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Digitally Speaking / Blogging - 169 views

digitallyspeaking.pbworks.com/Blogging web 2.0 blog
shared by Pam Jeffrey on 18 Oct 09 - Cached

  • Using Feed Readers

     

    Feed readers are probably the most important digital tool for today's learner because they make sifting through the amazing amount of content added to the Internet easy.  Also known as aggregators, feed readers are free tools that can automatically check nearly any website for new content dozens of times a day---saving ridiculous amounts of time and customizing learning experiences for anyone. 

     

    Imagine never having to go hunting for new information from your favorite sources again.  Learning goes from a frustrating search through thousands of marginal links written by questionable characters to quickly browsing the thoughts of writers that you trust, respect and enjoy.

     

    Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it?

     

    It's not!  Here's a Commoncraft tutorial explaining RSS Feeds in Plain English:

     

    Feed readers can quickly and easily support blogging in the classroom, allowing teachers to provide students with ready access to age-appropriate sites of interest that are connected to the curriculum.  By collecting sites in advance and organizing them with a feed reader, teachers can make accessing information manageable for their students. 

    Here are several examples of feed readers in action:

     

    Student Blogs

    http://www.pageflakes.com/wferriter/20982438

     

     

    This feed list includes several elementary, middle and high school blogs that students can explore during silent reading or while online at home.

     

     

    Current Events 

    http://www.pageflakes.com/wferriter/16714925

     

    This feed list includes links to several news websites that cover topics that are a part of one teacher's required social studies curriculum. 

     

    Global Warming

    http://www.pageflakes.com/wferriter/22534539

    Used specifically as a part of one classroom project, this feed list contains information related to global warming that students can use as a starting point for individual research. 

     

    While there are literally dozens of different feed reader programs to choose from (Bloglines and Google Reader are two biggies), Pageflakes is a favorite of many educators because it has a visual layout that is easy to read and interesting to look at.  It is also free and web-based.  That means that users can check accounts from any computer with an Internet connection.  Finally, Pageflakes makes it quick and easy to add new websites to a growing feed list—and to get rid of any websites that users are no longer interested in.

    What's even better:  Pageflakes has been developing a teacher version of their tool just for us that includes an online grade tracker, a task list and a built in writing tutor.  As Pageflakes works to perfect its teacher product, this might become one of the first kid-friendly feed readers on the market. Teacher Pageflakes users can actually blog and create a discussion forum directly in their feed reader---making an all-in-one digital home for students. 

     

    For more information about the teacher version of Pageflakes, check out this review:

     

    http://teacherleaders.typepad.com/the_tempered_radical/2008/02/pageflakes-for.html

     

     

    For more information on using feed readers to organize and manage information, check out this handout: 

  • Meredith Stewart on 18 Oct 09
     
    Checklist to use before embarking on a blogging project with students
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quietube | Video without the distractions | Youtube, iPlayer, Viddler, Vimeo and more - 6 views

quietube.com YouTube quiet-tube
shared by Glenda Baker on 23 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Rob Reynolds on 23 Aug 09
     
    Video without the distractions To watch web videos without the comments and crap, just drag the button below to your browser's bookmarks bar. On any of the supported video pages, click the bookmark button to watch in peace. You can then make short URLs too, to send the quietube version to your friends. Easy as.
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  • Holly Barlaam on 25 Oct 10
     
    Hmm...it says to drag the button, but it won't let me drag it anywhere.
  • Lisa DuFur on 23 Mar 11
     
    quietube: Video without the distractions
  • Glenda Baker on 26 Aug 11
     
    Gets rid of distracting ads for presentations.
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Scratch Cards - Scratch Wiki - 1 views

info.scratch.mit.edu/...Scratch_Cards scratch programming technology scratch cards
shared by Lee-Anne Patterson on 06 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Lee-Anne Patterson on 06 Apr 09
     
