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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Kellie Demmler

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.
Kellie Demmler

A Manifesto for Active Learning - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    Nice reflection on using technology as part of active learning in the classroom.
Kellie Demmler

LearnBIG - 1 views

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    This site is a repository for quality educational apps. Great place to find tools to use in your classroom.
Kellie Demmler

With Google Play For Education, Google Looks To Challenge Apple's Dominance In The Clas... - 1 views

  • Google Play for Education,
  • aims to simplify the content discovery process for schools,
  • the real key to Google’s new product is the fact that it enables administrators to distribute applications to their entire team. If a teacher wants to shoot content to a couple hundred Android devices, they simply have to type in their group’s name and voila, Google will push that sucker out to everyone on the list.
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  • Teachers will now be able to search for and recommend learning content by category, grade level, and a variety of other criteria, and will have the opportunity to discover content recommended by other educators
  • mall businesses have been adopting Google’s productivity software in droves, and the interest has started to grow among school boards who want to introduce tablets into their classrooms and use Google Apps as the standard.
  • Through its Google Apps products, Google allows students and teachers to collaborate in realtime through Web apps, while using already-familiar tools like Google search and Gmail.
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    Google Play for Education is not just a new search engine.  Google is poising itself to compete with Apple in the Education market.  Really like that apps can be pushed out across multiple devices with one click.  
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Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology - 0 views

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    This is the 2010 National Education Technology Plan summary.  While very broad, it does "Encourage states, districts, P-12 programs, and postsecondary education institutions to experiment with such resources as online learning, online tutoring and mentoring, games,  cognitive tutors, immersive environments, and participatory communities and social networks both within and across education institutions to give students guidance and  information about their own learning progress and strategies for seamless completion of a comprehensive P-16 education."
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!
Kellie Demmler

States Continue Push to Toughen Teacher Policies - 0 views

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    The end of LIFO policy in Ohio and other states.
Kellie Demmler

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

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    Interesting experiment on customized learning.  
Kellie Demmler

Feds settle case of woman fired over Facebook site | Litigation | eSchoolNews.com - 0 views

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    This is an interesting court decision regarding the use of social media.  I find the decision that socia media is now considered a part of normal conversation an important line drawn in the sand.  I wonder if this decision was made before the "drunken pirate" issue with the young student teacher being denied her licence if there would have been a change in her ruling. 
Kellie Demmler

FT.com / Technology / Science - Scientists unveil moving 3D holograms - 0 views

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    Oh yeah!  Star Wars has arrived.  Just imagine the possibilities for this technology in the classroom.  Can you just imagine having world famous leaders from every discipline recording a 3D hologram session and then being able to "invite" them to your classroom.  Could lead to a whole new download section in iTunes....
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Tom Chatfield: 7 ways games reward the brain | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    How can the power of gaming be used to increase learning?  
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School of One boosts individual learning | Best Practices News | eSchoolNews.com - 0 views

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    A great example of disrupting class with technology! 
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Learning Games Network - 0 views

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    Awesome civics resources!  Once again, games/simulations can promote learning
Kellie Demmler

Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker - 0 views

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    Does social media = social activism?
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Should Teachers and Students Be Facebook Friends? - ABC News - 0 views

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    The debate over teacher/student friendships on facebook continues.  What do you think?
Kellie Demmler

New York Schools Go Google - ReadWriteCloud - 0 views

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    Microsoft Office or Google Docs?
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Students Solve Math Mysteries in Sackboys and the Mysterious Proof » Spotlight - 0 views

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    Does games-based learning really work in educational settings? 
Kellie Demmler

Smarter Than You Think - Aiming to Learn as We Do, A Machine Teaches Itself - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    How intelligent can artificial intelligence get?  
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