f we as teachers fear learning or integrating these new "digital literacies" into our classrooms, is it the same as being afraid of teaching the reading literacy that has taken hold largely in part due to Gutenberg? I realize that this argument is a bit of an oversimplification. However, new literacies will in fact continue to develop and have the potential for significant disruption, much like what happened 500 years ago.
Learning and Teaching with iPads: Quick guide to using iPads for learning - 3 views
New iPhone, iPad and Android Apps for April 2012 - 3 views
- True Story by Bob Sprankle - 1 views
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Which of course, begs the next question: how do we know that we are using reliable information.
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Gutenberg presses did not immediately enable people to overthrow....
Do Students Know Enough Smart Learning Strategies? | MindShift - 1 views
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Teaching students good learning strategies would ensure that they know how to acquire new knowledge
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Students who use appropriate strategies to understand and remember what they read, such as underlining important parts of the texts or discussing what they read with other people, perform at least 73 points higher in the PISA assessment—that is, one full proficiency level or nearly two full school years
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Students can assess their own awareness by asking themselves which of the following learning strategies they regularly use (the response to each item is ideally “yes”):
Literacy Journal: Only 1 iPad in the Classroom? - 3 views
Teachers Stop Teaching Facts - Business Insider - 1 views
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“What we need to equip our young people with are skills; interpersonal skills, inquiry skills, the ability to innovate. That is what universities are saying is lacking, that is what employers say is lacking; transferable skills that ultimately will make a difference in the life of a young person.”
Education Week: It's Time for a New Kind of High School - 1 views
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"Schools embody an industrial model of organization in a postindustrial world, and an authoritarian and hierarchical character in a world where networks and negotiations are increasingly prevalent."
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The time has come to stop tinkering with an antiquated model.
Education: The Single Most Important Job | Edutopia - 1 views
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What is more powerful in education than a student who is guided by an adult who truly cares -- someone who knows your name, who encourages you, and is committed to your success in life?
Bringing "Traditional" Essay Writing into the Digital World | NWP Digital Is - 1 views
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We knew that they would engage with all kinds of digital writing and composition, but we did not want to ignore more "old-fashioned" writing formats
@shareski's Right: My Students CAN Assess Themselves! - The Tempered Radical - 1 views
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"There won't be ANY grade attached to these tasks," I explained. "Instead, you are going to evaluate yourselves. Then, you will get feedback from me on the first assignment and a peer on the second assignment."
Google's 80/20 Principle Adopted at New Jersey School - 1 views
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This simple policy change enables what's been called the 80/20 principle, a theory practiced by Google that employees who spend 20 percent of their time on company-related projects that interest them will work better.
Howard Rheingold on how the five web literacies are becoming essential surviv... - 1 views
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Net Smart is a book for an era where we’ve moved past just creating online identities and communities, but still have to educate ourselves on how to operate in day-to-day life. Rheingold said he believes a better understanding and deeper use of things like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are “essential survival skills” that will last beyond today or the lifespan of those individual companies.
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Rheingold sees as important: attention, participation, collaboration, “crap detection,” and network smarts.
Dangerously Irrelevant - 1 views
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Your policies should target underlying substantive behaviors, not the mediums in which those behaviors occur.
8 Great Free Web Resources Focused on Using the iPad in Education | Emerging Education ... - 3 views
Transforming Professional Learning with Teacher-Led EdCamps - EdTech Researcher - Educa... - 1 views
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Social networking tools play a powerful role in building teacher learning networks, but educators still yearn for the chance to gather face to face to polish their craft.
teachwithyouripad - Science Apps - 3 views
5 Ways Rapid Technology Change Impacts Education | Education Technology, Apps, Product ... - 1 views
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once one can get past the spectacle of it all it encourages a re-centering of the learner–and hopefully curriculum and assessment design that support that learner.
Learning isn't linear… « What Ed Said - 1 views
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it’s not so much about flipping as about rethinking altogether. Learning isn’t linear. It’s not a step by step, one size fits all process. It doesn’t go in a sequence from remembering to understanding to analysing… and finish with creating. And it doesn’t necessarily have to go in the reverse order either. It depends on the learner and on the situation.
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Learning isn't linear. It's not a step by step, one size fits all process. It doesn't go in a sequence from remembering to understanding to analysing… and finish with creating.
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