    Scratch cards provide a quick way to learn new Scratch code. The front of the card shows what you can do; the back shows how to do it. Click to view and print each card. Found via Seedlings podcast
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L3D Philosophy - 36 views

l3d.cs.colorado.edu/philosophy.html technology Education
shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 17 Jun 13 - Cached
  • uture is not out there to be "discovered": It has to be invented and designed.
  • Learning is a process of knowledge construction, not of knowledge recording or absorption. Learning is knowledge-dependent; people use their existing knowledge to construct new knowledge. Learning is highly tuned to the situation in which it takes place. Learning needs to account for distributed cognition requiring knowledge in the head to combined with knowledge in the world. Learning is affected as much by motivational issues as by cognitive issues.
  • previous notions of a divided lifetime-education followed by work-are no longer tenable.
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  • Professional activity has become so knowledge-intensive and fluid in content that learning has become an integral and inseparable part of "adult" work activities.
  • require educational tools and environments whose primary aim is to help cultivate the desire to learn and create, and not to simply communicate subject matter divorced from meaningful and personalized activity.
  • current uses of technology in education: it is used as an add-on to existing practices rather than a catalyst for fundamentally rethinking what education should be about in the next century
  • information technologies have been used to mechanize old ways of doing business‹rather than fundamentally rethinking the underlying work processes and promoting new ways to create artifacts and knowledge.
  • important challenge is that the ?ld basic skillsº such as reading, writing, and arithmetic, once acquired, were relevant for the duration of a human life; modern ?asic skillsº (tied to rapidly changing technologies) will change over time.
  • We need computational environments to support "new" frameworks for education such as lifelong learning, integration of working and learning, learning on demand, authentic problems, self-directed learning, information contextualized to the task at hand, (intrinsic) motivation, collaborative learning, and organizational learning.
  • Instructionist approaches are not changed by the fact that information is disseminated by an intelligent tutoring system.
  • Lifelong learning is a continuous engagement in acquiring and applying knowledge and skills in the context of authentic, self-directed problems.
  • ubstantial empirical evidence that the chief impediments to learning are not cognitive. It is not that students cannot learn; it is that they are not well motivated to learn.
  • Most of what any individual "knows" today is not in her or his head, but is out in the world (e.g., in other human heads or embedded in media).
  • technology should provide ways to "say the 'right' thing at the 'right' time in the 'right' way
  • challenge of whether we can create learning environments in which learners work hard, not because they have to, but because they want to. We need to alter the perception that serious learning has to be unpleasant rather than personally meaningful, empowering, engaging, and even fun.
  • making information relevant to the task at hand, providing challenges matched to current skills, creating communities (among peers, over the net), and providing access to real practitioners and experts.
  • What "basic skills" are required in a world in which occupational knowledge and skills become obsolete in years rather than decades?
  • reduce the gap between school and workplace learning
  • How can schools (which currently rely on closed-book exams, the solving of given problems, and so forth) be changed so that learners are prepared to function in environments requiring collaboration, creativity, problem framing, and distributed cognition?
  • problem solving in the real world includes problem framing calls into question the practice of asking students to solve mostly given problems.
  • teachers should see themselves not as truth-tellers and oracles, but as coaches, facilitators, learners, and mentors engaging with learners
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JotForm · Easiest Form Builder - 84 views

www.jotform.com
shared by Cindy Glenn on 04 Apr 11 - Cached
    • A Gardner
      A Gardner on 05 Apr 11
       
      How does this compare with Google forms or Bravenet?
    • Lauren Mason
      Lauren Mason on 01 Jan 12
       
      I think it is more user-friendly and quicker than Google forms. Very easy to use, yet many sophisticated options.
    • Scott Floyd
      Scott Floyd on 21 Sep 12
       
      I like the fact I can get the responses emailed to me as the creator instead of just a notification email. I also like the ability to export all responses as PDF files instead of just a giant spreadsheet.
    • Ann Czeponis
      Ann Czeponis on 25 Jul 14
       
      it is very intuitive - biggest difference for me - SUPPORT.  the jotform team is amazingly responsive.
  • Ben W on 04 Apr 11
     
    Create easy forms that automatically sync with DropBox.
  • Cindy Glenn on 25 Jun 11
     
