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Vicki Davis

Better education through innovation - Los Angeles Times - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 09 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 09 Sep 08
     
    Op Ed Piece in LA times on change.
  • Vicki Davis on 09 Sep 08
     
    Op Ed Piece in LA times is representative of the call for innovation in schools. As with all change - you can be part of it or it can be imparted to you. Which would you rather have? The imperative to innovate is here -- and those who don't act will ultimately be the ones who lose. Unfortunately, kids aren't getting any younger -- older people will just hurt their career in a life that is already one of educational excellence -- children will never reach their potential. It is important - we cannot waste time where children are at stake. We don't waste time when it comes to our own and the travesty is that many don't see anything wrong with wasting the time of another parent's child.
Mike Sansone

Part 3 of 3: Teachers Talk About Social Media in the Classroom and Personal Branding! « Personal Branding Blog - Dan Schawbel - 0 views

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blogging education media social wiki

shared by Mike Sansone on 06 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Mike Sansone on 06 Oct 08
     
    Dan Schawbel concludes an important 3-part series. The interview subjects were at the college level. If you K-12, I'd encourage you to comment on this (or blog about it)
Vicki Davis

» The fallacy of community - Marketing Conversation - New Marketing and Social Media by Abraham Harrison LLC Marketing Conversation - New Marketing and Social Media by Abraham Harrison LLC - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 24 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 24 Jul 08
     
    Jonathan Trenn writes an article on the "fallacy of community" that many of the vendors at NECC should read. Edubloggers / educators/ educational groups of people emerge because we want to. We create a community when we need to and have the passionate desire for a common purpose. However, the word community and social network was so overused at NECC this year as to become a curse word. Used by people told it was important but who may not understand it themselves. This is a great article and strikes a cord with me.
  • Vicki Davis on 24 Jul 08
     
    An articlea bout the fallacy of community.
Julie Lindsay

The Web2.0 Prophecy: An Adventure | Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts - 0 views

pairadimes.davidtruss.com/the-web2-point-0-prophecy

professionaldevelopment web 2.0

shared by Julie Lindsay on 15 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 15 Apr 08
     
    This is an excellent article that has been reposted. It includes a lot of the information that outlines WHAT web 2.0 is. This includes videos and many important hyperlinks. Excellent article for newcomers to web 2.0 to pick up on.
  • Vicki Davis on 15 Apr 08
     
    Important article that gives an excellent overview of Web 2.0.
Dave Truss

Marking What Counts and Reporting on Report Cards | Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts - 0 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 15 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 15 Apr 08
     
    We can't fundamentally change our report cards in a truly meaningful way until we change what we consider important first. However, assessment itself is the greatest impediment to meaningful change in education. Standardized tests are about 'counting marks' NOT 'marking what counts'.
Chris Harbeck

Dangerously Irrelevant: We Think - 0 views

www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/...we-think.html

shared by Chris Harbeck on 17 Apr 08 - Cached
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  • Chris Harbeck on 17 Apr 08
     
    Important video. Good to add to the collection. Role of 2.0 and the web
Vicki Davis

ScienceBlogs - 0 views

scienceblogs.com/?utm_source=homepagerefresh&utm_medium=refresh

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shared by Vicki Davis on 16 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 16 Apr 08
     
    This website is a conglomeration of scientists who are blogging and writing.l They respond to research journals and bring forth "hot topics." In science. Time magazine has written an article about this site and how they are changing the face of science. Blogs are becoming integrated into all aspects of the world and knowing the method of writing effectively there is important.
  • Vicki Davis on 16 Apr 08
     
    Blogs are becoming part of society. In this case, scientists model how our "young scientists" should be approproaching science as well.
Vicki Davis

Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson : Popfly Coin Flip Mashup Tutorial - 0 views

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computerscience_teacher edu_newapp education lesson_plans techintegrator

shared by Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08
     
    Information on popfly and windows live writer and how it may be used in the classroom. Cool post.
  • Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08
     
    This is a fascinating blog post about how Alfred Thompson used PopFly to create a mashup activity for a classroom demo for teachers. He also took this document from word into Live writer to make a blog post. It is important to look at many ways to do things. I found this information very insightful and cool.
Julie Lindsay

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

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shared by Julie Lindsay on 20 Apr 08 - Cached
  • 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.
Marisa P

John Dewey: School and Society: Chapter 4: The Psychology of Elementary Education - 0 views

