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Demetri Orlando

Education - Change.org: Technology: The Wrong Questions and the Right Questions - 0 views

  • Mobile phones, computers everywhere, hypertext, social networking, collaborative cognition (from Wikipedia on up), Google, text-messaging, Twitter, audiobooks, digital texts, text-to-speech, speech recognition, flexible formatting - these are not "add ons" to the world of education, they are the world of education. This is how humans in this century talk, read, communicate, learn. And learning to use these technologies effectively, efficiently, and intelligently must be at the heart of our educational strategies.
  • Maybe worse than irrelevant. Maybe dangerous. The belief that "your" experience is relevant leads to a nightmare loop. Students who behave, and learn, most like their teachers do the best in classrooms. Teachers see this reflection as proof of their own competence - "The best students are just like me." And thus all who are "different" in any way - race, class, ability, temperament, preferences - are left out of the success story.
Demetri Orlando

13 Good Chrome Extensions and Apps for Students and Teachers - 2 views

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    nice list of chrome extensions including utilities for screen capture, text to speech, equation editor, stripping ads, remove "related videos" on youtube, etc.
Sarah Hanawald

Why Schools Don't Educate - The Natural Child Project - 0 views

  • The world's narcotic economy is based upon our own consumption of the commodity, if we didn't buy so many powdered dreams the business would collapse - and schools are an important sales outlet.
  • Senator Ted Kennedy's office released a paper not too long ago claiming that prior to compulsory education the state literacy rate was 98% and after it the figure never again reached above 91% where it stands in 1990
  • in the United States almost nobody who reads, writes or does arithmetic gets much respect. We are a land of talkers,
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    More John Gotto--his speech as he accepted the Teacher of the Year award. Written in 1990, but spot on today.
Dolores Gende

The Best Commencement Speeches, Ever : NPR - 1 views

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    Outstanding!
Lorri Carroll

We, the Web Kids - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic - 3 views

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      Do they really?
  • To us, the Web is a sort of shared external memory.
  • We do not have to remember unnecessary details: dates, sums, formulas, clauses, street names, detailed definitions.
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  • Why should we pay for the distribution of information that can be easily and perfectly copied without any loss of the original quality?
  • we do not want to pay for our memories.
  • freedom of speech, freedom of access to information and to culture. We feel that it is thanks to freedom that the Web is what it is, and that it is our duty to protect that freedom. We owe that to next generations, just as much as we owe to protect the environment.
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     We grew up with the Internet and on the Internet Great reflections about our students generation
Demetri Orlando

Doug Johnson's graduation speech - 0 views

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    teaching as a subversive activity
Demetri Orlando

Solitude and Leadership: a graduation speech - 3 views

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    Recommended by David Brooks, this article discusses the importance of thoughtful reflection.
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