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Vicki Davis

Join TES for free and be entered into a draw for £100 worth of Amazon voucher... - 4 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 19 Nov 11
     
    Here's another contest that may interest you. If you join TES Connect, you'll be entered to win $125US (equivalent of 100 British pounds) in Amazon vouchers. You can also download my 8th grade portfolio and other resources I've put exclusively on TES' website.
David Warlick

2¢ Worth » Long-Term Yardsticks - 6 views

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    • David Warlick
      David Warlick on 25 Jun 10
       
      My objection is obvious.  This suggests a belief that laptops should be used to enhance traditional schooling functions (be quiet, pay attention, and take notes).  To me, this is a waste of money, though I'll certainly be taking notes on my iPad at ISTE.  My preference is for student to use ICT to interact, build, produce, experiment, discover, and communicate (lot of overlap there).
Qien Kuen

2¢ Worth » If "It's not about the technology," then What is it about? - 0 views

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education technology

shared by Qien Kuen on 12 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Most of us grew up during a century that was, in many ways, defined by it’s machines.  We identify washing clothes with a clothes washing machine, lawn care with a lawn mower, and getting to the store with an automobile.  So, as we witness the emergence of new information and communication technologies, which many of us could not have imagined at the beginning of our careers, it is natural that, as we try to envision “21st century” education, we should try to paint that picture with brush strokes about technology.
Roland O'Daniel

Becta Government & partners - Research - Reports and publications - Web 2.0 technologie... - 0 views

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  • Roland O'Daniel on 29 Oct 08
     
    Some prmising findings, worth sharing with others.
Art Gelwicks

Comment on: Fluffy thinking in the edtech community…a waste of energy and time - 0 views

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  • I’m not saying there isn’t a place and a time for strategic thinking, what I’m saying is that the edublogosphere is loaded to the freakin’ gills with it. How many ways can you discuss the innate digital skills of middle school students before realizing it’s worth more to talk about what works and doesn’t work with them. In this case the why is truly “academic”. We’ve twittered, blogged, bookmarked, tagged, forwarded, and flogged this horse to an amazing degree. What I don’t see is the same amount of energy in capturing what’s been done with the students, the successes and failures, in anything longer than 140 characters. If we want our teachers to learn to fish, we have to show them how to bait the hook and cast the line…not wonder if the fish are truly hungry.
  • voicethread.com used in first grade classroom so students are participating in asynchronous conversation and everyone gets to share on topic chosen by teacher. Combined with short recordings from audio enhancement classroom system help the teacher quickly post new content from class to the site.
    • Art Gelwicks
      Art Gelwicks on 17 Apr 08
       
      This is the type of practical example I'm talking about. 30,000 ft. talk is great...only if you're able to land the plane too.
  • Art Gelwicks on 15 Apr 08
     
    Annotated comments about this blog posting.
Julie Lindsay

Reaching Out With Your Conference | 2¢ Worth - 0 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 20 Apr 08
     
    Conferences are setting up social networks as a best practice. As these handy sites go mainstream, effective use of such networks seems to be increasingly an important understanding for students as behavior on these sites is very different from the "social" social networks in their personal lives.
  • Vicki Davis on 20 Apr 08
     
    Excellent article for conference organizers from David Warlick. He has some great recommendations and links to the works from a conference in California this week. Conferences are setting up social networks as a best practice. As these handy sites go mainstream, effective use of such networks seems to be increasingly an important understanding for students as behavior on these sites is very different from the "social" social networks in their personal lives.
Deb Henkes

Wissahickon School District's eToolBox - home - 1 views

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shared by Deb Henkes on 12 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 12 Oct 08
     
    Great wiki with best practices in all types of areas.
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  • Vicki Davis on 12 Oct 08
     
    Dianne Krause, Instructional Technology specialist, from Blue Bell, PA USA (http://diannekrause.edublogs.org) has put together an incredible e toolbox wiki that is worth sharing with anyone using a wiki or any web 2.o tool! She shares the tool and gives an example, exactly the type of thing inquiring teachers want to see. She is modeling instead of just expecting them to figure it out! Great job, Diane - you are my new wiki go-to gal! Wow! From digital portfolios to online databases and Ning, she does a GREAT job on this wiki of putting it all together.
  • Deb Henkes on 28 Jan 11
     
    eToolbox wiki is a wonderful resource, on the Edublogs list of Best Educational Wikis of 2010.
  • Deb Henkes on 28 Jan 11
     
    This eToolbox wiki is a wonderful resource, on the Edublogs list of Best Educational Wikis of 2010.
Reggie Ryan

Why PLNs are Important? | 2¢ Worth - 0 views

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shared by Reggie Ryan on 09 Apr 08 - Cached
    • Reggie Ryan
      Reggie Ryan on 09 Apr 08
       
