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G Hubler

7 Brilliant Ways to use Edmodo that will Blow. Your. Mind. - 209 views

blog.edmodo.com/...dmodo-that-will-blow-your-mind

shared by G Hubler on 19 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Playground: Kids are kids and sometimes they just have something funny that they are dying to share.  Create a “Playground” group where students have free reign to post whatever they want (with guidelines for appropriate use of course — encourage expression and creativity, but reinforce the need for boundaries and appropriate behavior).
Brian Mull

Education Week's Digital Directions: Educators Move Beyond the Hype Over Skype - 52 views

www.edweek.org/...02skype.h04.html

shared by Brian Mull on 08 Feb 11 - No Cached
    • Brian Mull
      Brian Mull on 08 Feb 11
       
      This isn't just for Skype. Anything we do in the classroom should be targeting specific educational goals.
    • Brian Mull
      Brian Mull on 08 Feb 11
       
      ...or connecting with university professors or experts in the field.
    • Brian Mull
      Brian Mull on 08 Feb 11
       
      Some, such as brian Crosby have done this. http://learningismessy.com/blog/?p=196
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  • In Virginia’s Albemarle County district, Fisher encourages her teachers to use Skype and other collaboration tools because she believes there is no equivalent for giving students an audience for their work. She compares it to a team sport, in which the Skype activity is game day, and other days of class spent in preparation are like after-school practices. “The fact that there’s a game on Friday night ramps up practice on Monday afternoon,” says Fisher. “When you look at what the Web allows us to do, every kid in your classroom can have a worldwide audience. That’s true for writing, and that’s true for some of these oral-presentation types of things,” such as videoconferencing.
  • But according to research funded by Skype Technologies, finding other teachers to connect with remains more frustrating for educators interested in using Skype than gaining permission from administrators and school technology personnel to use the software.
    • Brian Mull
      Brian Mull on 08 Feb 11
       
      But make no mistake - the latter is still a frustrating sticking point in many schools and districts.
Randolph Hollingsworth

The Magic of Higher Education - Old School, New School - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 18 views

chronicle.com/...283

shared by Randolph Hollingsworth on 04 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • On a personal level, I find it difficult to connect with the corporate analogy. It is alienating, sterile, and ultimately…masculine.
  • When we view faculty as labor and students as customers, we do not see magic; we see expenses and revenue on a profit-and-loss sheet. We would be better off selling tickets to a magic show.
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 04 Mar 11
     
    Corporate, capitalist imagery re higher ed = male-centric
Josh Flores

If you want to innovate like Da Vinci, education is overrated | TechRepublic - 46 views

www.techrepublic.com/...8383

shared by Josh Flores on 31 May 11 - No Cached
  • Thiel is a venture capitalist and the game that VCs play is to invest in 10 different ideas with the hope that one of them hits it big, while the other nine are likely to fail, morph into something different, or simply fade away.
  • Bill Gates (Microsoft) and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook). Yes, both dropped out of Harvard to start a company and eventually became billionaires, but before they went to college both of them got an outstanding education that was certainly a springboard to their later achievements.
  • A college education trains and teaches students how to best plug themselves into the current civilization. Education helps you plug into the things society already needs, to plug into society as it is today. It’s not about tomorrow
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  • Da Vinci basically out-observed everyone in his generation? That was critical. He spent a lot of time observing and figuring out where there were important problems and pain points that could be improved by either iterating or innovating. It’s a simple but powerful formula. Lots of organizations could do a better job of carefully observing the best opportunities to target, and then attacking the opportunity with their best ideas.
  • Innovation is about what’s next. To pull off a big innovation, you almost always have to take a big risk. You have to try something different.
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 01 Jun 11
       
      What a great quote to support authentic lessons in the classroom! assessment should include more creativity and products to persent.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 31 May 11
     
    Thiel is a venture capitalist and the game that VCs play is to invest in 10 different ideas with the hope that one of them hits it big, while the other nine are likely to fail, morph into something different, or simply fade away.
  • Jason Tolen on 01 Jun 11
     
    In reference to Gates and others who have shined, according to Gladwell's "Outliers" they have also most likely put in the time (10,000 plus hours) practicing, envisioning, and imagining what they want to create. Innovation takes time input, imagination, desire, and risk...
Javier E

The Decline of Final Exams - NYTimes.com - 52 views

ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/...the-decline-of-final-exams

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shared by Javier E on 19 May 11 - No Cached
  • Keith O’Brien surveys a national decline in final exams, reflected at Harvard, where fewer than a quarter of the undergraduate courses scheduled the tests in the spring term last year.
  • There’s nothing magical about finals, Bangert-Drowns added. They can be arbitrary and abstract — an inauthentic gauge of what someone knows.
  • many still find value in the final exam. It might be stressful, even terrifying, but it has the singular power to force students to go back over material, think critically about what they have read, review hard-to-grasp-topics once more, and even talk about the subject matter with classmates and instructors — all of which enhance learning.
Deborah Baillesderr

Screenr | Instant screencasts: Just click record - 195 views

www.screenr.com

screencapture tools web2.0 record technology screencasts

shared by Deborah Baillesderr on 12 May 11 - Cached
  • Share your knowledge on Twitter and Facebook Reveal tips, tricks and software shortcuts Showcase the ins and outs of new products and apps Build brand and expert reputation Embed video tutorials on sites and blogs
  • Cindy Glenn on 25 Jun 11
     
    Shared at edubloggercon
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  • Bob Rowan on 12 Oct 11
     
