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Jeff Johnson

Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connections - 0 views

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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
Lucy Gray

Providence Day Third Annual Global Educators Conference at La Jolla Country D... - 3 views

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shared by Lucy Gray on 05 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Carey on 05 Aug 11
     
    I recently had the privilege of attending the annual Global Educators Conference at La Jolla. I wrote about the experience on my blog. I thought I would share here as I also posted many of the resources we encountered. 
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.
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.”
Tero Toivanen

Ben Ramsey » Blog Archive » Web 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 Defined - 0 views

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shared by Tero Toivanen on 10 May 09 - Cached
  • Web 1.0 represents the first decade of the Web (1990-1999), which is characterized primarily by a read-only Web.
  • Web 2.0 represents the second decade of the Web (2000-2009)
  • This is often called the era of the read-write Web
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  • this era is also characterized by a counter-cultural shift in views regarding ownership of data and privacy
  • Web 3.0 represents the next decade of the Web (2010-2019)
  • read-write-execute Web
  • As more and more people become accustomed to storing their data in the Cloud and sharing it with others, our cultural concepts of ownership and privacy will dramatically shift.
  • Tero Toivanen on 10 May 09
     
    This is quite near to how I see Web 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0.
Lucy Gray

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - Global Education Challenge - The Challenge - 3 views

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shared by Lucy Gray on 06 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Lucy Gray on 06 Jul 11
     
    "Through the Global Education Challenge, we hope to find truly original ideas that can become tangible tools to improve student outcomes across the globe--both inside and outside the classroom. We're building a community of innovators who share our goal, and together we'll discuss ideas for groundbreaking solutions to help transform student learning, foster family engagement, and enhance teacher effectiveness. We'll be giving away $250,000 in cash and prizes to the best ideas. Entries will be accepted from Thursday, May 19 through Friday, July 15th, 2011."
Lucy Gray

Consolidating Diigo Groups - 5 views

Because the name of the Global Education Collaborative is changing to the Global Education Conference social network, we are consolidating the two Diigo groups used previously. This group will stay...

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