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Linda Nitsche

Skoolaborate - 0 views

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shared by Linda Nitsche on 10 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Linda Nitsche on 10 Jul 08
     
    Skoolaborate is a global initiative uses a blend of technologies including, blogs, online learning, wiki's and 'virtual worlds'. We aim to use these tools to provide engaging collaborative learning experiences for all.
Lucy Gray

Help us connect all US schools with international communities. | Connect all Schools - 6 views

www.connectallschools.org

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shared by Lucy Gray on 12 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Lucy Gray on 12 Jan 11
     
    Our country's need for global competence depends on a citizenry that understands and can interact effectively with the world. Connect All Schools envisions that all US young people should have the opportunity to learn with the world and gain 21st Century skills.
Tero Toivanen

Times Higher Education - From where I sit - Everyone wins in this free-for-all - 4 views

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shared by Tero Toivanen on 11 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • The term open educational resources (OER) encapsulates the simple but powerful idea that the world's knowledge is a public good. The internet offers unprecedented opportunities to share, use and reuse knowledge. Sadly, most of the planet is underserved when it comes to post-secondary education.
  • But while in our research we have no problem with sharing and building on the ideas of others, in education the perception is that we must lock teaching materials behind restrictive copyright barriers that minimise sharing.
  • Sometimes universities justify this position on the grounds that the open licensing of courses will damage their advantage in the student recruitment market. These publicly funded institutions expect taxpayers to pay twice for learning materials.
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  • Individuals are free to learn from OER hosted on the open web. It is, therefore, plausible that we can design and develop an "OER university" that will provide free learning for all students worldwide.
  • Working with Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand, the University of Southern Queensland in Australia and Athabasca University in Canada as founding anchor partners, we aim to help provide flexible pathways for OER learners to earn formal academic credentials and pay reduced fees for assessment and credit services under the community service mission of modern universities.
  • The OER Foundation will host an open planning meeting on 23 February to lay the foundations for this significant intervention. With support from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, the meeting will be streamed on the web, and we invite all educational leaders to join us at this meeting in planning for the mainstream adoption of OER in post-secondary institutions.
  • Tero Toivanen on 11 Feb 11
     
    The term open educational resources (OER) encapsulates the simple but powerful idea that the world's knowledge is a public good. The internet offers unprecedented opportunities to share, use and reuse knowledge. Sadly, most of the planet is underserved when it comes to post-secondary education.
Lucy Gray

Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 4 views

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shared by Lucy Gray on 04 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • When it comes to showing results, he said, “We better put up or shut up.”
  • Critics counter that, absent clear proof, schools are being motivated by a blind faith in technology and an overemphasis on digital skills — like using PowerPoint and multimedia tools — at the expense of math, reading and writing fundamentals. They say the technology advocates have it backward when they press to upgrade first and ask questions later.
  • how the district was innovating.
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  • “We’ve jumped on bandwagons for different eras without knowing fully what we’re doing. This might just be the new bandwagon,” he said. “I hope not.”
  • there is no good way to quantify those achievements — putting them in a tough spot with voters deciding whether to bankroll this approach again
  • district was innovating
  • “Test scores are the same, but look at all the other things students are doing: learning to use the Internet to research, learning to organize their work, learning to use professional writing tools, learning to collaborate with others.”
  • If we know something works
  • it is hard to separate the effect of the laptops from the effect of the teacher training
  • The high-level analyses that sum up these various studies, not surprisingly, give researchers pause about whether big investments in technology make sense.
  • Good teachers, he said, can make good use of computers, while bad teachers won’t, and they and their students could wind up becoming distracted by the technology.
  • “It’s not the stuff that counts — it’s what you do with it that matters.”
  • creating an impetus to rethink education entirely
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      Like teaching powerpoint is "rethinking education". Right.
  • “There is a connection between the physical hand on the paper and the words on the page,” she said. “It’s intimate.”
  • “They’re inundated with 24/7 media, so they expect it,”
  • The 30 students in the classroom held wireless clickers into which they punched their answers. Seconds later, a pie chart appeared on the screen: 23 percent answered “True,” 70 percent “False,” and 6 percent didn’t know.
  • rofessor Cuban at Stanford argues that keeping children engaged requires an environment of constant novelty, which cannot be sustained.
  • engagement is a “fluffy
  • term” that can slide past critical analysis.
  • that computers can distract and not instruct.
  • guide on the side.
  • Professor Cuban at Stanford
  • But she loves the fact that her two children, a fourth-grader and first-grader, are learning technology, including PowerPoint
  • $46.3 million for laptops, classroom projectors, networking gear and other technology for teachers and administrators.
  • Mr. Share bases his buying decisions on two main factors: what his teachers tell him they need, and his experience. For instance, he said he resisted getting the interactive whiteboards sold as Smart Boards until, one day in 2008, he saw a teacher trying to mimic the product with a jury-rigged projector setup. “It was an ‘Aha!’ moment,” he said, leading him to buy Smart Boards, made by a company called Smart Technologies.
  • This is big business.
  • “Do we really need technology to learn?” she said. “It’s a very valid time to ask the question, right before this goes on the ballot.”
Lucy Gray

