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Cathy Knight

8 Things to Keep in Mind When Executing a Digital Transformation | EdTech Magazine - 0 views

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  • Cathy Knight on 14 Feb 17
     
    Eric has some good tips here to help us with our technology goals.  
Cathy Knight

Diigo - Educational Leadership:How to Be a Change Agent:The Tug of War Between Change a... - 0 views

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  • Cathy Knight on 14 Feb 17
     
    This was an amazing article that tied in perfectly with our other readings.
Cathy Knight

Cool Coding Apps and Websites for Kids - 0 views

www.commonsensemedia.org/...coding-apps-and-websites

coding education

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  • Cathy Knight on 14 Feb 17
     
    Just thought I'd share this in case you hadn't seen it.
Cathy Knight

Add Coding to Your Elementary Curriculum. . . Right Now | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/...ry-curriculum-now-matt-harrell

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  • Cathy Knight on 14 Feb 17
     
    This was a positive article for coding in elementary school. There seems to be strong feelings on both sides.
Cathy Knight

Is Teaching All Kids to Code a Good Thing or a Waste? - 0 views

www.goodcall.com/...teach-kids-to-code-09226

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  • Cathy Knight on 14 Feb 17
     
    As I look at enhancing my use of technology at school, and particularly at coding I looked at this article to look at both sides of the issue.
Cathy Knight

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0143034316686399 - 1 views

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journals motivation EDCI325 change-project

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  • Cathy Knight on 14 Feb 17
     
    This article links to motivation and student engagement, which we read in Fullen's article is key for real change.
llisai

Online Collaboration-How to Start - 1 views

www.ascd.org/...ollaboration-How-to-Start.aspx

technology change-project education empathy global-collaboration

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  • llisai on 13 Feb 17
     
    Explores the why of global collaboration as well as the how--including links to a number of different global projects and links to tools to make it happen, like Pen Pal Schools. Retrying link: http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/dec16/vol74/num04/Online-Collaboration-How-to-Start.aspx
llisai

Welcome to Classroom Bridges - 0 views

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technology change-project education empathy global-collaboration

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  • llisai on 13 Feb 17
     
    Created by Katie Ritter as part of her Google Innovator application, this website invites educators to connect through curriculum projects. All the nitty gritty details are listed for reference and easy connections.
llisai

Apps for Global Collaboration: Questions and Tools to Inspire a Worldview - 1 views

blogs.edweek.org/...ls_to_inspire_a_worldview.html

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  • llisai on 13 Feb 17
     
    Today, Jennifer Williams, co-founder of Calliope Global and adjunct professor for Saint Leo University, introduces apps for global collaboration and purposeful connection.
  • llisai on 13 Feb 17
     
    Organized by Essential Questions and then a pedagogical basis, Williams outlines eight apps with the potential for global collaboration. She outlines the tool and then offers suggestions for how it can be used to reach out to other classrooms around the world.
kaliasnow

Using a classroom webpage to communicate with parents - 0 views

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  • Students use the class webpage to connect to the classroom from home.
  • Maintaining contact between classrooms and homes is an important goal but can be difficult to achieve.
kaliasnow

Student Experts Make a Classroom more Efficient | Rethinking Learning - Barbara Bray - 1 views

barbarabray.net/...who-are-the-experts-now

change-project student-experts technology

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  • When your students teach each other, they learn more.
  • Teachers then don’t need to know everything and how to do everything anymore.
  • Have students identify their strengths, their passions, and their interests.
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  • skills or knowledge they have where they can help others.
kaliasnow

Students as Experts - SoundOut - 0 views

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  • Engaging students as experts can bring specialized knowledge about particular subjects to classrooms and education agencies, enriching everyone’s ability to be more effective throughout schools
  • ideas and passion drive the future of technology
  • Without substantial opportunities to be experts, students are inadvertently taught that their opinions are insignificant or not worthy of educators’ attention
lstormvt

Education World: Keyboarding Skills: When Should They Be Taught? - 0 views

www.educationworld.com/...curr076.shtml

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  • Most research supports starting students on formal keyboarding around grade 4,
  • We encourage students to pretend there's a line down the middle of the keyboard and to keep the right hand to the right of the line and the left hand to the left. We also encourage them to type with more than one finger because they may tend to use just the index finger. For later instruction, it's good for students to develop the habit of using more than one finger early on."
  • "If you combine keyboarding with letter-recognition and hand-eye coordination activities in grades K-3, then you provide a developmentally appropriate skill that helps reinforce classroom learning and develop fine motor skills,"
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  • "the four:" sitting up; having feet in front, on the floor; looking up more than down; and using the home row keys.
  • lstormvt on 12 Feb 17
     
    Some very practical advice for integrating keyboarding as supporting academic/developmental skill instead of displacing them. Teaching tips, things to watch out for.
lstormvt

How Should Keyboarding Be Taught in Elementary School? | EdTech Magazine - 0 views

www.edtechmagazine.com/...ng-be-taught-elementary-school

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  • This year, we tried a different approach so that this skill was not only taught, but also applied across all content areas.
  • NCTE and other respected educational organizations view digital skills such as keyboarding as essential for learners to communicate in the 21st century.
    • lstormvt
      lstormvt on 12 Feb 17
       
      ISTE as well
  • How could we use Google Docs to complete assignments? Wouldn’t these tools allow students to complete unfinished work at home? Making connections between the technology and the academics had begun.
    • lstormvt
      lstormvt on 12 Feb 17
       
