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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
Cara Whitehead

February: Black History Month - 0 views

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    February is Black History Month. Here's a word list to add to your lesson plans! This list can be used to play all of the games and activities on our site. http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=2851114
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