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smenegh Meneghini

The Knowledge Building Paradigm - 6 views

  • Computers and the attendant technology can no longer be considered desirable adjuncts to education. Instead, they have to be regarded as essential—as thinking prosthetics (Johnson 2001) or mind tools (Jonassen 1996). But, like any other tool, thinking prosthetics must be used properly to be effective
  • The sociocultural perspective focuses on the manner in which human intelligence is augmented by artifacts designed to facilitate cognition. Our intelligence is distributed over the tools we use (diSessa 2000; Hutchins 1995). The old saying, "To a man with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail" is very true
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      This is a quite interesting perspective.
    • Derrel Fincher
       
      It's similar to activity theory, which arose from the idea that artifacts help mediate our interactions (activity) with our surroundings.
  • Pierre Lévy (1998) notes that one of the principal characteristics of the knowledge age, in which the Net Generation is growing up, is virtualization, a process in which "[an] event is detached from a specific time and place, becomes public, undergoes heterogenesis"
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  • many businesses are now finding that the pace of change demanded by the global economy and facilitated by various technologies is requiring them to rethink how they are organized. Many are restructuring themselves as learning organizations—organizations in which new learning and innovation are the engines that drive the company.
    • smenegh Meneghini
       
      How do you think that should impact formal education?
  • Knowledge Forum is, of course, not the only online learning environment available. Others of note include FirstClass, WebCT, and Blackboard. Palloff and Pratt (2001) note that, whatever online environment is used, "attention needs to be paid to developing a sense of community in the group of participants in order for the learning process to be successful"
    • smenegh Meneghini
       
      How can we develop a sense of community in those knowledge-building groups?
  • How does it work? In practice, the teacher presents students with a problem of understanding relevant to the real world. It could be a question such as What is the nature of light? or What makes a society a civilization? The focus here is to make student ideas, rather than predetermined activities or units of knowledge, the center of the classroom work. The next step is to get the students to generate ideas about the topic and write notes about their ideas in the Knowledge Forum (KF) database, an online environment with metacognitive enhancements to support the growth of the knowledge-building process. In generating these ideas, the students form work groups around similar interests and topics they wish to explore. These groups are  self-organized and dynamic; the teacher does not select the members, and members can join or leave as they choose. Idea generation can take place during these group sessions, during which all students are given the chance to express their ideas, or in individual notes posted directly to the KF database. While in a typical classroom setting ideas or comments generated in discussion are usually lost, the KF database preserves these ephemeral resources so that students can return to them for comment and reflection. Students are then encouraged to read the notes of other students and soon find that there are differing schools of opinion about the problem. The teacher's job is to ensure that students remain on task and work towards the solution of the problem under study by reading each other's notes and contributing new information or theories to the database
    • smenegh Meneghini
       
      What types of teacher moderation strategies this type of collaborative group work requires?
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    A couple of key quotes: * The statement that the computer is "part of my brain" should resonate with everyone involved in education today. * How does it work? In practice, the teacher presents students with a problem of understanding relevant to the real world. It could be a question such as What is the nature of light? or What makes a society a civilization? The focus here is to make student ideas, rather than predetermined activities or units of knowledge, the center of the classroom work.
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    Thanks for your comments Derrel .. almost real time ...
Blair Peterson

Barbie, Monopoly and Hot Wheels for iPad Generation - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    This is what our youngest kids are facing these days. Imagine educating them now and in the future.
Shabbi Luthra

Blame It On The Youth | Fast Company - 0 views

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    Fast Company blogger Brian Solis provides this provocative article on the future of digital media usage and the clash of generations it is spawning ...
Blair Peterson

Technology Integration Research Review | Edutopia - 0 views

  • blending technology with face-to-face teacher time generally produces better outcomes than face-to-face or online learning alone
  • Rather, what matters most is how students and teachers use technology to develop knowledge and skills. Successful technology integration for learning generally goes hand in hand with changes in teacher training, curricula, and assessment practices
  • Students playing an active role in their learning and receiving frequent, personalized feedback Students critically analyzing and actively creating media messages Teachers connecting classroom activities to the world outside the classroom
Blair Peterson

Humanizing Technology | Special Series | Big Think - 0 views

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    I love this series on humanizing technology. They present some excellent ideas that generate difficult questions. The most recent piece is on how Rio is using technology to become a smart city. 
smenegh Meneghini

Answers to your "flipped classroom" questions - 0 views

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    "Greg Green is the principal at Clintondale High School in Clinton Township, Michigan. His guest post on this blog titled "My View: Flipped classrooms give every student a chance to succeed" generated more than 500 comments and was shared thousands of times on social media. In this post, Green offers answers to some of the questions you asked the most. The response to my guest post last week about flipping the classroom on CNN's Schools of Thought blog was overwhelming and thought-provoking. While I appreciate that there are varying opinions, I would like to respond to some of the topics that were frequently brought up in the comments section,"
Colleen Broderick

The 10 Barriers to Technology Adoption | District Administration Magazine - 2 views

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    A good overview - many barriers of which I think we've begun to tackle... I think it's significant to note that barrier 4,5 and 6 is curriculum, curriculum, curriculum... "Administrators can't expect to be successful on the backs of teacher-generated curriculum materials."
Blair Peterson

"Examining Student Work" Part II | Thinking In Mind - 1 views

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    Blog post from a Canadian SS teacher on protocols for examining student work. Good blog in general.
Blair Peterson

Survey Results - 0 views

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    Survey results from 6th graders in 2010. In general, the students felt that it has been a positive experience.
Blair Peterson

Day in the Life of a Next-Generation 'Teacher' | edtechdigest.com - 0 views

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    Scenario of a day in the life of a teacher in 2040.
Blair Peterson

Engaging, not Distracting, the Digital Generation: Responding to the Times' Wired piece - 0 views

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    Blog response to the New York Times article on technology being a distraction for students. The post has links to other related resources.
Shabbi Luthra

Technology and Innovation 2025 - 0 views

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    If you are interested in learning about future trends and forces of change, this is one of the must-read reports. The report comes from Toffler Associates - this is Alvin and Heidi Toffler's company. They wrote Future Shock about 40 years ago. The book noted ideas that are being bandied about today by trend-watchers, and the Tofflers identified these trends a generation back. I think I still have a copy of the book I read eons back. I don't know whether a kindle edition is available. It's a must-read for anyone interested in understanding trends.
Blair Peterson

Technology helps make language click for students - The Denver Post - 0 views

  • Experts figure that kids today read and write even more than previous generations. And they do so in a broader and more complex environment — though not always in academic ways.
  • Roberts wields every tool available to lift students toward "new literacies," the confluence of language and technology that's evolving as fast as researchers can study it.
  • as 21st-century literacies blend with traditional skills.
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  • "I'm not going to say it's a good thing or a bad thing," says Elizabeth Kleinfeld, assistant professor of English at Metropolitan State College of Denver. "But it's a thing for sure, and we have to deal with it in our classrooms, in our workplaces and in our relationships."
  • Her research indicates that students have a troubling tendency not to read deeply, though she's quick to add that there's no evidence that previous generations fared any better.
  • Mastering the technical aspects of multimedia tools is essential.
  • Perhaps most important, the breadth of information that flows from Internet search engines requires that students cultivate a discerning eye.
  • "I think there should be very much a conscious, strategic moving back and forth between rapid locating (of information) and deep reading."
  • "The Internet offers incredible opportunities to build high-level, deep thinkers if we provide the instruction that's needed."
  • New literacies aren't about displacing mainstream standards
  • "If you choose to see (new literacies) as dumbing down, you're going to see lots of evidence of that," Knobel says. "But if you choose to see it as something new and opening up all sorts of opportunities for young people to really think about media, how truth itself is often up for grabs, then there are all sorts of ways of understanding it."
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    This is a good article on today's reading habits.
Blair Peterson

Flipping Teaching Around | Duke Today - 0 views

  • "I like it a lot because I spend a lot more time talking with the students than talking at the students," he says
  • This group work is an example of team-based learning, an umbrella term for a teaching approach that emphasizes teamwork rather than isolation. Team-based classwork was rare a generation ago in many disciplines, but the ability to work with others has become as critical to employers as communication, writing and critical thinking, Nowic
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