Content Literacy

This is a great presentation. If you want to see how the best thinkers in the world are presenting their data, then take a look at this presentation by Hans Rosling. I think this presents a challenge to math teachers to have students look at data differently than we are now. I think the data on the income and child mortality rate is incredible. Such a powerful data set and it's a linear relationship!!

Powerful topic, poverty and patterns in data relationships over time, WOW. Hans Rosling uses some incredible statistical software to present the data, but the idea can be mimicked using some PP type technologies and creating graphs. The topic of poverty is explored in a very easy understandable way; I think high school students would understand the topic and love the idea. Make sure you listen to his use of the databases, and remember he is one of the premier statisticians in the world. He is changing how he presents data, and I think we need to listen to his message on this topic.

another example of looking at the transmission of data from teacher to student differently in the age of technology. Teachers must realize that it's not just saying the information, but allowing students opportunities to interact with the material, and in lecture situations, teachers must create opportunities for students to interact. In high school, especially, it is important that teachers understand the model that they are used to doesn't work and that they must prepare students to be able to take valuable notes that in which they make connections to.

While some professors seek to exclude the devices from the classroom, others are creating multimedia-rich curricula in which students can draw on online resources and interact with each other. Banning laptops is just plain wrong, according to Don Krug, associate professor at UBC's department of curriculum studies. He says students are adults, and the best a professor can hope for is a "respectful learning environment," where students limit their own behaviour. "If they really want to learn the information, they will. They're paying a lot of money," he says. "We're better off teaching them how to be responsible learners." Shows two polar solutions to laptop problems: total ban & adapting curricula to include multi-media interaction. Also presents respectful learning environment as best course for students who are adults. - comment by Kent Gerber

Seth Godin speaking on blogging. It's not dead yet, and I think it's a great tool for educator's to develop their own skills as well as the writing skills of their students.

The potential power of IVC. Perhaps we can reference somewhere if needed.

Anybody interested in podcasts needs to check this resource out. Topics about PD, content, classroom and even advanced content topics.

How about a quote from the blog post as a description, "These videos make connections between tinkering, innovative ideas, the idea of making work public as in a studio, creativity and collaboration, the ability to incorporate criticism, and more. Well worth watching!" I"m not sure it's that exciting, but I agree with well worth watching

Pixton is a global community where people of all ages create, publish, share, and remix comics - without having to draw!

Well worth bookmarking when looking for organizing tools to use with groups. Easy to use, I haven't created any from scratch but the examples were quite useful and easy to utilize.

Powerful thoughts about the direction of literacy and why we need to have students writing more and more on the web and not avoiding it!

Great resources from NASA for educators. Podcasting made easier.

Another potential tool to use with your students. It's like twitter in that it is a microblogging tool, but is meant solely for educators and students. You create an account and a group that your students join. I don't know how to use it yet but it does seem to have potential.

Anytime you have students using the internet for research then you 'should' be teaching about copyright. It is something that we as teachers often ignore, but it's an important lesson to learn and to share with our students. This is a recorded presentation by Wes Fryer. Worth a listen, some simple applicable points that you can immediately incorporate into your classroom.

If you are willing to use a Wiki then this one might help you do some things that are interest to you. Wikis are getting more personalized with more functionality.

I don't mention Google Docs very often, but it's a great tool for creating all kinds of collaborative documents. Here's a wonderful example of how you could create a self grading quiz for your students using Google docs.

Doesn't really talk about the actual tool as much as make some comparisons to other web 2.0 tools and discuss why Diigo is more of an innovation.