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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’.
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Why the Open Schools of Phoenix Failed « Cooperative Catalyst - 1 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 30 Aug 12
     
    Something that I have thought about when we talk about open spaces in schools for the future. I attended an open school that didn't seem to work very well.
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Little Speak Easy | Live & Learn - 0 views

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    Design firm that has some excellent ideas for the future. 
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Little Speak Easy | Immersive Learning-what? - 0 views

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    The ideas and insights shared on SpeakEasy are intended to stimulate thought, inspire innovation and fuel breakthrough ideas that create a better future for people. SpeakEasy is authored by the restless minds at Little, a national, multi-disciplinary design firm.
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To Inspire Learning, Architects Reimagine Learning Spaces | MindShift - 1 views

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  • nstead of classrooms, PlayMaker School has a suite of spaces that are interconnected physically and visually. There’s an ideation lab, a maker space, and an immersive gaming and learning zone where the students can try out the games they create and the software they develop.
  • When you put math and science teachers together, they can cross-collaborate on lesson plans. If they’re teaching trigonometry or wave properties in math, they know they have to pull in the physics faculty also.” Schools that embrace STEM end up retraining. “They have to stretch their conception of what’s being taught.”
  • They were inspired by facilities that “let spontaneous collisions happen,”
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  • One of its major findings was that, to succeed, STEM and other interdisciplinary programs need to create propinquity—literally, “nearness”—among their participants.
  • There are still labs. They operate in two modes: students seated around a large table or working as teams around a lab bench. The lab classrooms can shift easily between the two modes, so they’re slightly larger than tradition dictates. The idea is that you can do a math lab at the table or a science lab at the bench.
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YOUmedia at the Chicago Public Library | New Learning Institute - 0 views

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  • to’s study found that high school age students, when working on their own, interact with digital media in one of three ways: 1) “hanging out,” in social networks or online spaces such as blogs, chats or Facebook; 2)“messing around,” or tinkering with software to produce various types of media; 3) “geeking out,” a more serious exploration of one type of media or technology, often in online interest groups. Media to young people might mean Japanese anime, fan fiction, spoken word or rap poetry, video, music or any combination of different forms and styles of communication.
  • The activity at the center is designed to encourage young people to move along a continuum of engagement, from “messing around,” to “geeking out.”
  • YOUmedia center have an instant means of broadcasting their work and get instant feedback from other students and adult mentors. Broadcasting and networking is an essential part of the YOUmedia experience, one that echoes the way young people use technology on their own.
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      Blair Peterson on 30 Nov 10
       
      Study on high school students. Very interesting findings. 
  • Blair Peterson on 30 Nov 10
     
    Great video showing a learning space at the Chicago Public Library.
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About | Designing New Spaces for Learning Initiative - 0 views

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    Project for designing new spaces for learning.
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Eric Sheninger: Designing Schools to Engage and Drive Learning - 0 views

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    Fun to hear what they have at Google.
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Siphoning the Fumes of Teen Culture: How to Co-opt Students' Favorite Social Media Tool... - 0 views

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  • By forbidding the use of social media sites in 52% of our nation’s classrooms, schools are suppressing a learning revolution that is characterized by several truths: 1) facility with social media tools is critical to learning and working in the 21st century; 2) 75% of online adolescents are already social networking outside of school; 3) many students hack through Internet filters during class; and 4) exploration of social media sites is part of the adolescent identity.
  • Workshop reports that, on average, kids can actually stuff eight hours of media exposure into five hours of non-school time by media multitasking—phone texting while participating in seven separate Facebook chats and posting to Tumblr.
  • Dr. Howard Rheingold, on his final exam, asked his Stanford students to demonstrate their understanding of the literacies that accompany new media by creating, rather than writing, an essay. B
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  • Twitter and Youtube empower anyone with access to a computer, phone, or library to publish media. Television celebrates authority. Twitter dismantles authority, as witnessed by its use in Tunisia. Television celebrates the expert. Twitter fosters dialogue among amateurs.
  • "It’s slow and clunky. The design is bad. To talk to your friend, you can’t just go to their page and shoot them a message. The search box is worthless; I couldn’t find my friend, Tim, even when I know he’s in there. Every time you want to post to a particular class—every time—you have to select that class,
  • When social media supplements and transforms curriculum, students should experience this like play.
  • Don’t require students to write "correctly" in discussion forums. These spaces should encourage teens to advance tentative theories and experiment with different perspectives. You
  • Great online discussions thrive when students and instructors trust the community.
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