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Kellie Demmler

UDL Book Builder - 1 views

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  • Kellie Demmler on 04 Oct 13
     
    UDL Book Builder is a great tool to create and publish digital books designed to support learners by using universal design for learning principles. Multiple points of entry, visual, auditory, vocabulary hyperlinks, and thought-provoking questions can be embedded to scaffold learning for all students.
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  • Lori Lacey on 11 Oct 13
     
    I like the idea of digital books and teachers adding their ideas for an enhanced lesson. Thanks for posting.
  • Debbie Voight on 18 Oct 13
     
    Using UDL book Builder is a helpful resource to acquaint your students with grade level reading options. It helps bring technology into the classroom and into their lives with another form of learning style. Children seem to want to read more when there is a screen in front of them and they also enjoy going at their own pace. This is a wonderful tool for teachers to use to help students who need to hear the words on the page, as well as, give students who may have their work finished a place to use their energy on reading and creating books of their own choosing.
  • Alyson DeWitt on 18 Oct 13
     
    I also like the idea of having digital books as a teacher because I can always have them on a tablet or Ipad without weighing myself down. What I do not like is that my assistants do not have the same access to them. I would like to have all of the staff in my classroom be on the same page with the curriculum that I am teaching.
Charleigh Clark

3 Tips on Integrating Technology in the Classroom - High School Notes (usnews.com) - 0 views

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shared by Charleigh Clark on 03 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • digital learning starts with teachers, whose performance is enhanced by technology—not the other way around
  • develop your goals and what learning outcomes you're trying to reach
    • Breanne Crawford
      Breanne Crawford on 03 Oct 13
       
      I feel like so many schools are so anxious to have new tablets and advanced technology for their students, but do they have an educational goal that they are trying to reach by utilizing this technology or is it simply to keep up with a newer generation?
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    • Breanne Crawford
      Breanne Crawford on 03 Oct 13
       
      I know so many teachers and even professors at the university that have very little experience or understanding of technology. It is frustrating that technology is available and very helpful but still some educators have no idea how to utilize it and therefore the students do not benefit from the positive learning they could be experiencing.
  • As technology evolves, so must the teachers
  • eacher is able to engage with each student and immediately determine what their needs are
  • The first annual Digital Learning Day falls on February 1 and will celebrate innovative K-12 instructors who successfully bring technology into the classroom by assigning online course content, using adaptive software for students with special needs, and utilizing online student assessments and other digital tools
  • Breanne Crawford on 03 Oct 13
     
    This article again stressed a lot of benefits that technology has to offer for education. However, my favorite part about this article is that it talks about how integration of technology begins with the teacher. 
  • Charleigh Clark on 08 Oct 13
     
    This is important because it gives tips on how to effectively use tech in the classroom
Terra Nichols

South Korea Works to Stem Digital Addiction - 2 views

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  • Terra Nichols on 05 Dec 12
     
    The digital age is not all positive. Children are now growing up addicted to technology.
  • jme8227 on 19 Jun 13
     
    I agree the digital age is not all positive, it is scary how much and what kind of content is out there. But as parents and teachers it is our jobs as its always been to teach good from bad, and to keep an eye on what they are looking at, what they are learning. We need to st good examples and find sites that allow you to be interactive with the child and the program.
  • Carley Morrison on 26 Sep 13
     
    I like this article because I agree, technology isn't all rainbows and butterflies. There is a positive to technology but it is not ok for children to grow up addicted to it. In the classroom, there needs to be a balance.
Ashleigh Clark

Report: Mobile Technology Boosts Learning, Engages Students, Teachers - 0 views

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  • mobile devices with Internet connectivity are useful tools to improve learning and engage students and teachers.
  • Smart phones and tablets enable innovation and help students, teachers, and parents gain access to digital content and personalized assessment vital for a post-industrial world
  • Use of mobile phones, tablets, and other connected devices is growing, and mobile technology is becoming an important part of a student’s life. Wireless technology can dramatically improve learning and bring digital content to students who are already familiar and comfortable with the devices.
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  • Mobile devices, used in conjunction with near universal 4G/3G wireless connectivity, are essential tools to improve learning for students.
  • “always on, always connected mobile devices in the hands of students has the potential to dramatically improve educational outcomes.”
  • American education faces a number of different challenges including the need for better infrastructure, personalized content, embedded assessment, and professional development of teachers
    • Ashleigh Clark
      Ashleigh Clark on 03 Oct 13
       
