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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."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"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."</div>

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

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Sharon Elin on 06 Jul 10

"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."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"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."</div>

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Learning Adventures: Transforming Real and Virtual Learning Environments : Stager-to-Go - 0 views

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Gary Stager at NECC09 - worth watching

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Sharon Elin on 26 Jul 09

Gary Stager at NECC09

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Can this Video get Teachers Started? | Future of Education - 0 views

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My Students Won't Put Away Their Phones - 1 views

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A rowdy debate ensues in the comments...

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

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- 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.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This analogy of equipping sailing vessels with steam engines works well as an illustration of technology being plugged into traditional classrooms. </div>
  
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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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modeling the learning process
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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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