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Martin Burrett

GPS Essentials - 0 views

www.gpsessentials.com

gps geography

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  • Martin Burrett on 12 Nov 13
     
    This is a fabulous GPS and mapping Android app that gives you everything you need to go geocaching and exploring the great outdoors. There are location, compass, photo and tracking tools which should ensure you can always find your way... until your battery runs out! Download the app at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mictale.gpsessentials http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental
Andrew Ziobro

Anaheim school district handing out GPS trackers to chronically absent students -- Enga... - 42 views

www.engadget.com/...ut-gps-trackers-to-chronically

school Absent

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  • Andrew Ziobro on 21 Feb 11
     
    GPS Trackers for Absent Students
Mallory Burton

Getting from Here to There What GPS can teach us about education - 0 views

www.udlcenter.org/...GPSarticle.pdf

UDL

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  • Mallory Burton on 29 Jun 12
     
    David Rose uses GPS navigation system to introduce principles of UDL
Lee-Anne Patterson

GIS and Geographic Inquiry - 1 views

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gis geography gps mapping

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  • Lee-Anne Patterson on 30 Mar 09
     
    "Geospatial" technologies--which include geographic information system (GIS), global positioning system (GPS), and remote sensing (RS) tools--are becoming increasingly important in our everyday lives. These technologies use "smart" maps that can display, query, and analyze geographic databases; receivers that provide location and navigation; and global-to-local imagery and tools that provide context and analysis.
Randolph Hollingsworth

The Personal Is Political on Social Media: Online Civic Expression Patterns and Pathway... - 11 views

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civic engagement social media youth

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  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 14 Feb 14
     
    by Emily C. Weinstein, Harvard University International Journal of Communication 8 (2014), 210-233. Social media have dramatically altered the communication landscape, offering novel contexts for individual expression. But how do youth who are civically engaged off-­line manage opportunities for civic expression on social media? Interviews with 70 U.S.-­based civic youth aged 15 to 25 revealed three main patterns characterizing the relationship between off-­line participation and online expression: blended, bounded, and differentiated. Five sets of empirically derived considerations influencing expression patterns emerged: organizational policies, personal image and privacy, perceived alignment with civic goals, attitudes toward the platform(s), and perceptions of their audience(s). Most civic youth express the civic online, yet a minority highlight tensions that lead them to refrain from sharing in certain or all online context.
Martin Burrett

UKED Magazine - May 2015 issue - 22 views

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magazine education articles ukedchat

shared by Martin Burrett on 13 May 15 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 13 May 15
     
    Free online magazine for teachers, featuring articles on Minecraft in the classroom, Project based learning, subject knowledge, value of field trips, and using GPS to enhance learning.
Ed Webb

BBC NEWS | Europe | Swedes miss Capri after GPS gaffe - 0 views

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GPS technology geography errors

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  • Ed Webb on 29 Jul 09
     
    A great example of over-reliance on technology and under-reliance on critical thought.
Roland Gesthuizen

iPad: The Microwave Oven of Computing | Techinch - 86 views

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tablet iPad Apple computer Techinch blog

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 20 Mar 11
     
    "Last year, Apple introduced the iPad, a computing device many have struggled to classify. It's bigger than a smartphone or iPod, smaller than a computer, but can do some things you'd otherwise do on both of these. You can type a document in Pages or find your way with GPS and Google Maps. So what makes it so special? "
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 20 Mar 11
     
    Nice analogy that sits well for teachers trying to figure out where tablet devices fit into schools filled with traditional computers.
Roland Gesthuizen

Techno-toddlers: A is for Apple | Technology | The Guardian - 38 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...print

technology tablet preschool research Guardian edutech

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 23 Nov 11
     
    In the last chapter of her novel A Visit From The Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan imagines a dystopian near future in which toddlers in the year 2020 download music to their ubiquitous "kiddie handsets", which also feature "finger drawing, GPS systems for babies just learning to walk, PicMail". But if that's the future, it's already here.
Martin Burrett

Locly - 43 views

ukedchat.com/locly

location GPS QR codes treasure hunt

shared by Martin Burrett on 16 Aug 16 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 16 Aug 16
     
