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Blair Peterson

Teachers Headline Capitol Hill Event on Digital Media & Writing -- WASHINGTON, Sept. 30... - 0 views

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  • Every student needs one-on-one access to computers and other mobile technology in classrooms.Every teacher needs professional development in the effective use of digital tools for teaching and learning, including the use of digital tools to promote writing.All schools and districts need a comprehensive information technology policy to ensure that the necessary infrastructure, technical support and resources are available for teaching and learning.
  • Blair Peterson on 11 Oct 10
     
    College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, the briefing included two teachers featured in Teachers Are the Center of Education: Writing, Learning and Leading in the Digital Age, a report released this summer by the two organizations and Phi Delta Kappa International (PDKI). A few examples of teachers using technology for the writing process. Key findings include: Every student needs one-on-one access to computers and other mobile technology in classrooms.Every teacher needs professional development in the effective use of digital tools for teaching and learning, including the use of digital tools to promote writing.All schools and districts need a comprehensive information technology policy to ensure that the necessary infrastructure, technical support and resources are available for teaching and learning.
Blair Peterson

A Look at TEACHING 2030 - YouTube - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 08 Apr 12
     
    Teacher solutions 2030 team. 5 things teachers must know how to do. 1. Teach the Google Learner 2. Work with a more diverse student body. 3. Prepare students to work in a global society. 4. Help students to monitor their own learning. 5. Connect teaching to a broader structure of community needs.  
Shabbi Luthra

Manifesto for 21st century school librarians - 1 views

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  • You market, and your students share, books using social networking tools like Shelfari, Good Reads, or LibraryThing.
  • Your students blog or tweet or network in some way about what they are reading
  • You review and promote books in your own blogs and wikis and other websites. (Also Reading2.0 and BookLeads Wiki for book promotion ideas)
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  • You know that searching various areas of the Web requires a variety of search tools. You are the information expert in your building. You are the search expert in your building. You share an every growing and shifting array of search tools that reach into blogs and wikis and Twitter and images and media and scholarly content.
  • You open your students to evolving strategies for collecting and evaluating information. You teach about tags, and hashtags, and feeds, and real-time searches and sources, as well as the traditional database approaches you learned way back in library school.
  • You work with learners to exploit push information technologies like RSS feeds and tags and saved databases and search engine searches relevant to their information needs.
  • You know that communication is the end-product of research and you teach learners how to communicate and participate creatively and engagingly. You consider new interactive and engaging communication tools for student projects. ● Include and collaborate with your learners. You let them in. You fill your physical and virtual space with student work, student contributions—their video productions, their original music, their art.
  • Know and celebrate that students can now publish their written work digitally. (See these pathfinders: Digital Publishing, Digital Storytelling)
  • Your collection–on- and offline–includes student work. You use digital publishing tools to help students share and celebrate their written and artistic work.
  • You welcome and host telecommunications events and group gathering for planning and research and social networking.
  • You realize you will often have to partner and teach in classroom teachers’ classrooms. One-to-one classrooms change your teaching logistics. You teach virtually. You are available across the school via email and chat.
Blair Peterson

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shared by Blair Peterson on 01 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • But we realized within the first day how much more important it was to just get them working on their individual projects. It’s ironic because as a teacher, we end up teaching the same thing separately to all the mini-groups, and we want to teach it at once; we naturally desire the simplicity of that. However, when a team gets stuck on something and can’t proceed because they are lacking a piece of knowledge, that is when the iron is hot to strike. It seems that that is really the most effective way to teach (even if as a teacher it takes five times as much work!), because, as usual, emotional motivation trumps rationality.
  • Blair Peterson on 01 Mar 11
     
    This is a blog post from a teacher at Nu Vu studios in NYC. The teacher was teaching Do it Yourself Hacking. Interesting reflection on motivation and how the traditional full class instruction strategy isn't always the best.
Shabbi Luthra

