The use of technology cannot replace conceptual understanding, computational
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Doug, I am having a problem with your blog template posted in Diigo. How do i remove the blue & white Holman banner with the Huskie icon and replace it with my school banner? terry. mailto:terry.mcdanel@mpls.k12.mn.us
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The Role of Technology in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics - 81 views
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Programs in teacher education and professional development must continually update practitioners’ knowledge of technology and its classroom applications.
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All teachers must remain open to learning new technologies,
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From NCTC - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Brief statement in support of the use of technology in teaching math.
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Video Games Win a Beachhead in the Classroom - NYTimes.com - 47 views
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create a game that was hard to beat but harder still to quit
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games themselves could feasibly replace tests
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whether children learn more when playing individually or collaboratively.
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discussing how
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not solve as many
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Does discourse result in deeper processing?”
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focused engagement
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“Children need to learn how to read a book,” he says. “They need to learn how to ask questions.”
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social networking, playing video games, tinkering with digital media
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White 'Visitors' and 'Residents' as a replacement for Prensky's much‐criticis... - 38 views
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Contents I. Introduction II. Prensky's Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants: A critique III. Towards a new metaphor of engagement with online technology IV. Visitors and Residents V. Discussion VI. Conclusion
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Can We Prevent An Education Bubble? - Forbes - 45 views
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Delivering quality education is more than about lowering costs. Any teacher that can be entirely replaced by a video or a computer, probably should be.
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"Many media have finally recognized the education bubble and the potential that it may hurt our economy more than the housing bubble. However, two experts in the field of education know this and are trying to change the way we see education - Dr. Raymund Paredes and Salman Khan."
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Education Week Teacher: Redefining Instruction With Technology: Five Essential Steps - 95 views
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This was the wrong approach: To truly change how my classroom worked, I needed a technology-based redefinition of my practice.
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Break down to rebuild.
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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.
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I redesigned my classroom practice around the goals, with iPads as the infrastructure.
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Redefine with a goal in mind
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Get more app for your money.
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student-creation apps
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Embrace failure
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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.
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Enjoy the results, reflect towards the future. A
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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."
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Rewordify.com: Understand what you read - 85 views
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Rewordify takes a complex passage and rephrases it in simpler terms. Students can adjust Rewordify's settings to match their needs. For example, students can add words to a "skip list" and those words will not be changed when they appear in a passage. Students can also use Rewordify to simply highlight difficult words instead of having them replaced.
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New Service From Harvard Aims to Replace Classroom Lectures - 9 views
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Eric Mazur's (Harvard physics professor) new software to support his teaching methodology (the "flipped" classroom). Learning Catalytics. Intriguing!
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How to Fix Our Math Education - NYTimes.com - 63 views
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the assumption that there is a single established body of mathematical skills that everyone needs to know to be prepared for 21st-century careers. This assumption is wrong. The truth is that different sets of math skills are useful for different careers, and our math education should be changed to reflect this fact.
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Today, American high schools offer a sequence of algebra, geometry, more algebra, pre-calculus and calculus (or a “reform” version in which these topics are interwoven). This has been codified by the Common Core State Standards, recently adopted by more than 40 states. This highly abstract curriculum is simply not the best way to prepare a vast majority of high school students for life.
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A math curriculum that focused on real-life problems would still expose students to the abstract tools of mathematics, especially the manipulation of unknown quantities. But there is a world of difference between teaching “pure” math, with no context, and teaching relevant problems that will lead students to appreciate how a mathematical formula models and clarifies real-world situations.
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For instance, how often do most adults encounter a situation in which they need to solve a quadratic equation? Do they need to know what constitutes a “group of transformations” or a “complex number”? Of course professional mathematicians, physicists and engineers need to know all this, but most citizens would be better served by studying how mortgages are priced, how computers are programmed and how the statistical results of a medical trial are to be understood.
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Imagine replacing the sequence of algebra, geometry and calculus with a sequence of finance, data and basic engineering.
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Traditionalists will object that the standard curriculum teaches valuable abstract reasoning, even if the specific skills acquired are not immediately useful in later life. A generation ago, traditionalists were also arguing that studying Latin, though it had no practical application, helped students develop unique linguistic skills. We believe that studying applied math, like learning living languages, provides both useable knowledge and abstract skills.
