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Educational Leadership:Students Who Challenge Us:Eight Things Skilled Teachers Think, S... - 0 views

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    Eight Things Skilled Teachers Think, Say, and Do
Steve Ransom

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world! - 0 views

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    A very cool geography game that uses Google Maps Street view. Turns players into sleuths who have to use all of their knowledge and skills to figure out where they are.
Steve Ransom

Meet the man behind "Is Twitter Wrong?" who helped debunk fake pictures during Hurrican... - 0 views

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    Great example of the new challenges of a read-write web. New skills/literacies are required to practice informed citizenship.
Steve Ransom

Great Tech Expectations: What Should Elementary Students Be Able to Do and When? | Edut... - 0 views

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    Great Tech Expectations: What Should Elementary Students Be Able to Do and When
Steve Ransom

College Librarians Can Help with Student Research Assignments | Faculty Focus - 0 views

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    As discussed in class, college students are struggling more and more with information literacy skills related to research. Ask a librarian for help!!
Steve Ransom

The 10 Worst Mistakes of First-Time Job Hunters - Finance and Accounting Jobs News and ... - 0 views

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    Some salient and relevant advice for 21st century learners! "I would have actually networked." "I would have gotten more involved in career-relevant extracurricular activities.""I would have focused more on becoming 'professional.'""I would have kept better track of my achievements.""I would have focused more on developing relevant skills."
Steve Ransom

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

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    A nice listing of potential outcomes of blogging with students and having students blog themselves.
Steve Ransom

MediaShift . Fact-Checking Social Media: The Case of the Pope and the Dictator | PBS - 1 views

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    Excellent workflow described here in getting to the truth online.
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."
Steve Ransom

iPod, iListen, iRead | Edutopia - 0 views

  • students are leading their own reading. They want to practice their speed, accuracy, and comprehension. The iPod makes personal a process that has been painfully public. No struggling reader likes to have his or her weaknesses exposed in a group, in front of the entire class or their reading circle. The iPod enables more intimate, 1:1 reading instruction between a student and a teacher listening to each other's voices in audio files.
  • Success becomes contagious
  • "There's less of me talking and more of them doing."
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    projects integrating ipods and voice recording to support reading fluency, english language learners, ... leading to large gains in reading achievement
Steve Ransom

Look Both Ways Before Crossing Powerpoint - 0 views

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    Great and visual slideshare press
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