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Dave Truss

15 Minutes of Fame: Learn to game, to game to learn Part 2 - 0 views

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gaming Peggy squarepeg WorldofWarcraft

shared by Dave Truss on 29 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Peggy: I would say that this is the most remarkable experience of my life, for the reason that in most circles, I am the go-to person. I am the information person. I am the how-do-you-do-it person. In WoW, that role has been reversed, and I am the struggling learner. (A lot of it is due to time constraint. I don't have the time to go and research which add-on to use for my Holy Paladin heals and delve into the backstory as much as I'd like to.) It's a fabulous experience for me to see how the struggling child feels in the classroom, to see how you might be reluctant to raise your hand and ask a question because you feel "less than." It's really reminded me that I have kids at all different readiness levels around me, and I have to make sure I'm not addressing just the top or the bottom or the middle. Things do have to be level. Language does have to be changed. It's a remarkable transference of understanding for me. I step out of the role of expert and become the role of learner. That's what we need our teachers to do.
  • Dave Truss on 29 Jul 09
     
    I would say that this is the most remarkable experience of my life, for the reason that in most circles, I am the go-to person. I am the information person. I am the how-do-you-do-it person. In WoW, that role has been reversed, and I am the struggling learner....
Brian Kuhn

If We Didn't Have the Schools We Have Today, Would We Create the Schools We Have Today - 0 views

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21stcentury ISDEPT architecture article building change design education journal leadership learning research schools technology

shared by Brian Kuhn on 20 May 09 - Cached
  • But most schools and classrooms will no longer be the central learning hubs they are today.   Today’s model of schooling is to bring the learner to the knowledge—tomorrow we will bring the knowledge to the learners.   We must recognize that schools and classrooms are becoming nodes in networked learning communities.   We must begin to think about how to organize learning in networked communities and not limit learning within the boundaries of classrooms and school buildings—which would be to limit our thinking to what has been possible in the past in a single school or node.
  • The new and more powerful opportunity available to educators today is to use these technologies to help individuals collaboratively construct networked learning communities that will accelerate and augment the community’s learning, as well as each individual’s learning.
  • We need to get rid of the circle and enable them to be learners in an open learning environment (see Figure 5). One of the large “L’s” in the diagram is the expert learner
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  • Did the open space concept fail, or did we fail to prepare teachers who could teach in an open space model? We changed the physical space in those buildings, but because we continued to prepare most teachers as if the only way to teach is using the solo, stand alone, self-contained, isolated classroom model—the open space concept could not work
  • we have to prepare teachers very differently than we have in the past
  • Any organization that adopts a new technology without significant organizational change is doomed to failure. You have to change the organization. You cannot just add the technology
  • Brian Kuhn on 20 May 09
     
    great article about how learning and school has or has not changed and what needs to be transformed to prepare for today and the future to meet the needs of students and teachers
Dave Truss

Joho the Blog » Internet safer for kids than we've been led to believe - 0 views

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internetsafety cyberbullying bullying

shared by Dave Truss on 15 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 15 Jan 09
     
    Great first comment: Parents have the responsibility to monitor and guide children and teenagers. Of course kids will object. How many of us thought our parents were right when they tried to limit what we wanted to do? We must be wise enough as parents to know best and strong enough to stand up to the kids' anger. Bullies are not all the same, but their patterns of behavior, their tactics, are the same. That's why we can find ways to stop most of them. Sometimes, fighting is the key to success. If we don't stop bullies, they'll think we're easy prey. Like sharks, they'll just go after us more.
Heidi Gable

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digitalstorytelling

shared by Heidi Gable on 04 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Heidi Gable on 04 Feb 09
     
    The following links will take you to some examples of digital storytelling in action. They begin with the use of simple voice recording and move through some of the more popular software applications to the use of online applications. A number of the pages that follow include links to support notes.
Dave Truss

Interactivate: Pattern Generator - 0 views

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mathtools interactive

shared by Dave Truss on 24 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 24 Feb 09
     
    What is Pattern Generator? This activity allows the user to learn to recognize several types of patterns through filling in the missing pieces. The patterns in this activity are made of: * shapes * letters * numbers This activity can be used to introduce the patterning used in the Coloring Multiples in Pascal's Triangle activity and Sierpinski's Carpet activity.
Heidi Gable

Education - Change.org: Tutorial: Two Uses of Technology to Improve Literacy and Critic... - 0 views

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edtech

shared by Heidi Gable on 04 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Heidi Gable on 04 Feb 09
     
    I'm still thinking about that UCLA research saying "technology in the classroom damages literacy and critical thinking." I'm still thinking it's behind the times, in its framing of technology as "video games and TV," and its complete omission of the Web and the social media/Web 2.0 explosion over the last five years or so.
Heidi Gable

The School Is Flat | The Moss-Free Stone - 0 views

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connected teachers

shared by Heidi Gable on 23 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Heidi Gable on 23 Aug 10
     
    "Teaching is a noble call that suffers when we practice in isolation and flourishes when we work together, and at no time in history have we had the tools we do today that allow us to work together for the good of our children. When we take the time to learn and embrace these tools, we grow as professionals-I can testify to that wholeheartedly."
Heidi Gable

The Education of an Un-Artist » The revolution will be a bus - 0 views

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syndicationbus jimgroom RSS

shared by Heidi Gable on 15 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Heidi Gable on 15 Mar 10
     
