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Natalie Lafferty

Education - Change.org: Tutorial: Two Uses of Technology to Improve Literacy and Critic... - 0 views

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shared by Natalie Lafferty on 04 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Natalie Lafferty on 04 Feb 09
     
    A further piece by Clay Burrell showing hoe technology can be used to improve literacy and critical thinking.
anonymous

innovation3: In Their Own Words ~ Students Learning with Web 2.0 or Two Master Teachers... - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 28 Apr 08
     
    Chris Harbeck and Darren Kuropatwa are mathematics teachers in Canada; Chris at Sargent Park School, a junior high school in Winnipeg and Darren at Daniel McIntyre Collegiate only a few blocks from Sargent Park. In April 2008 they brought a few of their students to Manitoba for the Pan-Canadian Interactive Literacy Forum to speak about their learning experiences in their respective math classes using Web 2.0 tools. Listen to Chris and Darren and their students speak.
Paul McKenzie

YouTube - iPhone tutorial from a two-year-old - 0 views

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  • Paul McKenzie on 07 Apr 08
     
    Another look at the (near) future of education.
Jennifer Maddrell

Milwaukee Digital Media Conference 2007 - 0 views

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20070527 conference events

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  • Jennifer Maddrell on 22 May 07
     
    A hands on conference in which educators will go behind the scenes of the Milwaukee Public Museum to work with instructors from The Stephens Group and museum curators to create digital content for the museum. Participants will learn about 21st Century tools such as podcasting, photo-editing and distance learning. Educators can recieve two graduate credits from Cardinal Stritch University at the conference. Registration is limited.
Jeremy Price

Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What? : The Knowledge Tree - 0 views

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shared by Jeremy Price on 03 Jun 07 - Cached
  • Social network sites are the latest generation of ‘mediated publics’ - environments where people can gather publicly through mediating technology.
  • Persistence. What you say sticks around.
    • Jeremy Price
      Jeremy Price on 08 Jun 07
       
      Interesting.
  • Searchability.
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  • Invisible audiences. While it is common to face strangers in public life, our eyes provide a good sense of who can overhear our expressions. In mediated publics, not only are lurkers invisible, but persistence, searchability, and replicability introduce audiences that were never present at the time when the expression was created.
  • Replicability. Digital bits are copyable; this means that you can copy a conversation from one place and paste it into another place.
  • Context is only one complication of this architecture. Another complication has to do with scale. When we speak without amplification, our voice only carries so far. Much to the dismay of fame-seekers, just because the Internet has the potential to reach millions, the reality is that most people are heard by very few.
  • The lack of context is precisely why the imagined audience of Friends is key. It is impossible to speak to all people across all space and all time. It’s much easier to imagine who you are speaking to and direct your energies towards them, even if your actual audience is quite different.
  • two audiences cause participants the greatest headaches: those who hold power over them and those that want to prey on them.
  • Some try to resumé-ify their profiles, putting on a public face intended for those who hold power over them. While this is typically the adult-approved approach, this is unrealistic for most teens who prioritise socialisation over adult acceptance.
  • Recognise that youth want to hang out with their friends in youth space.
  • When asked, all youth know that anyone could access their profiles online. Yet, the most common response I receive is “…but why would they?”
  • The Internet mirrors and magnifies all aspects of social life.
    • Jeremy Price
      Jeremy Price on 22 Jun 07
       
      Consistent with capturing/recording interactions in general.
  • When a teen is engaged in risky behaviour online, that is typically a sign that they’re engaged in risky behaviour offline.
  • technology makes it easier to find those who are seeking attention than those who are not.
  • Questions abound. There are no truths, only conversations.
  • They can posit moral conundrums, show how mediated publics differ from unmediated ones, invite youth to consider the potential consequences of their actions, and otherwise educate through conversation instead of the assertion of power.
  • group settings are ideal for engaging youth to consider their relationship with social technologies and mediated publics
  • Internet safety is on the tip of most educators’ tongues, but much of what needs to be discussed goes beyond safety. It is about setting norms and considering how different actions will be interpreted.
  • Create a profile on whatever sites are popular in your school.
  • Keep your profile public and responsible, but not lame.
  • Do not go surfing for your students, but if they invite you to be Friends, say yes. This is a sign that they respect you.
  • The more present you are, the more opportunity you have to influence the norms.
edtechtalk

Stephen Downes - A New Website, Part Two - Choosing Drupal - Half an Hour - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 13 Sep 13
     
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Jennifer Maddrell

k12 Online Conference - 0 views

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20070527 conference events

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  • Jennifer Maddrell on 23 May 07
     
    Announcing the second annual "K12 Online" conference for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice! This year's conference is scheduled to be held over two weeks, October 15-19 and October 22-26 of 2007, and will include a preconference keynote during the week of October 8. This year's conference theme is "Playing with Boundaries." A call for proposals is below.
Zaid Ali Alsagoff

101 Free Learning Tools - 92 views

Dear All, I have updated my list of free learning tools, and made it more visual: Let's explore the idea that there is at least one excellent free learning tool (or site) for every learning probl...

