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Roland Gesthuizen

Everybody Needs a Rock* « Learning About Learning - 48 views

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blog ACECUnplugged ACEC2012 reflection

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 16 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • My teacher brain was focused on the rules, not the meaning. The rock needed to represent me, and where I am right now in my life. Where am I now?
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 16 Aug 12
     
    "I collect rocks. Not on purpose. I don't go looking for them.  But when I bend to look more closely, inevitably they end up in my pocket, or in my car .. For Unplug'd 2012, I needed a rock that was easy to decorate, fit in the palm of my hand, and somehow represented me."
Steven Engravalle

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: The 13 MUST Know Professional Development W... - 51 views

www.educatorstechnology.com/...13-must-know-professional.html

resources

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  • Steven Engravalle on 04 Sep 12
     
    Professional Development is a life-long  learning process that  involves different activities including individual progress, continuing education, inservice education, peer collaboration, study groups, and peer coaching or mentoring. The importance of professional development lays in the fact that it is closely related to the overall quality of education and students achievements. Teachers who stop learning and suffice themselves with the curriculum content soon turn into hard working students only a step above their actual students.
Donal O' Mahony

What have you learned this year? | eLearning Island - 33 views

donalomahony.edublogs.org/...hat-have-you-learned-this-year

elearning

shared by Donal O' Mahony on 23 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Donal O' Mahony on 23 Dec 11
     
    Some thoughts on social media and education in Ireland as 2011 draws to a close.
Martin Burrett

Solar System Scope - 119 views

www.solarsystemscope.com/scope.swf

Science space planets solar system stars sun moon

shared by Martin Burrett on 28 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 28 Dec 11
     
    Wow! A simply stunning, fast loading, space 3D simulation of the solar system. Fly between the plants and look at them close up. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
A Gardner

achievethecore.org / Steal These Tools - 33 views

www.achievethecore.org/steal-these-tools

commoncore resources standards reading math CCSS

shared by A Gardner on 15 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • A Gardner on 15 Jul 12
     
    Steal these tools - close reading examples, math shifts
Mark Gleeson

The iPad and Maths - Are we there yet? Pt 1 - 2 views

mgleeson.edublogs.org/...pad-and-maths-are-we-there-yet

maths ipad

shared by Mark Gleeson on 25 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Mark Gleeson on 25 Feb 12
     
    How close is the iPad to being a truly effective tool for teaching and learning Maths? The jury is still out
Roland Gesthuizen

Victorian Teachers Strike - 35 views

www.theage.com.au/...ense-arena-20120607-1zxi0.html

aeu wearred union workconditions TheAge teaching

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 07 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 07 Jun 12
     
    'Thousands of protesting school teachers have reached the steps of Parliament, swamping the intersection of Bourke and Spring streets in a sea of red. Up to 25,000 teachers walked off the job today, forcing 54 primary and secondary schools to close, as they went in search of better pay and conditions from the state government."
Matt Renwick

Using formative tools for better project results - SmartBlogs - 63 views

smartblogs.com/...ols-for-better-project-results

pbl assessment

shared by Matt Renwick on 11 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • She planned to keep reworking it, applying layers of acrylic until she got the play of light just the way she wanted. Then she laughed and said, “You should see what’s underneath! I bet there are three or four versions beneath this one.” Not only was the student producing a lovely painting — which would one day grace her family’s living room — but she was paying close attention to her learning process. At the end of each class, she added a short reflection to her project journal, which she was keeping on a Google Doc shared with her teacher.
  • As I listened to this student describe her learning experience, however, it seemed that the more meaningful assessment was happening long before the project came to a close.
  • Encourage students to make self-assessment a habit, too. Invite students to request workshops or mini-lessons in areas where they want more help. One PBL teacher reserves a corner of the class whiteboard for just this purpose. Use journals or blogs to encourage goal-setting, self-assessment and reflection throughout a project.
Matt Renwick

When a Bookstore Closes, an Argument Ends - The New Yorker - 21 views

www.newyorker.com/...kstore-closes-an-argument-ends

bookstore argument ends

shared by Matt Renwick on 30 Jun 15 - No Cached
  • once a bookstore is gone we lose the particular opportunities for adjacency it offers,
  • Restaurants, bookstores, cafés—on a grander scale railway stations, on a lesser one chessboards near park benches—are the sinews of civil society.
  • Enlightenment happened more often in a café than a classroom.
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  • By atomizing our experience to the point of alienation—or, at best, by creating substitutes for common experience (“you might also like…” lists, Twitter exchanges instead of face-to-face conversations)—we lose the common thread of civil life.
  • Books are not just other luxury items to be shopped for. They are the levers of our consciousness.
Pat Hundelt

