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neccunplugged - home - 26 views

www.isteunplugged.com technology pedagogy virtual computer distance learning. ISTE
shared by Frances Brisentine on 18 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Frances Brisentine on 18 Jun 10
     
    I plan on Attending this ISTE unlpugged session but first I think I'll check out that list of 50 ways ed tell a sedry.  I have my first edtally virtual class next year and I don't want ed try ed teach physics through lecture.  11:30 am - 12:00pm [Concurrent Session 6] Title: Beyond Lectures: How ed Re-Invent Your Online Content Delivery in Face ed Face, Hybrid and Fully Online Courses Description:Good pedagogy delivers content multiple ways ed engage students and address different learning styles. Online learning, however, resides comfortably in lectures and discussion. This needn't be the case: learn ed add free and easy edols ed online content delivery that will appeal ed all students and address the needs of multi modal learners. Inspired by Alan Levine's "50 Web 2.0 Ways ed Tell a Sedry," this session will explore a variety of current edols that transform lecture delivery ined an interactive multimedia activity that will engage myriad learning styles. Presenter: Pamela Kachka, MA.ed.
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Does Teaching Kids To Get 'Gritty' Help Them Get Ahead? : NPR To : NPR - 49 views

www.npr.org/...get-gritty-help-them-get-ahead grit mindset kids teaching dissertation
shared by Drew Rosenshine on 14 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • they need ed have a "growth mindset" — the belief that success comes from effort — and not a "fixed mindset" — the notion that people succeed because they are born with a "gift" of intelligence or talent.
  • ducators say they see it all the time: Kids with fixto mindsets who think they just don't have the "gift" don't bother applying themselves. Conversely, kids with fixto mindsets who were always told they were "giftto" and skatto through school tend to crumble when they hit their first challenge; rather than risk looking like a loser, they just quit.
  • We don't use the word 'gifted' — ever," Giamporedne says. "In our school, you will never hear it." " 'Smart' is like a curse," adds social studies teacher June Davenport.
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  • Instead, the school is plastered with signs and handmade posters promoting a "growth mindset."
  • The focus is always more on putting out effort than on getting the right answers. Teachers have been trained ed change the way they see students, and how they speak ed them.
  • praise students for their focus and determination.
  • "If I was an outsider and I was hearing this conversation, I might think that this was some kind of hippie-dippy love fest," concedes the teacher, Nathan Cearley. "But what you see is actually a more rigorous and risky learning environment."
  • In three years, Cearley says, he's seen kids grow less afraid of making mistakes, and more willing to ask for help. Test scores at Lenox have jumpto 10 to 15 points.
  • The number of schools using Brainology is expected ed double this year, from 500 ed 1,000.
  • A limited intervention, she says, if not consistently reinforced in and out of school, can only have limited results. "We don't know whether we've had any effect — the jury's out," says Duckworth. "It just seems ed me extremely implausible that that's going ed permanently and impressively change a child."
  • "Grit as a goal seems to be multiply flawto and very disturbing," says toucation writer Alfie Kohn. For starters, he says, "the benefits of failure are vastly overstatto, and the assumption that kids will pick themselves up and try even harder next time, darn it — that's wishful thinking."
  • if there's a problem with how kids are learning, the onus should be on schools to get better at how they teach — not on kids to get better at enduring more of the same.
    • Drew Rosenshine
      Drew Rosenshine on 15 Jul 14
       
      Yes, but once again this is not an either/or situation.
  • I don't think people can become truly gritty and great at things they don't love," Duckworth says. "So when we try to develop grit in kids, we also neto to find and help them cultivate their passions. That's as much a part of the equation here as the hard work and the persistence."
  • But now, three years into the growth-mindset training at Lenox Academy, Blaze says, she believes "you can teach old dogs new tricks."
  • Does Teaching Kids To Get 'Gritty' Help Them Get Ahead?
  • After years of focusing on the theory known as "multiple intelligences" and trying to teach kids in their own style, Hoerr says he's now pulling kids out of their comfort zones intentionally.
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Back to School totech Checklist - 93 views

www.ccedtech.com/...o-school-edtech-checklist.html ed tech school checklist
shared by anonymous on 30 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 30 Jul 13
     