    Web site that allows publishing of screencasts, with no software installed locally
  • Ursula Rockefeller on 20 Apr 13
     
    create and share screen casts from power points, flip charts, smart boards for example. Add a short recap of your lesson and upoload to share with absent students or as a study guide.
  • Deborah Baillesderr on 21 Sep 13
     
    Very much like screen-o-matic
Marsha Ratzel

Learning Reimagined: Participatory, Peer, Global, Online - 0 views

dmlcentral.net/...rticipatory-peer-global-online

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shared by Marsha Ratzel on 23 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • what does a group of people need to know about pedagogy in order to self-organize into a peer learning community? 
  • Attitudes and methods are essential, too.
  • ersuasion - when everybo
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  • a more deeply satisfying and useful way than if students take responsibility only for their own learning
  • Marsha Ratzel on 23 Jul 11
     
    Reingold talks about the way to build a community of learners...co-learners and how to help that spirit grow amongst the participants.
maureen greenbaum

Edu-Traitor! Confessions of a Prof Who Believes Higher Ed Isn't the Only Goal | HASTAC - 52 views

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shared by maureen greenbaum on 09 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • many brilliant, talented young people are dropping out of high school because they see high school as implicilty "college prep" and they cannot imagine anything more dreary than spending four more years bored in a classroom when they could be out actually experiencing and perfecting their skills in the trades, the skills, and the careers that inspire them.
  • The abolishing of art, music, physical education, tech training, and shop from grade schools and high schools means that the requirement for excellence has shrunk more and more right at the time when creativity, imagination, dexterity, adaptability to change, technical know-how, and all the rest require more not less diversity. 
    • Peg Mahon
      Peg Mahon on 10 Aug 11
       
      AMEN!
  • we make education hell for so many kids, we undermine their skills and their knowledge, we underscore their resentment, we emphasize class division and hierarchy, and we shortchange their future and ours,
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  • There are so many viable and important and skilled professions that cannot be outsourced to either an exploitative Third World sweat shop or to a computer, that require face-to-face presence, and a bucketload of skills--but that  do not require a college education:  the full range of IT workers, web designers, body workers (ie deep tissue massage), yoga and pilates instructors, fitness educators, DJ's, hair dressers, retail workers, food industry professionals, entertainers,  entertainment industry professionals, construction workers, dancers, artists, musicians, entrepreneurs, landscapers, nanny's, elder-care professionals, nurses's aids, dog trainers, cosmetologists, athletes, sales people, fashion designers, novelists, poets, furniture makers, book keepers, sound engineers, inn keepers, wedding planners, stylists, photographers, auto mechanics, and on and on.  
  • maureen greenbaum on 09 Aug 11
     
    Cathy Davidson
  • Carol Ansel on 09 Aug 11
     
    In general, I agree. However, novelists and poets don't need college?? And perhaps less so to artists and musicians? Perhaps... but what better way to learn the history and analysis of their Art, in order to place their own work in context?
  • Peg Mahon on 10 Aug 11
     
    I could not agree more with you Maureen. As a long time middle school teacher in Oakland and Mpls I am thoroughly convinced that our nation and our states are nuts to have cut all of the tech and arts classes out of elementary, middle and high schools. EVERY student should learn a trade/skill set in high school. The hs drop out rate is horrifying and no surprise that the crime rate follows. We have a nation of under achieving teens because the adults have not kept up with funding the myriad of opportunities that would capture and harness their interests and creativity. I look forward to reading your book Maureen and to following you on here.
Peter Beens

Matt Damon's clear-headed speech to teachers rally - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - 185 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...gIQAG9Q6jI_blog.html

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  • A Gardner on 31 Jul 11
     
    Wonderful speech by Matt Damon @ Save Our Schools March in DC
  • Dianne Hugdahl on 31 Jul 11
     
    Empowerment! Teachers helping students find their own abilities. Great speech by Matt Damon who really appreciates his education experience that helped him. e was an emerging learner and through the fostering of teachers his life has grown.
  • Peter Beens on 01 Aug 11
     
    Here is the speech that actor Matt Damon gave today to thousands of teachers, parents and others who attended the Save Our Schools march on the Ellipse near the White House to protest the Obama administration's education policies that are centered on standardized tests.
Jennifer Diaz

Tony Vincent's Learning in Hand - Blog - Classroom iPod touches & iPads: Dos and Don'ts - 64 views

learninginhand.com/do

iPad Dos and Don'ts

shared by Jennifer Diaz on 10 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Bringing iPods and iPads into the classroom is a great way to give students access to learning tools. However, there are so many things to keep in mind to make the devices work smoothly in the classroom. While this list of dos and don'ts mainly addresses iPod touch the same advice goes for iPod touch and iPhone.
  • Jennifer Diaz on 10 Aug 11
     
    Dos and Don'ts of using Ipads in classroom.  Topics included syncing, monitoring, and general usage tips.
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.”
Josh Flores

Lord, Save Me From The Krebs Cycle : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR - 71 views

www.npr.org/...d-save-me-from-the-krebs-cycle

shared by Josh Flores on 15 Sep 11 - No Cached
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 15 Sep 11
       
      Start with an essential questions for authentic learning
  • John Dewey: "Understanding derives from activity."
  • That's when we learn, not because we choose to, but because we know it might be on The Test, and too often, curiosity gets replaced by fear.
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  • they find it fun — until 9th grade
  • Kids learn when they want to know the answer, when they care.
  • Teachers who teach to the test are failing their students.
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