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N Butler

UbD_WhitePaper0312.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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Understanding by UbD Instructional Design

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  • N Butler on 21 Oct 12
     
    Understanding by Design - A simple guide to help with understanding.
Mrs Huber

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digitalage students

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  • A term like web 2.0 begets the notion that there will imminently be a 3.0, 4.0, and beyond.  The convention serves those within a specific group much more than it does those who need to understand the concept the most.  The term serves as a layer- an immediately unnecessary layer at that.  The convention allows those inside the realm of understanding to point to those outside and express how much the outsiders need the insiders in order to understand and be enlightened.  I’d rather we just all moved forward together in a way that makes sense and promotes progress rather than bifurcates.
    • Mr. R Riter
      Mr. R Riter on 27 Jul 09
       
      We need to call it something, don't we? Web 2.0 does imply that a 2.1 or 3.0 is coming, but perhaps we need to think of it in another way. Let's say that Web 2.0 was a typo. Maybe the coiner of the term meant Web 2,0 and didn't finish the complete term. It could really be Web 2,000 for the millenium, and now we can use it for the next 1000 years(or 991). Just a thought!!
  • netbooks in hand in the next few months. There seems to be a growing commitment here to put technology in the hands of kids (instead of spending huge sums on stuff that students can’t use outside of the classroom) and to thinking about
  • The most noticeable observation I can make is the comparison of experiences from last year’s NECC to this year’s.  Last year was my first, and it was quite honestly an incredibly overwhelming experience.  I felt rather detached and fatigued as I flew out of San Antonio, and I can directly attribute that to how disconnected I was to this community.  I hadn’t yet started my blog, I was only faintly invested in Twitter, and I knew a total of about five people at the conference.  How a year can change everything.
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  • Popular crustaceans like lobster, crabs and prawns owe their success to a unique colour control system, according to a new genetic study.
  • Programming -OK, on the programming thing, here are my thoughts.In our curriculum our objective is not as much a specific LANGUAGE. One year I may use HTML with Javascript, this past year I used LSL — what I want kids to know that when they encounter programming and coding that there are certain conventions. Some are case sensitive, some are not. How do you find out how to add to what you know about programming? Do you know where to go to find prewritten code? Can you hack it to make it work to do what you want it to do?We spend about a week – two weeks but I require they know how to handcode hyperlinks and images – they are just too important.But to take 12 weeks or 6 weeks to learn a whole language – yes maybe some value – but to me the value is HOW is the language constructed or built. What are the conventions and how do I educate myself if I am interested in pursuing. What comes out of this time is kids who say either “I never want to do that” or “this is really cool, I love coding.”They are doing very simplistic work (although the LSL object languages were pretty advanced) but since we don’t have a full course nor time in our curriculum, I do see this as an essential part of what I teach.I’m not teaching it for the language sake but for the sake of understanding the whole body of how languages work – we talk about the different languages and what they are used for as part of Intro to Computer science and have an immersive experience.To me, this is somewhat a comprimise between leaving it out entirely or forcing everyone to take 12 weeks of it. I just don’t know where 12 weeks would go in the curriculum.
  • It’s a step backward. A 1:1 classroom done at least fairly well becomes a an intense learning environment. Students are engaged, empowered, active learners instead of sitting learning to be taught. It is an active process a far greater amount of the time (and this is one area I need to improve, is getting that and letting that happen more) and the feel of the classroom changes. People that visit pick up on that. It changes from a 1:1 laptop classroom into a learning environment that uses laptops and other tools to leverage learning.
  • david ellis on 27 Jul 09
     
    a tech teacher discusses the benefits of teaching a program language.
anonymous

Wikipedia:Schools - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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wikipedia

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  • anonymous on 01 Aug 09
     
    Welcome to Wikipedia! Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia which anyone can change, including you! There are Wikipedias in many languages, with lots of people working to make them better. This is the Simple English Wikipedia, where the articles are easier to understand than traditional English. Interesting, no?
  • anonymous on 01 Aug 09
     
