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Dave Truss

It's Not About the Technology :: I was thinking… - Learning to be me. - 0 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 10 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 10 Oct 08
     
    computers can support learners, open doors to a world of possibilities and learning opportunities and global thinking. They can provide a chance for every child to learn their own way and construct their own knowledge. They can facilitate conversations with other people and other children around the world. They can knock down the isolation of a classroom's four walls and invite in the voices, experience and passion of the entire planet.
  • Dave Truss on 10 Oct 08
     
    Great post!
Dave Truss

The Schools We Need Presentation at Ignite Philly 2 - Uploaded by tdlifestyle - 0 views

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  • Dave Truss on 10 Oct 08
     
    A must see!
  • Dave Truss on 10 Oct 08
     
    Chris Lehmann is brilliant in this video!
Dave Truss

Digital Mavericks: Cyberbullying & Internet Safety - 0 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 15 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 15 Apr 08
     
    A great resource with a lot of links still to explore.
Dave Truss

ASK [for help] and Ye Shall Receive, SEEK [the right questions] and Ye Shall Find [the ... - 0 views

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  • Dave Truss on 15 Apr 08
     
    What it comes down to is qualifying the kind of questions we are going to ask ourselves when considering (new or ubiquitous) technology use in the classroom. "How can we use this?" Seems to be a much better question than, "Should we?"
Dave Truss

CHSF Parenting the Net Generation Program: 2007-2008 - 0 views

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  • Dave Truss on 16 Apr 08
     
    The Parenting the Net Generation program is designed to educate parents about what kids do on the Internet and offer strategies for ensuring safe, wise and responsible Internet use in the home.
Dave Truss

Raising expectations « Educational Discourse - 0 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 18 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Oh, one more thing. We need to expand our options for students who aren’t ready to be in school. There are a number of students who, for whatever reason, just are not ready to be in school, at least, school as it is now conceived. If there isn’t going to be changes to school structures, then there needs to be some type of option for those students who don’t want to be in school. They find it stupid, a waste of time, irrelevant….. making the life of those around them much more miserable than it needs to be, especially during the teenage years when things aren’t always that hot to begin with. In some way, these students need our most creative thinking and problem solving.
  • Dave Truss on 18 Apr 08
     
    Now, I'm not going to give a list of "standards". We all know we've enough of those! Instead, I'm going to look at what students might need to do well as they leave school. From here, you can decide the expectations you have for these.
Dave Truss

Education as Pretense: Schooly "Speeches" versus Real "Talks" | Beyond School - 0 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 28 Apr 08 - Cached
  • To me it really brought home how artificial speeches about canned subjects in front of a class are little to no preparation about talking to people naturally in a real-world setting. It’s like the students are only good at “pretend speaking”
  • (These types of schooly speeches also unconsciously perpetuate the teacher-centered model of 20th century classrooms, with students being trained to carry that largely stultifying ritual into the future.) 
  • Ours is a century of sharing ideas, and sharing the stage, with the audience. (I’ll resist the Speech 2.0 label.)
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  • Are there any alternative school competitions that reward not “competitive speechifying” a la Speech and Debate, but instead cooperative negotiation and conflict resolution - both sides being rewarded for listening, conceding points, offering compromises? Both teams winning, else no winner at all?
  • But here’s the thing
  • Speech is a competitive tool that has nothing to do with listening. Rhetoric is more important than invention. It’s not okay to just talk to us about what moves you.
  • Dave Truss on 28 Apr 08
     
    To me it really brought home how artificial speeches about canned subjects in front of a class are little to no preparation about talking to people naturally in a real-world setting. It's like the students are only good at "pretend speaking"
  • Dave Truss on 28 Apr 08
     
    Just went thru public speaking in our school... this rings painfully true!
Emily Vickery

The New Literacies Research Team at UConn - 0 views

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  • Emily Vickery on 27 Apr 08
     
    Preparing Students, Teachers and School Leadership Teams for the New Literacies of the Internet and other ICTs
Dave Truss

Fortnightly Mailing: What to advise a student about using the Web - 0 views

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  • Dave Truss on 19 May 08
     
    Here are 8 things to do that will make life easier, and your studies more fulfilling.
Dave Truss

The Pulse: Willfully Ignoring the Lessons of the Past - 0 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 21 May 08 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 21 May 08
     
    The following video clip is a 1940s-era news-reel style report on the latest thing, "progressive education." Beware the ideas are quite radical! Schoolwork is relevant, learning-by-doing is advocated
Angela Maiers

New Literacies Video - 0 views

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  • Angela Maiers on 27 Jul 08
     
    Video from UCLA on New Literacy
Dave Truss

YouTube - An Open Letter to Educators - 15 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 23 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 23 Feb 10
     
    If the message in this video resonates with you feel free to send it to any teachers, principals, professors, university presidents, boards of regents, boards of education, etc. you think should see it.
Darren Kuropatwa

