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Recipe for a Disruptive Keynote : Stager-to-Go - 0 views

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child well enough that you can build upon their interests, passions, strengths and desires.
- Melissa Smith on 01 Jul 09
  
  Reading The Global Achievement Gap has given me insight to how high schools are doing this. (Last 2 chapters of the book)
  
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I will be sharing strategies for teaching online in this room at 11 AM.
- Melissa Smith on 01 Jul 09
  
  Would have loved a link to an archive of this presentation!
  
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Melissa Smith on 01 Jul 09

One view of technology in the classroom, revolution that needs to take place, and what bad technology integration is. Like a motivational speaker.

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Student Voices Home - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 01 Apr 09 - Cached

Jeff Johnson on 01 Apr 09

The Florida Association of Computers in Education, in collaboration with The Florida Digital Educator program, has officially announced a statewide event called STUDENT VOICES. Students will be podcasting from their individual schools (or other locations) on the same day, at same time, and same theme: "Learning is Cool". We want to have as many students as possible across Florida raise their voices about the importance of 21st century skills. More information will be posted soon or contact your FACE Regional President for additional details and locations in your area. Theme: Learning is Cool When: Saturday, April 25, 2009 Time: 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Where: Your School

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The Florida Association of Computers in Education, in collaboration with The Florida Digital Educator program, has officially announced a statewide event called STUDENT VOICES. Students will be podcasting from their individual schools (or other locations) on the same day, at same time, and same theme: "Learning is Cool". We want to have as many students as possible across Florida raise their voices about the importance of 21st century skills. More information will be posted soon or contact your FACE Regional President for additional details and locations in your area. Theme: Learning is Cool When: Saturday, April 25, 2009 Time: 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Where: Your School</div>

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Kathy Schrock's Kaffeeklatsch: Tools for Schools: Live Online Conferencing - 0 views

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Can we use Twitter for educational activities? - 0 views

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shared by Melissa Smith on 24 May 09 - Cached

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"If We Didn't Have Today's Schools, Would We Create Today's Schools?" - 0 views

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shared by Sharon Elin on 15 May 09 - Cached

- Sharon Elin on 15 May 09
  
  This analogy of equipping sailing vessels with steam engines works well as an illustration of technology being plugged into traditional classrooms.
  
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We need to get the teacher into the game. The teacher needs to get in there and be part of the learning process, actively engaged in solving the problem with the students and learning with the students—not teaching but modeling learning with the students by functioning as an expert learner solving problems and constructing new knowledge with the students.
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we will get the same result if we introduce modern learning technologies in our schools but do not prepare teachers to work in this new learning environment.   If we want to take advantage of these new technologies and the billions we are investing in equipment for our schools, we have to prepare teachers very differently than we have in the past. We have to change our own model of teaching and instruction in higher education.
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Any organization that adopts a new technology without significant organizational change is doomed to failure. You have to change the organization. You cannot just add the technology. You have to actively work on changing the roles of the teachers, the roles of the students, the roles of the parents, and the roles of the administrators, and start to work toward building new relationships and new structures
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Trying to introduce new technologies into schools without these changes would be similar to efforts in the sailing industry during the 1800s, when steam engines were installed in wooden sailing ships.
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We will not get out of our wooden ship schools until we use communication technologies for two-way interactivity that allows us to collaboratively construct the learning experience and new knowledge.
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