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garth nichols

"21st century skills" - Google Search - 1 views

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Google News Search 21st Century Learning

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  • garth nichols on 06 Dec 14
     
    Here are great news stories from news.google.com search under "21st Century Skllls"
Derek Doucet

Personalize Learning: Put the "Person" in "Personalization" - 2 views

www.personalizelearning.com/...person-in-personalization.html

edtech DesignThinking personalized learning SAMR learning vs. teaching

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  • It's time to put the "person" in "personalization" and stop the conversations going in directions that take us off course.
  • It's not about technology. It's not about the test or improving test scores. It's really not about school. It's all about the learner, how they learn best and that what they learn is meaningful and for a purpose.
  • Teachers and learners can work together to develop learning goals and design activities that are authentic and relevant for the learner so they are engaged in learning. Learning has to have a context that learners can grasp and understand.
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  • When we put the focus on each learner and how they can own and drive their learning, then we see engaged, self-directed learners with agency.
  • eachers also think they have to teach like a champion because they are the ones responsible for the learning. Don't you think that this is backwards?
  • This is just the beginning of a new world of learning and it's time to put the "Person" back in "Personalization."
  • When we focus on learning and not on curriculum, teachers roles change. We still can teach to standards but let's involve learners in the process and give them a voice so they own the learning.
  • If we teach as we taught yesterday,we rob our children of tomorrow.”
  • There are companies that frame "personalized learning" as adaptive learning systems using algorithms to choose the right path for learning. So we're going to end this blog emphasizing learners need to be the ones who choose their path with their teacher guiding the process. It is about encouraging learners to have a voice and choice in their learning. It's happening now all over the world.
  • They probably don't realize that their digital footprint is actually a "digital tattoo" that can never be removed.
    • Derek Doucet
      Derek Doucet on 11 Oct 15
       
      "It's about learners having a voice and choice in their learning ... leading to engaged and self-directed learners with agency..."
  • They also need to understand who they are, how they learn best, and how to be global digital citizens.
  • Derek Doucet on 11 Oct 15
     
    A great clarification on what personalized learning is... 
garth nichols

New Milford H.S. Students Explore New Ways Of Learning With Library's 'Makers... - 0 views

newyork.cbslocal.com/...rning-with-librarys-makerspace

makered library Makerspace edtech

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  • garth nichols on 06 May 14
     
    How Libraries are changing...
Justin Medved

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

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

skills 21stcenturyskills

shared by Justin Medved on 25 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • 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
Erin O'Rourke

Design Studio Invades IKEA In Order To Test And Showcase Their New Product - DesignTAXI... - 1 views

designtaxi.com/...interstital.html

shared by Erin O'Rourke on 19 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Erin O'Rourke on 19 Nov 13
     
    Guerilla product testing by Design Studio
su11armstrong

15 innovative Twitter accounts you should follow | eSchool News | eSchool News | 2 - 1 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...2

technology education twitter collaboration

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  • su11armstrong on 23 Jun 14
     
    EDTECH Twitter suggestions from ESchool News
Adam Caplan

5 Things to Share With Your Teachers About Educational Technology | Rob Furman - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...o-share-with-yo_b_6218982.html

tech integration coaching

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  • 5 Things to Share With Your Teachers About Educational Technology
  • Here is a list of the top 5 things you should share with your teachers in regards to educational technology:
  • 3. Please ask questions.
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  • 2. It's OK to be a risk-taker.
  • 1. Technology is here: Today, tomorrow and forever.
  • 4. Change is inevitable and continual. The process of change needs to change! School systems can take 3 to 5 years to implement a change. That cannot happen with new technologies. By the time you implement the change, the technology is outdated.
  • 5. Enjoy the experience. This is probably the most important statement of all. The experience of learning something new needs to be an enjoyable experience.
  • Remember these 5 important rules when introducing new technology: • Teachers need to take risks • Teachers need to accept that technology is here to stay • Teachers need to ask questions • Change needs to occur as a continual cycle • Learning new technology should be enjoyable!
jenniferweening

So You Want to Drive Instruction With Digital Badges? Start With the Teachers | EdSurge... - 1 views

www.edsurge.com/...badges-start-with-the-teachers

shared by jenniferweening on 28 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • the HISD badging system provides flexibility for HISD teachers to access the modules online at any time and place and to complete them at their own pace.
    • jenniferweening
      jenniferweening on 28 Nov 15
       
