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Steve Ransom

Are You Behind? - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 02 Dec 12
     
    An important post from a friend and colleague, David Jakes, technology director for a major Chicago school district. This may help you see just how much some schools ARE moving forward while others are sitting on the sidelines due to lack of vision, understanding, and participation.
Steve Ransom

The Teacher's Guide to Facebook - 0 views

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  • A simple and popular workaround for awkward or potentially unprofessional interactions is to use Facebook pages, groups or separate accounts in the classroom. Pages are essentially separate profiles that students can Like in order to receive updates, and you can add students to groups in order to stay connected. Creating a separate profile for yourself is an easy way to prevent students from seeing any personal information that you would normally have on Facebook.
  • When you set a social media policy for your classroom, it’s important to delineate clear guidelines with your students on how they should and should not interact with you.
  • “During the term, I perceive that friending a student creates uncomfortable boundaries for the student-professor relationship,” she says. “After all, students post information about their personal lives and vice versa.”
Steve Ransom

Think Before You Tweet (Blog or Update Status) - 0 views

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  • Speaking these words can be a way to commiserate with colleagues, or they can become “in jokes” among friends.  These exchanges can be OK when we are face-to-face with others, as we have body language and voice inflections to help us understand the meaning and context behind the statements.  Online is a different situation, however.
  • Suddenly my Twitter stream was a teacher’s lounge.
  • if we have an online presence, we must be responsible in what we say or write.  This seems simple, doesn’t it?  Nevertheless, we forget that we are not in the company of friends when we say or write the things we do.  Almost anyone can read our words, and they might misunderstand our intent.
  • Steve Ransom on 20 Oct 11
     
    Good advice.
Istvan Rozanich

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

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  • 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

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.
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