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Roland O'Daniel

Jeb Bush, Melinda Gates, Sal Khan and the Coming Digital Learning Battle : Education Next - 1 views

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  • The debate over digital learning will soon enter a new phase.  No longer will educators debate whether or not digital learning has the capacity to transform the American education system.   Just about gone are the anti-technology Luddites who insist that every classroom be self-contained, with students and teachers left to their own devices, save for the help of pencils, chalk, blackboards and weighty textbooks stuffed into 10 kilo backpacks.
    • Roland O'Daniel
      Roland O'Daniel on 11 Nov 11
       
      I wish I could say I think this vision of education and instruction is a close reality, but I sit in classrooms on a daily basis in which the pen/pencil is ALWAYS the primary tool of the student and use of technology is not part of the vision.  
    • Roland O'Daniel
      Roland O'Daniel on 11 Nov 11
       
      Great statement!
  • It is becoming increasingly obvious that digital learning systems can be tailored to the specific interests, learning styles, and levels of accomplishment of each student.
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  • On the one side will be those who propose that most digital learning in K-12 public education be of the “blended” variety, that is, take place within public school classrooms under the tutelage of a highly qualified teacher.
  • nline” proponents will argue that blended learning alone is not enough.  American education can be transformed only if the power to drive change is placed in the hands of students, who are offered a choice of providers that include not only the blended classroom but also those who offer products  exclusively online, supplementing asymmetric video presentations of online materials with interactive systems that employ such tools as Skype, interactive games, social networking, email communications and phone conversations.
    • Roland O'Daniel
      Roland O'Daniel on 11 Nov 11
       
      I guess, I'm one of the proponents that thinks CHOICE is the best option. I don't think school systems have to decide for students but should provide rigorous, well-designed options that students can choose from rather than limit them because of someone else's choice.  How often do students sit in a class because they were assigned to a teacher that they know is  not as good as another teacher in the department? Why not give the students choice of which teacher they get, or what modality they choose to receive the learning through? Make the bottom line be a rigorous set of assessments that provides some understanding of what the student is able to convey.  
  • Common standards provide a nationwide platform upon which next generation curricular materials can be built
    • Roland O'Daniel
      Roland O'Daniel on 11 Nov 11
       
      Most important statement of this article so far! Even if the CCS are not perfect they do provide opportunity for innovation and scale that has never been available through the old system of state standards.
    • Roland O'Daniel
      Roland O'Daniel on 11 Nov 11
       
      Also, important to note that Bush comes from Florida which has one of the strongest online school programs in the country and has been a leader in the field for a decade or more. 
  • hoice allows students to pick the courses most suited to their needs, abilities, and interests; and accountability ensures that learning is genuine.
  • For blenders, the keys to the intervention’s apparent success include the use of real-time performance information by qualified teachers, not just the videos and problem sets.
    • Roland O'Daniel
      Roland O'Daniel on 11 Nov 11
       
      I like Sal Kahn's thoughts, but his pedagogy and approach is severely limited. He is using the discrete set of skills approach to teaching mathematics instead of a comprehensive approach that connects and blends different representations. He does not take into account consistent use of vocabulary across all of his videos, doesn't make connections between different skills/videos when students need to understand direct and subtle connnections, and he uses a limited set of models to develop student conceptual understanding.  Great speaker, great innovator, limited educator. that said, his use of chunks of information would be well to be modeled by many classroom teachers who spend way too much time in front of the class directing students in what they 'need' to know. 
  • Apparent success, it must be said, because the impact of neither the blended nor the online version of the Khan intervention has yet to be documented by a randomized trial
  • Meanwhile, school districts and teacher unions can be expected to fight publicly funded online learning that offers students a choice of taking courses outside their local district school.  If online learning should prove to be more effective than the learning that takes place within classrooms, it would provide a serious challenge to the school district-teacher union duopoly that blended learning does not.
    • Roland O'Daniel
      Roland O'Daniel on 11 Nov 11
       
      Important political point! Are teachers, schools, politicians doing what's best for students or what keeps them in power and makes them look good? I don't know, but I am glad to be part of the education process  during this period of education. 
  • Roland O'Daniel on 11 Nov 11
     
    Jeb Bush, Melinda Gates, Sal Khan and the Coming Digital Learning Battle
Frank Barnes

Introducing The Winooski iLab » Partnership for Change - 0 views

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  • Think it, Learn it, Make it, Share it
  • Frank Barnes on 25 Sep 13
     
