The New Face of Learning: The Internet Breaks School Walls Down | Edutopia - 1 views
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I can say without hesitation that all my traditional educational experiences combined, everything from grade school to grad school, have not taught me as much about learning and being a learner as blogging has. My ability to easily consume other people's ideas, share my own in return, and communicate with other educators around the world has led me to dozens of smart, passionate teachers from whom I learn every day. It's also led me to technologies and techniques that leverage this newfound network in ways that look nothing like what's happening in traditional classrooms.
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In many schools and even states, it's been, rather, a movement to block and bust: no blogs, no cell phones, no IM. We take away the powerful social technologies our kids are already using to learn and, in doing so, tell them their own tools are irrelevant. Or, instead of using the complex and challenging phenomenon of a site such as Wikipedia to teach the realities of navigating information in this new world, we prohibit its use. In fact, at this writing, the U.S. legislature is in the process of deciding whether schools and libraries should have access to any of the potential of the Read/Write Web at all. When you read this, blogs and wikis and podcasts (and much more) may be things that students (and teachers) can access and create only from off-campus.
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I wonder whether, twenty-five or fifty years from now, when four or five billion people are connecting online, the real story of these times won't be the more global tests and transformations these technologies offered. How, as educators and learners, did we respond? Did we embrace the potentials of a connected, collaborative world and put our creative imaginations to work to reenvision our classrooms? Did we use these new tools to develop passionate, fearless, lifelong learners? Did we ourselves become those learners?
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I can say without hesitation that all my traditional educational experiences combined, everything from grade school to grad school, have not taught me as much about learning and being a learner as blogging has. My ability to easily consume other people's ideas, share my own in return, and communicate with other educators around the world has led me to dozens of smart, passionate teachers from whom I learn every day. It's also led me to technologies and techniques that leverage this newfound network in ways that look nothing like what's happening in traditional classrooms.
The Voice of the Classroom - 0 views
BLOGGING USING WEB 2.0 AND SOCIAL MEDIA IN XXI CENTURY EDUCATION: gr8 #edtech20 stiky n... - 0 views
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gr8 #edtech20 stiky note /websites who can be used free on-line in your projects or in your classroom part 1 https://twitter.com/#!/web20education
Social Media Classroom - 2 views
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celledu - NECC 2009 - 0 views
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This wiki is dedicated to the integration of cellular technology into the classroom curriculum: Cell Phones (CP), Short Message Services (SMS), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), and Direct Inward Dialing (DID). It was created for the ISTE National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) 2009, in Washington, D.C. Please contact me if you have something I should share. Mail to: wardc@lake.k12.fl.us
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Pearson Presents: Learning to Change - Practical Theory - 0 views
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I remain very, very concerned with the notion that all we have to do is let the kids connect with the world -- just like they do on Facebook or MySpace -- and the kids will learn. There's a fallacy there, and my experience with how much really deep teaching of digital ethics we've had to do at SLA to counter all that the kids come in the door thinking about the digital world.
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Because nowhere in that talk
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is there much of an honest discussion of just how hard implementation of these ideas actually is.
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I remain very, very concerned with the notion that all we have to do is let the kids connect with the world.... There's a fallacy there, and my experience with how much really deep teaching of digital ethics we've had to do at SLA to counter all that the kids come in the door thinking about the digital world.
Wikis in the classroom: a reflection. | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts - 0 views
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1. Scaffolding
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2. Time Line
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3. Experts
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K-State students' video assignments make their way around the world, drawing more than ... - 0 views
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But assignments in Michael Wesch's anthropology classes at Kansas State University have been seen around the world and by as many as 1.5 million other people.
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The video is up for a YouTube award for most inspirational video of 2007.
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The other video assignment is more research-based, Wesch said.
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