    A great site and iOS app for creating location or QR Code triggered treasure hunts and digital 'breadcrumbs'. Create cards of text, images and other media which users can find and view based on their location or when scanning a QR code using a iOS device.
Sandy Munnell

Teaching and Learning: Using iPads in the Classroom | Edutopia - 158 views

www.edutopia.org/...hing-learning-apps-ben-johnson

iPad edtech apps education diigo_lesson resource literacy middleschool writing teaching technology

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  • Most students today would be classified as bodily-kinesthetic learners.
    • Miss OConnor
      Miss OConnor on 03 Nov 11
       
      Why?  What has changed and if this is true, what are the implications in the classroom when most teachers are visual/auditory learners?
    • Sandy Munnell
      Sandy Munnell on 28 Nov 11
       
      I would agree - making this assumption leads to other assumptions that have no scientific basis. It's a reaction to a supposed change in student learning behaviors. But it is the kind of statement that let's technology advocates jump on the bandwagon and sell their technology.
  • An app called Field Notes LT not only allows students to take copious notes of their observations, it attaches the date, time, GPS location and photographs of what is observed. These notes can be instantly shared, collaborated, and published in the field.
  • Perhaps a better question is what would I do with them that I could not do with other tools that are available and cheaper?
  • Sandy Munnell on 28 Nov 11
     
    This article explores various iPad apps that could "transform" the classroom.  
Roy Sovis

The Mindset List: 2017 List - 89 views

www.beloit.edu/2017

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  • As they started to crawl, so did the news across the bottom of the television screen.
  • As their parents held them as infants, they may have wondered whether it was the baby or Windows 95 that had them more excited.
  • Having a chat has seldom involved talking.
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  • They could always get rid of their outdated toys on eBay.
  • Their TV screens keep getting smaller as their parents’ screens grow ever larger.
  • Plasma has never been just a bodily fluid.
  • Jurassic Park has always had rides and snack bars, not free-range triceratops and velociraptors.
  • With GPS, they have never needed directions to get someplace, just an address.
  • As they slept safely in their cribs, the Oklahoma City bomber and the Unabomber were doing their deadly work.
  • Their favorite feature films have always been largely, if not totally, computer generated.
  • They have never really needed to go to their friend’s house so they could study together.
  • They have always been able to plug into USB ports
  • Their parents’ car CD player is soooooo ancient and embarrassing.
  • Wayne Holly on 20 Aug 13
     
    Want to feel old? Read this list about the college class of 2017.
Has Slone

Always Write: Cobett's "7 Elements of a Differentiated Writing Lesson" Resources - 10 views

www.corbettharrison.com/seven_elements.htm

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    • Has Slone
      Has Slone on 09 Apr 12
       
