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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

Ten Tips for Becoming a Connected Educator | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 22 Mar 13
     
    Good suggestions toward getting better connected to a vibrant learning community. Try ONE thing... Baby steps
Steve Ransom

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

Google Forms - BrentColey.com - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 15 Mar 13
     
    3 nice video screencasts for anyone who needs a little help/support in using Google Forms.
Steve Ransom

Is there white smoke? by guardiannews.com - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 13 Mar 13
     
    Visual notification website for the status of the papal election. How funny.
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

ESOL Teaching Strategies - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 09 Mar 13
     
    Nice document linking teaching strategies for ESOL students to technologies that can support them in the learning
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.
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

Math Mistakes: « more or less CCSS aligned. - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 06 Mar 13
     
    A great blog for a HS math teacher to follow...
Steve Ransom

Principal: 'I was naïve about Common Core' - 0 views

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  • The Common Core places an extraordinary emphasis on vocabulary development
    • Steve Ransom
      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.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 06 Mar 13
       
      Best quotation of the day!
Steve Ransom

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.
Steve Ransom

If Education Technology Was A Baseball Team - Edudemic - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 26 Feb 13
     
    A great, practical collection of tools and services that can be easily integrated into your teacher toolbelt and used with both students and parents.
Steve Ransom

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

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  • Steve Ransom on 02 Feb 13
     
    Let's teach kids to code
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