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Sharon Elin

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

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      This analogy of equipping sailing vessels with steam engines works well as an illustration of technology being plugged into traditional classrooms.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Sharon Elin on 15 May 09
     
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Sharon Elin

About Us - Newslo "Just Enough News" - 0 views

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    "Newslo is the first hybrid News/Satire platform on the web. Readers come to us for a unique brand of entertainment and information that is enhanced by features like our fact-button, which allows readers to find what is fact and what is satire. Newslo's "No Need to Satirize" brings you completely factual stories that are so ridiculous, they don't need our trademark touch. Whenever you see #NNTS, you're reading COMPLETELY real news that only seems too absurd to be true."
Jeff Johnson

New Computer Game, Spore, Takes Cues From Evolutionary Biology - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Spore, produced by Electronic Arts, promises much more than the day-to-day adventures of simulated people. It starts with single-cell microbes and follows them through their evolution into intelligent multicellular creatures that can build civilizations, colonize the galaxy and populate new planets. Unlike the typical shoot-them-till-they're-all-dead video game, Spore was strongly influenced by science, and in particular by evolutionary biology. Mr. Wright will appear in a documentary next Tuesday on the National Geographic Channel, sharing his new game with leading evolutionary biologists and talking with them about the evolution of complex life.
Telannia Norfar

Kerpoof Studio - 7 views

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    a great new site by disney for creating all types of items.
  • Telannia Norfar on 16 Oct 09
     
    a great new site by disney for creating all types of items.
Sharon Elin

Esther Wojcicki: Revolution Needed for Teaching Literacy in a Digital Age - 2 views

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    "Despite sluggish gains in reading, our nation has not seriously integrated digital tools and new teaching practices into all classrooms. Schools of education are still failing to teach student teachers how to integrate digital media in the classroom... We recommend the following for policymakers, business leaders and practitioners to consider help make schools more effective."
Jeff Johnson

Kids' Vid: About Us - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 24 May 08 - Cached
  • Kids' Vid is an instructional web site that gives teachers and students the tools necessary to implement video production in the classroom. Video production can be intimidating to the novice. Not to worry. It is nothing more than a method for recording research and expressing creative ideas. Video production, if properly implemented, is more than a new toy for students. It provides the tools and the means for students to create and display serious work in a new, exciting and engaging way that is appropriate for all age groups and abilities. This is a place for serious fun.
Jeff Johnson

Saugus USD To Launch Student Writing Collaboration Project : August 2008 : THE Journal - 0 views

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    Saugus Union School District in Santa Clarita, CA is launching a new program for its fourth-grade students that couples writing and science using ultra-mobile devices and collaborative learning software, among other technologies. According to information supplied to us by the district, the initiative is being funded through a $1.4 million EETT competitive grant the district recently won. The initiative, dubbed "Student Writing Achievement Through Technology Enhanced Collaboration" (SWATTEC), focuses on writing achievement within the science curriculum. EETT funding will provide access to Asus wireless ultra-mobile devices (UMDs) for all 1,700 fourth-grade students in the district, Web-based writing tools, and an online collaborative learning environment. It will also provide teachers with laptops, projectors, printers, interactive pads, mobile carts, and wireless hardware. Teachers are also receiving professional development for the initiative.
Jeff Johnson

Former FCC Chairmen Join Task Force Calling For New Digital Kids Initiative - Common Se... - 0 views

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  • Joined by a bipartisan group of former FCC chairmen and leading media industry executives and educators from across the country, Common Sense Media today announced the launch of the Digital Kids Task Force, a group that will organize a national campaign to fund efforts aimed at helping parents and teachers better manage the growing impact of digital media on kids and teens.
Jennifer Dorman

Who Should I Follow - 0 views

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    WhoShouldiFollow looks at who your Twitter friends follow to suggest new people. By adjusting the sliders on the results page, you can give greater preference in the ranking to less popular Twitter users, or those who are near you. The algorithm is an item-to-item collaborative filter, somewhat similar to how Amazon makes recommendations.
Clif Mims

Real Life Stories of Cyberbulling - 0 views

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    Cyberbullying is the use of the Internet to harass or bully others. Watch our new series and discuss with teens what they can do to avoid becoming a victim or victimizing someone else.
Rhondda Powling

Tagxedo - Creator - 2 views

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    Similar to Wordle, Tagxedo is a new style of word cloud generator
Rhondda Powling

New Study Shows Time Spent Online Important for Teen Development - MacArthur Foundation - 0 views

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    "Results from the most extensive U.S. study on teens and their use of digital media show that America's youth are developing important social and technical skills online - often in ways adults do not understand or value."
Jeff Johnson

Remarkable Parents - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 16 May 08 - Cached
  • Try to communicate with your kids using these new social media and software tools and you've probably thought Forget it Don't Forget it.Get it, with the help of Remarkable Parents. Use technology as an ally, not an enemy . Remarkable Parents don't fight the flow, they roll with it.
Jeff Johnson

Thought control: it's the computer world's latest game plan - Times Online - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 19 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Jeff Johnson on 19 Jul 08
     
    First came the joystick. Then came the motion-sensing Wii remote. Now get ready for another radical and rather unsettling leap in video games technology: thought control.
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