      - action plan: PD as personalized - personalization just as important for teacher learning as for student learning!
  • This flexibility is critical to help teachers balance their everyday demands with the expectation to build new expertise in content, pedagogy and new technologies.
  • It allows them to build a badging portfolio that reflects the skills and knowledge they have developed, as well as evidence of classroom impact. That portfolio is portable.
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  • First, personalizing professional development pathways with modules and badges reflect an individual teacher’s learning needs.
    • jenniferweening
      jenniferweening on 28 Nov 15
       
      #actionplan #personalization
mr_bornstein

Do Your Students Know How To Search? | Edudemic - 5 views

www.edudemic.com/student-search-skills

research search skills

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  • Justin Medved on 11 Nov 13
     
    "There is a new digital divide on the horizon. It is not based around who has devices and who does not, but instead the new digital divide will be based around students who know how to effectively find and curate information and those who do not.  Helene Blowers has come up with seven ideas about the new digital divide - four of them, the ones I felt related to searching, are listed below. The New Digital Divide: "
garth nichols

Educational Leadership:Technology-Rich Learning:Tech Leaders Speak Up About Learning - 0 views

www.ascd.org/...s-Speak-Up-About-Learning.aspx

cohort21 leadership tech

shared by garth nichols on 07 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • The key to infusing technology for deep learning is professional development for teachers. At our school, each teacher wrote his or her own professional development plan. Then we changed the job description of the technology teacher to include meeting with each teacher to refine and review these plans. Instead of teaching computers to the students, the new technology integration coach—a new title to reflect new duties–was now available to partner with the teacher in the classroom. As teachers became more comfortable, the coaching sessions centered on how to extend learning.
  • At the same time, our administrative team began using e-communication folders for parent communication, e-portfolios for teachers, and Moodle for virtual classroom environments. Teachers experienced rich, efficient collaboration and communication through technology. This resulted in more effective face-to face communication.
  • Three things are basic to preparing students to be deeper learners: (1) access to quality curriculums, teaching, and learning, (2) robust information resources, technology tools, devices, and infrastructures, and (3) a student-centered learning environment that promotes critical thinking and problem solving.
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  • One of a leader's most important roles is to be a model for teachers–who then become models for students. Modeling digital learning in professional learning communities, faculty meetings, parent events, and everyday tasks helps adult learners in the school challenge themselves to authentically learn how to use technology.
  • garth nichols on 07 Apr 13
     
    This is a great article for how to introduce edtech into a school - it has real world examples as well
mardimichels

197 Educational YouTube Channels You Should Know About - InformED : - 2 views

www.opencolleges.edu.au/...7-educational-youtube-channels

youtube

shared by mardimichels on 18 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Justin Medved on 18 Nov 13
     
    "f you don't have a YouTube channel as an education provider, there's a good chance you're behind the times. Nearly every major educational institution in the world now hosts its own collection of videos featuring news, lectures, tutorials, and open courseware. Just as many individuals have their own channel, curating their expertise in a series of broadcasted lessons. These channels allow instructors to share information and blend media in unprecedented and exciting new ways. From teaching Mandarin Chinese to busting myths about Astronomy, the educational possibilities are virtually endless pun intended! Because we can now sift through thousands of resources while navigating a single repository, the potential for inspiration and growth in the field of education has reached a new height. Here are the top channels worth following based on views, subscriptions, and quality of content:"
  • mardimichels on 18 Nov 13
     
    Thanks Justin for sharing this - definite food for thought!
sandygibson

Livescribe :: Never Miss A Word - 0 views

www.livescribe.com/...echo

livescribe edtech SAMR Technology cohort21

shared by sandygibson on 23 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • sandygibson on 23 Nov 13
     
    In addition to helping students take notes, the Echo Pen represents a new way for teachers to assess students while they're presenting or explaining something. You can even go back later to hear their presentations. I'd stick it under the Augmentation category of SAMR since improves one's ability to take detailed notes but doesn't bring you to a whole new level of assessment.
garth nichols

