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daniel rezac

Moving at the Speed of Creativity - 0 views

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shared by daniel rezac on 22 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Scratch, a free iconic programming language and active learning community provided by MIT, is a learning platform EVERYONE involved in education should know how to use. This is a bold claim, but I'm ready to defend it more than ever after spending four weeks working with Scratch this past semester with my UNT pre-service education students. Together, we learned about the primary Scratch project types (Animations, Games, Simulations, Music, Art, and Stories) as well as other possibilities. Teaching about Scratch and with Scratch enabled me to model project-based learning for my students, and enabled them to learn first-hand the power (as well as challenges) of discovery learning. Scratch challenged all of us, since it took everyone outside our comfort zones. When you ask students to create a word processing document, a spreadsheet, or a presentation, there's a VERY high likelihood they have past experiences with those activities. None of my students had ever used Scratch prior to our class, and many had never tried any kind of computer programming previously. Scratch is a very open environment, so it is ripe for creativity and creative expression. Our schools are too often devoid of opportunities for creative expression, and the invitation for students to demonstrate their learning with Scratch can change this. Few things made me happier this semester than my students discovering how THEY could be successful using Scratch to communicate with others, and resolving to share it with their own students when they begin teaching. This is one example from a student's blog reflection about Scratch and Chris Betcher's 2010 K-12 Online Conference presentation, "Teaching Kids To Think Using Scratch."
    • daniel rezac
      daniel rezac on 22 Dec 10
       
      a VERY Bold claim.
  • daniel rezac on 22 Dec 10
     
    Scratch, a free iconic programming language and active learning community provided by MIT, is a learning platform EVERYONE involved in education should know how to use. This is a bold claim, but I'm ready to defend it more than ever after spending four weeks working with Scratch this past semester with my UNT pre-service education students.
  • James O'Hagan on 08 Jan 11
     
    I will be attempting to use Scratch with my high school sped class. I think I can scaffold this appropriately.
James O'Hagan

With iPads, Olympia students have world at their fingertips - Olympia School District -... - 0 views

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shared by James O'Hagan on 20 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • “Textbooks have really great things, but they’re also very limiting,” said Underwood, who is in her 24th year of teaching at Olympia High. “Our kids are digital kids. They respond very well to this kind of tactile environment, where they can get immediate feedback.”
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 20 Dec 11
       
      Again, the focus is on the stuff. Not the pedagogy, or the changes in teaching. Really?
  • hasn’t used iPads because they don’t work with the district’s technology system
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 20 Dec 11
       
      And this technology system is some proprietary POJ from Albania?
  • as well as a pilot program at Olympia High where students in an intensive college readiness course known as AVID were issued district-owned iPads to use throughout the year for note-taking, research and organization.
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 20 Dec 11
       
      And what has been done with teacher training? Shifts in pedagogy?
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  • The district is still training many teachers on how to incorporate the use of mobile devices in their classrooms,
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 20 Dec 11
       
      GOOD!
  • “They put them back where they’re supposed to,” she added. “They never put French books back where they’re supposed to.
  • We have a French Blog where the students' class projects (videos, comics, writing, etc... all created on the iPads) are posted. This allows for students from different class periods to observe and interact not only with what their other peers are doing but also what the other levels of the language are working on. Another really useful hands-on learing experience.
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 20 Dec 11
       
      Glad to see the students getting in on making this the story it should have been.
judith epcke

Education Week Teacher: Best Practice: Think Globally-or Locally? - 0 views

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shared by judith epcke on 23 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • judith epcke on 23 Dec 10
     
    Do digital tools and the Web's ability to connect classrooms to global society detract from or enhance teaching and learning? Two teacher leaders offer divergent views. Always an interesting discussion.
James O'Hagan

Predicting success in football and teaching : The New Yorker - 0 views

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shared by James O'Hagan on 06 Apr 11 - Cached
  • There are certain jobs where almost nothing you can learn about candidates before they start predicts how they’ll do once they’re hired. So how do we know whom to choose in cases like that? In recent years, a number of fields have begun to wrestle with this problem, but none with such profound social consequences as the profession of teaching.
James O'Hagan

The Strength of Weak Ties » Badge of Honor? - 0 views

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shared by James O'Hagan on 03 Mar 11 - Cached
  • A serious question. How much of an accomplishment is it to be a part of these programs? How much better was I than the next biology teacher just because I wrote a more creative lesson plan? They didn’t see me teach. They didn’t ask my kids about me. They didn’t look at a portfolio of accumulated work over many years, they looked at a single lesson plan. Yet I was an Access Excellence Fellow-something to be proud of, but something to examine critically, and take it for what it was worth.
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 03 Mar 11
       