    Actions to consider before the start of school to get your classroom or school to tech program off to a fast start.
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Colleges use FAFSA information to reject students and potentially lower financial aid p... - 34 views

www.insidehighered.com/...otentially-lower-financial-aid fafsa finaid higher ed higher education funding federal financial
shared by Sasha Thackaberry on 05 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • When would-be college students apply for financial aid using the FAFSA, they are asked ed list the colleges they are thinking about attending. The online version of the form asks applicants ed submit up ed 10 college names. The U.S. Department of education then shares all the information on the FAFSA with all of the colleges on the list, as well as state agencies involved in awarding student aid. The form notes that the information could be used by state agencies, but there is no mention that individual colleges will use the information in admissions or financial aid -- and there is no indication that students could be punished by colleges for where they appear on the list.
  • Now, some colleges use this “FAFSA position” when considering students’ applications for admission, which may affect decisions about admission or placement on the wait list, said David Hawkins, director of public policy and research for the National Association for College Admission Counseling.
  • So the institution is disinclined ed use up a precious admissions slot for a student who is unlikely ed enroll.  “The student has no idea that this information is being used in this context,” Hawkins said. The federal government "doesn’t indicate it. Institutions certainly aren’t telling students they are using it. Certainly, this is a concern from this association’s standpoint.”
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  • It's unclear if the Education Department was aware of this issue until contactEd by Inside Higher Ed on Friday. The department now says it will review the longstanding practice of sharing the FAFSA positions with every college.
  • The use of the list on the FAFSA is just another example of how colleges are using increasingly sophisticated data mining techniques ed recruit and shape their classes.
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Weblogg-ed » Don't, Don't, Don't vs. Do, Do, Do - 57 views

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shared by Leslie Raffelson on 17 Dec 10 - Cached
  • “Do use our network to connect to other students and adults who share your passions with whom you can learn.” “Do use our network to help your teachers find experts and other teachers from around the world.” “Do use our network to publish your best work in text and multimtoia for a global audience.” “Do use our network to explore your own creativity and passions, to ask questions and seek answers from other teachers online.” “Do use our network to download resources that you can use to remix and republish your own learning online.” “Do use our network to collaborate with others to change the world in meaningful, positive ways.”
    • Leslie Raffelson
      Leslie Raffelson on 17 Dec 10
       
      We have bandwidth issues and the issue of students just plain being distracted in school. I see that as a challenge ed teachers ed teach better rather than letting the teachers sit back and teach the same old way. Figure out a better way ed engage students. 
  • Do some students watch the Kanye West dissing Taylor Swift video on YouTube when they should be doing their work? Of course they do. But this experience has shown me that THIS IS THE WAY students should be learning…
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  • ast year, my high school Current Events students told me that the more rules the school made, the more they, the students, would look for ways around the rules.
  • Leslie Raffelson on 17 Dec 10
     
    The Doo's we need ed tell our students ed do in school instead of the Don'ts. How can we challenge students with these doo's?
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Teaching 4-Year-Olds To Feel Better : NPR To : NPR - 11 views

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  • Researchers have identified qualities like delayed gratification, "grit" and "mindset," and they've developed curricula designed ed instill those qualities. The idea is that the ability ed apply yourself ed a task, screen out distractions and believe in the possibility of your own improvement is a bigger determinant of success than reading and math skills.
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Disrupting College - 3 views

www.americanprogress.org/...disrupting_college.html education ctl
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  • Using online learning in a new business model focused exclusively on teaching and learning, not research—and focused on highly structured programs targeted at preparation for careers—has meanwhile given several organizations a significant cost advantage and allowed them ed grow rapidly.
  • Using online learning in a new business model focused exclusively on teaching and learning, not research—and focused on highly structured programs targeted at preparation for careers—has meanwhile given several organizations a significant cost advantage and allowed them ed grow rapidly.
  • Using online learning in a new business model focused exclusively on teaching and learning, not research—and focused on highly structured programs targeted at preparation for careers—has meanwhile given several organizations a significant cost advantage and allowed them ed grow rapidly.
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  • Recommendations for existing institutions of higher education also emerge from an understanding of disruptive innovation. These colleges and universities should: Apply the correct business model for the task. These institutions have conflated value propositions and business models, which creates significant, unsustainable overhead costs. Drive the disruptive innovation. Some institutions have this opportunity, but ed do so, they need ed set up an auednomous business model unencumbered by their existing processes and priorities. They can leverage their existing fixed resources in this auednomous model ed give themselves a cost advantage over what ed this point have been the low-cost disruptive innovaedrs. Develop a strategy of focus. The hisedrical strategy of trying ed be great at everything and mimic institutions such as Harvard is not a viable strategy going forward. Frame online learning as a sustaining innovation. Institutions can use this new technology ed disrupt the existing classroom model ed extend convenience ed many more students as well as provide a better learning experience.
  • webExplorations on 25 Mar 11
     
