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Julie Lindsay

11 Steps to Create A Google Plus Community for your Class ~ Educational Technology and ... - 0 views

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  • Julie Lindsay on 02 May 13
     
    "One of the best services Google+ provides to its users is called " communities ". Any Google Plus user can easily create and host his/her community on the cloud and in a matter of few clicks.For us in education we can use this service to create a community for our class. In this virtual space, you will get to share with your students resources, links, and also get them to participate and contribute in it. You can also create class events with dates, location, and more details and share them with your students and their parents as well. Needless to say that you can use Google Hangout right from your community to hold video conferences with your students."
Julie Lindsay

Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities - 0 views

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  • Julie Lindsay on 02 Jun 13
     
    "Connexions is: a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute: authors create and collaborate instructors rapidly build and share custom collections learners find and explore content"
Julie Lindsay

UNESCO Policy Guidelines for Mobile Learning | eLearning - 0 views

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shared by Julie Lindsay on 21 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Julie Lindsay on 21 Apr 13
     
    "The "Policy guidelines for mobile learning" developed by UNESCO seek to help policy-makers better understand what mobile learning is and how its unique benefits can be leveraged to advance progress towards Education for All. UNESCO believes that mobile technologies can expand and enrich educational opportunities for learners in diverse settings. Yet most ICT in education policies were articulated in a pre-mobile era and they do not seek to maximize the learning potentials of mobile technology. The rare policies that do reference mobile devices tend to treat them tangentially or ban their use in schools. Today, a growing body of evidence suggests that ubiquitous mobile devices - especially mobile phones and, more recently, tablet computers - are being used by learners and educators around the world to access information, streamline administration and facilitate learning in new and innovative ways. Developed in consultation with experts in over 20 countries, UNESCO's "Policy guidelines for mobile learning" have broad application and can accommodate a wide range of institutions, including K-12 schools, universities, community centres, and technical and vocational schools."
Julie Lindsay

Schools | Big Picture - 0 views

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  • Julie Lindsay on 20 Apr 13
     
    "Big Picture Learning believes that high school graduates must know how to reason, problem-solve, and be active members of the community. At Big Picture Learning schools, there is no canon of information that all students must know. In a world where available information is growing exponentially, we believe that the most important thing a student needs to know is how to learn. Integral to the Big Picture Learning design are our five Learning Goals, a framework for looking at concepts, skills, and abilities and help guide the creation of personalized student curriculum."
Julie Lindsay

7 Ways to Transform Your Classroom - David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts - 0 views

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  • Julie Lindsay on 30 Apr 13
     
    I love how David Truss has set this out so clearly and shares 7 Ways to Transform Your Classroom 1. Inquiry 2. Voice 3. Audience 4. Community 5. Leadership 6. Play 7. Networks
Lindsay Clark

Key Strands of Focus - Strategic Planning: Technology - 4 views

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    • Lindsay Clark
      Lindsay Clark on 27 Feb 13
       
      Invest orientation time at start of year building on TGS Digital Library with resources and allow teachers to briefly present their top tools and ones they'd like to improve upon
    • Brad Ovenell-Carter
      Brad Ovenell-Carter on 28 Feb 13
       
      This should linked to a teacher's professional growth plan/annual review. I'm dubious about digital resource libraries--but can be swayed. TGS has a small faculty who work closely together. F2F is a better way to share. We get a lot of milage out of our "Idea Fairs" and that's with a faculty of 80. It's more important to identify a person from whom you can learn than to identify apps, web sites etc. People are the most important resource. Also wonder how the students are brought in as resources...?
    • Mike Hourahine
      Mike Hourahine on 28 Feb 13
       
      While a traditional model of one person putting together a list of resources is quite limited. Our approach digital library is more about being a place for a group to curate resources. Everyone contributes to it and everyone comments on the effectiveness. If a teacher finds, uses and endorses a particular resource - and then shares those finds digitally, we can grow a collection of effective resources. Sharing face to face is important but there is a tendency for great resources to become "hot topics" and then forgotten a few months later. It also is not "inline". Somebody might mention a useful tool but that's not relevant to another at that particular time. If we can capture those recommendations and share them in a central place to be searched then. Finally, TGS continues to have large turnover (and will likely continue to given our nature). Without underpinning shared resources with some kind of "library" a large amount of institutional knowledge goes out the door with every churn. The role of the library is still valid, it just needs to be re-imagined in the context of today's web. Love the "Idea Fair" concept. It's a great idea. Again, I would like to see that "captured" and made available digitally to help grow the organization's knowledge.
    • Brad Ovenell-Carter
      Brad Ovenell-Carter on 28 Feb 13
       
