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Debra Why

Education Week Teacher: Redefining Instruction With Technology: Five Essential Steps - 95 views

www.edweek.org/...tln_magiera1.html

education technology ipads

shared by Debra Why on 18 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • This was the wrong approach: To truly change how my classroom worked, I needed a technology-based redefinition of my practice.
  • Break down to rebuild.
  • By setting aside my pre-conceived notions of how my classroom "should" look, sound, and feel, I was able to transform my practice from the ground up.
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  • I also asked myself the question: "What can I do with these devices that would be impossible to do without them?" In other words, I was hoping to create new teaching methods rather than just replacing old ones.
  • I redesigned my classroom practice around the goals, with iPads as the infrastructure.
  • Redefine with a goal in mind
  • Get more app for your money.
  • student-creation apps
  • Embrace failure
  • By creating a safe, open environment and by being clear that this endeavor is as foreign to you as it is to them, you encourage risk taking—and greater achievements.
  • Enjoy the results, reflect towards the future. A
  • I saw students become active agents in their own learning—because they now had choices about the methods that worked best for them. Kids who’d professed to hate school were now eager to engage in the classroom. One student wrote in her daily reflection, "[iPads] make me want to come to school every day because I know that Ms. Magiera has a lesson just for me."
  • Debra Why on 18 Jul 12
     
    Info on how to rethink how to use iPads to the best utilization
Trevor Cunningham

Best Free iPad App of the Week: artCircles - iPad Insight - 116 views

ipadinsight.com/...pad-app-of-the-week-artcircles

Library ipad app artCircles

shared by Trevor Cunningham on 05 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Trevor Cunningham on 05 Jun 12
     
    Interesting way to explore art.
Tonya Thomas

elearn Best Practices & Tips Articles - 45 views

elearnmag.acm.org/best-practices-tips.cfm

best practices elearning practices articles resources tools e-learning magazine education eLearn technology virtual

shared by Tonya Thomas on 20 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • In the Google Age, Information Literacy is Crucial
  • Lights, Camera, Learn!: Five tips for using video in eLearning
  • Improving Motivation in eLearning By Matt Guyan / October 8, 2013
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  • Synchronous Learning: Is there a future? By Martin Sivula / September 26, 2013
  • eLearning and Digital Cultures: A multitudinous open online course By Jeremy Knox / September 24, 2013
  • The Rock Stars of eLearning: An interview with Connie Malamed By Rick Raymer / September 19, 2013
  • The Rock Stars of eLearning: An interview with Karl Kapp By Rick Raymer / September 5, 2013
Wayne Holly

Makerbook - The best free resources for creatives. - 118 views

makerbook.net

design resources graphics photography creative mockup tools

shared by Wayne Holly on 29 May 15 - No Cached
  • Wayne Holly on 29 May 15
     
    A hand-picked directory of the best free resources for creatives.
Tim Cooper

The 2015 Honor Roll: EdTech's Must-Read K-12 IT Blogs | EdTech Magazine - 57 views

www.edtechmagazine.com/...50-must-read-it-blogs-2015

twitter edtech blogs best

shared by Tim Cooper on 22 May 15 - No Cached
  • Tim Cooper on 22 May 15
     
    good list of edtech blogs, some better than others. The list seems to have a wide scope to include all levels and subject areas rather than the best blogs.
Jonathan Wylie

The 5 Best Online Brain Training Sites for Schools - 219 views

www.brighthub.com/...106947.aspx

shared by Jonathan Wylie on 17 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Jonathan Wylie on 17 Feb 11
     
    Brain training games are a great way to promote higher level thinking skills in students, but finding the right activities to practice these skills can be difficult. Here are 5 of the best.
fishbert

