Most projects and social networks encourage users to upload a personal ID or photograph. Student safety, however, is paramount to shelter identities. Clever and quirky avatars, therefore, can help students distinguish their profiles and still remain incognito. An avatar is a customized online icon that represents a user's virtual self. A signature avatar can give a child great pride in his or her masterpiece. Among the many cartoony or creative avatar generators available on the web, many require accounts or email addresses or are not safe for school. To take advantage of all that the Web affords, workarounds can be used to protect privacy but still allow for a personalized identity. A few ways to do this include generating avatars, setting-up username conventions, creating email shortcuts, and screencapping of content.
  • The education-approved social networks and cartoon avatars will work on elementary and perhaps some middle school students, but high school kids are a whole different ballgame. Yes, content-filtering solutions can prevent students from accessing social media while they’re connected to school networks, but once they’re on their personal devices, it’s out of the school’s hands.
  • In the article, Cutler outlines five questions that he advises his students to ask themselves when engaging in social media activity: Do I treat others online with the same respect I would accord them in person? Would my parents be disappointed in me if they examined my online behavior? Does my online behavior accurately reflect who I am away from the computer? Could my online behavior hinder my future college and employment prospects? How could my online behavior affect current and future personal relationships?
  • garth nichols on 10 Dec 13
     
    IN our last Cohort 21 session, there was a lot of discussion around how our schools manage, or don't, social media when integrating it into the classroom. Here is a great look at this issue
garth nichols

Teachers' Expectations Can Influence How Students Perform : Shots - Health News : NPR - 1 views

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students teaching growthmindset dweck

shared by garth nichols on 13 May 14 - No Cached
  • So since expectations can change the performance of kids, how do we get teachers to have the right expectations? Is it possible to change bad expectations?
  • "It's really tough for anybody to police their own beliefs," he said. "But think about being in a classroom with 25 kids. The demands on their thinking are so great."
  • "If I believe boys are disruptive and my job is control the classroom, then I'm going to respond with, 'Johnny! You're out of line here! We need you to sit down right now.' "
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  • But if the teacher doesn't carry those beliefs into the classroom, then the teacher is unlikely to see that behavior as threatening. Instead it's: " 'Johnny, tell me more about what you think is going on ... But also, I want you to sit down quietly now as you tell that to me,' " Pianta says.
  • "It's far more powerful to work from the outside in than the inside out if you want to change expectations," he says. In other words, if you want to change a mind, simply talking to it might not be enough.
  • garth nichols on 13 May 14
     
    Teachers' Expectations can shift their students, and even their own teaching. This is what Cohort 21 is all about too!
Justin Medved

Pushing, Pulling, Nudging, Lifting | Aaron Vigar - 0 views

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cohort21

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  • Justin Medved on 24 Mar 14
     
    Love this honest post from Aaron "This has certainly been true of my journey with Cohort 21. A true meeting of the minds, at the end of each session I feel like anything is possible, but when I get back to the very busy and  imperfect world in which I actually teach (this isn't a suggestion about my school, but true of everywhere) I feel it incredibly challenging to see how the big ideas I love to talk about look in the particular setting of my classroom. It's easy to get tied up trying out new technologies or aiming for a certain look to the classroom, and forget that what I really want is the simplest and most complicated goal: to help my students be happy and learn."
tantoniades

Life in a 21st-Century English Class | MindShift | KQED News - 4 views

ww2.kqed.org/...n-a-21st-century-english-class

shared by tantoniades on 17 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • Finally, technology is embedded into the structure of all we do. It’s part of how we research, how we capture information, and how we display our learning. It’s never an accessory tacked on at the end.
    • tantoniades
      tantoniades on 17 Nov 15
       
      This is where I need to get.  I'm still very much in the "tacking on" phase.
  • My students started by creating a Flickr feed, Facebook page, a YouTube account, a Tumblr blog, and a Twitter account. They decided that visual representations of their knowledge would be the most powerful. So some of my students created photographs depicting images that they felt best represented modern trafficking. These photos were then edited in Picnik, and posted to our blog.
    • tantoniades
      tantoniades on 17 Nov 15
       
      I dont know what half of these things are, but I'm going to find out - we do Beloved, which is really similar thematically, and my assessment for the unit is really similar (even if it's not tech-based...yet).
  • A few years ago I tried to teach this idea to a grade 12 class when we were studying essay writing. They didn’t get it. But in the context we were using, after comparing social media content, it made perfect sense to my grade 11 students.
    • tantoniades
      tantoniades on 17 Nov 15
       
