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Dave Truss

ELT notes: IWBs and the Fallacy of Integration - 7 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 20 Apr 10 - Cached
  • motivation and control. One seems to need the other, apparently. Keep the students motivated and you are a great teacher in control of the learning process. But we miss the point. Motivation has a short-term effect. New things will be old again. If we equal motivation with learning we will cling too much to it and direct our best efforts (and school budget) to gaining back control. A useless cycle that can lead us to consider extremely double-edged ideas like paying students to keep them learning.
  • We need autonomous, self-motivated students in love with the process of how humanity has learnt.
  • There is a underlying idea in the framing of our questions that needs unlearning. The belief that there are "levels", layers of complexity, hierarchies that we can detect and... well, control. But wait! Isn't that the very old way we want to truly change with new technologies?
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  • We already know it's about shifting power. Tight teacher control is a hindrance to foster empowered students who own their learning paths. We need to be aware of the old way finding its way to surface in what we question.
  • Tech is tech no matter what it does. It's innovative in its nature.
  • We can tell by the huge resistance to it. If there is no resistance in the process, we are probably facing improvements and weighing their gains in efficiency points. Good enough, only it is not an innovation. Innovation is not about "more or better", it's about "different".
  • What is the school picture today? What does my working context look like?I see an illusion that technology is to be bought, taught, used in class and then we can expect everyone to be happy. This false assumption seems to be guiding managerial decisions. This is the same old story behind the idea of technology "integration".
  • I doubt formal courses can make people adopt informal ways of learning. Courses could change teacher behaviour and leave their mindset untouched.
  • students are not digital natives. They know very little about educational uses of the technology they have been using for entertainment purposes only. They are quite ready to resist thoughtful, time consuming uses of the same technology. Particularly if they have had no part in choosing or deciding together with the teacher how we would use it.
  • First things first. Stay out of the tug-of-war. It is not a moment to think if the school is wrong in imposing it and teachers are right in resisting it. It's probably the moment to get together and go ahead purposefully. This is short-term thinking, though. Somehow teachers need to communicate to managers that the buy-don't-ask is an unhealthy approach from now on.
  • Ideally, we should envision a future where authorities engage teachers in conversations before buying.
  • Innovative teaching practices require innovative management practices. Let's think of adoption models that rely on having one-to-one conversations with teachers, experimenting together, asking them how far they feel they need mentoring, identifying what makes teachers happy at work.
  • Dave Truss on 20 Apr 10
     
    We need autonomous, self-motivated students in love with the process of how humanity has learnt.
David Wetzel

What is the Technology Footprint in Your Classroom? - 18 views

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shared by David Wetzel on 30 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • David Wetzel on 30 Jan 11
     
    Strategies and techniques are provided regarding the benefits of using digital tools to support teaching and learning in any content area or grade level.
Vicki Davis

Pinterest / Search results for #classrules - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 11 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 11 Jul 12
     
    If you're on pinterest and use the hashtag #classrules in the description it will show up on this lovely board. This is an example of how hashtags can do incredible things on Pinterest (like on Twitter.) Now is the time to share these.
Vicki Davis

Brain breaks kids love - GoNoodle - 10 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 04 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 04 Feb 14
     
    I don't know that I'd market "brain breaks" as a way to get "classroom control" but I guess that is what some teachers want. I am fascinated by how Brain Breaks are trending on Twitter as many teachers are using them so I guess I"m going to sign up for Go Noodle and see what the fuss is about. Any of you using this tool/ website?
Vicki Davis

Humorous Grammar Rules - 1 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 03 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 03 Aug 09
     
    English teachers will enjoy these humorous grammar rules that have been circulating through twitter. These would be fun to share and use.
Vicki Davis

Teaching Resources, Classroom Resources & Lesson Plans - TES Resources - 10 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 04 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 04 Nov 11
     
    Bev Evans is very popular Special needs teacher in the UK who has shared over 500 free resources for teachers that she uses with her students. She has a child with special needs and is just a cool person. @tes_sen is her twitter handle. She is definitely one that special needs teachers want to follow.
Megan Black

SoapBox - Transform your lecture in real-time - 18 views

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shared by Megan Black on 06 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Megan Black on 06 Oct 11
     
    This Back channel tool has a profanity filter that does not allow most inappropriate messages to be posted. Below is from their website.  Teach more effectively. SoapBox is a controlled digital space, designed to improve student engagement by breaking down the barriers students face when deciding whether or not to participate in class, and gives teachers a concrete assessment of student comprehension, in real time.
Maggie Verster