Navigating Through Tech Heaven or Hell - 0 views

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  • Shabbi Luthra on 03 Mar 11
     
    technology builds on good teaching, but it makes bad teaching worse.
Blair Peterson

If a student can Facebook through your whole class and still make an A, whose problem i... - 1 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 19 Feb 11
     
    Food for thought on teaching and learning in today's digital age. Outmoded teaching and learning leads to kids Googling the info or Facebooking during class. Check out the comments. 
Blair Peterson

Cursive removed from K-12 curriculum | Kansan.com - 0 views

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shared by Blair Peterson on 04 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • In order to create a universal set of educational standards, a few old requirements had to be replaced, according to the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers. One of which includes the requirement to teach cursive. Under that standard, states are no longer required to teach their students cursive. Instead of spending time teaching cursive, the standard requires states to spend more time teaching K-12 students how to type.
Blair Peterson

A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age | EdSurge News - 2 views

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  • We are aware of how much we don't know: that we have yet to explore the full pedagogical potential of learning online, of how it can change the ways we teach, the ways we learn, and the ways we connect.  
  • As we begin to experiment with how novel technologies might change learning and teaching, powerful forces threaten to neuter or constrain technology, propping up outdated educational practices rather than unfolding transformative ones.
  • All too often, during such wrenching transitions, the voice of the learner gets muffled.
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  • Learners within a global, digital commons have the right to work, network, and contribute to knowledge in public; to share their ideas and their learning in visible and connected ways if they so choose.
  • The best courses will be global in design and contribution, offering multiple and multinational perspectives.  
  • The best online learning programs will not simply mirror existing forms of university teaching but offer students a range of flexible learning opportunities that take advantage of new digital tools and pedagogies to widen these traditional horizons, thereby better addressing 21st-century learner interests, styles and lifelong learning needs.  
  • Both technical and pedagogical innovation should be hallmarks of the best learning environments.
  • Open online education should inspire the unexpected, experimentation, and questioning--in other words, encourage play.
Blair Peterson

Education Week Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: Change Agent - 0 views

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  • There's no one teaching them about the nuances involved in creating a positive online footprint.
  • if you’re not transparent or findable in that way—I can’t learn with you.
  • “Without sharing, there is no education.”
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  • I would definitely share my own thoughts, my own experiences, and my own reflections on how the environment of learning is changin
  • I would be very transparent in my online learning activity and try to show people in the school that it’s OK, that it has value. I think it’s very hard to be a leader around these types of changes without modeling them.
  • students should be able to create, navigate, and grow their own personal learning networks in safe, effective, and ethical ways.
  • And now we’re moving into what they call a “lifelong learning” model—which is to say that learning is much more fluid and much more independent, self-directed, and informal. That concept—that we can learn in profound new ways outside the classroom setting—poses huge challenges to traditional structures of schools, because that’s not what they were built for.
  • So, I think we need to focus more on developing the learning process—looking at how kids collaborate with others on a problem, how they exercise their critical thinking skills, how they handle failure, and how they create. We have to be willing to put kids—and assess kids—in situations and contexts where they’re really solving problems and we’re looking not so much at the answer but the process by which they try to solve those problems. Because those are the types of skills they’re going to need when they leave us, when they go to college or wherever else. At least I think so. And I don’t think I’m alone in that.
  • I almost defy you to find me anyone who consciously teaches kids reading and writing in linked environments. Yet we know kids are in those environments and sometimes doing some wonderfully creative things. And we know they’ll need to read and write online. You know what I’m saying? But educators would read Nicholas Carr’s book, and their response would be to ban hypertext. It just doesn’t make sense.
  • “Why do you blog?” That’s what we need. We need people who are willing to really think critically about what they’re doing. I’m not an advocate of using tools just for the sake of using tools. I think all too often you see teachers using a blog, but nothing really changes in terms of their instruction, because they don’t really understand what a blog is, what possibilities it presents. They know the how-to, but they don’t know the why-to. I’d look for teachers who are constantly asking why. Why are we doing this? What’s the real value of this? How are our kids growing in connection with this? How are our kids learning better? And I definitely would want learners. I would look for learners more than I would look for teachers per se.
  • And I think we have to move to a more inquiry-based, problem-solving curriculum, because
  • it’s not about content as much anymore. It’s not about knowing this particular fact as much as it is about what you can do with it. What can you do with what you understand about chemistry? What can you do with what you’ve learned about writing?
  • What does it look like? Kids need to be working on solving real problems that mean something to them. The goal should be preparing kids to be entrepreneurs, problem-solvers who think critically and who’ve worked with people from around the world. Their assessments should be all about the products they produced, the movements they’ve created, the participatory nature of their education rather than this sort of spit-back-the-right-answer model we currently have. I mean, that just doesn’t make sense anymore.
Blair Peterson

