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mbarek Akaddar

Skype in the classroom (beta) | Skype Education - 16 views

education.skype.com

teaching technology resources Web2.0 tools education classroom skype collaboration

shared by mbarek Akaddar on 20 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Meet new people, discover new cultures and connect with classes from around the world, all without leaving the classroom.
Noelle Kreider

A look at the technology culture divide | eSchoolNews.com - 11 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...-the-technology-culture-divide

vision digital divide digital immigrants digital natives technology culture divide teaching learning

shared by Noelle Kreider on 14 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Today’s students represent the first generation to grow up with this new technology.
  • While educators may see students every day, they do not necessarily understand their students’ habits, expectations, or learning preferences–this has resulted in a technology cultural divide.
  • Students are very comfortable with technology and generally become frustrated when policy, rules, and restrictions prevent them from using technology. 
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  • Educators must relinquish the idea of being all-knowing and replace that concept with an attitude of being a facilitator, knowing that the world of information is just a “click” away.
  • Traditional schools, generally staffed primarily with Digital Immigrants, often provide very little technology interaction compared to the digital world in which students are actually living.  Digital Natives can pay attention in class, but they choose not to pay attention, because in reality, they are bored with instructional methods that Digital Immigrants use.
  • Today’s Digital Native students have developed new attitudes and aptitudes as a result of their technology environment.  Although these characteristics provide great advantages in areas such as the students’ abilities to use information technology and to work collaboratively, they have created an imbalance between students’ learning environment expectations and Digital Immigrants’ teaching strategies and policies, which students find in schools today.
  • Teacher training programs in the area of technology will be paramount in the success of the Digital Native.
  • Twenty-first century educators must begin to answer these questions: Do the educational resources provided fit the needs and preferences of today’s learners?  Will linear content give way to simulations, games, and collaboration?  Do students’ desires for group learning and activities imply rethinking the configuration and use of space in classrooms and libraries?  What is the material basis of digital literacy? What is different in a digital age?  What are kids doing already and what could they be doing better, and more responsibly, if we learned how to teach them differently? Addressing these questions will contribute toward bridging the gap of the technology cultural divide and result in schools where all students have greater potential to achieve academically.
  • Noelle Kreider on 14 Apr 10
     
    Article discussing the technology culture divide between students and their teachers and its implications for rethinking how we teach.
Javier Mejia Torrenegra

Bibliotecas móviles como instrumento para promover la lectura - 0 views

www.exagonobibliotecario.blogspot.com

Bibliotecología Promoción de Lectura

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  • Javier Mejia Torrenegra on 10 Nov 09
     
    Cuando pensamos en bibliotecas móviles, siempre las asociamos con los bibliobuses. Sin embargo, existen otros medios de transporte, que son usados en determinadas zonas, a las que no se puede llegar de otra forma: el agua, la selva o el desierto no son barreras para acceder a la lectura. BIBLIOLANCHA En Argentina: Una lancha de 8 m de eslora recorre las islas del Delta del Paraná en el noroeste de la provincia de Buenos Aires. Dotada de un fondo de 2.000 ejemplares, dispone de ordenadores con conexión a Internet y organiza talleres de promoción a la lectura. Es atendida por un "promotor cultural" ayudado por un bibliotecaria y una voluntaria de la zona que se atiende. El inconveniente para poder prestar sus servicio, radica en los elementos climáticos, como en este caso el tema de las crecidas del río.
Paul Beaufait

Online Video Resources -- Center for Social Media at American University - 0 views

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copyright fair use intellectual property law multimedia mashup culture remix

shared by Paul Beaufait on 14 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Paul Beaufait on 14 Jul 09
     
    videos and other publications
Paul Beaufait

open thinking » 80+ Videos for Tech. & Media Literacy - 0 views

educationaltechnology.ca/...1480

videos media literacy technology

shared by Paul Beaufait on 19 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Paul Beaufait on 19 Jun 09
     
    Categories include: Conversation Starters; 21st Century Learning; Copyright, Copyleft & Remix/Mashup Culture; Influence of Media on Society; History of Technology & Media; Social Networks & Identity; Mashups, Stop Motion, Animations & Short Films; Public Service Announcements and Political Messages; Cyberbullying and Internet Safety; and Documentaries
Holly Dilatush

Country Guides to Culture, Etiquette, Customs & more! - 0 views

www.culturecrossing.net/index.php

culture intercultural cuturecrossing

shared by Holly Dilatush on 06 May 09 - Cached
  • Holly Dilatush on 06 May 09
     
    thank you LarryFerlazzo
Holly Dilatush

What's My Pass? » The Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time - 0 views

www.whatsmypass.com/?p=415

passwords security

shared by Holly Dilatush on 15 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Holly Dilatush on 15 Jan 09
     
    interesting, surprising (many of them), evidence of cultural contexts
Paul Beaufait

UVic's Language Teaching Clipart Library - 0 views

hcmc.uvic.ca/clipart

clipart

shared by Paul Beaufait on 27 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Paul Beaufait on 27 Dec 08
     
    Authors and developers request acknowledgments when you use these images.
  • Paul Beaufait on 27 Dec 08
     
    "This library consists of about 3000 images which we hope will be useful in the teaching of basic vocabulary in a variety of languages. The characters and objects depicted are as culturally neutral as we could make them" (paras. 1-2).
Paul Beaufait