Response to a Criticism about Using Twitter in the Classroom - 7 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 03 Nov 09 - Cached
  • After all, kids can write all kinds of nonsense on a sheet of paper and spread it around school, as well; they've been doing that for generations. Yet, I don't see too many teachers wondering whether we should allow them to write.
Art Gelwicks

Comment on: Fluffy thinking in the edtech community…a waste of energy and time - 0 views

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shared by Art Gelwicks on 15 Apr 08 - Cached
  • I’m not saying there isn’t a place and a time for strategic thinking, what I’m saying is that the edublogosphere is loaded to the freakin’ gills with it. How many ways can you discuss the innate digital skills of middle school students before realizing it’s worth more to talk about what works and doesn’t work with them. In this case the why is truly “academic”. We’ve twittered, blogged, bookmarked, tagged, forwarded, and flogged this horse to an amazing degree. What I don’t see is the same amount of energy in capturing what’s been done with the students, the successes and failures, in anything longer than 140 characters. If we want our teachers to learn to fish, we have to show them how to bait the hook and cast the line…not wonder if the fish are truly hungry.
  • voicethread.com used in first grade classroom so students are participating in asynchronous conversation and everyone gets to share on topic chosen by teacher. Combined with short recordings from audio enhancement classroom system help the teacher quickly post new content from class to the site.
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      Art Gelwicks on 17 Apr 08
       
      This is the type of practical example I'm talking about. 30,000 ft. talk is great...only if you're able to land the plane too.
  • Art Gelwicks on 15 Apr 08
     
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Brenda Muench

City Brights: Howard Rheingold : 21st Century Literacies - 0 views

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shared by Brenda Muench on 11 Apr 09 - Cached
  • And don't swallow the myth of the digital native. Just because your teens Facebook, IM, and Youtube, don't assume they know the rhetoric of blogging, collective knowledge gathering techniques of taggers and social bookmarkers, collaborative norms of wiki work, how to tune and feed a Twitter network, the art of multimedia argumentation - and, by far most importantly, online crap detection.
  • I teach courses today on social media issues at Stanford and Berkeley.
  • The most important critical uncertainty today is how many of us learn to use digital media and networks effectively, reasonably, credibly, collaboratively, civilly, humanely.
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  • They accept "information" from "news" sources simply because they are known television news stations
Vicki Davis

Professor tries improving lectures by removing them from class | Inside Higher Ed - 7 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 16 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 16 Nov 11
     
    This case study in Inside Higher Ed about Professor Mike Garver (Central Michigan University - Marketing) shows how this professor is giving lectures by no longer giving lectures. Interestingly, he talks about how Bloom's Taxonomy impacted his change in style. This article ALSO includes a video and I totally applaud the journal of higher ed for including a video. There are so many articles talking about a "great teacher" doing this or "great professor" doing that - SHOW ME. This article did just that. Applause to Inside higher ed and Steve Kolowich - give us more articles like this. If you're in higher ed or a teacher in high school - this is a great read. "It's a good way to, in his words, 'Put a movie in your mind,'
Vicki Davis

80+ Google Forms for the Classroom | edte.ch - 28 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 19 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 19 Mar 12
     
    An incredible set of Google forms that you can use in your classroom. One tip - never collect emails or you violate Google's terms of service and can lose access to the spreadsheet like we did with our Eracism project last week.
kerrygorgone

University World News - US: Professors and social media - 7 views

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shared by kerrygorgone on 10 May 10 - Cached
  • The data suggest that 80% of professors, with little variance by age, have at least one account with either Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Skype, LinkedIn, MySpace, Flickr, Slideshare or Google Wave. Nearly 60% kept accounts with more than one, and a quarter used at least four. A majority, 52%, said they used at least one of them as a teaching tool.
  • kerrygorgone on 10 May 10
     
    This brief blog post on social media usage among educators links out to the more detailed report. Highlight: 80% of professors have at least one account on a social networking platform.
Martin Burrett

Social Media Profile by @digicoled - 2 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 04 Jan 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 04 Jan 18
     
    "Printable template of a Social Media Profile. Write profiles during school trips, as historical or fictional figures, and many more possiblilities."
David Wetzel

12 Expert Twitter Tips for the Classroom: Social Networking Classroom Activities That E... - 15 views

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shared by David Wetzel on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • David Wetzel on 30 Mar 10
     
    A dozen activities are presented for using an online education technology tool to engage students in classroom activities to develop a better understanding of concepts.
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