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dawn pendergrass

5 Essential Questions About ePortfolios - Getting Smart by Susan Lucille Davis - edchat... - 18 views

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    • smithfraney
      smithfraney on 07 Aug 12
       
      Look twitter!
  • digital portfolios could be used as a “parking lot”
    • smithfraney
      smithfraney on 07 Aug 12
       
      Interesting concept.
    • dawn pendergrass
      dawn pendergrass on 07 Aug 12
       
      for college applications or the parking lot?
    • rcusteau3
      rcusteau3 on 07 Aug 12
       
      If students have a choice they will be motivated.
    • dawn pendergrass
      dawn pendergrass on 07 Aug 12
       
      Yes, yes and yes.  I think that is why students really buy into the portfolio process.  They get to choose!!
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    • bedlingtongirl
      bedlingtongirl on 07 Aug 12
       
      wow!
    • dawn pendergrass
      dawn pendergrass on 07 Aug 12
       
      so easy to do.......www.wordle.com....if you've never seen it.  :)
    • Laurie Sevigny
      Laurie Sevigny on 07 Aug 12
       
      We hope this is the case that the portfolio is owned by the students w/sharing w/ others
    • dawn pendergrass
      dawn pendergrass on 07 Aug 12
       
      This idea -- the students need to take ownership, sift through their learning and make sense of their triumphs and challenges.  We feel that this is a VERY meaningful learning experience.
    • Mary Bellavance
      Mary Bellavance on 07 Aug 12
       
      Amen!
    • Laurie Sevigny
      Laurie Sevigny on 07 Aug 12
       
      One of the most important aspects for us about portfolios is that reflection happens - putting portfolio together is not just making a checklist - it is thinking about your learning - the metacognition.
    • Mary Bellavance
      Mary Bellavance on 07 Aug 12
       
      Great question!
    • jkelly72
      jkelly72 on 07 Aug 12
       
      Good idea!
    • hmclean
      hmclean on 07 Aug 12
       
      I agree
    • Laurie Sevigny
      Laurie Sevigny on 07 Aug 12
       
      The audience should be defined ahead of time so students can develop the portfolio w/this audience in mind
    • Martha Vignola
      Martha Vignola on 07 Aug 12
       
      authentic audience, yes
    • Laurie Sevigny
      Laurie Sevigny on 07 Aug 12
       
      Pre teach HOW TO curate and organize, maybe develop a template for this - but then it is up to the student to take this on - it is their work
    • Martha Vignola
      Martha Vignola on 07 Aug 12
       
      Display an exemplar (teacher made)
    • bedlingtongirl
      bedlingtongirl on 07 Aug 12
       
      Move student from passive learner to active learner. Making authentic meaning of their respective learning, student directed, not teacher lead...
    • Martha Vignola
      Martha Vignola on 07 Aug 12
       
      I agree.
    • dawn pendergrass
      dawn pendergrass on 07 Aug 12
       
      One of the BEST parts of my job!!!  
    • dawn pendergrass
      dawn pendergrass on 07 Aug 12
       
      Holy Cow!  Now I think that I need to create my own digital portfolio!  Yikes.  This may cause some marital strife ;)  I tend to dive into these things and then not come up for air until I am done and it is perfect.
    • bedlingtongirl
      bedlingtongirl on 07 Aug 12
       
      Yes!! Can't wait to try it so I can show my students.
  • What is the teacher’s role?
    • Nancy Grose
      Nancy Grose on 07 Aug 12
       
      Creating a personal portfolio as an exemplar to model for students would be a way to guide students' learning
    • dawn pendergrass
      dawn pendergrass on 07 Aug 12
       
      That is great!  I kept my portfolio from ETEP and have often shown them my own portfolio.  But perhaps creating my own writing portfolio would be helpful and show that this is something that writers do -- not just students.
  • in other words, a place for gathering all of one’s academic, artistic, athletic, or other achievements from kindergarten to twelfth grade.
    • smithfraney
      smithfraney on 07 Aug 12
       
      As a content area teacher, I use e-portfolios in place of lab notebooks.  All the students lab reports are housed in a digital setting.  So my goals and vision for e-portfolios are much more singular.
    • Laurie Jacques
      Laurie Jacques on 07 Aug 12
       
      Something our district is looking at doing. Spotty digital portfolios now. MYP and IB require reflection!
    • Laurie Sevigny
      Laurie Sevigny on 07 Aug 12
       
      Some students will take the bull by the horns and make the most of the features of the portfolio process and program. Of course others will just go through the motions to get it done. Either way, the process of creating is what's important - the generation of a body of work that the student will consider and the process of accomplishing the task as well.
    • Susan Dee
      Susan Dee on 07 Aug 12
       