Sugata Mitra and the new educational Romanticism - a parody - 0 views

www.digitalcounterrevolution.co.uk/...usseau-educational-romanticism

edtech Rousseau technology counterrevolution staff_development

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  • ll children are born to drive their education. The problem is that prior to the digital age there were no child-friendly pedagogic vehicles. Now that the military-industrial complex has created them, parents and teachers should give the keys to the kids as soon as possible and let them head off on their own down the beautifully linear highway of knowledge.
  • One of the empires is the empire of fear. Surely we are not free if our lives are dominated by fear. Although Mitra’s minimal model blithely assumes that children greet everything new with a calm curiosity, Rousseau recognises that children can just as easily respond to the new with fear. To avoid this requires early training. A snippet of his advice on this subject:
  • At another junction on the same road is the empire of habit. We are not free if we are too firmly set in our ways. Hence Rousseau’s advice: “the only habit that a child should be allowed to contract is none. Do not carry him on one arm more than the other; do not accustom him to give one hand rather than the other, to use one more than the other, to want to eat, sleep, or be active at the same hours…Prepare from afar the reign of his freedom…” (63) (Sir Ken Robinson’s critique of the school bell is but a footnote to this.)
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  • If tools are needed, he suggested, it is better that we make them ourselves, and for the sake of the children’s freedom it is better that they acquire the belief that the imperfect tools they make themselves are better than perfect tools made by others.
  • he great Romantic pedagogy of liberation becomes a parody of itself when it loses sight of how vulnerable the child is to a myriad imperial forces, reducing itself to the myopic claim that the only thing children need to be liberated from is teachers.
  • Of course, the child must feel at every step of the way that she is making the discoveries, or, as Rousseau says of his Emile in his now outdated language: “let him always believe he is the master” but, he reminds the tutor, “let it always be you who are.” (120)
  • Rousseau suggests beginning the scientific part of a child’s education with some geographical discovery learning. He has a nice criticism of his EdTech contemporaries: “You want to teach geography to this child, and you go and get globes, cosmic spheres, and maps for him. So many devices! Why all these representations? Why do you not begin by showing him the object itself so that he will at least know what you are talking about?” (168)
  • If curiosity and attention need cultivation and direction, they also need protection. Rousseau sees a particular risk with the sciences – and this is one which online learning surely magnifies, not diminishes. He puts it beautifully, describing the entry into science as something that can be like entering “into a bottomless sea…When I see a man, enamoured of the various kinds of knowledge, let himself be seduced by their charm and run from one to the other without knowing how to stop himself, I believe I am seeing a child on the shore gathering shells and beginning by loading himself up with them; then, tempted by those he sees next, he throws some away and picks up others, until, overwhelmed by their multitude and not knowing anymore which to choose, he ends by throwing them all away and returning empty-handed.” (172)
  • In a parallel way, learning emerges at the edge of chaos where children meet Google, and it emerges with the same spontaneity seen when the first amoeba dragged itself out of the primordial soup.
  • “The man who did not know pain would know neither the tenderness of humanity nor the sweetness of commiseration. His heart would be moved by nothing. He would not be sociable; he would be a monster among his kind.” (87)
  • Rousseau makes a point more specifically about the psychology of the child, arguing that it is damaging for children to be encouraged to learn things that are beyond the developing sphere of their experience.
  • Children become accustomed to parroting the truth instead of perceiving for themselves that something is true.
  • No child ever came face to face with his mortality when his avatar was struck by a pixelated bullet. No, the child learns infinitely more about the human condition from a single bout of toothache than from 1,000 hours of online gaming.
  • Mitra’s minimalism is not just the minimalism of a hands-off approach to teaching; it is also the minimalism of a theory that – in that questionable analytic tradition – wants to limit itself to technique. All we are given is a methodology – the theoretical equivalent of the automotive machinery that children can drive.
  • garth nichols on 21 Apr 14
     
    This is a real eye-opener for the counter-digital-revolution perspective. It's good to keep these perspectives in mind as we chart our way forward because these ideas can help temper our enthusiasm for tech as a panacea
anonymous

Discovery learning is the new higher learning - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

www.theglobeandmail.com/...article4610656

learning pedagogy

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  • anonymous on 07 Jan 14
     
    What type of learning is needed in high schools... globe and mail article
agregson

String (Java Platform SE 7 ) - 1 views

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  • str =
    • agregson
      agregson on 19 Nov 14
       
      This is a reference to an object of type String
  • "abc"
    • agregson
      agregson on 19 Nov 14
       
      This is a String literal; Java allows us to initialize strings this way rather than use the constructor: String str = new String("abc");
  • String()
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  • charAt(int index)
    • agregson
      agregson on 19 Nov 14
       
      This method allows you to access a String as if it were a char array; note that there is no "set" method, since strings are immutable.
  • int indexOf(int ch, int fromIndex) Returns the index within this string of the first occurrence of the specified character, starting the search at the specified index. int indexOf(String str) Returns the index within this string of the first occurrence of the specified substring. int indexOf(String str, int fromIndex) Returns the index within this string of the first occurrence of the specified substring, starting at the specified index.
    • agregson
      agregson on 19 Nov 14
       
      Very useful for string processing.
  • split(String regex)
    • agregson
      agregson on 19 Nov 14
       
      This method is very useful!  If you don't know what a regular expression is, try splitting around " " (a single space) or ",' (a comma).  It will save you much time when reading in data. 
  • String substring(int beginIndex) Returns a new string that is a substring of this string. String substring(int beginIndex, int endIndex) Returns a new string that is a substring of this string.
    • agregson
      agregson on 19 Nov 14
       
