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Dave Truss

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

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    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

Weblogg-ed » New MacArthur Study: Must Read for Educators - 0 views

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    Living and learning with new media: summary of findings from the digital youth project
Heidi Gable

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

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    "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

LeaderTalk: A 21st Century Professional Development Proposal - 0 views

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    by Angela Maiers Includes Brave New World Wide Web video done by Dave Truss.
Heidi Gable

Remote Access: Prep Time - 0 views

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    "...time to experiment, play and learn new things is becoming vital"
Dave Truss

Punya Mishra goes head-to-head with the Kaplan University commercial - Dangerously Irre... - 0 views

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    Now Dr. Punya Mishra, of Michigan State University and TPACK fame, offers his take on the commercial as he reflects on his own new graduate program
Heidi Gable

Teaching in Social and Technological Networks « Connectivism - 0 views

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    "Technological networks have transformed prominent businesses sectors: music, television, financial, manufacturing. Social networks, driven by technological networks, have similarly transformed communication, news, and personal interactions. Education sits at the social/technological nexus of change - primed for dramatic transformative change."
Heidi Gable

BBC NEWS | Americas | Online push in California schools - 0 views

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    California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has unveiled a plan to save money by phasing out school textbooks in favour of internet aids.
Brian Kuhn

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

  • 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
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    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
Heidi Gable

i have seen the future, baby | cribchronicles.com - 0 views

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    A great, thoughtful post about blogging, how it's changing and the need to create new ways to describe/define it.
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