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shared by Marisa P on 16 May 08 - Cached
  • To refuse to try, to stick (97) blindly to tradition, because the search for the truth involves experimentation in the region of the unknown, is to refuse the only step which can introduce rational conviction into education.
    • Marisa P
      Marisa P on 16 May 08
       
      great quote
  • It should also be stated that practically it has not as yet been possible, in many cases, to act adequately upon the best ideas obtained, because of administrative difficulties, due to lack of funds —difficulties centering in the lack of a proper building and appliances, and in inability to pay the amounts necessary to secure the complete time of teachers in some important lines. Indeed, with the growth of the school in numbers, and in the age and maturity of pupils, it is becoming a grave question how long it is fair to the experiment to carry it on without more adequate facilities.
  • The aim, then, is not for the child to go to school as a place apart, but rather in the school so to recapitulate typical phases of his experience outside of school, as to enlarge, enrich, and gradually formulate it.
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  • Since the aim is not "covering the ground," but knowledge of social processes used to secure social results, no attempt is made to go over the entire history, in chronological order, of America
  • His experiments are modes of active doing—almost as much so as his play and games. Later he tries to find out how various materials or agencies are manipulated in order to give certain results. It is thus clearly distinguished from experimentation in the scientific sense—such as is appropriate to the secondary period —where the aim is the discovery of facts and verification of principles.
  • means to ends
  • These subjects are social in a double sense. They represent the tools which society has evolved in the past as the instruments of its intellectual pursuits. They represent the keys which will unlock to the child the wealth of social capital which lies beyond the possible range of his limited individual experience. While these two points of view must always give these arts a highly important place in education, they also make it necessary that certain conditions should be observed in their introduction and use. In a wholesale and direct application of the studies no account is taken of these conditions. The chief problem at present relating to the three R's is recognition of these conditions and the adaptation of work to them.
  • 1) The need that the child shall have in his own personal (105) and vital experience a varied background of contact and acquaintance with realities, social and physical. This is necessary to prevent symbols from becoming a purely second-hand and conventional substitute for reality.
  • The need that the more ordinary, direct, and personal experience of the child shall furnish problems, motives, and interests that necessitate recourse to books for their solution, satisfaction, and pursuit. Otherwise, the child approaches the book without intellectual hunger, without alertness, without a questioning attitude, and the result is the one so deplorably common: such abject dependence upon books as weakens and cripples vigor of thought and inquiry, combined with reading for mere random stimulation of fancy, emotional indulgence, and flight from the world of reality into a make-belief land.
  • The final use of the symbols, whether in reading, calculation, or composition, is more intelligent, less mechanical; more active, less passively receptive; more an increase of power, less a mere mode of enjoyment.
  • third period of elementary education
  • the second period
Dave Truss

Share your Blogging Experience and Tips For Educators New To Blogging | The Edublogger - 0 views

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best_practice blog

shared by Dave Truss on 20 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 20 Jun 08
     
    So can you please share with us: * Why you blog? How does it benefit you or your work? * How you use blogging with your students and how it has helped them (if applicable) * Examples of class and/or student blogs for them to check out * What are your 3 most important tips for educators, new to blogging, who would like to blog with their students?
adina sullivan

Report- Ready t oInnovateTCB.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

www.aasa.org/...RreportReadytoInnovateTCB.pdf

all_teachers research

shared by adina sullivan on 05 May 08 - No Cached
  • adina sullivan on 05 May 08
     
    Per David Warlick blog - "A recent report (Ready to Innovate/pdf) from The Conference Board and Americans for the Arts, in partnership with the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), reminds us that creativity, and integral part of innovation, is among the top five skills that will become more important over the next five years. Yet, according to their survey, school superintendents and American business executives differ in some significant ways in what this means."
Caroline Bucky-Beaver

Edublogs.tv - 0 views

edublogs.tv

all_teachers edublogstv education youtube

shared by Caroline Bucky-Beaver on 28 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Caroline Bucky-Beaver on 28 Jul 08
     
    Edublogs has it's own "youtube" geared for education. You can import youtube videos directly. Good video source for those districts where Youtube is blocked.
Nancy White

ALA TechSource | The Digitally Re-Shifted School Library: A Conversation with Christopher Harris - 0 views

www.techsource.ala.org/...n-with-christopher-harris.html

shared by Nancy White on 08 Jul 08 - Cached
  • I also believe that a very important step lies in getting library boards, school boards, and other trustees/governing bodies on board with Web 2.0 ideas as well as the changes we are discussing here.
    • Nancy White
      Nancy White on 08 Jul 08
       
