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Amy Soule

50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom - 0 views

www.techveno.com/-to-use-skype-in-the-classroom

skype web2.0

shared by Amy Soule on 03 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Amy Soule on 03 Sep 09
     
    Ideas for using skype to promote education and promote community; ideas for parents and teachers; ways to find others using skype
anonymous

Global SchoolNet: Home - 0 views

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collaboration

shared by anonymous on 30 Jun 09 - Cached
  • 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.
Emma Clouser

TeacherTube - Teach the World | Teacher Videos | Lesson Plan Videos | Student Video Les... - 0 views

www.teachertube.com

education technology web2.0 teachertube

shared by Emma Clouser on 24 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Emma Clouser on 24 Jun 09
     
    Our goal at TeacherTube.com is to provide an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos. Upload your lesson plan videos or watch student video lessons at our website.
Gail Rebuck

STEM webinar - Comm, Collaborate & Create: Dynamic Class Proj - 1 views

www.siemensstemacademy.com/index.cfm

STEM web2.0 webinar

shared by Gail Rebuck on 13 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Gail Rebuck on 13 Jul 11
     
    STEM Webinar registration for "Communicate, Collaborate & Create: Building Dynamic Class Projects" Can register or watch later
N Butler

Programs of Study >> Framework - 0 views

www.portal.state.pa.us/...679310

programs study framework

shared by N Butler on 12 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • N Butler on 12 Jul 12
     
    Pa dept of educ approved programs of study. Contains competencies/concepts. Minimum curriculum - all schools should add to what is here.
  • N Butler on 12 Jul 12
     
    Pa dept of educ approved programs of study. Contains competencies/concepts. Minimum curriculum - all schools should add to what is here.
Michelle Krill

Making education global | Skype in the classroom - 0 views

education.skype.com

skype collaboration communication

shared by Michelle Krill on 17 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Michelle Krill on 17 Jul 12
     
    "Meet new people, discover new cultures and collaborate with classes from around the world, all without leaving the classroom"
Michelle Krill

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

www.itdl.org/...article01.htm

Connectivism learningtheory

shared by Michelle Krill on 02 Aug 12 - Cached
  • 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."
jwzitko

Kids Learning Skills and Being Awesome. - DIY - 0 views

diy.org

web2.0 games sounds images creative commons video youtube blog wiki google

shared by jwzitko on 10 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • jwzitko on 10 Aug 15
     
    The most creative community for kids in the galaxy. Use DIY to learn new skills and keep a portfolio.
Michelle Krill

Chatterous - 0 views

www.chatterous.com

chat collaboration SMS communication backchannel

shared by Michelle Krill on 06 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Michelle Krill on 06 Jul 10
     
    Group chat with SMS, IM, Email and the Web.
Michelle Krill

Interface: The Journal for Education, Community, and Values - 0 views

bcis.pacificu.edu/...szymanski.php

googleearth maps geography mapping shift

shared by Michelle Krill on 17 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Michelle Krill on 17 Jul 10
     
    "A Windowless Room With a View: How Digital Mapping Tools Can Change Our Perspective on Learning"
Mary Richards

Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 - 0 views

www.educause.edu/...162420

creative commons web2.0

shared by Mary Richards on 04 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Mary Richards on 04 Aug 10
     
    This article captures significant developments in education: expansion of the world wide web making our teaching available globally, engaging learners in community inside and outside of the classroom, shifts from presentation to participation to name three.
anonymous

A Fistful of Challenges for Ed Tech -- THE Journal - 2 views

thejournal.com/...of-Challenges-for-Ed-Tech.aspx

edtech

shared by anonymous on 09 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • In the fourth slot was nothing short of the "fundamental structure of the K-12 education establishment," specifically, as the authors described it, "resistance to any profound change in practice."
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 09 Jun 11
       
      What do you think of that statement?
  • The lack of congruence between what students are learning outside of school and what they're being taught in the classroom is causing a disconnect in educational practices.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 09 Jun 11
       
      Hasn't this ALWAYS been the case? What makes it different now?
  • The existence of a wealth of online tools and communications tools is allowing teachers to "to revisit our roles as educators."
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 09 Jun 11
       
      Yes, it makes it easy to revisit their roles, but DO they?
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  • "As IT support becomes more and more decentralized, the technologies we use are increasingly based not on school servers, but in the cloud,
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 09 Jun 11
       
