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Esther Wojcicki: Revolution Needed for Teaching Literacy in a Digital Age - 12 views

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shared by Sharon Elin on 06 Jul 10 - Cached
  • 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."
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Ruth Marcus - Our gadgets, ourselves - 10 views

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  • researchers at the University of Michigan found that college students today are about 40 percent lower in empathy, measured by standard personality tests, than their counterparts 20 and 30 years ago.
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      Sharon Elin on 11 Jun 10
       
      Alarming!
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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010 : eLearning Technology - 37 views

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  • The tools we use in life have leapfrogged over the ones we use at work. Business’s lingering love of bureaucracy, process, and legacy technology has fallen completely out of sync with what people need to do their best.
    • Sharon Elin
      Sharon Elin on 31 Jan 10
       
      Budget shortfalls prohibit purchasing newer technology or upgrading, but if we could tap the "cloud" and if web2.0 sites were unblocked in our district, older technology wouldn't be as much of a hindrance. There's too much paranoia about security.
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Adobe - Security Advisories: APSA09-07 - Security Advisory for Adobe Reader and Acrobat - 7 views

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  • Sharon Elin on 08 Jan 10
     
    critical security issue when downloading .pdf versions 9.2 & earlier
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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
      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.
  • 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
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Jay Mathews - A Surprisingly Sensible 21st-Century Report - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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  • Sharon Elin on 01 Dec 08
     
    He bashes 21st Century skills, but he's keeping an open mind. Send evidence!
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The Future of Reputation - 0 views

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  • Sharon Elin on 22 Nov 08
     
    internet privacy
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Khanya.co.za - Home - 0 views

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  • Sharon Elin on 01 Aug 08
     
    South African technology education website
  • Sharon Elin on 01 Aug 08
     
    What's going on in South Africa with instructional technology?
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Animoto: Education - - 1 views

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shared by Sharon Elin on 03 May 08 - Cached
  • Sharon Elin on 03 May 08
     
    free account for educators to use Animoto video software
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Math4Mobile - The mLearning Way - 0 views

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  • Sharon Elin on 03 May 08
     
    Use cellphones to teach math
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KeepVid: Download videos from Google, Youtube, iFilm, Putfile, Metacafe, DailyMotion! - 0 views

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  • Sharon Elin on 14 Apr 08
     
    Allows access to videos from YouTube, etc. without being online
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Diigo vs Paper - 239 views

started by Paul McKenzie on 05 Apr 08 no follow-up yet
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    #2 Sharon Elin on 14 Apr 08
     
    Paul McKenzie wrote:
    > I'm trying to encourage teachers in my school to accept Diigo annotated stickies and Webslides from students as alternatives to black ink on white paper. What better way of seeing how students digest information and create their own voice than writing on the highlighted bibliography? Any ideas?


    I would like to try this, too, but I have a problem with student access to diigo and to other Web2.0 sites, based purely on the fact that these sites require a validated email account to sign up. My K-12 public school system does not allow student email accounts, and the school filtering system blocks access to personal email accounts such as AOL or GoogleMail or Yahoo Mail. I would need to depend on students to use their home email accounts and to sign up/validate at home, and I don't want to assume that every student has access to email; this would be discriminatory toward students without home email access. Any thoughts about this? Is my school system the only one that has this limitation?
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