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Blair Peterson

Teachers Headline Capitol Hill Event on Digital Media & Writing -- WASHINGTON, Sept. 30... - 0 views

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  • Every student needs one-on-one access to computers and other mobile technology in classrooms.Every teacher needs professional development in the effective use of digital tools for teaching and learning, including the use of digital tools to promote writing.All schools and districts need a comprehensive information technology policy to ensure that the necessary infrastructure, technical support and resources are available for teaching and learning.
  • Blair Peterson on 11 Oct 10
     
    College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, the briefing included two teachers featured in Teachers Are the Center of Education: Writing, Learning and Leading in the Digital Age, a report released this summer by the two organizations and Phi Delta Kappa International (PDKI). A few examples of teachers using technology for the writing process. Key findings include: Every student needs one-on-one access to computers and other mobile technology in classrooms.Every teacher needs professional development in the effective use of digital tools for teaching and learning, including the use of digital tools to promote writing.All schools and districts need a comprehensive information technology policy to ensure that the necessary infrastructure, technical support and resources are available for teaching and learning.
Shabbi Luthra

Manifesto for 21st century school librarians - 1 views

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  • You market, and your students share, books using social networking tools like Shelfari, Good Reads, or LibraryThing.
  • Your students blog or tweet or network in some way about what they are reading
  • You review and promote books in your own blogs and wikis and other websites. (Also Reading2.0 and BookLeads Wiki for book promotion ideas)
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  • You know that searching various areas of the Web requires a variety of search tools. You are the information expert in your building. You are the search expert in your building. You share an every growing and shifting array of search tools that reach into blogs and wikis and Twitter and images and media and scholarly content.
  • You open your students to evolving strategies for collecting and evaluating information. You teach about tags, and hashtags, and feeds, and real-time searches and sources, as well as the traditional database approaches you learned way back in library school.
  • You work with learners to exploit push information technologies like RSS feeds and tags and saved databases and search engine searches relevant to their information needs.
  • You know that communication is the end-product of research and you teach learners how to communicate and participate creatively and engagingly. You consider new interactive and engaging communication tools for student projects. ● Include and collaborate with your learners. You let them in. You fill your physical and virtual space with student work, student contributions—their video productions, their original music, their art.
  • Know and celebrate that students can now publish their written work digitally. (See these pathfinders: Digital Publishing, Digital Storytelling)
  • Your collection–on- and offline–includes student work. You use digital publishing tools to help students share and celebrate their written and artistic work.
  • You welcome and host telecommunications events and group gathering for planning and research and social networking.
  • You realize you will often have to partner and teach in classroom teachers’ classrooms. One-to-one classrooms change your teaching logistics. You teach virtually. You are available across the school via email and chat.
Blair Peterson

Education Week Teacher: Teaching the iGeneration: It's About Verbs, Not Tools - 0 views

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shared by Blair Peterson on 23 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Instead of exploring how new digital opportunities can support student-centered inquiry or otherwise enhance existing practices, today’s schools are preparing their teachers to use office automation and productivity tools like Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
  • begins by introducing teachers to ways in which digital tools can be used to encourage higher-order thinking and innovative instruction across the curriculum.
  • Let me suggest that it is time to be done with this unnecessary conflict about 21st-century skills. Let us agree that we need all those forenamed skills, plus lots others, in addition to a deep understanding of history, literature, the arts, geography, civics, the sciences, and foreign languages.
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  • Instead of recognizing that tomorrow’s professions will require workers who are intellectually adept—able to identify bias, manage huge volumes of information, persuade, create, and adapt—teachers and district technology leaders wrongly believe that tomorrow’s professions will require workers who know how to blog, use wikis, or create podcasts.
    • Blair Peterson
      Blair Peterson on 23 Apr 11
       
      This is a key point and one that makes us stop and think about the language we use and our actions.
  • Our teaching should instead focus on the verbs (i.e. skills) students need to master, making it clear to the students (and to the teachers) that there are many tools learners can use to practice and apply them.
  • Blair Peterson on 23 Apr 11
     
    Check out this post by Bill Ferriter. Nice job explaining that "It's about the behaviors that the tools enable." Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
Blair Peterson

Education Week Teacher: Teaching the iGeneration: It's About Verbs, Not Tools - 1 views