      Could use this analogy with faculty as they try to understand PLN's and importance. We're just extending PLN's to the electronic medium.
  • Reggie Ryan on 09 Apr 08
     
    Possible way to introduce PLN's to faculty
sandra nelson

Vocabulary and Spelling City - 1 views

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shared by sandra nelson on 30 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Over 35,000 spelling words and eight spelling games!- A REAL person who says each word and sentence- Thousands of free spelling lists. Or save your own!- A free forum and newsletter with more resources!
  • Vicki Davis on 30 Sep 08
     
    Great place for learning spelling words.
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  • Vicki Davis on 30 Sep 08
     
    This is an INCREDIBLE website that NSharoff (http://twitter.com/nsharoff) from New York has shared with me! It lets you as a parent or teacher create spelling lists, then the kids can have the program "teach" them the words. Then, they can play games like hangmouse and a lot of others to learn the words. I am using this with my son and was so happy when nsharoff forwarded it, I could have just flipped!
  • Angela Maiers on 05 Oct 08
     
    Make spelling fun!
  • sandra nelson on 28 Dec 08
     
    Teaching spelling is easy with SpellingCity.com. Input spelling lists for your students to use for free spelling help. Students can learn spelling words, practice spelling tests, and play fun spelling games. Keep track of your spelling list curriculum, sh
  • sandra nelson on 08 Mar 10
     
    This site has millions of users. It's invaluable assistance for the weekly word study transforming this previously boring exercise into something fresh and fun. Great games, sweet user interface, free teacher training, a vocabulary of 45,000 words...It's worth using!
  • sandra nelson on 12 Jan 11
     
    Help make spelling time a fun time! SpellingCity.com can be an invaluable part of every child's spelling and vocabulary education with over 42,000 spelling words and customizable sentences.
Brendan Murphy

educationalwikis - Examples of educational wikis - 1 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 21 Aug 08
     
    List of educational wikis that is worth perusing.
  • Vicki Davis on 21 Aug 08
     
    There are some GREAT examples of educational wikis to peruse here. So many ideas and different ways to use wikis. Take a look and turn up some new ones that you haven't seen and find some new teachers.
Vicki Davis

2¢ Worth » 10 Ways to Promote Learning Lifestyle in Your School - 22 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 28 Jan 10 - Cached
  • wishing that I had the answers to their questions about promoting more relevant learning in their classrooms.
  • Vicki Davis on 28 Jan 10
     
    Excellent post from David Warlick with lots of wonderful ideas for promoting a learning lifestyle in your school. Brian Tracy calls this being an "omnilearner" - that you are always learning all of the time - it is an ongoing process. Modeling is vital also!
Claudia Ceraso

ELT notes: Some things I am certain of (for now, this is beta, OK?) - 17 views

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  • teaching is worth discussing. Anything else can be found for free on the Internet.
  • Good technology use in the classroom is transparent and intertwined.
  • Motivation is a drug. It is a short-term target.
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  • Better make people "addicted" to learning, to the process, to the autonomy of it. There are intrinsic reasons why this is pleasurable, meaningful and long lasting per se.
  • 7) Mind the use of the word "enhance" when linked to learning. Mind the gap. Old things are just old things.
    • Dave Truss
      Dave Truss on 28 Mar 10
       
      Note my comment: "This is such a good point! We do not advance from the early airplanes by sticking to using double winged biplanes or 'enhancing' the propeller engine. If a blog is used to 'enhance' the sharing of homework then the point of a blog is missed."
  • 9) Standards are for things that fit a pattern. When educators claim that creativity is a "21st century" essential skill, we need to accept the limitations of striving for standards. Assessment and standards are cousins.
  • Doubt, question and never, ever just assume.
    • Dave Truss
      Dave Truss on 28 Mar 10
       
      This should be a poster to put in classrooms:-)
    • Gabriela Sellart
      Gabriela Sellart on 30 Mar 10
       
      Communicating results is becoming more and more frequent.(#4) Doubting out loud doesn't seem to grant you an "expert" degree, which I notice is the aim of many educators who are blogging. Particularly those who write in Spanish.
    • Claudia Ceraso
      Claudia Ceraso on 31 Mar 10
       
      The poster in the classroom... Interesting. I would change the phrase to "Remember your teacher also expects to learn lots from you". Few teachers are comfortable doubting in front of their students. Perhaps, with reason ;-)
  • Dave Truss on 28 Mar 10
     
