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Michael Walker

Get Your Geek On, Help Scientists With iDoScien - Flash Player Installation - 2 views

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idoscience social networks science learning research projects ideas

shared by Michael Walker on 28 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Michael Walker on 28 Jan 10
     
    From the site: 1. Teachers now have an unprecedented resource of meaningful science projects to engage their students. 2. Students can work with professional scientists anywhere in the world on real research projects that benefit us all. 3. Students can create their own projects and find collaborators all over the planet. 4. Citizen scientists can find like-minded people to share ideas. 5. Home-schoolers now have a network of science lovers to use as a resource for their children. 6. Professional scientists now have a turn-key solution to promote their research projects, archive their data, find collaborators and reach out to thousands of people they could not reach before.
  • Michael Walker on 28 Jan 10
     
    From the site: 1. Teachers now have an unprecedented resource of meaningful science projects to engage their students. 2. Students can work with professional scientists anywhere in the world on real research projects that benefit us all. 3. Students can create their own projects and find collaborators all over the planet. 4. Citizen scientists can find like-minded people to share ideas. 5. Home-schoolers now have a network of science lovers to use as a resource for their children. 6. Professional scientists now have a turn-key solution to promote their research projects, archive their data, find collaborators and reach out to thousands of people they could not reach before.
Michael Walker

PLP Project Plan: text, images, music, video | Glogster - 2 views

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shared by Michael Walker on 15 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Michael Walker on 15 Mar 10
     
    Great Glogster of the PLP project from a group in New Hampshire. All of the examples tied to state standards. Might give you some ideas for differentiated projects.
Michael Walker

10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports - TheApple.com - 0 views

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reading technology books book reports resources

shared by Michael Walker on 15 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Michael Walker on 15 Jul 09
     
    As you look at how 1:1 will impact your classroom, these ideas might provide some interesting alternatives.
Michael Walker

The Electric Educator: Google-Proof Questioning: A New Use for Bloom's Taxonomy - 0 views

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diigo google questioning bloom questions education learning

shared by Michael Walker on 11 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Michael Walker on 11 Nov 09
     
    Blog post with suggestions for creating "Google proof" questions. Great ideas in the comments as well.
Alison Anderson

Edina Technology Blog - 0 views

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  • Laptop carts do not change teaching and learning in the classroom the way that one to one does.
    • Michael Walker
      Michael Walker on 24 Oct 08
       
      One concern expressed regarding this is that parents in Edina may not like a pilot that gives 1/4 the students at a grade level this privaledge. We need to be open to the idea that while this may be an ideal way for us to pilot, we can still gain valuable information from designing lessons and units in which each student has a laptop, albeit from a cart.
  • If you were starting this from scratch...Start at the middle school. Plan how you will grow.
  • Teachers must embrace change in the role of teacher, and of students!
    • Michael Walker
      Michael Walker on 25 Oct 08
       
      By being a part of this community, and your comments so far, you are doing that!
Michael Walker

techLEARNING.com | Technology & Learning - The Resource for Education Technology Leader... - 0 views

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mobile learning environment education 1-to-1 Soloway Norris

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  • If you go to a situation where the computers are one-to-one, where every child has a computer, be it a cell phone computer or a mini laptop computer, then all the learning activities, all the learning resources are on that device. It becomes the conduit then for the curriculum and for the artifacts the student creates. In some sense it does replace or certainly augments the paper and pencil materials. As Cathie pointed out earlier, the problem was that the computer was used as an add on. The major part of the lesson was still done on paper and there might be one activity that you did on the computer but that activity wasn't integrated with the rest of the pieces of paper. The computer wasn't playing an integral role to the lesson. But with one to one, it becomes possible for the computer to play an integral role. CN: Which is the way it is in business. Most business people do the majority of their work on their computer. Pencil and paper tends to be an aside or an add on for notes. When we start talking about teaching children 21st Century Skills, teaching them how to use the computer for the bulk of what they do is certainly a 21st Century Skill. ST: Certainly, so long as it's not just teaching the technical means to do a PowerPoint presentation or write a paper. It's about the critical thinking that goes on.
    • Michael Walker
      Michael Walker on 12 Dec 08
       
