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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

Education Week: Teachers' Staff Training Deemed Fragmented - 0 views

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    "We still see teachers engage in really short one- and two-day workshops rather than ongoing, sustained support that we now have evidence changes practices and increases student achievement."
Heidi Gable

Keeping Quality Teachers Teaching - Rethinking Schools Online - 0 views

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    A collection of articles on teacher recruitment, retention, and quality.
Brian Kuhn

Socrative | Student Response System | Audience Response Systems | Clicker | Clickers | ... - 0 views

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    experienced this in a g.6/7 class; student created an assessment for a science-environmental unit consisting of short answer and multiple choice questions; results get emailed to teacher in a spreadsheet that calculates percentages, identifies (color) missed answers, etc.
Heidi Gable

Powerful Learning Practice, LLC - 0 views

shared by Heidi Gable on 05 Feb 09 - Cached
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    A one-year, ongoing, job-embedded professional development opportunity built around emerging social Web technologies that connects: 20 schools from around the state (or world) 5 educators (administrators/teachers) from each school 10-21st Century Fellows (Champions) selected from participating districts
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.
Dave Truss

educational-origami » Understanding Digital Children - Ian Jukes - 0 views

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    At one point Ian summarises the differences between Native Learners and Teachers. I think this is analogous with Prensky's "Digital native and Digital immigrants".
Heidi Gable

Phonevite - Share Your Voice - Community-Based Voice Broadcasting - Phone Tree Service - 0 views

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    With this tool, you can send free phone reminders and alerts to yourself and/or your friends. Might be useful for PACs? or Teachers?
Dave Truss

Sweet Search - 0 views

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    Every Web site in SweetSearch has been evaluated by our research experts. Also for School Librarians, Teachers, subjects/levels too!
Dave Truss

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

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    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

  • 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. 
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      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.
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    What we've decided is that we will no longer use the web filter as a classroom management tool.
Heidi Gable

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

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    "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

Free Teacher Clip Art - School clipart, Animated clipart, word art, educational clipart. - 0 views

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    Free educational clip art resources
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....
Heidi Gable

My Yard is Gifted - 0 views

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    Generally speaking, do we (as a nation, as a profession) put forth every effort to stretch the students who are already "there"? Do we take for granted the fact that some students, without much assistance from us, will be (supposedly) "just fine" academically on their own? Are they really "just fine" or "where they need to be" if we haven't truly challenged them to stretch and grow academically and intellectually? Do they not deserve to be s t r e t c h e d also? Do they not deserve to learn and grow academically as much as possible, too? Are they really reaching their potential if we haven't even tried to find how far their potential reaches?
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