if K-12 wants discontinuous, substantive improvement in student achievement, then it needs to change its pedagogical practices to better exploit the affordances of the computer
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Free Technology for Teachers: Kids Tube - Monitored Video Sharing for Kids - 1 views
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"video sharing hosting and sharing site designed for hosting content produced by kids and content about kids. Kids Tube monitors all submissions and monitors comments left on videos. "
Why Has Technology Failed To Substantially Improve Student Achievement? -- THE Journal - 1 views
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"Business realized that simply putting an existing paper-and-pencil process on a computer would produce modest or incremental gains,"
Is the U.S. Education System Producing a Society of “Smart Fools”? - Scient... - 0 views
What Kind Of Student Should School Produce? - - 0 views
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‘What kind of adult do we hope the child becomes?’, then work backward from that.
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Let’s not ask what the child can do, but tends to do. Let’s make sure the student can read and write–and wants to. Let’s see that the student can think critically–then does.
iTeach and iLearn: It's not 1989 - 0 views
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Just as the printed page produced a shift in education in the 16th and 17th centuries, computer technology and electronic media have shifted (and are continuing to shift) education in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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I'm certainly not arguing that every lesson you teach should be computerized or technology enhanced, just as every lesson you teach doesn't need to include a textbook
Hackasaurus - 1 views
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Hackasaurus tools make it easy for kids to remix, create and share on the web. The X-Ray Goggles allow learners to see what the web is made of, remix and change their favorite web pages, and share their creations with friends.
5 Best Practices For Educators On Facebook - 0 views
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Fortunately, you don’t have to be Facebook friends to interact on Facebook. In a guide produced in partnership with Facebook, Facebook for Educators, Facebook expert Linda Fogg Phillips, educational media consultant Derek Baird and behavior psychologist BJ Fogg recommend using Groups and Pages to communicate with students:
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As a teacher & tech guy at a school, using Facebook for school feels like taking the kids to the mall for class. Too distracting. Even they think so, & readily admit it to me.
Apps in Education: My E-Textbook Manifesto: - 0 views
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As educators what do we want from e-textbooks?
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need to be visually stunning
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e-textbooks need to have an inherent interactivity that engages
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Broadband, Social Networks, and Mobility Have Spawned a New Kind of Learner -- THE Journal - 2 views
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the near ubiquity of mobile computing is producing a fundamentally new kind of learner, one that is self-directed, better equipped to capture information, more reliant on feedback from peers, more inclined to collaborate, and more oriented toward being their own "nodes of production."
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"We've all got audiences now on Twitter and Facebook," Rainie said. "Everybody can be a publisher and broadcaster; students in particular are taking advantage of tha
Computers in schools: money well-spent, Concordia University study says - 0 views
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The literature shows that more recent, sophisticated applications of the technology produce greater positive gains than older applications, he said.
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"Where technology does have a positive impact is when it actively engages students, when it's used as a communication tool, when it's used for things like simulations or games that enable students to actively manipulate the environment."
How An LMS and BYOD Changed A School - 0 views
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blended learning and is ideally managed as teacher-led and student-centred.
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During three years at The Southport School in Queensland, Australia, my colleagues and I managed to produce significant changes in classroom practice via the use of Moodle and the staged introduction of mobile devices to the classroom.
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The survey further indicated that most students had 2 or more devices with them in school.
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"blended learning and is ideally managed as teacher-led and student-centred."
SchoolCIO Blogs - DAILY INSIGHT: The past, the present, and the future, part 2 of 4 - 0 views
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The Internet is no longer just a consumer-based platform; the Internet is now a consumer/producer-based platform. Are we allowing our student to create content on the Internet? Are we allowing our students to blog, to communication, and to collaborate with other students all over the world? As educators, this is the challenge of our time; are we teaching like we taught yesterday, or are we teaching in order to prepare our students for their tomorrow?
Educators as Collaborators: 25+ Resources | Teacher Reboot Camp - 0 views
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Collaboration is the real step to education transformation. When we gather to produce, our ideas, talents, and skills embody our final outcome.
Teachers & Web 2.0 - A Beginner´s Guide to Webs 1,2,3, x - e-moderation station - 0 views
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Web 2.0 are those of user-generated content, and the Internet user as ´prosumer´ (producer and consumer).
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Wikis:
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Blogs:
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Stump The Teacher: I Resign From Teaching - 0 views
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increasingly clear to me that the less I teach, the more my students are actually learning
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I Resign From Teaching
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I have carefully constructed learning questions and activities for each student. The students are working collaboratively with each other on differentiated learning activities and producing a variety of evidence
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Ted Curran.net » Cultivate Your Personal Learning Network Part II: Showing Wh... - 0 views
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This is why many educators are recommending students compile ePortfolios, a culmination of their best work over the course of their educational careers. With an ePortfolio, people can actually look at the very best work you have produced and they can see the quality of thinking for themselves.