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  • Blair Peterson on 27 Mar 13
     
    Good tool to plan and assess project work. 
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Instagram Deal Is Billion-Dollar Move Toward Cellphone From PC - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • “For decades, the center of computing has been the desktop, and software was modeled after the experience of using a typewriter,” said Georg Petschnigg, a former Microsoft employee who is one of the creators of Paper, a new sketchbook app for the iPad.
  • “People are living in the moment and they want to share in the moment,” Professor Sundar said. “Mobile gives you that immediacy and convenience.”
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      Blair Peterson on 11 Apr 12
       
      I have to admit that I'm a bit out of synch with Instagram not being on my computer. It has seemed a bit odd to me.
  • Blair Peterson on 11 Apr 12
     
    Talking about a change in strategy with tech startups. Focus on the mobile devices. 
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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. 
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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.
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      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
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