      I find this really annoying.  
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  • The Museum Box site allows you to build  an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. Students can display anything from a text file to a movie. My students will be using this platform to argue their thesis, rather than writing a traditional essay.
    • tantoniades
      tantoniades on 17 Nov 15
       
      Intriguing.  Go on...
  • My students have started designing our curriculum units. Seriously. While transitioning to our current unit, we discussed the possibilities as a class.
    • tantoniades
      tantoniades on 17 Nov 15
       
      I dont mean to be a crank, but this has everything to do with teaching, and nothing to do with technology.
  • Before the technology/constructivist shift in my classsroom, I would have taught all of this quite traditionally. We’d read books, answer questions, and then address those questions in class. I’d lecture a lot, with supplemental grammar lessons here and there, and I’d include some type of artistic project to achieve viewing and representing objectives. The whole design would have been extremely teacher centered. And at the end of it all, I’d hope they learned something about writing and thinking. Instead, inquiry and technology are a natural part of our English classes.
    • tantoniades
      tantoniades on 17 Nov 15
       
      Again, I know I'm being a cynical old grump, but you cannot use "technology" and "constructivist" like they're two parts of the same idea.  I think it's perfectly feasible to imagine a constructivist classroom that runs without tech, and vice versa.  Both of them running in harmony...that's the dream, all right.
  • tantoniades on 17 Nov 15
     
    An article about some ways technology can be used to help an inquiry-based high school English class...
  • Derek Doucet on 17 Nov 15
     
    Hey Tony - I think you'd be really interested in TPACK - a tech integration framework that looks at pedagogical knowledge, content knowledge and tech knowledge. For more info check out tpack.org! We'll be looking at these in our third face to face but it sounds like you're ready to delve!
James Trood

3 Ways to Be Less Boring | Edutopia - 6 views

www.edutopia.org/...be-less-boring-jonathan-eckert

Class Engagement

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  • Use Wait Time Two
  • Try "Do Not Call On Me" Signals
  • Enjoy Your Students
  • James Trood on 22 Oct 16
     
    How can we help those who never put up there hands?
  • lesliemtys on 16 Nov 16
     
    Lately I have tried something where I tell the students I will be asking at least 21 questions (the number of students in my class) and for them to choose the question they will answer. Some of the questions were simple yes/no, but it got those who never say anything, putting their hand up and answering a question. I even got a smile from some of them.
anonymous

The Best Leaders Are Constant Learners - 0 views

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leaders learners growth mindset

shared by anonymous on 18 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • searchlight intelligence. That is, the ability to connect the dots between people and ideas, where others see no possible connection. An informed perspective is more important than ever in order to anticipate what comes next and succeed in emerging futures.
  • “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
  • Reinvention and relevance in the 21st century instead draw on our ability to adjust our way of thinking, learning, doing and being. Leaders must get comfortable with living in a state of continually becoming, a perpetual beta mode.
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  • build relationships, seek information, make sense of observations and share ideas through an intelligent use of new technologies.
  • continuous process of seeking, sensing-making, and sharing.
  • anonymous on 18 Oct 15
     
    Amazing article that explores the idea that "Leaders must get comfortable with living in a state of continually becoming" We  must strive to be in a continuous process of "seeking, sensing-making, and sharing"
farley_mike

Gaming the Education System? | The Agenda - 1 views

theagenda.tvo.org/...gaming-the-education-system

games education

shared by farley_mike on 24 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • farley_mike on 24 Jan 14
     
    Great video that includes Cohort 21 leader Justin Medved speaking about Games in Education.
mardimichels

Teaching Writing with Google Docs - 1 views

www.fractuslearning.com/...teaching-writing-google-docs

google docs writing

shared by mardimichels on 23 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • mardimichels on 23 Oct 13
     
    I've used Google Docs for a collaborative writing project in Grade 6 French and can't say enough good things about it!
garth nichols

Technology and the Enduring Understandings of Algebra | Andrew Ruston - 1 views

cohort21.com/...ring-understandings-of-algebra

algebra Cohort 21

shared by garth nichols on 03 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • garth nichols on 03 Nov 14
     
    Math, redefined...by Andrew Rushton. Get on his blog and leave a comment about what you think!
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