Using Google Forms to Reach Out to your School Community - 0 views
10 Awesome Ways To Use Google Docs and Get More Out of It - 0 views
EdTechTeam: Why Schools Need to Teach Technology, Not Ban It! - 1 views
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We are at a crossroads in education where we need to figure out how we should be dealing with the issues that arise from this new “digital” generation of students.
The rise of Mean World Syndrome in social media - The Globe and Mail - 0 views
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consumers of mass media can come to believe that the world is more dangerous than it actually is through constant exposure to violent imagery or commentary
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That “off” switch is becoming more important in the social media age, experts say. Seeking out information to ascertain one’s personal safety is a biological imperative, but so is a tendency to overdo things. Much of the solution will depend on people becoming aware of their own satiation points, Hodson says.
'Most Likely To Succeed': Schools Should Teach Kids To Think, Not Memorize - 0 views
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Boasting a 98 percent college-matriculation rate among graduates, High Tech High warrants a closer look, and Whiteley's documentary devotes a full year to examining the project
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"The only surviving skills that will save young kids are creative and innovative. As the current school system is now, for 12 of 16 years, you're not in an environment that brings that out of them."
Educational Leadership:Technology-Rich Learning:Flip Your Students' Learning - 0 views
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Terms like flipped lessons, flipped learning, or flipped thinking more clearly convey what "flipping" actually means. A teacher must carefully consider which lessons lend themselves to time-shifting direct instruction out of class—and which do not. A selective use of video where appropriate will provide students with a better learning experience than a blanket use of video when video is not the right tool.
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March 21, 2013 at 08:19AM Educational Leadership:Technology-Rich Learning:Flip Your Students' Learning http://bit.ly/15vcDCZ
The Generation That Doesn't Remember Life Before Smartphones - 0 views
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You hear two opinions from experts on the topic of what happens when kids are perpetually exposed to technology. One: Constant multitasking makes teens work harder, reduces their focus, and screws up their sleep. Two: Using technology as a youth helps students adapt to a changing world in a way that will benefit them when they eventually have to live and work in it. Either of these might be true. More likely, they both are. But it is certainly the case that these kids are different—fundamentally and permanently different—from previous generations in ways that are sometimes surreal, as if you'd walked into a room where everyone is eating with his feet.
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It's as if Beatlemania junkies in 1966 had had the ability to demand "Rain" be given as much radio time as "Paperback Writer," and John Lennon thought to tell everyone what a good idea that was. The fan–celebrity relationship has been so radically transformed that even sending reams of obsessive fan mail seems impersonal.
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The teens' brains move just as quickly as teenage brains have always moved, constructing real human personalities, managing them, reaching out to meet others who might feel the same way or want the same things. Only, and here's the part that starts to seem very strange—they do all this virtually. Sitting next to friends, staring at screens, waiting for the return on investment. Everyone so together that they're actually all apart.
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Growth mindset guru Carol Dweck says teachers and parents often use her research incorr... - 1 views
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she advises teachers and parents to praise a child’s process and strategies, and tie those to the outcome
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“Let’s look at what you’ve done,” “Let’s look at what your understanding is,” or “Let’s look at what strategies you’ve used, and let’s figure out together what we should try next.”
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Dweck says that many teachers have to change how they teach, offering more critical feedback and giving students opportunities to revise their work
Homework vs. No Homework Is the Wrong Question | Edutopia - 1 views
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The policy should be, "No time-wasting, rote, repetitive tasks will be assigned that lack clear instructional or learning purposes."
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reflect a considered school policy and not simply be up to each individual teacher to carry out according to his or own theory of student learning
Why banning technology is not the answer - The Learner's Way - 1 views
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Connected devices should inject new opportunities, knowledge, data, influencers and thinking into our debates and add value not distraction.
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The question of student distractibility is worth further exploration.
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Technology does not need to be a part of every aspect of our lives. We need to learn when it is the best tool, when it plays a part on the sidelines and when it is best left out of the equation.
Personalized Learning: What It Really Is and Why It Really Matters - - 1 views
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Moving content broadcast out of the classroom
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urning homework time into contact time
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Providing tutoring:
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Panicked about Kids' Addiction to Tech? - NewCo Shift - 0 views
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children learn values and norms by watching their parents and other caregivers.
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Once you begin saying out loud every time you look at technology, you also realize how much you’re looking at technology. And what you’re normalizing for your kids.
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Teenagers loathe hypocrisy. It’s the biggest thing that I’ve seen to undermine trust between a parent and a child.
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