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Martin Burrett

Tetris by n-blox - 11 views

www.freetetris.org/...nbloxFreeTetris.swf

game spatial awareness

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  • Martin Burrett on 26 Feb 12
     
    Tetris is a great game for practising spatial awareness and this is a good online flash version of the game. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Educational+Games
Martin Burrett

iNaturalist - 9 views

www.inaturalist.org

science biology nature photos photography record data observe

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  • Martin Burrett on 08 Mar 12
     
    A superb science site, perfect for a nature project. View and upload geo-tagged photos of animals and plants as you find them in your surroundings. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Martin Burrett

WorldMap - 8 views

worldmap.harvard.edu

maps Geography data map

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  • Martin Burrett on 07 Mar 12
     
    A useful map resource site where you can create and browse custom maps. A free registration is needed to create maps. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental
Vicki Davis

Kahoot! | Game-based blended learning & classroom response system - 3 views

getkahoot.com

education news gamification

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  • Martin Burrett on 31 Oct 13
     
    This has got to be the funkiest instant poll, quiz, response site around. Create questions, quizzes and polls with optional uploaded images for participants to complete in real time from a computer or mobile device. The users access the quiz by using a pin code. The 'question master' gets the data back instantly and it is stored on the site or can be downloaded. This is superb for checking the knowledge of children in your class or that your audience is still awake. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
  • Vicki Davis on 15 Apr 14
     
    Got this email from a teacher Hi Vicki- I love your blog, tweets and contributions to flipboard! I am a teacher at a local school district charter high school and appreciate your zeal for teaching and learning. I am not sure if you have heard about Kahoot! but wanted to ask you to check it out by following it on Twitter or watching a few youtube videos of Kahoot in action. I have no financial investment in it or any reason for recommending it other than how much we are enjoying using it at our school and how valuable a tool I believe it to be. Questions can be entered by students or teachers and pictures can be uploaded to each question to add visual appeal. The students can use computers, smart phones, tablets and don't have to have an account- they just log in to kahoot.it and then join the interactive quiz. Everyone gets so involved and passionate and it is great for reviews before tests or for supplemental instruction. The results can be viewed on a spreadsheet and provide formative assessments. It can be used for any ages and any subjects. I am so jazzed about this great new tool and hope you will be too. https://getkahoot.com Kathryn Lewallen Payson, AZ Payson Center for Success High School
edwardhilton

Should I Stop Assigning Homework? - Jessica Lahey - The Atlantic - 15 views

www.theatlantic.com/...279803

great articles

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    • edwardhilton
      edwardhilton on 20 Sep 13
       
      hello
  • Walter Antoniotti on 22 Sep 13
     
    It's a complicated question. Economic data is showing that only our best a brightest are receiving an economic benefit from the academic part of education. More that half going to college are making a poor economic decision. How academic is your group? Is there something they could do to prepare them to lead a more satisfying life?
carlos villalobos

educational-origami - home - 3 views

edorigami.wikispaces.com

all_teachers pedagogy education

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  • Educational Origami is a blog, and a wiki, about the integration of ICT into the classroom, this is one of the largest challenges that I feel we as teachers face. Marc Prensky coined the now popular and famous phrase "Digital natives and digital immigrants" in his two papers on digital Children. We the teachers are the immigrants and our students are the natives, brought up in a world where there has always been computers and the internet, where information is always instant and varied.I made this wiki on request from Miguel Guhlin after I blogged about matching ICT tools to traditional classroom practice and Bloom's Taxonomy.
  • Reggie Ryan on 30 Mar 08
     
    Nice start for rubrics for 2.0 projects
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  • Diane Hammond on 14 Apr 08
     
    Bloom's digital taxonomy with task rubrics
  • Vicki Davis on 15 Apr 08
     
    Incredible rubrics of all kinds for electronic media based upon Bloom's taxonomy.
  • Vicki Davis on 15 Apr 08
     
    Phenomenal page about integrating ICT into the classroom witha wide variety of rubrics based upon Bloom's taxonomy. You'll see blog journaling, wiki editing, threaded discussion, bookmarking rubrics, search rubrics, podcasting rubrics, audio conferencing, data analysis, and collaborative rubrics. I haven't been through all of these but would love it if we could go through them and work on them. They are in PDF format, but it would be great to share and edit them collaboratively. Very nice website.
  • anonymous on 29 May 08
     