Best Website Builders 2018 - Lab Tested Reviews by PCMag.com - 14 views

www.pcmag.com/...0,2817,2484510,00.asp

technology website development

shared by fishbert on 05 Nov 18 - No Cached
  • fishbert on 05 Nov 18
     
    Collection of best website builders
Bob Rowan

Should Students Evaluate Their Teachers? | Edutopia - 66 views

www.edutopia.org/...valuation-teachers-ben-johnson

education teaching

shared by Bob Rowan on 09 May 12 - No Cached
  • online survey of 1,883 students from 10 European countries
  • what the students expect
  • what they experience from their instructors
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  • looked at three characteristics
  • personality
  • classroom environment
  • teaching style
  • gap of 35 percent between what students expected and what professors were able to deliver
  • professors did best at being "confident" and "rational"
  • worst at being "inspiring"
  • wanted inspiring teachers that are approachable
  • clear idea of student requirements
  • good communicators
  • be alert to struggling students
  • student evaluations prove to be the most effective at providing specific information for formative evaluations
  • should be an important part of teacher evaluations
  • Informally, teachers are graded all the time
  • you could administer a formal climate survey
  • At the end of every test or quiz, put in a few non-graded questions
  • What did you like most about learning this topic
  • What was most difficult
  • could the teacher have done a better job
  • What would you recommend to improve this course? What do you want to see more of in this class? Less of?"
  • 21st-century education E-newsletter
  • Bob Rowan on 09 May 12
     
    The author reflects on student evaluations, citing a study that asked students what they expect from their professors (also talks about how it applies to K-12 schools)
Nancy Schmidt

Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: Connected Learning: Reimagining the Experience of Education in the Information Age - 1 views

henryjenkins.org/...cted_learning_a_new_parad.html

shared by Nancy Schmidt on 02 Mar 12 - No Cached
    • Nancy Schmidt
      Nancy Schmidt on 02 Mar 12
       
      The Common Core Learning Standards focus is to provide these type of texts in ELA, Social Studies and Science.
  • new approach to learning -- connected learning -- that is anchored in research, robust theories of learning, and the best of traditional standards, but also designed to mine the learning potential of the new social- and digital media domain
    • Nancy Schmidt
      Nancy Schmidt on 02 Mar 12
       
      Question: Can this be accomplished with the ever decreasing school budget? Will all these agencies work together to better educate our youths without asking for payment? Budgets could potentially be the ultimate hurdle in achieving connected learning.
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  • Equity -- when educational opportunity is available and accessible to all young people, it elevates the world we all live in.
    • Nancy Schmidt
      Nancy Schmidt on 02 Mar 12
       
      Can equity actually be achieved when we have privatization of education? I don't believe so as those who can afford private education will also contribute more toward their child's experience which continues to increase the divide.
  • Research shows that learners who are interested in what they are learning, achieve higher order learning outcomes.
  • Research shows that among friends and peers, young people fluidly contribute, share, and give feedback to one another, producing powerful learning.
  • Peer culture and interest-driven activity needs to be connected to academic subjects, institutions, and credentials for diverse young people to realize these opportunities.
Michelle Lynn

Best Practices - 2 views

www.amphi.com/...bestpract.htm

shared by Michelle Lynn on 06 Nov 08 - Cached
  • the first great thing about Diigo is that your bookmarks follow you wherever you go.  When you bookmark a site using your Diigo account, you can have access to it at work, home, the computer lab or library.  The other great thing is that once you bookmark it, you can share your book mark links with students and colleagues and they can all have access to your sites.   
    • Amy Cordova
      Amy Cordova on 17 Nov 08
       
      This would be the first reason to use Diigo in the classroom
  • The next big plus to Diigo is that you get to “tag” the sites you want to bookmark.  A tag is the classification system you determine so you can organize your bookmarks and find the link the next time you need it; this is known as a folksonomy. 
  • On the sticky note the teacher could ask questions and Diigo allows people to comment and reply to the questions on the sticky note.  Students could also add sticky notes for other students to comment on as well.  Another way to use the highlighting tool is that students could go through an article and highlight all of the vocabulary that they didn’t know and learn what it means prior to reading the article.  Or students could put sticky notes about questions they have when reading the text. 
    • yang hongmei
      yang hongmei on 23 Nov 08
       