      If school districts enforced more use of technology we would be ok and heading on the right track.  There is just a lack of support of the use of technology in schools today.
  • Wireless technology enables, empowers, and engages learning in ways that transform the learning environment for students inside and outside of school. It provides new content and facilitates information access wherever a student is located
  • As a country, we need to educate the next generation of scientists, inventors, engineers, and entrepreneurs. Educating a workforce that is effective in a global context and adaptive as new jobs and roles evolve will help to support our economic growth. Mobile learning makes it possible to extend education beyond the physical confines of the classroom and beyond the fixed time periods of the school day. It allows students to access content from home, communicate with teachers, and work with other people online. The value of mobile devices is that they allow students to connect, communicate, collaborate and create using rich digital resources, according to paper.
    • Ashleigh Clark
      Ashleigh Clark on 03 Oct 13
       
      As a country, we need to support the use of technology in the schools.  If we do students are interacting with technology everyday and learning from it.  Also, learning how to use.  When they are ready to go out into the real world, then they have a glimpse on how to use technology.  Parents should also encourage students to use technology at home.
Jordan Griggs

What is the Most Innovative Use of Technology? | Digital Learning Environments - 5 views

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  • Kellie Demmler on 07 Jan 10
     
    Digital learning environment designed for differentiated education.
  • Jordan Griggs on 02 Oct 13
     
    This article just makes it clear that the use of I-CAN is really a great tool for classrooms. This tool makes it easy for children to communicate with others and be independent with their own projects. It allows creativity and that is something we need more of in the classrooms.
  • Bailey Berry on 03 Oct 13
     
    I think the I-CAN technology seems really neat. It's like out Blackboard at oul but it also has job opportunity postings and is more tuned to the professional side of college students.
Kellie Demmler

Education Week: NYC Innovation Zone Tests Customized Digital Learning - 0 views

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  • Kellie Demmler on 18 Mar 11
     
    Interesting experiment on customized learning.  
Sarah Milam

Digital textbooks open a new chapter - 0 views

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  • Sarah Milam on 23 Oct 11
     
    South Korea, one of the world's highest-rated education systems, aims to consolidate its position by digitising its entire curriculum. By 2015, it wants to be able to deliver all its curriculum materials in a digital form through computers. The information that would once have been in paper textbooks will be delivered on screen.
amber alexander

Education Technology, Digital Learning Not As Easy As It Seems: Alliance For Excellent ... - 0 views

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  • amber alexander on 20 Jun 13
     
    This article talks about what should be done in order to implement technology into education. It states who to target and what needs to be done first.
Cheryl Mauger

Digitally Aided Education, Using the Students' Own Electronic Gear - 0 views

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  • Cheryl Mauger on 14 Jun 13
     
    This is a controversial article that in some ways has its merits but I find it to have many problems in getting it implemented in most school systems at least at the present time.
Kellie Demmler

How Educators Use Pinterest for Curation | MindShift - 0 views

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  • drawn red-hot excitement for its unique visual, topic-based curation approach
  • create a densely packed visual scrapbook of public and street art to identify themes that would have easily been missed had they gathered individual photos in a folder
  • to show good design work to her media design classes
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  • share visual material for collaborations and peer critique
  • one of the main applications for Pinterest
  • social curation journalism is
  • students use Pinterest as part of a “social photography” assignment
  • assigned students in a “writing for the web” class to produce stories for their Doing It Downtown blog to use Pinterest as a curation tool for visuals, while using Storify for social media and Spotify or LastFM for music.
  • “I teach Pinterest as a visual ‘SPACE,’”
  • S is for sourcing story ideas and trending topics; P is for promotion and publishing students’ work. A is for aggregation of pictures (with suitable copyright); C is for curating top news, and E is for engaging with others.”
  • Pinterest is not without its drawbacks. Not all students, especially males, find it equally intriguing
  • But the big issue some are warning about with Pinterest has to do with its copyright policy regarding the images users pin.
  • Lawyer and amateur photographer Kirsten Kowalski likened it to Napster due to the liability its terms of service and copyright policies create for users of the site
  • Pinterest issued a statement on March 15 suggesting that, like YouTube and other social media sharing sites, it is “protected under the safe harbor of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (PDF),” and also tries to respond promptly to any copyright violation concerns.
  • Kellie Demmler on 26 Apr 12
     