      Google classroom takes this to the next level.
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  • More importantly, the impact of keyboarding instruction has extended beyond test preparation. Our students are seeing it as a way to communicate and collaborate with peers on work that is important.
lstormvt

Common-Core Testing Drives 'Tech Prep' Priorities - Education Week - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...ives-tech-prep-priorities.html

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  • some feel "tech prep" is a waste of time, but far more view it as a crucial set of skills that does double duty.
  • SETDA advocates blending computer skills seamlessly into instruction, rather than teaching them in isolation.
    • lstormvt
      lstormvt on 12 Feb 17
       
      Yes, but some skill lesson has to happen or poor habits will develop and their skills will bottom out way to soon.
  • asked her students to practice typing by using a free online program at home for 20 minutes, twice a week,
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  • Of course, some computer skills are valuable, like keyboarding, creating multimedia projects, manipulating programs they'd use in life and school,
  • "They can run an iPhone like a champ, or the iPads we have here at school. But they're not that exposed to keyboarding skills or using the mouse to move something up and down on a screen."
  • said her students have been honing their keyboarding skills while using an online curriculum for computer coding.
    • lstormvt
      lstormvt on 12 Feb 17
       
      Love this!
  • Using an online math program, they learn to move and click a mouse, and cut and paste text. As they move through the grades, they add more skills, integrated into their core-content study, Ms. Warr said.
  • "If we were trying to teach the tech skills in isolation, there would be a huge pushback [from teachers], but we integrate them into other subjects," Ms. Warr said.
    • lstormvt
      lstormvt on 12 Feb 17
       
      But this has to start young so it builds. Teachers need help in how to make this happen seamlessly.
  • But because the Smarter Balanced assessment expects more "writing in one shot" online, he's encouraging teachers to shift their "quick writes" to the computer, he said.
    • lstormvt
      lstormvt on 12 Feb 17
       
      A balance between the writing process (paper, revision) as we know it and quick writes on the computer
  • 1st graders are starting with a free online game called Dance Mat, where they pick out letters one at a time, and work up to typing their names, Mr. Decker said. In 2nd grade, students begin using an online program called Type To Learn three times a week. Third and 4th graders continue it twice a week, and by 5th grade, it's down to weekly.
  • lstormvt on 12 Feb 17
     
    In this article, teachers and administrators share their desire to differentiate between computer skills that are test-based only and those that are actually life skills, too, and then figure out how to work those into the school day in a constructive way.
mjheald

Teaching Students Better Online Research Skills - 1 views

www.edweek.org/...32el-studentresearch.h32.html

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    Sara Shaw, an elementary school teacher in Avon, Mass., realized she needed to teach online research skills several years ago when her students kept turning in projects riddled with misinformation. The flawed material often came from websites the students used. They took the information as fact, when it often was just someone's personal opinion.
mjheald

How Teens Do Research in the Digital World - 0 views

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    Three-quarters of AP and NWP teachers say that the internet and digital search tools have had a "mostly positive" impact on their students' research habits, but 87% say these technologies are creating an "easily distracted generation with short attention spans" and 64% say today's digital technologies "do more to distract students than to help them academically."
mjheald

College Students Don't Know How To Research, Study Shows - 0 views

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  • mjheald on 12 Feb 17
     
    According to a new report released by Project Information Literacy, college students do not know how to research correctly. The study, which surveyed 8,353 students from 25 colleges, reports that 84 percent of respondents found "getting started" to be the hardest part of research projects.
elleneoneil

Using E-Portfolios in the Classroom | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/...-the-classroom-mary-beth-hertz

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  • Is student work easily organized by date, course or some other category?
    • elleneoneil
      elleneoneil on 11 Feb 17
       
      Organization is key because if they can't find what they've put up it's pointless
  • Can students view and comment on each other's work?
    • elleneoneil
      elleneoneil on 11 Feb 17
       
      Peer review. Maybe in the upper grades and later on in implementation
  • it can be time-consuming and often frustrating to transfer student work to another platform.
    • elleneoneil
      elleneoneil on 11 Feb 17
       
      Why it's important to try and get everyone streamlined onto the same format.
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  • Potential users must be at least 13 to sign up
    • elleneoneil
      elleneoneil on 11 Feb 17
       
      Potential Roadblock
  • elleneoneil on 11 Feb 17
     
    Using e-portfolios in the classroom, addressing possible needs and possible applications.
elleneoneil

Digital Portfolios for Primary Students! | Powerful Learning Practice - 0 views

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  • They love that they have an audience and even more, they love to get comments about their work
    • elleneoneil
      elleneoneil on 11 Feb 17
       
      Added benefit of built in audience and feedback (feedback could be from teacher or others)
  • Gradually, we begin to add drawings and use other media to show our learning, such as video, Audioboo (for voice recordings or podcasts) and Storybird (to make embeddable storybooks).  We have also used tools such as Animationish and the ScreenChomp app for the iPad. We have taken pictures of posters or other things they have made, or posted combinations of these if we feel that using only one tool is not adequate to show what we can do.
    • elleneoneil
      elleneoneil on 11 Feb 17
       
      Resource ideas. Podcasts! Video! Pictures! Text!
  • there are no big surprises at our student led-conferences.
  • elleneoneil on 11 Feb 17
     
    Teacher testimonial of how e-portfolios worked in their classroom. Had some resources to check out as well.
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