This is at the heart of Professional Networked Learning Collaboratives. Combining the elements of the physical and virtual information and idea sharing.
Here a student simply highlights the information she needs to review later in her document (wiki, MS Word, presentation, etc.) in order to analyze the information for her needs.
By gathering the information needed, the student is able to synthesize the ideas into his/her own connections
In addition, after students write online (Google Docs, Wikis), the teacher can “Diigo” feedback. What was well done in the writing? What still needs improvement? This fifth grade student read the first annotation about the need to add examples.
Through individual or collaborative Diigo annotations, students connect to facts in ways that allow comprehension and connections that deepen their understanding. Through Diigo annotations for feedback, students easily understand what aspects of their writing need improvement. Diigo is our friend in the writing classroom.
Here a student simply highlights the information she needs to review later in her document (wiki, MS Word, presentation, etc.) in order to analyze the information for her needs.
...Through individual or collaborative Diigo annotations, students connect to facts in ways that allow comprehension and connections that deepen their understanding. Through Diigo annotations for feedback, students easily understand what aspects of their writing need improvement. Diigo is our friend in the writing classroom.
Check the Facts! Cross Check the Facts! Lessons & Media
Fact checking is essential in a (mis) information rich environment.
Brilliant resource from the Annenberg Public Policy Center
FactChecked.org
Luckily, FactCheck.org also has a highly developed classroom section that provides in-depth lesson plans and media links. These are highly polished materials for educators seeking a way to teach critical thinking and evaluation skills to their students. The Lesson Plan Archive ( http://www.factchecked.org/LessonPlans.aspx ) will intrigue any educator looking for a way to engage students. These plans are edgy and up to date. If you've been looking for a way to teach thinking and evaluation of media.
Superb resources for anyone interested in teaching website evaluation, critical thinking, media literacy or 21st Century learning skills in general.
FactCheck.org and FactCheckEd.org are essential tools for living in this part of the century. 8-)
a growing number of children are flouting age requirements on sites such as Facebook and MySpace, or using social-networking sites designed just for them.
which some therapists have linked to Internet addiction among adults
In two surveys reported this year by Pew Internet Research -- of 700 and 935 teens, respectively -- 38 percent of respondents ages 12 to 14 said they had an online profile of some sort.
Important article to read about children of all ages creating profiles. I believe this supports our driving need to incorporate instruction and discussion on this topic in schools.
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Kids are presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative. (See the full list of features.)
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"Sophia connects people who want to learn with those willing to teach so that anyone, anywhere can create academically credible content and share it with the world."
social teaching and learning application that makes free, credible academic content available to anyone at anytime. It is a mission-driven organization that aims to break traditional cost and access barriers to post-secondary degree attainment. For more information, go to www.sophia.org.
This press release tells more about Sophia.
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There is some ambiguity about what they actually published online, however. The question asked them not to include digital versions of their print books or journal articles in their count, but most said their work was published on a journal’s site (Figure 5)
And we expect students to read the instructions! If they did, I suspect a lack of understanding about the sites involved.
Use of new media to do something new or different with the scholarship was a very minor consideration, however. Less than 40 percent of the respondents who had considered publishing online listed linking to other materials, publishing additional sources, or telling their stories in a new way as part of their thinking.
there was a significant difference between the power users and the rest of the published historians on these issues, as they were two to three times more likely to emphasize doing something new or different with the medium as the value of publishing online.
Learning goes deep.
Evidence of higher order thinking.
Real and substantive conversations.
Personal learning.
Autonomy, mastery, purpose, choice, self-direction.
21st century skills integration.
Reflecting
But the past couple of weeks there’s been a rolling stone gathering lots of moss- and that stone is Scoop.it.
Well, I haven’t seen much happen with Scoop.it and educators for the past few months, but then something big happened: Scoop.it launched Scoop.it for Education.
I know many educators are fond of Paper.li, another link/newspaper tool, but I’ve never found that paper-like experience to be of much value, because it’s so… bland.
Paper.li creates these “news” papers based on the people you follow on Twitter, not on your Tweets. Scoop.it creates their paper based on your Scoop.it bookmarks, so it is somewhat more of an authentic experience.
In an effort to counteract this I would like to make my ebook Digital Video - A manual for language teachers freely available to anyone without the means to pay for it who is willing to help me with a little research project.