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su11armstrong

Tips on building a personal learning network on Twitter | eSchool News | eSchool News - 2 views

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tips personal learning network cohort21 collaboration

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  • su11armstrong on 20 Nov 13
     
    "Learn how to leverage Twitter's 140-character microblogging platform into your global Personal Learning Network (PLN)" This article (and its links) is a reminder of PLN benefits and a good place to start...
Derek Doucet

7 Essential Tools for a Flipped Classroom - Getting Smart by Guest Author - classrooms,... - 3 views

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flipped classroom personalized learning

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  • 7 Essential Tools for a Flipped Classroom
  • The flipped classroom uses technology to allow students more time to apply knowledge and teachers more time for hands-on education.
  • Google Docs
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  • The following tools are listed from most basic to most sophisticated and can be used alone or in tandem to make flipped classrooms more engaging.
  • Google Docs have many advantages over traditional word processing programs, including real-time automatic updates visible to all users, a feature that enables robust discussion and sharing.
  • YouTube
  • Ideal for first-time flippers
  • Teachem
  • Teachem is a timely and valuable resource ideal for teachers interested in a more structured flipped classroom but unwilling to commit to paid or complex programming.
  • The Flipped Learning Network
  • A social media site open to first-time and experienced flippers, the Flipped Learning Network contains resources for all kinds of flipped classrooms while facilitating discussion, collective problem-solving and peer networking.
  • Camtasia Studio
  • Perhaps the most popular screencasting technology available, Camtasia Studio is now in its eighth incarnation and has remained up-to-date with educational trends
  • Edmodo or Schoology
  • eyond enabling activities fundamental to the flipped classroom, such as video lectures and e-readings, these comprehensive online learning platforms offer educator networks and resources,
  • iscussion and collaboration features, and grading and assessment options.
  • Derek Doucet on 09 Mar 13
     
    7 Essential Tools for a Flipped Classroom - nothing earth shattering but a nicely compiled list. 
Jan Campbell

Social Networking In Schools: Educators Debate The Merits Of Technology In Classrooms - 0 views

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social media

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  • Jan Campbell on 20 Oct 12
     
    Social Networking - The Great Debate
garth nichols

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

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policy cohort21 social media

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  • 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
mme_sutherland

The science of resilience: how to teach students to persevere | Teacher Network | The G... - 0 views

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  • When you incorporate opportunities for students to experience mistakes as an expected part of learning, you build their resilience to setbacks. Through class discussions, your own mistakes, and building pupils’ knowledge of their brain’s programming, your students will gain the competence, optimism and understanding to persevere – and even make progress – through failure.
Justin Medved

How Do I Get a PLN? | Edutopia - 2 views

www.edutopia.org/...how-do-i-get-a-pln-tom-whitby

PLN

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  • Carolyn Bilton on 19 Nov 13
     
    Thanks for sharing Justin, a great blog to really understand what is a PLN, and some great tips on how to start building. If only I could find 20 minutes a day to do it!
l5johnso

The Other 21st Century Skills | User Generated Education - 0 views

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  • Education as it should be – passion-based. The Other 21st Century Skills with 19 comments Many have attempted to identify the skills important for a learner today in this era of the 21st century (I know it is an overused phrase).  I have an affinity towards the skills identified by Tony Wagner: Critical thinking and problem-solving Collaboration across networks and leading by influence Agility and adaptability Initiative and entrepreneurialism Effective oral and written communication Accessing and analyzing information Curiosity and imagination   http://www.tonywagner.com/7-survival-skills Today I viewed a slideshow created by Gallup entitled, The Economics of Human Development: The Path to Winning Again in Education. Here are some slides from this presentation. This
  • presentation sparked my thinking about what other skills and attributes would serve the learners (of all ages) in this era of learning.  Some other ones that I believe important based on what I hear at conferences, read via blogs and other social networks include: Grit Resilience Hope and Optimism Vision Self-Regulation Empathy and Global Stewardship
  • Self-regulation is a complex process involving numerous motivational, affective, cognitive, physiological and behavioral factors that individuals proactively direct and manage in order to attain self-set goals (Zeidner, Boekaerts, & Pintrich, 2000). It is a broad construct incorporating behaviors and strategies utilized by individuals across their lifespan to modulate or control their own emotional and behavioral responses. Students who self-regulate believe that they are responsible for their own learning and are more adept at dictating what, where, and how their learning occurs (Bandura, 2006). These students often persist longer through academic tasks and display higher levels of motivation and achievement (Schunk & Ertmer, 2000; Zimmerman & Schunk, 2001)
mardimichels

