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Lynda Monick-Isenberg

Online teaching andlearning - 63 views

www.hybridpedagogy.com/...affinity-asynchronous-learning

education technology hybrid asynchronous synchronous

shared by Lynda Monick-Isenberg on 21 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Lynda Monick-Isenberg on 21 Mar 14
     
    Interesting article on access and bias in online world of teaching and learning.
Julie Sully

Random Thoughts on History: Why does history keep changing? - 43 views

randomthoughtsonhistory.blogspot.com/...oes-history-keep-changing.html

shared by Julie Sully on 25 Nov 14 - No Cached
    • Julie Sully
      Julie Sully on 25 Nov 14
       
      Read this article about why history changes and answer the questions that are the sticky notes throughout the article.
  • But, how we view something of the past is largely due to our own past and present experiences.
    • Julie Sully
      Julie Sully on 25 Nov 14
       
      What do you think the author means in the highlighted text "but how we view something of the past is largely due to our own past and present experiences"?
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  • Secondly, but along the same lines as the above explanation, is that the people writing history change as well
  • The social changes of the 1960s and 1970s brought many women historians into what had largely been a male dominated field and introduced new perspectives and told new stories that had previously been undiscovered (unfortunately, due to lack a of male interest) or ignored (unfortunately, due to a lack of male interest).
    • Julie Sully
      Julie Sully on 25 Nov 14
       
      What new perspective could women bring to the study of history? Why would it be different then a mans perspective?
  • History was once written largely only through limited primary sources; letters, journals, diaries, and newspapers, and of course, secondary sources-what others had already written. But historians not so long ago began to "think outside the box," and by using sources such as estate
  • inventories, court documents, and even oral histories, these historians opened up a world of new information.
  • Locating new information of course changed how we saw events of the past, and only naturally new interpretations developed...and in this way one could say history changed.
    • Julie Sully
      Julie Sully on 25 Nov 14
       
      How would new information change history? 
  • Lastly, and related to the third, is that the availability of research sources have changed...largely through technology
  • All of this makes researching much easier and much less frustrating for the historian, and it allows him or her more time to make critical decisions, and to explore avenues that would not otherwise be considered.
    • Julie Sully
      Julie Sully on 25 Nov 14
       
      Why would having access to all of these resources benefit historians?
Christian Howd

How to Make American Teens Smarter - The Daily Beast - 51 views

www.thedailybeast.com/...what-teens-are-really-reading

reading reading strategies language arts

shared by Christian Howd on 21 Jul 10 - Cached
  • "People don't really understand the nature of reading. They feel that reading is a skill, that it's transferable, so once you're a good reader, you can read anything that's put in front of you," says Daniel Willingham, a University of Virginia cognitive psychologist who focuses on K-12 education. "But that's only true for decoding—what you learn until grade three or four. After that, when you see good readers versus poor readers, what you're looking at is mostly differences in the knowledge that kids bring to the reading. It's easy to read something when you already know something about the topic. And if you don't know about the topic, it's utterly opaque to you."
  • That's why children should read newspapers and magazines, texts about nature and technology, and biographies—genres that increase real-world knowledge. This is especially important for poor children, who may not be exposed to as much "background" information at home: the random vocabulary, facts, and associations that make it easier to do well on tests like the NAEP and SAT, and to succeed in the workplace.
  • Christian Howd on 21 Jul 10
     
    Americans may be reading more words today than ever before, but the content is less challenging. Dana Goldstein on kids' dismal reading scores-and a movement to get them to put down Twilight and pick up nonfiction.
  • Joyce Uglow on 23 Jul 10
     
    You're absolutely right! Our students need to be provided opportunities to read a variety of text!
Phil Taylor

Thumann Resources - 0 views

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pln twitter thumann education resources web2.0 21stCenturyLearning music

shared by Phil Taylor on 17 Mar 09 - Cached
  • “How can educators around the world use technology to connect, collaborate, teach, support and inspire each other? Collaborative Internet applications allow educators to create online communities that support their professional learning and relieve their isolation. In this session we will focus on the ways two social networking tools, Twitter and Classroom 2.0, can be harnessed to build a rich and powerful learning community.
  • Lee-Anne Patterson on 17 Mar 09
     
