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Kylee Ponder

Storybird - A burning question. - 0 views

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SOL Digital Storytelling Storybird

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  • Kylee Ponder on 27 Nov 12
     
    Storybird - helping students build reading skills and create thier own stories! Related to SOL 2.6 The student will use semantic clues and syntax to expand vocabulary when reading. a) Use information in the story to read words. b) Use knowledge of sentence structure. c) Use knowledge of story structure and sequence. d) Reread and self-correct. 
Shally Ackerman

Digital Literacy in the primary classroom | Steps in Teaching and Learning - 0 views

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  • 8 elements of Digital Literacy
  • Cultural [Cu] Cognitive [Cg] Constructive [Cn] Communication [Co] Confidence [Cf] Creative [Cr] Critical [Ct] Civic [Ci]
  • he following is my interpretation of how they might be used for teaching and learning in a primary classroom
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  • definition in its publication Digital Literacy
  • To be digitally literate is to have access to a broad range of practices and cultural resources that you are able to apply to digital tools. It is the ability to make and share meaning in different modes and formats; to create, collaborate and communicate effectively and to understand how and when digital technologies can best be used to support these processes.
  • The challenge is how we as teachers can foster digital literacy in all areas of the school curriculum
  • it is our responsibility to ensure children are not only confident users but can also make informed decisions about the use of such digital technologies to help them in their learning
  • How can we ensure that our learners are digitally literate?
  • We can help children understand their role in the wider community and how they will have an effect on it. What they say becomes incredibly important when you begin to use digital tools to publish their content online for the world to see
  • Don’t envisage this as how your learners will use digital tools but how they will use their own cognitive tools to do so
  • In today’s digital world children have a multitude of ways to communicate that are more or less digital variations of those tools 30 years previously.
  • developing links and strengthening those bonds by fostering projects and interaction is the next step
  • Go with what the learners suggest, follow up their questions even if it isn’t in your panning
  • Learners today need to know which tools are the best to communicate the message they want to say, they need to make deliberate and informed choices that recognise what these digital communication tools can do and how best to utilise them.
  • You want a class of learners that will know which tools will get the job done effectively and which tools will only hold them back
  • Never before has a learner been presented with so much choice to draw a picture – from pencil and paper to digital pens and paper on a tablet device
  • owever the creative potential is being held back by teachers who are either not prepared to use these tools in their class due to other ill conceived curriculum pressures or they just don’t know how.
  • How do we know it is written by the author claiming it to be so? We need to develop critical awareness and thinking
  • Children cannot go on accepting the first result they receive from a search
  • Digital Literacy must be developed across every part of the curriculum and not just ICT and our learners must be given the freedom to do so in schools today
  • Shally Ackerman on 01 Sep 12
     
    This article breaks down some of the concepts that go into digital literacy.
Alexander Hendrix

Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling - 0 views

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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
Kylee Ponder

Example Digital Story Lesson Plan - 0 views

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SOL Digital Storytelling

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  • Kylee Ponder on 27 Nov 12
     
    Awesome sample digital storytelling lesson plan! Helps students learn lots of skills that they'll need later; Related to SOL 2.1 The student will demonstrate an understanding of oral language structure. a) Create oral stories to share with others. b) Create and participate in oral dramatic activities. c) Use correct verb tenses in oral communication. d) Use increasingly complex sentence structures in oral communication. e) Begin to self-correct errors in language use. 
Kylee Ponder

Color me-wow! // Smories - 0 views

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SOL Digital Storytelling Smories

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  • Kylee Ponder on 27 Nov 12
     
    Wonderful way for students to participate in Digital Storytelling and build oral language skills! Related to SOL 2.1 The student will demonstrate an understanding of oral language structure. a) Create oral stories to share with others. b) Create and participate in oral dramatic activities. c) Use correct verb tenses in oral communication. d) Use increasingly complex sentence structures in oral communication. e) Begin to self-correct errors in language use. 
Allie

Using Wikis to Promote Student Collaboration | The Instructional Innovations Blog - 0 views

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collaboration

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  • Allie on 17 Oct 12
     
    Some good ideas for using wikis within the classroom. I like the idea of doing a "scavenger hunt" and reporting back using a classroom wiki space. This would be more appropriate for the upper grades 4, 5, and 6th.
Stephanie McGuire

Digital Literacy Includes Learning to Unplug - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • The new digital divide isn’t between children who have access to computers and devices and those who do not. It’s between kids whose parents are saying “turn that thing off” and those whose parents don’t limit their access — because they don’t know how, or because they’re not available to do it.
  • Instead of closing the achievement gap,” said the author of the Kaiser study, “they’re widening the time-wasting gap.”
  • The F.C.C. is considering creating a “digital literacy corps” to teach productive uses of the computer and Internet to students, parents and job seekers
  • Stephanie McGuire on 05 Sep 12
     
    A problem lies also in the time wasted on technology. Education needs to include WHEN to use technology for learning purposes.
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  • Madeline Grygiel on 05 Sep 12
  • Madeline Grygiel on 05 Sep 12
     
    "A study published in 2010 by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that children and teenagers whose parents do not have a college degree spent 90 minutes more per day exposed to media than children from higher socioeconomic families"... why is this? Parents busy working? Lack of resources (e.g. books)? Home environment (e.g. no yard to play in outside)?
  • Stephanie McGuire on 06 Sep 12
     