    Welcome to Wikipedia! Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia which anyone can change, including you! There are Wikipedias in many languages, with lots of people working to make them better. This is the Simple English Wikipedia, where the articles are easier to understand than traditional English.
Michelle Krill

Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age - 4 views

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Connectivism learningtheory

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  • Over the last twenty years, technology has reorganized how we live, how we communicate, and how we learn.
    • Denise Nichols
      Denise Nichols on 02 Aug 12
       
      What are some of the new theories?  What research will they be based upon?
  • The life of knowledge was measured in decades.
    • Denise Nichols
      Denise Nichols on 02 Aug 12
       
      Our concept of knowledge had definitely changed in this digital age of Google.
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  • Many of the processes previously handled by learning theories (especially in cognitive information processing) can now be off-loaded to, or supported by, technology.
    • Denise Nichols
      Denise Nichols on 02 Aug 12
       
      Conrad Wolfram speaks to this idea in his TED talk about teaching real math with computers.  He states that students spend 80% of their time on calculating rather than applying math to real world problems to learn math concepts.
  • A central tenet of most learning theories is that learning occurs inside a person. Even social constructivist views, which hold that learning is a socially enacted process, promotes the principality of the individual (and her/his physical presence – i.e. brain-based) in learning. These theories do not address learning that occurs outside of people (i.e. learning that is stored and manipulated by technology). They also fail to describe how learning happens within organizations
  • Know-how and know-what is being supplemented with know-where (the understanding of where to find knowledge needed).
    • Denise Nichols
      Denise Nichols on 02 Aug 12
       
      This is one of the most important skills we can give our students in the digital age.  An intelligent person may not know the information but they know where to find the information.
    • Neil Groft
      Neil Groft on 02 Aug 12
       
      Crazy to think how fast the world is changing.
    • Thomas Larkin
      Thomas Larkin on 02 Aug 12
       
      This point was in the Wolfram Talk too
  • Constructivism suggests that learners create knowledge as they attempt to understand their experiences
  • Decision-making is itself a learning process.
    • Deb Sowers
      Deb Sowers on 02 Aug 12
       
      ...and do we (teachers AND parents) really teach this with our kids? ...or facilitate??
  • Learning is a continual process, lasting for a lifetime. Learning and work related activities are no longer separate. In many situations, they are the same.
    • Rich Smith
      Rich Smith on 02 Aug 12
       
      I love this point
  • Experience has long been considered the best teacher of knowledge. Since we cannot experience everything, other people’s experiences, and hence other people, become the surrogate for knowledge. ‘I store my knowledge in my friends’ is an axiom for collecting knowledge through collecting people (undated).”
    • Denise Nichols
      Denise Nichols on 02 Aug 12
       
      This is how social media expands our knowledge.  
  • Connectivism provides insight into learning skills and tasks needed for learners to flourish in a digital era.
    • Deb Sowers
      Deb Sowers on 02 Aug 12
       
      Great summary statement
  • Many learners will move into a variety of different, possibly unrelated fields over the course of their lifetime.
  • Michelle Krill on 02 Aug 12
     
    "Editor's Note: This is a milestone article that deserves careful study. Connectivism should not be con fused with constructivism. George Siemens advances a theory of learning that is consistent with the needs of the twenty first century. His theory takes into account trends in learning, the use of technology and networks, and the diminishing half-life of knowledge. It combines relevant elements of many learning theories, social structures, and technology to create a powerful theoretical construct for learning in the digital age."
Michelle Krill

Media Cloud - 0 views

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news visualization cloud web2tool media stats analyze

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  • Michelle Krill on 07 Jul 10
     
    Media Cloud is a system that lets you see the flow of the media. The Internet is fundamentally altering the way that news is produced and distributed, but there are few comprehensive approaches to understanding the nature of these changes. Media Cloud automatically builds an archive of news stories and blog posts from the web, applies language processing, and gives you ways to analyze and visualize the data.
Michelle Krill

Secure Passwords - Explained by Common Craft - Common Craft - Our Product is Explanation - 0 views

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commoncraft passwords balance