      I think this is the key! Remember the first day...Make the laptop disapear!
  • The teachers who are out of control when students have handhelds are the same teachers who are out of control when the students have pencils and paper. I was a classroom teacher for 15 years and back then the threat was that computers were going to come in and replace all teachers. All of the good teachers felt that any teacher who could be replaced by a computer should be. There is always room for and a place for good teachers. In this case the role of the teacher is different. It's not necessarily a role of handing out the information. You don't open up students' heads and dump in the information. Rather, teachers provide direction and contextualize things for students as they do their lessons. Students are not sitting there like little birds waiting to be fed. To create autonomous learners you must contextualize things for students as they find them or as they run into difficulties trying to fit pieces together because you've structured the lesson for them. ST: You're singing my song. One of the things we often say at our organization is that a child is not a vessel to be filled, but a flame to be kindled. What you're speaking to is how do you create that spark and engage that 21st Century Learner.
    • Michael Walker
      Michael Walker on 12 Dec 08
       
      Classroom management and teacher's role
  • Well that's true. One of the things that I worry about with Smart Boards is people are just porting all of their book based content into static PDFs to be displayed on Smart Boards. There's nothing engaging there about that solution. CN: Right. Children are simply watching something bigger. We were in Mexico and we saw that Mexico had adopted the Smart Boards in all the classrooms. At one meeting we attended, they demonstrated how they were going to be using the Smart Boards in the classroom. A teacher had a book opened, displayed on the Smart Board, going through the lessons with the book on the Smart Board. It was just a bigger book, the children are still being passive learners. They simply watched her as opposed to engaging with a technology that fits them, moving up and around, it's a completely different learning environment. ES: This was a very powerful learning experience for both of us. Here is a country trying to move into the 21st century. They were going to equip their classrooms with all these expensive, electronic whiteboards. All they were doing was the same thing that they had done with books in the past and that wasn't particularly interesting to the kids. Displaying the book a little bigger is not going have any impact whatsoever.
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  • We see a trajectory with this issue of one-to-one computing. The entire notion of one-to-one is going to change. The term is inappropriate. It's a dominant term now because it comes out of the laptop world. It still focuses on the technology as opposed to what the kids are going to do with the technology. I think over the next few years, the notion of one-to-one as a term will disappear. What's going to happen is that it will be a given that all the children will have a computing device. It probably is going to happen faster than most people think. Right now, a large percentage of schools in the United States, ban cell phones. But once this dam breaks, when schools see that kids are already bringing computers to school and schools don't have to pay for those computers, the light bulb within administrators will light up. Administrators will begin to notice that one child brings a Motorola, another brings a Nokia, and yet another brings an iPhone. The solution? You just put a layer of software on top of the phone that makes all those non-homogeneous devices homogeneous with respect to the teacher and the learning activities. Just like a Dell and a Sony and a Gateway. They're different computers. You put a layer of software on top of them and now they're all the same. That's the same idea that will happen in the cell phone computer world. And when this happens, we think it's going to happen very quickly. Not in five years, more like two to three years.
    • Michael Walker
      Michael Walker on 12 Dec 08
       
      A view of what the future may hold!
  • Michael Walker on 12 Dec 08
     
    Cathleen Norris and Eliot Soloway discuss issues with teaching in a one to one environment
Michael Walker

Op-Ed Contributor - Playing to Learn - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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Learning reform

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  • So what should children be able to do by age 12, or the time they leave elementary school? They should be able to read a chapter book, write a story and a compelling essay; know how to add, subtract, divide and multiply numbers; detect patterns in complex phenomena; use evidence to support an opinion; be part of a group of people who are not their family; and engage in an exchange of ideas in conversation. If all elementary school students mastered these abilities, they would be prepared to learn almost anything in high school and college.
    • Michael Walker
      Michael Walker on 02 Feb 10
       
      Key Point of the article here.
  • Michael Walker on 02 Feb 10
     
    Interesting Op-Ed on what students really should be learning in Elementary School.
Michael Walker

10 Google Forms for the Classroom | ICT in my Classroom - 2 views

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google googledocs forms education ideas

shared by Michael Walker on 10 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Michael Walker on 10 Nov 09
     
    Great list of examples of how to use Google Forms in your classroom. Includes links to the actual forms!
Michael Walker

10 things you can do with a laptop (Gary Stager at eLearn09) » Moving at the ... - 1 views

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1:1 Stager laptop ideas video

shared by Michael Walker on 12 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Michael Walker on 12 Nov 09
     
    Some fabulous resources here.
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