      Compare to a National Board Certified Teacher...
  • Ultimately, a career, and a lifetime in the service of others will not be measured by an accumulation of badges, but by those that you have served over those years, and their accomplishments.
  • James O'Hagan on 03 Mar 11
     
    An older post, but Jay reminded me of this as the ADE announcements were floating around.
daniel rezac

Rival Philosophies, Both Compelling - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by daniel rezac on 22 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Is there an app for improving America’s educational system? Will watching a PowerPoint presentation about the nation’s educational challenge help to understand the opportunities and difficulties facing the country?
  • Two college dropouts, Steve Jobs (Reed College) and Bill Gates (Harvard University) have articulated theories about education. And their viewpoints are as different as are their companies (Apple and Microsoft, respectively), presenting a contrast in style and philosophy.
  • Gates hopes to analyze and adjust the education system in order to produce a more efficient and effective learning environment.
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  • Jobs is focused more on individual learning and less on systemic education. Technology is his way to get a well-integrated mind flowing in multiple directions. His learning philosophy gives each person the ability to chart his own course.
  • Gates’ recent speech to the nation’s governors stressed assessment, measuring outcomes and tracking students’ progress. Technology and benchmarking are joined at the hip
  • Jobs’ approach allows for individual experimentation to find a unique solution to each person’s quest. It is the symbol of intellectual multi-tasking. This is a more experimental, integrated search for a holistic view of the universe, one that has multiple access points. Each student becomes his or her own teacher.
  • Gates is studying the science of education. Jobs is creating the art of learning. I’m sure there is an app for teaching arithmetic by watching the heavens and counting the stars
J B

TeachPaperless: IEP Recommendation: Mobile Access - 0 views

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shared by J B on 26 May 11 - No Cached
  • mobile tech is the single best vehicle for addressing the confidence and practical needs of many of our kids with learning differences
  • I don't mean to say that the tech itself is the 'difference', what I am trying to say is that the tech -- and especially the personalized and always-on facet of mobile tech -- will provide the connection to the tools, the teachers, and the interventions that will make the difference in a way both unique and also requiring a re-thinking in terms of how we offer relevant services to students with learning differences.
  • we need to explain to developers what we and our students need from them
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  • Even better, we should be calling for Ed Schools to provide instruction in app making and digital design so that we -- the teachers -- have the capacity to program our own teaching.
  • we need to push now for an end to the access issues facing all of our schools
  • Let's make districts come to the realization that mobile devices and mobile access are the point-of-entry for learning right now. Let's put state funded devices in the hands of kids who need them and let all kids bring their own INTELLECTUAL EMPOWERMENT DEVICES to class.
James O'Hagan

Author Asks the Question, Is Google Evil? - FoxNews.com - 0 views

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shared by James O'Hagan on 10 May 11 - No Cached
  • Precursor
  • “They are pack rats. They keep everything, and they actually have three copies of everything that goes in there. People have no idea they literally have a mirror of the online world and three copies on Google’s computers,” says Cleland.
  • “They have no respect for other people's valuables. They are a serial scofflaw of copyright policy, of patents, of trademarks, and of confidential information.”
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  • "Is it possible to be quoted shrugging my shoulders?" asks Google spokesman Adam Kovacevich when Fox News requested the company's comment on Cleland's book. "Everyone knows that Mr. Cleland stopped being a neutral analyst years ago and is now paid by Microsoft and AT&T to criticize Google full-time."
  • is a consultant to some of Google's competitors, including Microsoft and AT&T.
  • Cleland refused to confirm it or reveal the names of any of his clients
  • "What happens is that Google is the company that most successfully takes advantage of the Internet," says Levy, who does caution that "there's a real concern because they do have a lot of information about us, and I think Google should be as transparent as possible. In most cases, I think they are pretty transparent about what they have on you and how it works."
  • On Tuesday, South Korean authorities reportedly raided that country's Google offices to investigate if the company "has been illegally collecting private data."
  • "I don't think there's ever been a U.S. corporation that has had so much control," says Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, in Washington, D.C., who also teaches Internet privacy law at Georgetown. "It would be like a company producing automobiles, providing oil, and building the highways ... We're in a similar situation today with the Internet and Google."
  • "Any company with the power of Google has to be watched," says Levy. "But I don’t think Google is a company which is intending to take over the world in some sort of negative sense." But Cleland's version of Google argues that it does. "Google says overtly that they want to change the world," Cleland says, warning that "Google is leading us towards a collectivist society, a planned economy and one world government." "The more you learn about Google, the more troubled you will become."
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