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GAFE sessions 2014

Let's see if this works...this should be a IWB article.

You'll see right at the bottom of the list that only students 18 or over can participate in Hangouts on Air.

I thought Carmel and Jacky might like this!

This is a full list of resources from the google summit. Enjoy!

Although we all weren't there, the good thing about technology conferences is that you get the resources anyway! :)

I'm borrowing ipads and having students create picollages. My problem has been getting the collages from the ipads into a google doc so that we can all share.  I'm thinking SendtoDropbox might be the answer. :-)

This paper discusses the significant impact of digital technology in teacher education, and the necessity of having teacher educators model effective strategies for integration of digital technology. The author describes an initiative started in the California education system, called The Digital Flexbook, "The term flexbook refers to the free, nonlinear, highly customizable and easy-to-use nature of open source textbooks (Fletcher, 2010)." Benefits such as collaboration among school districts, interactive classrooms, and increased teacher creativity were observed. Barriers such as lack of funds, lack of student access to technology at home, and lack of PD for teachers were also observed. Further benefits such as the ability to accurately reflect a community, the presence of a collaborative space to construct knowledge in innovative ways, showing multiple perspectives, promoting higher order thinking, and democratising knowledge. The author lists Web2.0 tools such as "...video sharing sites, wikis, blogs, podcasts, and social networking sites like Twitter (Richardson, 2006a), all of which move students from consumers of information to editors of information. Research and experience show the need to infuse the TPCK model into teacher education, thus allowing students to become generators of knowledge and contributors to the Internet. One more big benefit of such constructivist pedagogy is allows for teachers and students to become more critical of the … intersection of race, gender, and socio-economic status on the writing of history, and integrated a model for how technology can and should be used in the classroom.

I think that Petr and Laura might enjoy this article. Are there any ways that Diigo might help with the reading issues mentioned here?

Promoting responsible talk and sharing in your class room.

A website by UGDSB teachers to raise awareness of digital citizenship and deepen our understanding of it.