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Steve Ransom

What Teens Get About the Internet That Parents Don't - Mimi Ito - The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • "We already have a guitar. I can learn on my own and with my friends." Me: "It seems like you should get lessons for the basics." Her: "Mom, that's what the Internet is for." It turns out she's already been practicing with the help of YouTube tutorials.
  • because of the abundance of knowledge and social connections
  • balancing the competitive pressures of college-readiness, the need for unstructured learning and socializing, and the role of the Internet in all of that
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  • Trends indicate that families with the means to do so are investing more and more in enrichment activities to give their kids a leg up
  • padding resumes for college
  • an arms race in achievement
  • the Internet has been a lifeline for self-directed learning and connection to peers.
  • parents more often than not have a negative view of the role of the Internet in learning, but young people almost always have a positive one
  • Young people are desperate for learning that is relevant and part of the fabric of their social lives, where they are making choices about how, when, and what to learn, without it all being mapped for them in advance
  • Learning on the Internet is about posting a burning question on a forum like Quora or Stack Exchange, searching for a how to video on YouTube or Vimeo, or browsing a site like Instructables, Skillshare, and Mentormob for a new project to pick up.
  • but I'm also delighted that she finds the time to cultivate interests in a self-directed way that is about contributing to her community of peers
  • Steve Ransom on 10 Mar 13
     
    This is a great piece that captures much of the essence of how many (teens are the focus, but not exclusive to the points made) are seeing learning today... really important to understand.
Steve Ransom

We Need Teachers, Not Facilitators! : Stager-to-Go - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 01 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Teachers expert in inspiring long-term, personally meaningful and interdisciplinary projects or thematic instruction regularly exceed the standards, but that realization is lost on facilitators.
  • New teachers have little or no experience with classroom centers, independent work, student projects and the sorts of agency that allow children to enjoy the “flow” experiences that build upon their obsessions and lead to understanding. Even when teachers are not lecturing from bell-to-bell, the classroom agenda is top-down and leaves little chance for serendipity or student initiative.
  • Great teachers know their students in deeper ways than any data can provide. They ask kids about their weekends. They chat about what kids are reading and console them when their hamster dies
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  • They learn continuously for themselves and their students. Teachers share their love of reading and are patrons of the arts. They are active citizens and engage students in current events. Outstanding teachers are not afraid to appear silly or create a whimsical classroom environment. They play in the snow with kindergarteners like Maria Knee.
  • great teachers need to be passionate, competent and interesting humans beyond the scope and sequence of the curriculum.
  • oday, new teachers truly are facilitators. They are “trained” to manage classrooms and deliver the curriculum handed to them.
  • Steve Ransom on 01 Jan 13
     
    An important post about teaching to reflect on.
Steve Ransom

blubbr - Play & create video trivia games - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 03 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 03 Sep 13
     
    create interactive quizzes that are based on YouTube clips. Your quizzes can be about anything of your choosing. The structure of the quizzes has a viewer watch a short clip then answer a multiple choice question about the clip. Viewers know right away if they chose the correct answer or not.
Steve Ransom

An Extremely Important "Take" On "Wait Time" - One That I Hadn't Thought Abou... - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 24 Sep 13
     
    Something really not talked about in courses on pedagogy/instruction. In an standards-saturated age, I'm not sure too many have the time to wait much anymore :-(
Steve Ransom

Technology: Fast Times at Woodside High - nytimes.com/video - YouTube - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 17 Oct 11 - No Cached
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      Steve Ransom on 17 Oct 11
       
      As you watch this video, try not to focus only on the negative aspects. What is in here that is positive, that needs to be understood by adults, and can be leveraged in education? What about kids like Vishal? What about Nicholas at the end? Do employers want 4.0 students who can't work within social and collaborative contexts? See what Tom Peters has to say:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_w4AfflmeM
  • Steve Ransom on 17 Oct 11
     
    A shift is taking place at the intersection of education and technology. A video worth watching and thinking deeply about.
Steve Ransom

Five-Minute Film Festival: Twitter in Education | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 26 Nov 12
     
    The first video is very creative! Beyond that, this could be a good resource for those looking to further understand what all the fuss over Twitter is about in education and how to get started using and benefitting from Twitter in a meaningful way.
Steve Ransom

Principal: 'I was naïve about Common Core' - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 06 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • The Common Core places an extraordinary emphasis on vocabulary development
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      Steve Ransom on 06 Mar 13
       
      Instead of concept development...
  • Teachers are engaged in practices like these because they are pressured and afraid, not because they think the assessments are educationally sound. Their principals are pressured and nervous about their own scores and the school’s scores. Guaranteed, every child in the class feels that pressure and trepidation as well.
  • I am troubled that a company that has a multi-million dollar contract to create tests for the state should also be able to profit from producing test prep materials. I am even more deeply troubled that this wonderful little girl, whom I have known since she was born, is being subject to this distortion of what her primary education should be.
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  • Real learning occurs in the mind of the learner when she makes connections with prior learning, makes meaning, and retains that knowledge in order to create additional meaning from new information.  In short, with tests we see traces of learning, not learning itself.
  • Parents can expect that the other three will be neglected as teachers frantically try to prepare students for the difficult and high-stakes tests.
  • They see data, not children. 
  • The promise of the Common Core is dying and teaching and learning are being distorted.  The well that should sustain the Core has been poisoned.
  • Whether or not learning the word ‘commission’ is appropriate for second graders could be debated—I personally think it is a bit over the top.  What is of deeper concern, however, is that during a time when 7 year olds should be listening to and making music, they are instead taking a vocabulary quiz.
  • Data should be used as a strategy for improvement, not for accountability
  • A fool with a tool is still a fool.  A fool with a powerful tool is a dangerous fool.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 06 Mar 13
       
