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David Rutledge

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

  • 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.
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    Education 3.0
bonita moore

DoppelMe - Free Dynamic Avatars - 0 views

shared by bonita moore on 18 May 10 - Cached
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    Create great looking avatars for your website or social network. This website is great for middle childhood students. It allows the students to make little avatars. It can be used for books or just for fun. If using it for a book one can take a character out of his or her own book and create an Avatar for that character.
Lori Lacey

Technology Integration for Elementary Schools - 2 views

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      I thought this article was very interesting. There are some helpful hint to sharing technology with the students. The point that stood out for me was that we as educators need to give the children the tools they need to have good hands on experiences to enhance their learning.
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    This site has got some great articles on intergrating technology in the classroom. This one in particular gives some useful tips when setting up your classroom instruction.
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    This article gives great insight into what can actually be accomplished in an elementary school setting. I thought this article was interesting and informative.
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    I liked this article because it had cute ideas for integrating technology into early education. Its hard as an early childhood major to use technology cause you do not want to affect their development or make class more difficult, but i liked these ideas.
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    I think as an Early Childhood Major it is hard to incorporate technology in the classroom not only because you don't want to affect their development but, I know that when I was in K-3 we went to a computer lab had completely different lessons that we did in a classroom. It related to the lessons but, it was taught by a different teacher.
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    I really loved this article. Not only did it talk about technology for classrooms, but it gave real examples of how it was being used in schools. It is difficult sometimes to be creative but getting feedback and seeing how others are using it, can be extremely helpful! As I am on my way to earning my ECE degree, I look for these types of examples to start to get ideas for my own classroom and how I will work with students.
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    I loved the example about the teacher who would comment on all of the students' blogs, and by the end of the year, the students could carry the discussions on their own. That just shows us as educators that students do have the ability to learn technology.
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    This was very interesting. I found it a little funny when I saw the word relax but it is true that if you let students have the feeling that these valuable tools are theirs then they will take care of them. I feel for most children, who are taught to be careful with valuable things, this will be the case. Although, there are some kids who are never taught that nor taught respect for others things because they are just taught to be selfish. As a teacher this would be you job to show them that they need to care for valuable things and respect others property along with your own.
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    I thought this article was very interesting. Students do have the ability to continue the use of technology with out the guidance of teachers, as this article points out.
Heather Humphries

Virtual Learning For Little Ones: Raises Developmental Questions - 0 views

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    I think this article is interesting because we have to keep in mind the importance of what we are requesting a student to use the technology for. Important quote from the article "So I say to my students, 'If you wouldn't give a worksheet to teach this concept, why on earth would you give them an electronic worksheet?' Technology should be providing an experience that children would not get otherwise, to add a new dimension to their understanding"
Dominic Corbin

More Blacks and Latinos Admitted to Elite New York High Schools - 0 views

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    The number of black and Latino students who were accepted at one of eight highly selective high schools in New York City increased from last year, according to admissions statistics released on Wednesday by the city's . The uptick for the two groups reverses a years-long decline in admissions to the schools, where admittance is based on a single test.
Bailey Berry

Will Technology Save Public Education? - 1 views

  • Will Technology Save Public Education?
  • Hundreds of millions of dollars (and much more on the way) are being spent on getting iPads and other tablets into the hands of teachers and students all over the country in classes as early as kindergarten.
  • is there really a public education crisis in America? The answer to this question seems to be an emphatic "YES!" given the popular interpretation of the results of two international achievement tests (PISA and TIMSS). American students, after being at the top for years, have been in a tailspin and now finish in the middle of the pack in tests of math and science when compared to students in other countries.
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      This is not actually the "news" article I originally thought it was but instead a very liberal ideological point of view that if a student is of a minority and poor, they can't make it. To me this is an example of 'soft-bigotry of low expectations'. 
  • The U.S. also has far more diversity than other countries, with fully 25 percent of public school students as English as Second Language speakers. Additionally, many other countries engage in cherry-picking, where the best students are selected early and channeled into competitive educational programs who take the international tests while those who don't perform well are placed in trade schools.
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    Blogger's blog about "will technology save public education".
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    I chose this article mainly because it gave some of the cons of educational technology. Although I do believe the article was a little dramatic, I did like some of the points that the author was making and i think its important to always see the pros and cons of things.
Charleigh Clark

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

  • 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
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      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
       
      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
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    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. 
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    This is important because it gives tips on how to effectively use tech in the classroom
Kristy Rogers

Active Worlds and Education - 0 views

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    This is sort of like a "learning" Second Life. Here's a little blurb about the "River City Project": As visitors to River City, students travel back in time, bringing their 21st century skills and technology to address 19th century problems. Based on authentic historical, sociological, and geographical conditions, River City is a town besieged with health problems. Students work together in small research teams to help the town understand why residents are becoming ill. Students use technology to keep track of clues that hint at causes of illnesses, form and test hypotheses, develop controlled experiments to test their hypotheses, and make recommendations based on the data they collect, all in an online environment. Isn't this a great tool for higher order thinking?
olivia price

Project Lead The Way (PLTW) - Who We Are - 0 views

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    Chesapeake Middle School (school district where I just moved from and where my little sister attends) was recently awarded national recognition by PLTW. Here is a link on their recognition http://www.irontontribune.com/news/2010/jan/31/ironton-chesy-schools-earn-national-honors/
Patricia Wickline

Using Technology to Improve Student Achievement - 0 views

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    This paper brings to the reader the many facets of bringing or imbedding technology into education from preparing teacher to dealing with the lack of technology.
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    This paper goes a little more in depth on technology helping students to improve and to achieve their goals.
Katherine Graham

National Education Technology Plan 2010 - 0 views

shared by Katherine Graham on 27 Apr 10 - Cached
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    A little light reading for everyone...(the "Learning Powered By Technology" draft is 114 pages)
Sarah Milam

Parenting Articles about Technology & Kids - 0 views

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    "My 14 year old daughter is a texting addict! She will even sit and text when our family is at a restaurant. It drives me nuts. If I tell her to stop, she just does it under the table. It's like this little secret that we can't be in on, plus it's just plain rude.
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