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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

eSchool News » On ed tech, we're asking the wrong question » Print - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 18 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Does the use of textbooks lead to better student achievement [2]? Somebody should do the research. Schools nationwide are spending billions of dollars each year on textbooks, with no clear evidence they improve test scores—and stakeholders deserve some answers.
  • That anyone would be OK with the notion that schools haven’t changed much since the days when factory jobs were prevalent speaks volumes about how our society values education and its children.
  • Still, the Times story is correct in noting the scarcity of scientifically valid evidence that proves technology’s pedagogical value without a doubt.
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  • But I would argue that’s the point: You can’t separate the technology from the rest of the learning process, because they are inextricably bound.
  • But technology doesn’t exist in a vacuum. For technology to have an impact on student achievement, schools also need sound teaching, strong leadership, fidelity of use, and a supportive culture, among other things.
  • Problems such as poverty have always existed, but what hasn’t is the idea that schools should be responsible for educating every child, regardless of his or her circumstances. As a society, we’ve made this promise as part of No Child Left Behind, but we haven’t backed it up with the funding that is needed to make good on this promise—preferring instead what we think are quick solutions, such as merit pay for teachers … or technology in classrooms.
  • But the Times got it wrong with regard to the central question it invited readers to consider. Instead of examining whether technology is worth schools’ investment, the newspaper should have focused on two other, more relevant questions: Why are so many districts that invest in technology still failing to see success? And, what are the conditions that best lead to ed-tech success?
  • Funding constraints have been exacerbated by an ever-multiplying series of challenges, such as growing populations of ESL and special-needs students and the creeping effects of poverty on school district operations.
  • In other words, technology can’t improve student outcomes by itself. Instead, it’s one of several elements that must work together in harmony, like a complex dance, to elicit results. Should it come as a surprise that test scores haven’t risen markedly in Kyrene, when the Times reported the district has had to cut several teaching positions in recent years? Who knows how much the district has invested in professional development, or tech support?
  • The real question isn’t how to improve public education, he says—it’s: Do we really want to? And that’s a question we’ve been avoiding as a society, because the answer might require a level of commitment we’re not prepared to make.
  • In the wealthiest country in the world, it would be nice to think that school districts like Kyrene shouldn’t have to choose between technology and teachers. It would be nice to think they could afford both.
Istvan Rozanich

Books in Ruins: Ebooks, temporality, and tension » Cyborgology - 1 views

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shared by Istvan Rozanich on 23 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • physical spaces in all states of maintenance are by necessity temporal spaces; we orient
  • Time is a background-level context that we assume is there.
  • there are some spaces – and indeed, some object – that we perceive as more temporally-laden than others, regardless of whether or not those spaces and objects are in a state of ruin
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  • Books are another object that we tend to perceive as temporally-laden
  • books have time, and the reasons for this have a tremendous amount to do with our cultural history of books and what books are.
  • Books exist within these spaces; books are also of these spaces. Contemporary mass-market paperbacks aside, the default quintessential Book is old, hard-bound, possibly large and heavy, frequently dusty
  • It took a lot of time to make books, and books themselves contained a lot of time within them as part of their content. Though none of the books we read now are produced in that way, the past of books still works to shape our present imagining of them.
  • When we hold an ereader, we are aware – if only subconsciously – that time is not there in the same way that it is with a dead tree book. It doesn’t connect to all the temporally-laden ideas of Bookness that we carry around in our collective cultural memory.
Istvan Rozanich

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

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shared by Istvan Rozanich on 26 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • 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

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.
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      Steve Ransom on 06 Mar 13
       
      Best quotation of the day!
Steve Ransom

Technology Integration Matrix - 0 views

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  • 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.
Laurel Loewenguth

TubeChop - David Weinberger on Too Big To Know (46:26) - 0 views

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  • Laurel Loewenguth on 10 Jun 13
     
    Great video on how the internet is changing our ideas of knowledge, AND a great example of the effective use of PowerPoint
Steve Ransom

talking word processor | Free Resources from the Net for EVERY Learner - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 26 Sep 13
     
    WordTalk is a powerful free tool that ought to be on every computer in every school where Microsoft Word is installed on a Windows computer! This is a tool that has the potential to benefit ALL learners, especially any who struggle with reading or writing. I'm adding WordTalk to my list of Extra Special Learning Resourses.  WordTalk is a high quality free add-in that provides convenient, versatile and customizable text-to-speech for any document written or opened in Microsoft Word. It works in every version of MS Word, from Word 97 through Word 2010; and it's available to run on every version of Windows from Windows 98 through Windows 7.
Steve Ransom

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

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  • Steve Ransom on 31 Oct 11
     
    New kinds of learners require new kinds of teachers...
Steve Ransom

for the love of learning: Why should students blog? - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 04 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 04 Nov 12
     
    A nice listing of potential outcomes of blogging with students and having students blog themselves.
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

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

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  • 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

Key & Peele The School Bully FULL HD - YouTube - 1 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 11 Nov 12
     
    A dramatization of possible internal conflict of the bully.
Steve Ransom

The Early Results Of An iPad Classroom Are In. - Edudemic - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 14 Nov 12
     
    An enthusiastic and positive account of a school going 1:1 with iPads. I love how it has influenced pedagogy/teaching and student learning, including parental involvement.
Steve Ransom

High School Play Examines the Role of Social Media - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 14 Nov 12
     
    High School Play Examines the Role of Social Media... What a great choice! Sounds like a well-balanced perspective and so timely.
Steve Ransom

Tracking America: Poverty and Policy - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 05 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 05 Nov 12
     
    Nice set of manipulatable visualizations to explore basic data and trends and relationships dealing with poverty, gender, and level of educational attainment.
Steve Ransom

What Makes a Question Essential? - 0 views

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question essential PBL inquiry

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  • Steve Ransom on 22 May 13
     
    Notice how the diversity of learning tools at our disposal today enable students to more efficiently tackle these sorts of questions. Nice examples for most content areas
Steve Ransom

Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 13 May 13
     
    "Curiosity is the engine of achievement." "Standardized tests should not be the dominant culture of education. They should be diagnostic. They should help,...support learning."
Steve Ransom

Blogush | 186 Videos that will make you go Huh, Whoa, Wow, Ahhh, and Ha-Ha - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 25 May 13
     
    Nice categorization of usable video for all kinds of reasons.
Jessica Vacchetto

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

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  • 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.
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