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Kimberley Mathews

ICT Mindtools - 1 views

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shared by Kimberley Mathews on 01 Sep 12 - Cached
  • Karen Thompson on 01 Sep 12
     
    By ICT Mindtools I refer to ICT tools that necessarily engage users in higher order thinking. Students cannot use Mindtools without thinking deeply about the task at hand. Mindtools require students to be creative and to think and make connections for themselves.
djplaner

Teen to government: Change your typeface, save millions - CNN.com - 0 views

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ictexamples mindtools

shared by djplaner on 31 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • djplaner on 31 Mar 14
     
    Another story about a US-based student's science fair project that uses ICTs. Not as visually appealing as the Hello Kitty video, however, this example does show the use of commercial software as a tool in a science investigation. It also shows how the results of this science investigation was later published in a Journal set up specifically for publish work produced by school students.
djplaner

Mind Amplifier: Howard Rheingold And The Value Of Convivial Tools - Forbes - 0 views

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how mindtools mindamplifiers

shared by djplaner on 11 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • his is a helpful thought in a society that has placed more attention on the fact of digital technologies (the new iPhone!) than on what we do with them
  • but all technologies, to some degree or another, are enmeshed in what Langdon Winner calls ‘regimes,
  • Design of tools has—as Illich pointed out—been accomplished in the absence of any consideration of their effects on social, cognitive, and political regimes. Designers can be better educated. And so can the users of their tools
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  • The old model of learning—the sage on the stage—is being challenged by cooperative forms of co-learning in which teachers act as facilitators and students use the tools available, from search engines to smartphones, to learn collaboratively, with teachers acting as facilitators
  • The whole notion of meta-cognition, of treating attention as a trainable aspect of everyday thought, is a potential new discipline
  • He is developing tools for “knowledge design” that both help individuals capture and manipulate what they know, but that also help connect individual intelligence to different models and sources of knowledge.
  • djplaner on 11 Mar 16
     
    Howard Rheingold has written about the use of digital technologies for learning and other tasks. In particular, the possibility that digital technologies can be mind amplifiers. Tools that enhance our ability to think and learn. Something EDC3100 will touch on in Week 3
Mr B

Intentional Searches - Mindtools for Learning - 5 views

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shared by Mr B on 05 Apr 17 - No Cached
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      Mr B on 05 Apr 17
       
      Good idea for anyone in History - learning how to evaluate and find quality sources.
  • An example of an Intentional Search activity is provided below in the attachment.
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