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Our Alaska Stories - 51 views

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ipad ipads education integration blog video classroom

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  • Steve Ransom on 26 Oct 11
     
    Great blog chronicling the adventures of an iPad classroom in Alaska. Larry Mitchell, Badger Road ElementarySkip Via, UAF School of Education
Steve Ransom

VoiceThread at Penn State: Simply Speaking Video! - VoiceThread - 9 views

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voicethread video screencast howto about

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  • Steve Ransom on 26 Oct 11
     
    Great introductory screencast on VoiceThread
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The 10 Worst Mistakes of First-Time Job Hunters - Finance and Accounting Jobs News and ... - 44 views

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jobs employment advice PLN networking college students highered

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  • Steve Ransom on 20 Oct 11
     
    Some salient and relevant advice for 21st century learners! "I would have actually networked." "I would have gotten more involved in career-relevant extracurricular activities.""I would have focused more on becoming 'professional.'""I would have kept better track of my achievements.""I would have focused more on developing relevant skills."
Steve Ransom

Science teachers at Loxahatchee middle school strike back against hands-on labs - 106 views

www.palmbeachpost.com/...1916851.html

science testing handson labs testscores performance

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  • Steve Ransom on 16 Oct 11
     
    Just plain sad.
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Look Both Ways Before Crossing Powerpoint - 152 views

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powerpoint presentation skills gr8

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  • Steve Ransom on 13 Oct 11
     
    Great and visual slideshare press
  • Steve Ransom on 14 Oct 11
     
    Kirstie, you can find many such presentations on Slideshare... just a matter of weeding through them. Here's a lighthearted approach to the many concepts that students might relate to: http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint-slidefest/do-and-dont.aspx
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Schools Matter: Resolution: NCTE will oppose common core standards and national tests - 102 views

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NCTE commoncore nationalstandards opposition critique

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  • The way to improve education is to have national standards and national tests to reveal whether standards are being met.
  • Our schools are not broken. The problem is poverty.
  • No educator is opposed to assessments that help students to improve their learning. We are, however, opposed to excessive and inappropriate assessments.
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The University of Wherever - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • But we should be careful, in our idealism, not to diminish something that is already a wonder of the world.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 03 Oct 11
       
      Or, on the other hand, we have to be careful to ensure that our education system does not go the way of Kodak for failure of being forward/future thinking...
Steve Ransom

Our Future, Our Teachers: The Obama Administration's Plan for Teacher Education Reform ... - 102 views

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highered teachereducation reform obama arneduncan teacherpreparation

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  • Steve Ransom on 01 Oct 11
     
    Some needed changes here, but rating program effectiveness on K12 student test scores is ludicrous!
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ASCD Express 6.26 - Media Use Among U.S. Children: Where Are the Books? - 2 views

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media research books reading hours statistics youth kids children

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  • Steve Ransom on 30 Sep 11
     
    "white youth consume an average of 8.5 hours of media content and black, Hispanic, and Asian youth each consume about 13 hours...But when asked how much time they spent using computers for schoolwork, the rates ranged from 16 to 20 minutes a day, according to the study."
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Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive - 32 views

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911 news video archive

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  • Steve Ransom on 09 Sep 11
     
    The 9/11 Television News Archive is a library of news coverage of the events of 9/11/2001 and their aftermath as presented by U.S. and international broadcasters. A resource for scholars, journalists, and the public, it presents one week of news broadcasts for study, research and analysis.
Steve Ransom

Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 70 views

www.nytimes.com/...-faces-questions-on-value.html

technology schools change critique measurement effectiveness integration

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  • When it comes to showing results, he said, “We better put up or shut up.”
  • Critics counter that, absent clear proof, schools are being motivated by a blind faith in technology and an overemphasis on digital skills — like using PowerPoint and multimedia tools — at the expense of math, reading and writing fundamentals. They say the technology advocates have it backward when they press to upgrade first and ask questions later.
  • how the district was innovating.
  • ...24 more annotations...
  • district was innovating
  • there is no good way to quantify those achievements — putting them in a tough spot with voters deciding whether to bankroll this approach again
  • “We’ve jumped on bandwagons for different eras without knowing fully what we’re doing. This might just be the new bandwagon,” he said. “I hope not.”
  • $46.3 million for laptops, classroom projectors, networking gear and other technology for teachers and administrators.
  • If we know something works
  • it is hard to separate the effect of the laptops from the effect of the teacher training
  • The high-level analyses that sum up these various studies, not surprisingly, give researchers pause about whether big investments in technology make sense.
  • Good teachers, he said, can make good use of computers, while bad teachers won’t, and they and their students could wind up becoming distracted by the technology.
  • “It’s not the stuff that counts — it’s what you do with it that matters.”
  • “Test scores are the same, but look at all the other things students are doing: learning to use the Internet to research, learning to organize their work, learning to use professional writing tools, learning to collaborate with others.”
  • that computers can distract and not instruct.
  • “They’re inundated with 24/7 media, so they expect it,”
  • The 30 students in the classroom held wireless clickers into which they punched their answers. Seconds later, a pie chart appeared on the screen: 23 percent answered “True,” 70 percent “False,” and 6 percent didn’t know.
  • rofessor Cuban at Stanford argues that keeping children engaged requires an environment of constant novelty, which cannot be sustained.
  • engagement is a “fluffy
  • term” that can slide past critical analysis.
  • creating an impetus to rethink education entirely
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      Like teaching powerpoint is "rethinking education". Right.
  • guide on the side.
  • Professor Cuban at Stanford
  • But she loves the fact that her two children, a fourth-grader and first-grader, are learning technology, including PowerPoint
  • “There is a connection between the physical hand on the paper and the words on the page,” she said. “It’s intimate.”
  • Mr. Share bases his buying decisions on two main factors: what his teachers tell him they need, and his experience. For instance, he said he resisted getting the interactive whiteboards sold as Smart Boards until, one day in 2008, he saw a teacher trying to mimic the product with a jury-rigged projector setup. “It was an ‘Aha!’ moment,” he said, leading him to buy Smart Boards, made by a company called Smart Technologies.
  • This is big business.
  • “Do we really need technology to learn?” she said. “It’s a very valid time to ask the question, right before this goes on the ballot.”
Steve Ransom

Remind101 - 114 views

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texting text remind101

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  • Steve Ransom on 26 Aug 11
     
    A safe way for teachers to text message students and stay in touch with parents - Free
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EDTREK2011 - 52 views

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orientation webquest highered edtech activity

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  • Steve Ransom on 25 Aug 11
     
    Great idea by Bernie Dodge et al.
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7 in 10 Students Have Skipped Buying a Textbook Because of Its Cost - Students - The Ch... - 22 views

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textbooks highered cost

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  • "Students recognize that textbooks are essential to their education but have been pushed to the breaking point by skyrocketing costs,"
  • does not measure the academic consequences for students who do not purchase textbooks
  • 78 percent of those students who reported not buying a textbook said they expected to perform worse in that class, even though some borrowed or shared the textbook.
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News: Not Guilty ... and Not Long Employed - Inside Higher Ed - 18 views

www.insidehighered.com/...ssor_in_case_of_student_laptop

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  • Rybicki denied hurting the student's finger, as she alleged, but said that professors have every right to shut a laptop when a student violates class rules or is rude by surfing the Web rather than using a laptop to take notes.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 25 Aug 11
       
      But I think one's "right" should be different than the professional behavior required in this situation. I don't think his actions were the right ones, whether it was his right or not.
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Google+: The Dark Side of the Circle | Edutopia - 7 views

www.edutopia.org/...ark-side-google-plus-ira-socol

Google+ bullying socialnetworking

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  • Steve Ransom on 03 Aug 11
     
    An important piece to consider an many different levels, not just with Gogle+ By @irasocol
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