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shared by Blair Peterson on 23 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • "It's not about the tools, Bill," Sheryl pushed back. "It's about the behaviors that the tools enable."
  • After all, most schools are investing their professional-development technology budget in training teachers to use computers for non-instructional purposes even though new tools allow for a significant shift in pedagogy.
  • Instead of exploring how new digital opportunities can support student-centered inquiry or otherwise enhance existing practices, today’s schools are preparing their teachers to use office automation and productivity tools like Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
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  • Despite Bauerlein’s skepticism and a mountain of statistical doubt, today’s students can be inspired by technology to ponder, imagine, reflect, analyze, memorize, recite, and create—but only after we build a bridge between what they know about new tools and what we know about good teaching.
  • I . . . have heard quite enough about the 21st-century skills that are sweeping the nation. Now, for the first time, children will be taught to think critically (never heard a word about that in the 20th century, did you?), to work in groups (I remember getting a grade on that very skill when I was in 3rd grade a century ago), to solve problems (a brand new idea in education), and so on.
  • Instead of recognizing that tomorrow’s professions will require workers who are intellectually adept—able to identify bias, manage huge volumes of information, persuade, create, and adapt—teachers and district technology leaders wrongly believe that tomorrow’s professions will require workers who know how to blog, use wikis, or create podcasts.
  • Verbs are the kinds of knowledge-driven, lifelong skills that teachers know matter: thinking critically, persuading peers, presenting information in an organized and convincing fashion. Nouns are the tools that students use to practice those skills.
  • In teaching, our focus needs to be on the verbs, which don’t change very much, and NOT on the nouns (i.e. the technologies) which change rapidly and which are only a means.
  • I've settled on five skills that I believe define the most successful individuals: The ability to communicate effectively, the ability to manage information, the ability to use the written word to persuade audiences, the ability to use images to persuade audiences, and the ability to solve problems collaboratively.
  • Blair Peterson on 23 Apr 11
     
    Excellent post by Bill Ferriter on skills students need for the future. 
Blair Peterson

The 33 Digital Skills Every 21st Century Teacher should Have - 1 views

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  • 1- Create and edit  digital audio
  • 2- Use Social bookmarking to share resources with and between learners
  • 3- Use blogs and wikis to create online platforms for students
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  • 4- Exploit digital images for classroom use
  • 5- Use video content to engage students
  • 6- Use infographics to visually stimulate students
  • Blair Peterson on 01 Jul 12
     
    I like the list and she provides links to resources to help educators learn more about the tools.
Blair Peterson

A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age | EdSurge News - 2 views

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  • We are aware of how much we don't know: that we have yet to explore the full pedagogical potential of learning online, of how it can change the ways we teach, the ways we learn, and the ways we connect.  
  • As we begin to experiment with how novel technologies might change learning and teaching, powerful forces threaten to neuter or constrain technology, propping up outdated educational practices rather than unfolding transformative ones.
  • All too often, during such wrenching transitions, the voice of the learner gets muffled.
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  • Learners within a global, digital commons have the right to work, network, and contribute to knowledge in public; to share their ideas and their learning in visible and connected ways if they so choose.
  • The best courses will be global in design and contribution, offering multiple and multinational perspectives.  
  • The best online learning programs will not simply mirror existing forms of university teaching but offer students a range of flexible learning opportunities that take advantage of new digital tools and pedagogies to widen these traditional horizons, thereby better addressing 21st-century learner interests, styles and lifelong learning needs.  
  • Both technical and pedagogical innovation should be hallmarks of the best learning environments.
  • Open online education should inspire the unexpected, experimentation, and questioning--in other words, encourage play.
Blair Peterson

The Innovative Educator: Do You Have the Fluency of a Digital Native? Take this test to... - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 15 Apr 11
     
    Take this quiz to find out if you're a digital native or immigrant. 
Blair Peterson

A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age | Digital Pedagogy | HY... - 0 views

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  • Courses should encourage open participation and meaningful engagement with real audiences where possible, including peers and the broader public.
  • Students have the right to understand the intended outcomes--educational, vocational, even philosophical--of an online program or initiative.
  • n an online environment, teachers no longer need to be sole authority figures but instead should share responsibility with learners at almost every turn.
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  • Online learning should originate from everywhere on the globe, not just from the U.S. and other technologically advantaged countries.
  • The best online learning programs will not simply mirror existing forms of university teaching but offer students a range of flexible learning opportunities that take advantage of new digital tools and pedagogies to widen these traditional horizons, thereby better addressing 21st-century learner interests, styles and lifelong learning needs.
  • This can happen by building in apprenticeships, internships and real-world applications of online problem sets. Problem sets might be rooted in real-world dilemmas or comparative historical and cultural perspectives. (Examples might include: “Organizing Disaster Response and Relief for Hurricane Sandy” or “Women’s Rights, Rape, and Culture” or “Designing and Implementing Gun Control: A Global Perspective.”)
  • The artificial divisions of work, play and education cease to be relevant in the 21st century.
  • Both technical and pedagogical innovation should be hallmarks of the best learning environments. A wide variety of pedagogical approaches, learning tools, methods and practices should support students' diverse learning modes.
  • Experimentation should be an acknowledged affordance and benefit of online learning. Students should be able to try a course and drop it without incurring derogatory labels such as failure (for either the student or the institution offering the course).
  • Open online education should inspire the unexpected, experimentation, and questioning--in other words, encourage play. Play allows us to make new things familiar, to perfect new skills, to experiment with moves and crucially to embrace change--a key disposition for succeeding in the 21st century. We must cultivate the imagination and the dispositions of questing, tinkering and connecting. We must remember that the best learning, above all, imparts the gift of curiosity, the wonder of accomplishment, and the passion to know and learn even more.
Blair Peterson

