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J.Randolph Radney

Online Learning is so last year… | 21st Century Collaborative - 3 views

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  • J.Randolph Radney on 14 May 11
     
    Personal Learning Networks It is becoming ever apparent to me that those of us who are online learning prefer networks. Networks like we have on Twitter or other electronic spaces where we can share short snips of conversations and where our ideas are met with like minded support and agreement. The advantages of networking are many. And do not get me wrong- I am a huge fan. I believe Personal Learning Networks are one of the three prongs necessary to be a do it yourself learner in today's world. But for all the positive connections, laughter, links, and ideas that networks bring, they only are the tip of what is needed to produce lasting change. I do not have to commit to anything when I network. I can be witty or not and still be part of the "cool kids". Networks are very "me" centered in that I choose my mentors, feeds, resources, learning objects and those with whom I will learn. I am in control. I can
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Digital Domain - Computers at Home - Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by J.Randolph Radney on 13 Jul 10 - Cached
  • MIDDLE SCHOOL students are champion time-wasters. And the personal computer may be the ultimate time-wasting appliance. Put the two together at home, without hovering supervision, and logic suggests that you won’t witness a miraculous educational transformation.
  • Economists are trying to measure a home computer’s educational impact on schoolchildren in low-income households. Taking widely varying routes, they are arriving at similar conclusions: little or no educational benefit is found. Worse, computers seem to have further separated children in low-income households, whose test scores often decline after the machine arrives, from their more privileged counterparts.
  • At that time, most Romanian households were not yet connected to the Internet. But few children whose families obtained computers said they used the machines for homework. What they were used for — daily — was playing games.
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  • Catherine Maloney, director of the Texas center, said the schools did their best to mandate that the computers would be used strictly for educational purposes. Most schools configured the machines to block e-mail, chat, games and Web sites reached by searching on objectionable key words. The key-word blocks worked fine for English-language sites but not for Spanish ones. “Kids were adept at getting around the blocks,” she said. How disappointing to read in the Texas study that “there was no evidence linking technology immersion with student self-directed learning or their general satisfaction with schoolwork.” When devising ways to beat school policing software, students showed an exemplary capacity for self-directed learning. Too bad that capacity didn’t expand in academic directions, too.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 13 Jul 10
     
    This article was referenced in the M4T intermediate course recently.
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Quest Atlantis | Professional Development Workshops - 0 views

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shared by J.Randolph Radney on 30 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Quest Atlantis is a technologically-rich learning environment that requires certain skills and knowledge to use effectively in a classroom context. Therefore, the QA Team has developed both face-to-face and online professional development workshops. Both types of workshops are scheduled on an as-needed basis to meet the needs of incoming teachers and new Centers.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 30 Jul 10
     
    This group quest area is available for students ages 9-16.
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