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anonymous

Evan Williams on listening to Twitter users | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 01 Mar 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 01 Mar 09
     
    If you use Twitter, watch this TED video
  • anonymous on 01 Mar 09
     
    Listen to how some folks are using Twitter, making it the HUGE phenomenon it is today.
Allison Kipta

The digital melting pot: Bridging the digital native-immigrant divide - 0 views

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shared by Allison Kipta on 12 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Allison Kipta on 12 Jul 09
     
    Educational technology advocates claim today's students are technologically savvy content creators and consumers whose mindset differs from previous generations. The digital native-digital immigrant metaphor has been used to make a distinction between those with technology skills and those without. Metaphors such as this one are useful when having initial conversations about an emerging phenomenon, but over time, they become inaccurate and dangerous. Thus, this paper proposes a new metaphor, the digital melting pot, which supports the idea of integrating rather than segregating the natives and the immigrants.
anonymous

thematic mapping blog: Using KML for Thematic Mapping - Research Paper Now Available - 6 views

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googleearth mapping

shared by anonymous on 05 Nov 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 05 Nov 09
     
    "The purpose of this paper is to examine how KML, Keyhole Markup Language, can be used for thematic mapping. A thematic map displays the spatial pattern of a social or physical phenomenon, such as population density, life expectancy or climate change. "
  • anonymous on 05 Nov 09
     
    Got a student who needs a fun project? This might be right up his/her alley.
Suzie Nestico

The Finland Phenomenon: Inside the World's Most Surprising School System - Curriculum21 - 1 views

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shared by Suzie Nestico on 27 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Suzie Nestico on 27 Mar 11
     
    From the creators of 2 Million Minutes.  Trailer for their documentary about the Finnish school system.
Martin Burrett

Resource: Mr Selfie Video - 0 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 18 Sep 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 18 Sep 18
     
    "Although many schools ban smartphones, the reality is that many pupils have them hidden away, or are an integral part of their lives once they leave the premises. The 'Selfy' phenomenon is clearly here to stay, but this video (created by London-based design and animation studio weareseventeen) illustrates how we can easily be distracted with our devices, missing out on the world around us - which could be useful for a discussion / assembly activity within schools when talking about online use or safety:"
anonymous

Is it Math or Physics? - 9 views

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shared by anonymous on 07 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 07 Dec 11
     
    Great activity for middle and high school level students.
Fran Bullington

Exploratree - Exploratree by FutureLab - 0 views

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shared by Fran Bullington on 05 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Use our free online library of thinking guides Print them out or fill in and complete your project on the exploratree website
  • Is / is not Futurelab Scope out the boundaries of a problem or analyse a situation by clearly stating what it is and what it is not Complete reversal Futurelab Assess a problem from a different perspective or stimulate new thinking when you are stuck in a rut Compass rose Futurelab For examining a phenomenon, object or issue from a variety of perspectives
  • Vicki Davis on 05 Apr 08
     
    This fascinating tool lets you map and flowchart things.
  • Vicki Davis on 05 Apr 08
     
    Fascinating tool to map out thinking and flow charts. This is a tool that I will come back to and spend some time with. This would be great for kicking off a major project -- I want to experiment with collaborative features.
  • Jeff Richardson on 07 Apr 08
     
    really cool 2.0 tool that allows you to create thinking guides for free, file them in, etc. great for teachers and students
Dave Truss

The New Face of Learning: The Internet Breaks School Walls Down | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 15 May 08 - Cached
  • I can say without hesitation that all my traditional educational experiences combined, everything from grade school to grad school, have not taught me as much about learning and being a learner as blogging has. My ability to easily consume other people's ideas, share my own in return, and communicate with other educators around the world has led me to dozens of smart, passionate teachers from whom I learn every day. It's also led me to technologies and techniques that leverage this newfound network in ways that look nothing like what's happening in traditional classrooms.
  • In many schools and even states, it's been, rather, a movement to block and bust: no blogs, no cell phones, no IM. We take away the powerful social technologies our kids are already using to learn and, in doing so, tell them their own tools are irrelevant. Or, instead of using the complex and challenging phenomenon of a site such as Wikipedia to teach the realities of navigating information in this new world, we prohibit its use. In fact, at this writing, the U.S. legislature is in the process of deciding whether schools and libraries should have access to any of the potential of the Read/Write Web at all. When you read this, blogs and wikis and podcasts (and much more) may be things that students (and teachers) can access and create only from off-campus.
  • I wonder whether, twenty-five or fifty years from now, when four or five billion people are connecting online, the real story of these times won't be the more global tests and transformations these technologies offered. How, as educators and learners, did we respond? Did we embrace the potentials of a connected, collaborative world and put our creative imaginations to work to reenvision our classrooms? Did we use these new tools to develop passionate, fearless, lifelong learners? Did we ourselves become those learners?
  • Dave Truss on 15 May 08
     
    I can say without hesitation that all my traditional educational experiences combined, everything from grade school to grad school, have not taught me as much about learning and being a learner as blogging has. My ability to easily consume other people's ideas, share my own in return, and communicate with other educators around the world has led me to dozens of smart, passionate teachers from whom I learn every day. It's also led me to technologies and techniques that leverage this newfound network in ways that look nothing like what's happening in traditional classrooms.
John Marr

Don't show, don't tell? - MIT News Office - 11 views

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  • Don’t show, don’t tell? Cognitive scientists find that when teaching young children, there is a trade-off between direct instruction and independent exploration. Emily Finn, MIT News Office
  • It turns out that there is a “double-edged sword” to pedagogy: Explicit instruction makes children less likely to engage in spontaneous exploration and discovery.
  • The danger is leading children to believe that they’ve learned all there is to know, thereby discouraging independent discovery.
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  • To study this phenomenon, the researchers built an original toy
  • they recruited 85 preschool-age children to interact with the toy under one of four conditions: pedagogical, interrupted, naïve and baseline.
  • In the pedagogical condition, the experimenter said, “Look at my toy! This is how my toy works,” and demonstrated the squeak function twice (but made no mention of the other functions).
  • Many children in the pedagogical condition failed to discover even one function in addition to the squeak, while children in the other three conditions found, on average, one or two functions they had not been taught. What’s more, children in the pedagogical condition spent less time playing with the toy — less than two minutes, on average — than children in the other conditions, whose times ranged from slightly more than two minutes in the naïve condition to longer than three minutes in the baseline condition.
  • “The whole double-edged sword concept is really interesting,” says Susan Gelman, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. “In almost any domain and across different cultures, we engage in spontaneous teaching. It doesn’t have to be in the classroom, we just naturally do this with young children — we show them how things are done, point out what’s important. This study shows how sensitive children are to the kind of cues that signal teaching.” Further experiments may want to examine differences in children’s behavior across cultures, she adds.
  • the study underscores the real-world trade-offs between education and exploration, and the importance of acknowledging what is unknown even while imparting what is known. Teachers should, where possible, offer the caveat that there may be more to learn.
  • John Marr on 02 Jul 11
     
    Recent study found that if you explain "all aspects" of a toy, children are less likely to discover new uses. If you allow them to "play and experiment" they will discover new a creative uses. This should be taken into account in teaching.
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