Skip to main content

Home/ SLM 508 OL-2 Summer 2011/ Group items tagged countries

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Janet Swistock

{Color Around the Globe} - Sensational Color - 0 views

www.sensationalcolor.com/...color-around-the-globe.html

color world countries globe symbolism Colour design theory meaning

shared by Janet Swistock on 14 Jul 11 - No Cached
    • Janet Swistock
      Janet Swistock on 14 Jul 11
       
      Like taking a world tour based on color. Look at two countries and find out what role color plays in their land.
Karen Kohn

Miss Night's Marbles: I heard them say, love is the way - 0 views

missnightmutters.blogspot.com/...eard-them-say-love-is-way.html

Social Networking Kindergarten Education

shared by Karen Kohn on 10 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • a virtual exchange between our class, and a partner class overseas. For my 20 Canadian munchkins, we found a partner group in East Borneo, Indonesia. Both classes have created an imaginary friend, who attends our partner school. (For the curious, our imaginary friend is a little girl named Ella. She is 6 years old, she has blond hair, brown eyes, and brown skin. Her gender and name were decided by vote. Her age and appearance were drawn at random.) We use Twitter to ask research questions of our partners, and the answers allow us to write stories documenting our imaginary friend's experience in another country. Each child has a journal for the project, where they record things they have learned. It being kindergarten, the recording mostly takes the form of drawings. The children dictate text to go with their drawings, and then copy that text onto their pages. We are working on a Prezi presentation to share our learning with parents and other classes. We have made a video to teach our "Indonesia friends" about snow and how to get dressed for recess when it is very cold. When my team conceived of this project, I knew it was going to be cool. As mentioned in my previous post about Twitter in kindergarten, I love love LOVE that my students are building real connections with other children their own age. This project brought it to another level, by pushing them to imagine themselves in a completely different setting. (As we graph the often FIFTY degree difference in our daily temperatures, I often imagine MYSELF in a completely different setting, too!) I knew that this project was going to take us in unexpected directions, and there is no doubt that it has.
  • Karen Kohn on 10 Jul 11
     
    This is a great example of why Social Networking in the classroom works. Please visit this blog post. Miss Night, along with her fellow Kindergarten teachers in her school in Canada use social networking to communicate with another class in Indonesia. Night has come up with many lessons using the information the students gathered from their friends in Indonesia. Her students have learned so much from this contact and have even surprised her with some of their comments and questions. This has given me so many ideas! READ THE POST.
  • Emily Beyer on 12 Jul 11
     
    I also read this blog a few days ago. It is so inspirational! It really shows how even kindergarten students can participate in a social network with the help of their teacher.
  • Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
     
    I can't get over what a leap it is that teachers can communicate with classrooms in other countries. The possibilities are endless not just for learning but promoting intercultural understanding. Great post.
melanie gladden

Tools for Schools: What's New with Web 2.0? - Middle Ground - 0 views

www.nmsa.org/...Default.aspx

shared by melanie gladden on 12 Jul 11 - Cached
  • We need to prepare our students for the 21st century jobs that require global awareness, communication, teamwork, collaboration, critical thinking, problem solving, and data mining.
    • melanie gladden
      melanie gladden on 12 Jul 11
       
      I think that this is so important! I was never taught how to use a lot of technology in schools I had to teach myself and I think sometimes we forget how important technology is in the workplace!
  • Students are able to not only learn from their teachers, but learn from and teach their peers in their classroom, across the country, and even around the world.
    • melanie gladden
      melanie gladden on 12 Jul 11
       
      So important! Students need to learn how to collaborate and learn from each other
  • Global Connections ePals
    • melanie gladden
      melanie gladden on 12 Jul 11
       
      I think this is so awesome....students can learn and have such an appreciation when they realize how different life is around the world!
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • Wordle
Kate Castle

Adapting Social Networking to Address 21st-Century Skills - Internet@Schools Magazine - 0 views

www.mmischools.com/...21st-Century-Skills-59635.aspx

shared by Kate Castle on 12 Jul 11 - Cached
  • 70% of the new jobs recently created in the U.S. are positions that require interactions between people and involve judgment, insight, and collaboration.
    • melanie gladden
      melanie gladden on 12 Jul 11
       
      This is so interesting. I think that students need to learn technology to be sucessful in their lives because technology is only going to grow, so it would be niave to think that we don't need to teach technology in schools.
  • another aspect of a social learning network is the potential to build global awareness among students.
    • melanie gladden
      melanie gladden on 12 Jul 11
       
      Students could use skype to achieve this.
  • same ePals online email service
  • ...14 more annotations...
  • communicate with them using Web 2.0 technologies (the ePals service has a language translator, helping students to communicate regularly and across cultures)
    • melanie gladden
      melanie gladden on 12 Jul 11
       
      I had no thought about the language barrier as a complication. It would be interesting to see what other socail networking tools have the ability to translate.
  • Consider what tools, when implemented together in a holistic and thoughtful manner, can encourage collaboration, spark creativity, teach 21st-century skills, and address the needs and challenges of different socioeconomic environments.
  • Consider the following questions
    • Kate Castle
      Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
       
      These are five really crucial questions. I suspect too they are very different approaches to teaching than what has been typical in the past.
  • What should be encouraged is the next level of communication—collaboration.
  • what tools best fulfill the needs of each school and district’s environment
  • as many as 70% of the new jobs recently created in the U.S. are positions that require interactions between people and involve judgment, insight, and collaboration.
    • Kate Castle
      Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
       
      Students need to be aware in a different way than before. Learning is no longer a passive activity. This new interactive stance fosters the skills of judgement, insight, and collaboration that employers are looking for.
  • create, invent, and showcase their work
  • the framework suggests three overarching student outcomes, including life and career skills; learning and innovation skills; and information, media, and technology skills. Ultimately, the Partnership is advocating for educators and students to consider the implication of skills beyond the basic subject areas that are critical to success in the 21st century.
    • Kate Castle
      Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
       
      It makes me happy to see that it is obvious to people that producing a literate student involves more than teaching him or her the core subjects. Learning how to learn, meta-learning (has anyone coined that one yet?) is THE indispensable skill of the 21st century it seems. If I take nothing from this class, it will be that.
  • free, online email service for K–12
    • Kate Castle
      Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
       
      This is a cool site. Worth looking into. Connects educators who want to collaborate on classroom projects, great and interesting forums, and email accounts for kids to use for school.
    • Kate Castle
      Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
       
      Good to know this exists.
  • to match students with other students around the world
  • His students take part in a global newscast, featuring students from the U.S., Japan, Russia, Belize, and several other countries.
    • Kate Castle
      Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
       
      What a great idea! Very cool.
  • preparing them for working in a global marketplace
  • Educators can choose to utilize Web 2.0 tools
  • narrowing down which combination of tools would be best with the curriculum and pedagogy for the class
    • Kate Castle
      Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
       
      Each class will be unique in its abilities and needs and having knowledge of a wide varitety of tools makes teachers able to customize web tools to best serve their classrooms.
  • Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
     
    today's students need to be creators and collaborators, not just individual learners
1 - 4 of 4
Showing 20▼ items per page