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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

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

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shared by Steve Ransom on 09 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • 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?
  • Steve Ransom on 09 Nov 11
     
    "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."
Steve Ransom

Mitch Resnick: Let's teach kids to code | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    Let's teach kids to code
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

Paper Airplanes: History, Designs, Records - Uncategorized - Ask Toy Tech - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 19 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 19 Oct 12
     
    This is just cool... the videos could support kids in creating their own airplanes.
Steve Ransom

Pressure Pic Problem - Boyfriend's Story - That's Not Cool - YouTube - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 26 Oct 12
     
    A humorous, interactive YouTube video dealing with peer pressure and sexting - a sad but real issue facing kids (and adults :-( ) today choice embedded at the end of the scenario with feedback.
Steve Ransom

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

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  • 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

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

Are You Really Engaging Your Students? | Teaching on Purpose - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 13 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Shouldn’t our real goal be to increase intellectual engagement so that we are developing kids with a love or learning?  And if we are really targeting academic engagement, what about our socially engaged learners who are on the bubble and considering dropping out of school?
  • Steve Ransom on 13 Nov 12
     
    A great post dealing with the all too often tossed around term, "engagement". What does that really mean?
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.
Jessica Vacchetto

Study: Reading novels makes us better thinkers - Salon.com - 1 views

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shared by Jessica Vacchetto on 16 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Jessica Vacchetto on 16 Jun 13
     
    Time to push back in favor of fiction?
  • Steve Ransom on 17 Jun 13
     
    No kidding. Common core swings the pendulum far in the other direction with document-based evidence, informational/expository texts, and sapping the love of the printed word right out of learning.
Steve Ransom

Understanding Twitter Chats - Part 1 | ReadingOnTheRun.com - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 02 Nov 12
     
    If you want a great education community to dive into right away on Twitter, consider lurking or participating in one of the many scheduled Twitter Chats that go on almost every day of the week. Here's a 2-part video tutorial to help you get started. It's also a great way to find relevant educators on Twitter to follow.
Steve Ransom

Edmodo: Social Collaboration For Teachers - Education - Instructional - 1 views

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  • "It really is a rehearsal for the kids, for later on, because social networking is a reality," one educator mused. "It's better for them to be inappropriate in this environment, where the teacher can facilitate redirection, than out in the world where they can get in big trouble."
Steve Ransom

Testing in kindergarten: whatever happened to story time? | Ben Joravsky on Politics | ... - 0 views

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  • When all is said and done, kindergarteners will have spent up to 60 days of class time—or a third of the school year—taking various standardized tests. And you wonder why so many wealthy people send their children to private schools.
  • to hold teachers accountable for how much their students learn—or at least how well they score on standardized tests, which is not always the same thing. But the idea is that high-scoring "good" teachers will keep their jobs and low-scoring "bad" teachers will be fired, presumably to be replaced by the thousands of "good" teachers eager to come to Illinois to give more tests.
  • "Most of the kids just look at me," says another kindergarten teacher who asked not to be identified. "They're five. They don't what a 'main character' means."
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  • means one-on-one testing.
  • Presumably, by the end of the year the child will know enough to say the bug feels anxious. At which point the teacher will get to keep his or her job, for at least another year.
  • that student's file her delightfully original take is marked: "Wrong!"
  • Here's the twist. All teachers record the answers. Think about this, folks: teachers get to grade their own accountability tests. Damn, if they had this for students back in the day, I might have passed chemistry.
Steve Ransom

#BaldForBieber Hoax Teaches Kids to Fact Check Before Shaving Their Heads - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 27 Oct 12
     
    Poetic justice for those who fail to fact check.
Steve Ransom

A New Generation Of App Developers : NPR - 0 views

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    A New Generation Of App Developers... KDIS
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