    From Twitter PLN - great resource and explaination for why teachers should use Twitter to build up their PLNs
  • Lee-Anne Patterson on 17 Mar 09
     
    I realize there are many amazing posts on the merits of using Twitter to develop a PLN. I also realize that there already exists dozens of collections of tools for making the most of Twitter. Yet, as I prepare for my presentation at NJECC's annual conference tomorrow, I am compelled to write one of my own.
Steve Ransom

Tweeting Your Way to Better Grades - US News and World Report - 0 views

www.usnews.com/...your-way-to-better-grades.html

twitter grades

shared by Steve Ransom on 17 Jun 09 - No Cached
  • says today's kids aren't just digital natives—they're "digital savages" and "digital cannibals." They master technology at an alarming rate, he says, and they find ways to adapt it to practices other than what was originally intended. And they cheat.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 17 Jun 09
       
      There is a more defining characteristic of Prensky's flawed label!
Virginia Meadow

Frames - Animation and Digital Storytelling Software | Tech4Learning - 6 views

www.tech4learning.com/frames

shared by Virginia Meadow on 12 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Introducing Frames 4! Frames is educational software for stop-motion animation, claymation, and digital storytelling. Creating illustrated animations, movies and digital stories engages students in the curriculum, encourages problem-solving, promotes creativity, and helps students develop 21st-century communication skills. Students can use Frames to create movies, animated GIF files, and Flash animations to share with the world.
  • dents more than creating clay animation. With Frames as the foundation in the Clay Animation Kit, this motivating process transforms your classroom into an active learning
  • Clay Animation Nothing engages stu
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  • Communicating visually is an essential 21st-century skill. With Frames integrated drawing tools, students can illustrate their own animated diagrams, graphs, procedures, and more, helping them understand concepts that are difficult to explain using text alone. (L
  • ents more than creating clay animation! Use Frames to transform your classroom into an active learning environment and begin having your student develop exciting cross-curricular group projects that incorporate writing and technology skills. (Learn More)
  • Virginia Meadow on 14 Sep 09
     
    Frames is educational software for stop-motion animation, claymation, and digital storytelling. Frames helps students develop 21st-century communication skills.
Danielle Vogel

Education World ® Technology Channel: Wordle While You Work - 0 views

www.educationworld.com/...dyck030.shtml

Wordle WordClouds vocabulary EnglishEducation

shared by Danielle Vogel on 04 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Danielle Vogel on 04 Aug 09
     
    Thanks to a nifty web tool called Wordle, you can create your own word clouds and tap into the educational benefits this verbal-ranking, categorization tool offers.
Steve Fulton

Teaching with Technology in the Middle: The Digital Inquiry Project and "The New Cultur... - 121 views

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blog inquiry blogging teaching learning web2.0 middleschool languagearts

shared by Steve Fulton on 19 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Steve Fulton on 19 Jan 11
     
    A blog post exploring how one teacher has used Diigo and blogging to introduce his students to real-world digital learning.
Randolph Hollingsworth

ARVEL SIG - Applied Research in Virtual Environments for Learning - 19 views

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virtual world technology openscholar digital research

shared by Randolph Hollingsworth on 23 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 23 Feb 11
     
    .An American Education Research Association SIG for educators, scholars, and practitioners researching computer-mediated 3D communities.
Karen Balnis

Another Look at the Weaknesses of Online Learning - Innovations - The Chronicle of High... - 86 views

