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Sarah Criswell

Should We Connect School Life to Real Life? - 9 views

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    I really like this article because it addresses the need for learning to be relevant to the students. It is important for students to use what they have learned and technology provides a great outlet for that use.
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    Should We Connect School Life to Real Life? Excerpted from Will Richardson's new TED Book Why School: How Education Must Change When Learning and Information Are Everywhere. Richardson offers provocative alternatives to the existing education system, questioning everything from standardized assessments to the role of the teacher.
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    I really enjoyed reading this article. I thought it was interesting because it brings students into different ways of learning!
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    I really enjoyed this article. I thought it would be a method of learning to implement in your own classroom.
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    I think that it is really important to be able to connect school with real life, but also be aware of the perspective that a person may have. The differences are hard to see sometimes. Great article.
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    I think we should connect school to real life. Students do not like school because they feel like they will never need it in real life. Instead of making school boring teachers should be as creative as they possibly can while fitting in the core standards. It will make our 8 to 9 hours days more exciting and our jobs easier because most students will WANT to be involved instead of being forced because their guardians put them on the bus that morning.
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    I think this article was important because it gave examples of how technology helps relate students to the real word. Most students struggle with learning because they do not see why they need to know this. But by connecting curriculum to real life situations through technology, students will be more willing to learn.
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    This article really reflects my standards of education. I enjoy the constructivist layout of these classrooms. I feel as if children do miss out on education when all they learn is test and textbook information. I like the idea of creating something unique and originally because this seems more real world applicable.
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    This article was interesting and it had some good examples of doing an assignment in a more active way. These ideas and use of material could make things interesting and spark a lot of creativity. I like doing making videos and other things, even though it is really stressful. It just makes school fun along with getting your required standard material.
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    I liked how this article talked about students doing and creating things with meaning. Now just a bunch of activities to put in the "Friday Folder", but actual experiences that they can relate to real life and really learn something.
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    I know when I was in high school, my class always wanted to know how we were going to use our learning in the real world. More often than not, the teacher told us that we would not use the learned skill outside of the classroom. This kept many of the students from caring about their work or learning. I think to keep students excited about learning, it should relate to the real world.
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    I like how this article talks about relating school work to the real world. I think this would help students bring knowledge of the world into their school academics.
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    Reading this article made me get excited about the possibilities of teaching with creativity and application. I agree with the author when she wrote, "I'd rather know that my kids were creating something of meaning, value, and I hope, beauty for people other than just their teachers, and that those creations had the opportunity to live in the world. That they were thinking hard about audience. That they were learning how to network and collaborate with others. That they were developing "proficiency with the tools of technology," learning to "design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes," and becoming literate in the process. Real work for real audiences is, of course, hard to find in the current standardized testing regime." I could not have said it better myself! It seems that employers are looking for people who possess the quality of "working well with others". This new integrated classroom setup would allow for so many different learners to excel! Incredible article!
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    I enjoyed this article but also disagreed with it due to the fact that it is not possible for most students to complete some of these because they may not have access to a computer. They are great ideas but you have to look at your students before making it an assignment.
kristelmcoulter

Should kids have a computer in their room? - 4 views

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      I do not agree that children should have computers in their rooms. I feel that there are way too many opportunities for bullying and questionable sites for children to get into. If the computer is in a public location we can monitor to make sure the programs the children are going into are good sites.
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    I like this site it was informative, but mostly I like that it's interactive aned allowed you to comment.
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    Well, I am younger and I always had a computer. When I was younger the computer was in my moms room. I think that was because we were young and barely knew how to work it. We also lived in an apartment. When we got a house we had a computer room. My mom would come in when she wanted and it didn't matter if the door was open or not. As my sister and I got older we did what we wanted and our mom really did not care. I think it is more about how you raise your kids. It is also important to remind parents that their children are going to have certain experiences whether they like it or not. Some things in life and on the internet all kids do whether it is bad or good and once you do it you get over it and move on to the next thing. I would let my teenagers have a computer in their room and I want my children to know they can be open with me. I am open with my parents and I tell them everything because they are pretty cool parents and do not hassle be about much so I feel comfortable.
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    This article is informative and is up to the parent, their situation , their child and what circumstances you have going on in your home on answering the question of the article. I really liked the article and the views in it.
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    I grew up with a computer in my room. I would use it to create things in paint and to play my educational games on. I do not think that having a computer in your child's room is a bad thing. it allows for the children to get used to how to use computers. This article gives different view points on this topic and gives good evidence to support the sides.
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    I think for a child to have a computer in their room at home depends on the age and maturity of the child. Some children would just sit around all day on their computer on facebook, playing World of Warcraft, or other unproductive activities. If the purpose of the computer is mostly for educational uses or the child is old enough to make their own choices then it would be fine to have the computer in their room.
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    I didn't have a computer in my room but I was really the only person to use it besides my mom. she used it for business and emails and i used it for paint, educational games, and pinball. If I had had it in my room I can only imagine I would have spent more time on it. I also agree that having a computer in the room of a child is dependent on age and maturity but it almost seems as if in today's society children need quick access to the internet and age or maturity isn't a huge factor. But this is coming from a girl how didn't get a Facebook until she was nineteen. So i shy away from introducing social networking to younger kids but now that I've seen some of the school controlled networks, I think they could be beneficial and having a computer in their own room would probably make them more comfortable using it.
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    personally I don't think children should have computers in their rooms. If they are going to have one, I think they should have them in a centrally located spot where the child can be supervised. However that is my opinion and I liked how this article talked about it being case by case, and depending on the child and or the parents, and the intended use of the computer.
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    I agree with Laura that children should not have computers in their rooms, it should be located where parents can actively see what their children are doing. But I did like how the article highlighted about the dependence on the family situations.
amber alexander

