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Shabbi Luthra

K-12 Tech Tools © - home - 0 views

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  • Shabbi Luthra on 16 Jun 11
     
    Great new resource called K-12 Tech Tools features more than 1,000 free online technology tools. The tools are categorized by subject, grade level, and standards.
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.
Blair Peterson

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

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  • "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

"It's not about the tool" - a naïve myth. « Cooperative Catalyst - 0 views

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  • Secondly, tools shape behaviours. Tools shape cognition. Tools shape societal structures in both intended, and unintended, ways.
  • Anthony Aguirre, in The Enemy of Insight, suggests that “information input from the Internet is simply too fast, leaving little mental space or time to process that information, fit it into existing schema, and think through the implications”. (
  • “Important issues fade from focus fast, and while many of humanity’s challenges get more complicated, society’s ability to pay attention to complex arguments dwindles. Sound bites and attack ads work well when the world has attention deficit disorder.”
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  • It seems to me that this will be achieved when we see them not simply using ICT as ‘tools’, but rather when we see students thinking differently as a result of their ubiquitous presence and facility. The invention of words, and subsequently the printing press, resulted in a new literacy because people now had words with which to think and to communicate. ‘Blue water’ with respect to ICT means that people must sufficiently appropriate these technologies in order that they become ‘media with which to think and to communicate’.
Blair Peterson

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

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  • 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

Pulse | The Science of Collaboration - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 28 Apr 12
     
    Tool to code and review data on online collaborations. Seems like a simple and easy tool.
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

Can we just skip the whole "data-driven" part if the technology is free? | Dangerously ... - 0 views

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  • The problem is that even when offered the keys to a brand new shiny red sports car, it seems as if the inclination is to just let it sit in the driveway.
  • We have a new tool, with no real plans as to how specifically it will lead us to our 21st century goals.
  • But I also think that schools and districts need to keep asking how THEY will make these tools effective additions to how they educate a student. Without that understanding or plan, that Corvette isn’t going to get on the open road at all.
  • Blair Peterson on 27 Sep 10
     
    Blog posting on Google Tools for learning.
Blair Peterson

A Principal's Reflections: Tools to Help Become a Tech Savvy Educator - 0 views

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  • Colleen Broderick on 19 Nov 10
     
    This is a great overview of a few tools with potentially big impact... Helpful primer
Blair Peterson

Educators need learning advocacy, not technology advocacy | Dangerously Irrelevant - 0 views

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  • We should connect our kids to readers around the world so they begin to understand the connective nature of writing.
  • We should connect our kids with other schools around the globe so they can have diverse conversations and learn with instead of learn aboutnother cultures.
    • Blair Peterson
      Blair Peterson on 13 Nov 10
       
      Which one are you?
  • My students need better ways to transparently revise and share their work with more than just one partner in the classroom.
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  • I agree with Russ that we “technology advocates” should be focused on selling the learning, not just the technologies. But I’m more skeptical than he is, perhaps, that those learning outcomes will be strong pulls - pulls that are strong enough to drive urgency and change practice - for many (most?) educators. What do you think?
  • t’s actually the reason I stopped doing Tech Tuesday midway through last year.
  • Having conversations about tools is what gets us to the point where 90% of respondents to T&L’s poll think they’re good to go. Now, as a commenter pointed out on that original post, they’re comfortable. Learning those tools is easy. EASY. The conversation is short. The use is simplistic. The learning doesn’t change.
    • Blair Peterson
      Blair Peterson on 13 Nov 10
       
      Excellent point! Once the tool conversation is over, that's it. Often the glamor of the tool dies out and there is no progress on using it more effectively for learning.
  • Blair Peterson on 13 Nov 10
     
    Great comment by Scott McLeod and even better comments from readers. How do we balance "Tech Advocacy" with "Learning Advocacy"?
Blair Peterson

Twitter, Simply Complicated. « My Island View - 0 views

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  • To use twitter is to get it. To explain Twitter is a losing proposition. Twitter’s reputation as an application is its worst enemy.
  • How could this ever be taken seriously, not to even mention being used as a tool for Professional Development for educators?
  • We can contact individuals around the globe. Our thoughts and ideas can be suspended in time until retrieved by others. We can exchange ideas or information in the form of: text, audio files, photos, videos, Blog posts, articles, URL’s (links), charts, data, and live interaction. All of this is made possible with Social Media.
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  • A huge problem with Twitter for some is understanding who is getting the message. Remember Twitter is Social Media and is based on social interaction. If you walked into an auditorium full of people and started talking without engaging someone first, no one would be listening. You would be talking out loud to yourself.  If you introduced yourself to someone and then began a conversation you now have someone listening and interacting. You would then do the same with a second, third, and fourth person. You have connected with those people and selected them as persons you may interact with, and they have selected you as well, based on your intelligent contributions to the discussion. As that works in life, so it works in Twitter.
  • Twitter is only one component of a comprehensive PLN. There are many Social Media applications that serve educators well for communication, collaboration, and creation. All of these applications are constantly evolving or disappearing, to be replaced by new applications. We need to buy into the method and not the tool. Tools change, but learning continues. To be better educators we need to be better learners.
Blair Peterson

Twitter as a Curation Tool | Langwitches Blog - 1 views

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  • Taking advantage of a network of curators working for you (building your own customized network), consuming their curated information Collecting, organizing, connecting, attributing, interpreting, summarizing the vast amount of information that comes across your desk/ feed /books/articles/etc.  for YOURSELF! Becoming consciously the curator for others for a particular niche, area of expertise or interest. Disseminate resources, add value, put in perspective, create connections, present in a different light/media/language. Real time curation allows you to be part of an event, that you physically might not be attending or being on the opposite end allows you to be the bridge for others to participate at an event where you are present, but your network is not.
Blair Peterson

10 Google Products You (Probably) Never Knew Existed - 1 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 16 Apr 12
     
    Google Tools
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technology4kids [licensed for non-commercial use only] / globalprojects - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 05 Oct 10
     
    Wiki with ideas for global projects and tools to enhance the global projects.
Blair Peterson

Turning links into a library with Diigo - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 15 Jan 11
     
    This is why Diigo is such a powerful tool. Take a look to see how you can use it with your students.
Blair Peterson

What do Students Think of Using iPads in Class? Pilot Survey Results - iPads in Education - 1 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 06 Feb 11
     
    This student survey shows that iPads for HS students may NOT be the best tool. Interesting results.
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