    So many quotable quotes in this post! Wonderful 'deep' thinking.
Ed Webb

The LMS and the adolescence of web learning « Lisa's (Online) Teaching Blog - 8 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 01 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • there may be levels of web learning maturation at work here: Childhood: people who are very new to using the web for learning tend to accept what is given to them, because they don’t really know what the options are. When online learning with the LMS was new, most people were in this category. Adulthood: people who use the web a great deal and in varied ways tend to do better in online classes, and assess the worth of the LMS (or any tool) based on how well it works for the course. Adolescence: in between are the adolescents. They know just enough to be dangerous. They have enough experience to want convenience and not enough to understand the larger issues of pedagogy, including the restrictiveness of an LMS on what the instructor wants to do. They can drive but have no sense of how traffic works.
  • Why it’s important to deal now with the “teen angst” of web-adolescence: 1. Not customizing the LMS to suit your pedagogy implies that we all teach the same way. If we all teach the same way, then a computer can do our work instead. (I’ve been reading Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind – he’s pretty clear that if a computer can do your job, eventually it will.) 2. Instructors should use the tools that best create the environment they want, and that increasingly means web applications that require multiple log-ins. Students should get accustomed to using separate tools for separate tasks, just like in the real world. 3. Acknowledging the teen view means taking it seriously, but it doesn’t mean developing policy around it. Just as parents try to mitigate the excesses of the teen diet and habits, we owe students our wisdom in creating the learning experience that is most appropriate. (Oh dear, I’m starting to sound like Edmund Burke again.)
  • Ed Webb on 01 Jun 11
     
    Sound pedagogical reasons to resist the omnipresence of Blackborg
David Hilton

Constructivism - 0 views

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  • Heath Sawyer on 25 Mar 09
     
    Links, research and readings on constructivism
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  • David Hilton on 04 May 09
     
    Constructivist theories grew out of the work of a couple of Russians around the time of the Russian Revolution. It is radical subjectivism dressed up as science, and has no scientific credibility whatsoever. It is used by radical educators to push their barrow that nothing the teacher knows is worth the student learning and that all knowledge is innate. It's bullsh*t. Theories like this rot are part of the reason that the bottom has dropped out of Western education and we have a generation who can't write. This should be resisted by any educator with an interest in educational excellence.
  • Ken Stanton on 04 May 09
     
    David, back up your argument. If you think this is junk science, then be a real scientist and substantiate your claim. I'm a very objective thinker and will listen and gladly debate this with you, but having studied this and used it, I'm skeptical of your dissent. It is the only thing that has gotten me through our failed education system, not the reason the system has failed (unless your argument is that our system is failing due to lack of use of constructivist approaches).
  • David Hilton on 13 Jun 09
     
    Constructivism is a prime example of the dangers of deductive reasoning. Instead of starting with evidence from observed reality which the scientific method dictates (inductive reasoning) constructivism starts with theories and then makes the evidence fit the theory or else dismisses it and rationalises it away. It's the same type of thinking that has gotten all ideologues into trouble throughout history, whether it's the Spanish Inquisition, the Nazis, the hippies or the recent Wall Street bankers who drove our economy off a cliff. Any true system of thought must start with the real world as its beginning, or else it's just a bunch of people making stuff up and then defending it despite all evidence to the contrary until the weight of truth destroys them and usually the institutions they've taken over.
David Warlick

2¢ Worth » Search Results » anchored - 0 views

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shared by David Warlick on 28 Jul 09 - Cached
  • In a pre-life-long Learning environment, the task of education was to teach all of us the knowledge and skills that we would need to know and to know how to do to become employed. After our schooling, we got a job, and kept that job for 35 years. We did some learning “on the job”, but not for the sake of a changing environment. It was for the sake of our job. It was considered part of the job.
    • David Warlick
      David Warlick on 28 Jul 09
       
      It points to the skills required for the future!
Ruth Howard

2¢ Worth » A Day in Texas - 0 views

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shared by Ruth Howard on 17 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Students find problems in their local communities, and then use these tools to solve them.
  • Ruth Howard on 17 Apr 09
     
    David Warlick links to the East Project which emphasises a practical Project-Based learning model. Real life learning where student learning contributes to the greater pool of learning.
anonymous

Creating a Hackintosh: Installing Mac OS X on Netbooks from the Dell Mini 9, MSI Wind, ... - 0 views

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  • Creating your own cheap Mac Hackintosh out of a PC Netbook is pretty popular right now, so I compiled a list of various how-to guides mostly for myself but figured I would share it with our readers as well. The guides rank from reasonably easy (Dell Mini 9) to an arduous hack, and it’s technically against Apple’s OS X EULA agreement, so whether or not it’s worth proceeding with making one of these frankenstein Macs is entirely up to you.
  • anonymous on 05 May 09
     
    A list of articles that explain how to turn an inexpensive laptop into a Mac - a Hackintosh
  • anonymous on 05 May 09
     
    I'm seeing more and more of these at conferences. This is a list of sites that explain how to do it. How to turn a cheap netbook into a Mac.
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