      This is my concern with moving in the direction of an ePortfolio. I've seen this happen with "paper" portfolios time and time again. Lots of work is put into it and when it's finished parents see it as a "keepsake" and still want a "grade". How do we change this culture? How do we assist parent and administrators.
thebda

Educational Leadership:Technology-Rich Learning:Students First, Not Stuff - 2 views

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1:1 learning education pedagogy technology integration students

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  • Technological change is not additive; it is ecological, which means, it changes everything. —Neil Postman
  • If we see technology simply as additive, our questions will be about the technology
  • it's about addressing the new needs of modern learners in entirely new ways
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  • the ecological shifts we need to make: What do we mean by learning? What does it mean to be literate in a networked, connected world? What does it mean to be educated? What do students need to know and be able to do to be successful in their futures? Educators must lead inclusive conversations in their communities around such questions to better inform decisions about technology and change.
  • productive learning is the learning process which engenders and reinforces wanting to learn more
  • wanting to learn more" suggests a transfer of power over learning from teacher to student—it implies that students discover the curriculum rather than have it delivered to them. It suggests that real learning that sticks—as opposed to learning that disappears once the test is over—is about allowing students to pursue their interests in the context of the curriculum
  • with those changes comes a change in the role of the teacher. Teachers must be colearners with kids,
thebda

TOP TEN REASONS TO HAVE STUDENTS BLOG ABOUT THEIR READING EXPERIENCES by Russ Anderson ... - 2 views

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blogging literature audience TechTools

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    • thebda
      thebda on 10 Mar 13
       
      I see text blogging and video blogging as the same and both can generate the positive behaviors described in the article.
  • By having students blog, you are giving them a place to share their love of reading
  • When students write deeply, about ideas they care about (in this case, books and reading), their voices organically begin to take shape. Their words start to sound like them and represent them as readers, but more importantly, as people.
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  • Not to say that writing for a teacher contains no value, it does, but when a student writes for an audience of 100 or 1,000, neat things start to happen. The ownership they feel over their words increases.
  • Thanks to the wonderful world of social media, students have a closer connection than ever to their literary celebrities.
  • Online writing is a 21st-century skill
seth_mitchell

Common Core State Standards Initiative | Mathematics | Introduction | Standards for Mat... - 0 views

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math Standards common core Technology writing

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  • Mathematically proficient students can explain correspondences between equations, verbal descriptions, tables, and graphs or draw diagrams of important features and relationships, graph data, and search for regularity or trends
  • the ability to contextualize, to pause as needed during the manipulation process in order to probe into the referents for the symbols involved. Quantitative reasoning entails habits of creating a coherent representation of the problem at hand; considering the units involved; attending to the meaning of quantities, not just how to compute them; and knowing and flexibly using different properties of operations and objects.
  • They justify their conclusions, communicate them to others, and respond to the arguments of others.
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  • In middle grades, a student might apply proportional reasoning to plan a school event or analyze a problem in the community. By high school, a student might use geometry to solve a design problem or use a function to describe how one quantity of interest depends on another. Mathematically proficient students who can apply what they know are comfortable making assumptio
  • Mathematically proficient students at various grade levels are able to identify relevant external mathematical resources, such as digital content located on a website, and use them to pose or solve p
  • roblems. They are able to use technological tools to explore and deepen their understanding of concepts.
  • In the elementary grades, students give carefully formulated explanations to each other. By the time they reach high school they have learned to examine claims and make explicit use of definitions.
  • seth_mitchell on 27 Feb 12
     
    Plenty of opportunities in these math standards for reflection, publication, revision, and collaboration.
Kelly Brown

The Writing Revolution - Peg Tyre - The Atlantic - 1 views

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  • The school’s success suggests that perhaps certain instructional fundamentals—fundamentals that schools have devalued or forgotten—need to be rediscovered, updated, and reintroduced. And if that can be done correctly, traditional instruction delivered by the teachers already in classrooms may turn out to be the most powerful lever we have for improving school performance after all.
    • Suzanne Tighe
      Suzanne Tighe on 29 Sep 12
       
      It is all about balance.  Some students need more help with understanding how to write.  Others need less.  I would not want writing to be reduced to a formula but we need to have ways to support student in their writing journey.  It is hard to write well if you believe you cannot write because you lack success.  The focus needs to be on what students need in the format that they need.
    • jeff brookes
      jeff brookes on 29 Sep 12
       
