The very act of transforming lessons after the fact is a hallmark of technology integration
What ends up being unique is how each teacher blends technology into their instructional design, not adds technology on top of the instructional already designed
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.
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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.
document their learning and create tangible performances, when they create objects-to-think-with, they deepen their understanding of material, and perhaps more importantly, create tools to spark metacognitive thinking about thinking
"This page gathers all of the Bloomin' Apps projects in one place.
Each of the images has clickable hotspots and includes suggestions for
iPad, Google, Android, and Web 2.0 applications
to support each of the levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy.
The use of the triangle shape for Bloomin' apps projects was not used
to help clear up the misunderstanding that the levels are hierarchical and
the top levels only make up a tiny portion of the cognitive processes."
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