    "syndication buses represent a space through which individuals within a learning community can share their work through personal publishing platforms that they maintain ownership over. Rather than locking information into centralized systems, institutions should be designing a syndication-oriented framework that empowers its members to add their own syndicated voices to a larger, streaming conversation that can be filtered and visualized through semantic tags and categories. All of which is undergirded by a staunch belief in the fact that openness is no longer the exception, but the rule for learning institutions"
Dave Truss

We ARE the system - LeaderTalk - Education Week - 2 views

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leadership Admin change

shared by Dave Truss on 04 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 04 Apr 10
     
    We can point fingers. We can blame others. We can rail against the system. But we must recognize that we are in charge of the system. In essence, as stewards of school organizations, we ARE the system. We create the system every day.
Heidi Gable

Gary Hamel on Managing Generation Y - the Facebook Generation - Gary Hamel's Management... - 0 views

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management social media

shared by Heidi Gable on 06 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Heidi Gable on 06 Apr 09
     
    Article talks about how the culture of Web2.0 changes expectations or is at odds with the status quo of the system.
Heidi Gable

Education - Change.org: Teach For America, Awhile: Ivy League Temps and Corporate Missi... - 0 views

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education poverty

shared by Heidi Gable on 04 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Heidi Gable on 04 Feb 09
     
    Now if success in life were achieved with the help of others and some good luck, as Gladwell argues convincingly, would it not also make sense that failure follows a similar pattern? Can we really believe in the self-made failure when we can no longer believe in the simplistic explanation of the self-made success?
Heidi Gable

YouTube - Apple - Think Different - 0 views

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Inspiration leadership

shared by Heidi Gable on 13 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Heidi Gable on 13 Jan 09
     
    Because the people who are crazy enough the think that they can change the world are the ones who do!
Dave Truss

Don't try to control it « The Thinking Stick - 0 views

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educationalleader blogging pro-d

shared by Dave Truss on 13 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 13 Apr 09
     
    Start with the idea and apply the tool. If you start with the tool first…you have a lesser chance of effecting learning. This happens to me quite often. A teacher will come to me and say "I want to blog." OK, that's great, but why? What are you thinking? Why do you want to blog? What do you know about a blog?
Dave Truss

» Would You Please Block? Bud the Teacher - 0 views

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filter budtheteacher classmanagement

shared by Dave Truss on 07 Oct 09 - Cached
  • What we’ve decided is that we will no longer use the web filter as a classroom management tool.  Blocking one distraction doesn’t solve the problem of students off task – it just encourages them to find another site to distract them.  Students off task is not a technology problem – it’s a behavior problem. 
    • Dave Truss
      Dave Truss on 07 Oct 09
       
      A brilliantly worded statement that needs to be said!
  • This opens up possibilities for students and staff using websites for instructional purposes that in the past were blocked due to broad category blocks.  It requires that staff and students manage their technology use rather than relying on a third party solution that can never do the job of replacing teachers monitoring students.
  • Dave Truss on 07 Oct 09
     
    What we've decided is that we will no longer use the web filter as a classroom management tool.
Dave Truss

NetSavvy: Building Information ... - Google Book Search - 0 views

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digitaldivide newliteracy Admin digitalethnography

shared by Dave Truss on 28 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 28 Jan 09
     
    This easy-to-follow guide can help students and teachers ' even the most technology-resistant ' learn to solve problems from sources like Internet sites, news groups, chat rooms, e-mail, and other Internet resources. Topics include: Creating your own lesson plans using sample lesson planners Applying frameworks for grade-level objectives and skills Dealing with information-technology overload Solving any information challenge with six critical steps Helping students harness the web with simple tips An important resource for today's classroom, Net Savvy can help educators become leaders rather than followers in the new high-tech, high-speed, digital era.
Heidi Gable

Drape's Takes: District Support - A Second Draft - 0 views

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Planning

shared by Heidi Gable on 15 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Heidi Gable on 15 Jan 09
     
    How should the district support the technology needs of the district?
Dave Truss

Tony Vincent's Learning in Hand - Blog - Classroom iPod touches: Dos and Don'ts - 0 views

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ipod

shared by Dave Truss on 21 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 21 Mar 10
     
    Bringing iPods into the classroom is a great way to give students access to learning tools. However, there are so many things to keep in mind to make the iPods work smoothly in the classroom.
Dave Truss

Where do people find the time? - ijohnpederson Re: Clay Shirky Videos - 0 views

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web2.0 webmodality socialmedia batman-borg

shared by Dave Truss on 13 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 13 Apr 10
     
    Where do people find the time? Clay Shirky speaks for about 20 minutes on the societal shift from media consumption to consumption + production + sharing. Note Giligan's Island & 'Looking for mouse' in part 2
Heidi Gable

Clark Aldrich On Simulations and Serious Games: Education should be more like World of ... - 0 views

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education change

shared by Heidi Gable on 17 May 10 - Cached
  • Heidi Gable on 17 May 10
     
    "The problem is not that schools will refuse to adopt the new media/technology. My greater fear is that they will adopt it. "
Heidi Gable

International Center for Leadership in Education - Rigor, Relevance, Relationships - 0 views

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Rigor Relevance Framework

shared by Heidi Gable on 15 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Heidi Gable on 15 Jul 09
     
    The Rigor/Relevance Framework is a tool developed by staff of the International Center for Leadership in Education to examine curriculum, instruction, and assessment. The Rigor/Relevance Framework is based on two dimensions of higher standards and student achievement.
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