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

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    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.
Heather Humphries

Differentiated Instruction: Getting Personal with Technology - 4 views

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    This is a great example of using computers and technology to create differentiated learning within one classroom.
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    This is a wonderful article raising the concerns of using technology with children of such a young age (when it discusses kindergarten use pixie). I believe instruction with technology has drastically changed and is getting better for its actual purpose in the classroom. Other than something fun for the students to play with.
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    As a special education major, this article really relates to daily activities I can experience in the classroom. Technology gives special education teachers an opportunity to watch students learn on their own at their own levels, rather than teaching at an intermediate level where all kids can learn.
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    I so enjoyed reading this article about new ideas of learning with students. It is imperative that we, as future teachers, learn to engage students where they are at and also where they are going. It's incredible to think how fast computers and technology have changed our lives, however this fast-paced world of new gizmos and gadgets is the "norm" for our students. When the article talked about, "The school hardly seems like it would be ground zero for high-tech educational innovation. It occupies a clean but unremarkable building on a quiet wooded street near a seemingly endless series of strip malls. Many of the teachers, and almost the entire corps of key technology leaders, are older women -- not your stereotypical technology mavens. Yet these veteran educators are living proof that success lies not in the flashiness of the gizmos you have but in how well you use them." It will be critical that we keep up with the ever-changing types of technology so that we can best serve our students.
Kellie Demmler

How Educators Use Pinterest for Curation | MindShift - 0 views

  • 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.
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    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!
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    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.
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.
Carley Figgins

THE Journal - 1 views

  • 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.
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      Educators need to be trained or the students will not get the full benefits of technologies available in the classroom.
  • Challenge 2: resistance to change.
  • 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.
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  • Challenge 3: MOOCs and other new models for schooling.
  • 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. So while K-12 teachers seem to see the need for personalized learning, they aren't being given the tools they need to accomplish it, or adequate tools simply don't exist.
  • 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.
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      Challenge #1 is definitely important for teachers who have been working in the education field for some time. I think it would be very hard to incorporate technology into learning if you haven't used any technology in the classroom for 15 years!
  • Challenge 1: professional development. K
  • Resistance to technology comes in many forms, but one of the key resistance challenges identified in the report is "comfort with the status quo.
    • Ashley Perry
       
      "Comfort with the atatus quo" imterested me a lot. As a teacher I plan on jumping on new and exciting ways to teach my students instead of settling with the norm.
  • significant challenges are preventing widespread effective implementation
  • challenges are systemic and some related to the technologies themselves,
  • Among those issues are challenges that represent significant constraints on the adoption of technology in education.
    • Cindi Bausum
       
      Technology in education to the degree it is being used is a fairly new concept and will come with some hesitation.
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    This article discusses the challenges of professional development, resistance to change, MOOCs and other new models for schooling, delivering informal learning, failures of personalized learning, and failure to use technology to deliver effective formative assessments. It also talks about emerging trends, opportunities, and technologies.
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    I liked this article because it clearly defines the challenges of technology use while teaching. It's concise and simple to understand.
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    This article examines a few of the same challenges I face personally with the use of technology in MY future classroom. As a fairly tech functional person, I fail to see the relevance of "high tech" in a math class. I am minimally accepting a few items, however, I personally this semester am struggling with a college math course because my own learning style cannot compute the excessive use of technology for a lower level math course. I love math and enjoy the challenges, but I fail to see how selecting one problem for a set and uploading a picture to BB for other students to correct is in any way useful.
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    From this article, I learned of the many challenges faced within educational technology. It lays out the challenges and makes it easier for an understanding of the challenges faced. Each challenge makes it easier for these challenges to become over turned.
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    This article definitely asks some good questions but I'm not sure that they answered all of the completely. There is a lot that needs to go into an online classroom like the teachers need to have a completely different type of training if they are going to teach online and not in the classroom. how do you keep a child engaged when they are not right there with you? Also the student needs to have the ambition to do the work. I know for myself that having online classes is not an option because I become distracted and for a teen or younger the number of distraction in the world is countless.
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.
Kellie Demmler

UDL Book Builder - 1 views

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    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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    I like the idea of digital books and teachers adding their ideas for an enhanced lesson. Thanks for posting.
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    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.
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    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.
cassandra clum

Gauging The Effectiveness of Technology in Schools - 0 views

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    I was excited to read an article that finally provided me a useful basis of technology in a math class. I was really surprised to read that sciences seem to be the subject that is lagging with tech integration. I realize science is a very hands-on subject, but I would think it would have been a much easier transition, than math.
Debbie Voight

Do you have concerns for the growing challenges of the iPads? - 0 views

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    This article (and its comments) demonstrate how educators feel with regards to the advances of iPads and technology, in general. Capturing students' attention is a challenge to begin with and iPads seem to add fuel to the fire. Sometimes it appears that you are either on board or not with the iPad education integration, but there is more to it than just that.
Jordan Griggs

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

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    Digital learning environment designed for differentiated education.
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    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.
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    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.
Tammie Furness

Technology Website for Girls - 2 views

shared by Tammie Furness on 23 Apr 10 - Cached
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    This website encourages girls to explore science, math, and technology in a fun, interactive way. I recommended it to my 12 year old daughter.
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    Seems like an informative website for girls
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