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started by Zaid Ali Alsagoff on 18 Aug 08 no follow-up yet
Mark Cruthers

WiZiQ free Virtual Classroom - 39 views

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started by Mark Cruthers on 11 May 08 no follow-up yet
Mark Chambers

Wired Campus: Professor Encourages Students to Pass Notes During Class -- via... - 0 views

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shared by Mark Chambers on 09 Apr 09 - Cached
  • most of his students were unfamiliar with Twitter, the microblogging service that limits messages to 140 characters.
    • Sarah Hanawald
      Sarah Hanawald on 09 Apr 09
       
      See--just because they're young doesn't mean they know everything digital!
  • others in the class would respond with notes encouraging the student to raise the topic out loud.
    • Sarah Hanawald
      Sarah Hanawald on 09 Apr 09
       
      Citizenship!
  • I’m not a full-time faculty member,” he said. “I use my classrooms as an applied-research lab to decide what to promote as new solutions for our campus.”
    • Sarah Hanawald
      Sarah Hanawald on 09 Apr 09
       
      All ed tech people should think of themselves this way and keep teaching in "applied-research labs"
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  • I couldn’t help thinking that it sounded like a recipe for chaos, and I told him so
  • He couldn’t get two screens, so he had students bring in their laptops
    • Mark Chambers
      Mark Chambers on 09 Apr 09
       
      Skip the screens and the laptops and go straight to the phones :-)
  • Sarah Hanawald on 09 Apr 09
     
    Is encouraging a "back-stream" of communication helpful or counter-productive in class?
  • Sarah Hanawald on 09 Apr 09
     
    What about trying this during a faculty meeting at school? Probably using cover it live instead of twitter just to make it accessible to all. I really like the notion that when Ed Tech faculty teaches, it should be a lab environment.
J Black

The End in Mind » A Post-LMS Manifesto - 0 views

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Blackboard Moodle LMS Achievement 2sigma

shared by J Black on 09 May 09 - Cached
  • Technology has and always will be an integral part of what we do to help our students “become.” But helping someone improve, to become a better, more skilled, more knowledgeable, more confident person is not fundamentally a technology problem. It’s a people problem. Or rather, it’s a people opportunity.
  • The problem with one-to-one instruction is that is simply doesn’t scale. Historically, there simply haven’t been enough tutors to go around if our goal is to educate the masses, to help every learner “become.”
  • Through experimental investigation, Bloom found that “the average student under tutoring was about two standard deviations above the average” of students who studied in a traditional classroom setting with 30 other students
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    • J Black
      J Black on 09 May 09
       
      I agree - for example, blogging within a LMS does not allow this, whereas blogging with a known host (Blogger, WP) does help students to connect with others inside and outside of the learning environment/institution.
    • J Black
      J Black on 09 May 09
       
      This is a very profound statement that we should closely look at. Do LMS do nothing more than perpetuate the traditional classroom model?
  • here is, at its very core, a problem with the LMS paradigm. The “M” in “LMS” stands for “management.” This is not insignificant. The word heavily implies that the provider of the LMS, the educational institution, is “managing” student learning. Since the dawn of public education and the praiseworthy societal undertaking “educate the masses,” management has become an integral part of the learning. And this is exactly what we have designed and used LMSs to do—to manage the flow of students through traditional, semester-based courses more efficiently than ever before. The LMS has done exactly what we hired it to do: it has reinforced, facilitated, and perpetuated the traditional classroom model, the same model that Bloom found woefully less effective than one-on-one learning.
  • We can extend, expand, enhance, magnify, and amplify the reach and effectiveness of human interaction with technology and communication tools, but the underlying reality is that real people must converse with each other in the process of “becoming.”
  • Because the LMS is primarily a traditional classroom support tool, it is ill-suited to bridge the 2-sigma gap between classroom instruction and personal tutoring.
  • undamentally human endeavor that requires personal interaction and communication, person to person.
  • n the post-LMS world, we need to worry less about “managing” learners and focus more on helping them connect with other like-minded learners both inside and outside of our institutions.
  • We need to foster in them greater personal accountability, responsibility and autonomy in their pursuit of learning in the broader community of learners. We need to use the communication tools available to us today and the tools that will be invented tomorrow to enable anytime, anywhere, any-scale learning conversations between our students and other learners
  • However, instead of that tutor appearing in the form of an individual human being or in the form of a virtual AI tutor, the tutor will be the crowd.
  • The paradigm—not the technology—is the problem.
  • Building a better, more feature-rich LMS won’t close the 2-sigma gap. We need to utilize technology to better connect people, content, and learning communities to facilitate authentic, personal, individualized learning. What are we waiting for?
    • J Black
      J Black on 09 May 09
       
      Bingo
  • J Black on 09 May 09
     
    A very insightful look into LMS use and student achievment. Highly recommended read for users of BB or Moodle.
John Evans

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

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shared by John Evans on 15 May 09 - Cached
    • Sharon Elin
      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.
  • 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.
    • John Evans
      John Evans on 15 May 09
       
