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Bruce Gorrill

2010 October - feature: do schools need ICT? - 2 views

  • Our schools are now a desert swept with the winds of yesterday's technology; meanwhile our students can be found drinking from an oasis of smartphones, smart apps and smart interfaces. They have answers to questions we haven't even dared to ask. They outsmart us at every turn.Teenagers upgrade their mobile phone every 12 months. Even the socially disadvantaged are one step ahead of their school's ICT. That's not a problem. That's a huge opportunity schools should grasp. It's an
  • pportunity to save money and upgrade our thinking about ICT.
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    Long on the problem - short on the solutions. the Luddites need to know how these tools can be used in classrooms. good wake up call though.
Bruce Gorrill

Ewan McIntosh: Schools Are Churning Out the Unemployable - 2 views

  • What's so wrong with schooling? And what are these old structures that lead to the unemployable? I think Don Ledingham's summary of Alan McCluskey from the Swiss Agency for ICT in education sums it up: The 7 Tacit Lessons Which Schools Teach Children: Knowledge is scarce.Learning needs a specific place and specific time (lessons in classrooms).Knowledge is best learnt in disconnected little pieces (lessons).To learn you need the help of an approved expert i.e. a teacher.To learn you need to follow a path determined by a learning expert (a course of study).You need an expert to assess your progress (a teacher).You can attribute a meaningful numerical value to the value of learning (marks, grades, degrees)
Chris Hafner

smart phone - 5 views

That's actually what keep's us ahead of most of the rest. ;-) As for a forum... aren't there TED forums? I'll go look.

technology smartphone education

Bruce Gorrill

Won't the students be distracted? - 1 to 1 Schools - 1 views

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    We need to teach responsible behavior!  If you don't allow for it, they will do it anyway!  Next time you walk into a workshop with educators,  notice how many checking those networks during the presentation. One-to-one schools have a unique opportunity to keep students MORE engaged by providing multiple stimuli and differentiated tools.  Some students may love the collaborative notes, others the lecture, and others a multitude of things.  Having a conversation about what distracted and engaged looks like with your students may be a great place to start.
Bruce Gorrill

Let's Stop Making Students Power Down at School - 2 views

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    Unlike parents or teachers at their age, 21st century students are fortunate to have what Marco Torres refers to as "the global stage" which describes the worldwide publishing potential now offered by the Internet. Yet, for the most part students are performing on this stage completely devoid of teacher or adult influence. It is unfortunate that outside of school students operate in a world where they are interacting, publishing, and producing for thousands, yet as they enter the school building, they have to power down and produce work usually for an audience of one.
Bruce Gorrill

Celly For Schools - 1 views

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    Celly channels enable communication between groups, educators, students, or parents. Educators can create study groups where classmates can be connected beyond school hours to coordinate activities and collaborate on homework
Bruce Gorrill

Too cool for school: 7 reasons why tablets should NOT be used in education - 1 views

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    And so the debate rages. Sure wish we could get some objective data to help with this debate. I think that the people who contend that they are just consumption devices are not aware of all that they can do.
Bruce Gorrill

100+ iPad Apps Perfect For High School | Edudemic - 2 views

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    wow - this is a nice list for teachers to start with!
Bruce Gorrill

8 Common Misconceptions about Technology Integration in Education | Technology Bits Byt... - 1 views

  • by Michael Zimmer from the blog: The Pursuit of Technology Integration Happiness 1. Technology integration is THE ANSWER to improving test scores. 2. New teachers have a better understanding of how to integrate technology integration in schools. 3. Current teachers have no desire to learn how to integrate technology in their classrooms. 4. Integrating technology is too expensive for my school to afford. 5. I don’t have time to learn how to integrate technology in the classroom. 6. There can’t possibly be any technology to integrate in the subject matter that I teach. 7. I have to know EVERYTHING about the technology before I can integrate it. 8. My students have a better understanding of the technology, and that is embarrassing.
Bruce Gorrill

Local schools try to cope with a cell phone invasion - 0 views

  • Anderson said cell phones are getting a second look at the senior high. As the phones have become more pervasive and more powerful, teachers and administrators have begun to look at ways they can be used as tools to enhance education rather than disrupt it. Students with Internet-capable phones have access to the district's Infinite Campus student management system, to check assignments, contact teachers and manage their school life online, he said. Mobile communications are an ever-growing part of what students have to cope with and manage, he said. "It's appropriate to bring that into our curriculum." While more and more students carry more and more powerful mobile phones, those who remain unconnected have one fewer option than they did several years ago. There's no point in a student keeping a few coins in his pocket in case he needs to use a pay phone - coin-operated phones have left the buildings. "I don't think they'd know how to use one," Anderson said.
Peter Hess

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators -- High School Critical Web Page Evaluation Tool - ... - 0 views

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    This is a .pdf of a form that kids can use to evaluate a website. Be nice to make an electronic version- maybe I will work on one as a google doc?
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