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Dean Mantz

Educational Leadership:Teaching Screenagers:Teaching the iGeneration - 0 views

  • The resources included videos for those who learned by more kinesthetic and auditory modalities, written newspaper reports for those who learned best by visual modalities, and even interactive websites for those with a more tactile and kinesthetic learning style.
  • For example
  • Instead of showing the video in class, you might have them watch it on YouTube as a homework assignment.
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  • access the video 24/7
  • using technology to enhance education doesn't mean that we should move classes totally online. Students need face-to-face social interaction, especially in the primary and middle school grades.
  • The point is not to "teach with technology" but to use technology to convey content more powerfully and efficiently.
  • Baby Boomers, in general, prefer face-to-face or telephone communication
  • seem to embrace both cell phones and e-mail, with a bit of instant messaging thrown in.
  • Gen Xers
  • Net Generation
  • social networks like Facebook, instant messages, Skype, and texting.
  • iGeneration, a phone is not a phone. It is a portable computer
  • born between about 1925 and 1946 are often called the Traditional or Silent generation
  • Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War, they are characterized by a belief in common goals and respect for authority.
  • Baby Boomer generation, born between 1946 and 1964, tends to be optimistic, idealistic, and communicative and to value education and consumer goods.
  • born between 1965 and 1979, were defined by Douglas Coupland (1991) as Generation X
  • not as easily categorized.
  • 1980s and the birth of the World Wide Web
  • Generation Y, simply meaning the generation after X.
  • Don Tapscott's (1999) term—the Net Generation
Dean Mantz

Meta-Analysis: Is Blended Learning Most Effective? -- THE Journal - 0 views

  • The United States Department of Education reported recently that it's found some evidence to support the notion that blended learning is more effective than either face to face or online learning by themselves. Further, between online and face to face instruction, online is at least as good and may even have the advantage in terms of improving student achievement and potentially expanding the amount of time (and quality time) students spend learning.
Dean Mantz

Reedy Technologies "Helping Teachers Integrate Technology" - 0 views

  • Welcome to Reedy Technologies.  This site has been designed to provide technology resources to educators. Its focus is to assist teachers in the integration of technology across the curriculum.
Dean Mantz

home - 0 views

  • This site offers a growing bank of imaginative, highly visual teaching-aids developed for use with interactive whiteboards in 11-18 Schools. The resources are designed to be used as rich sources of visually stimulating material, making use of both animations and drag and drop interactivity. The appropriate Key Stage is indicated for each resource.
Dean Mantz

teachweb2 » home - 0 views

  • We are a group of curious teachers who explore and brainstorm ways to integrate Web 2.0 technologies into our teaching. Some of us meet face-to-face at an independent school in St. Petersburg, Florida. The rest of us are from all over the world.
Dean Mantz

Education Week's Digital Directions: Digital Tools Expand Options for Personalized Lear... - 0 views

  • latest technology tools
  • promise to ease the challenges
  • differentiating instruction more creatively and effectively
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  • flexible and dynamic working environment
  • computer-based and face-to-face learning options customized for each student
Dean Mantz

Interactive Whiteboard Technology Research Projects - 0 views

  • Interactive Whiteboard Technologies Reports on research projects which aimed to capture, analyze and communicate the complex interactions between students, teachers and technology that occur in the class room using interactive whiteboard technology.
Dean Mantz

Weblogg-ed » Pulling Networks Together - 0 views

  • 1. Can you identify the fifty smartest or most accomplished people who share your passions or interests, regardless of where they reside?
  • 2. How many of these people are currently in your professional / personal networks?
  • 3. How many of these people have you been able to engage actively in an initiative related to your shared passions or interests
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  • 4. To how many of these people would you feel comfortable reaching out and mobilizing in a new initiative related to your shared passions and interests
  • 5. For these fifty people, how effectively are you using social media to increase your mutual awareness of each other’s activities?
  • John Seely Brown’s (and others) new book Pull,
  • hammering home the continued importance of face to face connections and the value of serendipity in making those connections.
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    Thoughts and ideas shared on how to build and strengthen a PLN.
Clif Mims

2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning - 0 views

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    This 2020 Forecast is a tool for thinking about, preparing for, and shaping the future. It outlines key forces of change that will shape the landscape of learning over the next decade. The forecast does not predict what will happen, but rather serves as a guide to the as-yet-unwritten future. It is designed to help you see connections among things that once seemed unrelated and to help you consider the changes and challenges that you are facing today within the context of wider patterns of change. Ultimately, the 2020 Forecast aims to provoke your own thinking about what role you want to play in creating the future of learning.
Dean Mantz

Teacher Clipart - Free educational clip art and teacher resources - 0 views

  • Welcome to TeacherFiles.com - Source of free educational resources for teachers to use in their classrooms.  Our pages are full of resources, ideas, clipart, activities and lesson plans. All the resources available here are absolutely free.
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    Free educational resources for teachers including clip art, lesson ideas, resources, and links.
Ginger Lewman

Facing History and Ourselves - Frequently Asked Questions and Information - 0 views

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    Shared by Lynn Howard, TN
Dean Mantz

iPod/Cell Phone Use - 0 views

  • iPod/Cell Phone Use
Dean Mantz

Mathtrain.TV - 0 views

  • Mathtrain.TV is a free educational "kids teaching kids" project from Mr. Marcos & his students at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, CA.
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