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Sarah Hanawald

Halve your attention - 0 views

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21stcentury education web2.0

shared by Sarah Hanawald on 17 Apr 08 - No Cached
  • See, when you're at the front of a wired classroom, you get to watch students peck at laptops, skitter their eyes over screens and, every now and then, toss a glance in your direction. Some of them are taking notes, some are chatting with friends or cruising sports sites. Few are giving their instructor undivided attention. It's crazy making.
  • one of the things we ported over to new media from traditional media was the notion of the passive audience.
  • that chittering back channel itself isn't the problem. The problem is, as instructors, we haven't given it anything useful to do. "Students are telling us they want to be engaged. So, we need to find a way to give them specific focus for that back channel. If they're doing stuff that's on-task we're going to get engaged learning and ownership," she says.
  • Sarah Hanawald on 17 Apr 08
     
    Good article about kids attention in a wired classroom. Instead of saying it's awful, says it is true, now figure out how to deal with it.
anonymous

How To: Get Students to Use New Skills | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 18 Jun 08 - Cached
  • let students create their own labs to test hypotheses
  • Integrate lots of interviewing into a history curriculum and have students compare stories they hear. Add a five-minute reading component to journal-writing time, emphasizing to students that real authors share their writing and need to have a sense of their audience.
  • Performances, presentations, displays, publications, and entries into contests are essential for student buy-in. ULS's hula class spends the semester gearing up for a final performance, and Hamilton's seventh graders forget how hard they're working on their writing when they focus on creating podcasts. "When I tell students they are going to create a podcast of their own stories, they get excited," she says. "This buy-in from the students gives them a purpose to learn new skills and a reason to come to school."
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 18 Jun 08
       
      podcasting helps generate student buy-in...if it is their own stories- that could be interesting: if their stories are not off topic. ;-)
  • anonymous on 18 Jun 08
     
    Core Questions are these what we call essential questions?
anonymous

staysafe.org Toolbox In the News Week of June 8, 2008 - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 14 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Mimi Ito, one of the principal investigators of the Digital Youth project. Of particular interest to parents concerned about teen social networkers' safety are findings by C.J. Pascoe mentioned by Dr. Ito, for example that: "Contrary to common fears, flirting and dating are almost always initiated offline in the traditional settings where teens get together and extended online. Her work clearly shows there's a strong social norm among teens that the online space isn't a place to find new romantic partners, but a place to deepen and explore existing offline relationships." Exceptions: marginalized teens "whose romantic partners are restricted for cultural or religious reasons" and gay and lesbian teens (the latter are "not reaching out online for random social encounters but using the expanded possibilities online selectively to overcome limitations they're facing" in their offline social networks); and the very small percentage of teens most at risk of sexual exploitation
  • anonymous on 14 Jun 08
     
    Good questions/topics for PD on Internet Safety?
Sarah Hanawald

Will social networking stop greenwashers? | Green Tech blog - CNET News.com - 0 views

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socialnetworking sustainable

shared by Sarah Hanawald on 15 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Most notably, perhaps, is the emergence of dozens of "green" Web sites, many from tech industry veterans, that aim to put like-minded people on the same page. These social-networking efforts enable users to assess products personally, offering a balance to green labels and ad campaigns.
  • Sarah Hanawald on 15 Apr 08
     
    Interesting--technology can help us figure out who the bad guys are! The power of social networking.
  • Sarah Hanawald on 15 Apr 08
     
    An interesting article that points out the power of social networking in a way I hadn't thought about before.
anonymous

Singing Science Records - 2 views

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Science music fun activity retro

shared by anonymous on 08 Nov 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 08 Nov 09
     
    When I was a kid my parents got this six-LP set of science-themed folk songs for my sister and me. They were produced in the late 1950s / early 1960s by Hy Zaret and Lou Singer. Zaret's main claim to fame is writing the lyrics to the classic "Unchained >Melody" for the 1955 movie "Unchained", later recorded by the Righteous Brothers and more recently used in "Ghost". Three of the albums (the best three in my opinion) were performed by Tom Glazer, semi-famous 1940s folk musician and somewhat of a lyricist himself (he wrote "On Top of Spaghetti"). The Singing Science lyrics were very Atomic Age, while the tunes were generally riffs on popular or genre music of the time. We played them incessantly. In February 1998 I found the LPs in my parents' basement. I cleaned them up, played them one last time on an old turntable, and burned them onto a set of three CD-R discs. In December 1999 I read the songs back off the CDs and encoded them into MP3, so now you can hear them on the web. They are available at either 32 Kbps (about half a megabyte each) or 160 Kbps (about two megabytes each). The higher-quality MP3 versions were encoded by Ron Hipschman.
Sarah Hanawald

TeacherTube - Pay Attention - 0 views

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education flatworld teaching technology web2.0

shared by Sarah Hanawald on 17 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Sarah Hanawald on 17 Apr 08
     
    Teacher tube version--not blocked in as many schools as the YouTube. Same video.
  • Sarah Hanawald on 17 Apr 08
     
    This got me thinking about whether or not there are TeacherTube uploads of most of the videos I like to share with faculty. Time for a scavenger hunt!
Sarah Hanawald

Why Good Teachers Aren't Thinking About the Global Economy - 0 views

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shared by Sarah Hanawald on 26 Apr 08 - Cached
  • “…good teachers “refuse to see their pupils as . . . pint-sized deficits or assets for America’s economy into whom they are expected to pump ‘added value.’” Jonathan Kozol, as quoted by Kohn
  • Sarah Hanawald on 26 Apr 08
     
    I'd like to put this quote at the front of every powerpoint I give on 21st century learning.
Sarah Hanawald

Be The Change Project » home - 0 views

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project web2.0

shared by Sarah Hanawald on 26 Apr 08 - No Cached
  • These 9-12th grade students have just begun their major blogs on topics they are passionate about. All students have selected a topic/cause which has a message that needs to be better heard --
  • Sarah Hanawald on 26 Apr 08
     
    Wow--kids blogging about what they feel passionately must change.
Sarah Hanawald

Computerworld - Wikipedia breeds 'unwitting trust' says IT professor - 0 views

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wikipedia

shared by Sarah Hanawald on 16 Apr 08 - Cached
  • "If someone asked me if I would dedicate a day a week to Wikipedia I would expect to be paid," she said. "People have invested a lot in becoming an expert and they are trying to earn a living and you can't expect experts to contribute without pay.
  • Sarah Hanawald on 16 Apr 08
     
    I totally disagree with the highlighted quote. I think this is old school thinking--that knowledge should be "purchased" Sometimes it is true, but more and more often, it isn't.
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