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Mathieu Plourde

Why Teachers Need Social Media Training, Not Just Rules - 0 views

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    Of course, the rules are often in flux, making it difficult for to stay up to speed-which reinforces the need for a digital literacy program for teachers and administrators. It's not enough to impose rules on how not to use social media; teachers should be required at the start of every school year to learn how to use social networks and other tools effectively in the classroom, and how to maintain privacy settings for both professional and personal accounts.
Nancy O'Laughlin

Social Media as a Teaching Tool -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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    "We have to figure out a way to use it engagingly and teach students when it s appropriate and when it's not appropriate to be doing that.""
Mathieu Plourde

Media Master Transcript (ePortfolio + badges) - 2 views

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    How badges and portfolios collide.
Mathieu Plourde

Classroom Salon - 0 views

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    Salon is a high-power web platform where users can read, annotate, and discuss visual media.
Mathieu Plourde

Digital Reading: Curation, Not Intake - 0 views

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    I believe there are 3 needs in modern literacy that we cannot ignore as educators. Digital literacy is not an "option" anymore. Most of the texts that we read each day appear on a screen, complete with embedded media, advertisements, and hyperlinks. Navigating these spaces is required to function successfully in modern society. We should immerse our students in these mediums, and provide them guidance to maximize their learning. Digital texts foster curation and recall. When I read texts in hard copy, I often annotate using words and images. This helps me to make meaning of the text in the moment that I'm reading it. However, when I read digital texts, my annotations and sketches are automatically added to my intellectual database in Evernote. My database is fully searchable by content and tag. Therefore, when I need citations, information, or ideas to guide my writing, I most often return to the digital sources, ideas, and phrases captured in my database. In short, texts in hard copy make an impact, but digital texts shape my thinking and writing more often. Teachers need to teach students to digital and hard copy texts equally. Existing resources coupled with teacher comfort levels often reduce the amount of instruction that students receive regarding digital texts. In fact, a teacher recently told me that "you just can't get the same experience from a Kindle as you can from a hardback book." Really? We need to get comfortable with digital texts ourselves and share the process meaningfully with students.
Mathieu Plourde

STEPP: The Student E-rent Pilot Project - 0 views

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    "STEPP was launched by the Alternative Media Access Center, in partnership with CourseSmart and the AccessText Network, through a grant from the U.S. Department of Education (DoEd), Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). This program is designed to meet the textbook rental needs of any postsecondary student and aims to help improve low-cost access to higher education textbooks for all students, including those with print-related disabilities. "
Mathieu Plourde

Is making books social a good thing or a bad thing? - 0 views

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    As virtually every form of media from newspapers to television shows becomes more socially aware, the book remains stubbornly anti-social. Despite the rapid growth in e-books and the launch of a number of services designed to add social features to books, the act of reading is still a fairly solitary thing.
Mathieu Plourde

Coursera Raises $16 Million To Bring Free Online Education to Millions - 0 views

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    Now, with $16 million in venture capital funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and New Enterprise Associates (NEA), the two professors officially launched Coursera, their new online education company that includes partnerships with Princeton University, Stanford University, the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania to offer web-based classes on the Coursera platform for free. A total of 37 undergraduate and graduate-level courses across a broad range of disciplines will launch this spring.
Nancy O'Laughlin

Helping Educators Determine the Quality of Open Education Resources | Institute for the... - 0 views

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    "But what differentiates them from one another? How can educators determine whether the resources are high quality? Achieve and the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) launched a new tool for users to rate the quality of open education resources. The tool allows educators to rate the quality of these teaching and student learning resources, align these resources to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), and evaluate the extent to which the individual resources align to specific standards"
Nancy O'Laughlin

Twitter turns over Occupy tweets to court: Why this matters | Digital Trends - 0 views

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    Check out the "why this matters", public vs private discussion.
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