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Vicki Davis

Tips from School Improvement Leaders ~ Leading Your School Through a School Improvement... - 5 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 16 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 16 Jun 11
     
    7 pointers on school improvement. Make sure you delve down into the expanded conversation of these 7 down on the webpage.
Clint Hamada

Future School: Reshaping Learning from the Ground Up | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Clint Hamada on 20 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Clint Hamada on 20 Apr 09
     
    Here's a complaint you often hear: We spend a lot of money on education, so why isn't all that money having a better result? It's because we're doing the same thing over and over again. We're holding 40 or 50 million kids prisoner for x hours a week. And the teacher is given a set of rules as to what you're going to say to the students, how you're going to treat them, what you want the output to be, and let no child be left behind. But there's a very narrow set of outcomes. I think you have to open the system to new ideas.
Dave Truss

Education Innovation: Nokia's 4th Screen and The Future Open Model of Education - 0 views

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  • Dave Truss on 14 Jul 09
     
    The Fourth Screen allows the user to leave the virtual community behind and take the technology to their actual community. The Fourth Screen allows the user to take advantage of the ability to create, share, collect, and comment, with their virtual or real community.
Fabian Aguilar

American Cultures 2.0 - 0 views

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  • If we want students to become citizens who understand their role as a citizen then we need to teach them to understand and respect the power of questions.
  • Without the freedom and courage to ask that paradigm shifting question then progress and innovation would cease to exist and we would become slaves to our past and out-dated solutions.
  • The power of just one word can totally change the meaning of something as intrinsic as national identity.
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  • The more students have an opportunity to read, speak and write the more they are going to understand the power of words.
  • The moment students craft words meant not just for the teacher and a few other peers, but for the wider world, is the moment students learn that a misplaced, mispronounced, or misspelled word has consequences far beyond a grade. These authentic learning opportunities are crucial to prepare students for the new realities of a more global and transparent world.
  • Students (and teachers) need to understand that everything they do communicates, whether they know what they are communicating or not.
  • Once students really figure out who they are and what they stand for then they can more comfortably be themselves. However, an important social skill that many students have difficulty grasping is knowing appropriate social norms in various settings.
  • Anyone can be a teacher... if you are alert and willing to learn from others. We need to teach students to be alert and willing to learn from sources other than textbooks. We need to teach students how to create and cultivate learning from a personal learning network, in order to extend the traditional capabilities of school from the limited hours of the school day to the unlimited hours beyond the school day. The informal classroom of life offers lessons far more valuable than the classroom if only we are open to learning from each other each and every day.
Ruth Howard

More from Ponoko | Beyond The Beyond - 0 views

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shared by Ruth Howard on 26 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Ponoko and ShopBot announce partnership
  • More than 20,000 online creators meet over 6,000 digital fabricators
  • The launch today of www.100kGarages.com begins a new chapter in how things are made and distributed, enabling anyone with an Internet connection to get almost anything custom made and delivered from local state-of-the-art digital makers.
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  • The website is a partnership between Ponoko, the world’s easiest making system, and ShopBot, a world leader in the design of affordable, high-performance digital making tools. Using the 100kGarages website anyone can get their ideas made locally with the click of a mouse, and delivered within just a few days. It is powered by Ponoko’s online ‘click to make’ system and ShopBot digital fabricators in 54 countries around the world. For the innovators who President Obama called “the risk takers, the doers, and the makers of things”, 100kGarages is an exciting new service for everyone who wants to get things made – by making it yourself or finding someone to make it for you.
  • www.100kGarages.com
  • Ponoko, the world’s easiest making system, is an online marketplace for everyone to make real things. It’s where creators, digital fabricators, materials suppliers and buyers meet to make almost anything. More than 30,000 user-generated designs have been instantly priced online, made and delivered since Ponoko was selected to launch at TechCrunch40 in 2007. Ponoko has reinvented how goods are designed, made and distributed
  • ShopBot Tools designs and manufactures low-cost, high-value CNC tools for digital fabrication of wood, plastic and aluminum products.
  • Ruth Howard on 26 Sep 09
     
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Willy Kjellstrom

Copyright, Fair Use, and Teaching and Learning Innovation in a Web 2.0 World | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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  • Willy Kjellstrom on 29 Jul 09
     
    This ECAR research bulletin reviews some of the basic tenets of copyright in the digital millennium. Specifically, it discusses the ways in which copyright law, fair use provisions, and the TEACH Act interact with today's teaching and learning, especially the use of Web 2.0 tools by both faculty members and students.
Ruth Howard

Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age | HASTAC - 0 views

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shared by Ruth Howard on 15 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Forms and models of learning have evolved quickly and in fundamentally new directions.
  • All these acts are collaborative and democratic, and all occur amid a worldwide community of voices.
  • Self-learning: Today’s learners are self-learners.
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  • Today’s learning is interactive and without walls. Individuals learn anywhere, anytime, and with greater ease than ever before. Learning today blurs lines of expertise and tears down barriers to admission. While it has never been confined solely to the academy, today’s opportunities for independent learning have never been easier nor more diverse.
  • with participatory learning and digital media, these conventional modes of authority break down.
  • They create their own paths to understanding.
  • learning to judge reliable information.
  • finding reliable sources.
  • learning how.
  • collective pedagogy
  • fostering and managing levels of trust.
  • collective checking, inquisitive skepticism, and group assessment.
  • growing complexities of collaborative and interdisciplinary learning
  • Networked learning
  • in contrast, is committed to
  • cooperation, interactivity, mutual benefit, and social engagement
  • The power of ten working interactively will invariably outstrip the power of one looking to beat out the other nine.
  • contrastingly, is an “open source” culture that seeks to share openly and freely in both creating and distributing knowledge and products.
  • Networking through file-sharing, data sharing, and seamless, instant communication is now possible.
  • Learning never ends. How we know has changed radically.
  • new institutions must begin to think of themselves as mobilizing networks.
  • mobilize flexibility, interactivity, and outcomes. Issues of consideration in these institutions are ones of reliability and predictability alongside flexibility and innovation.
  • Students may work in small groups on a specific topic or together in an open-ended and open-sourced contribution.
  • These ten principles, the authors argue, are the first steps in redesigning learning institutions to fit the new digital world.
David Hilton

Education On The Plate - 0 views

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shared by David Hilton on 26 Aug 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 26 Aug 09
     
    A blog maintained by a quality educator in NY.
Anne Bubnic

Technology conference focuses on how to empower students - 0 views

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  • Anne Bubnic on 25 Apr 09
     
    Do your students really know how to use Google? It was one of many questions presented to educators at this year's 23rd annual Technology and Innovation in Education conference at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center.
Maggie Verster

Innovate: Rhizomatic Education: Community as Curriculum - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 21 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 21 Jun 09
     
    The pace of technological change has challenged historical notions of what counts as knowledge. Dave Cormier describes an alternative to the traditional notion of knowledge. In place of the expert-centered pedagogical planning and publishing cycle, Cormier suggests a rhizomatic model of learning. In the rhizomatic model, knowledge is negotiated, and the learning experience is a social as well as a personal knowledge creation process with mutable goals and constantly negotiated premises. The rhizome metaphor, which represents a critical leap in coping with the loss of a canon against which to compare, judge, and value knowledge, may be particularly apt as a model for disciplines on the bleeding edge where the canon is fluid and knowledge is a moving target.
  • David Hilton on 22 Jun 09
     
    Maggie, no it's not. Learning is a change in long-term memory. These unsubstantiated ideas have led to a disastrous watering-down of standards in Western education. Evidence, not theories, must be the basis of educational practice.
David Hilton

Group History Teachers's best content - 6 views

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shared by David Hilton on 11 Oct 09 - No Cached
  • David Hilton on 11 Oct 09
     
    For any history teacher who wishes to share sources, ideas and teaching strategies with other innovative history educators.
Adrienne Michetti

CAST: Center for Applied Special Technology - 3 views

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  • Adrienne Michetti on 16 Oct 09
     
    Home of Universal Design for Learning
David Hilton

TED | Search - 14 views

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  • David Hilton on 17 Oct 09
     
    This is the talk given at TED by Richard Baraniuk on Connexions, an open-source system for free educational content and his belief that this type of innovation will replace textbooks (YAY!). It's the first link on the list; I didn't save the link itself because it opens on a media player and that's really annoying. Click and enjoy! (PS If you've been living as a hostage on the moon for the last couple of years and haven't heard of TED give it a look/listen - it rocks).
David Hilton

Education Sector: Independent Analysis, Innovative Ideas - 5 views

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  • David Hilton on 01 Dec 09
     
    An independent think tank (read 'political lobbyist'?) focussing on education. Has a mailing list you can subscribe to.
Vicki Davis

Sophia Founder to Showcase Free Online Social Teaching and Learning Platform at Educati... - 0 views

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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.
  • Vicki Davis on 29 Mar 11
     
    This press release tells more about Sophia. "Sophia is a 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."
Suzie Nestico

YouTube - TEDxPhilly - Chris Lehmann - Education is broken - 1 views

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shared by Suzie Nestico on 27 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Encourage learning by allowing students to do things they are good at instead of restricting them. While that may sound elementary, Lehmann's speech carves out an innovative way to teach students success so they will strive for success in the post-graduate world.
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      Suzie Nestico on 27 Mar 11
       
      Principal of Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia.  On PSSA standardized testing ~2:20 "What we are doing today today is worse than what you think.  We give them pretests and find out what they are worst in.  And then we give them more of that [and try to fix it]... iIt's only making sure you don't suck so much at the things you're bad at."
Vicki Davis

10 Futuristic Inventions in Wearable Tech - Life Scoop - 6 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 19 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 19 Apr 11
     
    A fun discussion topic with technology students, this blog post about futuristic inventions in wearable tech includes buttons that are really mp3 players, a dress with room for a sim card that makes it funciton as a mobile phone when you lift your wrist, and the one I want -- the Massage Me Massage Video game - that makes a game out of having someone massage your back! (Oh yeah!) This would be a great area to review and then have students invent their own.
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