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  • Michelle Krill on 17 Jul 10
     
    "This video is about understanding the risks, creating a password that can't be guessed and protecting it from criminals and wandering eyes. "
Michelle Krill

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copyright fairuse

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  • Michelle Krill on 04 Aug 10
     
    "To become familiar with the far reaching consequences of NOT understanding copyright and fair use."
anonymous

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copyright fair use

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  • anonymous on 30 Aug 10
     
    Nice site for understanding copyright. Thanks to Kristin for sharing this on Twitter tonight
anonymous

The tools of learning have changed - Mind Dump - 1 views

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  • anonymous on 03 Oct 10
     
    "the tools of learning have changed, as have the tools of collaboration, of distribution, of creation, and if our schools do not teach these - and much more - help our students to understand how they must manipulate these tools for their purposes - and the world's - nothing else we do in school really matters, because our students will not be able to effectively work with what they know."
Beth Hartranft

9 Tips for Enriching Your Presentations With Social Media - 1 views

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socialmedia presentations backchannel twitter

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  • Beth Hartranft on 15 Dec 09
     
    "Pioneer presenters are using social media to engage their audience and extend the reach of their ideas. Twitter, Facebook, and numerous custom online tools allow presenters to create a backchannel for their audience's ideas and feedback. This two-way engagement can enrich the audience's understanding as well as the presenter's effectiveness."
Vicki Barr

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boolean searches

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  • Vicki Barr on 05 Oct 09
     
    Understanding a boolean search. How to get what you want.
Emily Reinert

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grammar k-12 language arts English k-12

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  • Emily Reinert on 31 Jul 09
     
    It offers a really interesting approach to teaching grammar. The homepage has a brief overview, but to really understand the program, download the powerpoint (there is a link on the site).
anonymous

10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports - TheApple.com - 0 views

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reading book reports

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  • anonymous on 20 Jul 09
     
    What do you think of this list? Can you discover the depth of understanding of your students with some of these suggestions?
anonymous

Global SchoolNet: Home - 0 views

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collaboration

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  • anonymous on 30 Jun 09
     
    Global SchoolNet's mission is to support 21st century learning. We engage teachers and students in meaningful project learning exchanges with people around the world to develop literacy and communication skills, foster teamwork and collaboration, encourage workforce preparedness and create multi-cultural understanding. We prepare youth for full participation as productive and effective citizens in an increasing global economy.
Scott Brewer

Ben's Guide: Grades 3-5 - 0 views

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3-5 socialstudies government

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  • Scott Brewer on 27 Jul 09
     
    This is a great site for understanding how our government works.
Melissa Wilson

Magazine - Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic - 10 views

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  • By Nicholas Carr
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 13 Jun 12
       
      Nicholas Carr also wrote The Shallows an entire book about the effect the Internet is having on our brains - I highly recommend it. http://www.theshallowsbook.com/
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 14 Jun 12
       
      I know that we used online sources mainly for my Bachelor Senior Thesis compared to going through stacks of books and papers in the library. Google has made research a lot quicker for all of us.
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 14 Jun 12
       
      I can relate. I have the Google application on my phone which I use almost daily to check something such as a bus schedule, movie time, game score, etc.
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      I am the same way on my phone. On car rides, dinner, you name it with my wife and one of us will say, "I wonder..." and the phones are out and we're finding answers.  Sometimes I want to just wonder though...
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    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 14 Jun 12
       
      I would be interested to see a study done like this in the United States. In my one undergraduate class on politics and media we talked about "info snacking" which is the idea that people look for small bits of information at a time instead of reading the entire article. This is exactly what Carr is talking about here.
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      I agree Charles. However I would suggest that I think that people will have to develop a way to info. snack and be able to do conventional reading too. It seems as though there is something lost when all you are able to do is skim and scan. 
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      The other thing that I wonder quite a bit about this entire article is does "info snacking" stem from the internet or does it stem from being a generation that was raised on frequent tv, video, video games, and the internet altogether. It would seem to me that those other factors would have to have something to do with it as well. 
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      Let's also not forget the constant stream of data to our mobile device(s) as well when thinking about that.  Should this make us better, not worse, at multi-tasking. 
  • ity,” hopping from one source to another and rarely returning to any source they’d already visited. Th
  • sortium
  • that provide access to journal articles, e-books, and other sources of written information. They found that people using the sites exhibited “a form of skimming activ
  • As part of the five-year research program, the scholars examined computer logs documenting the behavior of visitors to two popular research sites, one operated by the British Library and one by a U.K. educational co
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 14 Jun 12
       
