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.
Voki is an animation website . It is " a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profiles and in email messages". This web2.0 tool is very important in education as It enables teachers and students to express themselves on the web in their own voice , using a talking character.
"Transform Learning. Inspire Students.
Create and share collections of engaging web resources with your students. Browse courses in our K-12 Community Library to get started."
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.
Dr. Rachel Sale presents a succinct, six and a half minute demonstration of how to use Google Drive tools as a whiteboard for collective brain-storming and other group project endeavors.
founders of #makr #startup make today from #diaspora next facebook a #socialmedia community project . I add Diaspora to Top 10 PLN tools http://bitly.com/collaborationincop2smile
Proud to be Leader in Cop2 organized in SMILE :) project managed by European Schoolnet . I tried to describe here my top 10 Social Media Curation tools to develop a PLN . Please add your feed-back and add comments with your favorite startups to build a PLN here http://bitly.com/collaborationincop2smile
In July 2011, Larry shared his choices, "[starting] ...off with posts from educators" that he recommended reading, along with the comments that followed. A note at the head of points out news of update as of Sept. 2011. Thanks to Claudia for pointing this out.