      Commonly used for string processing, in concert with indexOf()
  • trim()
    • agregson
      agregson on 19 Nov 14
       
      Useful when trying to determine if strings are equal.
jenniferweening

Developing a Growth Mindset in Teachers and Staff | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/...wth-mindset-teachers-and-staff

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    • jenniferweening
      jenniferweening on 22 Jan 16
       
      - how many of us need to be reminded of this as well?!  - we say that it's important for the kids to fail and try again, but how often are we willing to do the same in our teaching? 
  • Fixed mindset people dread failure, feeling that it reflects badly upon themselves as individuals, while growth mindset people instead embrace failure as an opportunity to learn and improve their abilities.
  • We have to really send the right messages, that taking on a challenging task is what I admire.
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    • jenniferweening
      jenniferweening on 22 Jan 16
       
      Besides just doing away with grades, how can we actually convince students that failure is part of the process? As much as we tell them that it's about challenging themselves, when it all boils down to it, at the end of the grading period we still have to put a number on their report card. So hard to reconcile!
  • Parents around the dinner table and teachers in the classroom should ask, ‘Who had a fabulous struggle today?
  • how to model a growth mindset amongst students and one of her key principles is encouraging teachers to see themselves as learners, and, just like students are all capable of learning and improving, so too are teachers
  • A second principle requires that schools provide opportunities for teachers to try new things and make mistakes.
  • what will teachers and the school learn as part of the process, rather than whether the new idea is going to be a success or a failure.
  • inked to it, and equally vital, is providing a chance for teachers to reflect upon their new ideas and consider what they learned from the process. Ideally, this reflection should focus less on whether the idea was a success or a failure, but rather on what the teacher learnt from the process.
garth nichols

4 Ways to Become a Better Learner - 0 views

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learning HBR agility DesignThinking education cohort21

shared by garth nichols on 12 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • What is Learning Agility? Learning agility is the capacity for rapid, continuous learning from experience. Agile learners are good at making connections across experiences, and they’re able to let go of perspectives or approaches that are no longer useful — in other words, they can unlearn things when novel solutions are required. People with this mindset tend to be oriented toward learning goals and open to new experiences. They experiment, seek feedback, and reflect systematically.
  • How Do You Develop Learning Agility? Since developing learning agility involves learning to recognize and change automatic routines, the aid of a coach can be invaluable. Coaching, which Peterson calls “the ultimate customized learning solution,” helps clients understand how their minds work and how to make them work better. But even if you’re not working with a coach, there are steps you can take on your own to enhance your learning agility. Ask for feedback. Think of one or more people who interacted with you or observed your performance on a given task.
  • Experiment with new approaches or behaviors. To identify new behaviors for testing, Peterson recommends reflecting on a challenge you’re facing and asking yourself questions such as “What’s one thing I could do to change the outcome of the situation?” and “What will I do differently in the future?”
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  • Look for connections across seemingly unrelated areas. For example, Peterson has systematically applied principles he’s used to learn about wine to the domain of leadership development
  • Make time for reflection. A growing body of research shows that systematically reflecting on work experiences boosts learning significantly. To ensure continuous progress, get into the habit of asking yourself questions like “What have I learned from this experience?” and “What turned out differently than I expected?”
Justin Medved

Column: Futile fight on student tweets - 0 views

www.usatoday.com/...1741067

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  • Justin Medved on 07 Dec 12
     
    "Taking a cue from The Scarlet Letter, the website Jezebel compiled racially insensitive tweets directed toward President Obama by high school students across the country, naming names and even calling the students' schools. The tweets - posted by students under their real identities - covered the full range of bigotry, from racial epithets to basketball stereotypes, with the N-word in abundance. In response, Giga OMasked, "When does shaming racist kids turn into online bullying?" The answer to that is never. It would be a mistake to mischaracterize the denunciation of racially offensive speech as abusive. To the contrary, that give-and-take (or more precisely "say something deeply offensive and get verbally pummeled") is what free speech in America is all about. That's the flaw in virtually every strategy to keep students in both high school and college on the social media straight and narrow. High school is all about preparing the next generation for citizenship. We teach them civics, history, a smattering of math and science and hand them a diploma. But we too often also try to control their every move. That's literally the case with the news last week that a sophomore at John Jay High School in San Antonio was expelled after refusing to carry an ID with a computer chip designed to track the movements of every student in the school."
Justin Medved

Broadcast your hangout to the world for free - Google+ - 1 views

www.google.com/...onair.html

google

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  • Justin Medved on 08 Apr 13
     
    Incredible new tool from Google. 
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