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Access and Interviews (a story & some tips) | Mr. Jackson's Blogosphere - 0 views

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My Yard is Gifted - 0 views

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Heidi Gable on 16 Oct 09

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?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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?</div>

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Is Your Mind Holding You Back? - 0 views

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

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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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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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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.

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Free Digital Textbook Initiative - 0 views

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

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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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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....

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udtechtoolkit - home - 0 views

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The Learning Pyramid - 0 views

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

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

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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.
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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.
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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
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we have to prepare teachers very differently than we have in the past
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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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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

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