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Kasey Hutson

the Edthena blog - about better coaching for teachers and using technology - 0 views

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blog coaching teachers using technology edtech

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  • The public perceives education as of the government. The public is demanding better education options. The public is asking for real progress in the way of education reform. And yet, the government is now sitting on the sidelines waiting till next year.
  • To those lawmakers who claim to be education advocates and committed to real change in education -- take education off your lipservice list and put it on your to-do list. Stop using education and education investment as a bargaining chip to get your other deals done.
  • However, without a concerted effort to "place bets" on the ideas that have the potential to transform education, how can we ever expect to "hit it big" when it comes to education technology?
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  • Edhtena is a technology platform that's focused on schools. And yet, schools sometimes don't have the right technology upgrades to support technology like Edthena.  Sure, the computers are powerful enough. Sure, the internet bandwidth is there. But the software -- mainly the browser -- that users have may not deliver the best experience.  This is why we're so excited by Microsoft's announcement to automatically update Internet Explorer for all users. LOTS of schools are still running LOTS of computers with Windows XP with old versions of IE. Now, teachers won't have to worry about what version software they have. And IT departments won't have to worry about capacity to update everyone over time.  Everybody wins here. Thank you, Microsoft.
  • Kasey Hutson on 09 Sep 12
     
    I'm biased because this blog is from my childhood best friend's older brother (whew), but he has a really cool start-up company that is focused on educational technology and, further, on using technology to provide teachers feedback. Adam is a TFA alum, originally from Virginia Beach, who is passionate about teaching and helping teachers improve their craft. Worth checking out!
Denise Lenihan

Educational technology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Educational_technology

technology education

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  • Educational technology is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using and managing appropriate technological processes and resources."[1] The term educational technology is often associated with, and encompasses, instructional theory and learning theory. While instructional technology is "the theory and practice of design, development, utilization, management, and evaluation of processes and resources for learning," according to the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Definitions and Terminology Committee,[2] educational technology includes other systems used in the process of developing human capability. Educational technology includes, but is not limited to, software, hardware, as well as Internet applications, such as wiki's and blogs, and activities. But there is still debate on what these terms mean.[3]
  • Denise Lenihan on 29 Aug 12
     
    Trying out this whole bookmark thing 
Benjamin Hindman

Let Them Play: Video gaming in education - 0 views

digitaldollar.edublogs.org/...play-video-gaming-in-education

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  • I started my 4th-grade students up on an updated version of Lemonade Stand.
  • The kids all wanted to make money and, within less than an hour, my English-language learning students were appropriately using words like net profit and assets.
  • allow students to play educational games as part of a facilitated lesson have  students create video games for their classmates or younger students use game design principles in curriculum design
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  • the added visual and audio effects, video games deliver information to students’ brains in a much more effective envelope.
  • research has shown that educational video games can increase student achievement, as well as spatial reasoning skills, compared to more traditional instruction.
  • Mission-based video games are about more than just getting students to memorize facts. Video games have been shown to teach literacy, problem-solving, perseverance, and collaboration.
  • Most video games offer students opportunities to both gain knowledge and, more importantly, immediately utilize that knowledge to solve a problem.
  • This immediate application of knowledge, coupled with the inherent fun of video games, engages and motivates students far better than many traditional lessons could. Students become problem solvers who can think through complex missions to find the best possible solution.
  • And because students are so motivated to find a solution, they will often take risks they might otherwise be too scared to take in the classroom.
  • Not only is he gaining valuable collaborative and leadership skills, he’s also becoming a true global citizen.
  • With any in-class activity, our job as teachers is to help students transfer that knowledge so they can use it in scenarios outside of that day’s lesson. The same goes for educational games.
  • Because students were in the lab, they weren’t bored enough to cause trouble during their down-time. Plus, teachers started seeing some intriguing self-regulation habits take form. With a limited number of controllers, students were politely asking and offering to take turns in the game lab, without adult intervention. And the lab attracted a variety of kids — girls, boys, special education students, kids from all socio-economic backgrounds. Students who normally never interacted were playing together.
  • School leaders contend that by building video games that work, students begin to understand complex systems, which will give them valuable knowledge as they enter the workforce.
  • Benjamin Hindman on 03 Oct 12
     
    A very interesting look at gaming in education.  This site also provides ideas and suggestions for integration of games into the classroom.
Emily Wampler

What Is Education For? - 2 views

www.context.org/orr

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    • Emily Wampler
      Emily Wampler on 02 Sep 12
       