    Educational Origami is a blog, and a wiki, about the integration of ICT into the classroom, this is one of the largest challenges that I feel we as teachers face. Its about 21st Century Learning and 21st Century Teaching. Marc Prensky coined the now popular and famous phrase "Digital natives and digital immigrants" in his two papers on digital Children. We the teachers are the immigrants and our students are the natives, brought up in a world where there has always been computers and the internet, where information is always instant and varied. Our teaching and their learning must reflect this.
  • carlos villalobos on 30 Oct 10
     
    Educational Origami is a blog , and a wiki, about 21st Century Learning and 21st Century Teaching.
David Wetzel

5 Ways to Integrate Science Process Skills in Lessons - 16 views

www.teachscienceandmath.com/...ence-process-skills-in-lessons

5 ways problem based learning project real data science process skills scientific knowledge

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  • David Wetzel on 21 Jun 10
     
    Integrating the science process skills within your teaching does not require drastic changes. It simply involves making the process of science more explicit in lessons, investigations, and activities you are already using in your curriculum. The science process skills are the methods used for helping our students understand how we know what we know about the world in which they live. This often means going beyond a science textbook and supplementing the core-content within textbooks. It also means using your course content as a means for exposing students to the real process of science.
Ed Webb

Princeton U. Decides to Shut Down Online Collection of Policy Videos - Wired Campus - T... - 3 views

chronicle.com/...25791

education video online policy politics

shared by Ed Webb on 28 Jul 10 - Cached
  • The University Channel Web site will shut down on November 3
  • Princeton (and other universities) can upload these videos onto their channel on YouTube (regular and .edu), which would actually make them available to a wider audience. They can also leverage their other social media channels (e.g., Twitter, Facebook and even their website) to promote the videos periodically. Rather than viewing this as a loss, I see this as a pragmatic, digital-era cost-saving measure that can also increase the opportunities to share this valuable content.
  • Articles like this aren't very helpful unless they provide readers key data, such as the yearly budget for running this sort of operation, and the traffic the service generated. Other information, such as why there are budget problems would be helpful.If there was little interest in this service, then paying for servers and bandwidth makes little sense. On the other hand, if there was a lot of interest, then finding alternative funding would seem to be something that Admins should be requested to do.Youtube is getting about 5B hits a month, so somebody is watching video out there.
David Wetzel

Stimulating Critical Thinking through a Technological Lens - 13 views

www.teachscienceandmath.com/...g-through-a-technological-lens

critical thinking data analysis science math teach learning teaching project based podcasting digital story telling spreadsheets

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  • David Wetzel on 04 Aug 10
     
    Stimulating critical thinking using technology has the potential to create more in depth understanding of science and math content by students when engaged in learning activities which integrate in-class and on-line technology resources. Technology tools support stimulation of both inquiry-based and critical thinking skills by engaging students in exploring, thinking, reading, writing, researching, inventing, problem-solving, and experiencing the world outside their classroom. This is accomplished through learning content through the lens of video to multimedia to the internet (Using Technology to Improve Student Achievement, NCREL, 2005).
Kim Yaris

Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com - Teachers use Facebook to update parents - 18 views

www.cnn.com/...nt.facebook.in.class.ketv.html

facebook social media

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  • Kim Yaris on 10 Sep 10
     
    Elementary teachers using facebook to communicate with parents, practice good grammar, and synthesize infomation. Wow!
David Hilton

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods - 0 views

www.visual-literacy.org/...periodic_table.html

teaching resources graphic organisers tools thinking charts templates

shared by David Hilton on 09 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Ric Murry on 14 Mar 09
     
    Visualization techniques - Data, Information, Concept, Strategy, Metaphor, Compound Brilliant.
Terry Elliott