    Looking to add visual interest to your lesson? Pinterest may be your solution! The article suggests ways in which this visual social media site can be used in the classroom and promotes SPACE - an acronym that helps students to remember the "best" uses for the site. This is interesting in terms of reaching students with varied learning styles and intelligences, developing creativity and higher order thinking, and more. However, like most tools the site does have its downfalls. It tends to be more engaging for females than males, which brings about an interesting gender debate. Its use also falls into fuzzy copyright issues - none of which are different from other social media sites. Check out the article & let me know what you think!
  • anonymous on 16 May 12
     
    Until Pinterest addresses the nudity and pornography that can pop up on the "everything" catergory, I can't recommend this site for class projects. I've banned my own children from it (both of my daughters have a board on my own account) and wish desperately that I could unsee some of the images I've seen. It seems like copyright might be the least of their worries if lewd content continues to surface. It's really too bad - I have to agree that it could be great for group or individual projects.
David Rutledge

Education 3.0: Embracing Technology to 'Jump the Curve' | Innovation Insights | Wired.com - 0 views

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  • Education 3.0 is what I believe we can aspire to so as to educate our students, at all levels, in ways that actually promote 21st-century skills and prepare them for the jobs of tomorrow (aka, the jobs that don’t exist today but which will be required in the future). It’s the coming together of creativity, outcomes, critical thinking, big data, personalization, and much more. For me, it’s really the confluence of three crucial education elements: Neuroscience, Cognitive (Learning) Psychology, and Education Technology. And so, in this first blog post, I will begin to discuss the infrastructure for Education 3.0: Education Technology.
  • From Pencils to Personalized Learning: What is Ed Tech? Ed Tech has taken on a whole new meaning in the last two decades. While some might argue that Ed Tech began with the humble pencil, I’m really talking about technology that is web-based, digital, and/or mobile. I’m talking about websites, apps, LMS’, hardware, software, and anything else with an ‘e’ in front of it. I’m talking big data, little data, personalization, and machine learning. I’m talking about dashboards, on-demand reports, and visualizations of information. Education technology has changed what we can deliver, how we can assess, and how we might connect learners to each other, to instructors, and to content. And that connection changes … well, everything.
  • the education sector is focusing far too much about what existed yesterday, some about what exists today, and very little about what will exist tomorrow. He challenged the “Choice Architects” of today to stop creating employees for the jobs of yesterday and start focusing on careers of tomorrow.
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  • The point is, the lower the usage of technology in classrooms, the harder it is to teach 21st century skills. When academics ignore a future that is not just technology intensive, but dependent, our graduates go into life under-prepared (if not unprepared) to work, live, and thrive.
  • David Rutledge on 27 Sep 13
     
    Education 3.0
Riley Montgomery

For E-Learning to Succeed, Schools Need Support Infrastructure - 0 views

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  • most school districts do not have the necessary infrastructure to support online and computer-based learning that advances in education technology require.
    • Riley Montgomery
      Riley Montgomery on 27 Sep 13
       
      Many schools can't support advancements in learning. This is the major challenge of E-learning.
  • New York City’s plans to move textbooks from paper to digital form is an important first step in modernizing the city’s 1,600 traditional public schools. To get benefits of e-books, the city would need to provide a computer or tablet to every student and give schools access to a fast Internet connection.
    • Riley Montgomery
      Riley Montgomery on 27 Sep 13
       
      The sheer amount of e-books needed and the cost show that this is somewhat of an unrealistic dream. Though this can help students the cost would be staggering and unlikely to gain support.
  • Riley Montgomery on 27 Sep 13
     
    This article is about the challenges schools face in modernization.
Lindsay Pasco

6 Technology Challenges Facing Education -- THE Journal - 0 views

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  • Challenge 1: professional development. Key among all challenges is the lack of adequate, ongoing professional development for teachers who are required to integrate new technologies into their classrooms yet who are unprepared or unable to understand new technologies.
    • Lindsay Pasco
      Lindsay Pasco on 26 Sep 13
       
