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Jeff Johnson

Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connections - 0 views

www.iecc.org/AboutIECC.cfm

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 04 May 08 - Cached
  • IECC is dedicated to helping teachers connect with other teachers to arrange intercultural email connections between their students. A new service, IECC-INTERGEN, helps teachers and their classrooms create intergenerational partnerships with volunteers who are over 50 years of age. Created in 1992 by three professors from St. Olaf College in Minnesota, IECC was one of the first services on the Web to facilitate international pen-pal exchanges between teachers and classrooms around the globe
Jeff Johnson

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - ICT Literacy Maps - 0 views

www.21stcenturyskills.org/index.php

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 31 May 08 - Cached
  • In collaboration with several content area organizations, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills developed a series of ICT Literacy Maps illustrating the intersection between Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy and core academic subjects including English, mathematics, science and social studies (civics/government, geography, economics, history). The maps enable educators to gain concrete examples of how ICT Literacy can be integrated into core subjects, while making the teaching and learning of core subjects more relevant to the demands of the 21st century.
Lucy Gray

Global Education Collaborative Survey - 0 views

spreadsheets.google.com/viewform

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shared by Lucy Gray on 06 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Lucy Gray on 06 Apr 08
     
    Please take this survey! Pass it on!
Linda Nitsche

MeBeam, video chat. - 0 views

www.mebeam.com

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shared by Linda Nitsche on 30 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Linda Nitsche on 30 Jul 08
     
    Free instant videoconferencing tool. No ability to record.
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...

started by Lucy Gray on 04 Apr 08 no follow-up yet
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.
MariaDroujkova

p2pu | Learning for everyone, by everyone, about almost anything - 11 views

p2pu.org

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shared by MariaDroujkova on 17 Jan 11 - Cached
  • MariaDroujkova on 17 Jan 11
     
    Free, open college level short courses, most starting January 26th. You can create, suggest or take courses.
Tero Toivanen

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

www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp

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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

www.nytimes.com/...-faces-questions-on-value.html

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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

Schools global collaboration opportunity | News | KAREN - 0 views

www.karen.net.nz/four-nations

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shared by Lucy Gray on 28 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Lucy Gray on 28 Aug 09
     
    For New Zealand schools
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