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Nancy Marks

Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes | Video on TED.com - 2 views

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    "Diana Laufenberg shares 3 surprising things she has learned about teaching -- including a key insight about learning from mistakes."
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    TED talk about what can happen with learning... and failure in learning
Tammy Elser

Literacy, families and learning: Rethinking Language and Learning - 0 views

  • The above report should offer a warning of the need to avoid the 'tool' becoming the end or focus of learning. Instead, we need to keep in mind that keyboards and the Internet are simply the means for wider learning and the acquisition of, or construction of knowledge.
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    This is part of an on-going list that I participate in. It is a really interesting perspective in relation to my findings and as a result, I am sharing it here. More later.
Rob Reynolds

You mean the teacher still matters? | The Thinking Stick - 2 views

  • No longer is online learning just reading a module and answering questions — it can now include synchronous or asynchronous discussions and peer-to-peer learning exercises.
  • you can’t take the old model and apply it to a new medium….you need a whole new model of learning
  • “On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.”
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  • Maybe it’s the best teachers taking the best approach, which incorporates the use of online tools to enhance the learning. In the end a good teacher is still needed.
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    Four great articles have come to light lately that point to research being done and what many of us in the Ed Tech community have been saying for a long time might just be on the horizon. That is that this technology stuff can improve education.
Jennifer Arns

Expedition Learning - 1 views

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    Project Learning: Expeditions in Portland, Maine | Edutopia
Nancy Marks

Google Apps Education Training Center - 7 views

  • Welcome to the Google Apps Education Training Center. This is an online learning environment dedicated for educators and students to learn how to effectively use Google Apps in an educational context.
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    Hmmm. Could this be the training "modules" for NEWSLATE schools using Google Apps instead of MS-Office, perhaps?
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    Training modules for google apps EDU.
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    Online training for those who want to learn more about using google apps
Diane Woodard

iPods are Learning Tools Not Just Entertainment Devices | Mr. Keenan - 4 views

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    Great Article for tech educators and admin!
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    I've highlighed some key points and shared with my Adminers
Matt Clausen

SOLO Taxonomy| The Committed Sardine - 1 views

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    SOLO = Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes Interesting take on assessing student learning
Rob Reynolds

NASA - Digital Learning Network : Home - 0 views

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    NASA Distance Learning Network.
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    Incredible resource for distance learning
Rob Reynolds

100 Awesome Classroom Videos to Learn New Teaching Techniques | Smart Teaching - 1 views

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    videos of Great Teachers in action. glimpses into the lives of teachers and their students will keep you entertained while learning a little something as well.
Matt Clausen

Learning Through Digital Media - 2 views

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    This looks impressive and much deeper than a few how-to or gee-whiz pieces. How do we shape effective learning environments to best support learning?
sindie

Hall Passages: Lowell students learn by iPod - 4 views

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    Missoula County Public Schools Lowell Elementary is seeing exciting results as a result of iPods in the classrooms.
Matt Clausen

Social Steganography: Learning to Hide in Plain Sight | DMLcentral - 1 views

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    text, subtext, context -- how the open nature of social networking leads to messages that rely upon key cultural/contextual understandings to arrive at the "correct" meaning.
Rob Reynolds

High Tech High -- Professional Development - 1 views

  • Learn about HTH's innovative approach through a variety of professional development offerings including HTH Collegial Conversations, Collegial Conversations Online, Residencies and Institutes through the HTH GSE, and presentations of learning at our schools.
Nancy Marks

Collaboration Projects - 0 views

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    "The Online Collaboration Projects offered by The Teacher's Corner are learning activities that provide collaboration between two or more classrooms. The participating classrooms are in various locations around the world and use the Internet to interact with one another. "
Rob Reynolds

Powerful Learning Practice, LLC - 2 views

  • Powerful Learning Practice offers a unique opportunity for educators to participate in a long-term, job-embedded professional development program that immerses them in 21st Century learning environments.
  • the cohort model uses a blend of face to face and online curriculum to connect small teams of educators from forward thinking schools and grows those connections over the course of a school year.
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    Potential resource or model for cohort model of PD.
Diane Woodard

OETManhattan - space.template.School Learning Walk Page - 0 views

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    Wiki template for developing Learning walks, Some great ideas here
Rob Reynolds

: In Praise of Risk-Taking - 0 views

shared by Rob Reynolds on 02 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Somehow we keep confusing technology use in the classroom with negative outcomes rather than seeing and understanding the exponential expansion of learning possibilities and the positive advantages our student will have in navigating the world of new jobs still unknown to us because of their familiarity with technology.
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      This fear factor reasoning not only denies students access to the tools that will aid their learning, but it it also sets them up for troubles and potential failure in that they don't learn cyber responsibility in a guided way, but are left to the very "wolves" we think we are protecting them from.  "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil"  that's our current motto in education.
  • Errors of omission consist of not doing something that should have been done.
  • Of these, errors of omission are usually the most costly because it is harder to correct a missed opportunity than to correct something that has been done.
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  • Thus, those who want to avoid errors in an organization that define mistakes as a bad – if not punishable – thing find that to maximize their job security they should do as little as possible.” (Ackoff & Greenberg, p.7575)
  • There are and should be no more excuses, just swiftly planned action to put technology in the hands of every student for use whenever there is a need.
Matt Clausen

iPad for Learning for All the Wrong Reasons - Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Learning - 5 views

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    response to the NY Times article.
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