      This is the point I read until I got distracted. The ads on the side are distracting to me, and I also needed to get going because of the time.
    • Melissa Wilson
      Melissa Wilson on 20 Jun 12
       
      I am finding the sticky notes to be distracting. I keep skipping from the article to the notes.
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 20 Jun 12
       
      That is a very good point. I personally find it easier to read articles on paper instead of the computer screen because there are less distractions.
  • My mind would
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      My mind wandered off here, because of the picture to the side. 'I was thinking I wonder if this is the author?' and then I saw the caption and thought, "I wonder what those words are?"
  • Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      A friend of mine and I are going to soon put this to the test by reading the Infinite Jest, which is a very long read if you are unfamiliar with the book. I anticipate it being a difficult task. I wonder if it would have been less difficult before the net.
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      What a good analogy. Before when you swam and simmered in the information and had to take time to digest, now we can just move from one thing to another quickly. 
    • Matthew Rogers
      Matthew Rogers on 20 Jun 12
       
      Do you feel that this style allows for anything further than "In one ear, out the other"? How do you best capture the features of the web?
  • It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of “reading” are emerging as users “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense.
  • “We are not only what we read,” says Maryanne Wolf, a developmental psychologist at Tufts University and the author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain. “We are how we read.”
  • Nietzsche’s friends, a composer
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      Wagner, I believe. 
  • Nietzsche’s prose “changed from arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style.”
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      I wonder if Nietzsche would think of the Internet as Good or Evil, or even if he would consider it being part of the Overman. 
  • The advantages of having immediate access to such an incredibly rich store of information are many, and they’ve been widely described and duly applauded. “The perfect recall of silicon memory,” Wired’s Clive Thompson has written , “can be an enormous boon to thinking.” But that boon comes at a price. As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. 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.
    • jan Minnich
      jan Minnich on 19 Jun 12
       
      This segment pretty much summarizes that Carr believes that we are losing our ability to sustain deep cognitive thought. He acknowledges the tremendous benefit of the internet, but cautions that it might be coming at a price...that we have yet to fully realize.
  • Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the Internet, not to mention the popularity of text-messaging on cell phones, we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking—perhaps even a new sense of the self.
    • jan Minnich
      jan Minnich on 19 Jun 12
       
      Carr's argument is that although we are perhaps reading more than ever...due to text messaging, social media sites, etc we are not taking the time to really delve into what we read and contemplate. Moreover, this premise seems plausible to a degree, as it seems generally that much of what is sent through social media may be trival or meaningless information.
  • 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.
    • jan Minnich
      jan Minnich on 19 Jun 12
       
      Although I didn't read it (how appropriate - LOL = ) ) Carr's book on "The Shallows" alludes to this concept...in that our brains may in fact be coming re-wired, due to the common every day distractions that cause us to lose focus on thought-provoking topics. His argument is that the collective human attention span is becoming reduced, essentially due to our environment of perpetual distraction- spawned by the internet.
  • With the approval of Midvale’s owners, he recruited a group of factory hands, set them to work on various metalworking machines, and recorded and timed their every movement as well as the operations of the machines. By breaking down every job into a sequence of small, discrete steps and then testing different ways of performing each one, Taylor created a set of precise instructions—an “algorithm,” we might say today—for how each worker should work. Midvale’s employees grumbled about the strict new regime, claiming that it turned them into little more than automatons, but the factory’s productivity soared.
    • jan Minnich
      jan Minnich on 19 Jun 12
       