World Without Walls: Learning Well with Others | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/age-technology-will-richardson

shared by Terry Elliott on 16 Dec 08 - Cached
  • We must also expand our ability to think critically about the deluge of information now being produced by millions of amateur authors without traditional editors and researchers as gatekeepers. In fact, we need to rely on trusted members of our personal networks to help sift through the sea of stuff, locating and sharing with us the most relevant, interesting, useful bits. And we have to work together to organize it all, as long-held taxonomies of knowledge give way to a highly personalized information environment.
    • Jeff Richardson
      Jeff Richardson on 16 Dec 08
       
      Good reason for teaching dig citizenship
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Dec 08
       
      What Will suggests here is rising complexity, but for this to succeed we don't need to fight our genetic heritage. Put yourself on the Serengeti plains, a hunter-gatherer searching for food. You are thinking critically about a deluge of data coming through your senses (modern folk discount this idea, but any time in jobs that require observation in the 'wild' (farming comes to mind) will disabuse you rather quickly that the natural world is providing a clear channel.) You are not only relying upon your own 'amateur' abilities but those of your family and extended family to filter the noise of the world to get to the signal. This tribe is the original collaborative model and if we do not try to push too hard against this still controlling 'mean gene' then we will as a matter of course become a nation of collaborative learning tribes.
  • Collaboration in these times requires our students to be able to seek out and connect with learning partners, in the process perhaps navigating cultures, time zones, and technologies. It requires that they have a vetting process for those they come into contact with: Who is this person? What are her passions? What are her credentials? What can I learn from her?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Dec 08
       
      Aye, aye, captain. This is the classic problem of identity and authenticity. Can I trust this person on all the levels that are important for this particular collaboration? A hidden assumption here is that students have a passion themselves to learn something from these learning partners. What will be doing in this collaboration nation to value the ebb and flow of these learners' interests? How will we handle the idiosyncratic needs of the child who one moment wants to be J.K.Rowling and the next Madonna. Or both? What are the unintended consequences of creating an truly collaborative nation? Do we know? Would this be a 'worse' world for the corporations who seek our dollars and our workers? Probably. It might subvert the corporation while at the same moment create a new body of corporate cooperation. Isn't it pretty to think so.
  • Likewise, we must make sure that others can locate and vet us.
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  • technical know-how is not enough. We must also be adept at negotiating, planning, and nurturing the conversation with others we may know little about -- not to mention maintaining a healthy balance between our face-to-face and virtual lives (another dance for which kids sorely need coaching).
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Dec 08
       
      All of these skills are technical know how. We differentiate between hard and soft skills when we should be showing how they are all of a piece. I am so far from being an adequate coach on all of these matters it appalls me. I feel like the teacher who is one day ahead of his students and fears any question that skips ahead to chapters I have not read yet.
  • The Collaboration Age comes with challenges that often cause concern and fear. How do we manage our digital footprints, or our identities, in a world where we are a Google search away from both partners and predators? What are the ethics of co-creation when the nuances of copyright and intellectual property become grayer each day? When connecting and publishing are so easy, and so much of what we see is amateurish and inane, how do we ensure that what we create with others is of high quality?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Dec 08
       
      Partners and predators? OK, let's not in any way go down this road. This is the road our mainstream media has trod to our great disadvantage as citizens. These are not co-equal. Human brains are not naturally probablistic computer. We read about a single instance of internet predation and we equate it with all the instances of non-predation. We all have zero tolerance policies against guns in the school, yet our chances of being injured by those guns are fewer than a lightning strike. We cannot ever have this collaborative universe if we insist on a zero probability of predation. That is why, for good and ill, schools will never cross that frontier. It is in our genes. "Better safe than sorry" vs. "Risks may be our safeties in disguise."
  • Students are growing networks without us, writing Harry Potter narratives together at FanFiction.net, or trading skateboarding videos on YouTube. At school, we disconnect them not only from the technology but also from their passion and those who share it.
  • The complexities of editing information online cannot be sequestered and taught in a six-week unit. This has to be the way we do our work each day.
  • The process of collaboration begins with our willingness to share our work and our passions publicly -- a frontier that traditional schools have rarely crossed.
  • Look no further than Wikipedia to see the potential; say what you will of its veracity, no one can deny that it represents the incredible potential of working with others online for a common purpose.
  • The technologies we block in their classrooms flourish in their bedrooms
  • Anyone with a passion for something can connect to others with that same passion -- and begin to co-create and colearn the same way many of our students already do.
  • I believe that is what educators must do now. We must engage with these new technologies and their potential to expand our own understanding and methods in this vastly different landscape. We must know for ourselves how to create, grow, and navigate these collaborative spaces in safe, effective, and ethical ways. And we must be able to model those shifts for our students and counsel them effectively when they run across problems with these tools.
  • Jeff Richardson on 16 Dec 08
     
