deep integration of new learning technologies into classrooms requires substantially rethinking pedagogy, curriculum, assessment, and teacher practice (someday
teachers need to start somewhere (Monday
Both pathways are important to teacher growth and meaningful, sustained changes in teaching and learning.
consumption of media to curation, creation, and connection
flexible, mobile device for creating multimedia performances of understanding
foster critical reading of text, images, audio, and film
read in communal settings, leveraging social technologies to allow users to share notes, highlighted passages, questions, and ideas.
Focused and connected modes of reading are both vital, but they require different habits, disciplines, and settings, and they serve different ends.
focused reading mode, we hope young people will engage deeply with a text.
imagine how differentiated reading experiences in classes could be more social, how literature circles or book groups could collaborate in reading at home and then discuss their insights together in class.
it will be practices rather than apps that help students develop the capacity to read deeply.
learn both habits of mind for disciplined reading and how to control their technology environment to minimize distraction.
recognize how to strike the right balance between exploring a networked of hyperlinked texts while not wandering away from the core purpose of one’s reading
naming “attention” as a skill: having students reflect metacognitively on their attention strategies and weaknesses and think about how best to exercise their own attention muscles.
iOS 6 has a Guided
shutting down all apps before reading can be a kind of ritual of concentration, like clearing way books and papers from a desk before sitting down to read
develop new habits to make the most of our new tools. If our tools can distract us, then we need to learn more about focusing attention and managing distraction.
This post displays slides from a "workshop . . . [Richard Byrne] designed to introduced participants to variety of Google services that they can use in their classrooms. Included in the workshop are five collaborative brainstorming sessions" (2011.04.09, para. 1, retrieved 2011.04.10)
"Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets."
The act of teaching is becoming more about designing the educational context and engaging students as they learn to approach material in more insightful and demanding ways. We are not transmitters of knowledge very often today,
Can a teacher use the same teaching techniques in a face-to-face and an online course?
According to a study conducted by Park, Johnson, Vath, Kubitskey, & Fishman (2013) on Examining the Roles of the Facilitator in Online and Face-to-Face Professional Development Contexts (Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 21(2), 225-245), teachers need to cater to individual learners more online than face-to-face. In the face-to-face environments, students learn from each other and from the teacher. In the face-to-face class, the teacher is able to summarize the information for the students and get feedback from the students body language on how well they understood the information. In the online class, the teacher only knows whether the students understood or not from their writing. Teaching online requires that the teacher be very attentive and aware of the student's individual interests, needs, and level of understanding.