      This is hard to swallow; seems very pessimistic about human nature.
  • It makes far better sense to reshape ourselves to fit a finite planet than to attempt to reshape the planet to fit our infinite wants.
  • What can be said truthfully is that some knowledge is increasing while other kinds of knowledge are being lost.
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  • It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane.
  • But capitalism has also failed because it produces too much, shares too little, also at too high a cost to our children and grandchildren.
  • First, all education is environmental education. By what is included or excluded we teach students that they are part of or apart from the natural world.
  • The goal of education is not mastery of subject matter, but of one’s person.
    • Emily Wampler
      Emily Wampler on 02 Sep 12
       
      Wow.  Love this quote, and agree whole-heartedly.
  • knowledge carries with it the responsibility to see that it is well used in the world.
  • Each of these tragedies were possible because of knowledge created for which no one was ultimately responsible. T
  • we cannot say that we know something until we understand the effects of this knowledge on real people and their communities.
  • In this instance what was taught in the business schools and economics departments did not include the value of good communities or the human costs of a narrow destructive economic rationality that valued efficiency and economic abstractions above people and community.
  • What is desperately needed are faculty and administrators who provide role models of integrity, care, thoughtfulness, and institutions that are capable of embodying ideals wholly and completely in all of their operations.
  • Process is important for learning.
  • My point is simply that education is no guarantee of decency, prudence, or wisdom.
  • he modern drive to dominate nature.
  • Ignorance is not a solvable problem, but rather an inescapable part of the human condition. The advance of knowledge always carries with it the advance of some form of ignorance.
  • Emily Wampler on 05 Sep 12
     
    This article was written 20 years ago, but still holds interesting and relevant information about the purpose of education.
Emily Wampler

Meet the YouTube Next EDU Gurus - YouTube - 0 views

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  • Emily Wampler on 20 Oct 12
     
    An interesting video about people who post educational videos online.  Some are teachers, some are not.  It's exciting that people and students are learning through these videos, but is this the future of education?  What do we as trained teachers offer that untrained video educators don't?  Anything?  What is going to be the role of the classroom with 4 walls in the future?  
Alexander Hendrix

Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling - 0 views

digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu

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  • Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with tradition
  • Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music. Digital stories can vary in length, but most of the stories used in education typically last between two and ten minutes. The topics that are used in Digital Storytelling range from personal tales to the recounting of historical events, from exploring life in one's own community to the search for life in other corners of the universe, and literally, everything in between.
  • multimedia sonnets from the people"
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  • "multimedia sonnets from the people"
  • Alexander Hendrix on 27 Nov 12
     
    An amazing resource that states outlines the educational uses of digital story telling and how we can best utilize this wonderful new technology in our classroom to enrich classroom education
anonymous

Teaching Teachers to Tweet - EdTech Researcher - Education Week - 1 views

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twitter edtech socialmedia

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  • anonymous on 29 Aug 12
     
    "3.2 Leverage social networking technologies and platforms to create communities of practice that provide career-long personal learning opportunities for educators within and across schools, preservice preparation and in-service educational institutions, and professional organizations." Great overview of Twitter
Emily Wampler

Innovation Design In Education - ASIDE: Century of the Child: Moving Forward - 0 views

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    • Emily Wampler
      Emily Wampler on 31 Aug 12
       
      I don't think Play is a magic fix for all the problems in US education, but I think it's a step in the right direction.  
    • Emily Wampler
      Emily Wampler on 31 Aug 12
       
      Couldn't agree with this more.  Assessment and standards for Pre-K?!?  Get real, America.  Let the kids play.  
  • The "children's garden" was to be a place that valued a child’s enjoyment, creative process, and intuitive investigation of materials. This is not what many kindergartens look like today. Too often they are worksheet driven in preparation for testing.
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  • For more than a decade, NCLB has pushed education into mediocrity, opting for a homogenized system to pass tests. We’ve taken the play out of learning, and as a result, children have disengaged in a flawed process to the tune of over a 35% dropout rate.
  • Today, free play to learn how to socialize, invent, and imagine is rare; instead, child's play is organized. Add in diminished recess, limited physical education, and worksheet-driven classrooms and we have a recipe for unimaginative kids who lack a passion for learning. It is no wonder that we have trouble getting kids to think creatively. If they can’t play, they can’t learn and certainly not innovate.
  • We need to promote play, passion and purpose for it and break free of fixed silos of learning. Creating innovators is not part of mainstream, conventional education that is too focused on measuring assessments through one-right answer tests.
Kelsey Agett

Crisp: An education on teachers' issues - Framingham, MA - The MetroWest Daily News - 0 views