      OK. Swayed ;)
    • Lindsay Clark
      Lindsay Clark on 27 Feb 13
       
      Built-in time and support for developing digital self and promoting new skills, on a regular basis and in a community setting
    • Brad Ovenell-Carter
      Brad Ovenell-Carter on 28 Feb 13
       
      We have two 90-minute blocks of in-house professional development/collaboration time every week. TGS could adapt the model easily.
    • Brad Ovenell-Carter
      Brad Ovenell-Carter on 28 Feb 13
       
      Here's a vid of our first Idea Fair (back then we called it Idea Marketplace): https://socialcam.com/v/xoccsH7e
    • Mike Hourahine
      Mike Hourahine on 28 Feb 13
       
      Ah nice! That's a seriously healthy chunk of time. That definitely needs to be discussed more in the professional development stream.
    • Lindsay Clark
      Lindsay Clark on 27 Feb 13
       
      - Easy export to external site or a package/comprehensive "portfolio" - Connect drafts to final products (blogs, videos, maybe others?) so we can show progress on Spot - RSS embeds in Spot for daily reading - RSS widgets curated by admin to stream outside world into Spot - that's all for now...
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      Lindsay Clark on 27 Feb 13
       
      - Adobe Bridge (great for media organization and also a skill in that industry) - Diigo to multi-device? - Re-evaluate Documents in place of GoodReader? Students are tending to do this already - Google Reader? In conjunction with Spot or Flipbook?
    • Lindsay Clark
      Lindsay Clark on 27 Feb 13
       
      - Wordpress under Web
    • Brad Ovenell-Carter
      Brad Ovenell-Carter on 28 Feb 13
       
      Hmm...interesting: RSS can be a powerful sharing/collaboration tool, though not many exploit it.
    • Lindsay Clark
      Lindsay Clark on 28 Feb 13
       
      - Build in the time for them to curate these with the support of their teachers (e.g. students can get suggestions on which pieces each month or at mid-term markers should be included in their portfolio for the time being) - Friday Homerooms? - Advisor meetings? - On Spot for storage and display with easy 
    • Brad Ovenell-Carter
      Brad Ovenell-Carter on 28 Feb 13
       
      Whatever you do, make the kit as lightweight as possible. A plain text editor, for example, is preferable to a full-on word processor such as MS Word or Pages. Look for lightweight apps that work across many platforms in order to avoid translation issues that would challenge "Global Impact & Sharing"  Also, look for tools that are tightly integrated with multiple services as this saves duplication of effort and encourages sharing and collaboration. For example, Reeder amkes it dead easy to share RSS feeds (see note under Global Impact and Sharing re using RSS) to Delicious, Twitter, FB and through mail to a host of other services without leaving the app. A lot will depend on how TGS weighs several drivers: individual achievement v. global collaboration, for example. Also, TGS may see different drives for the 9-10 grou v. the 11-12 group
Julie Lindsay

Celly - 1 views

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  • Julie Lindsay on 07 Apr 13
     
    Mobile social networks possible - connects groups together via the app
Julie Lindsay

Need a Job? Invent It - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • “We teach and test things most students have no interest in and will never need, and facts that they can Google and will forget as soon as the test is over,” said Wagner. “Because of this, the longer kids are in school, the less motivated they become. Gallup’s recent survey showed student engagement going from 80 percent in fifth grade to 40 percent in high school. More than a century ago, we ‘reinvented’ the one-room schoolhouse and created factory schools for the industrial economy. Reimagining schools for the 21st-century must be our highest priority. We need to focus more on teaching the skill and will to learn and to make a difference and bring the three most powerful ingredients of intrinsic motivation into the classroom: play, passion and purpose.”
  • “Teachers,” he said, “need to coach students to performance excellence, and principals must be instructional leaders who create the culture of collaboration required to innovate.
  • “Finland is one of the most innovative economies in the world,” he said, “and it is the only country where students leave high school ‘innovation-ready.’  They learn concepts and creativity more than facts, and have a choice of many electives — all with a shorter school day, little homework, and almost no testing
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  • All students should have digital portfolios to show evidence of mastery of skills like critical thinking and communication, which they build up right through K-12 and postsecondary.
  •  My generation had it easy. We got to “find” a job. But, more than ever, our kids will have to “invent” a job. (Fortunately, in today’s world, that’s easier and cheaper than ever before.) Sure, the lucky ones will find their first job, but, given the pace of change today, even they will have to reinvent, re-engineer and reimagine that job much more often than their parents if they want to advance in it. If that’s true, I asked Wagner, what do young people need to know today?
  • Julie Lindsay on 04 Apr 13
     
    Friedman interviews Tony Wagner about what is needed for learning today.
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