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- Put the Laptops Away - 0 views

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  • This is about recognizing what types of learning you are doing in class and when technology makes it richer and when it dilutes.
  • Schools no longer have information and knowledge as their greatest asset but rather community and relationships.
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There's no app for good teaching | ideas.ted.com - 0 views

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  • Keep learning goals ahead of the technology.
  • What’s the pedagogical goal?
  • “We’re trying to help learners parse and make sense of the world.”
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  • Use technology to nudge students away from looking for confirmation for what they already know. Instead, challenge them — encourage risk and confusion that can’t be solved with a few clicks
  • Opt for the open-ended.
  • suggests using technology as a starting point, a way to introduce new experiences and modes of expressions.
  • Let kids get comfortable with the messiness of life and learning.
  • Don’t let tech make learning easy.
  • Keep learning challenging, but not impossible. Look for technology that uses questions to foster curiosity and the joy of discovery.
  • When a caring adult — a teacher, mentor, or parent — also shares that interest and is able to demonstrate that the skills they’re developing are relevant to the adult world or school, that’s a profound transformation for kids.”
  • Take feedback seriously.
  • “What’s the conceptual mistake that someone made to get that common wrong answer? The students’ next step is to write the message to kids who actually make this error going forward.
  • Brainology and Math 180
  • Stay skeptical of individualized learning — for now.
  • a culture that values failure and where confusion doesn’t mean you’re stupid.”
  • Bring in student interests, authentically.
  • look to “connect with kids’ interest-driven practices through sites and educational technology that are authentically tied to classroom learning.”
  • Pedagogy and content, Mishra says, can’t be considered independently of each other; the same goes for tech and content.
  • Start conversations.
  • Look for technology that supports social interaction
  • Make it open, make it better.
  • There’s a movement online for teachers to share content, lesson plans and professional development. Known as open educational resources (OERs), these online materials are freely and openly available.
  • We’ve found that teachers see BLOSSOMS’ lessons both as a content resource and as professional development.
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The power of "blend" in blended learning SmartBlogs - 0 views

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  • Taking the time to offer a “mini lesson” each day, alongside a flipped classroom set of videos and collaborative learning spaces, is a valuable and often overlooked component of blended learning.
  • anonymous on 21 Aug 14
     
    "Not surprisingly, I am an unreserved proponent of blended learning. Creating an environment that fosters collaboration, respect and passion - that thinks outside of the educational box - reaps so many rewards for student engagement and embraces the dynamic nature of education. "
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How to Use Basic Persuasion to Get You a Job [INFOGRAPHIC] - 1 views

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  • It’s a little known fact that persuasion can help you land the dream job – but how
    • Rebecca Singley
      Rebecca Singley on 06 Jan 14
       
      this is a logical appeal because it shows statistics to prove it's point
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What the Heck is a 'Teacherpreneur'? | MindShift - 2 views

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  • Kenneth Jones on 23 Apr 11
     
    I received this through a discussion of Teacherpreneurship in the Flat Classroom Teacher Certification course. Good food for thought!
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Chris Jordan - E Pluribus Unum - 3 views

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  • Kenneth Jones on 19 Sep 10
     
    Great way to teach perspective with a social conscience twist
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SEOmoz's Web 2.0 Awards - Just the Winners - 1 views

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  • Kenneth Jones on 17 Jul 10
     
    The Best of the Best?
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Rollyo: Roll Your Own Search Engine - 0 views

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  • Kenneth Jones on 17 Jul 10
     
    Create valuable filters for students and yourself!
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Streetfilms | Documenting Livable Streets Worldwide - 1 views

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  • Kenneth Jones on 17 Jul 10
     
    A beautiful film about what could be...
  • Kenneth Jones on 17 Jul 10
     
    This has to do with another important paradigm shift. Please give it a look!
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My start page - 0 views

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  • Kenneth Jones on 17 Jul 10
     
    DUH! It's free!
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Gallery of Writing - Teachers and Learners of 21st Century Literacy - 1 views

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    The Gallery!
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Apple Learning Interchange - iPod touch. Touching student lives in the classroom. - 1 views

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  • Kenneth Jones on 12 Jul 10
     
    Using the ipod Touch
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Common Core - News | 21st Century Skills: An Old Familiar Song - 2 views

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  • The latest fad to sweep the wonderful world of pedagogy is called 21st Century Skills
  • In the land of American pedagogy, innovation is frequently confused with progress, and whatever is thought to be new is always embraced more readily than what is known to be true.
  • old-fashioned or traditional, these terms being the worst sort of opprobrium that can be hurled at any educator.
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  • "it is no longer important what bits of information a student knows, but only that students be able to locate information" in the new 21st Century model...
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      I have never thought content knowledge was unimportant. I have just wanted it applied and therefore retained through some relevant application.
  • Unfortunately the field of pedagogy is subject to frequent bouts of infatuation with fads and of lemming-like behavior in adopting the latest fad as holy writ.
  • Jones wanted black children to "learn to do by doing," which was considered to be the modern, scientific approach to education.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      So if I want content knowledge to be relevant to students, I am racist?
  • their children couldn't read but spent an entire day baking nut bread
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      Who is advocating this?
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 21 Jun 10
       
      I have seen instances where teachers interpreted real world connections similarly. I think it requires conversation and leadership.
  • another stab at getting rid of subject matter
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      Again...Who is advocating this?
  • This deeply ingrained suspicion - hostility, even - towards subject matter is the single most significant reason for the failure of the standards movement in American education over the past generation.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      Show me an educator who wants a war against content knowledge...Please!
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 21 Jun 10
       
      Well said!
  • determine ways to light up young minds and to generate excitement about historical imagination or scientific discovery.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      WOW! All of the staff development I have taken has been for the sole purpose of disengaging the student. Excitement over learnning stuff - what a waste of time!
  • We have neglected to teach them that one cannot think critically unless one has quite a lot of knowledge to think about.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      So the critical thinking comes only after you have the content knowledge? Who decides when one has the requisite knowledge? Graduate studies advisors? Doctoral thesis committees?
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 21 Jun 10
       
      Isn't the whole consume, critique, and produce model refuting this argument?
  • Until we teach our teachers and our students to love knowledge and to love learning, we cannot expect them to use their minds well.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      I thought the goal was to teach the love of learning through interesting and relevant means ALONG with the content.
  • Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
     
    Thoughts on the fadism of the 21st Century Skills movement - Diane Ravitch
  • anonymous on 21 Jun 10
     
    Thoughts on the fadism of the 21st Century Skills movement - Diane Ravitch
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diane.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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  • Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
     
    Diane Ravitch's thoughts on the fadism of the 21st Century skills movement
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Senechal.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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  • Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
     
    This brings the other side of the argument. Is this argument necessary?
  • Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
     
    I ran across this in AFT's American Journal. It sites Dianne Ravitch's essay "A Century of Skills Movements". I'd like to take a closer look at the arguments made re skills vs. content as the focus. It this creating a straw person? I thought the goal was that student's learn modern day skills while acquiring the content.
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