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education teachers issues

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  • No one went into teaching to climb much higher than the lower reaches of the middle class.
    • Kelsey Agett
      Kelsey Agett on 19 Sep 12
       
      Or maybe remedied...developed? Staff development isn't the answer to this problem, but maybe weak teachers who are willing to learn can learn to be better before they get the boot.
  • And certainly weak teachers must be eliminated
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  • Still, while Brooks supports the persistent modern inclination to think of schools as businesses, it's important to remember that they're not. And students aren't products, and teachers aren't factory workers
  • Kelsey Agett on 19 Sep 12
     
    Good look at education and teachers today.
Lauren Tappan

Education Week: Teacher Blogs - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...index.html

education teacher blogs

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  • Lauren Tappan on 17 Oct 12
     
    some different opinions on education...as seen in class
smsanders

50 Best Twitter Feeds to Follow Educational Gaming | TeachThought - 0 views

www.teachthought.com/...s-to-follow-educational-gaming

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  • smsanders on 03 Sep 12
     
    Here's a list of 50 of 50 of the best people to follow if you are interested in Educational Gaming
Kelsey Agett

EDU - YouTube - 0 views

www.youtube.com/education

youtube education edtech online

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  • Kelsey Agett on 06 Sep 12
     
    Look guys! Youtube has an education section!!!
Megan Cleary

The achievement gap, by the numbers - The Washington Post - 0 views

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  • virtually nobody disputes that socioeconomic status, cultural identity and the educational level of parents — especially mothers — are linked to the stubborn achievement gap between students of different races and ethnicities.
  • research has shown that outside factors are generally more powerful than any teacher and that it is the exception rather than the rule that students facing myriad social issues can do well at school
  • The persistent gap in the District reflects on the questionable nature of some of the reforms that have been implemented in the city
  • Megan Cleary on 10 Sep 12
     
    This issue is both frustrating and controversial, and there is little to no agreement on how to address it.  It seems educators will be dealing with this issue for a long time to come.
Karrissa Harbour

Education.com | An Education & Child Development Site for Parents | Parenting & Educati... - 0 views

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teaching worksheets

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  • Karrissa Harbour on 17 Sep 12
     
    Lots of free worksheets in different subject areas.
Benjamin Hindman

Schools Don't Need Reform, They Need Revolution | Education on GOOD - 0 views

www.good.is/...ed-reform-they-need-revolution

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    • Benjamin Hindman
      Benjamin Hindman on 18 Sep 12
       
      sounds like an interesting book!
  • My book offers a prescription for revolutionizing the American education system. I ask questions like: What if we tailored education to every single child? What if students' voices were heard and seen as human beings, not numbers in a spreadsheet? What if school became an incubator of innovation and a bridge between the community and the world?
Moni Del Toral

GeoGames - National Geographic Education - 0 views

education.nationalgeographic.com/...geogames

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  • Moni Del Toral on 28 Nov 12
     
    National Geographic presents GeoGames, an interactive game to build the earth that serves as an assessment tool of students' geographical knowledge
Kylee Ponder

Education World: WebQuest - 1 views

www.educationworld.com/...webquest033.shtml

SOL Collaborative Projects Civil Rights

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  • Kylee Ponder on 03 Dec 12
     
    Awesome webquest on MLK, Jr. for middle school students - relates to SOL VUS.14 The student will demonstrate knowledge of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s by a) identifying the importance of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the roles of Thurgood Marshall and Oliver Hill, and how Virginia responded; b) describing the importance of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the 1963 March on Washington, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Kylee Ponder

Education World: WebQuest - 1 views

www.educationworld.com/...webquest047.shtml

SOL Collaborative Projects Habitats

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  • Kylee Ponder on 03 Dec 12
     
    Educational WebQuest for students wanting to learn about habitats & endangered species! Relates to SOL 2.5 The student will investigate and understand that living things are part of a system. Key concepts include a) living organisms are interdependent with their living and nonliving surroundings; b) an animal's habitat includes adequate food, water, shelter or cover, and space; c) habitats change over time due to many influences; and d) fossils provide information about living systems that were on Earth years ago.
Kylee Ponder

Education World: WebQuest - 1 views

www.educationworld.com/...webquest044.shtml

SOL Collaborative Projects Cost of War

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  • Kylee Ponder on 03 Dec 12
     
    Educational webquest related to costs of war - awesome for secondary history! Relates to SOL USII.1 The student will demonstrate skills for historical and geographical analysis and responsible citizenship, including the ability to: i) identify the costs and benefits of specific choices made, including the consequences, both intended and unintended, of the decisions and how people and nations responded to positive and negative incentives. 
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