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Dave Arthurs

Diigo in the classroom - 3 views

This isn't spam. I'm a grad student getting his certification in Special Education and would like some input. Plus, I'm interested in using the program since I'll be highly qualified in Language Arts.

education special diigo technology learning software tools

started by Dave Arthurs on 20 Mar 14 1 follow-up, last by Dave Arthurs on 22 Mar 14
Thieme Hennis

Half an Hour: An Operating System for the Mind - 10 views

halfanhour.blogspot.com/...operating-system-for-mind.html

shared by Thieme Hennis on 28 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Let's return to the computer system analogy.
    • Thieme Hennis
      Thieme Hennis on 28 Sep 09
       
      Stephen Downes proposes an operating system for the mind: take the analogy of a computer. We do not program each and every program into the computer. The more flexible and programmable computer (Apple, Linux), are far more useful than the pre-programmed ones (Windows). The education system should not try pre-program everything that will be needed by people to be useful or to be able to learn skills they might need, because the knowledge (i) facts change, (ii) there is much more knowledge out there that can be useful and wee need to be able to utilize that too in case we come across new facts, (iii) it is impossible to see what skills might be needed in the future, (iv) you need to be able to filter out irrelevant or false facts, (v) you need to be able to create facts (mechanism for agency). "People need such greater capacities in literacy, learning, prioitizing, evaluation, planning and acting." The analogy of the computer system learns us to think of the brain not as a database full of information, but a place where each person develops methodologies or approaches to deal with reality. Facts are necessary, of course, but the learning paradigm should not be to learn facts, but to learn how to deal with facts. Facts are, IMHO, essential but follow from interest/need combined with a learned methodology or approach to deal with these facts.
Fred Delventhal

one word. so little time. - 0 views

www.oneword.com

writing poetry language thinking literature education fun interesting for:edtechtalk

shared by Fred Delventhal on 25 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Fred Delventhal on 25 Nov 08
     
    simple. you'll see one word at the top of the following page. you have sixty seconds to write about it. as soon as you click 'go' the page will load with the cursor in place. don't think. just write.
Ulrich Schrader

My web 2.0 collection: Twittering for Public Health - 0 views

mywebcollection.blogspot.com/...ttering-for-public-health.html

twitter tools public health health consumer_health_informatics

shared by Ulrich Schrader on 05 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Ulrich Schrader on 05 Nov 08
     
    Interesting application of twitter, could be applied for other areas as well.
Bruce Vigneault

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic (July/August 2008) - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...google

google reading technology media article brain

shared by Bruce Vigneault on 11 Jun 08 - Cached
  • It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of “reading” are emerging as users “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense.
    • Bill Guinee
      Bill Guinee on 18 Apr 09
       
      I have a stack of books I should be reading right now, but I am cruizing the internet instead.
  • Wolf worries that the style of reading promoted by the Net, a style that puts “efficiency” and “immediacy” above all else, may be weakening our capacity for the kind of deep reading that emerged when an earlier technology, the printing press, made long and complex works of prose commonplace. When we read online, she says, we tend to become “mere decoders of information.” Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged.
  • As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation.
    • Bruce Vigneault
      Bruce Vigneault on 21 Mar 09
       
      Maybe we are learning a new mental skill and as a choice are letting go of a skill that we no longer find useful?
  • ...12 more annotations...
  • The more they use the Web, the more they have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing.
  • He speculates on the answer: “What if I do all my reading on the web not so much because the way I read has changed, i.e. I’m just seeking convenience, but because the way I THINK has changed?”
    • Bruce Vigneault
      Bruce Vigneault on 21 Mar 09
       
      I'm not sure that this is necessarily a 'bad thing'?
  • I’ve lost the ability to do that
  • “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins.
  • “We are how we read.
  • mere decoders of information
  • Reading, explains Wolf, is not an instinctive skill for human beings.
  • our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.
  • The last thing these companies want is to encourage leisurely reading or slow, concentrated thought. It’s in their economic interest to drive us to distraction.
    • Bruce Vigneault
      Bruce Vigneault on 21 Mar 09
       
      It is scary to beleive that this organic change to our brain is being driven by commercialism!
  • In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates bemoaned the development of writing. He feared that, as people came to rely on the written word as a substitute for the knowledge they used to carry inside their heads, they would, in the words of one of the dialogue’s characters, “cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful.” And because they would be able to “receive a quantity of information without proper instruction,” they would “be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant.” They would be “filled with the conceit of wisdom instead of real wisdom.”
    • Bruce Vigneault
      Bruce Vigneault on 21 Mar 09
       
      Ahhh... so with each new step in technology this same 'scare' is felt by the elite ;)
  • The Italian humanist Hieronimo Squarciafico worried that the easy availability of books would lead to intellectual laziness, making men “less studious” and weakening their minds.
  • I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense and “cathedral-like” structure of the highly educated and articulate personality—a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the “instantly available.
  • Thieme Hennis on 11 Jun 08
     
    What the Internet is doing to our brains by Nicholas Carr Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Fred Delventhal

World-News: Popcorn with the cell phone - Popcorn mit dem Handy - 0 views

freepage.twoday.net/...4969270

cellphones for:edtechtalk fun interesting popcorn

shared by Fred Delventhal on 07 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Fred Delventhal on 07 Jun 08
     
    Popcorn popping using cellphones
Clif Mims

Mnemograph: Web Based Timeline Software - 0 views

mnemograph.com/

2.0 concept=semantic-mapping dual-coding lesson-plans resources social-studies teaching web-apps

shared by Clif Mims on 30 Mar 08 - Cached
    • Clif Mims
      Clif Mims on 01 Apr 08
       
      This web application could be used with the following: -Research/ Reports in any content area -Lab reports -Data collection/ analysis (research journal/ log, data trail, notes, formation of ideas and early possible findings, etc.) -Pre- and post-assessment -Ogranizer -Group or whole-class projects -Self-paced instruction -Journal writing exercise spanning an extended timeframe -Group/ Project management
  • edtechtalk on 30 Mar 08
     
    pgoerner: online timeline creator built for collaboration - interesting tool for our classrooms!
  • Clif Mims on 01 Apr 08
     
    This web application could be used with the following: -Research/ Reports in any content area -Lab reports -Data collection/ analysis (research journal/ log, data trail, notes, formation of ideas and early possible findings, etc.) -Pre- and post-assessment -Ogranizer -Group or whole-class projects -Self-paced instruction -Journal writing exercise spanning an extended timeframe -Group/ Project management -In IDT 7/8052
anonymous

Lookybook | Home - 0 views

www.lookybook.com/index.php

book ebooks library

shared by anonymous on 10 Apr 08 - Cached
  • anonymous on 10 Apr 08
     
    I've been thinking a lot about electronic books since I got my Kindle. And then I saw this on the Library Stuff blog...very interesting idea!
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