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Blair Peterson

ASCD Inservice: A Digital Nation Divided: Multitasking, Media-Saturation, & Finding Focus - 0 views

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  • Where do you stand as an educator? Should we transform classrooms to embrace the multitasking technology-rich world, or create environments where students must focus on a singular task? What strategies have you seen which use multitasking as a benefit to student learning? Or what strategies have you seen which help students block out distraction? Have you ever witnessed a teacher help students compare whether multitasking or singular focus was more helpful to learning?
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Singularity: Kurzweil on 2045, When Humans, Machines Merge - TIME - 0 views

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  • Shabbi Luthra on 20 Mar 11
     
    Worth reading. Kurzweil's theories can no longer be ignored.
Blair Peterson

Creating School-Wide PBL Aligned to Common Core | Edutopia - 1 views

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  • Working with teachers to affect a deliberate culture and practice shift from teacher-directed instruction to inquiry-based learning Alternative pedagogical development Resource identification
  • Before approaching systemic change, we first considered the most prevalent instructional models. What we saw over and over again were relatively autonomous and singular teachers working with discrete groups of students. They were using directive instruction modes designed to impart information and learning within a specific topic area, often in isolation from other topic areas, and they were having inconsistent student achievement results with inner-city middle school populations.
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      Blair Peterson on 12 Feb 13
       
      Start - Sound familiar?
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  • That relationship meant that, rather than working in relative isolation, our faculty worked together to create and implement standards-based projects. Rather than acting as directive teachers, our faculty members were more like coaches in a student-led inquiry environment. Rather than relying on books and worksheets, our faculty led students through a less certain learning path. Rather than perceiving critical thinking as a "result" (of directive teaching), we saw it as essentially an immersion mode in which exploration informs and develops students' thinking processes.
  • Finally, we identified student evaluation instruments to use throughout the project, including the culminating product.
  • Throughout any given project, we must be able to informally touch base at any time. Backup resources should be available (when computers fail, for example). We need to plan together in a very detailed, day-to-day way. We have to be able to easily communicate "on the fly." How we introduce the project to students is much more important than we thought (and we thought it was very important). As a teaching group, we must maintain a flexible, problem-solving attitude to productively work through the inevitable implementation challenges.
  • n addition, we are still grappling with how to best prepare our students to be successful in a project-based learning environment when they have difficulty working together cooperatively.
Blair Peterson

Lines on Plagiarism Blur for Students in the Digital Age - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • “Our notion of authorship and originality was born, it flourished, and it may be waning,” Ms. Blum said.
  • Instead of offering an abject apology, Ms. Hegemann insisted, “There’s no such thing as originality anyway, just authenticity.” A few critics rose to her defense, and the book remained a finalist for a fiction prize (but did not win).
  • “If you’re taught how to closely read sources and synthesize them into your own original argument in middle and high school, you’re not going to be tempted to plagiarize in college, and you certainly won’t do so unknowingly,” she said.
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  • The Internet may also be redefining how students — who came of age with music file-sharing, Wikipedia and Web-linking — understand the concept of authorship and the singularity of any text or image.
  • Milly Pannunzio on 03 Mar 12
     
    "…students leave high school unprepared for the intellectual rigors of college writing" said Wilensky. HS students must understand that their learning experiences in schools, will develop the skills they will need in Higher Education. 9-12 students should be exposed to articles like this, stating real cases of plagiarism in Colleges, and discuss them, thinking in their future in University and in how prepared they are to face it. Thanks for sharing!
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