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Heidi Gable

digistories / FrontPage - 0 views

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    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

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

  • 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.
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    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....
Dave Truss

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

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    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

Dangerously Irrelevant: The Game of School - Wrap-up - 0 views

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    I think Fried does a fabulous job of highlighting how schools as institutions have largely moved away from many of our desired ends for students and their learning. Not always, not for every kid, but mostly…
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

Internet safety and our need to connect with teens » Moving at the Speed of C... - 0 views

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    We shouldn't assume that all students understand Internet safety and the importance of protecting personal information (like your phone number) online. While the act of sharing a full name and phone number online may be innocuous, it also may be a cry from someone to connect and communicate.
Heidi Gable

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

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    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.
Dave Truss

Interactivate: Pattern Generator - 0 views

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

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    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

The Clever Sheep: 12 Changes - 0 views

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    Technology has resulted in a number of significant changes in the ways people communicate, learn and create. This slideshow highlights a number of trends that should lead to significant changes in classrooms around the world.
Heidi Gable

B.I.A.T. - Bringing It All Together: Reframing the non-Autistic Mind - 0 views

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    This blog post includes a link to great video called "Positively Autistic" that talks about turnign around our thinking - instead of thinking of our "deficits" can we start looking at our "assets" instead? And how does that change our parenting or teaching?
Heidi Gable

The Girl Who Spoke with Pictures by Eileen Miller, Illustrated by Kim Miller - 0 views

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    An amazing story of an autistic girl and how she learned to communicate through her art. It inspires me because her parents recognized her gift and supported her in developing the positive instead of seeing where she "lacked" due to her autism. We can all learn a lesson in parenting from this family!
Heidi Gable

Leaders Can Be Human Too: In Praise of Touchy-Feely | TerryStarbucker.com - 0 views

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    In his words, "being completely open and honest with no sense of pretense or cover" is the best approach to building loyalty, whether it's with teammates, peers, customers, or clients. Lencioni correctly identifies the biggest barriers to really getting Touchy-Feely: fear and insecurity."
Dave Truss

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

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    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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    Article talks about how the culture of Web2.0 changes expectations or is at odds with the status quo of the system.
Heidi Gable

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

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    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.
Heidi Gable

First Day of School? Here's How to Get Students Thinking - Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas - 0 views

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    great idea for first day of the year activities to engage all learners.
Heidi Gable

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

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    "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"
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