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The Khan Academy brings Disrupting Class to life | Clayton Christensen - 1 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 14 Oct 10
     
    Blog post from Michael Horn of Disrupting Class. Viodeos available for anyone that is interested.
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mss blackbutterfly | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - 1 views

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    Gever Tulley slide. "Create pedagogy that integrates technologies as quickly as they emerge."
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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.
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Karl Fisch: What Should Students Know and be Able to do? - 0 views

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  • primary purpose of school should be to meet the needs of the individual. That if we meet the individual needs of students, we will ultimately meet the needs of all students. And if we truly meet the needs of all students, we will then meet the needs of society.
  • What should this student know and be able to do?
  • Blair Peterson on 12 Oct 10
     
    Article in Huffington Post from Karl Fisch. He's one of the co-creaters of Did you know? Talks about need for content and skills for individual students.
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2010-2011 One to One Computer FAQ - Google Docs - 1 views

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    Castilleja School has a 1 to 1 laptop program like Graded's. Students can bring whatever laptop they wish. This is their FAQ page.
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Schooling the World - 0 views

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    Organization working to raise awareness of the affects of Western education on a developing community. Really thought provoking trailer from their documentary.
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Curriki - RadicalsandOtherTopics - 0 views

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    Math videos that may support students with learning. From Khan Academy.
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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.
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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.
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Prairie South Technology Fram... - 0 views

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    Brief descriptions of what students, teachers and administrators should know based on ISTE's standards. Not very complete or detailed but it does give you a sense of what the standards are about.
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VisualBlooms - home - 0 views

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    The visual Interactive Bloom's of Web 2.0 Tools. This is a wiki that can be updated if you join it. 
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Why the Internet Isn't Making Us Stupid - TIME - 0 views

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  • so you can build this social newspaper that you're the editor of. You get to decide what you see and what you don't see. And you get to interact with people in a different way. Imagine if you could interact with the stories in The New York Times in a social context?
  • That consumers aren't coming back. They're looking for these new digital experiences in every single type of thing they consume — whether it's the clothes that they wear, the cars that they buy, the newspaper that they read.
  • it's just that the traditions we've had in the past are different now.
  • Blair Peterson on 08 Oct 10
     
    Interview with Nick Bilton who wrote the book "I Live in the Future & Here's How it Works". 
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School does away with traditional teaching | shreveporttimes.com | Shreveport Times - 0 views

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  • Each class has students divided into groups of four to five paired together to learn course material and create projects. Teachers work with the groups to create a more individualized learning experience and enhance comprehension.
  • "We aren't just adding technology for technology's sake here," he said. "It really is a culture change taking place. There's nothing traditional about the way our students are learning. We really focus on creating an environment where students can learn subjects in a way they can relate to and a way that interests them."
  • Since classes are now project-based, students are graded on a variety of skills, including content, oral communications and work ethic.
  • Blair Peterson on 07 Oct 10
     
    Article on Bossier Parish School's New Tech Network. Working to develop learning environments better tailored to 21st century learners.
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How to avoid committing social media gaffes | Community | eSchoolNews.com - 0 views

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  • Develop guidelines for use and share with your staff. Update your acceptable-use policy as well as personnel policies to reflect the district’s position on appropriate use of social networking sites. For ideas, check out the Social Media Guidelines for Schools wiki (http://socialmediaguidelines.pbworks.com). Many of the ideas presented here are adapted from this resource, which is meant to be shared and expanded as new information becomes available.
  • reate an official site for your school or district. To protect others’ privacy, set it up as a fan page so people can post comments or become a fan without giving you access to their personal pages. Commit staff time or resources to daily updates. Keep the tone conversational, but represent your organization and your position respectfully and responsibly. According to Pew Research, “44 percent of online adults have searched for information about someone whose services or advice they seek in a professional capacity.”
  • Blair Peterson on 06 Oct 10
     
    Article on social media use in schools. There are two suggestions for developing policies for social media use. You have to have an account with eSchool News to see the entire article.
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    Wiki with ideas for global projects and tools to enhance the global projects.
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