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In math, what we need is “quantitative literacy,” the ability to make quantitative connections whenever life requires (as when we are confronted with conflicting medical test results but need to decide whether to undergo a further procedure) and “mathematical modeling,” the ability to move practically between everyday problems and mathematical formulations (as when we decide whether it is better to buy or lease a new car).
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elearnspace. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age - 17 views
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Over the last twenty years, technology has reorganized how we live, how we communicate, and how we learn.
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Technology has always changed the way we live. How did we respond to changes in the past? One thought is that some institutions, some businesses disappeared, while others, who took advantage of the new tech, appeared to replace the old. It will happen again and we as educators need to lead the way. -
With technology our students brains are wired differently and they can multi-task and learn in multiple virtual environments all at once. This should make us think about how we present lessons, structure learning and keep kids engaged. -
Rubbish. The idea that digital native are adept at multitasking is wrong. They may be doing many things but the quality and depth is reduced. There is a significant body of research to support this. Development of grit and determination are key attributes of successful people. Set and demand high standards. No one plays sport or an instrument because it is easy rather because they can clearly see a link between hard work and pleasure.
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Information development was slow.
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Many learners will move into a variety of different, possibly unrelated fields over the course of their lifetime.
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Informal learning is a significant aspect of our learning experience.
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Learning is a continual process, lasting for a lifetime.
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Technology is altering (rewiring) our brains.
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Connectivism is the integration of principles explored by chaos, network, and complexity and self-organization theories.
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Principles of connectivism:
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Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions. Learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources. Learning may reside in non-human appliances. Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning. Ability to see connections between fields, ideas, and concepts is a core skill. Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities. Decision-making is itself a learning process. Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.
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The organization and the individual are both learning organisms.
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Classrooms which emulate the “fuzziness”
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So what does this look like? I feel that when I attempt this, evaluators and administrators don't necessarily understand. They want a neat, quiet, well-managed, orderly classroom.
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If new learning approaches are required, then why are we still being evaluated in a linear way?
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John Seely Brown presents an interesting notion that the internet leverages the small efforts of many with the large efforts of few.
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The pipe is more important than the content within the pipe. Our ability to learn what we need for tomorrow is more important than what we know today.
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Knowledge is growing exponentially
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amount of knowledge
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is doubling every 18 months
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To combat the shrinking half-life of knowledge, organizations have been forced to develop new methods of deploying instruction.”
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(the understanding of where to find knowledge needed).
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learning
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a persisting change in human performance or performance potential…[which] must come about as a result of the learner’s experience and interaction with the world”
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Learning theories are concerned with the actual process of learning, not with the value of what is being learned.
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The ability to synthesize and recognize connections and patterns is a valuable skill.
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knowledge is no longer acquired in the linear manner
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What is the impact of chaos as a complex pattern recognition process on learning
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An entirely new approach is needed.
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Chaos is the breakdown of predictability, evidenced in complicated arrangements that initially defy order.
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Meaning-making and forming connections between specialized communities are important activities.
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Chaos, as a science, recognizes the connection of everything to everything.
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If the underlying conditions used to make decisions change, the decision itself is no longer as correct as it was at the time it was made.
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principle that people, groups, systems, nodes, entities can be connected to create an integrated whole.
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Connections between disparate ideas and fields can create new innovations.
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Learning is a process that occurs within nebulous environments of shifting core elements – not entirely under the control of the individual
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decisions are based on rapidly altering foundations
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The ability to draw distinctions between important and unimportant information is vital.
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Behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism do not attempt to address the challenges of organizational knowledge and transference.
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The health of the learning ecology of the organization depends on effective nurturing of information flow.
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This cycle of knowledge development (personal to network to organization) allows learners to remain current in their field through the connections they have formed.
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This amplification of learning, knowledge and understanding through the extension of a personal network is the epitome of connectivism.
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Diverse teams of varying viewpoints are a critical structure for completely exploring ideas
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An organizations ability to foster, nurture, and synthesize the impacts of varying views of information is critical to knowledge economy surviva
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As knowledge continues to grow and evolve, access to what is needed is more important than what the learner currently possesses.