Slideshow: Florida oil spill update two counties close beaches, health advisories issue... - 9 views

www.examiner.com/alth-advisories-issued--photos

oil spill slideshow florida

shared by Pat Hundelt on 25 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Pat Hundelt on 25 Jun 10
     
    slide show of spill and beach closures
Sydney Lacey

The ABCs Of Saving A Failing School : NPR - 19 views

www.npr.org/...story.php

restructuring schools NPR radio news NCLB turnaround education

shared by Sydney Lacey on 07 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Sydney Lacey on 07 Jul 10
     
    First in a series of NPR reports on School Makeovers. Transcript and link to audio of broadcast. "If a school is consistently failing and kids aren't learning, shut it down. Start over with new teachers and administrators willing to do something dramatically different. Closing failing schools and turning them around has been in vogue since No Child Left Behind, and now the Obama Administration is embracing the idea. It's even offering millions of dollars to school districts to help them do it."
Brian Mull

Science, engineering teams assessing BP well - CNN.com - 9 views

www.cnn.com/...index.html

bp oil

shared by Brian Mull on 13 Aug 10 - Cached
    • Brian Mull
      Brian Mull on 13 Aug 10
       
      Why do you think ...?
  • Brian Mull on 13 Aug 10
     
    This is discussing final efforts of closing the leaking oil well.
Roland Gesthuizen

Questioning Toolkit - 149 views

questioning.org/toolkit.html

questioning collaboration classroom teaching tool reference resources discussion eLearning FNO

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 25 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 25 Oct 10
     
    Each district should create a Questioning Toolkit which contains several dozen kinds of questions and questioning tools. This Questioning Toolkit should be printed in large type on posters which reside on classroom walls close by networked, information-rich computers. Portions of the Questioning Toolkit should be introduced as early as Kindergarten so that students can bring powerful questioning technologies and techniques with them as they arrive in high school.
Randolph Hollingsworth

The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education - 60 views

www.centerforsocialmedia.org/...r-use-media-literacy-education

copyright fair use media educational technology

shared by Randolph Hollingsworth on 25 Oct 10 - Cached
  • when they occur within a restricted-access network, do enjoy certain copyright advantages
  • we as a society give limited property rights to creators to encourage them to produce culture; at the same time, we give other creators the chance to use that same copyrighted material, without permission or payment
  • Did the unlicensed use "transform" the material taken from the copyrighted work by using it for a different purpose than that of the original, or did it just repeat the work for the same intent and value as the original? • Was the material taken appropriate in kind and amount, considering the nature of the copyrighted work and of the use?
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  • If the answers to these two questions are "yes," a court is likely to find a use fair
  • whether the use will cause excessive economic harm to the copyright owner
  • the purpose of copyright—to promote the advancement of knowledge through balancing the rights of owners and users.
  • In some cases, this will mean using a clip or excerpt; in other cases, the whole work is needed. Whenever possible, educators should provide proper attribution and model citation practices that are appropriate to the form and context of use.
  • educators should provide reasonable protection against third-party access and downloads
  • educators using concepts and techniques of media literacy should be free to enable learners to incorporate, modify, and re-present existing media objects in their own classroom work
  • Students’ use of copyrighted material should not be a substitute for creative effort
  • Students should be able to understand and demonstrate, in a manner appropriate to their developmental level, how their use of a copyrighted work repurposes or transforms the original.
  • but cannot rely on fair use when their goal is simply to establish a mood or convey an emotional tone, or when they employ popular songs simply to exploit their appeal and popularity
  • material that is incorporated under fair use should be properly attributed wherever possible
  • attribution, in itself, does not convert an infringing use into a fair one.
  • If student work that incorporates, modifies, and re-presents existing media content meets the transformativeness standard, it can be distributed to wide audiences under the doctrine of fair use.
  • When sharing is confined to a delimited network, such uses are more likely to receive special consideration under the fair use doctrine
  • there are no cut-and-dried rules (such as 10 percent of the work being quoted, or 400 words of text, or two bars of music, or 10 seconds of video).
  • Transformativeness, a key value in fair use law, can involve modifying material or putting material in a new context, or both
  • Copyright Act itself makes it clear that educational uses will often be considered fair because they add important pedagogical value to referenced media objects.
  • If educators or learners want to share their work only with a class (or another defined, closed group) they are in a favorable position
  • if work is going to be shared widely, it is good to be able to rely on transformativeness
  • courts have found that asking permission and then being rejected has actually enhanced fair use claims.
  • We don’t know of any lawsuit actually brought by an American media company against an educator over the use of media in the educational process
  • Lack of clarity reduces learning and limits the ability to use digital tools. Some educators close their classroom doors and hide what they fear is infringement; others hyper-comply with imagined rules that are far stricter than the law requires, limiting the effectiveness of their teaching and their students’ learning.
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 08 Jun 12
     