    Article by Wil Richardson on Collaboration
Eloise Pasteur

Clark Aldrich's Style Guide for Serious Games and Simulations: A Taxonomy of Interactivity - 0 views

clarkaldrich.blogspot.com/...taxonomy-of-interactivity.html

interactive_taxonomy learning_taxonomy taxonomy teaching

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  • Many conversations around interactivity in formal learning programs rests on the tools. Does WebEx allow polling? Can you have threaded conversations in Second Life? What if you gave keypads to members of an audience? And those are all good questions. But at the same time, we need to nurture cultures around interactivity that are independent of any technology. We need vocabulary and expectations around interactivity itself.Here's a suggestion, hopefully useful in practice if not in theory:
  • Level 0: The instructor speaks regardless of audience.
  • Level 1: The instructor pauses and asks single answer questions of the students.
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  • Level 2: The instructor tests the audience and based on the collective response, skips ahead or backtracks.
  • Level 3: The instructor asks multiple choice questions of the audience, where a student might have the opportunity to defend different answers, or the instructor asks real time polling questions for data.
  • Level 5: Students engage labs or other activities and create unique content; however, most solutions will fall into fairly common patterns if done enough times.
  • Level 4: Students engage labs or other activities that have a single, typically process solution, such as putting together an engine.
  • Level 6: The students engage in long, open ended activities, such as writing a story or creating and executing a plan, and where the class "ends up" is unpredictable.
  • Culture, not TechnologyBut again, while technology examples are included, all of this can be done in a traditional classroom.
  • The implication is not that Level 6 should always be used. Most programs will start ideally at Level 1, and then transition to Level 3, 4, 5, or even 6 as quickly as possible.
  • Eloise Pasteur on 17 Aug 08
     
    A discussion of, and model for how interactive your classes are - with a bias towards technology but the feet firmly in teaching in general.
anonymous

U.S. official says online drug videos threaten teens | Reuters - 0 views

www.reuters.com/...idUSTRE4960Z620081007

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  • The director of the White House war on drugs said on Monday that Internet videos that show people getting high pose a dangerous threat to teenagers by encouraging them to use drugs and alcohol.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 07 Oct 08
       
      It would be ineresting to see a STUDY on this. While I agree it is not good for kids to see -- we also need to see correlation before we jump into things. I still think that a rating system for youtube and online videos is needed to aid in filtering for age appropriateness.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Oct 08
       
      Unfortunately very few political decisions (and this kind of thing is always political) are made basd on data or research.
  • "Parents would be horrified to think that people are sneaking into their house to encourage their kids to build a bong or to chug on beer at age 13," Walters said. "The fact is those people are sneaking into your house through your Internet connection on your computer," he said.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Oct 08
       
      Responsible, internet-aware parenting is necessary--you wouldn't let a stranger in your house to talk to your kids, so why are you letting them view these videos?
Vicki Davis

"Unprecedented Force for Change"-Dan Tapscott's Keynote - Horizon Project 2008 - 0 views