How Age Restrictions Complicate Digital Media & Learning | DMLcentral - 2 views

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      jennifermaxpeterson on 04 Nov 11
       
      Very interesting post about an issue that has been on my mind. Be sure to read the comments which adds perspective.
    • Blair Peterson
      Blair Peterson on 05 Nov 11
       
      I think that this is a really good point and one that we need to consider when working with parents. How many of us know what happens to our data on FB? What does this mean for our kids?
  • Or should she make sure that they understand how privacy settings work?  Where does digital literacy fit in when what children are doing is in violation of websites’ Terms of Service?
  • Jeff Lippman on 06 Nov 11
     
    FB is a really difficult one for us... we see tons of abuse of it with our own students.... clearly a tool that many of them do not have the maturity to use safely... and I bigger concern from the article for me is how we deal with the question of honesty with kids... if it is ok to lie about age here... why not lie in other situations... mixed messages about integrity...
Blair Peterson

Education, Tech, and Information Literacy: A Presentation by Jeff Utecht: the learning ... - 1 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 13 Dec 10
     
    Comments from an educator after Jeff Utecht presentation. Example of a really good collaborative exercise.  "How many schools are creating policies that address new digital tools and behaviors?"
Blair Peterson

Can educators in the 21st Century be content experts, but media illiterate an... - 0 views

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  • I’d say that 21st Century educators first need to be content experts and second need to be media literate to be relevant to their students.
  • We can’t expect students to use media correctly if as educators we’re not willing to jump in and learn, share and collaborate with our personal learning network.
    • Blair Peterson
      Blair Peterson on 25 Sep 11
       
      This supports our work on modeling the use of digital tools in teacher learning and work.
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  • Content experts are a necessity, but there is no excuse to be media illiterate Let students be your guidance if you need help with technology “Media Literate” means willing to learn continuously about tech Using new tools is necessary — new learners have new tools Media savviness doesn’t necessarily mean great teacher Content knowledge is a necessity to evaluate the quality of sources Must remember that many teachers are in different places regarding their tech knowledge — differentiating support is necessary How do Schools of Ed play into this?  What’s their responsibility?
Blair Peterson

Inanimate Alice - Homepage - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 10 Apr 13
     
    A digital novel that students can create. This looks very cool.
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ASCD Inservice: A Digital Nation Divided: Multitasking, Media-Saturation, & Finding Focus - 0 views

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  • Where do you stand as an educator? Should we transform classrooms to embrace the multitasking technology-rich world, or create environments where students must focus on a singular task? What strategies have you seen which use multitasking as a benefit to student learning? Or what strategies have you seen which help students block out distraction? Have you ever witnessed a teacher help students compare whether multitasking or singular focus was more helpful to learning?
Blair Peterson

YouTube - The Future of the Book. - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 03 Oct 10
     
    Introduction to Nelson. Shows informational layers, ongoing discussions, check reliability of sources, current discussions and perspectives. Coupland - another digital book program. Alice - interactive reading experience. 
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Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 24 Nov 10
     
    This is an excellent article that explains the difficulties that students have with balancing the use of technology and managing studies and life. There are juicy comments from teachers and students that explain different view points on the subject. 
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Teaching with Technology in the Middle: Diigo for Digital Writing Reflection - 1 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 18 Apr 11
     
    The use of Diigo in a 8th grade English class.
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Rheingold's Excellent Net Smart: How to Thrive Online, An Appreciation | 21k12 - 0 views

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  • Used mindfully, how can digital media help us grow smarter?  My years of study and experience have led me to conclude that humans are humans because we invent thinking and communicating tools that enable us to do bigger, more powerful things together.
  • etter than anyone else, he helped me to understand the importance of attention as the ultimate, finite, precious resource, one which must be constantly attended to, strengthened as a muscle, husbanded for our productivity.   “When it comes to the interacting with the world of always-on info, the fundamental skill, on which other essential skills depend, is the ability to deal with distraction without filtering out opportunity.”
  • Rheingold’s chapter on Attention offers valuable suggestions for strengthening our mindfulness by using meditation, goal-setting, “intentionality,”  and other tools to become more metacognitive and more intentional about how we concentrate in the times when we choose to do so. 
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  • I conclude that teaching people how to practice more mindful, mediated communication seems like the most feasible remedy…. I’m with Jackson; self-control along with the skillful use of attention, participation, crap-detection, and network awareness through social media ought to be taught to future netizens at early as possible.
Blair Peterson

Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 24 Nov 10
     
    Article on the distractions of web 2.0 tools. 
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