      This is a neat way to start a writing class with the creating plot ideas....
  • One of the goals I ask teachers to set after my training is to find new ways to push students to analyze and evaluate as they learn to write.
  • As part of my teacher workshop on the writing process, we investigate multiple uses of student samples. One of my favorite techniques involves having student compare and contrast finished pieces of writing. During both pre-writing and and revision, this push for deeper student thinking both educates and inspires your students.
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  • The handout has student writers analyze two fifth graders' published writing with a compare and contrast Venn diagram.
  • Revision is hard, and most teachers recognize it as an area of deficiency; the truth is, a lot of really great writing teachers I know still freely admit that revision is where they struggle the most.
  • revision shouldn't be the first of the seven elements to work on
  • When students like what they've written in rough draft form, they're ready to move to revision. My other six elements aim at helping students increase their pre-writing time so they both like and see more potential in their rough drafts
  • I believe in the power of collaboration and study teams,
  • Professional development research clearly cites the study team model as the most effective way to have learners not only understand new ideas but also implement them enough times so they become regular tools in a teacher's classroom.
  • Below, find three examples created by study teams during past workshops. I use them as models/exemplars when I set the study teams off to work.
  • My students learn to appreciate the act of writing, and they see it as a valuable life-skill.
  • In a perfect world, following my workshop,
  • follow-up tools.
  • I also use variations of these Post-its during my Critical Thinking Using the Writing Traits Workshop.
  • By far, the best success I've ever had while teaching revision was the one I experienced with the revision Post-its I created for my students
  • During my teacher workshop on the writing process, we practice with tools like the Revision Sprint (at right), which I designed to push students to use analysis and evaluation skills as they looked at their own drafts
  • I used to throw my kids into writing response groups way too fast. They weren't ready to provide critical thought for one another
  • The most important trick learned was this: be a writer too. During my first five years of teaching, I had assigned a lot of writing but never once had I written something I intended to show my students.
  • I have the following interactive plot element generator (which can be replicated with three coffee cans and index cards) to help my students feel in control of their options:
  • If you want to hear my take on graphic organizers in detail, you're going to have to hire me to come to present to you. If you can't do that, then I'll throw you a challenge that was thrown once at me, and completing the challenge helped me become a smarter designer of graphic organizers. The challenge came in two parts: 1) learn how to use tables and text boxes in Microsoft Word; 2) for practice, design a graphic organizer that would help students be successfully with the following trait-based skills:
  • "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, etc," which is an interesting structure that students can borrow from to write about other topics, be they fiction or non-fiction.
  • Asking students to create daily journals from the perspective of other animals or even inanimate objects is a great way to borrow this book's idea.
  • it challenges students to analyze the author's word choice & voice skills: specifically his use of verbs, subtle alliteration, and dialogue.
  • Mentor Text Resource Page here at my website, because this topic has become such a big piece of learning to me. It deserved its own webpage.
  • Here are seven skills I can easily list for the organization trait. Organization is: 1) using a strong lead or hook, 2) using a variety of transition words correctly, 3) paragraphing correctly, 4) pacing the writing, 5) sequencing events/ideas logically, 6) concluding the writing in a satisfying way, 7) titling the writing interestingly and so that the title stands for the whole idea. Over the years, I have developed or found and adapted mini-lessons that have students practice these skills during my "Organization Month."
  • Now, let's talk differentiation:
  • The problem with focusing students on a product--instead of the writing process--is that the majority of the instructional time is spent teaching students to adhere to a formula.
  • the goal of writing instruction absolutely should be the helping students practice the three Bloom's levels above apply: analyze, evaluate, and create.
  • Click here to access the PowerPoint I use during the goal-setting portion of my workshop.
  • Improving one's ability to teach writing to all students is a long-term professional development goal; sticking with it requires diligence, and it requires having a more specific goal than "I want to improve writing
  • "Trying to get better at all seven elements at once doesn't work;
  • strive to make my workshops more about "make and take,
  • Robert Marzano's research convinced me years ago of the importance of having learners set personal goals as they learn to take responsibility for their own learning.
Kate Tabor

The Historical Marker Database - 69 views

www.hmdb.org

history markers GPS resources

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  • Kate Tabor on 01 Jun 10
     
    Historical Marker Database that you can add markers to - You know you love this
Adrienne Michetti

2009 Horizon Report » Technologies to Watch - 0 views

wp.nmc.org/...technologies

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  • Now, many common devices can automatically determine and record their own precise location and can save that data along with captured media (like photographs) or can transmit it to web-based applications for a host of uses.
    • Adrienne Michetti
      Adrienne Michetti on 26 Jan 09
       
      This is pretty amazing, though slightly scary.
  • a collection of technologies that are used to configure and manage the ways in which one views and uses the Internet.
  • imbuing ordinary objects with the ability to recognize their physical location and respond appropriately, or to connect with other objects or information.
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  • mobiles firmly in the near-term horizon as the capabilities of phones have continued to develop rapidly. Innovations over the last year have brought third-party applications, easy GPS, and intuitive interfaces to mobile devices, blurring the boundary between phone and computer.
    • Adrienne Michetti
      Adrienne Michetti on 26 Jan 09
       
      You'd be a silly or naive educator to not make mobile use part of your classroom learning in the near future - if you're not already.
anonymous

SCVNGR - 51 views

www.scvngr.com

mobile scavenger geogaming gps scvngr geolocation hunt geocache

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  • anonymous on 19 Jul 13
     
    A scavenger hunt app
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