    A short piece on a new direction in learning spaces.
Roland O'Daniel

Quicklyst - 0 views

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  • Roland O'Daniel on 02 Feb 11
     
    Easy note taking site. Create an account, type in your notes simply and add new notes by hitting enter.  Site has a mobile friendly version for viewing notes. quicklyst.com/mobile that makes accessing the notes via a smartphone easy and quick. 
Roland O'Daniel

Tony Vincent's Learning in Hand - Home - 9 views

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  • Roland O'Daniel on 25 May 11
     
    An educator's resources for mobile learning. Focus' podcasting and movie making using iPods, iPod touch, iPhone, iPad, and netbooks
techmobile447

Samsung Z Flip Comming Soon Mid-range Chipset | 2021 | Tech Mobile - 0 views

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  • techmobile447 on 04 Jan 21
     
    Samsung wanted to make "mid-range foldable" a factor, we will believe prices falling to a few digits inside the present-day market.
Roland O'Daniel

Are You Behind? - 2 views

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  • Second, do you have the spaces?  If your vision does include learning online, you have to have school-supported digital spaces.  It can be anything really, but you have to have something.  And I’m not talking about individual teachers putting something together, because that doesn’t make sense for kids or from an organizational standpoint in terms of support and dedicated growth and development in concert with the vision.  I also don’t believe this should be something left to students to self-organize around-if its part of the vision, the school has to be intentional about it and provide a common landscape for all.
  • Roland O'Daniel on 14 Jan 13
     
    David Jakes does a great job of laying out a vision of what should be expected for classroom interactions through a digital platform but still isn't. I love his thinking about it not being a happy website with mission/vision but a place to collaborate and inform.  The 21st century is now not tomorrow!
Frank Barnes

The Use and Abuse of Technology in the Classroom - 0 views

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      Frank Barnes on 24 Feb 13
       
      This is a good way to look at technology for students. Just having access to information does nothing unless the learner knows how to search for the right information and then use it meaningfully.
    • Frank Barnes
      Frank Barnes on 24 Feb 13
       
      Good teachers will always be necessary to accomplish this.
  • Technology should not be used as simply a digital worksheet
  • Technology should not be used as a way to keep students occupied.
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    • Frank Barnes
      Frank Barnes on 24 Feb 13
       
      This is an important message to make clear, especially with teachers who are less comfortable or informed regarding computer use.
  • Technology should not be used to do what can be done without it. 
  • Technology should be for accessing what was inaccessible
  • Technology should be for doing good things in better ways.
  • Technology should be for sharing with the world. 
  • Technology should be for connecting
Sally Bair

As Wikipedia Turns 10, It Focuses on Ways to Improve Student Learning - 0 views

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  • Sally Bair on 17 Jan 11
     
    Article describes the efforts of Wikimedia to work with LSU to institutionalize the curriculum around Wikipedia. Rodney Dunican, education programs manager for Wikimedia said, "We don't want them to cite Wikipedia. What we really want them to do is understand how to use and critically evaluate the articles on Wikipedia and then learn how to contribute to make those articles better."
Mary Waker

Bloomin' iPad by Kathy Schrock - 2 views

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  • Mary Waker on 25 Jul 11
     
    Below you will find links to iPad applications that target the various levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. I only included free apps that were "content-neutral" to make them usable across the curriculum. I also tried to include apps for the iPad only, but a few iPhone apps may have snuck in!
Roland O'Daniel

ELL to Go -- THE Journal - 0 views

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  • they brainstormed a list of tasks that they'd like the ELL students to be able to do with the tool. The list included support for textbooks in audio format, access to English language movies and videos, and internet access both at school and off campus (whether at home or a local WiFi hotspot).
  • from a teacher's perspective, it was extremely important that the tool allow students to record their voice so that their fluency could be monitored," explains Jennifer Wivagg, Comal ISD's instructional media specialist. "We needed a device that would allow them to make recordings at home. We also needed the tool to include translators, dictionaries, and other language-based tools that are important for an ESL student, and to be small enough for the students to carry in their pocket, so they have constant access to these important resources."
  • Roland O'Daniel on 03 May 11
     
    The typical student at the Newcomer Center, an alternative school in Township High School District 214 in Arlington Heights, IL, is a recent immigrant with little or no English skills. The school is a temporary stopover for these students--they stay at the center for about a year, building up their English-language skills, and are then transferred to an ESL program at their home school in the district.
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