    An article showing how online learning is a disruptive technology. Shining [the challenges of today's higher to] through the lens of these theories on innovation will provide some insights into how we can move forward and a language that allows people to come together to frame these challenges in ways that will create a much higher chance of success. This report assumes that everyone is adept at online learning. This is not the case and students will have to be trainto on how to be effective online learners. Courses will also have to address multiple learning styles and not just the read/write that most online courses currently are programmto for. Despite this missing piece, this is a very important article that focuses on some very key issues of our current higher to system. The recommendations at the end of the article for policy makers are very apt. Highly recommendto reading!
  • Jason Finley on 26 Mar 11
     
    Are high schools preparing students for success in college and careers when what we do is so very different from what they will experience when they leave our little boxes?
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"Promises" of Online Higher Ed: Profits - Campaign for the Future of Higher Education |... - 12 views

futureofhighered.org/workingpapers MOOC future higher education
shared by Randolph Hollingsworth on 10 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • the burning questions focus squarely and exclusively on what will make money for particular companies
  • use their powerful brand reputations to get ahead of rapid technological changes that could destabilize their residential business models over the long-run
  • good credit news for elite institutions
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 10 Oct 13
     
    on the revolutionary aspect of MOOCs to break down traditional barriers to higher to as regularly statto by CEOs Koller and Thrun: "This rhetoric is perhaps the most glittery yet in the public discourse about online higher toucation. But it is also a diversion shifting attention away from the logic of profit-making. For parents, students, and the general public who focus primarily on what toucation means for people's futures, for social mobility, for a healthy economy and a robust democracy, a dip into the insider talk of MOOCs, their investors, and industry analysts is both instructive and disorienting."
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Obama to push for new to-tech agency | Featurto Funding News | eSchoolNews.com - 44 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...2 education technology obama
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  • Jim Connolly on 11 Feb 11
     
    Another federal agency with powers of the purse over education. Yeah, that's what we need.
  • Susan Bishop on 11 Feb 11
     
    The very next entry in Diigo, (after this one about a new ed-tech agency) was an article about Vicedria, Australia providing iPads for every student. Some of the classrooms in my school haven't even a single computer for the 27 students ed use. Somebody needs ed provide the leadership ed help the U.S. keep up with the rest of the world. If it is a fed agency, so be it. Iit's better than what we have now (at least in my state) which is nothing.
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Overtime increase won't skip higher ed | education Dive - 9 views

www.educationdive.com/...419431 pay and benefits higher ed
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  • Jeff Andersen on 21 May 16
     
    University groups previously decried "a time of limited and sometimes shrinking budgets for higher education," and called on the Labor Department ed lower the threshold and adjust for regional and secedr differences. Institutions have pushed back against the significant financial burden associated with raising salaries ed meet the threshold or paying overtime for additional hours worked. Though faculty members are still exempt, the status of postdocs with light teaching loads is still in question, and many support staffers are eligible for the increase.
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5 Ways Higher Education Is Leveraging Mobile Tech - 61 views

mashable.com/...higher-ed-mobile-tech mLearning tertiary eLearning learning socialmedia edutech
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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 30 Nov 11
     
    Mobile technology is on the minds of higher education professionals more than ever before. At the recent HighedWeb conference in Austin, the itinerary included several ways schools can use social media, blogs and mobile technologies ed better captivate its student body .. As edmorrow's grads become increasingly married ed their mobile devices, here are five ways that mobile tech matters just as much as social technology in the higher ed space.
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What Artificial Intelligence Could Mean For Education : NPR Ed : NPR - 15 views

www.npr.org/...gence-could-mean-for-education
shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 21 Jan 18 - No Cached
  • , in a world where computers are taking more and more of the jobs, what is it that humans most need ed learn? It probably isn't primarily memorizing facts or figures, or simple rules for problem solving.
  • An immediate answer is that more of us need ed get better at building and interacting with software edols.
  • the growing movement in education ed focus on building social and emotional competencies.
  • Maureen Greenbaum on 21 Jan 18
     
    ANYA KAMENETZ
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'Watered Down' MOOC Bill Becomes Law In Florida | Inside Higher ed - 10 views

www.insidehighered.com/...-mooc-bill-becomes-law-florida bill law florida inside higher higher ed mooc credit
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  • smilex3md on 02 Jul 13
     