10 tips for engaging pupils and parents in e-safety and digital citizenship | Teacher N... - 1 views

www.theguardian.com/...zenship-esafety-pupils-parents

digital citizenship tips Technology education educational technology

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  • mardimichels on 24 Nov 13
     
    10 great tips for teachers (and parents) to help kids understand digital citizenship.
Justin Medved

Excellent Checklist for Evaluating Information Sources ~ Educational Technology and Mob... - 0 views

www.educatorstechnology.com/...-checklist-for-evaluating.html

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  • Justin Medved on 14 Apr 14
     
    "Digital literacy, as a set of skills that students need to develop and master in order to properly use digital technologies , is an essential component of the 21st century education. Being digitally literate should not be confused with being comfortable  using certain types of digital media such as  social media. And as Danah Boyd argued in her book "Understanding The Social Lives of Networked Teens" teenagers know how how to use Facebook, but their understanding of the site's privacy settings did not mesh with the ways in which they configured their accounts.They know how to get to Google but had little understanding about how to construct a query to get quality information from the popular search engine."
garth nichols

Botangle - Learn Anything, Anywhere, Anytime - 3 views

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Students Tutoring PLN collaboration education cohort21

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  • garth nichols on 23 Jun 14
     
    Here is a great example of a student initiative to create a network of learning. It's like the wikipedia of tutoring!
Justin Medved

The Teacher's Guide To Twitter | Edudemic - 0 views

www.edudemic.com/...guide-to-twitter

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  • Twitter has proven itself to be an indispensable tool for educators around the globe. Whatever skill level you may be, Twitter is downright fun and worth your time.
  • For many teachers making a foray into the edtech world, Twitter is an excellent tool for consuming and learning.
  • Many are also harnessing Twitter as a part of their PLN (personal learning network) to connect, share, and network.
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  • The best way to get the most out of Twitter is to use it.
  • When you’re just getting started on Twitter (or perhaps trying to add to or refine your feed), a resource for educational hashtags or guides to great accounts to follow are excellent resources to point you in the right direction.
  • If you always find interesting things on Twitter, such as lesson plans, don’t forget to share your awesome resources, too.
  • Just like going to the gym once every two weeks isn’t going to keep you in peak physical condition, participating in Twitter #hashtag chats and interacting only occasionally isn’t going to make your Twitter community very robust.
  • Derek Doucet on 09 Mar 14
     
    Something to get teachers into Twitter as a means to seek personalized professional growth.
Justin Medved

Twitter Chats - The ins, outs and my top 8 chats - 2 views

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  • Justin Medved on 20 Aug 14
     
    Twitter Chats - The ins, outs and my top 8 chats Educational Twitter Chats are happening all the time on Twitter and as a globally connected educator - I LOVE IT! Every opportunity I can get I involve myself in the 1 hour twitter chats that surface themselves in my twitter feed. It gives me the opportunity to connect and collaborate with like minded educators, network with the best in the business and pick up new and interesting things to use to make me a better educator. PD in the palm of my hands (literally). For those that don't know what I am talking about - let me give you the low-down. Twitter chats take place on twitter at a certain time every week (click here for a complete list of education related twitter chats and their times). All chats use a certain hashtag to discuss a variety of topics with a education related theme. They provide a unique and eye opening opportunity for educators to connect, share and collaborate with others from all over the world. The best part about this virtual staffroom ….. it is FREE!
Justin Medved

Skills in Flux - New skills of for the 21st century - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...skills-in-flux.html

skills 21stcenturyskills

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  • Justin Medved on 25 Mar 15
     
