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seth_mitchell

Shaping Tech for the Classroom | Edutopia - 7 views

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      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 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
Renee Liepold

CITE Journal - Search - 3 views

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technology research

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  • Renee Liepold on 11 Feb 12
     
    Contemporary issues in technology and teacher education journal. This looks like a great resource for our work with research.
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.
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

shared by seth_mitchell on 31 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • 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
seth_mitchell

Free Technology for Teachers: How to Add Voice Comments to Google Documents - 2 views

www.freetech4teachers.com/...-voice-comments-to-google.html

technology google_docs writing comments feedback

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  • seth_mitchell on 02 Sep 13
     
    AWESOME! This saves a ton of time playing with workarounds like screencast-o-matic. Very cool possibilities here.
seth_mitchell

Common Core State Standards Initiative | English Language Arts Standards | Anchor Stand... - 3 views

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Standards common core Technology writing

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      seth_mitchell on 27 Feb 12
       
      These three standards hit all four of our tech PD focus areas: reflection, collaboration, publication, and revision.
  • 6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.
  • 5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
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  • 10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Rebecca Redlon

Education Week Teacher: How Blogging Can Improve Student Writing - 2 views

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education blogging technology writing

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  • Rebecca Redlon on 29 Nov 12
     
    affirmation of what we already know -- good fodder
Susan Inman

Why K-12 schools are failing by not teaching SEARCH | The Thinking Stick - 3 views

www.thethinkingstick.com/failing-by-not-teaching-search

technology research digital literacy

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  • Susan Inman on 26 Nov 12
     
    Interesting article about teaching students how to search on the web...with k-12 lesson plans for teaching search techniques
Rebecca Redlon

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

www.edtechmagazine.com/...dents-master-art-online-search

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
Rebecca Redlon

New 'flipped classroom' learning model catching on in Wisconsin schools : Wsj - 0 views

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technology flipped classroom

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  • Rebecca Redlon on 04 Mar 13
     
    More evidence that "flipping" is catching on.
thebda

Subtext - 1 views

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collaboration reading education digital classroom group differentiation

shared by thebda on 27 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Subtext is a free iPad app that allows classroom groups to exchange ideas in the pages of digital texts. You can also layer in enrichment materials, assignments and quizzes—opening up almost limitless opportunities to engage students and foster analysis and writing skills
  • Teaching in a 1:1 iPad classroom allows me to use technology to redefine teaching and learning. Subtext has been a wonderful addition to the 'toolbox'
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