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Patrick Higgins

Reading in a Whole New Way | 40th Anniversary | Smithsonian Magazine - 0 views

  • We can agree or disagree with Kevin, but the world keeps spinning. Screens are made and used in instructive and destructive ways. As an educator I need to learn to use screens as learning platforms so that I can model constructive informative behavior for the students I interact with. So here is how I came to write this post. I subscribe to Will Richardson's blog weblog-ed in my Google Reader. He shared a link to Kevin Kelly's blog Technium. As I read the blog post I used Diigo to underline and add sticky notes. I now have this annotation in my Diigo groups. I will Twitter this and add a link in the New Literacies Institute Ning at newlit.org. Kevin will sell a few more books, which I have hundreds of, and add more readers of his blog.
  • This article is very interesting because it made me think.And I thougt that I was right when I bought a computer for my 81st birthday.It has a wide screen,and I could enlarge the letters to be able to read it because my eyes are bad. I felt that I was not anymore excluded of the world.I had entered the 21st century. The last 12 or some years I spend writing a book by hand.Nobody would ever read a single word of the more than 400 pages.No editor would have accepted it.But is has been typed and now it is on the web.Everybody can read it,and sites of military history,dutch and french,published it or parts of it(I wrote it in french)because it is about the 1940-campaign. Thank you,dear author,you made me feel I was right.
  • Bring on the technology, we have plenty of idle brain space waiting to make use of it.
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    Kevin Kelly writes about how reading has changed from a silent, individual pastime to one that is collaborative, more physical pursuit.  
Patrick Higgins

Mobile - 0 views

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    This is cool
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    Using cell phones in class but some students don't have unlimited texting? No problem. Google simulator allows them to use the SMS feature to do simple queries and research.
Patrick Higgins

Answer service is new way to cheat : Lifestyle : Ventura County Star - 0 views

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    "Now that we're aware ChaCha exists, I can assure you that we will begin discussion of a formal policy to prohibit cell phone use in classes," said Gerard O'Sullivan, vice president for academic affairs at Neumann College in Delaware County, Pa. He said most professors already prohibited cell phone use in class.
Patrick Higgins

Thirty-Two Interesting Ways* to use your Pocket Video Camera in the Classroom - Google ... - 0 views

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    Use your Flips!!
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    Tom Barrett's uses of video in the classroom.
Patrick Higgins

As We May Learn: Revisiting Bush - 0 views

  • I myself learned from good lectures when I was in college. A lecture combined with other high-impact learning experiences can do quite well. But a lecture every day?
  • On the one hand, we’ve put into place many of the technologies necessary for us to change, but on the other, we’ve used those technologies mostly to reinforce what we’ve always done (except for those exciting “high-impact learning experiences”). When I think of some uses of technology, I keep getting the image of using cars, when they first were mass-produced, to pull plows.
Patrick Higgins

Audio | soundzabound - Royalty Free Music for Schools - 1 views

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    If you are doing anything that requires students to use music and they are publishing to the web, please consider having them use a site like this to obtain their music.  
Patrick Higgins

Invitations to Learn // Carol Ann Tomlinson - 0 views

  • I am accepted and acceptable here just as I am. I am safe here—physically, emotionally, and intellectually. People here care about me. People here listen to me. People know how I'm doing, and it matters to them that I do well. People acknowledge my interests and perspectives and act upon them.
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      Some great lines here regarding the needs of the learners in your classroom.
  • I understand what we do here. I see significance in what we do. What we do reflects me and my world. The work we do makes a difference in the world. The work absorbs me.
  • when students discover meaning and relevance implicit in books, ideas, and tasks. Without meaning, schoolwork is purposeless for students.
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  • What I learn here is useful to me now.
  • "Other teachers told us what to think. This one is different because she showed us how to think and that we can think."
  • Rubrics and work samples help students understand the hallmarks of quality work.
  • I accomplish things here that I didn't believe were possible.
  • the actions of those excellent teachers consistently convey invitation.
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    Tomlinson article detailing the emotional needs of learners in the classroom.
Patrick Higgins

Official Google Docs Blog: Interesting ways to use Docs in the Classroom - 0 views

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    Tom Barrett's 50 Ways to use Google Docs in the classroom
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    Barrett's Google Blog post
Patrick Higgins

Google Flu Trends - 0 views

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    Track the Flu this winter using a joint project between Google and the CDC.
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    I wondered if anyone had seen this yet. You can use it to track the flu via Google.
Patrick Higgins

Einstein's Secret to Amazing Problem Solving (and 10 Specific Ways You Can Use It) - 0 views

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    Using Einstein's idea to creatively problem solve. I like this one.
Patrick Higgins

Class Discussion Rubric - 0 views

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    Here is a rubric that can be used for students in classroom discussions
Patrick Higgins

otot » Writing Setups - 0 views

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    can you use these as writing prompts?
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    Can you use these as writing prompts?
Patrick Higgins

The Fischbowl: A Digital Footprint Growth Model - 0 views

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    K. Fisch's response to comments from a previous post about using real student names when they publish work online. Compelling argument for full transparency.
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    K. Fisch's response to comments from a previous post about using real student names when they publish work online. Compelling argument for full transparency. This is a good question to discuss at our August Meeting.
Patrick Higgins

NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how 'citizen journalists' can't handle the truth - 2 views

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    This author brings up the question that I've wrestled with before: just because we can, does it mean that we should? Or should our abilities always go to make us more human?
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    This is such a scary topic but something that needs to be thought about. This has happened in our own town, instead of helping, people are video taping someone being beat up. I wonder though how this happens? Does it happen because it can or we have the technology to allow it or has the moral compass of our nation changed so that we don't see anything wrong with it? Crazy article.
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    Did you watch the "This American Life' cartoon? That is exactly what you are describing, where even the premise of creating news shows altered how kids behaved in the face of a situation that called for social action. It raises the question for me of "should the kids know more how to operate the high tech camera, or when to step out from behind it and act?"
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    Yeah I watched the cartoon and saved it in hopes that I can show it to my students one day and have that discussion. I think they NEED to know how to step out and act - being a good person and citizen should always be number one and if they do that then they will use their technology for the best things! I love these diigo posts - thanks!
Patrick Higgins

The Lily Pad - 1 views

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    An outstanding take on Google Forms by David Wees. Great use of the format of creating multiple pages to make a choose-your-own-ending story. Will be sharing this one.
Patrick Higgins

How to Use Social Media for Social Change - ReadWriteWeb - 0 views

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    some pretty newfangled ideas about social change using technology
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    how to be a 2.0 activist.
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