NASSP - Shifting Ground - 14 views

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shared by Darren Kuropatwa on 06 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Moreover—and perhaps most damning—by blocking and banning many of the tools and Web sites that form the cornerstone of teenagers’ experiences, educators deny themselves access to the conversations that students are having about how to use these tools intelligently, ethically, and well. And given the overwhelming flow of information that students can access using such tools, it is essential that educators become part of those conversations.
  • Districts have spent thousands of dollars installing interactive whiteboards—which are a more powerful, more engaging chalkboard. And yes, they are a tool with some very useful functions, and yes, we have them at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, where I am principal. But let me be clear: interactive whiteboards only enable a teacher-centric style of teaching to be more engaging than it would have been with a traditional chalkboard. Much of the prepackaged educational gaming similarly makes the same mistake.
    • Dave Truss
      Dave Truss on 06 Dec 09
       
      I've just never bought into these as a good way to spend money other than perhaps in Kindergarten and Grade 1 where students can interact and engage with text and shapes in front of their peers.
    • Darren Kuropatwa
      Darren Kuropatwa on 07 Dec 09
       
      I disagree with both you and Chris here. If you use an IWB to teach in a teacher centric way then *maybe* it'll be more engaging for students than it was before the IWB but I doubt it; I think kids are smarter than that. Teachers who teach in student centred ways find IWBs amplify not just engagement with the teacher, but with each other and the content they are wrestling with; they learn more deeply because we can bring a more multifaceted perspective to bear on every issue/problem discussed in class. When the full content of the internet can be brought to bear on every classroom discussion (including my twitter and skype networks) we are able to concretely illustrate the interconnectedness of all things. We don't have to tell kids this, they see it as it happens, every day. You might be able to do something like this without an IWB but it would be a little more clunky in execution.
  • The single greatest challenge schools face is helping students make sense of the world today. Schools have gone from information scarcity to information overload. This is why classes must be inquiry driven. Merely providing content is not enough, nor is it enough to simply present students with a problem to solve. Schools must create ways for students to come together as a community to ask powerful questions and dare them to bring all of their talents to bear on real-world problems.
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  • Schools can and must be empowering—what held down the progressive school movements of the past 100 years was not that the ideas were wrong, but rather that it often just took too long to create the authentic examples of learning.
  • The idea of community has changed dramatically in the past 10 years, and that idea should be reflected in classrooms.
  • Once students have worked together, the question must become, What can they create?
  • But it is not enough for educators to simply be aware of social networking; they have an obligation to teach students the difference between social networking and academic networking
  • Educators can help them understand how to paint a digital portrait of themselves online that includes the work they do in school and help them network, both locally and globally, to enrich themselves as students.
  • Dave Truss on 06 Dec 09
     
    by blocking and banning many of the tools and Web sites that form the cornerstone of teenagers' experiences, educators deny themselves access to the conversations that students are having about how to use these tools intelligently, ethically, and well. And given the overwhelming flow of information that students can access using such tools, it is essential that educators become part of those conversations.
  • Darren Kuropatwa on 07 Dec 09
     
    by blocking and banning many of the tools and Web sites that form the cornerstone of teenagers' experiences, educators deny themselves access to the conversations that students are having about how to use these tools intelligently, ethically, and well. And given the overwhelming flow of information that students can access using such tools, it is essential that educators become part of those conversations.
Dave Truss

CCHS Library Learning Commons: 2010 - 15 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 09 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 09 Jan 10
     
    Be curious, be bold, find out what the smartest school librarians and educational tech visionaries from around the world are doing and saying, and see how it can be implemented to the benefit of your students and faculty. Embrace the unknown, and be prepared to jettison the familiar if it fails to move learning and student achievement forward.
  • Robin Cicchetti on 10 Jan 10
     
    Thanks for posting, Dave!
Dave Truss

Langwitches Blog » Learning: Then & Now - 11 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 27 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 27 Dec 09
     
    ...by creating visuals, I support my own learning and understanding. * Ideas that I am trying to articulate become clearer in my mind * I am able to formulate and recall the connections between thoughts better * The sequence of my train of thought becomes apparent or can be revised better
Dave Truss

Enraptured by Life...: Equipping the Child for the Path... - 9 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 13 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 13 Mar 10
     
    It was not for me to judge that that child hadn't been taught those skills at home before coming to school, but to assist in equipping the child with the skills that would be needed as she moved forth in life.
Dave Truss

Teaching Filtering Skills More Important Than Ever! | The Thinking Stick - 16 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 24 May 10 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 24 May 10
     
    Here's the issue…..everyone has an opinion and both sides have been using Twitter and the people following the stream there as a way to have their voice heard. I don't think that's a bad things, but are we teaching people that these live streams of information need to be filtered?
Dave Truss

Things You Really Need to Learn ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes - 1 views

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  • Dave Truss on 27 Sep 09
     
    Here, then, is my list. This is, in my view, what you need to learn in order to be successful. Moreover, it is something you can start to learn this year, no matter what grade you're in, no matter how old you are. I could obviously write much more on each of these topics. But take this as a starting point, follow the suggestions, and learn the rest for yourself. And to educators, I ask, if you are not teaching these things in your classes, why are you not?
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.
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