    Thank you for sharing the original article, very interesting and well written! What a difference in time wasted per day. I would agree with your ideas of why that might be. So I certainly think a digital literacy core could be a helpful and useful investment! I also think education for parents is just as important as students to learn to use the Internet to learn new information and be creative.
Allie

Effects of Technology on Classrooms and Students - 0 views

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technology education classroom motivation effects

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  • When students are using technology as a tool or a support for communicating with others, they are in an active role rather than the passive role of recipient of information transmitted by a teacher, textbook, or broadcast.
  • The teacher is no longer the center of attention as the dispenser of information, but rather plays the role of facilitator, setting project goals and providing guidelines and resources, moving from student to student or group to group, providing suggestions and support for student activity
  • Allie on 06 Sep 12
     
    This was both interesting and helpful. All teacher especially teachers who believe technology should not be in the classroom should understand the benefits of technology. Motivation is one benefit that stuck out to me because it makes sense to use modern tools to help students accomplish more and want to learn.
Emily Wampler

(Court-Ordered) Notice-and-Takedown: the Chilean Approach | Center for Democracy & Tech... - 0 views

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  • Though modeled on the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the law differs in one crucial respect: While a cornerstone of the US law is its private notice-and-takedown system, the Chilean law requires that rightsholders secure a court order before content must be taken down.
  • court oversight may well prevent some of the mistakes we have seen under the US system.
  • having to go to court significantly raises the burden on them when requesting takedowns.
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  • It remains to be seen as courts implement the law whether it does in practice provide reasonable protection for rightsholders, intermediaries, and users. 
  • Notice-forwarding requirements, whereby ISPs and content hosts are required to pass along notices of apparent or alleged infringement to subscribers, present yet a third model for dealing with online copyright infringement.
  • Emily Wampler on 09 Sep 12
     
    An interesting organization (CDT) reporting on the approaches other countries are using to monitor internet copyrights.  The sight includes numerous links to similar articles, too.  
Allie

Educational Uses of Facebook - Ecademy - 0 views

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SocialNetworking facebook

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  • Allie on 08 Sep 12
     
    Could facebook be used in educational settings? I have seen teachers use facebook as a way for students to be creative in projects...making a facebook from the eyes of an influential historical figure. Not sure if facebook would be a good tool or not?
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!
Emily Wampler

Mural.ly - 0 views

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  • Emily Wampler on 09 Oct 12
     
    I didn't log in and try to use this tool, but it looks like a neat way to collaborate with others on online/multimedia projects.  Could be useful in the classroom??
Megan Cleary

Infographics Data Visualization - 0 views

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  • Megan Cleary on 07 Nov 12
     
    Great resource that demonstrates the variety of uses of infographics and provides ideas for the ways they can be used.
Emma Sunseri

Google Earth intro activity for elementary age students - Google Groups - 1 views

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GoogleEarth

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  • Emma Sunseri on 28 Nov 12
     
    Another Google-using educator's thoughts on integrating Google Earth into the classroom. Activities that introduce using the tools to students
Emma Sunseri

kmlfactbook.org - 0 views

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GoogleEarth

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  • Emma Sunseri on 28 Nov 12
     
    Worldwide demographic data compiled by the CIA, on Google Earth maps. Could be useful for map skills as well as using along with other lessons with global connections.
Kylee Ponder

Famous Buildings in Italy - Google Maps - 0 views

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SOL GoogleMap Famous Italy buildings

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  • Kylee Ponder on 27 Nov 12
     
    Awesome GoogleMap related to architecture in Italy! Connected to SOL WG.1 The student will use maps, globes, satellite images, photographs, or diagrams to a) obtain geographical information about the world's countries, cities, and environments; b) apply the concepts of location, scale, map projection, or orientation; c) develop and refine mental maps of world regions; d) create and compare political, physical, and thematic maps; e) analyze and explain how different cultures use maps and other visual images to reflect their own interests and ambitions. 
Moni Del Toral

Smithsonian's History Explorer: What Can You Make From a Buffalo? - 1 views

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  • Moni Del Toral on 28 Nov 12
     
    This game allows students to understand how Native Americans used Bison to create useful tools and materials. National Standards for teachers are provided.
Kylee Ponder

Snakes Alive! - 1 views

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SOL Collaborative Projects Snakes

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  • Kylee Ponder on 03 Dec 12
     
    Educational webquest on Snakes that could be used for almost any elementary grade! Relates to SOL 5.5 The student will investigate and understand that organisms are made of one or more cells and have distinguishing characteristics that play a vital role in the organism's ability to survive and thrive in its environment. Key concepts include a) basic cell structures and functions; b) classification of organisms using physical characteristics, body structures, and behavior of the organism; and c) traits of organisms that allow them to survive in their environment.
Allie

Wikis | Center for Teaching | Vanderbilt University - 0 views

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  • Allie on 17 Oct 12
     
    There is an essay on teaching excellence within this website that talks about using good and useful technology within the classroom
Lauren Tappan

Creative Apps To Use With Students On The iPad - A Listly List - 0 views

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ipad resources

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  • Lauren Tappan on 20 Oct 12
     
    Ipad apps to use with students
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