    "As the economy changes, the skills required to thrive in it change, too," says David Brooks in this New York Times column, "and it takes a while before these new skills are defined and acknowledged." He gives several examples: * Herding cats - Doug Lemov has catalogued the "micro-gestures" of especially effective teachers in his book, Teach Like a Champion 2.0 (Jossey-Bass, 2015). "The master of cat herding," says Brooks, "senses when attention is about to wander, knows how fast to move a diverse group, senses the rhythm between lecturing and class participation, varies the emotional tone. This is a performance skill that surely is relevant beyond education." * Social courage - In today's loosely networked world, this has particular value - the ability to go to a conference, meet a variety of people, invite six of them to lunch afterward, and form long-term friendships with four of them. "People with social courage are extroverted in issuing invitations but introverted in conversation - willing to listen 70 percent of the time," says Brooks. "They build not just contacts but actual friendships by engaging people on multiple levels." * Capturing amorphous trends with a clarifying label - People with this skill can "look at a complex situation, grasp the gist and clarify it by naming what is going on," says Brooks. He quotes Oswald Chambers: "The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance." * Making nonhuman things intuitive to humans - This is what Steve Jobs did so well. * Purpose provision - "Many people go through life overwhelmed by options, afraid of closing off opportunities," says Brooks. But a few have fully cultivated moral passions that can help others choose the one thing they sho
tanyacatallo

Four questions that encourage growth mindset among students | Teacher Network | The Gua... - 1 views

www.theguardian.com/...ourage-growth-mindset-students

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  • those with a growth mindset seek out feedback on how to get better, persist with work for longer and cope better with change
  • Get students to spend a few minutes writing down how doing well at school can help them achieve future goals.
  • Some students see tests as a chance to explore how much they’ve learned. Others use it as a chance to compare themselves with their classmates. Psychologists have found that constantly comparing yourself with others can have a negative impact on your confidence, motivation, self-management and academic performance.
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  • guiding students towards being comfortable with receiving feedback and giving them the confidence to act on it will serve them well.
  • Psychologists use the term “metacognition” to describe being aware and in control of your own thought process. Asking what you would do differently is a great example of this; it helps students to analyse and reflect on their thought process.
Jen Kelly

The Future of Learning, Networked Society - Ericsson - YouTube - 0 views

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  • Jen Kelly on 24 Nov 12
     
    Video from Cohort21
Claire Hazzard

Can Social Media Have a Role to Play in Managing a Successful Classroom? | Langwitches ... - 0 views

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  • immediately
  • Social Media is one venue (of many) to LEARN… why should it not play a role in our schools?
  • Social
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  • schools
  • Media
  • Social
  • Our students are gravitating (on their own) to Social Media
  • Learning for the 22nd century
  • Social Media adds so many layers of depth
  • Communication has changed in the world around us.
  • Information has changed our lives.
  • The lines between our lives and “digital lives” are blurring
  • The world is shrinking.
  • YES, social media can play a role in a successful classroom
  • why would we not want to expose, facilitate and support our students in becoming literate in the area of global, network, media, information literacies and digital citizenship?
  • CSI Twitter- Crime Scene Investigation
  • Guide to Twitter in the K-8 Classroom
  • Bluky Ng on 17 Oct 15
     
    A few reasons why to use social media in education
  • Claire Hazzard on 17 Oct 15
     
    Useful read on using SM with different levels
jenkinsmg77

Review of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance - Scientific American Blog Network - 1 views

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passion perseverance

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  • exclusive focus on ability and potential can distract us from the importance of other variables important for success
  • focus on talent distracts us from something that is at least as important, and that is effort"
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      jenkinsmg77 on 15 Oct 16
       
      Authors and work to follow up on here.
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  • , Brent Roberts has done a lot of work on "conscientiousness", Robert Vallerand has down a lot to advance our understanding of passion (both its "harmonious" and "obsessive" forms), Shane Lopez has done great deal of research on hope, and creativity researchers Joseph Renzulli and E. Paul Torrance have long discussed the importance of characteristics such as "task commitment" and "persistence".
mardimichels

The Elephant in the Room | Network.Ed - 0 views

www.josepicardo.com/...the-elephant-in-the-room

Technology

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  • Even when the most innovative teachers progress from teacher-centred classroom dynamics to inquiry or project based learning, rarely is technology considered to supply the scaffold for a more effective collaborative and socio-constructivist approach to the acquisition of knowledge.
  • We need to realise that these technologies are only absent from schools because we are deliberately keeping them out. We have created an alternative reality in which technology doesn’t exist. We are, in effect, striving to perpetuate a status quo that is already dead and buried in the real world.
  • mardimichels on 09 Jan 14
     
    Interesting (older) article about the use of technology to support innovative teaching methods.
mardimichels

What every school needs from a digital strategy | Network.Ed - 0 views

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Technology

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  • mardimichels on 09 Jan 14
     
    Interesting read on what schools need/ should look for when implementing a "digital strategy"
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