      Not just the tools - but how they can trasform learning in the classroom.
  • I think school libraries will also need to work to firmly re-establish themselves as the foundation of instructional practice. The library space will become more flexible, perhaps moving toward the idea of a university-like information commons with mainly digital non-fiction and reference collections, but still possessing high-quality fiction and picture-book sections. School libraries can work to embrace new technologies and become the iPod content hubs as well as the place for books. The school librarian will also become more flexible – moving in and out of the library and classrooms as a curriculum and instructional pedagogy-consultant teacher. As education works to meet the needs of the so-called "21st-century learners," school librarians will have a key role in supporting an increased demand for information literacy and knowledge management throughout the content areas.
    • Nancy White
      Nancy White on 08 Jul 08
       
      I agree - T-L as instructional consultant will become a more important role in using the AASL Learner Standards and helping to guide teachers toward more relevant, inquiry-based instruction that integrates 21st century tools and skills.
Reggie Ryan

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

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professionaldevelopment techintegrator

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
Vicki Davis

Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web - New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...22library.html

all_teachers collectiveknowledge edu_news edu_trends education hz08 hzmeta librarian

shared by Vicki Davis on 05 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Open Content Alliance
  • , a nonprofit effort aimed at making their materials broadly available.
  • Libraries that agree to work with Google must agree to a set of terms, which include making the material unavailable to other commercial search services. Microsoft places a similar restriction on the books it converts to electronic form. The Open Content Alliance, by contrast, is making the material available to any search service.
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  • many in the academic and nonprofit world are intent on pursuing a vision of the Web as a global repository of knowledge that is free of business interests or restrictions.
  • Many prominent libraries have accepted Google’s offer — including the New York Public Library and libraries at the University of Michigan, Harvard, Stanford and Oxford. Google expects to scan 15 million books from those collections over the next decade.
  • libraries and researchers worry that if any one company comes to dominate the digital conversion of these works, it could exploit that dominance for commercial gain.
  • “One is shaped by commercial concerns, the other by a commitment to openness, and which one will win is not clear.”
  • The Open Content Alliance is the brainchild of Brewster Kahle, the founder and director of the Internet Archive, which was created in 1996 with the aim of preserving copies of Web sites and other material.
  • Vicki Davis on 05 Apr 08
     
    This New York Times article on the Open Content Alliance is an essential article for librarians and media specialists to read. It is also important for those following the fight for information and control of that information. In this case, the Open Content Alliance wants to make books that they scan available to any search engine while Microsoft and google are aggressively approaching libraries for exclusive access to their content. (which could be rescanned by another later, possibly.) Librarians and media specialists should understand this... when will people approach schools to scan annuals or student produced works? Maybe that is a while off, but for now, be aware that it is probably inevitable.
  • Vicki Davis on 05 Apr 08
     
    An overview of the Open Content Alliance versus Google and Microsoft battling to take control of the content housed in libraries.
Erin Remple

Ozzy Knows Best | PBS - 0 views

www.pbs.org/...pulpit_20080404_004650.html

cringely education education_games technology

shared by Erin Remple on 04 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Kate Olson on 04 Apr 08
     
    Every generation disapproves of the one that follows and barely claims to understand the generation that follows that. It's the way we are, simply because we tend to see everything in the context of our own experience -- an experience that is changed by age, the times we grew up in, and yes by technology.
  • Erin Remple on 05 Apr 08
     
    talks about how important digital games, not video games, could be to education
Angela Maiers

Welcome to Debatepedia! - Debatepedia - 0 views

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debate debatepedia public

shared by Angela Maiers on 06 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Angela Maiers on 06 Jul 08
     
    HT to Collette Cassinelli ! Thanks for this great find! Debatepedia is a wiki encyclopedia of pro and con arguments and quotations in important public debates from around the world. It is considered "the Wikipedia of debate", helping the world centralize arguments and quotations found in millions of different.
Vicki Davis

yWriter4 - word processor for authors - 0 views

www.spacejock.com/yWriter4.html

edu_newapp education language literature professionaldevelopment techintegrator

shared by Vicki Davis on 09 May 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 09 May 08
     
    yWriter is a free, highly rated, novel writing program that I found through a very complimentary review in PC Magazine. It is for the PC. Just save your file as an RTF with chapter headings and it will import right into ywriter.
  • Vicki Davis on 09 May 08
     
    This fascinating tool for writing novels has other applications for writing books with chapters.
Vicki Davis

Home - Microsoft Popfly - 0 views

www.popfly.com

ad4dcss edu_newapp education geeks4 govt_business hz08 hzmeta mashup microsoft techintegrator technology

shared by Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08
     
    Using mashups is going to become an essential skill, I believe. Students should understand what they are.
  • Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08
     
    Microsoft Popfly lets you make mashups and build web pages without knowing code. I am to the point I don't teach the detailed web site creation coding I used to. I teach RSS, embedding, creating wikis, uploading media of all kinds, but I just don't know how important coding is any more at the basic level. I want to spend some time tinkering with this.
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