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Compfight / A Flickr Search Tool - 0 views

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  • Katy Vance on 12 Dec 12
     
    Great search tool for Creative Commons licensed images
Katy Vance

Teaher's Guide to Information Crap Detection ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 0 views

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information_literacy C.R.A.P. Howard Rheingold resource_evaluation information literacy edtech credibility PLN literacy web 2.0

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  • Katy Vance on 27 Feb 13
     
    Excellent video by Howard Rheingold about the priorities for teaching information literacy in this world of the Internet, search engines, and social media.
Katy Vance

Educational Leadership:Technology-Rich Learning:Our Brains Extended - 2 views

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learning leadership ascd technology edtech thinking database innovation coetail

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  • When my 2nd grader needs to know the meaning of a word, I tell him to use my iPhone to ask Siri, an artificial intelligence program that's always happy to look it up for him. Siri, in turn, uses the free online program Wolfram Alpha, one of the most powerful data analysis tools in the world. If you enter into the Siri (or Wolfram Alpha) search box, by text or voice, "arable land in world divided by world population," in less than a second the phone or computer will find the relevant data; do the calculations; provide the answer—in square miles, acres, square feet, and hectares per person—and cite you its sources.
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      Katy Vance on 19 Mar 13
       
      This is a good point. It's not even going to the online dictionary (old things, new ways) but replacing the dictionary entirely.
  • With YouTube, for example, students can post their ideas to the world and get rapid global feedback. With tools like Twitter and its cousins, they can follow firsthand details of events unfolding anywhere in the world, from revolutions to natural disasters. With mashups and related techniques, they can combine sophisticated data sources in powerful new ways. One school group I know of created a Second Life model of Los Angeles, using the database of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to show each plane flying in its actual spot! With Skype-like tools, students can connect with experts and peers around the world in real time.
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      Katy Vance on 19 Mar 13
       
      I would love to see our humanities and science classes get onto Twitter and participate int he international conversations about current events, natural disasters, and emerging research in sciences. Even with a class Twitter account managed by the teacher....
  • call the process of envisioning such technically enhanced possibilities imag-u-cation. It's something every teacher and class should spend some time doing.
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  • The only way to do almost all science today is with technology. No human can handle or analyze the volumes of data we now have and need. Ditto for the social sciences. The research study of the past focusing on 10 graduate students has been replaced by sample sizes of millions online around the world. Being perfect at language translation, spelling, and grammar is becoming less important for humans as machines begin to understand context and can access almost every translation ever done. Those who laugh at the mistakes that machines make today will no longer be laughing in a few short years.
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      Katy Vance on 19 Mar 13
       
      I don't know nearly enough about how our science department is using technology to conduct research and analysis.  Anybody good examples here or at other schools?
  • Effective Thinking, which would include creative and critical thinking as well as portions of math, science, logic, persuasion, and even storytelling; Effective Action, which would include entrepreneurship, goal setting, planning, persistence, project management, and feedback; and Effective Relationships, which would include emotional intelligence, teamwork, ethics, and more.
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      Katy Vance on 19 Mar 13
       
      Elements of this remind me of the IB ATL skills and the ideal of the Personal project.
  • Instead of today's focus on pre-established subject matter, with thinking skills presented randomly, haphazardly, and inconsistently, the student and teacher focus would always be on thinking in its various forms and on being an effective thinker, using examples from math, science, social studies, and language arts.
  • These would range from small projects in earlier years ("I made this app or this website") to larger projects ("I collaborated with a class in another country to publish a bilingual novel"; "I started a successful company") to participation in later years in huge, distributed projects around the world ("Using Galaxy Zoo, I discovered a new, habitable planet").
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      Katy Vance on 19 Mar 13
       
      HAve we considered converting our folder based portfolios for student-led conferences into digital portfolios? 
  • Producing effective letters, reports, and essays was an intellectual need of our past. Working effectively in virtual communities, communicating effectively through video, and controlling complex technologies are what students need to be successful in the future. Thinking, acting, relating, and accomplishing—in the technological and fast-changing context of the future—are where we should focus our students' attention.
  • No longer is the unenhanced brain the wisest thing on the planet. Students who don't have technology's powerful new capabilities at their command at every turn are not better 21st century humans but lesser ones.
  • Katy Vance on 19 Mar 13
     
    You think of technology as a tool," one high school student told me. "We think of it as a foundation; it underlies everything we do."
  • rhenabowie on 19 Mar 13
     
    Thanks Katy for this. I'm thinking of sending it out with our newsletter to parents tomorrow. There are some big ideas to think about here :)
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How we read online. - Slate Magazine - 0 views

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  • And it's not you who has to change. It's me, the writer: One idea per paragraphHalf the word count of "conventional writing"! (Ouch!) Other stuff along these lines
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      Katy Vance on 07 Sep 13
       
      Augh! I gotta cut down...
  • If you want to beat the Internet, you're not going to do it by blogging (since even OK thinkers occasionally write a great blog post) but by offering a comprehensive take on a subject (thus saving the reader time from searching many sites) and supplying original thinking (offering trusted insight that cannot be easily duplicated by the nonexpert).
  • When we're really engaged in a text, it's like being in an effortless trance.
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  • I suppose ludic readers would be the little sloths hiding in the jungle while everyone else is out rampaging around for fresh meat.
  • We'll do more and more reading on screens, but they won't replace paper—never mind what your friend with a Kindle tells you. Rather, paper seems to be the new Prozac. A balm for the distracted mind. It's contained, offline, tactile.
  • Moby Dick has become a spa
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