    Good place to look for guidelines about use of media
Roland O'Daniel

Ending America's 'race to the bottom' - International Herald Tribune - 0 views

www.iht.com/...ededucation.php

IHT opinion education

shared by Roland O'Daniel on 14 Mar 09 - Cached
  • sophisticated examinations that better measure problem-solving and critical thinking.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 14 Mar 09
       
      Good. Devil in the detail, as always, of course.
    • Roland O'Daniel
      Roland O'Daniel on 15 Mar 09
       
      Interestingly, KY is looking to get rid of their sophisticated examinations because of political pressure, lack of comparibility, and $. In the 90s KY was a leader in attempting to change assessment and accountability, but for a plethora of reasons has fallen back in line. Not trying to be negative, but recognize the difficulty in the challenge and hope he's up to it.
  • Once charter schools have opened, it becomes politically difficult to close them, even in cases where they are bad or worse than their traditional counterparts.
    • Roland O'Daniel
      Roland O'Daniel on 15 Mar 09
       
      Ed, great example of how not to structure the change. Open more charter schools, make them have a 5 year evaluation plan, have an accountability plan in place that allows the school to stay true to their ideal, make changes that they feel will help them achieve their goals, even allow them additional time if results warrant, and then HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE. If they can't show they haven't at least held their own, then close them, but make that part of the evaluation plan from the beginning. The rub of that plan is that you can't hold them accountable at a level that you aren't going to hold everybody else to. What about traditional schools that aren't working, what do you do with those schools? Isn't that one of the big knocks on NCLB that they are 'being taken over' because of some testing system?
  • Congress will need to broaden and sustain those reforms in the upcoming reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 14 Mar 09
       
      Why reauthorize? Why not tear it up and write something better?
    • Roland O'Daniel
      Roland O'Daniel on 15 Mar 09
       
      I disagree with tearing it up and starting over, isn't that what we do in education? Try something it doesn't work (for lots of reasons, including lack of implementation), and move on to the next shiny thing. Why not analyze the program, identify the aspects that have shown efficacy, identify the aspects that haven't achieved their goals, make changes that are informed and researchable, put them in place and hold people accountable for implementing. I think NCLB was well intentioned and represented the best thinking of a group of people (in education as in many areas i don't think you can say it represents the best thinking of everyone). I just don't like the idea of letting everyone off the hook by starting over. I believe it reinforces the concept that I don't have to worry about this project because it too will pass.
Ann Steckel

endofweb / FrontPage - 0 views

endofweb.pbworks.com/FrontPage

endofweb

shared by Ann Steckel on 13 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Ann Steckel on 13 Jul 09
     
    The scenario: It's 2020 and the world has changed. Some say for the better, for others it is the worst. The internet, the technology that connects us, will be turned off in 60 days. The world leaders, controlled by BIG BUSINESS, have agreed that the internet is making the world worse, and is now too big and too powerful. It must be stopped. The resistance force, always on the move, known as the Wireless Underground will seek to rally others to form their own resistance groups and to eventually form a new www based on connecting rogue sites. Each group will have limited range of access but can extend through connecting with other groups. They say official orders have been given. The Internet is closing down, to be replaced by a single information service called the "Alternet". The underground predict that G8 world leaders will make an the announcement in Feburary 2021, but this could just ne a hoax ... but what if it's true? What will be your story?
Cindy Sheets

Welcome to Aviary - 75 views

aviary.com

tools graphics editor Photo photos

shared by Cindy Sheets on 04 Mar 10 - Cached
  • X Myna Audio Editor Use Myna to remix audio tracks and audio clips. Learn more Popular Myna Creations Open 2 days ago By Akuma296 Open 2 days ago By shyun17 Open 2 days ago By mizagorn in ... or watch a video demo first Close
  • Nancy Henry on 04 Mar 10
     
    This is SO awesome! I can't wait to try the tutorials and start making art! I'm definitely passing this one on to my students right away!
  • Jon Tanner on 08 Mar 10
     
    Free, web-based art and photo editing tool. Very cool looking.
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