    Shared at edubloggercon
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The World's Best Print Ads, 2012-13 | Adweek - 124 views

www.adweek.com/...-best-print-ads-2012-13-150758 web2.0 digitalmedia technology ads print
shared by Tricia Hunt on 22 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Time, Wired and The New Yorker
    • Tricia Hunt
      Tricia Hunt on 22 Sep 13
       
      Incredible! Such and example of trusted sources pushing certain products while at the same thing advertising themselves.
  • This campaign turned famous authors into headphones.
    • Tricia Hunt
      Tricia Hunt on 22 Sep 13
       
      Genius!  I love the idea of audio books being Authors' voices speaking to us in an intimate way.
  • School portraits are turned on their heads to remind the viewer that every child gets education
    • Tricia Hunt
      Tricia Hunt on 22 Sep 13
       
      Powerful message that appeals to statistics and helping people for a better cause
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  • elp us provide quality education to thousands of children in Chile because if we can change their education we can change their destiny."
    • Tricia Hunt
      Tricia Hunt on 22 Sep 13
       
      Such a powerful message!
  • old the page for comedy.
  • ou know it's funny
  • When you see the logo
  • The drawings from the famous "Real Beauty Sketches" campaign, which won the Titanium Grand Prix this year. At left, a woman as described to a sketch artist by the woman. At right, the woman as described by a stranger.
    • Tricia Hunt
      Tricia Hunt on 22 Sep 13
       
      WOW! Even more powerful!  This shows the impact media has made on us.  The left is the woman describing herself and the right is a STRANGER describing her!!! INSANE!
  • Fake ads cleverly pushed for better literacy rates in France
  • thumbs-up means nothing in this brutal campaign pleading for more tangible charity support than a like on Facebook.
  • Tricia Hunt on 22 Sep 13
     
    "These iPad mini ads, released late last year, were placed on the back covers of several national magazines-including Time, Wired and The New Yorker."
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How Global is Your School? | Asia Society - 40 views

asiasociety.org/...how-global-your-school globalization education global resources
shared by Seth Roberts on 03 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • The Global Schools Assessment is the best way for a school to benchmark where they are in supporting students' global competence. It is an assessment tool to help determine how global your school is and offer ways to strenthen practice.
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A Perfect Storm in Undergraduate Education, Part I - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher E... - 40 views

chronicle.com/...126451
shared by D. S. Koelling on 28 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • at least 45 percent of undergraduates demonstrated "no improvement in critical thinking, complex reasoning, and writing skills in the first two years of college, and 36 percent showed no progress in four years."
  • What good does it do to increase the number of students in college if the ones who are already there are not learning much? Would it not make more sense to improve the quality of education before we increase the quantity of students?
  • students in math, science, humanities, and social sciences—rather than those in more directly career-oriented fields—tend to show the most growth in the areas measured by the Collegiate Learning Assessment, the primary tool used in their study. Also, students learn more from professors with high expectations who interact with them outside of the classroom. If you do more reading, writing, and thinking, you tend to get better at those things, particularly if you have a lot of support from your teachers.
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  • Increasingly, undergraduates are not prepared adequately in any academic area but often arrive with strong convictions about their abilities.
  • It has become difficult to give students honest feedback.
  • As the college-age population declines, many tuition-driven institutions struggle to find enough paying customers to balance their budgets. That makes it necessary to recruit even more unprepared students, who then must be retained, shifting the burden for academic success away from the student and on to the teacher.
  • Although a lot of emphasis is placed on research on the tenure track, most faculty members are not on that track and are retained on the basis of what students think of them.
  • Students gravitate to lenient professors and to courses that are reputedly easy, particularly in general education.
  • It is impossible to maintain high expectations for long unless everyone holds the line in all comparable courses—and we face strong incentives not to do that.
  • Formerly, full-time, tenured faculty members with terminal degrees and long-term ties to the institution did most of the teaching. Such faculty members not only were free to grade honestly and teach with conviction but also had a deep understanding of the curriculum, their colleagues, and the institutional mission. Now undergraduate teaching relies primarily on graduate students and transient, part-time instructors on short-term contracts who teach at multiple institutions and whose performance is judged almost entirely by student-satisfaction surveys.
  • Contingent faculty members, who are paid so little, routinely teach course loads that are impossible to sustain without cutting a lot of corners.
  • Many colleges are now so packed with transient teachers, and multitasking faculty-administrators, that it is impossible to maintain some kind of logical development in the sequencing of courses.
  • Students may be enjoying high self-esteem, but college teachers seem to be suffering from a lack of self-confidence.
  • Steve Ransom on 28 Feb 11
     