      在便条中,教师可以提出问题,其他人可以通过便条回复.学生通读全文,高亮显示他们不懂的内容,在正式阅读前把它们学会.学生还可以在阅读时就他们不懂的部分添加便条提问.对教师而言,利用diigo获取学生在阅读时的所想也是很重要的.
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  • But, now let’s get to the “social” part of social bookmarking.  Let’s say you find a really awesome site for your unit on Greek Mythology, and you tag it on Diigo.  You see when you look at your bookmark list that 72 other people have tagged that exact same site.  You can see the lists of the other people who have tagged that site, and you might discover a 6th grade teacher in Wisconsin who has an amazing list of Greek mythology sites that you didn’t even know about.  Now you have taken advantage of the social part of the bookmarking process by adding some of those bookmarks to your list. 
  • Maggie Tsai on 06 Nov 08
     
    Diigo - 21st Century Tool for Research, Reading and Collaboration
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  • Kristen Rush on 10 Nov 08
     
    Why Diigo?
  • Amy Cordova on 17 Nov 08
     
    Diigo - 21st Century Tool for Research, Reading and Collaboration
  • yang hongmei on 23 Nov 08
     
    diigo的应用文章 great
Mr. Carver

Education Week: Research Shows Evolving Picture of E-Education - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...26research.h28.html

elearning

shared by Mr. Carver on 03 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Research shows that virtual schooling can be as good as, or better than, classes taught in person in brick-and-mortar schools
  • But that broad conclusion, which comes mainly from a couple of research syntheses published in 2001 and 2004, masks a lot of variation in the designs of online classes and in who takes them
  • to figure out under what conditions, what scenarios, in what content areas, and with what students.”
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  • draw students at the extremes of the academic spectrum
  • high-performing students tend to be younger,
  • the best academic records in online classes tend to be in that high-ability group
  • adaptive-intelligence technology
  • “more a matter of learning style.”
  • “Whether that’s 24-hour technical support, tutorial support, parental vigilance, or face-to-face site coordinators or mentors,”
    • Mr. Carver
      Mr. Carver on 03 Apr 09
       
      Probably the most important thought in the whole aritcle. Technology (as with anything) is useless on its own. Support needs to be there.
  • “You pay attention to what’s going on,” she says, “and you respond to them as individuals.”
    • Mr. Carver
      Mr. Carver on 03 Apr 09
       
      Isn't that a standard practice of good teaching?
  • But research has far to go to identify exactly what factors make an online course effective.
Damianne President

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods - 19 views

www.visual-literacy.org/...periodic_table.html

visualization literacy

shared by Damianne President on 08 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Adrienne Michetti on 09 Oct 09
     
    Here is a "Periodic Table" of different methods / instructional strategies to use to help your students learn content and skills. It is grouped in a way that allows for you to choose the best method of visualization for the purpose.
  • Damianne President on 11 Oct 12
     
    Visit this periodic table of visualization methods for a variety of strategies that you can use to facilitate understanding.
Siri Anderson

What Makes a Great Teacher? - The Atlantic (January/February 2010) - 71 views

www.theatlantic.com/...2

EdPsych teacher-education assessment value-added ROI

shared by Siri Anderson on 15 Jan 10 - Cached
  • hey avidly recruited students and their families into the process; they maintained focus, ensuring that everything they did contributed to student learning; they planned exhaustively and purposefully—for the next day or the year ahead—by working backward from the desired outcome; and they worked relentlessly, refusing to surrender to the combined menaces of poverty, bureaucracy, and budgetary shortfalls.
  • one way that great teachers ensure that kids are learning is to frequently check for understanding: Are the kids—all of the kids—following what you are saying? Asking “Does anyone have any questions?” does not work,
  • Students are not always the best judges of their own learning.
  • Chris Sloan on 15 Jan 10
     
    "For years, the secrets to great teaching have seemed more like alchemy than science, a mix of motivational mumbo jumbo and misty-eyed tales of inspiration and dedication. But for more than a decade, one organization has been tracking hundreds of thousands of kids, and looking at why some teachers can move them three grade levels ahead in a year and others can't. Now, as the Obama administration offers states more than $4 billion to identify and cultivate effective teachers, Teach for America is ready to release its data."
  • Siri Anderson on 02 Feb 10
     
