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Julie Lindsay

Main Page - WikifiedSchools - 0 views

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    Web 2.0 is not just for the classroom. The use of Web 2.0 tools can increase and improve communication, collaboration, and cooperation across all levels of a school or education organization. This wiki, which is the companion wiki to the new book Wikified Schools: Using Wikis to Improve Collaboration and Communication in Education, was developed to explore the use of a wiki as a highly effective communication and collaboration tool that enhances the effectiveness of school or district leadership teams.
Julie Lindsay

What is literacy, and what should the 21st century school be like? (Techlearning blog) - 0 views

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    TechLearning blog post from Terry Freedman Two important new reports, and associated consultations, are now available. These are the eagerly-anticipated interim report from the Rose review of the primary curriculum in England and Wales, and the government's ideas on what a world-class education comprises and the associated school report card. The good thing about the interim report is that it emphasises the importance of ICT in the primary curriculum. I'm not so sure about the 21st century school document.
Julie Lindsay

Rethinking Computers in the Classroom - BusinessWeek - 0 views

  • Now, bolstered by the prospect of new spending on school technology programs, educators are exploring new ways to weave the computer skills seen as essential to this century's workforce into children's daily lessons. "What's exciting about the Obama plan is not just the money," says Elliot Soloway, a computer science professor at the University of Michigan who studies the effect of technology in education. "He's going to help schools rethink what the kids do on a day-in, day-out basis." Giving more kids Internet access could compel teachers to switch from asking students to Google for answers to questions, to assigning more involved research projects, Soloway says.
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    Obama wants more PCs for kids, and Harvey Milk Academy is one school doing just that. But a 21st-century, computer-focused curriculum is the real challenge
Julie Lindsay

The Virtual Learning Magnet for Space Science and Mathematics: Proof of Concept - 0 views

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    The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is engaged in a Proof of Concept for a Virtual Learning Magnet (VLM) for Space Science and Mathematics with support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). CCSSO's strategic plan calls for setting the education context for a new century, and the Proof of Concept for the VLM supports this by exploring how states can bring together teachers and subject matter experts to support learners with targeted interests in areas of global importance. The VLM is designed to supplement, and not duplicate, the offerings of state-led virtual schools.
Thomas Galvez

AASA hears what's about to disrupt schools - 0 views

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    Online instruction, says best-selling education author, will change schooling as we know it--if we're lucky
Jeffrey Plaman

Natick policy proposes banning iPods and mp3 players at high school - Framingham, MA - ... - 0 views

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    Interesting take by the principal. Banning iPods will somehow stop cyberbullying AND improve test scores? Will it also stop climate change and bring peace to the middle east? Seriously...
Jeffrey Plaman

Computers In Schools Are A Failure, Says Computer Pioneer Alan Kay [Apple in Education]... - 0 views

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    This is an interesting interview with Alan Kay. Deployment of technology up until now has been a failure in education. What's your take?
Jeffrey Plaman

Schools are churning out the unemployable - Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Learning - 0 views

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    Interesting post.What do you all think?
Thomas Galvez

From PLN to P-L-A-N for Moving our School Forward - 0 views

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    Nice blog about transformation and evolution with technology.
Julie Lindsay

ISB 21st Century - 0 views

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    ISBangkok's wiki on 21st century literacy
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    Welcome to the International School Bangkok 21st Century Literacy Wiki
Jeffrey Plaman

Blogging Prompts for Teacher Candidates - 0 views

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    This is a GREAT list of writing/thinking prompts for teachers, admin, anybody involved in thinking about technology in schools. It would be well worth your while to read them over, a few at a time so as not to make your head explode, to help you establish your "positions" on ed-tech issues.
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    Not sure what you can add to this site? Check out this great list of writing prompts related to ed-tech.
Jeffrey Plaman

Education Week: Schools Seen as Inhibiting Student Tech. Use - 0 views

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    What do you think of this? Fundamental question comes up: Who should adapt? Schools to the new tools and culture of learning or students to the traditional text, paper, test culture?
Thomas Galvez

Opening Up Education--The Remix | Academic Commons - 0 views

  • that a key tenet of open education is that education can be improved by making educational assets visible and accessible and by harnessing the collective wisdom of a community of practice and reflection
  • the unrelenting velocity of change means that many of our skills have a shorter shelf life, suggesting that much of our learning will need to take place outside of traditional school and university environments.
  • Nor is it likely that current methods of teaching and learning will suffice to prepare students for the lives they will lead in the twenty-first century.
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  • In response, we need to find a way to reconceptualize many twentieth-century education models, and at the same time reinforce learning outside of formal schooling. There may be powerful ways to blur the distinction between formal learning and informal where both turn on the social life of learning.
  • So to me, that’s why I find this so exciting, is that in a curious way the explosion of digital technology still increasing this exponential path is driving change, change, change ever faster, which is creating a tremendous problem for the old ways of learning and teaching. But the same thing that’s driving this challenge we have is also providing us the tools and mechanisms to attack this problem in fundamentally new ways.
  • How might the slow-to-change culture of education adapt elements inherent in a fast-paced technological world? When is it most appropriate to do so?
  • As a result, individual educators spend heroic amounts of time on planning and preparation, but with enormous duplication of effort and no economies of scale. Apart from the lack of efficiency in preparation, educational quality also suffers: While some educators regularly create outstanding learning experiences for their students, some do not. How could the best teaching processes be shared among the widest number of educators
  • In these projects, the power of the Internet is used to overcome barriers to access by serving as a medium for freely distributing content. Making existing content available in this way is based on the revolutionary idea that education and discovery are best advanced when knowledge is shared openly.
  • Because teaching and learning are so hard to see and know, they are even harder to systematically analyze and improve. One reason why policymakers have turned their attention to the clamor and cry for assessment and accountability is higher education’s “black box” of classroom excellence and student success. If the so-called “best practices” of teaching and learning could be identified and articulated beyond local environs, shared in a transparent and transferable mode with an assurance of accomplishment at the end of the day, then educators the world over might be convinced to embrace change.
  • The failure is harder to put into words. It could be described as our lack of progress on sharing “pedagogical know-how” among educators
  • but we have not captured the teaching processes that expert educators use to bring learning alive in their e-learning courses
  • We think of this genre as embracing the ideals of scholarship and the practices of our contemporary, digital-participatory culture.
  • Our knowledge and understanding of “technology-enhanced learning” will accelerate faster in a teaching community that acts like a learning system--one that makes knowledge of what it takes to learn explicit, adapts it, tests it, refines practice, reflects, rearticulates, and shares that new knowledge
Jeffrey Plaman

European Council of International Schools (ECIS): November Conference - 0 views

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    This would be a great conference for exploring tech infusion. Sugata Mitra http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html is the keynote presenter!
Jeffrey Plaman

Professional Learning Communities: A Popular Reform of Little Consequence? « ... - 0 views

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    Do PLC's matter? Not really when it comes to test scores as a measuring stick.
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