      I enjoyed learning of this story. Personally, i'm always looking for ways to be more highly efficient when I observe human systems or partake in a job or task sequence. Taylor obviously laid much of the ground work for "industrial efficiency."
  • The idea that our minds should operate as high-speed data-processing machines is not only built into the workings of the Internet, it is the network’s reigning business model as well. The faster we surf across the Web—the more links we click and pages we view—the more opportunities Google and other companies gain to collect information about us and to feed us advertisements. Most of the proprietors of the commercial Internet have a financial stake in collecting the crumbs of data we leave behind as we flit from link to link—the more crumbs, the better. The last thing these companies want is to encourage leisurely reading or slow, concentrated thought. It’s in their economic interest to drive us to distraction
    • jan Minnich
      jan Minnich on 19 Jun 12
       
      I believe this segment is akin to "data mining" where companies look at human tendancies to advertise and create greater opportunities to feature their products by the locations (physically or virtually) of their prospective customers, clients or buyers. This idea (data mining) is relatively new to me, but there is no doubt that it will be a prevalent part of marketing in the future. During the reading of this article I received 5 text messages (responded to 2), but was disciplined enough not to check my email until I was finished. What portion of today's younger generation is disciplined enough to stay on task...until an assignment is completed?!?
    • Melissa Wilson
      Melissa Wilson on 20 Jun 12
       
      This paragraph lost my attention.
    • Melissa Wilson
      Melissa Wilson on 20 Jun 12
       
      If adults are noticing a change in reading attitude, what about children who have grown up with the internet?
  • We can expect as well that the circuits woven by ou
  • r use of the Net will be different from those woven by our reading of books and other printed works.
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 20 Jun 12
       
      I never really thought about this. Our brains are adapting to the net earlier than ever before now thanks to web tools that are being implemented earlier in the classroom. I do not remember using computers on an active basis to at least fourth grade, and I know they are starting much earlier with them.
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 20 Jun 12
       
      It is much easier to type things out because of time and speed. I think this could be a good and bad thing. I don't remember the last time I wrote out by hand a letter or something long.
  • tual technologies is reflected in the changing metaphors we use to explain ourselves to ourselves. When the mechanical clock arrived, people began thinking of their brains as operating “like clockwork.” Today, in the age of software, we have come to think of them as operating “like computers.
  • al of Gutenberg’s printing press, in the 15th century, set off another round of teeth gnashing. The Italian humanist Hieronimo Squarciafico worried that the easy availability of books would lead to intellectua
  • manist H
  • laziness, making men “less studious” and weakening their minds.
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 20 Jun 12
       
      The world would be so different without all of the great technology advances. I think back to when I had my first cell phone and it became easier to stay connected with my friends through phone calls, and now with smart phones we can be connected to the world at all times. Some people may fear change, but I think it is good to embrace it.
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 20 Jun 12
       
      Overall, I do not think Google is making us stupid. I think it is our society as a whole has become so fast paced, and we need information quicker so online resources are the first thing we go to. I think as long educators keep students focused on analyzing and deep thought, we won't let Google or other web tools make our society less intelligent. 
    • Jenn Wilson
      Jenn Wilson on 20 Jun 12
       
      The idea of not being able to sustain attention to a lengthy article or book makes me think about how difficult it is more and more kids to sustain attention to tasks in class. It seems to get worse as the years go by and I feel like more and more kids are being diagnosed with ADD. Perhaps that type of attending "problem" is going to be the norm.
    • Jenn Wilson
      Jenn Wilson on 20 Jun 12
       
      This is the point where I scrolled down to see how much further I have to read and thought "I don't think I can make it!"
    • Jenn Wilson
      Jenn Wilson on 20 Jun 12
       
      I find this to be very true in the computer age as well. It is so easy to type something and change it multiple times now. I wonder if we actually give as much thought to what we are typing as we once did when changing a line meant getting a new piece of paper and starting over causing minutes or hours of extra work rather than seconds.
    • Matthew Rogers
      Matthew Rogers on 20 Jun 12
       
