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Donna DesRoches

Times Higher Education - I think critically, therefore I am - 0 views

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    By studying the theory of critical thinking and tenaciously applying it to classroom practice, I began to see more clearly how to approach content as a mode of thought, rather than as fragmented bits of information. I began to see the intimate connection between thinking and learning, to see how to intervene in thinking deliberately and constructively to deepen one's understanding, and to interface the content of my subject with the values and motivations of students.
Patricia Cone

You Can't Stop the Rain « Educational Discourse - 0 views

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    So often when we talk about schools, students, parents and teachers, we discuss things in arm-lengths type of way. We discuss how they need to have richer and more meaningful learning experiences, how we need to provide them with the opportunities to use the technological tools in authentic learning experiences. What we don't discuss is how schools need to be places of living not just of learning. They need to be places of community where children can experience life-lessons not just academic lessons. The story that follows is about one such event that took place at our school this past year.
Donna DesRoches

Fear of Screens - The New Inquiry - 0 views

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      I think that the use of the tools that technology now allows such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram enable us to be more empathetic - e.g. the outpouring of support for #laloche.  Facebook and Twitter helped create connections that allowed people to then get together face-to-face to grieve and provide support.
  • Turkle too often assumes screen-mediated communication comes in only one flavor, which cannot grasp the complexities of our always augmented sociality, to say nothing of how screens are differently used by those with different abilities.
  • We should not conceptually preclude or discount all the ways intimacy, passion, love, joy, pleasure, closeness, pain, suffering, evil and all the visceral actualities of existence pass through the screen. “Face to face” should mean more than breathing the same air.
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  • This screen-mediated communication is face-to-face, in person, physical, and close in so many important ways, and distant in only one
  • The camp study, relying on shoddy methods and inaccurate conclusions, exemplifies how cultural fears and emotional appeals can facilitate the spread of unsubstantiated claims, cloaked in science.”
  • Why this presumption of doom?
  • How do you look at everyday people using digital devices to communicate with one another and suppose that they may not even know what conversation and friendship are?
  • hat people who text more often also meet face to face more; that the contemporary technologies of social isolation were, and are, the television and the automobile, not smart phones; that there’s been a recent reversal of the long post–World War II trend toward social isolation.
Donna DesRoches

How to Make an Interactive Lesson Using Youtube « Knewton Blog - 0 views

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    Youtube has a great tool called Spotlight that lets you make any video interactive. It's really handy for lessons and quizzes. Essentially, you can ask students a question - or a series of questions - and when they answer show them a personalized video response according to how they did.
Patricia Cone

Microsoft Paint Tutorials - How to Edit Photos with MS Paint - 0 views

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    1. Use MS Paint to Resize an Image After opening or creating an image in MS Paint, you can resize it. To do this, place your mouse over Image on the toolbar and click Stretch/Skew. You can type in any number from 0-500 in the Horizontal and/or Vertical box and it will re-size your image by that much percent. For example, if you type in 70, you'll resize the image, or make it narrower, by 70%. This function is great if you need to re-size a large photograph. You can also re-size images by selecting the photo by going to Edit → Select All, and then finding and clicking on the corner blue squares and dragging the photo.
Donna DesRoches

A Thin Line : www.athinline.org - 0 views

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    The Web and cell phones help us communicate, connect and learn in ways we never could before, but they've also forever changed how we interact with others. Things we used to share in person - and in private - can now be broadcast to thousands, instantly. Sometimes we type things we would never say to someone's face. As a result, new issues like forced sexting, textual harassment and cyberbullyiing have emerge
Donna DesRoches

A Better Safety Net: It's time to get smart about online safety - 11/1/2009 - School Li... - 0 views

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    Online safety must be relevant to youth, or we're talking to ourselves. It must accommodate the growing body of research on youth risk and what kids themselves say about how they use digital media, and it must be respectful-of both young people and the new media conditions they're ably exploiting.
Donna DesRoches

Overcoming Technology Barriers: How to Innovate Without Extra Money or Support | Edutopia - 4 views

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    Edutopia.org asked several innovators in the field about what practical steps teachers and administrators could take right away -- without making any major investments or waiting for policy shifts -- to improve technology integration in our classrooms. Here's what they suggest:
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    Edutopia.org asked several innovators in the field about what practical steps teachers and administrators could take right away -- without making any major investments or waiting for policy shifts -- to improve technology integration in our classrooms. Here's what they suggest:
Donna DesRoches

Drupal - Feed Aggregator Setup - 0 views

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    This video shows the user how to set up the Aggregator module in Drupal 6. The aggregator module allows you to import RSS and atom feeds for display on your Drupal site.
Gary Ball

Seth's Blog: How to be interviewed - 0 views

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    A good way to look at being the interviewee.
Patricia Cone

1/5 in Helmand: AAR Pictures Worth a Thousand Words (SWJ Blog) - 0 views

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    Tips to soldiers on how to better get along in Afghanistan. Powerpoint is downloadable
Donna DesRoches

iLearn Technology » digital citizenship - 0 views

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    The video is a great way to introduce kindergarten through third grade students to online safety.  I like how this video compares the online world with the real world.  This helps students understand the rules in a way that goes deeper than just following the rules because we say so.
Donna DesRoches

How I create and publish podcasts » Moving at the Speed of Creativity - 0 views

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    Wes Fryer's list of (nearly) all free software he uses to create podcasts.
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    Wes Fyer shares the software, websites, and other resources I utilize now to podcast, as well as an outline of the steps I follow in podcasting today.
Donna DesRoches

YouTube - No Future Left Behind - 1 views

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    "When kids at the Suffern Middle School were asked to talk about education and their future, they gave Peggy Sheehy, the SMS media specialist, an earful. Listen and learn the bits of wisdom that can be gleaned from the students, if we only dare to ask them"
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    Guys - I really liked this video - I wonder how teachers would react to it?
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