      Totally agree with this. Teachers MUST be learning along with their students to continue to expand their professional repetoires.
  • 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.
  • 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
     
    CITE Journal Article
  • John Evans on 15 May 09
     
    CITE Journal Article
Ouida Myers

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Saving and Creating Jobs and Reform... - 0 views

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Race to the Top EETT EdTech Title II Part D

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  • For the following programs, funds will be made available beginning in fall 2009, and will be conditioned upon receipt of further information that will be outlined in future guidance: Title I School Improvement Grants ($3 billion). Educational Technology State Grants ($650 million). The following funds will be made available beginning in fall 2009, based on the quality of the applications submitted through a competitive grant process. Guidelines for these funds will be posted shortly: Teacher Incentive Fund ($200 million). Teacher Quality Enhancement ($100 million). Statewide Data Systems ($250 million).
  • Under the $5 billion in SFSF reserved for the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants, the Department will conduct a national competition among states for a $4.35 billion state incentive "Race to the Top" fund to improve education quality and results statewide. The Race to the Top fund will help states drive substantial gains in student achievement by supporting states making dramatic progress on the four reform goals described above and effectively using other ARRA funds. $650 million of the $5 billion will be set aside in the "Invest in What Works and Innovation" fund and be available through a competition to districts and non-profit groups with a strong track record of results. Guidelines and applications for the competitive funds will be posted expeditiously. Race to the Top grants will be made in two rounds—fall 2009 and spring 2010).
  • LEAs that optimize the use of the varied funding streams provided under ARRA
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  • In addition, the Department will identify technical assistance resources to help states and localities effectively implement the most promising and evidence-based reforms using all relevant federal, state, and local resources.
  • Ouida Myers on 14 Apr 09
     
    From the Ed.gove Ed Tech and Race to the Top funding from the
Paul Beaufait

Rewriting research / Special report: Social academia / Special Reports / Home - Broker - 8 views

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  • Above all, to be successful, a wiki needs constant maintenance. ‘Group buy-in’ and ‘collective adoption’ are essential, which means that all members of the group must share an enthusiasm to make regular contributions.
  • Above all, to be successful, a wiki needs constant maintenance. ‘Group buy-in’ and ‘collective adoption’ are essential, which means that all members of the group must share an enthusiasm to make regular contributions. In contrast with academic blogs, where the identity of the main contributor is clear, wikis tend to downplay individual identity in favour of the group. They also feature research that often places equal value on academic and non-academic perspectives.
  • Proponents of wikis argue that such collaboration has the potential to ensure that the quality of research is higher than that produced by individual scholars. But in an academic setting this will happen only if Surowiecki’s collaboration and cooperation problems are resolved.
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  • The most important requirement for a successful collaborative writing project via a wiki is that all those involved must be motivated to contribute.
  • Although it is difficult to argue that the quality of publications is actually improved through blogging or online collaborative writing, evidence from various scholars does suggest that this is a possibility.
  • Perhaps we are witnessing the start of an era of separation between what could become two realms of research. One is the realm of traditional ‘pure’ research where, independent of technologies like the internet, the goal is to achieve scientific discoveries that may eventually trickle down to the outside world. In the other, a realm that is much more closely focused on society and policy, practitioners communicate directly, and in real time, with that outside world.
  • Paul Beaufait on 21 Feb 11
     
    Ward, Janelle. (2009). Rewriting research. The Broker 15, 12-18. Retrieved February 21, 2011, from http://www.thebrokeronline.eu/en/Special-Reports/Special-report-Social-academia/Rewriting-research Source of recast: Online Collaborative Writing: How Blogs And Wikis Are Changing The Academic Publishing Process Link: http://www.masternewmedia.org/online-collaborative-writing-how-blogs-and-wikis-are-changing-the-academic-publishing-process/
  • anonymous on 13 Sep 13
     
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Carolynn Bruton

Circumnavigating Iceland by Kayak- Experiencing the Volcano! - Inspired by Iceland - 8 views

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    • Carolynn Bruton
      Carolynn Bruton on 23 May 11
       
      Written two days after the Vatnajökull Glacier and the Grímsvötn volcano eruption
  • anonymous on 13 Sep 13
     
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Theo Winter

Jamie Dunbar's science ebooks - 0 views

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science art ebooks

shared by Theo Winter on 17 May 11 - No Cached
  • Theo Winter on 17 May 11
     
    Two beautifully illustrated rhyming ebooks on the Big Bang and Evolution, free to download.
Chiki Smith

TheHandbookofCheating Taught Me a Lot - 2 views

TheHandbookofCheating is a very helpful book for me. It gave me ideas how to face cheating partners. This book even taught me how to empathize with them than to lash out right away without hearing ...

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shalani mujer

24/7 Tech Support - 1 views

I am a script writer in a particular morning TV show. I have experience on time that, the production team asked me to submit two sets of scripts ahead for the hosts convenience. I ended up making o...

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pctech spportnow

PC Tech Support Now Really Helps - 2 views

I am a father of two and my wife is working abroad. There came a time when my computer experienced a breakdown which really cut off my daily chatting session with my wife through Skype. I reported ...

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