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Tony Searl

t r u t h o u t | Lessons to Be Learned From Paulo Freire as Education Is Being Taken O... - 5 views

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shared by Tony Searl on 26 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Not only does she not have any experience in education and is totally unqualified for the job, but her background mimics the worst of elite arrogance and unaccountable power
  • For Freire, pedagogy was central to a formative culture that makes both critical consciousness and social action possible
  • pedagogy at its best is not about training in techniques and methods, nor does it involve coercion or political indoctrination. Indeed, far from a mere method or an a priori technique to be imposed on all students, education is a political and moral practice that provides the knowledge, skills and social relations that enable students to explore for themselves the possibilities of what it means to be engaged citizens, while expanding and deepening their participation in the promise of a substantive democracy
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  • ffering a way of thinking beyond the seeming naturalness or inevitability of the current state of things, challenging assumptions validated by "common sense," soaring beyond the immediate confines of one's experiences, entering into a dialogue with history and imagining a future that would not merely reproduce the present.
  • Giving students the opportunity to be problem posers and engage in a culture of questioning in the classroom foregrounds the crucial issue of who has control over the conditions of learning, and how specific modes of knowledge, identities and authority are constructed within particular sets of classroom relations.
  • Paulo strongly believed that democracy could not last without the formative culture that made it possible. Educational sites both within schools and the broader culture represented some of the most important venues through which to affirm public values, support a critical citizenry and resist those who would deny the empowering functions of teaching and learning.
  • Tony Searl on 26 Nov 10
     
    There is little interest in understanding the pedagogical foundation of higher education as a deeply civic and political project that provides the conditions for individual autonomy and takes liberation and the practice of freedom as a collective goal
Nigel Robertson

Design with Learning in Mind - 0 views

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shared by Nigel Robertson on 08 Jun 08 - Cached
  • * Short, directed learning segments-Chunk-ability * Ability to repeat and review content-Repeat-ability * Ability to stop and resume without having to start all over-Pause-ability * Clear, direct instructions-Understand-ability
  • we lead students rather than dispense knowledge to them. We become the bridge between students and content rather than the source of the content. It is a perhaps subtle change but nevertheless important because it means taking on different responsibilities.
  • Strategies that support this shift in perspective include having the students moderate discussion forums, prepare concept summaries and examples for other students, and assume greater responsibility as frontline moderators for the course (Boettcher, 2007).
Nigel Robertson

Christopher D. Sessums :: Blog :: Using Social Software to Support Teacher Professional... - 0 views

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shared by Nigel Robertson on 08 Jun 08 - Cached
  • My goal was to examine the ways in which an online learning community, as an organizational structure, facilitates participants ability to (1) deepen their understanding of the action research process; (2) deepen their understanding of coaching action research; and (3) deepen their understanding of their own evolving stance toward their professional practice.
  • Nigel Robertson on 08 Jun 08
     
    Notes for a 15 minute presentation about research in social software and teacher professional development
Nigel Robertson

Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Why Universities Shouldn't Create "Something like YouTube" (... - 0 views

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shared by Nigel Robertson on 13 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Many universities are trying to figure out how they can build "something like YouTube" to support their educational activities. Most of them end up building things that are very little like YouTube in that they tend to lock down the content and make it hard to move into other spaces and mobilize in other conversations. In a sense, these university based sites are about disciplining the flow of knowledge rather than facilitating it.
  • Nigel Robertson on 13 Oct 08
     
    Discussing how universities want to control knowledge rather than letting it flow freely.
John Pearce

ShoutEm - 0 views

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shared by John Pearce on 03 Dec 08 - Cached
  • John Pearce on 03 Dec 08
     
    Shout'Em is platform on which you can easily start co-branded microbloging social networking service. Something simple as Twitter or with more features like Pownce. It is up to you :) Networks on Shout'Em are "lightweight social networks". They have small set of features: microblogging, links and photo sharing, geo location sharing and mobile browser support.
  • John Pearce on 03 Dec 08
     
    Shout'Em is platform on which you can easily start co-branded microbloging social networking service. Something simple as Twitter or with more features like Pownce. It is up to you :)
Jess McCulloch

Education Week: Smart Thinking About Educational Technology - 0 views

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shared by Jess McCulloch on 05 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Simplistic thinking is often applied to educational technology. Either it’s the greatest approach to education ever invented or it’s a waste of money.
  • weak arguments, such as “students are digital natives, so we should use more technology,”
  • Digital technology provides a powerful toolkit, offering unique advantages (such as bridging time and distance, democratizing access to information and services, and leveraging exponential increases in computer power) that have helped transform other organizations, especially those based on information and knowledge
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  • Making schools more engaging and relevant (thereby helping reduce the disastrous high school dropout rates in many districts); • Providing high-quality schooling for all students (including English-language learners and students with disabilities); • Attracting, preparing, and retaining high-quality teachers; • Increasing support for children from parents and the community; and • Requiring accountability for results (including providing more information about schools to policymakers and the public). Educators need to consider how digital tools are used to help achieve each of these goals, because transforming schools requires attention to all six, not only one.
  • Because these changes happened so quickly, it is a challenge to think clearly about schools’ uses of digital tools.
  • By using computers, the Internet, and other digital technologies in smart ways, schools are beginning to be transformed into the more modern, effective, responsive institutions that society needs.
  • these modifications are not yet widely known or understood.
anonymous

Once Upon A School Challenging adults to support their local public schools - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 27 Nov 08 - Cached
  • anonymous on 27 Nov 08
     
    826 National, TED, and Hot Studio worked together to create Once Upon a School
Kerry J

HOW TO WRITE GOOD - 17 views

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  • Kerry J on 04 Apr 10
     
    some rules of writing...
Tony Searl

Engaging Places | A resource to support teaching and learning through buildings and places - 7 views

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shared by Tony Searl on 16 May 10 - Cached
  • Tony Searl on 16 May 10
     
    Welcome to your definitive teaching and learning guide for buildings and places. BSF, teaching activities, sustainability, visits, built environment, what's on, architecture, innovation, family learning, learning outside the classroom: it's all here on Engaging Places.
Roland Gesthuizen

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 11 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 11 Jan 11
     
    "Safety, emergency and money donation information listed by the Queensland Government for the flood disaster that occurred in Australia during 11-12 January 2011."
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 11 Jan 11
     
    The official list of advice and support needed to help cope with this emergency.
David Raymond

Support Blogging! - Educational Blogging - 0 views

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  • David Raymond on 20 Jul 09
     
    All about educational blogging - including a list of many blogs
  • David Raymond on 20 Jul 09
     
    All about educational blogging - including list of many blogs
John Pearce

Create an iTunes App Store account without a credit card - 7 views

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shared by John Pearce on 19 Nov 09 - Cached
  • John Pearce on 19 Nov 09
     
    If you are using iTouches in schools you may need to create an iTunes App Store account without the usual registration of a credit card, (note to purchase pay for apps you will need a credit card). This page from Apple shows the procedure to use.
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