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Games for Learning: Contact List of Gaming Educators [Google Doc] - 1 views

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    A list to identify and connect educators (k-12 and up) who are researching and/or using games for learning - in school, out of school and otherwise. Please add your name, contact info and project to this list!
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    A list to identify and connect educators (k-12 and up) who are researching and/or using games for learning - in school, out of school and otherwise. Please add your name, contact info and project to provide a resource for those who wish to learn more about integrating games into education.
LUCIAN DUMA

Do you want to be a mentor or a learner than you should join TEACHER CHALLENGE #edchat ... - 0 views

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    Teacher Challenge - Connecting teachers through free professional learning .
anonymous

The Future of Tablets in Education: Potential Vs. Reality of Consuming Media | MindShift - 0 views

  • 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.
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  • four dimensions
  • 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.
  • We ask them to quickly synthesize multiple
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    Consumption
jodi tompkins

http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/blog/2008/10/23/edtechconnect-archives-bernie-dodge/ - 0 views

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    Bernie Dodge's EdTech Connect Webinar: WebQuest and Web 2.0
Paul Beaufait

MOOCs: What Part of Learning Goes on Where and How? - 3 views

  • I like the idea that really good teachers could be challenged to change the way they think about learning and put their talents to work finding new ways to structure learning environments that can handle the ever-expanding population of students with widely varying backgrounds.
  • information is not synonymous with understanding, and delivery is not synonymous with education
  • Learning means focusing attention on the key concepts in a topic.
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  • Learning means making connections with a learner’s prior knowledge.
  • Learning means actively processing the incoming information, digesting it, working with it, summarizing, paraphrasing, applying it.
  • Learning also requires that the learners’ attempts receive guiding feedback.
  • There are ways of providing electronic feedback to this kind of active learning. Our solution was to provide examples of answers that would fit the task and let the learners compare theirs. Not totally satisfying and sometimes not totally accurate.
  • One is the “community of learners”
  • possibilities
  • a more elaborate version of peer feedback, where the large group of learners respond to one another’s ideas in hopes of finding some kind of consensus.
  • I think this probably works in an informed community of participants where there is a distribution of prior knowledge that can be drawn on.
  • I think a community of novices still needs the guidance of a more informed individual or group of individuals.
  • the essence of deep learning is in the interaction with others as we grapple with what we think we know versus what we really know. That’s the kind of online learning I’d like to see us build.
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    Svinicki posits what learning means, and the kinds of guided feedback necessary, especially for "deep learning . . . [through] interaction with others as we grapple with what we think we know versus what we really know" (¶8).
doris molero

Weblogg-ed - 0 views

  • “Do use our network to connect to other students and adults who share your passions with whom you can learn.” “Do use our network to help your teachers find experts and other teachers from around the world.” “Do use our network to publish your best work in text and multimedia for a global audience.” “Do use our network to explore your own creativity and passions, to ask questions and seek answers from other teachers online.” “Do use our network to download resources that you can use to remix and republish your own learning online.” “Do use our network to collaborate with others to change the world in meaningful, positive ways.”
anonymous

Beyond Blocking: A collectively defined policy for 2.0 schools, teachers and students - 0 views

  • This is the first iteration of a collectively produced school web policy (elementary/secondary) designed to solicit more intelligent (and less censorious) approaches to web access and issues of conduct.
  • What sites should students be able to access (and why)? *
  • Rate your existing school web policies:
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  • Web social contract: How might we develop a policy WITH students, parents, stakeholders? *
  • Use of personal technology (in class)
  • Social networking policy: What are some productive contexts for teachers, students, parents to connect together? *
  • Consequences for abuse/inappropriate content: What are viable/productive consequences for inappropriate behaviour/content? *
  • Your choice: Please define a policy issue or focus not defined above
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    This is the first iteration of a collectively produced school web policy (elementary/secondary) designed to solicit more intelligent (and less censorious) approaches to web access and issues of conduct.
Barbara Lindsey

BOXEE: the open, connected, social media center for windows, mac os x and linux - 2 views

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    Boxee lets you access your videos, photos, music, shows and streaming content. It pulls info related to your content from the web (like reviews) and allows you to participate with friends.
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