    Article on teacher effectiveness as studied through Teach for American data. Thrilling and scary in implication all at the same time.
Björn Hedin

Princeton University - Kindle pilot results highlight possibilities for paper reduction - 20 views

www.princeton.edu/...index.xml

ubiquitous_acces_to_learning_content kindle ebooks mlearning

shared by Björn Hedin on 31 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • However, e-readers must be significantly improved to have the same value in a teaching environment as traditional paper texts, participants said.
  • but they also said the ability to highlight directly on traditional text, to take notes and flip pages for ease in navigation suffers in the e-reader.
  • With hopes of assisting industry with the refinement of e-readers, and providing useful information to other academic institutions considering the devices, information and data from the one-time pilot have been compiled on an Office of Information Technology (OIT) website.
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  • About 65 percent of the participants in the pilot said they would not buy another e-reader now if theirs was broken. Almost all the participants said they were interested in following the technology to its next stages, because they think a device that works well in academia would be worth having.
  • "I found the device difficult to use and not conducive to academic purposes," he said, and added, "But I can see how it can be used for pleasure reading."
  • What they liked best about the devices was: the battery life, the wireless connection and the portability of the e-reader; the fact that all the course reading was on one device; the ability to search for content; and the legibility of the screen, including the fact it could be read in full sunlight. The top five suggestions students had for improving e-readers were: improving the ability to highlight and annotate PDF files; improving the annotation tools; providing a folder structure to keep similar readings together; improving the highlighting function; and improving the navigation within and between documents on the reader (including having more than one document open at the same time for comparison).
  • "The Kindle would be better for an academic setting if the PDF format worked more effectively,"
  • "There would be a greater benefit realized if the devices could develop a better way to deliver the ubiquitous PDF document, which is used by many journals and libraries to deliver documents, and is the common format in which dissertations and theses are published and read by faculty," Temos said. "Some students said they spent a considerable amount of time printing PDF documents during the semester, and hardly ever referred back to them once the semester was over. I don't expect that is unusual."
Fabiola Berdiel

A Meeting with Elders | International Field Program Seminar-Spring '11 - 8 views

gpia-ifp.info/...a-meeting-with-the-elders

shared by Fabiola Berdiel on 03 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • The importance of a respect for elders was illustrated as soon as the meeting started. Mr. A introduced us to the community leaders, and made sure that highest ranking leader was invited to say his piece first. Once he did that the discussion became lively and we were all encouraged to contribute. Understanding the cultural norms around formal meetings and political discussions is good manners, but it also will help us understand the social norms during our work, as well as help us better analyze the upcoming election process. It is social norms such as respect for elders that informs the political practices built into Liberian society, and the manner in which democracy functions.
  • I’m personally interested in the existence of generational gaps in West Africa, especially around conflicting notions of the role of youth in society.
  • I’d specifically like to explore the impact of the spread of a global youth culture facilitated by communications technology on youth voice in both Monrovia and New York’s Liberian community.
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  • A Meeting with Elders
  • As my name is common in Liberia, and is associated with specific ethnic groups between Sierra Leone and Liberia, it will be interesting for me to navigate these issues from a personal standpoint.
  • I also believe that through religious institutions is the best way to really get to know members of any community.
Tamara Connors

Digitally Speaking / Social Bookmarking and Annotating - 58 views

digitallyspeaking.pbworks.com/ial-Bookmarking-and-Annotating

diigo web-2.0 wiki list resource

shared by Tamara Connors on 13 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Diigo's "group forums" are threaded, allowing users to start new strands or to reply to strands started by others.
  • powerful learning depends on the quality of the conversation that develops around the content being studied together. 
  • This handout--including a description of each role and a group sign-up sheet---can be used with student social bookmarking efforts: Handout_SocialBookmarkingRoles.pdf
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  • Captain Cannonball should find four or five key points in a shared reading to highlight and craft initial questions for other readers to consider
  • hallenging the thinking of peers in the conversation.  Directly responding to comments made by others, the Provocateur works to remind everyone that there are two sides to every story.    
  • for connections.  Middle Men
  • question statements made and conclusions drawn throughout a shared reading.
  • dentify important "takeaways" that a group can learn from
  • Todd Finley on 19 Oct 09
     