Welcome to <i>Discover Languages . . . Discover the World</i>! - 0 views

discoverlanguages.org/...index.cfm

languages cultures educators

shared by Paul Beaufait on 22 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Paul Beaufait on 22 Dec 08
     
    Interesting footnote re: public awareness raising and logo trademarking
  • Paul Beaufait on 22 Dec 08
     
    The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) highlights an extensive public awareness raising campaign vis-à-vis "the importance of learning languages and understanding cultures" (banner, ¶1), but may confound "all Americans" with a national populace (U.S.).
Paul Beaufait

Free online English Japanese Dictionary, and Japanese English Dictionary, in simple romanized format - 0 views

www.englishjapaneseonlinedictionary.com

romanized English-Japanese dictionaries translation

shared by Paul Beaufait on 22 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Free Search English-Japanese Online Dictionary
  • Paul Beaufait on 22 Dec 08
     
    The EJOD has an English sister: http://www.beginnersenglishdictionary.com/
  • Paul Beaufait on 22 Dec 08
     
    If you become an EJOD member, you apparently get access to twice as many words: "Free version (2006 version) contains about 10,000 words. Member version (2008 version) contains about 20,000 words" (Free Search English-Japanese Online Dictionary, ¶1). Site also notes plans to branch out into polite language, and cultural topics (Future Projects)
Paul Beaufait

What is the Meaning of The Medium is the Message? - 0 views

individual.utoronto.ca/...article_mediumisthemessage.htm

mcluhan media medium message

shared by Paul Beaufait on 19 Aug 08 - Cached
  • change in attitude or action on the part of the audience
  • a medium - this extension of our body or senses or mind - is anything from which a change emerges
  • message may be a change in attitude or action on the part of the audience that results from the medium
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  • noticing change in our societal or cultural ground conditions indicates the presence of a new message, that is, the effects of a new medium
  • Paul Beaufait on 19 Aug 08
     
    Mark Federman interprets Marshall McLuhan's "enigmatic paradox, 'The medium is the message.'"
  • Paul Beaufait on 19 Aug 08
     
    An ongoing exchange on the Authorship 2.0 blog inspired me to rethink a famous quotation. I found that this essay sports a Creative Commons attribution, non-commercial, share-alike license (Notice to Students and Teachers).
Paul Beaufait

FRONTLINE: growing up online | PBS - 0 views

www.pbs.org/...kidsonline

culture cyberbullying documentary education frontline online pbs socialnetworking technology web2.0

shared by Paul Beaufait on 22 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Paul Beaufait on 22 Jul 08
     
    Complete program is available for viewing online
  • Paul Beaufait on 22 Jul 08
     
    Haven't viewed the program yet, but it sounds like a winner
Carla Arena

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...google

article brain google learningwithcomputers magazine neurology reading technology theatlantic

shared by Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08 - Cached
  • hyperlinks don’t merely point to related works; they propel you toward them.)
  • They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.
  • “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins
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  • We are not only what we read
  • We are how we read
  • Wolf worries that the style of reading promoted by the Net, a style that puts “efficiency” and “immediacy” above all else, may be weakening our capacity for the kind of deep reading that emerged when an earlier technology, the printing press, made long and complex works of prose commonplace
  • Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      So, how can we still use "power browsing" and teach our students to interpret, analyze, think.
  • The human brain is almost infinitely malleable. People used to think that our mental meshwork, the dense connections formed among the 100 billion or so neurons inside our skulls, was largely fixed by the time we reached adulthood. But brain researchers have discovered that that’s not the case
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      That's what a student of mine, who is a neurologist, calls neuroplasticity.
  • Still, their easy assumption that we’d all “be better off” if our brains were supplemented, or even replaced, by an artificial intelligence is unsettling. It suggests a belief that intelligence is the output of a mechanical process, a series of discrete steps that can be isolated, measured, and optimized. In Google’s world, the world we enter when we go online, there’s little place for the fuzziness of contemplation. Ambiguity is not an opening for insight but a bug to be fixed. The human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a faster processor and a bigger hard drive.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      Scary...
  • It’s in their economic interest to drive us to distraction.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      more hyperlinking, more possibilites for ads, more commercial value to others...
  • The kind of deep reading that a sequence of printed pages promotes is valuable not just for the knowledge we acquire from the author’s words but for the intellectual vibrations those words set off within our own minds. In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book, or by any other act of contemplation, for that matter, we make our own associations, draw our own inferences and analogies, foster our own ideas. Deep reading, as Maryanne Wolf argues, is indistinguishable from deep thinking.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      we really need those quiet spaces, the white spaces on a page to breathe and see what's really out there.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      we really need those quiet spaces, the white spaces on a page to breathe and see what's really out there.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      we really need those quiet spaces, the white spaces on a page to breathe and see what's really out there.
  • If we lose those quiet spaces, or fill them up with “content,” we will sacrifice something important not only in our selves but in our culture.
  • I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense and “cathedral-like” structure of the highly educated and articulate personality—a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the “instantly available.”
  • As we are drained of our “inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance,” Foreman concluded, we risk turning into “‘pancake people’—spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button.”
  • Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
     
    I bought the Atlantic just because of this article and just loved it. It has an interesting analysis of what is happening to our reading, questions what might be happening to our brains, and it inquires on the future of our relationship with technology. Are we just going to become "pancake people"? Would love to hear what you think.
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