      I would agree with this statement. I feel that as I have gone through my education, I was taught all of the skills to read and analyze appropriately. Now that I have mastered those skills, I am only expected to recall information. If I can gather the information in a quicker/more efficent way, I will use it. But am I really learning?
  • The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.
    • Matthew Rogers
      Matthew Rogers on 20 Jun 12
       
      The question is, what skill do we focus our teaching on? Locating and accessing, or not being able to cover as much information but analyzing it further?
    • Matthew Rogers
      Matthew Rogers on 20 Jun 12
       
      I find myself struggling to make it all the way through a longer blog post or video file. I need quicker gratification. Books are quickly sliding out of the picture
  • I’m just seeking convenience, but because the way I THINK has change
    • Matthew Rogers
      Matthew Rogers on 20 Jun 12
       
      The skimming strategy gives students the false sense that they are really reading. Actually, they are just finding the words that they know in a story and piece the parts they understand together.
    • Matthew Rogers
      Matthew Rogers on 20 Jun 12
       
      At this point in the reading, I have found myself loosing focus on the article
    • Matthew Rogers
      Matthew Rogers on 20 Jun 12
       
      Even when I have full intentions, I find myself bookmarking more pages and never end up actually going back and exploring them.
  • Reading, explains Wolf, is not an instinctive skill for human beings
    • Melissa Wilson
      Melissa Wilson on 20 Jun 12
       
      Interesting, I didn't realize that reading wasn't a natural skill. Does that explain why some people have so much trouble becoming good readers.
    • Melissa Wilson
      Melissa Wilson on 20 Jun 12
       
      The internet has certainly taken over my life. When the internet goes down at school I find myself thinking, "Now how am I going to teach."
    • Matthew Rogers
      Matthew Rogers on 20 Jun 12
       
      Although it is a different language, I am intrigued that the Chinese process of reading follows a different neural path than the English language
    • Melissa Wilson
      Melissa Wilson on 21 Jun 12
       
      This sounds very similar to the grumbling I hear from teachers when they complain that standardized tests are taking all of the creativity out of teaching. Interesting that the complaints started so long ago.
jan Minnich

Pixton for Schools | World's Best Comic-Making Software for Education - 0 views

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animation for learning comic generation tool

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  • jan Minnich on 19 Jun 12
     
    This is web-based comic strip generation tool, which can help students engage and express their perception of a particular unit of study. They can create their own animated characters and demonstrate how these newly created characters might interact with other characters or their environment. There are a vast array of associated tools to help make this type of activity a routinely implemented element of the instruction process, including publication capability, templates, rubrics and much more.
  • L Butler on 20 Jun 12
     
    Some of my students love Pixton, some get frustrated by the details. Its a great option to provide the students with when they need to demonstrate understanding of a concept.
agshuey

How Important Are Students' Digital Footprints? | Edutopia - 1 views

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  • In many cases, one questionable photo or post can change how the student is viewed, and then in turn, negatively affect their future.
    • Michelle Krill
      Michelle Krill on 08 Jun 15
       
      Interesting!
  • A digital footprintis any online information about a person that can be searched, shared, and seen by a large, invisible audience.
    • Michelle Krill
      Michelle Krill on 08 Jun 15
       
      So important for students to know!
  • “Managing one’s digital identity is a skill
    • peguyer
      peguyer on 08 Jun 15
       
      managing online material can be confusing and takes some knowledge to figure out how different websites work
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  • Ask students to Google themselves to see what and who comes up when they type their name into a search engine
    • Chris Helm
      Chris Helm on 08 Jun 15
       
      this is a good idea.
  • It’s imperative that students understand how an online blemish
    • agshuey
      agshuey on 08 Jun 15
       
      True
  • can make a negative impact on their education and careers, and this learning must start in the classroom.
    • agshuey
      agshuey on 08 Jun 15
       
      Still true
Michelle Krill

Born Digital - Understanding the first generation of digital natives - 0 views

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book2read books digitalnatives

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  • Michelle Krill on 07 Jul 10
     
