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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.
Blair Peterson

Laptops and Inspired Writing - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 31 Dec 10
     
    Key themes for students in writing: tools for better writing, access to information, share and learn, self directed learning, remaining relevant, engagement with new media.
Blair Peterson

Figment: Write yourself in. - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 10 Dec 10
     
    Website where anyone can submit pieces of writing for people to read.
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PicLits.com - Create a PicLit - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 01 May 12
     
    Site with photos that you can write about and share in the gallery.
Blair Peterson

Education Rethink: Ten Thoughts on Photo Prompts - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 22 Feb 12
     
    Interesting ideas for photo prompts for writing.
Blair Peterson

Coding the Curriculum: How High Schools Are Reprogramming Their Classes - 0 views

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  • Understanding how to use Python, or write code to solve problems, is just a way of having an additional tool to be creative with."
  • "The old teaching method — you know, where a teacher says something and you write it down and then take a test — that's about as passive as it gets," he says. "This idea pushes kids to be more actively involved since, by and large, it's something we're both learning together. That leads to a lot of innovative teaching — and a lot of innovative learning, for that matter."
  • "I'm certainly not a coder," says Lisa Brown, an English teacher and head of the English department at Beaver. "But, like anything, the more I've played around with it the more I've realized there's a lot that's really accessible and understandable."
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  • he exact curriculum for the year — or just how staff will b
  • implementing coding into each discipline — is still open-ended.
  • Brown says she's considering a poetry unit using code language. Kader Adjout, head of the Global History and Social Sciences department, is planning to have his students design — through code — interactive graphs to correlate with their research papers. Tina Farrell, who heads the Performing Arts department, is interested in experimenting with live-coding performances, where students would use software to compose and perform music with scripts they write.
  • It's difficult to trace back to when the American education curriculum began. Why, for example, do students at public schools take biology before chemistry? Chemistry before physics? And algebra before geometry?
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      Blair Peterson on 03 Oct 13
       
      Not all schools are doing this now. Certainly a traditional approach.
  • Hutton doesn't believe the education field is one to be viewed as "risk-averse" — the play-it-safe or uphold-the-status-quo methods just aren't cutting it anymore.
  • We don't need to engineer a workshop so every kid that graduates here becomes a professional programmer," he says. "We just want them to think about new ways to solve issues, and grasp that entrepreneurial mindset early on. It's ... it's just this day and age."
Blair Peterson

David Foster Wallace | Todoprosa - VEJA.com - 1 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 20 Oct 10
     
    Blog on handwriting and writing. Links to Wall Street Journal article and another blog post.
Blair Peterson

Education Week Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: Change Agent - 0 views

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  • There's no one teaching them about the nuances involved in creating a positive online footprint.
  • if you’re not transparent or findable in that way—I can’t learn with you.
  • “Without sharing, there is no education.”
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  • I would definitely share my own thoughts, my own experiences, and my own reflections on how the environment of learning is changin
  • I would be very transparent in my online learning activity and try to show people in the school that it’s OK, that it has value. I think it’s very hard to be a leader around these types of changes without modeling them.
  • students should be able to create, navigate, and grow their own personal learning networks in safe, effective, and ethical ways.
  • And now we’re moving into what they call a “lifelong learning” model—which is to say that learning is much more fluid and much more independent, self-directed, and informal. That concept—that we can learn in profound new ways outside the classroom setting—poses huge challenges to traditional structures of schools, because that’s not what they were built for.
  • So, I think we need to focus more on developing the learning process—looking at how kids collaborate with others on a problem, how they exercise their critical thinking skills, how they handle failure, and how they create. We have to be willing to put kids—and assess kids—in situations and contexts where they’re really solving problems and we’re looking not so much at the answer but the process by which they try to solve those problems. Because those are the types of skills they’re going to need when they leave us, when they go to college or wherever else. At least I think so. And I don’t think I’m alone in that.
  • I almost defy you to find me anyone who consciously teaches kids reading and writing in linked environments. Yet we know kids are in those environments and sometimes doing some wonderfully creative things. And we know they’ll need to read and write online. You know what I’m saying? But educators would read Nicholas Carr’s book, and their response would be to ban hypertext. It just doesn’t make sense.
  • “Why do you blog?” That’s what we need. We need people who are willing to really think critically about what they’re doing. I’m not an advocate of using tools just for the sake of using tools. I think all too often you see teachers using a blog, but nothing really changes in terms of their instruction, because they don’t really understand what a blog is, what possibilities it presents. They know the how-to, but they don’t know the why-to. I’d look for teachers who are constantly asking why. Why are we doing this? What’s the real value of this? How are our kids growing in connection with this? How are our kids learning better? And I definitely would want learners. I would look for learners more than I would look for teachers per se.
  • And I think we have to move to a more inquiry-based, problem-solving curriculum, because
  • it’s not about content as much anymore. It’s not about knowing this particular fact as much as it is about what you can do with it. What can you do with what you understand about chemistry? What can you do with what you’ve learned about writing?
  • What does it look like? Kids need to be working on solving real problems that mean something to them. The goal should be preparing kids to be entrepreneurs, problem-solvers who think critically and who’ve worked with people from around the world. Their assessments should be all about the products they produced, the movements they’ve created, the participatory nature of their education rather than this sort of spit-back-the-right-answer model we currently have. I mean, that just doesn’t make sense anymore.
Blair Peterson

Avoid Plagiarism by Paraphrasing Correctly - 1 views

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  • he two most important points to consider when paraphrasing are: 1) you must cite the source of the paraphrased text both in the body of your article, and in the reference list, and 2) you must express the original concepts using different words.
  • f you’re still not sure what constitutes plagiarism, see the comparisons put together by the School of Education at Indiana University, Bloomington.
  • The University of Wisconsin also offers practical tips and exercises to help you paraphrase, including, “Look away from the source; then write,” and “While looking at the source, first change the structure, then the words.”
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  • Carol Rohrbach and Joyce Valenza of the School District of Springfield Township have put together a bulleted list to help you understand when it’s preferable to paraphrase, summarize and quote.
  • Blair Peterson on 18 Apr 11
     
    Specifics on how to paraphrase ideas.
Blair Peterson

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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Educreations on the iPad - 2 views

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  • smenegh Meneghini on 03 Oct 12
     
    If you have an iPad this will be the App to use to create lessons to flip the class. Awesome for math and Science to facilitate formula writing and drawings.
Blair Peterson

Branding the Learning Organization | Connected Principals - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 02 Jul 12
     
    Info on the 184 blog where someone from the district writes about learning every day of the school year.
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When the software is the writer - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 29 Nov 10
     
    This article is on a company that has created software that gathers data and writes stories on NCAA college basketball teams. Who would have thought that software could compose the stories.
Blair Peterson

An Open Letter To Administrators | Connected Principals - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 28 Mar 11
     
    This is an excellent writing on why principals (and all educators) should be building a PLN with colleagues from around the world.
Blair Peterson

Twenty Everyday Ways to Model Technology Use for Students | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Post a list of norms for online and offline behavior and keep it up. Refer to it. Make it a part of your classroom culture.
  • No matter if you have a one-computer or a 10-computer classroom, you can have resources available and open at all times using the computer as a station. Can't find the right word when you're modeling writing an essay? Walk over to the computer while you are talking to the students and use visualthesarus.com to find just the right word.
  • #7. Take a photo of an interesting location with your cell phone, email it to yourself, and use it the next day to help teach a concept: descriptive writing about a setting, for example. Show students you are thinking of their learning even outside of the classroom. After all, learning shouldn't end at the bell.
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  • #15. Model reflection by keeping a transparent blog related to your classroom's activities so that people know what's going on. Perhaps it's as simple as a sentence or two that sums up a lesson, but help students realize that thinking back embeds the lesson even further.
  • #17. Use an excerpt from a class at iTunes U to help enhance a lesson or concept. Model how to navigate the site.
  • #20. Model flexibility. Remember, whenever you use technology, things go wrong. Have a Plan B or at least model "water off a duck." It will be the most important lesson you can model because life, both online and off, requires us to shrug sometimes and simply move on.
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