    So many issues here to deal with. Good read.
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Understanding Content Curation - 70 views

d20innovation.d20blogs.org/...understanding-content-curation
shared by Inetta Emery on 10 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • My conclusion is that to do justice to using the term “curating” for educational resources, inquiry must be a part of the process. Part of this process is deciding what goes “in” to the collection – meaning many, many items are evaluated and set aside.
  • Themes have a common unifying element – but don’t necessarily explain the “why.” Theme supports a central idea – Context allows the learner to determine why that idea (or in this case, resource) is important. So, as collecting progresses into curating, context becomes essential to determine what to keep, and what to discard.
  • curating, it seems that collecting serves primarily the needs or interests of the collector. With curating, a larger goal is to benefit not only the collector, but other potential learners as well. It is meant to be shared. And, both the process and the product of curating help the curator as well as those who view the curated collection to understand and to learn.
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  • learning that it generates. It gets back to my belief that learning is a social endeavor.  Participatory learning leads to increased understanding.  This led me to my next big understanding
  • understanding as a result of this inquiry.
  • Stephen Bright on 10 Jul 12
     
    good 'compare and contrast' between what is just collection of digital content resources and what the 'added value' of curation of digital resources means
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What Happens When Students Control Their Own Education? - The Atlantic - 64 views

www.theatlantic.com/...3 students control education atlantic
shared by Matt Renwick on 17 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • some staff members rejected
  • eliminated the principal position and instead installed two deans at the helm
  • strong leaders, supported teachers, and an engaged community
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  • no longer in the bottom 5 percent
  • incredibly freeing
  • I’m a better teacher
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Moving beyond technology in designing online learning - 70 views

www.tonybates.ca/...y-in-designing-online-learning effective teaching screencast designing online learning
shared by Matt Claxon on 09 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • Some loved them, some hated them, and few were indifferent.
    • Matt Claxon
      Matt Claxon on 09 Feb 15
       
      This is just like my students with the screencasts.  Look for a way to give the TV-haters more options and relevant learning media.
  • At the time (and for many years afterwards) researchers such as Richard Clark (1983) argued that ‘proper’, scientific research showed no significant difference between the use of different media. In particular, there were no differences between classroom teaching and other media such as television or radio or satellite. Even today, we are getting similar findings regarding online learning (e.g. Means et al., 2010).
  • different media can be used to assist learners to learn in different ways and achieve different outcomes. In a sense, researchers such as Clark were right: the teaching methods matter, but different media can more easily support different ways of teaching than others
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  • Thus requiring the television program to be judged by the same assessment methods as for the classroom lecture unfairly measures the potential value of the TV program. In this example, it may be better to use both methods: didactic teaching to teach understanding, then a documentary approach to apply that understanding. (Note that a television program could do both, but the classroom lecture could not.)
  • many media are better than one.
  • The use of different media also allows for more individualization and personalization of the learning, better suiting learners with different learning styles and needs.
  • technology on its own does not lead to the transfer of meaning.
  • This of course is what we do with technology in education. We try either to incorporate new technology into old formats, as with clickers and lecture capture, or we try to create the classroom in virtual space, as we do with learning management systems. What we are still developing but not yet clearly recognizing are formats, symbols systems and organizational structures that exploit the unique characteristics of the Internet as a medium.
  • Given the need to create and interpret meaning when using media, trying to use computers to replace or substitute for humans in the education process is likely to be a major mistake, at least until computers have much greater facility to recognize, understand and apply semantics, value systems, and organizational factors,
  • it is equally a mistake to rely only on the symbol systems, cultural values and organizational structures of classroom teaching as the means of judging the effectiveness or appropriateness of the Internet as an educational medium.
  • Matt Claxon on 09 Feb 15
     