SecEd | Features | The efficient classroom - 0 views

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  • must engage in ongoing capacity-building; ideally including a combination of coaching, mentoring, support and training.
  • Not surprisingly, technology investments seldom produce maximal educational returns. To strengthen this weak link, any consideration of purpose-built technologies must benefit from including strong training, professional development, and ongoing professional learning components.
  • Similarly, waiting for equipment set-up (e.g. calibrating an interactive whiteboard), handling network glitches (e.g. security problems), and resolving equipment issues (e.g. burnt-out bulbs and stuck keyboard keys) too often sidetrack teaching, disrupt classroom activities, frustrate users, and ultimately diminish student learning.
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  • These include preventative maintenance, equipment loaner pools, remote helpdesks, and school-site repairs.
  • Teachers benefit because they receive training, professional development and ongoing support that aligns with technology they receive and the work they do in their classrooms. Moreover, they have reliable tech support when they need it.
  • The first involves shifting computers from school tech labs to classrooms and from classrooms to pupils’ backpacks. The second replaces books and print-based analogues with online curricula and digital content. The third removes one-size-fits all, teacher-at-front-of-the room instructional approaches in favour of personalised lessons, assessments, and instructional modalities.
  • Blair Peterson on 11 Oct 10
     
    Mark Weston Article on 3 trends in technology for education. No surprises on the three. Shifting computers from classroom to backpacks; replacing print based books with online curricula and digital content and changing from teacher at front of the room to personalized lessons, assessments and instructional modalities. The key information comes on building the capacity of teachers and making sure that tech issues don't hold back teaching and learning.
Shabbi Luthra

Helping students interpret visual representations of information - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • Shabbi Luthra on 03 Mar 11
     
    Interestingarticle covers the use of existing infographics to support teaching and learning.
Blair Peterson

Hard Teaching | The Principal of Change - 1 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 24 Mar 11
     
    Story about what is happening at one school that is working on 21st century teaching and learning.
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Can we really teach creativity? - San Rafael, CA, United States, ASCD EDge Blog post - 0 views

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  • recommends that schools start, “learning from challenges that people face rather than from a formal curriculum.”
  • Teachers can either ‘cover’ standards, or turn them into concepts and problems to be solved. Inquiry works towards supporting the kind of ‘out of the box’ thinking we need for the future.
  • blank column that invites students to deliver a product that cannot be anticipated or easily defined in words. It’s not the ‘A’ category—that’s Mastery or Commended or a similar high-ranking indicator. The breakthrough column goes beyond the A, rewarding innovation, creativity, and something new outside the formal curriculum. It’s a ‘show me’ category.
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  • Teaching creativity requires shifting our attention to the process of inner discovery, allowing students time to reflect, discuss, and brainstorm, as well as using proven methods for getting the creative juices flowing, such as mindfulness, meditation, silence, or structured interactive exercises.
Blair Peterson

Goal 28: Teach Digital Citizenship | Ele'mentor - 0 views

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  • In addition to Shelly Terrell’s resources – That’s Not Cool (videos and website – which allows students to discover the consequences of their online choices),
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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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