      But what if they can't afford or choose not to ensure adequate bandwidth?
  • "The digital divide, once seen as a factor of wealth, is now seen as a factor of education
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 09 Jun 11
       
      Powerful statement, no?
  • Digital literacy will also play an increasing role in career advancement, according to the report.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 09 Jun 11
       
      But wait - I thought the kids were supposed to be Digital Natives and come to us digitally literate. No?
  • The ways we design learning experiences must reflect the growing importance of innovation and creativity as professional skills."
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 09 Jun 11
       
      I think it's interesting that the students themselves resist this kind of learning. Care to guess why?
  • "It has become clear that one-size-fits-all teaching methods are neither effective nor acceptable for today’s diverse students," according to the report. "Technology can and should support individual choices about access to materials and expertise, amount and type of educational content, and methods of teaching."
  • anonymous on 09 Jun 11
     
    In the fourth slot was nothing short of the "fundamental structure of the K-12 education establishment," specifically, as the authors described it, "resistance to any profound change in practice."
L Butler

Digitally Speaking / Voicethread - 0 views

digitallyspeaking.pbworks.com/Voicethread

web2.0 techtips

shared by L Butler on 14 Oct 09 - Cached
  • School is one of the few times when they can get together with their friends and they use every unscheduled moment to socialize - passing time, when the teacher's back is turned, lunch, bathroom breaks, etc. They are desperately craving an opportunity to connect with their friends; not surprisingly, their use of anything that enables socialization while at school is deeply desired.
  • informal social learning
  • This drive to connect provides a unique opportunity for school teachers:  Incredibly high levels of student motivation paired with a predefined fluency with electronic communication tools.
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  • One tool that can help educators to do just that is Voicethread.
  • Known as a “group audio blog,” Voicethread allows users to record text and audio comments about uploaded images.
  • Voicethread is Asynchronous:
  • Voicethread is Engaging:
  • Begin by carefully selecting a topic that will promote conversation and debate between students—and that can be conveyed through images currently available to you.
  • don’t be afraid to disagree with something
  • Initial comments should be somewhere between 1 and 3 sentences long. 
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 14 Oct 09
       
      As a teacher, this will be a challenge. The brief intro is what makes the difference between presentation and social education dialogue.
  • The best Voicethreads are truly interactive—with users listening and responding to one another. 
  • They come to the conversation with an open mind, willing to reconsider their own positions—and willing to challenge the notions of others. 
  • To be an active Voicethreader, start by carefully working your way through a presentation.   While viewing pictures and listening to the comments that have been added by other users, you should:   Gather Facts:  Jot down things that are interesting and new to you  Make Connections:  Relate and compare things you are viewing and hearing to things that you already know.  Ask Questions:  What about the comments and presentation is confusing to you?  What don’t you understand?  How will you find the answer?  Remember that there will ALWAYS be questions in an active thinker’s mind!  Give Opinions:  Make judgments about what you are viewing and hearing.  Do you agree?  Do you disagree?  Like?  Dislike?  Do you support or oppose anything that you have heard or seen?  Why? Use the following sentence starters to shape your thoughts and comments while viewing or participating in Voicethread presentations.  Comments based on these kinds of statements make Voicethreads interactive and engaging.   This reminds me of… This is similar to… I wonder… I realized… I noticed… You can relate this to… I’d like to know… I’m surprised that… If I were ________, I would  ______________ If __________ then ___________ Although it seems… I’m not sure that…
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 14 Oct 09
       
      These student suggestions are the missing link I was looking for to successfully incorporate into my classroom.
  • help other listeners know what it is that has caught your attention.
  • finish your comment with a question that other listeners can reply to.  Questions help to keep digital conversations going!
  • carefully script out short opening comments for each image that include a question for viewers to consider. 
  • Just be sure to disagree agreeably
  • Assessing Voicethread Participation
  • Essentially mirroring the reflective aspects of Konrad Glogowski's system for pushing reflective blogging, I've decided to ask my students the following four questions while we're working with a new Voicethread:
  • To craft careful answers, they must truly consider the comments of others---an essential skill for promoting collaborative versus competitive dialogue---and compare those comments against their own beliefs and preconceived notions. 
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 14 Oct 09
       
