SJR Teacher/Learners

research evidence that actually training students in thinking about thinking - what scientists call metacognition - actually can work.

metacognition is, really, managing your own learning to make sure you’re actually using your brain in the most effective possible way

we are learning is that students have tremendous insights into their own learning from a very early age

students are not waiting for the rest of us to “catch up to their vision for 21st-century learning,”

Middle and high school students’ smart phone access “jumped 42% from 2009 to 2010,”

parents aren’t waiting around either

The future seems both clear and imminent — a future in which students carry course texts and personal media in a "digital backpack" that is light, fun to use, enjoyable for reading, and always connected to information and friends.

suggest that educators direct students towards the Google Advanced Search Engine even before using the Google Basic Search.

Here are the kinds of things I believe need to be happening as learners come together in online communities of practice.

Top 10 list that will help teachers and students become "their" own tech

Which files you should backup.

provides teachers access to lesson plans, worksheets and other teaching resources that integrate environmental, social and economic spheres through learning that is interdisciplinary and action oriented.

Now this is buzzing! Podcasting for teaching and learning purposes is becoming increasingly easy for teachers across the world.

I asked that they support risk taking by giving their people to opportunity to fail “early and often”

On their corporate web site, Google shares the following “ten things that Google has found to be true”:

“focus on the student and all else will follow” often serves me (and the participants in my workshops) well.

You can capture task lists, notes, web pages, white boards, business cards, pictures, and even clip web pages to Evernote

We need to be the leaders on this and ask ‘How do business and politics make good use of these tools?’ It’s not just social. It really does work well for individualized learning.”

A teacher, in order to be valuable, has to help that student make meaning of the knowledge or ask them to demonstrate that they’ve made meaning.”

although schools may continue to fundamentally look and act as they have for more than one hundred years, the way individuals learn has already been forever changed. Instead of learning from others who have the credentials to ‘teach’ in this new networked world, we learn with others whom we seek (and who seek us) on our own and with whom we often share nothing more than a passion for knowing.”

Within the application, users are taken from a global view directly down to a surface view of a site

change school culture?

our school culture has been articulating our shared beliefs about learning

Perhaps one of the coolest reasons why educators need to know about gmail is the gmail+ method.