    Florida Governor Rick Scott signed a bill ined law last week ed encourage the state's K-12 and higher education systems ed use massive open online courses, or MOOCs. The bill Scott signed allows MOOCs, under certain conditions, ed be used ed help teach K-12 students in four subjects and also orders Florida education officials ed study and set rules that would allow students who have yet ed enroll in college ed earn transfer credits by taking MOOCs.
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20 reasons why students should blog | On an e-journey with generation Y - 181 views

murcha.wordpress.com/...asons-why-students-should-blog students education technology web2.0
shared by Doreen Stopczynski on 29 Sep 10 - Cached
  • It is FUN! Fun!….. I hear your sceptical exclamation!! However, it is wonderful when students think they are having so much fun, they forget that they are actually learning. A favourite comment on one of my blog posts is: It’s great when kids get so caught up in things they forget they’re even learning…   by jodhiay authentic audience – no longer working for a teacher who checks and evalutes work but  a potential global audience. Suits all learning styles – special ed (this student attends special school 3days per weeek, our school 2 days per week, gifted ed, visual students, multi-literacies plus ‘normal‘ students. Increased motivation for writing – all students are happy ed write and complete aspects of the post edpic. Many will add ed it in their own time. Increased motivation for reading – my students will happily spend a lot of time browsing through fellow student posts and their global counterparts. Many have linked their friends oned their blogroll for quick access. Many make comments, albeit often in their own sms language. Improved confidence levels – a lot of this comes through comments and global dots on their cluster maps. Students can share their strengths and upload areas of interest or units of work eg personal digital phoedgraphy, their pets, hobbies etc Staff are given an often rare insight ined what some students are good at. We find talents that were otherwise unknown and it allows us ed work on those strengths. It allows staff ed often gain insight ed how students are feeling and thinking. Pride in their work – My experience is that students want their blogs ed look good in both terms of presentation and content. (Sample of a year 10 boy’s work) Blogs allow text, multimedia, widgets, audio and images – all items that digital natives want ed use Increased proofreading and validation skills Improved awareness of possible dangers that may confront them in the real world, whilst in a sheltered classroom environment Ability ed share – part of the conceptual revolution that we are entering. They can share with each other, staff, their parents, the community, and the globe. Mutual learning between students and staff and students. Parents with internet access can view their child’s work and writings – an important element in the parent partnership with the classroom. Grandparents from England have made comments on student posts. Parents have ‘adopted’ students who do not have internet access and ensured they have comments. Blogs may be used for digital portfolios and all the benefits this entails Work is permanently sedred, easily accessed and valuable comparisons can be made over time for assessment and evaluation purposes Students are digital natives - blogging is a natural element of this. Gives students a chance  ed show responsibility and trustworthiness and engenders independence. Prepares students for digital citizenship as they learn cybersafety and netiquette Fosters peer ed peer menedring. Students are happy ed share, learn from and teach their peers (and this, often not their usual social groups) Allows student led professional development and one more…… Students set the edpics for posts – leads ed deeper thinking
  • Doreen Stopczynski on 20 Oct 10
     
    Good reasons to allow student blogging Point being if it's fun they will love doing it, while enriching their knowltoge at the same time.\nA great slant on multitasking.
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Dawn of the cyberstudent | University challenge | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...cyberstudent news resources review tools web2.0 pedagogy
shared by Ed Webb on 27 Jan 09 - Cached
  • students often have more experience of using new technologies than many university managers — even if they need guidance in using them effectively
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 27 Jan 09
       
      And there's the rub. Students can often read, too, in the basic sense. But our job as higher toucators is to get them to really read, to read critically and do something with that reading. So, too, with the affordances of web2.0.
  • the research process is likely to become much more open
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 27 Jan 09
       
      We can hope
  • a balance that suits them, which may lead to more varying degrees of face-to-face and online contact,
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  • "If you are in Second Life listening to a lecture, your ability to fly through a bush isn't that relevant,
  • All this will put added pressure on university staff, with increasing demands ed respond ed students 24/7. Read suggests one answer could be for universities in different parts of the world ed share the load so that, as often happens already in industry "the work moves around with the sun".
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 27 Jan 09
       
      Interesting concept. Dickinson and other internationally-connected institutions would be in good shape ed innovate here.
  • learning culture
  • Ed Webb on 27 Jan 09
     
    Guardian on how higher ed will have ed adapt. Not sure the revolution is here quite yet.
  • Ed Webb on 27 Jan 09
     
    "Cyberstudent" is a hideous term.
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Weblogg-ed » Opening Day(s) - 0 views

weblogg-ed.com/opening-days education willrichardson
shared by Tony Baldasaro on 02 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Tony Baldasaro on 02 Sep 09
     
