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Steve Ransom

100 Ways to Use Digital Cameras | Scholastic.com - 0 views

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    The digital camera is often an overlooked device for use in the classroom by students. It's an easy way to meaningfully use technology. Combined with web 2.0 tools, it opens up so many possibilities.
Steve Ransom

World's First Children's Storybook App With Sign Language - 0 views

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    The digital book can definitely do things that the analog one could not!
Steve Ransom

The web's 'echo chamber' leaves us none the wiser (Wired UK) - 0 views

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    Important in all worlds, analog and digital.
Steve Ransom

Clive Thompson on Why Kids Can't Search | Magazine - 0 views

  • Who’s to blame? Not the students. If they’re naive at Googling, it’s because the ability to judge information is almost never taught in school.
  • And by the time kids get to college, professors assume they already have this skill.
  • Students quickly gain the ability to detect if a top-ranked page about Martin Luther King Jr. was actually posted by white supremacists.
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  • “crap detection 101,” as digital guru Howard Rheingold dubs it, isn’t easy. One prerequisite is that you already know a lot about the world.
  • group of college students
  • Pan grimly concluded that students aren’t assessing information sources on their own merit—they’re putting too much trust in the machine.
  • High school and college students may be “digital natives,” but they’re wretched at searching.
  • In 1955, we wondered why Johnny can’t read. Today the question is, why can’t Johnny search?
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    "Google makes broad-based knowledge more important, not less. A good education is the true key to effective search. But until our kids have that, let's make sure they don't always take PageRank at its word."
Istvan Rozanich

"Glad I Didn't Have Facebook In High School!" » Cyborgology - 0 views

  • What if we, instead, proudly proclaim that we did things that we are embarrassed about and that’s okay
  • efrain might sustain the stigma that we want to end.
  • implicitly arguing this sort of behavior is best hidden
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  • What if, instead, in ten years those teens-now-adults used those tweets and their lingering presence in search results as a teachable moment?
  • Let’s promote the idea that those embarrassing tweets, or anyone’s embarrassing digital dirt, can be used to validate identity change and growth.
  • we are equally celebrating the cultural norm that expects perfection, normalization, and unchanging behavior. What if more people wore past identities more proudly? We could erode the norm of identity consistency, a norm no one lives up to anyways, and embrace change and growth for its own sake
  • it will encourage an understanding of identity as more fluid. This re-understanding might be more tolerant of the non-normal and accepting of change and difference.
  • hat a person isn’t just what one is but a non-linear process of becoming rife with starts and stops and wrong turns may grow to be increasingly obvious.
  • lack of evidence of our own change.
Steve Ransom

Education Week Teacher: Tips for Tech-Cautious Teachers - 0 views

  • Has this tool been recommended by colleagues or student I respect, or is someone else willing to try this tool with me?
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      The importance of having a network of educators to connect with!
  • In other words, model what you want your students to do: Use technology as a tool for learning.
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      That's it. YOU have to use the tools first so that you can integrate them with your students in a natural, logical way. Demonstrate being a [digital] learner for yourself. Then, it is just a natural extension with your students.
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    Excellent suggestions pertinent to EDTS 523 and those new/struggling with education technology. Start small. Just keep growing.
Steve Ransom

Classroom Applications for the Digital Camera - 0 views

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Teen Study: Social Media Is Positive Experience : NPR - 0 views

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    Teens see meanness, but they still see social media spaces as a good thing
Steve Ransom

HOW TO: Spruce Up a Boring Resume [INFOGRAPHIC] - 0 views

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    Illustrates the importance of expanding your traditional paper based resume with technology and its many information presentation and sharing services
Steve Ransom

EDUCAUSE 2011: Pew Research Reveals New Kind of Learner | EdTech Magazine - 0 views

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    New kinds of learners require new kinds of teachers...
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