      Best quotation of the day!
Steve Ransom

Why some kids can't spell and why spelling tests won't help - 0 views

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Spelling literacy research instruction pedagogy

shared by Steve Ransom on 01 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • The people who don’t benefit from spelling tests are those who are poor at spelling. They struggled with spelling before the test, and they still struggle after the test. Testing is not teaching.
  • Are all children learning to love words from their very first years at school?
  • Are they being fascinated by stories about where words come from and what those stories tell us about the spelling of those words?
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  • re they being excited by breaking the code, figuring how words are making their meanings and thrilled to find that what they’ve learned about one word helps them solve another word?
Steve Ransom

Don't Miss This Critical Thinking Poster for your Class - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 11 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 11 Nov 12
     
    A nice visually organized way to think about the level of thinking that we require of students as well as measurable ways to make thinking visible.
Steve Ransom

Bullying Awareness Week - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 12 Nov 12
     
    This week is Bullying Awareness Week. Here's a great site organized about things you could do/learn each day this week regarding bullying.
Istvan Rozanich

Op-Ed: There's An App For Everything, And That's A Problem : NPR - 0 views

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shared by Istvan Rozanich on 06 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Faced with a choice between maturity and pain minimization, Silicon Valley has chosen the latter.
  • He thought it's a complex process that involves you telling a story, processing some sensory experience. It's not just about being confronted with pictures, facts or numbers. Now, unfortunately that's how Silicon Valley thinks, because those are the things they can record.
  • how problem solvers define problems matters a great dea
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  • That's the kind of an app that definitely has a logic behind it. It has a philosophy and that's a philosophy that says that you need to care about the environment because you want to impress your friends.
  • But other people would say, well, this is how cultural innovation happens. We need to leave certain margins of error in place and actually allow people to mix ingredients in ways that are silly and unexpectable for new cultural innovation, new culinary products to emerge. I
  • t's not being marketed as a vice fee. It's being marketed as a health premium.
  • need to understand that imperfection actually matters
  • being unable to live in a world that still tolerates inconsistency
  • Istvan Rozanich on 06 Mar 13
     
    Faced with a choice between maturity and pain minimization, Silicon Valley has chosen the latter.
Steve Ransom

Technology Integration Matrix - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 07 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 07 Mar 13
     
    This allows you to think about different levles of technology integration along with various attributes of each level - all with short video examples of each component on the matrix across 4 content ares.
Steve Ransom

Education Rethink: Kids Don't Actually Hate That - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 22 Mar 13
     
    A great post to get one thinking about what it is that kids actually hate...
Steve Ransom

Schools are doing Education 1.0; talking about doing Education 2.0; when they should be... - 0 views

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  • Education 3.0 is based on the belief that content is freely and readily available. It is self-directed, interest-based learning where problem-solving, innovation and creativity drive education.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 26 Mar 13
       
      This culture of open access, DIY (Do It Yourself) is beginning to disrupt education and open new opportunities... for those who have access and knowledge
Steve Ransom

What's the Difference Between "Using Technology" and "Technology Integration"? | TeachB... - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 08 Apr 13
     
    A simple and clear comparison worth thinking about...
Steve Ransom

Doctopus Demonstration - YouTube - 0 views

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googleapps google Doctopus script video howto screencast

shared by Steve Ransom on 29 May 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 29 May 13
     
    We tried out the Flubaroo script in class for automatically grading assignments with Google Docs. This script, Doctopus, is more about managing assignments and can really save a great deal of time once you have it all set up with a class using Google Apps.
Steve Ransom

About #edteach | #edteach - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 23 Apr 13
     
    Join a weekly chat focused on issues of relevance to preservice teacher educators. Follow the hashtag #edteach to participate. Right now, it is scheduled for Tuesday evenings at 8 PM EST. Participating is a great way to connect with other new teachers adn preservice teachers and build your network.
Laurel Loewenguth

Don't Be the Office Tech Dinosaur - Yahoo! Finance - 0 views

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  • Laurel Loewenguth on 23 Apr 13
     
    adapting to new technology and keeping pace with current tools.  Discusses many points raised in EDTS about adapting to new ways of doing things.
Steve Ransom

High School Student gives a lesson to its teacher at Duncanville - YouTube - 0 views

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teaching boring student change challenge engagement meaning relevance worksheets video

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  • Steve Ransom on 09 May 13
     
    "Stop teaching me packets." Think deeply about what he says... how many others think it, but are just too compliant and complacent to say/do anything?
Steve Ransom

SpeEdChange: The Church Task Believers - 0 views

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teaching pedagogy seattime technology multitasking students compliance

shared by Steve Ransom on 07 May 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 07 May 13
     
    If you want to have your thinking pushed regarding teaching and technology, Ira Socol's blog here is one to subscribe to. This post is a prime example that challenges many of our assumptions about learning, school, and technology.
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