      I think that it is important to know and understand the challenges with technology in the education field. I think that this is important because it can help to keep those challenges minimal in the classroom. I think it is important that the students do not become too dependent on technology.
  • Challenge 2: resistance to change. Resistance to technology comes in many forms, but one of the key resistance challenges identified in the report is "comfort with the status quo."
  • According to the researchers, teachers and school leaders often see technological experimentation as outside the scope of their job descriptions.
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  • Challenge 3: MOOCs and other new models for schooling.
  • Challenge 4: delivering informal learning. Related to challenge 3, rigid lecture-and-test models of learning are failing to challenge students to experiment and engage in informal learning. But, according to the report, opportunities for such informal learning can be found in non-traditional classroom models, such as flipped classrooms, which allow for a blending of formal and informal learning.
  • Challenge 5: failures of personalized learning. According to the report, there's a gap between the vision of delivering personalized, differentiated instruction and the technologies available to make this possible.
  • Challenge 6: failure to use technology to deliver effective formative assessments.
  • However, there is still an assessment gap in how changes in curricula and new skill demands are implemented in education; schools do not always make necessary adjustments in assessment practices as a consequence of these changes. Simple applications of digital media tools, like webcams that allow non-disruptive peer observation, offer considerable promise in giving teachers timely feedback they can use."
Charleigh Clark

5 Unique Uses of Twitter in the Classroom - US News and World Report - 0 views

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  • nearly 80 percent of faculty members are using social media in some way, according to a recent survey of nearly 2,000 college faculty by the Babson Survey Research Group published in April.
  • The growth of knowledge is a very social process," says Patrick J. Murphy
Sadie Moser

Five Ways that Smart Boards Are a Smart Choice in the Classroom | Concordia University ... - 0 views

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  • simple record-keeping tasks, engage student interest, demonstrate complex information, assess learning and prepare students for an increasingly digital world
  • management
    • Sadie Moser
      Sadie Moser on 03 Oct 13
       
      SMART boards make learning and simple management tasks fun!
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      Sadie Moser on 03 Oct 13
       
      Not only do SMART boards create a more enthusiastic learning environment, but they also create a safer, more controlled environment in the classroom.
  • Smart boards change classroom management by minimizing the amount of time teachers need to turn their back to the class
  • respond better to instruction if it includes movement and hands-on action
    • Sadie Moser
      Sadie Moser on 03 Oct 13
       
      SMART boards are great for any age group.
  • respond well to the colorful graphics that are much easier for a large group to view on a large screen
  • designed to wake up students by adding variety to instruction, getting them moving and providing novel ways to respond to questions
  • Sadie Moser on 03 Oct 13
     
    This article explains why SMART boards are so beneficial to have in the classroom. There are appropriate uses for any age group and have endless uses for learning and collaboration.
holly luce

What If Toys Are the New Textbooks? | Matt Murrie - 0 views

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  • plans to replace textbooks in their public schools with digital tablets
  • 21 Toys are creating sets of toys to supply educators and learners
  • What if, creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking were the basic skills educators focused on developing in their learners?
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  • Educational tools need to be divergent and generative. Just like a good discussion. But we don't have discussion tools! What if only toys can boil down the tough stuff into easy to understand moments of insight? What if toys can become objects for thinking in metaphors? This means, 21 Toys' toys aren't so much the product; they make the air visible. The product is the discussion. The outcome is the learner: the learner's insights, and a tangible sense of the full spectrum of his or her skills.
  • holly luce on 12 Dec 13
     
    This page talks about creating crazy toys that bring out a whole new way of learning in the classroom instead of using textbooks to explain it these toys would do it.
Charleigh Clark

Why Integrate Technology into the Curriculum?: The Reasons Are Many | Edutopia - 4 views

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  • Technology also changes the way teachers teach, offering educators effective ways to reach different types of learners and assess student understanding through multiple means
  • ffective tech integration must happen across the curriculum in ways that research shows deepen and enhance the learning process.
  • ctive engagement, participation in groups, frequent interaction and feedback, and connection to real-world experts
  • Chad Cupp on 30 Jan 10
     
    This article is about how technology should be integrated into the classroom and how different technologies can better the learning experiences for students.
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  • Cody Nixon on 07 Jun 12
     
    Technology is ubiquitous, touching almost every part of our lives, our communities, our homes. Yet most schools lag far behind when it comes to integrating technology into classroom learning. Many are just beginning to explore the true potential tech offers for teaching and learning.
  • Lori Lacey on 11 Oct 13
     
    I like incorporating various forms of technology into science lessons, like exploration and sites that have a web cam for viewing things that we couldn't access on a field trip.
  • Alyson DeWitt on 18 Oct 13
     
    I agree with Cody. Why is it that schools are lacking in the technology department when it effects our lives so much?
Laura Chapman