      Competitive dialogue motivates the students, but collaborative dialogue is the life skill they need to learn.
  • Voicethread allows users to upload documents to their strands of conversation as well.  That means that users can create a "Works Cited" page in a word processing application and upload it at the end of their Voicethread presentations. 
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 14 Oct 09
       
      Very useful info - I have been individually citing each picture, and its unsightly.
  • Voicethread Do's and Don'ts
  • Citing Images
  • Voicethread Handouts  
  • This one-page handout is designed to introduce students to some general tips for participating in Voicethread conversations. 
  • L Butler on 14 Oct 09
     
    Detailed guide to creating/using/evaluating VoiceThread in the classroom. There are great examples and guides to download. The question prompts for students to consider when replying are simple, yet perfect.
anonymous

Smoking, Sexting and the Cyber General - The Institute for Responsible Online and CellP... - 1 views

www.iroc2.org/...smoking-sexting-and-the-cyber

sexting

shared by anonymous on 16 Oct 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 16 Oct 09
     
    This looks very interesting.
  • anonymous on 16 Oct 09
     
    What do you think of this?
anonymous

All Passage Middle School classes will blog this year -- dailypress.com - 0 views

www.dailypress.com/...eets_0822aug24,0,1313238.story

blogging

shared by anonymous on 24 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Passage teachers have been encouraged to create an account on Twitter, an online social networking site that limits each posting to 140 characters. Teachers will attend a morning screening of the movie "Julie & Julia" and "live blog" the experience with their Twitter accounts. Rogers chose the movie, based on the experiences of two real people, because one character uses a blog as an education and communication tool.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 24 Aug 09
       
      Is twitter blocked in your school? You have to ask WHY!
  • anonymous on 24 Aug 09
     
    Imagine! And they, too, are following the CIPA laws - the same laws that some of our schools are using as reasons to BLOCK all blogs!
anonymous

Wired Up: Tuned out | Scholastic.com - 0 views

www2.scholastic.com/...article.jsp

scholastic.com research

shared by anonymous on 24 Aug 09 - No Cached
  • Recent reports from the Pew Internet and American Life Project show that 93 percent of youth ages 12 to 17 go online. Of those kids, 55 percent use social-networking sites (like Facebook and MySpace), and 64 percent are creating their own original content (such as blogs and wikis). Unlike watching television, using the Internet allows young people to take an active role; this move from consumption to participation affects the way they construct knowledge, develop their identity, and communicate with others. "Technology, from my perspective, has created an opportunity for students to use new digital-media resources to express themselves in ways that earlier generations could never have imagined,
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 24 Aug 09
       
      How can we use this to encourage more use of the technologies in schools?
  • Students today "more quickly tune out a teacher or someone who doesn't relate," she adds.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 24 Aug 09
       
      Do you agree witih this? Are non-techie teachers becomming irrelevant to kids and how they learn?
  • This is something Jim Gates hears a lot. As a coach for Pennsylvania's Classrooms for the Future project, he works to make technology available to students and teachers. He's also got a blog of his own called TipLine. "There's a growing disconnect between how kids embrace technology and where teachers' skill levels are," he says.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 24 Aug 09
       
      I had no idea I was going to be in this article!!
  • anonymous on 24 Aug 09
     
    Interesting article.
anonymous

ASCD Positions - 0 views

www.ascd.org/...ASCD_Positions.aspx

blog ascd

shared by anonymous on 24 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Demonstrate creativity, innovation, and flexibility when partnering with business and community members to advance common goals;
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 24 Sep 09
       
      What do you think of this.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 24 Sep 09
       
      Brilliant!
  • anonymous on 24 Sep 09
     
    Acquire and apply core knowledge and critical-thinking skill sets that are essential in an information age;
anonymous

Education Week: Filtering Fixes - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...02filter_ep.h29.html

shared by anonymous on 15 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Instead of blocking the many exit ramps and side routes on the information superhighway, they have decided that educating students and teachers on how to navigate the Internet’s vast resources responsibly, safely, and productively—and setting clear rules and expectations for doing so—is the best way to head off online collisions.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 15 Sep 09
       
