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

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  • Steve Ransom on 04 Nov 12
     
    A nice listing of potential outcomes of blogging with students and having students blog themselves.
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Clive Thompson on Why Kids Can't Search | Magazine - 0 views

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  • 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.
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  • 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

We Need Teachers, Not Facilitators! : Stager-to-Go - 0 views

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

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  • 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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      Steve Ransom on 02 Nov 12
       
      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.
  • Steve Ransom on 02 Nov 12
     
    Excellent suggestions pertinent to EDTS 523 and those new/struggling with education technology. Start small. Just keep growing.
Steve Ransom

Class Blog: Student Faces Are Not Necessary to be Successful - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 19 Sep 13
     
    Yes, you can use photos of students successfully in online spaces without showing faces. There are a few nice sample teacher permission slips here to take a look at. Taking photos is so easy today. Even studens can take them for blog posts. Cropping off or blurring faces if necessary is also easily done.
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College Librarians Can Help with Student Research Assignments | Faculty Focus - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 17 Oct 11
     
    As discussed in class, college students are struggling more and more with information literacy skills related to research. Ask a librarian for help!!
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eSchool News » On ed tech, we're asking the wrong question » Print - 0 views

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

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  • 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?
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Math Movies - home - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 28 Feb 13
     
    So many great multipmedia projects here done by elementary teachers and students. Relevance. Audience. Learning.
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Three Classroom Blogging Tips for Teachers | transformED - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 20 Mar 13
     
    Great ideas for getting a blogging project started with students in your classroom!
Steve Ransom

Mrs. Yollis' Classroom Blog: Video: The Benefits of Blogging! - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 30 Apr 13
     
    Nice videos made by Mrs. Yollis and her 3rd grade students. She is a fantastic teacher who integrates technology and shares what she does really well. If you are an elementary teacher, her classroom blog is a great one to subscribe to with your RSS reader.
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Bring Your Own Device: A Guide for Schools - 0 views

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    This guide examines the use of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) models in schools. It looks at the potential opportunities and benefits, as well as the considerations, risks and implications that arise when schools allow students and staff to use personally owned devices in the classroom and school environments. Strategies, tips and techniques are included to address the considerations and manage the risks.
  • Steve Ransom on 30 Oct 12
     
    A great example of where school districts are heading regarding students bringing their own devices to school for learning. It's full of theoretical benefits, risks, and things to think about.
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Ban on teacher-student online talk is blocked, will be revised - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 29 Aug 11
     
    Ban on teacher-student online talk is blocked, will be revised
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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
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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.
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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.
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Column: Futile fight on student tweets - 0 views

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  • Free speech is not free of consequences. It's a lesson better learned early than late.
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