NAIS AC 2011

The following are some of the key points from today’s session. You don’t need a snow day to start flipping your class Don’t wait for an unplanned day to try some of these techniques and technologies. Start now and make this a new norm in your teaching.

Try to avoid the “lecture” as a way to deliver content from a distance. Allow for experiential learning, interactions and collaboration.

Artifact of understanding. This is something that the student creates that captures the student’s level of understanding through synthesis of the material. This can be anything from a reflective blog post to videos, sound recordings, media presentations, artwork, creative writing, collection of images with reflective text etc. Match the artifact of understanding with the nature and complexity of the material being explored.

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If you want to use WiZiQ for free: Become a teacher on WiZiQ for free and use WiZiQ teaching tools to teach. Have unlimited attendees even in the free account. More can be learnt at http://www.wiziq.com/premium/ If you are a Premium member: Start your membership at $9.95/mo/teacher. Have unlimited attendees in your class. Use features to teach, connect with new students, set up, list and sell online, asynchronous or face-to-face (in-classroom) courses and classes on WiZiQ. More can be learnt at http://www.wiziq.com/premium/

The Open Science Resources (OSR) portal enables you to access the finest digital collections in European science centres and museums, to follow educational pathways connecting objects tagged with semantic metadata and to enrich the contents provided with social tags of your own choice.

John Seely Brown Lecture on Learning in the Digital Age

John Seely Brown: Tinkering as a Mode of Knowledge Production

Main MobileBeat iPhone Android smartphones iPad tablets GreenBeat electric cars Solar electric vehicles GreenBeat Smart Grid GamesBeat social games Kinect Farmville iPhone Call of Duty Black Ops DealsBeat Venture Capital cloud computing e commerce Mergers and Acquisitions Social networks DemoBeat DEMO DEMO Spring 2011 CES Card 2.0 Seattle SocialBeat iPhone social networking Social networks Social Media e commerce MediaBeat Google TV iPad iPhone Android TV  Eighth grader knocks Angry Birds out of the top free spot on the App Store January 17, 2011 | Dean Takahashi 2 Comments Angry Birds and its variants have dominated the top ranks of iPhone games for the past year. But on Thursday, a game called Bubble Ball ousted Angry Birds: Seasons from the No. 1 spot on the App Store’s top free apps list

Eighth grader knocks Angry Birds out of the top free spot on the App Store January 17, 2011 | Dean Takahashi 2 Comments Angry Birds and its variants have dominated

The framework is expressed as eight interconnected pedagogies involving narrative-driven learning, visualised learning plans, hands-on/reflective techniques, use of symbols/metaphors, land-based learning, indirect/synergistic logic, modelled/scaffolded genre mastery, and connectedness to community.

This is a pedagogy framework that allows teachers to include Aboriginal perspectives by using Aboriginal learning techniques. In this way, focus can remain on core curriculum content while embedding Aboriginal perspectives in every lesson.

Celebrating blogging and social media in education

Best elearning / Corporate Education Edublog 2010

WordNet® is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller (Emeritus). Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations. The resulting network of meaningfully related words and concepts can be navigated with the browser. WordNet is also freely and publicly available for download. WordNet's structure makes it a useful tool for computational linguistics and natural language processing.

WordNet was recognized by Speechwoman as an outstanding Speech-Language Pathology website for the month of April, 2010.

Instead of studying history for one year at the university, you can watch this video for less than five minutes.

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Online programs for recording, uploading, mixing, and interacting. Free!

Diana Laufenberg shares 3 surprising things she has learned about teaching -- including a key insight about learning from mistakes.

Diana Laufenberg teaches 11th-grade American History at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia

recent posts thanksgiving play again learning from indigenous knowledge systems exporting the DDT style of education welcome November 24th, 2010 by cblack Posted in blog One Comment » thanksgiving Share| A thought on Thanksgiving: What would North America be like today if Europeans had tried to learn from Native Americans rather than to conquer and then “teach?

If Native American wisdom about children and learning – about the ways of teaching through storytelling rather than direct instruction, through example and experience rather than lecture and text, through immersion in community and nature rather than segregation in a school building, and through personal challenge and transformation rather than confinement and obedience – existed today side by side with European-style schools and universities as options among the commonly accepted ways for young people to learn and grow to adulthood?

Twitter Rubric This rubric may be used for assessing use of Twitter for instructional assignments.