    "The first generation of "Digital Natives" - children who were born into and raised in the digital world - are coming of age, and soon our world will be reshaped in their image. Our economy, our politics, our culture and even the shape of our family life will be forever transformed. But who are these Digital Natives?"
Lucy Chubb

We can't let educators off the hook | Dangerously Irrelevant - 2 views

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    • anonymous
      anonymous on 03 Oct 10
       
      What do you think? Is ignorance of the tools of the web excusable? Should we let them off the hook?
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 03 Oct 10
       
      Oh, and read down through the comments, as well. The discussion continues there.
    • Martin Meier
      Martin Meier on 22 Oct 10
       
      "...if you're not doing what needs to be done, then you should get out of the way to make room for someone who will." This statement assumes everyone who uses digital technology "know what needs to be done." After viewing many videos during our class I believe there is a direction we should be going in, but nobody really 'knows' what needs to be done. Just like every politician and irrate blogger seems to have the answer. The "get with us or get out of the way" statments concern me the most. If a student doesn't subscribe to what we're teaching do we then shuffle them off to alternate school? No, we try something different whether it's Web 2.0 or something else. It's what we call the 'art' of teaching. Whether we're teaching students or educators, as long as we're willing to try something new, not just jump on the bandwagon, then our students will learn to adjust and be flexible also.
    • Mary Richards
      Mary Richards on 23 Oct 10
       
      Lurkers are good - if everyone is talking than no one is listening.
    • Kati Hoover
      Kati Hoover on 23 Oct 10
       
      I don't think we can let educators off the hook. I feel like some just ignore where the world is going and feel save and comfortable in what they know. Well, who isn't. We don't become better teachers, friends, parents, or people by keeping things to same. You have to change and adapt in order to be successful. We aren't just teaching students. We are preparing the future generation. Those students will become all of things we are and we know - if we don't prepare them for what their world WILL look like, what are we doing? Are we even doing our job? We must be held accountable.
    • Sandra Benedict
      Sandra Benedict on 23 Oct 10
       
      No, we should not allow colleges who train our teachers off the hook either. We need to support and train teachers in these various tools. We also need to make sure they have the hardware was well as our kids. All too often these authors think everyone including kids have access to computers/internet 24/7. Some of our teachers do not have this access in their homes.
    • Lucy Chubb
      Lucy Chubb on 23 Oct 10
       
      information shared to the faculty helps counter the "blue pill"
    • Lucy Chubb
      Lucy Chubb on 23 Oct 10
       
      That is my favorite paragraph!
    • Lauren Hummel
      Lauren Hummel on 23 Oct 10
       
      I also like this paragraph. The idea of life-long learnining has to embrace change. I understand that adapting is difficult because it requires teachers to constantly reconstruct their teaching. However, I agree that this needs to take place in order for education to effectively meet the needs of students.
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  • If you’re a teacher / administrator / librarian / education professor that somehow ‘doesn’t even realize [yet] that there’s a decision to be made,’ should you even be working in a school or university? Don’t our children and our school systems need and deserve someone who’s in a different place than you are?
  • It’s about our students: our children and our youth who deserve at the end of their schooling experience to be prepared for the world in which they’re going to live and work and think and play and be. That’s the obligation of each and every one of us. No educator gets to disown this.
    • Lucy Chubb
      Lucy Chubb on 23 Oct 10
       
      Taking responsibility for your learning--we expect it from our students, why not our faculty?
    • Lucy Chubb
      Lucy Chubb on 23 Oct 10
       
      I'm very glad that I am able to discuss and add input to help create change.
  • anonymous on 03 Oct 10
     
    "If you're a teacher / administrator / librarian / education professor that somehow 'doesn't even realize [yet] that there's a decision to be made,' should you even be working in a school or university? Don't our children and our school systems need and deserve someone who's in a different place than you are? It's one thing to still be a learner; heck, we're all learners with this technology stuff. It's another to opt out or not even recognize the choice. If we look at what our kids need, shouldn't we replace you with someone else? "
  • anonymous on 03 Oct 10
     
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