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Access is not enough. Prior knowledge and understanding is needed. Processing is needed. Evaluation of processing and outputs is needed. Feeding that back into the "system" is needed.
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learning is no longer an internal, individualistic activity
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learning is no longer an internal, individualistic activity
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Imagining College Without Grades :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for N... - 0 views
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A professor who tells his students that “grades are the death of composition.” Another said: “Grades create a facade of coherence.”
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Interesting. I agree. I wish that we didn't have to grade student writing and could just give written or oral feedback. I love the "facade of coherence" comment.
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grades were squelching intellectual curiosity.
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growing use of e-portfolios
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I like portfolios for demonstrating learning, but I haven't learned how to effectively integrate them into my own classroom.
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most professors and students are much more likely to complain about grading than to praise its accuracy or value.
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Done right, she said, eliminating grades promotes rigor.
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the elimination of grades — if they are replaced with narrative evaluations, rubrics, and clear learning goals — results in more accountability and better ways for a colleges to measure the success not only of students but of its academic programs.
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This strikes me intuitively as correct. Grades are a substitute for thoughful assessment of learning outcomes, not an equivalent to it.
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the idea of consistent and clear grading just doesn’t reflect the mobility of students
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Absolutely. My own institution, Dickinson College, sends ~70% of its students abroad for at least a semester, and most often a year. I have experience in education in different national contexts, and grading conventions simply do not translate.
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ending grades can mean much more work for both students and faculty members.
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Aye, there's the rub. Those of us who are serious about learning - students and faculty - have to recognize that better learning is more work. On the other hand, it's more fun, too.
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When faculty members are providing written, detailed analyses of multiple course objectives and are also — for majors — relating performance to larger goals for the major, so much more is taking place she said, than in a letter grade.
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the training that colleges provide to professors before they start producing narrative evaluations, and officials of the no-grades colleges all said that training was extensive, and that faculty members needed mentors as they started out.
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they end up favoring the evaluation system
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This is the point. Users have to be educated in the advantages of the system - once they have been, they are likely to favor it over grading.
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On Intellectual Craftmanship. I was amazed how clearly the reasons why scholars blog were laid out in the opening paragraphs. In what follows I have changed none of Mills’s original language except for replaced ‘journal’ and ‘file’ with ‘website’ and ‘blog’. Clearly Mills didn’t envision the files he advocates as public documents, but other than that the parallels are uncanny
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The Trouble With Twitter - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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To those who Twitter, the reporter who investigates a story before offering it to the public must also seem tediously ruminant. On Twitter, the notes become the story, devoid of even five minutes of reflection on the writer's way to the computer. I can see that there are times —an airplane landing in the Hudson, a presidential election in Iran—when this type of impromptu journalism becomes a necessity, and an exciting one at that. Luckily, reporters still exist to make sense of information bytes and expand upon them for readers—but for how much longer? I worry that microblogging cheats my students out of their trump card: a mindful attention to the subject in front of them, so that they can capture its sights and sounds, its smells and tactile qualities, to share with readers. How can Twittering stories from laptops and phones possibly replace the attentive journalist who tucks a digital recorder artfully under a notepad, pencil behind one ear, and gives full attention to the subject at hand?
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I went home after the lecture and—hypocritically, I admit—updated my Facebook status and my blog to declare how much I despise Twitter.
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Twitter serves as a source of links to longer news stories.
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Which is one of its main uses in journalism. As Jay Rosen (@jayrosennyu) and others have put it, through services like Twitter and, indeed, Diigo we edit the web for one another. We can see it as acting as human filters, intelligent gatherers and sifters of information for the various networks in which we are nodes.
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Text Message (SMS) Polls and Voting, Audience Response System | Poll Everywhere - 14 views
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Who doesn't want instant feedback? With Poll Everywhere you can instantly find out where your students are stuck, what they enjoyed, or where they want to go tomorrow. The great thing is you don't have to purchase expensive clicker equipment just utilize the technology they already have with them.
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Using this website you can poll your students about politics, current events or even quiz them on the fly through sms text messages, twitter, or the web. -
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Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology