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Shabbi Luthra

Seth's Blog: The Domino Project - 0 views

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  • Shabbi Luthra on 27 Feb 11
     
    Seth Godin is launching this new publishing venture with Amazon that promises to change the rules of publishing.
Blair Peterson

School Library Monthly - The Changing Role of the School Library's Physical Space - 3 views

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librarians libraries library CurriculumFramework sharedvision

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  • They argue (or school administrators hear) that it is now up to the teacher and a more modern classroom dynamic to manage this rapid, Internet-fed information stream to support learning (Bonk 2010). Persons outside the library profession often do not realize that much of the information found in lib
  • They assert that school libraries should continue providing access to both digital and print-based information for as long as possible, and that these goals are not mutually exclusive (Gray 2009)
  • Transform the library’s physical space into a collaborative work area that celebrates information gathering, analysis, and sharing. At the core of a digital library is an e
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  • Those 150,000+ nonfiction ebooks are not bargain-bin titles offered as a group purchase; they are high-quality titles selected from a wide variety of university presses and academic publishers. It is important to note that the library does not own most of them. T
  • They have created a Patron Driven Acquisitions (PDA) model that is a win-win for both publishers and end users.
  • These "partnerships" with EBL and Amazon allow for a Just-in-time (JIT) approach to collection development focused more on access than ownership.
Blair Peterson

AALF Articles - Re-Thinking Every Assumption - 0 views

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AALF StudentCenteredLearning ProjectBasedLearning

shared by Blair Peterson on 20 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • course modules focused on developing students' understanding of big ideas and global concepts,
  • have a daily learning practice that involves myriad social media platforms, a whole range of devices and connectivities, lots of interest in learning about new platforms and means of expression, and an intense inclination to be a learner around technology.
  • instructors who
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  • myriad ways in which technology allows students to connect with other students, field experts, and other teachers around the world,
  • learning is deeply pleasurable, if not always fun (doing hard things is not always fun, but worth it)
  • that students are good at deciding for themselves what kinds of remediation they may need and how best to get it (in consultation with an advisor or other students)
  • assumption that everyone has a stake in their own learning, that
  • to prepare for the New York State Regents exam, students do all the memorization and content-cramming with teacher-created, web-based products so that instructional time does not have to be spent on this
  • strategically using online course learning and other web-based experiences as foundational content, students at the iSchool this past year worked with the designers of the National September 11th Memorial and Museum to get a more global perspective on the ways teens think about the events leading up to 9-11, interviewing kids in Pakistan and Australia about terrorism and victimization; designed a website to develop environmental awareness on the pros and cons of fracking called, thinkbeforeyoufrack; and created cultural ethnographic films about being sixteen all around the world, probing concepts like dating, what being in a relationship means, what you eat says about you culturally and socially.
  • Many of the conventional school environments I'm in are distinctly flat, arid, uninteresting places, physically and intellectually. Bulletin boards that could date from my own elementary school line classroom walls, with publisher's slogans about trying harder or doing your best. Adults choose what goes on the walls , and the aesthetics of learning spaces seem almost deliberately ignored.
  • What can we learn about these new "entrepreneurial" learning environments, where technology is central but not at the center? The medium that extends, defines, and mediates learning, but is not the thing? Collaboration is at the center, we are still learning how to do this, making "little bets" on changes in school culture which allow us to fail early and adapt, is part of establishing these transformative learning cultures
  • "It's not about the technology, it's about rethinking how learning happens."
  • smenegh Meneghini on 20 Sep 11
     
    If you wanted to rethink every assumption about conventional high school--with multi-media technology at the center, combined with an intense conviction about adolescents ' desire to do meaningful and important work--what would it look like? "This is the NYC iSchool
Blair Peterson

Are new technologies making us happier? - The Next Web - 2 views

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  • discuss a framework for optimizing our relationships with technology. “We are merging with technology — we are techno-bodies engaged at work and play. Can we achieve a happiness that transcends the digital and the physical realms, thereby transforming into a new state of being?” she asks.
  • Too much technology can impede our happiness. We have to disconnect. Akbari suggests to go on periodic media fasts, a “technology cleanse”, if you will. Turn off your phone and drink some wine.
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      Blair Peterson on 03 Nov 11
       
      This seems a bit weird.
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  • “The Strength of Weak Ties,” made popular in Malcolm Gladwell’s book The Tipping Point. The theory suggests that our larger, weaker ties are equally important, if not more beneficial as they connect us to a larger pool of people to pull resources from.
  •  A friend recently told me that there are two kinds of people. People who leave their phones on the table screen facing up and people who leave the screens facing down.
  • Blair Peterson on 01 Nov 11
     
    A problem that we all face.
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