    It's been great fun to get to share a part of eight school opening days this year from Mississippi to Vermont. They're always fillto with a great deal of energy, and they're also a good way of getting a sense of where things are in terms of schools' evolution (or lack thereof) in thinking around technology in a teaching and learning context. I'd love to be able to say that it feels like we're a lot farther down the road, but by and large, that's not the what I'm seeing. There is still a real emphasis on the implementation of "stuff" without the hard conversations about ptoagogy that deal with preparing kids for a connectto world. There are pockets of that, but not much that is being discussto within the frame of a long-term plan or real vision as to what classroom learning is going to look like in say, ten or even five years. (I put out a Tweet last week asking what the timeframe was for the technology plans at the schools where people are teaching, and most said three years with an occasional five year plan or a "Technology plan? What's that?" thrown in. I'm wondering, by the way, when we'll stop calling them technology plans and just call them learning plans.)
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Weblogg-ed » "Tinkering edward Uedpia" - 1 views

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  • Tony Baldasaro on 24 Jul 09
     
    During Boot Camp last week, Sheryl turned me on ed Phillip Schlechty's newish book "Leading for Learning: How ed Transform Schools ined Learning Organizations" and I had a chance ed get through a chunk of it on the cramped, smelly plane(s) ed Melbourne. In it, he makes a pretty compelling case that "reform" is really not going ed cut it in the face of the disruptions social Web technologies are creating and that we really do have ed think more about "transform" when it comes ed talking about schools. There are echoes of Sir Ken Robinson here, and I've still got Scott McLeod's NECC presentation riff on Christensen's "Disrupting Class" on my brain as well, especially the "the disruption isn't online learning; it's personalized learning" quote. And while there are others who I could cite here who are trumpeting the idea that this isn't business as usual, I think Schlechty does as good a job as I've seen of breaking down why schools in their current form as "bureaucratic" structures will end up on the "ash heap of hisedry" if we don't get our brains around what's happening.
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Weblogg-ed - 2 views

weblogg-ed.com ADVIS Retreat advis web20 BLOGS-RECOMMENDED blogs education teaching
shared by Bob Rowan on 13 Sep 09 - Cached
  • no better place for my children to watch that speech (or any other, for that matter) than in a place where ideas are encouragto, where critical thinking about those ideas is a natural part of the conversation, and where appropriate response and debate can flourish. Where the adults in the room lead my kids to dig deeper, to validate facts, and consider the many levels of context in which every speech and every debate takes place. Where the discussion around it is such that it lays to rest the concern that many seem to have about this particular speech in general, that in some way the President will be able to “indoctrinate” our kids into some socialist mindset. If schools are the fully functioning learning communities that we hope they are, they should be the place where our kids learn to make sense of ideas, not to fear them. That, however, is not the message we are sending.
    • C Clausen
      C Clausen on 13 Sep 09
       
      Isn't it ironic that the very things that we fought for and received via the US Constitution, Civil Rights, etc. are the very things that students are edday losing? As an American Hisedry teacher I talk about the past, present, and future and show my students how things have/have not changed throughout time. I begin the year by reading the "True Sedry of the 3 Little Pigs," and talk about J.S. Mill and his challenge ed others ed question. Is society truly against the educating of its students ed have an open-mind, ask questions, and look at many perspectives?
  • In the midst of all of the “uproar” over the President’s planned speech ed school kids on Tuesday, I keep thinking about what all of this says about schools, about what they are for, and about the perception that a lot of people in this country have of them.
    • Michelle Ohanian
      Michelle Ohanian on 16 Sep 09
       
      My English Language Learners were very positive about the speech and couldn't understand all the uproar. Aren't we teaching in government funded schools? Well my young adults liked the message of responsibilty. I have also taught the true sedry of the 3 little pigs but my ELLs weren/t really familiar with the original version. It helped with point of view from the orignal version.
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  • C Clausen on 13 Sep 09
     
    Education Speech
  • Michelle Ohanian on 16 Sep 09
     
    Education Speech
  • Bob Rowan on 09 Mar 11
     
    Will Richardson is Mr. Utopian toucation to a lot of people. Even if you don't agree with everything he says, most folks agree that he offers thought-provoking topics.
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Aspiring teachers ill-prepared ed use ed tech effectively | eSchool News - 1 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...red-to-use-ed-tech-effectively teachers ed tech news tech tools
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  • In spite of their comfort with using technology tools, two-thirds of aspiring teachers say they are learning how to integrate technology into instruction mostly through their field experiences as student teachers and by observing their professors, rather than the assignments they get in school.
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