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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.
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.
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Great ToolKit to Bring Self-Organized Learning Environments to Your Community - 3 views

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    This toolkit provides you with a step-by-step guide for teachers and parents to bring self-organized learning environments for your children at home, school or at after school programs.
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Best Educational Websites and Games for High-School Students - 1 views

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    Here's the compilation of some of the best educational websites and games for high-school students.
mbarek Akaddar

Free Technology for Teachers: Resources to Help Schools Understand Social Media - 4 views

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    Resources to Help Schools Understand Social Media
Cara Whitehead

Back to School - 0 views

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    Great word list and free online games for the first week of school
Vahid Masrour

Google Plus: Is This the Social Tool Schools Have Been Waiting For? - 0 views

  • it may well be the granular level of privacy afforded by Google+ that is the key to making this a successful tool for schools
  • many schools and teachers have still been reluctant to "friend" students
  • that "always public" element of Twitter that makes many nervous
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  • it's also about sharing with the right people. Circles will allow what educational consultant Tom Barnett calls "targeted sharing," something that will be great for specific classes and topics
  • Skype has become an incredibly popular tool to bring in guests to a classroom via video chat -
  • teachers are already talking about the possibility of not just face-to-face video conversation but the potential for integration of whiteboards, screen-sharing, Google Docs, and other collaborative tools
  • Google + seems like the solution for someone like me who wants to use the web to have conversations about school topics with students and parents and yet not have students and parents have access to my personal posts.
    • Vahid Masrour
       
      Parents and students on different Circles. You know you want it!
Jim Aird

Cageless Thinking: Innovation and Creativity in Education - 0 views

  • For a school to thrive it needs good exam results. For its students to survive, a school needs to teach them skills and prepare them for reality.
  • Technology used well in schools can offer a tangible link to the outside world – it can be a bridge in many different ways to what is happening outside of the classroom
Cara Whitehead

Busting the Myths of Digital Learning - 3 views

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    Survey from JogNog reveals schools unprepared to support digital learning - EdTech Times
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Online Bulletin Boards: Transforming Communication in Schools - 3 views

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    Online bulletin boards have transformed the way that I teach, but especially the way that I communicate with students and parents.
Amanda Kenuam

Learning Functional Skills Through the Use of Technology - 0 views

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    "special education, students, SPED, functional skills, high school, teachers"
Alexandre Enkerli

http://www.miller-mccune.com/business_economics/computer-error-1390.print - 2 views

  • glitterati
  • Silicon Valley
  • World Economic Forum
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  • emotional resonance
  • we all know and value
  • looked good
  • aspired to
  • countries without comprehensive electrical grids
  • soured
  • underperformed
  • 50 percent of staff were being laid off and a major restructuring was under way
  • the project seems nearly dead in the water
  • And that may be great news for children in the developing world.
  • Innovate
  • Negroponte and other techno-luminati
  • lobbied national governments and international agencies
  • technology optimists
  • take control of their education
  • There's no question that improving education in the developing world is necessary.
  • trending dramatically upward
  • school attendance
  • highly respected center
  • they don't seem to be learning much
  • international science exam
  • powerful argument
  • the goal is improving education for children in the developing world, there are plenty of better, and cheaper, alternatives.
  • instinctive appeal
  • precious little evidence
  • circumstantial evidence
  • The OLPC concept has been pioneered in a number of school districts in the United States over the last decade
  • the technology didn't work any better than a normal classroom teacher
  • the teachers simply weren't using the computers
  • few experimental studies to show a positive impact from the use of computers
  • substituting computers for teachers
  • supplement
  • Negroponte has explicitly derided
  • It must be said
  • academic
  • teachers limited access to the computers
  • had not been adequately trained
  • not silver bullets
  • surveys of students
  • parents rolling their eyes
  • evaluation of an OLPC project in Haiti
  • Repeated calls and e-mails to OLPC and Negroponte seeking comment on OLPC did not receive a response
  • ironic
  • a leader in
  • the Third World
  • cheap
  • proven successful
  • etting children in developing countries into school and helping them learn more while they are there
  • There are
  • deworming
  • technology-based approaches to improving student learning in the developing world
  • show more promise than one laptop per child
  • the J-PAL co-founder
  • Remedial education
  • A study in Kenya
  • expensive
  • quarter of the cost
  • cheaper
  • it didn't matter
  • co-founder of J-PA
  • $2 per month
  • $3 per month
  • $2.20
  • 30 percent increase in lifetime earnings
  • $4 per student per year
  • 50 cents per child per year
  • tens of millions of dollars
  • children
  • children
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Why Technology is Inevitable in the Vision of a 21st Century School? - 3 views

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    Let's learn about the vision and the role of technology in 21st Century Education.
EdTechReview Community

NomadEDU: ICT Solutions like Education Hotspots for Developing Countries - 1 views

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    NomadEDU is an educational hotspot with the following features, developed with an intention to change the way online education is delivered in rural schools around the world.
anonymous

Challenge Based Learning - 0 views

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    "Challenge Based Learning applies what is known about the emerging learning styles of high school students and leverages the powerful new technologies that provide new opportunities to learn to provide an authentic learning process that challenges students to make a difference."
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