      So now the proverbial pendulum is threatening to swing back, back to the basics of writing instruction. Is there a way we can learn from the mistakes of our past over-reactions and consider the possibility that both the technical and creative aspects of writing can (and should) be taught? And that the qualities and skills involved in both can (and should) be taught explicitly and through immersion in the best examples of each genre.
    • Kelly Brown
      Kelly Brown on 29 Sep 12
       
      One strategy to use with ELLs is to provide them with sentence starters, similar to the ones the teachers at New Dorp are now using. The SIOP Model, a way to create lesson plans that encompasses strategies that support ELLs, benefits not only them but all students as well.
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    • Kelly Brown
      Kelly Brown on 29 Sep 12
       
      One strategy to use with ELLs is to provide them with sentence starters, similar to the ones the teachers at New Dorp are now using. The SIOP Model, a way to create lesson plans that encompasses strategies that support ELLs, benefits not only them but all students as well.
seth_mitchell

How Teens Do Research in the Digital World | Pew Research Center's Internet & American ... - 2 views

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Internet Research

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  • Some 77% of advanced placement (AP) and National Writing Project (NWP) teachers surveyed say that the internet and digital search tools have had a “mostly positive” impact on their students’ research work.
    • seth_mitchell
      seth_mitchell on 26 Nov 12
       
      Something to say.
  • seth_mitchell on 26 Nov 12
     
    Interesting study about students and research.
seth_mitchell

At the Teacher's Desk: Blogging Isn't the Answer to Your Students' Writing Needs - 2 views

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blogging writing feedback technology digital writing blogs

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  • for teaching writing, blogging isn't the best choice. Your students will learn much more and be less likely personalize their mistakes if you have those conversations face to face. Where blogging shines is through the ideas shared and the conversations created by posting online. If that isn't the goal of your writing assignment, perhaps you need to rethink the medium you have chosen for your students to use.
    • seth_mitchell
      seth_mitchell on 26 Jul 12
       
      Blogging as shared thinking -- an excellent point.  Makes me rethink some things before leaping back into blogging projects next year.
Alyssa Littlefield

The Writing Revolution - Peg Tyre - The Atlantic - 3 views

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  • For the first time, elementary-­school students—­who today mostly learn writing by constructing personal narratives, memoirs, and small works of fiction—will be required to write informative and persuasive essays. By high school, students will be expected to produce mature and thoughtful essays, not just in English class but in history and science classes as well.
    • Elizabeth Tewksbury
      Elizabeth Tewksbury on 29 Sep 12
       
      I love this, because usually when a student cannot write, everyone (including fellow teachers) simply point fingers at the English teachers and blame us.  
    • Alyssa Littlefield
      Alyssa Littlefield on 29 Sep 12
       
      Where does the information for the Nation's Report Card come from? 
  • he new writing standards are meant to reverse a pedagogical pendulum that has swung too far, favoring self-­expression and emotion over lucid communication.
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  • Although New Dorp teachers had observed students failing for years, they never connected that failure to specific flaws in their own teaching.
  • “Most teachers,” said Nell Scharff, an instructional expert DeAngelis hired, “entered into the process with a strongly negative attitude.”
    • Elizabeth Tewksbury
      Elizabeth Tewksbury on 29 Sep 12
       
      Big surprise.  I KNOW this would happen at my own school as well.  :-/
    • Alyssa Littlefield
      Alyssa Littlefield on 29 Sep 12
       
      This seems like a pretty broad statement...
  • seth_mitchell on 29 Sep 12
     
    Interesting conversation starter.  
seth_mitchell

OMG! Survey, like, says digital-savvy students are good at writing! - latimes.com - 0 views

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technology texting writing collaboration digital writing twitter Social Networking

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  • more than two-thirds of their students had fair or poor abilities to digest long and complicated texts and understand plagiarism issues
  • found such advantages as greater creativity, personal expression and increased collaboration
  • promoted a deeper interest in writing because students could see their works published in such online forums as http://www.figment.com
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  • Sometimes, good old-fashioned pen and paper are the best way
  • English teachers were far more positive toward digital tools for writing — nearly two-thirds said it made teaching easier — than colleagues teaching math, science and social studies.
  • technology is not the most important element in promoting good student writing
thebda

The False Digital Imperative | Teaching Writing in a Digital Age - 7 views

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digitalliteracy writing literacy blogging digital writing

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  • Digital media supplies information, but it also shapes the process of thought. 
  • My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles.
  • Literary figures are openly admitting that they cannot engage in sustained critical reading, in a sense, they can no longer read for a purpose
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  • we should be moving towards, “a carefully employed pedagogy aimed at furthering students digital literacy, just as earlier, process-based composition emerged as a dominant pedagogical model”
  • being wary of public writing in the classroom.  He suggests that if not implemented properly, this public writing can have far reaching consequences.
  • “Before students can engage in the new participatory culture, they must be able to read and write
  • this intentional move towards brevity and away from sustained critical reading/writing is sure to negatively impact the future of our students, thereby impacting the future of our country. 
thebda