    Defines the difference between technology and media and provides information (based on academic experience) about how to most effectively create online lessons and media.
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Microsoft Word - BlockingSchedules.rtf - CAREI BlockingSchedules.pdf - 25 views

conservancy.umn.edu/...CAREI%20BlockingSchedules.pdf
shared by Shelley Hull on 02 Dec 14 - No Cached
    • Shelley Hull
      Shelley Hull on 02 Dec 14
       
      " Early advocates of bloc scheduling identified the block schedule as the ca talyst, or vehicle, for bringing about desired changes in secondary education (Carroll, 1990; Canady and Rett ig, 1995)"
  • Research examining student achievement in block-scheduled schools compared to traditional schools showed mixed and inconclusive results
  • Most research about block scheduling and classroom instruction, as with research on school climate, used student, teacher, and parent questionnaires and surveys.
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  • The levels of engagement were much better in the first year under the block schedule, while in the second year the ratings were the same as under the traditional schedule.
  • Students reported “thinking hard about ideas” and “having indepth discussion” significantly more often under block schedules.
  • his may also be supported by Bexell (1998) who found teachers on block schedules using teaching strategies requiring more interaction than teachers on a traditional schedule
  • It would seem that the small amount of change in the way teachers teach after switching to a block schedule would be disappointing to block scheduling advocates
  • Important questions hover over these findings. What is an effective amount of teacher lecture? Or group work? Or individual work?
  • One thing that is missing from the observation instrument used in this study is any judgment about the quality of a lecture, quality and depth of a discussion, or the complexity of group or individual work
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Hard-Hitting Second a Day Video | UKEdChat.com - Supporting the #UKEdChat Education Com... - 14 views

ukedchat.com/...ard-hitting-second-a-day-video syria resource video children suffering
shared by C CC on 05 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • C CC on 05 Mar 14
     
    Video pointing out the challenges to children in Syria
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Here's What We Can Expect From El Niño This Year | TIME - 19 views

time.com/...-expect-from-el-nino-this-year el nino
shared by ekbrabant on 16 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • forecasters have little ability to predict how intense future El Niño episodes will be. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) it is also near impossible to pinpoint the exact dates that El Niño will begin.
    • ekbrabant
      ekbrabant on 16 Jun 14
       
      Some atmospheric phenomena can be predicted and some cannot.
  • Within the next month more details regarding El Niño and when it will begin will become clearer.
    • ekbrabant
      ekbrabant on 16 Jun 14
       
      As more data is collected more patterns may be apparent, and hypotheses can be supported.
  • 90% chance of striking again this year
    • ekbrabant
      ekbrabant on 16 Jun 14
       
      I wonder how scientists have come to this claim...
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  • Western Pacific and parts of Australia
  • Australia
  • damages the agricultural industries in countries surrounding the Pacific Ocean such as Indonesia, and the Philippines.
  • The results of the El Niño events in 1997-1998 were by far the worst in recent history,
    • ekbrabant
      ekbrabant on 16 Jun 14
       
      I wonder what happened. I wonder what the effects were.
  • South Asia will likely be hit first with heavy rain and flooding.
    • ekbrabant
      ekbrabant on 16 Jun 14
       
      El Nino seems to cause a lot of problems. I wonder what caused scientists to think that all of these were related to El Nino.
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Edutopia | K-12 Education Tips & Strategies That Work - 16 views

www.edutopia.org classroom teaching resource pbl
shared by Liane St. Laurent on 27 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Joshua Turney on 27 Jul 09
     
    great educational web site for support articles
  • Liane St. Laurent on 05 Aug 14
     
    Nice collection of back to school tips from our friends at Edutopia.
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