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shared by Karen Balnis on 28 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • have been lucky enough to have taught the full range of our freshman / sophmore undergraduate offerings as both an onsite and online instructor. While I have thoroughly enjoyed both formats - and very much so - I must admit that my experiences online have been *much* more positive than onsite instruction. Let me try and elucidate:1. While in the onsite classroom you have the opportunity to think on your feet and challenge and be experiential on your feet to reactions to the students who speak, in the online classroom, you are able to meet *every* class member and challenge their minds and ideas. The students who would normally be lost in a classroom of 35-40 are met and developed each day or week at their level and pushed to consider ideas they might not have considered. 2. I am able to reach the entire class through multimedia exhibits in each of the weekly units - journal articles, non-copyrighted film clips (and many from our university's purchased collection under an agreement for both onsite classroom and online classroom use), photography, art, patents, etc, that the students would not see - or would otherwise ignore - in an onsite classroom. We incorporate this information into our discussions and make it part of the larger whole of history.3. Each student and I - on the phone during office hours or in e-mail - discuss the creation of their term papers - and discuss midterm and final "anxiety" issues - and as they are used to the online format, and regular communication with me through the discussion boards, they respond much more readily than onsite students, whom I have found I have to pressure to talk to me. 4. I am able to accommodate students from around the country - and around the world. I have had enrolled in my class students from Japan, Indonesia, India, England - and many other countries. As a result, I have set up a *very* specific Skype address *only* for use of my students. They are required to set up the time and day with me ahead of time and I need to approve that request, but for them (and for some of my students scattered all over the state and US), the face time is invaluable in helping them feel "connected" - and I am more than happy to offer it. 5. As the software upgrades, the possibilities of what I can offer become more and more amazing, and the ease of use for both me - and for the students -  becomes astronomically better. Many have never known the software, so they don't notice it - but those who have taken online courses before cheer it on. Software does not achieve backwards. As very few of these issues are met by the onsite classroom, I am leaning more and more toward the online classroom as the better mode of instruction. Yes, there are times I *really* miss the onsite opportunities, but then I think of the above distinctions and realize that yes, I am where I should be, and virtually *ALL* the students are getting far more for their money than they would get in an onsite classroom. This is the wave of the future, and it holds such amazing promise. Already I think we are seeing clear and fruitful results, and if academics receive effective - and continuing - instruction and support from the very beginning, I cannot imagine why one would ever go back. The only reason I can think of *not* doing this is if the instructor has his or her *own* fear of computers. Beyond that - please, please jump on the bandwagon, swallow your fears, and learn how to do this with vigor. I don't think you will ever be sorry.PhD2BinUS
  • have been lucky enough to have taught the full range of our freshman / sophmore undergraduate offerings as both an onsite and online instructor. While I have thoroughly enjoyed both formats - and very much so - I must admit that my experiences online have been *much* more positive than onsite instruction. Let me try and elucidate:
  • While I have thoroughly enjoyed both formats - and very much so - I must admit that my experiences online have been *much* more positive than onsite instruction. Let me try and elucidate:
  • S B on 29 Jul 11
     
    I am a graduate student at Sam Houston State University and before I started grad school I never had taken an online course before. My opinion then was that online courses were a joke and you couldn't learn from taking a course online. Now my opinion has done a complete 180. The teachers post numerous youtube videos and other helpful tools for each assignment so that anyone can successfully complete the assignment no matter what their technology skill level is. I do not see much difference between online and face-to-face now because of the way the instructors teach the courses.
Maureen Greenbaum

Five Things Students Say They Want From Education| The Committed Sardine - 88 views

www.fluency21.com/blogpost.cfm

education

shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 23 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • 1. Real-world application and relevancy
  • 3. Innovation
  • 5. Interactive technology
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  • 4. Teacher mentors
  • 2. Choice
  • make the class a welcoming place instead of a dreaded one.
  • more time to reflect on what they learn
  • The teachers [who] are still using overhead projectors should be run out of town!
  • more practical, hands-on experience and not just lectures and homework
  • where they can experiment, discuss, and reflect on what they observed, and then redo the activity.
  • teacher who engages them in learning rather than constantly ‘telling’ them what they should learn, and a curriculum that explains the ‘what’ and ‘why’ and connects it to their lives.”
Steve Ransom