    Fred, What an incredible resource. It has changed my thinking about collaborative annotation technologies. Thank you! -tbf Todd Finley http://bit.ly/Hfs8N
  • Jason Welker on 28 Oct 09
     
    The driving force behind the Web 2.0 revolution is a spirit of intellectual philanthropy and collective intelligence that is made possible by new technologies for communication, collaboration and information management.  One of the best examples of collective intelligence in action are the wide range of social bookmarking applications that have been embraced in recent years.
Melissa Ebeling

Google For Educators - 14 views

www.google.com/...index.html

google education resources teaching technology teachers

shared by Melissa Ebeling on 14 Jul 09 - Cached
  • 7/9/2009Google Apps Tips, Tricks and Even Lesson PlansWant to learn the best ways to use Google Apps in your classroom?  Visit our new Education Community Site, where you can learn tips and tricks on using Gmail, Calendar, Docs and Sites, join our education forum and read news all about Google Apps.  Or check out standardized lesson plans at the new Google Apps Resource Center - for classroom use of our tools across K-12.
  • 7/9/2009Sites for TeachersCheck out the new Sites for Teachers page to see how teachers, students and administrators are using Google Sites to create their class sites, organize school trips, and run school projects. 7/9/2009Books, Books, BooksGoogle has reached an agreement with authors and publishers that will make millions of books more accessible in the U.S.  You can view full pages from and purchase complete access to millions of in-copyright, out-of-print books  or your school can purchase institutional subscriptions to offer your students and teachers complete access to millions of  books.
  • At Google, we support teachers in their efforts to empower students and expand the frontiers of human knowledge. That’s why we’ve assembled the information and tools you’ll find on this
  • Deborah Thonus on 14 Jul 09
     
    Homepage for Google for Educators. Here are links to many of the tools and applications availbable for educational use.
mswanty

Math is Fun - Maths Resources - 125 views

www.mathsisfun.com/index.htm

shared by mswanty on 09 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • mswanty on 09 Mar 13
     
    One of the best websites I have seen for math tutorials at all levels - k through Algebra 2. Also, a great site for games puzzles, or questions of the day.
anonymous

Schools shift from textbooks to tablets - US News and World Report - 57 views

www.usnews.com/...hift-from-textbooks-to-tablets

textbooks tablets

shared by anonymous on 07 Mar 13 - No Cached
    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 07 Mar 13
       
      No, individualized instruction will personalize learning for students.
  • "We must use technology to empower teachers and improve the way students learn," said Joel Klein, a former New York City schools' chief who now leads News Corp.'s education tablet program. "At its best, education technology will change the face of education by helping teachers manage the classroom and personalize instruction."
  • "We must use technology to empower teachers and improve the way students learn," said Joel Klein, a former New York City schools' chief who now leads News Corp.'s education tablet program. "At its best, education technology will change the face of education by helping teachers manage the classroom and personalize instruction."
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    • anonymous
      anonymous on 11 Mar 13
       
      Isn't the concept that helping teachers manage the classroom by using technology a fresh perspective?  :)
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 11 Mar 13
       
      Our philosophy seems more reasonable in that we are utilizing what students already have in their possession and spending the funds toward enhanced online text "rental" and accessibility.  BYOT!
  • $20.5 million
  • $50 million
  • $500 million
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 11 Mar 13
       
      What happens when that device is out-of-date?  Cost of updating?
Roland Gesthuizen

Scribd - 3 views

www.scribd.com/...122177072

student helpdesk Geniusbar technology Scribd

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 18 May 13 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 18 May 13
     
    The Student Technology Integration course is a hands on study of technology integration in an educational context. Students will be required to assess problem sets throughout the day and define the best approach to addressing or solving the problem. In addition to solving problems for students and teachers, students will be required to complete and maintain several running projects that address problems or solutions in educational technology integration. The course also asks students to have a prior understanding of Apple OS, Microsoft Windows OS, and the iPad iOS.
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