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Kylee Ponder

Fun With Shapes - 1 views

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SOL Collaborative Projects fun shapes

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  • Kylee Ponder on 03 Dec 12
     
    Educational webquest for students at a younger grade - related to SOL K.11 The student will a) identify, describe, and trace plane geometric figures (circle, triangle, square, and rectangle); and b) compare the size (larger, smaller) and shape of plane geometric figures (circle, triangle, square, and rectangle). 
Moni Del Toral

Illuminations: Shape Tool - 0 views

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shared by Moni Del Toral on 28 Nov 12 - Cached
  • Moni Del Toral on 28 Nov 12
     
    Students are able to manipulate shapes by rotating,stretching, reflecting and building patterns
Kylee Ponder

Read me Resources - 0 views

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SOL Digital Storytelling

shared by Kylee Ponder on 27 Nov 12 - Cached
  • Kylee Ponder on 27 Nov 12
     
    Awesome ways to integrate Read Me within sports using Comic Master! Related to SOL (among many others)  5.1 The student will demonstrate proficiency in movement skills and skill combinations in complex movement activities. a) Demonstrate proficiency in locomotor, non-locomotor, and manipulative skill combinations in more complex environments and modified sports activities. b) Perform educational gymnastic sequences, including travel, roll, balance, and weight transfer, with smooth transitions and changes of direction, shape, speed, and flow. c) Perform different types of rhythm/dance sequences including American and international dances.
Moni Del Toral

15 Interesting Ways* to use an Google Maps in the Classroom - 0 views

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shared by Moni Del Toral on 28 Nov 12 - Cached
  • Moni Del Toral on 28 Nov 12
     
    Different potential lessons involving the various functions of google maps/google earth. Includes suggestions of lit trips, path profiling (shape of land), map scavenger hunts and animal habitat maps
Emily Wampler

Connecting the Digital Dots: Literacy of the 21st Century (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAU... - 0 views

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      Emily Wampler on 31 Aug 12
       
      And wonder where they get the idea that "funds are plentiful" in education?  Hmm...
  • The greatest challenge is moving beyond the glitz and pizzazz of the flashy technology to teach true literacy in this new milieu. Using the same skills used for centuries—analysis, synthesis, and evaluation—we must look at digital literacy as another realm within which to apply elements of critical thinking.
    • Emily Wampler
      Emily Wampler on 31 Aug 12
       
      This is really true; just because students may be "digitally savvy" doesn't mean they are competent/scholarly users of these digital technologies.  
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  • Digital literacy represents a person’s ability to perform tasks effectively in a digital environment, with “digital” meaning information represented in numeric form and primarily for use by a computer. Literacy includes the ability to read and interpret media (text, sound, images), to reproduce data and images through digital manipulation, and to evaluate and apply new knowledge gained from digital environments. According to Gilster,5 the most critical of these is the ability to make educated judgments about what we find online.
    • Emily Wampler
      Emily Wampler on 31 Aug 12
       
      It's interesting how they emphasize the higher orders of thinking here-analyze, judge, apply, evaluate, etc.  There's probably lots of room for creative thinking within digital literacy, too.  
  • Visual literacy, referred to at times as visual competencies, emerges from seeing and integrating sensory experiences. Focused on sorting and interpreting—sometimes simultaneously—visible actions and symbols, a visually literate person can communicate information in a variety of forms and appreciate the masterworks of visual communication.6 Visually literate individuals have a sense of design—the imaginative ability to create, amend, and reproduce images, digital or not, in a mutable way. Their imaginations seek to reshape the world in which we live, at times creating new realities. According to Bamford,7 “Manipulating images serve[s] to re-code culture.”
    • Emily Wampler
      Emily Wampler on 31 Aug 12
       
      Ah ha!  There's the bit about creative thinking.  They just give it a different name: visual literacy.  
  • Competency begins with understanding
  • The idea that the world we shape in turn shapes us is a constant.
  • In the end, it seems far better to have the skills and competencies to comprehend and discriminate within a common language than to be left out, unable to understand
    • Emily Wampler
      Emily Wampler on 31 Aug 12
       
      I think this definitely is true, and is a good reason why we need to incorporate digital literacy in the classroom. 
  • the concept of literacy has assumed new meanings.
  • Children learn these skills as part of their lives, like language, which they learn without realizing they are learning it.3
  • A common scenario today is a classroom filled with digitally literate students being led by linear-thinking, technologically stymied instructors.
  • Although funds may be plentiful
Kimberly George

Shaping Tech for the Classroom | Edutopia - 1 views

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technology education

shared by Kimberly George on 04 Sep 12 - Cached
  • I would even include writing, creating, submitting, and sharing work digitally on the computer via email or instant messaging in the category of doing old things (communicating and exchanging) in old ways (passing stuff around).
  • But new technology still faces a great deal of resistance. Today, even in many schools with computers, Luddite administrators (and even Luddite technology administrators) lock down the machines, refusing to allow students to access email.
  • Two big factors stand in the way of our making more and faster progress in technology adoption in our schools. One of these is technological, the other social.
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  • The missing technological element is true one-to-one computing, in which each student has a device he or she can work on, keep, customize, and take home
  • A second key barrier to technological adoption is mo
  • But resisting today's digital technology will be truly lethal to our children's education. They live in an incredibly fast-moving world significantly different than the one we grew up in.
  • These "digital natives" are born into digital technology. Conversely, their teachers (and all older adults) are "digital immigrants."
  • So, let's not just adopt technology into our schools. Let's adapt it, push it, pull it, iterate with it, experiment with it, test it, and redo it, until we reach the point where we and our kids truly feel we've done our very best.
  • Kimberly George on 04 Sep 12
     
    This relates to what we talked about in class- barriers to technology advances in the classroom. 
  • Stephanie McGuire on 05 Sep 12
     
    Oh I really like their step by step process to eventually be a teacher using new things in new ways. It makes this journey to learn technology more manageable!
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