Schools Debate Cursive Handwriting Instruction Nationwide - 67 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...andwriting-instr_n_842069.html

cursive handwriting debate

shared by Steve Ransom on 31 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • she'd rather "move on" and focus class time on other topics.
  • choosing to teach cursive is not about aesthetics or preference, but about giving children the mental tools needed read English.
  • hreaded letter strokes help guide students' eyes left-to-right and definitively correlates reading with writing:
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  • "I absolutely get that we're moving in a world that's technology-based," she says. "But I'm of the old school that believes you can't forget where you came from to get where you're going. There could be a day the computer crashes."
  • Steve Ransom on 31 Mar 11
     
    "Schools Debate Cursive Handwriting Instruction Nationwide"
webExplorations

Adobe Museum of Digital Media - 106 views

www.adobemuseum.com/index.php

video design media

shared by webExplorations on 23 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • webExplorations on 23 Apr 11
     
    A-B-C Atoms (physical) Bits (Virtual) C (craft) Craft? The New Craft: Virtual and Physical blended together. The tools and the media are converging. This site puts you on a high hill giving you a much better viewpoint of the horizon. A new view showing how technology and design are beginning to work together in today's world: A-B-C Enjoy.
Liane St. Laurent

OPINION: How to Move PD Forward | EdSurge News - 36 views

www.edsurge.com/...opinion-how-to-move-pd-forward

professional development

shared by Liane St. Laurent on 17 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • YouTube exists because of people’s desire to find, share and comment (right now) on what they see.
  • the greatest content management system the world has ever known, and the largest and easiest to search content repository in the history of human experience, is freely available to anyone with a connected device. It’s called the Internet.
  • What we need are new (and constantly evolving) technologies built specifically to allow educators to curate, create, share, and collaborate on the things that matter to them personally. If you want professional development, you need to let professionals develop.
jojomitty

Microsoft Buys Edu Edition of Minecraft Releases OneNote Classroom Tool -- THE Journal - 24 views

thejournal.com/...es-onenote-classroom-tool.aspx

education edtech tieclass gaming tech

shared by jojomitty on 26 Jan 16 - No Cached
    • jojomitty
      jojomitty on 26 Jan 16
       
      Mentoring would be wonderful for those of us who are not familiar with the workings of Minecraft but would like to use it in class.
  • free trial version
  • Minecraft transcends the differences in teaching and learning styles and education systems around the world. It's an open space where people can come together and build a lesson around nearly anything."
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    • jojomitty
      jojomitty on 26 Jan 16
       
      Technology = equalizer for students
  • make sure no student ever got behind in their education because of difficulties with reading... We wanted to make sure that was as little a barrier as possible, so they can focus on what they're learning."
    • jojomitty
      jojomitty on 26 Jan 16
       
      This is a huge bonus for ELL students!
Jessica Ports

The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You | Edudemic - 240 views

edudemic.com/...-classroom-tools-chosen-by-you

ICT4Ed education web 2.0 classroom Technology resources

shared by Jessica Ports on 22 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Lauren Rosen on 22 Feb 11
     
    The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You
  • Wayne Holly on 02 Dec 11
     
    If you're not an avid follower of #edchat on Twitter, you may be missing out on a great opportunity to learn about some new Web 2.0 tools that are currently being used in classrooms around the world. That's because @chickensaltash posed a simple question to the PLN and there has been a huge swell of support as hundreds of people have jumped in to answer the question about which 5 Web 2.0 tools teachers are using in classrooms.
  • Sandy Johnson on 14 Dec 11
     
    A lot of these are really great tools to use!
Norma Moore

Yabla - Language Immersion - Learn Languages with Authentic Videos - 88 views

www.yabla.com

language learning immersion

shared by Norma Moore on 02 May 12 - Cached
  • Norma Moore on 02 May 12
     
    Language Immersion Through Online Video The revolutionary way to immerse yourself in a foreign language is here! Only Yabla language immersion sites give you authentic television, music videos, drama, interviews, travel, and Yabla exclusive shoots from throughout the world. Our unique player technology is designed with language learners in mind: Slow Play, Integrated Dictionaries, Listening Game, Dual Language Subtitles, and more.
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