      This is nothing new, but it seems this is one of the VERY few districts that puts its filter where its mouth is.
  • “We are known in our district for technology, so I don’t see how you can teach kids 21st-century values if you’re not teaching them digital citizenship and appropriate ways of sharing and using everything that’s available on the Web,” said Shawn Nutting, the technology director for the Trussville district. “How can you, in 2009, not use the Internet for everything? It blows me away that all these schools block things out” that are valuable.
  • While schools are required by federal and state laws to block pornography and other content that poses a danger to minors, Internet-filtering software often prevents students from accessing information on legitimate topics that tend to get caught in the censoring process: think breast cancer, sexuality, or even innocuous keywords that sound like blocked terms. One teacher who commented on one of Mr. Fryer’s blog posts, for example, complained that a search for biographical information on a person named Thacker was caught by his school’s Internet filter because the prohibited term “hacker” is included within the spelling of the word.
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  • The K-2 school provides e-mail addresses to each of its 880 students and maintains accounts on the Facebook and Twitter networking sites. Children can also interact with peers in other schools and across the country through protected wiki spaces and blogs the school has set up.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 15 Sep 09
       
      We find it hard to even imagine this, don't we?
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 15 Sep 09
       
      the entire approach to filtering is based on this sentence, isn't it?
  • “Rather than saying this is a scary tool and something bad could happen, instead we believe it’s an incredible tool that connects you with the entire world out there. ... [L]et’s show you the best way to use it.”
  • As Trussville students move through the grades and encounter more-complex educational content and expectations, their Internet access is incrementally expanded.
  • In 2001, the Children’s Internet Protection Act instituted new requirements for schools to establish policies and safeguards for Internet use as a condition of receiving federal E-rate funding. Many districts have responded by restricting any potentially troublesome sites. But many educators and media specialists complain that the filters are set too broadly and cannot discriminate between good and bad content. Drawing the line between what material is acceptable and what’s not is a local decision that has to take into account each district’s comfort level with using Internet content
  • The American Civil Liberties Union sued Tennesee’s Knox County and Nashville school districts on behalf of several students and a school librarian for blocking Internet sites related to gay and lesbian issues. While the districts’ filtering software prohibited students from accessing sites that provided information and resources on the subject, it did not block sites run by organizations that promoted the controversial view that homosexuals can be “rehabilitated” and become heterosexuals. Last month, a federal court dismissed the lawsuit after school officials agreed to unblock the sites.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 15 Sep 09
       
      Hmmm - a lawsuit? And the Assistant Sec of Education didn't understand what I meant when I suggested that lawsuits control decisions and guide curriculum.
  • Students are using personal technology tools more readily to study subject matter, collaborate with classmates, and complete assignments than they were several years ago, but they are generally asked to “power down” at school and abandon the electronic resources they rely on for learning outside of class, the survey found. Administrators generally cite safety issues and concerns that students will misuse such tools to dawdle, cheat, or view inappropriate content in school as reasons for not offering more open online access to students. ("Students See Schools Inhibiting Their Use of New Technologies,", April 1, 2009.)
  • A report commissioned by the NSBA found that social networking can be beneficial to students, and urged school board members to “find ways to harness the educational value” of so-called Web 2.0 tools, such as setting up chat rooms or online journals that allow students to collaborate on their classwork. The 2007 report also told school boards to re-evaluate policies that ban or tightly restrict the use of the Internet or social-networking sites.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 15 Sep 09
       
      YES!! What do you think?
  • Federal Requirements for Schools on Internet Safety The Children’s Internet Protection Act, or CIPA, is a federal law intended to block access to offensive Web content on school and library computers. Under CIPA, schools and libraries that receive funding through the federal E-rate program for Internet access must: • Have an Internet-safety policy and technology-protection measures in place. The policy must include measures to block or filter Internet access to obscene photos, child pornography, and other images that can be harmful to minors; • Educate minors about appropriate and inappropriate online behavior, including activities like cyberbullying and social networking; • Adopt and enforce a policy to monitor online activities of minors; and • Adopt and implement policies related to Internet use by minors that address access to inappropriate online materials, student safety and privacy issues, and the hacking of unauthorized sites. Source: Federal Communications Commission
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 15 Sep 09
       
      This is the Act that schools cite when giving reasons for blocking what they do. Can you justify it from this? Granted, it's not the coplete law, but they sure do use this to justify everything.
  • “We believe that you can’t have goals about kids’ collaborating globally and then block their ability to do that,” said Becky Fisher, the Virginia district’s technology coordinator.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 15 Sep 09
       
      Hear! Hear!
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