Doodle - 0 views

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shared by Lucy Gray on 27 Mar 08 - Cached
  • Lucy Gray on 27 Mar 08
     
    Very cool tool . May want to use this in the GEC.
Linda Nitsche

Voices Of The World - 0 views

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  • Linda Nitsche on 10 Jul 08
     
    Voices of the World collaborative project connecting learners in the primary grades using a different tool each month.
  • Linda Nitsche on 10 Jul 08
     
    Voices Of The World was created by Sharon Tonner from The High School Of Dundee in Scotland to connect children from around the world using their voices rather than the standard text and images and prepare them for their globalised future.
Lucy Gray

Open GEC Advisory Board Meeting - 36 views

On Saturday, April 5th CST, we're hosting our first board meeting of the Global Education Collaborative. It's open to anyone with an interest in global education. We will be using a tool called Fla...

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Lucy Gray

Summer PD: New Teacher Boot Camp Week 4 - Using Wetoku | Edutopia - 2 views

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shared by Lucy Gray on 28 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Erin McCloskey on 28 Jul 11
     
    Dave Dodgson, who teaches English as a foreign language to elementary-school students in Turkey, has students use the web-based tool Wetoku to create split-screen video interviews. In this blog post, Dodgson shares a project in which his students used the tool to record, present and archive an interview related to the study of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." The tool allowed them valuable practice in speaking and listening in their non-native language.
Linda Nitsche

iEARN - International Education and Resource Network - 1 views

www.iearn.org/

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shared by Linda Nitsche on 27 Mar 08 - Cached
  • Linda Nitsche on 10 Jul 08
     
    iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) is the world's largest non-profit global network that enables teachers and youth to use the Internet and other technologies to collaborate on projects that enhance learning and make a difference in the world.
Henry Liebling

Best content in Sustainable Education | Diigo - Groups - 0 views

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shared by Henry Liebling on 26 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Henry Liebling on 26 Jun 12
     
    "A forum for Sustainable Development or Descent or Decline in all aspects of education. Links to http://esd.escalate.ac.uk Sharing interesting bookmarks, resources, ideas.... Let us see what happens!"
Henry Liebling

87.Shape activity in the classroom 5.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 2 views

www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/...20in%20the%20classroom%205.pdf

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  • Henry Liebling on 28 Jun 12
     
    Des Wilson's 1980's EIGEN publications now held at STEM e-library. Many of us thougth these resources were lost. This booklet No.5 deals with the rectangle.
Henry Liebling

We are listening to the whole world | Keduzi - 4 views

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shared by Henry Liebling on 27 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Henry Liebling on 27 Sep 13
     
    A new small organisation grappling with us grappling with climate change. Worth a look. Heather Luna did great work for sustainability in UK HE.
Adrienne Michetti

Peace One Day and Skype open classroom doors to the world with launch of Global Educati... - 5 views

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shared by Adrienne Michetti on 30 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Adrienne Michetti on 30 Sep 10
     
    "We hope that the Global Education Resource will inspire and empower educators and students to join us and take on the challenge of helping to establish Peace Day 21 September as an annual day of global ceasefire and nonviolence."
katie mcmahon

MapCrunch - 7 views

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shared by katie mcmahon on 10 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • katie mcmahon on 10 Dec 10
     
    Using archives of Google Earth street view, you can tour the world at street level. See street art in NYC, go down a South African highway, check out an apartment complex in London--the sky's the limit!
Jeff Johnson

When glaciers disappear, the bugs move in (ENN) - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 28 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Jeff Johnson on 28 Aug 08
     
    We've all been stunned by images showing the dramatic retreat of mountain glaciers. Yet few of us have given much thought to what happens next. Now the first study to look at how life invades soil immediately after mountain glaciers melt has an answer. Primitive bacteria step in to colonise the area, enrich the soil with nutrients, and even cement the ground, preventing landslides, say researchers who have studied the process in the Peruvian Andes.
Lucy Gray

World-Class Education - 0 views

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Linda Nitsche

ePals Global Community - 0 views

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  • Linda Nitsche on 10 Jul 08
     
    the Internet's largest global community of connected classrooms! Safely connect, collaborate and learn using our leading protected email and blog solutions for schools and districts
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