horizonproject2008.ning.com/...show

edu_trends education technology

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  • Dan Tapscott, Horizon Project 2008’s keynote speaker, gave me insight and inspiration for the project. His knowledgeable comments on the baby boom generation were incredible and it amazed me that he decided to make his entire living on the study of the digital generation, the generation that I am a part of.
  • I am a part of the generation that is an “unprecedented force for change,” and we are actively inducing and creating change that will be beneficial and relevant to the world today and tomorrow.
  • I agree that technology must be at the center of this change in order for it to be effective.
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  • Enter technology; students can learn from each other by collaboration through technological advances such as wikis, blogs, You Tube, Facebook, and projects such as Flat Classroom and Horizon.
  • I really agree with both of what you two are saying, but my question remains, (in an attempt not to sound too cynical): how is this going to happen? I know that Dan Tapscott seeks to view change in the education system, but my question is, how is this going to happen?
  • with our advanced, technological world, we must not only acknowledge the new technologies emerging but we must gain knowledge on how to use them.
  • f school became an interactive place where both students and teachers put their two cents in: teachers teaching students, students teaching students, teachers sharing ideas and students executing these ideas-school would be great. If we all focus on change and ways to make interactive learning better we could reach so many people! Not only can we interact with each other but we can raise awareness and pose solutions on the many issues regarding education.
  • Teachers are no longer “transmitters of data,” but active participants in the student’s learning process.
  • but the real issue is, in so many places education is rigid and all about regurgitation of information. How do we look past that? Is it a mindset that we need to learn how to transgress, or is it a gradually changing aspect?
  • Vicki Davis on 15 Apr 08
     
    Students talking about trends on the Horizon report are amazing me!
Art Gelwicks

No videoconference to Williamsburg - I'm sad » Moving at the Speed of Creativity - 0 views

www.speedofcreativity.org/...ference-to-williamsburg-im-sad

shared by Art Gelwicks on 21 May 08 - Cached
  • but we’ll do so from our church, away from school, and we will not involve any Edmond PS students in the videoconference to comply with the directive from the district technology director. I did not realize the district forbids any parents or students from using any type of personal computer and outside Internet connection device (like my cell network data card) to provide an interactive learning opportunity for students. Now I know.
  • Art Gelwicks on 21 May 08
     
    Yet another district technology director giving the rest of us a bad name. Good grief....justify yourself without using the paranoid buzzphrase, "To Protect the Children!"
  • Art Gelwicks on 21 May 08
     
    Why are we afraid to confront district technology personnel and administrators over knee-jerk tragic decisions like this?
Brian C. Smith

Technology Literacy - 0 views

www.emsc.nysed.gov/...TechLit_Dfn.html

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  • workplace
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 16 Jun 08
       
      Will all students work in a "global workplace"?
  • NY State Basic Education Data System (BEDS) requires information on computer literacy for federal reporting.
Brian C. Smith

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...google

shared by Brian C. Smith on 11 Jun 08 - Cached
  • What the Internet is doing to our brains
  • A new e-mail message, for instance, may announce its arrival as we’re glancing over the latest headlines at a newspaper’s site. The result is to scatter our attention and diffuse our concentration.
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 17 Jun 08
       
      Some might call this multitasking... but "good" multitasking needs to be purposeful. Those who can filter those attention scattering and diffusing interuptions just may be getting smarter.
  • Most of the proprietors of the commercial Internet have a financial stake in collecting the crumbs of data we leave behind as we flit from link to link—the more crumbs, the better. The last thing these companies want is to encourage leisurely reading or slow, concentrated thought. It’s in their economic interest to drive us to distraction.
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 17 Jun 08
       
      All the more reason to educate students on social media literacy with a purpose.
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  • He couldn’t foresee the many ways that writing and reading would serve to spread information, spur fresh ideas, and expand human knowledge (if not wisdom).
  • And because they would be able to “receive a quantity of information without proper instruction,” they would “be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant.”
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 17 Jun 08
       
      Nothing's different here. In fact, I might argue that it is even more important that we have "proper instruction".
  • They would be “filled with the conceit of wisdom instead of real wisdom.”
  • emotionlessness that characterizes the human figures in the film, who go about their business with an almost robotic efficiency. Their thoughts and actions feel scripted, as if they’re following the steps of an algorithm.
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 17 Jun 08
       
      Is this where education/teaching is headed if it does not embrace technology for the freedom it offers learners?
Reggie Ryan

Techlearning > > Digital Age Assessment: Part 2 > April 22, 2008 - 0 views

www.techlearning.com/...showArticle.php

best_practice techlearning

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  • Reggie Ryan on 01 May 08
     
    Technology and assessment- how tech can integrate into growing demand for assessment data and personal learning communities
  • Reggie Ryan on 01 May 08
     
    A look at how technology use in formative assessments improves feedback and reporting opportunities.
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