Lift Off | Harvard Graduate School of Education - 0 views

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lift harvard school education student voice

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  • thebda on 27 May 16
     
    "The remarks of Donovan Livingston, Ed.M.'16, student speaker at HGSE's 2016 Convocation exercises." The sky is not the limit, it is only the beginning.
seth_mitchell

14 Steps to Meaningful Student Blogging - 2 views

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blogging technology writing collaboration web2.0 digital writing blogs

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  • Teach them how to blog first. We did an excellent paper blogging lesson first (found on the blog of McTeach), which brought up why we were blogging and how to do it appropriately.  This got the students excited, interested as well as got them thinking about what great comments look and sound like.
    • seth_mitchell
      seth_mitchell on 25 Jul 12
       
      This is such a crucial step.  My own failed attempts at creating a classroom of bloggers can be traced back to this missing step. The paper idea is worth exploring.
  • Talk safety!
    • seth_mitchell
      seth_mitchell on 25 Jul 12
       
      It would be worth offering some of Common Sense Media's lessons here: http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/curriculum
  • They taught each other how to do anything fancy and also let each other know when font or color choices were poor.
    • seth_mitchell
      seth_mitchell on 25 Jul 12
       
      There's an untaught rhetoric here.
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  • Don't grade!
thebda

What Should Children Read? - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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non-fiction CommonCore reading nytimes

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  • careful reading can advance great writing.
  • Common Core dictates that by fourth grade, public school students devote half of their reading time in class to historical documents, scientific tracts, maps and other “informational texts” — like recipes and train schedules
  • What schools really need isn’t more nonfiction but better nonfiction,
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  • Most students could use greater familiarity with what newspaper, magazine and book editors call “narrative nonfiction”: writing that tells a factual story, sometimes even a personal one, but also makes an argument and conveys information in vivid, effective ways.
  • Web sites, which have begun providing online lesson plans using articles for younger readers, and on ProPublica.org.
Rebecca Redlon

Can Google Help Students Master the Art of Online Search? | EdTech Magazine - 2 views

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technology writing research

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  • Rebecca Redlon on 17 Jan 13
     
    I haven't checked out any of the google tools, but the description sounds interesting
thebda

Building Good Search Skills: What Students Need to Know | MindShift - 1 views

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research search engines skills information_literacy

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  • Renee Liepold on 25 Mar 12
     
    Wow, this will be SO helpful for me in my inquiry project. Thanks, Tim!
Rebecca Redlon

In the Classroom: Live Oak Elementary School Students Produce Audio Podcasts | Edspace - 1 views

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elementary 21stcenturylearning podcasting

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  • Rebecca Redlon on 20 Aug 12
     
    Another great way to use podcasts in the -- this one for 3rd grade!
seth_mitchell

Are kids really motivated by technology? | SmartBlogs SmartBlogs - 6 views

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technology engagement motivation

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  • While kids may initially love technology-inspired lessons in schools simply because they are different from the paper-driven work that tends to define traditional classrooms, the novelty of new tools wears off a lot quicker than digital cheerleaders like to admit.
  • What students are really motivated by are opportunities to be social — to interact around challenging concepts in powerful conversations with their peers.
  • Technology’s role in today’s classroom, then, isn’t to motivate. It’s to give students opportunities to efficiently and effectively participate in motivating activities built around the individuals and ideas that matter to them.
seth_mitchell

Shaping Tech for the Classroom | Edutopia - 7 views

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    • seth_mitchell
      seth_mitchell on 16 Jul 12
       
      I'm all for students having access to email.  What I hear about instant messaging in the classroom, however, makes me wonder. Some pro-tech writing teachers who have the benefit of 1:1 have talked about how challenging it can be to keep kids from being distracted by IMing.
  • The number-one technology request of today's students is to have email and instant messaging always available and part of school.
  • Many teachers, under pressure from all sides, are often so afraid to experiment and to trust their kids with technology that they demand extensive training before they will try anything new. All these factors impede even the many schools trying to change.
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    • seth_mitchell
      seth_mitchell on 16 Jul 12
       
      This is where SMWP comes in.  It seems our mission ought to be encouraging folks to do new things in new ways while helping more reluctant digital immigrants make the step toward doing old things in new ways.
  • Rebecca Redlon on 15 Jul 12
     
    Doing old things in new ways
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