Members of any profession need to communicate and collaborate with colleagues to understand and improve their skills. Face-to-face collaboration is personal, but is limited by boundaries of time and space. Participants must have a common time and place for collaboration. Digital collaboration has no bounds of time or space, and collaboration can take place anytime with anyone, anywhere.
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Schools seeking best digital tools | SeacoastOnline.com - 0 views
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"There's a lot of different technology out there that suits different disciplines"
ASCD Express 8.09 - The What and Why of a Professional Learning Network - 0 views
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Technology is not a generational thing, it is a learning thing. It may be outside many educators’ comfort zones, but comfort zones are the biggest obstacles to education reform.
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The time has come for educators to accept that they no longer have a choice about technology. To maintain relevance as educators, they need to employ relevant technology learning tools for education, connect and collaborate with other professionals to improve their skills and knowledge within their profession, and use PLNs to improve their profession and hold off the barbarian politicians and business people banging down the gates of education
7 Online Creative Writing Apps to Make Writing Enjoyable for Students - 0 views
Mastering Assessment Language: Trusty Tips and Tools - 0 views
Apple's New iBooks Won't School College Bookstores Any Time Soon | Epicenter | Wired.com - 0 views
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even if Apple doesn’t end up exerting nearly as much power over this market as they have in music, the blend of digital authoring tools, learning organization applications and multimedia books will likely still shape what will happen next.
The 21st Century Teacher - 1 views
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When students were succeeding in school with no technology, we were also living in a world with little technology, and preparing students for life in a world where technology wasn't a part of their daily lives.
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Technology is no substitute for an inspiring teacher. However, on-line materials are far more available. Twenty times more.
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Because the students have access to the same tools over the web, they can reinforce the ideas by experimenting with the simulations themselves, any time, any where.
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Overcoming Technology Barriers: How to Innovate Without Extra Money or Support | Edutopia - 3 views
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Step 1: Innovate with the Tools You Already Have
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Step 2: Seek Out Free, Easy-to-Use Digital Resources
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Step 3: Overcome Your Fear of the Unknown
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The dumbest generation? No, Twitter is making kids smarter - The Globe and Mail - 1 views
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The only way to tell whether kids today are really less coherent or literate than their great-grandparents is to compare student writing across the past century
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Over the past century, the freshman composition papers had exploded in length and intellectual complexity.
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Prof. Lunsford’s research has found, 40 per cent of all writing is done outside the classroom – it’s “life writing,” stuff students do socially, or just for fun.
The Global Search for Education: Which Digital Device Is Best? | C. M. Rubin - 0 views
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However, without a shift in pedagogical practice, the device and space are rendered nothing more than substitutive tools in nature.
Why Is Project-Based Learning Important? :: TESOL/TESL/TEFL/EFL/ESOL/ESL Resources :: A... - 0 views
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Solving highly complex problems requires that students have both fundamental skills (reading, writing, and math) and Digital Age skills (teamwork, problem solving, research gathering, time management, information synthesizing, utilizing high-tech tools). With this combination of skills students become directors and managers of their learning process, guided and mentored by a skilled teacher.
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Except halfway through the piece, Randy Yerrick — an associate dean of educational tech at the University of Buffalo — makes the take-away point: The chief reason to use high-tech tools is when you want to teach in a fashion that has “no good digital equivalent”. Or to put it another way, only use computers in situations where you want to do something that can’t be done without them.
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3) Dialogue. Computers also let teachers and students have dialogues that aren’t easily possible in regular face-to-face formats.
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What can computers teach that textbooks and paper can’t?
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