The Role of Technology in Early Childhood Programs - 0 views

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  • To evaluate whether computers are developmentally appropriate for children over age three, we need to determine the developmental needs of these children. Children this age are developmentally within Piaget’s preoperational stage. This means they are concrete learners who are very interested in using newly learned symbolic representation - speaking, writing, drawing (including maps and geometric figures) and using numbers. Further, children this age are extremely active and mobile. They often have difficulty sitting still; they need frequent changes in learning modalities; and they want a variety of physical experiences involving dance, physical play, climbing and sports. Preoperational children are also are continuing their mastery of language, and exploring various facets of social behavior.
    • kristel coulter
      kristel coulter on 27 Sep 13
       
      We should evaluate children to see if they are ready for certain programs. This theory states since some children have problems sitting still the children need more changes and opportunities to move.
    • Kelsey Short
      Kelsey Short on 29 Sep 13
       
      I do not think evaluating children will help us decide whether or not they will be ready for technology. The new generations are picking it up on their own earlier and earlier. I think the generations we will be teaching will expect this as a daily part of life by the time they reach even the preschool age.
    • Lindsay Pasco
      Lindsay Pasco on 29 Sep 13
       
      I think that it is important to know the developmental needs of children. I agree that there should be a variety of physical environment in physical experience and exploring. I think that within the next few years children will already be dependent of the technology and use it in the everyday life, which is important to know because then we must incorporate it in the classroom.
  • Clearly many of these developmental needs match up well with appropriate use of technology in the classroom, especially exploration, manipulation of symbolic representation, matching alternative learning styles, and quickly changing learning modalities that individual students can control and pace to meet their individual needs. It is also a very powerful tool for students with specific learning disabilities.
    • kristel coulter
      kristel coulter on 27 Sep 13
       
      Every child is different and has different developmental needs and we need to meet the needs of every child.
  • The use of computers in a fully integrated classroom is endless. Software can be used to create books, with dictated tests and illustrations; photos of children and the community can be taken with digital cameras and then combined with text and pictures to create journals, biographies, wall newspapers, school/home communications, and neighborhood documents. Older children can use scanners, font selection, and various graphics application, to develop power-point presentations to show the rest of the class and parent gatherings. And, of course, Internet sites can be accessed to do research on almost all topics. There are also wonderful opportunities for correspondence activities with children throughout the world.
  • curtis McFarland on 10 May 10
     
    This article talks about the use of technology in early childhood classes.
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  • Jessica Cordle on 22 May 12
     
    This talks about how technology can be integrated and how technology will become a big part of the classroom in the future.
  • Jordan Griggs on 01 Oct 13
     
    I agree that children need evaluations but with the way society is growing, I believe that it will be normal for this age of students to be using computers and technology of this sort. I believe it needs to be introduced into the classroom early, so that they get a feel for it early on. More and more classrooms use technology as a basis for learning and if students don't have a feel for how certain applications and tools work, they will be lost and far behind their generation. Taking into account diversity and that some students may not have technology resources at their home, it is good to use them in the classroom so that they can gain knowledge of these tools.
  • Sadie Butts on 01 Oct 13
     
    I'm not an early childhood education major, but I believe that it's important for students to become familiar with technology at a young age. One point that the article made was that there needs to be more resources available. This is vital within the classroom because when I was growing up, a classroom usually didn't have more than two or three computers for students to use. Because of the shortage in supplies, I always felt like using the computer wasn't that important for me to learn because we didn't experiment with them.
  • Rachel Longnecker on 01 Oct 13
     
    I like the article but one thing stuck out to me and that is "Preschool and kindergarten children should first be introduced to computers one at a time, or in small groups." I think this quote is controversial, to me that is. I think technology needs to be introduced to students at a later age like maybe 4th grade. Just definitely not preschoolers and kindergarteners. Lets say you show a kindergarten child a picture of an apple and you only show them pictures of things and you do not integrate actual apples or trips they will only perceive the item as what they saw. My main point is if you show a picture of a red apple and say this is what an apple looks like they will memorize an apple as being that red apple on the screen. Then when they go take a test on fruits and the question says: What color is an apple? A) red B) green or C) red or green. The child will pick A when the correct answer would be C. They will pick A because they only saw a red apple during that lesson.
  • Laura Chapman on 03 Oct 13
     
    I really like how this article addresses the DAP of computers in an early childhood classroom.
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