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50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Education - 0 views

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  • Maggie Verster on 30 Mar 09
     
    50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Education
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Twitter in The Classroom - 3 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 20 Jun 10 - No Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 20 Jun 10
     
    What are your ideas for how Twitter can be used in our classrooms?
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Three Practical Ideas for Using Twitter in E-Learning » The Rapid eLearning Blog - 6 views

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shared by Barbara Lindsey on 16 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Barbara Lindsey on 16 Oct 09
     
    Thanks to a retweet from @tonnet Has some excellent suggestions for classroom (learning) application.
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Why Don't Teens Tweet? We Asked Over 10,000 of Them. Geoff Cook, Techcrunch, Aug 30, 09 - 0 views

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  • Claude Almansi on 27 Sep 09
     
    This guest post is written by Geoff Cook, cofounder and CEO of social networking site myYearbook. Everything about Twitter is looking up these days, except for a few pesky uptime issues of course. But a number of recent reports also suggest teens are one demographic that just doesn't seem to be embracing Twitter like the rest of us. So while I'm excited to see Robert Scoble proclaims that Twitter is worth a cool $10 billion, it might be a good idea to analyze a little data to try to understand why teens just don't think Twitter is as rad as the rest of us.
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Conversations.net - Home - 0 views

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  • Claude Almansi on 27 Sep 09
     
    Searches Ning, Blogger, Twitter, Plurk, Jaiku, and Twine. If you want us to add a service or have any other ideas, please email feedback@conversations.net.
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Twitter Mania Manual - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 11 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 11 Aug 09
     
    A document with some practical twitter ideas of what to tweet about.
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Twenty-Five Interesting Ways to use Twitter in the Classroom - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 10 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 10 Aug 09
     
    A collaborative presentation compiled by teachers. Some snippets of ideas for lessonplans.
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The Twitter Book - A Sneak Preview - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 18 May 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 18 May 09
     
    A great resource book with good ideas and how to's: What is Twitter? Why is it so popular? And how can its 140-character messages be a serious-and effective-way to boost your business? This book answers all of those questions and many more. A friendly, full-color guide, The Twitter Book is packed with helpful examples, solid advice, and clear explanations guaranteed to turn you into a Twitter power user. Co-written by two widely recognized Twitter experts, this book will help you: * Connect with colleagues, customers, family, and friends * Stand out on Twitter, whether you're new to the service or already have experience * Avoid common Twitter gaffes and pitfalls * Use Twitter-and the best third-party tools that help you manage it-to build a critical professional communications channel If you want to learn how to use Twitter like a pro, The Twitter Book will quickly get you up to speed.
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Teachers using Twitter, social media sites to engage students - 0 views

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  • Maggie Verster on 20 Nov 09
     
    "Teachers are getting lesson plan ideas from far-flung colleagues via Twitter. Skype conversations are being hosted in classrooms. And students are being introduced to social media and being schooled on how it can benefit them professionally."

Coaching Both Parent And Child - 0 views

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Hechinger Report | What can we learn from Finland?: A Q&A with Dr. Pasi Sahlberg - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 10 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • If you want to learn something from Finland, it’s the implementation of ideas. It’s looking at education as nation-building. We have very carefully kept the business of education in the hands of educators. It’s practically impossible to become a superintendent without also being a former teacher. … If you have people [in leadership positions] with no background in teaching, they’ll never have the type of communication they need.
  • Finns don’t believe you can reliably measure the essence of learning. You know, one big difference in thinking about education and the whole discourse is that in the U.S. it’s based on a belief in competition. In my country, we are in education because we believe in cooperation and sharing. Cooperation is a core starting point for growth.
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Please Sir, how do you re-tweet? - Twitter to be taught in UK primary schools - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 25 Mar 09 - Cached
  • The British government is proposing that Twitter is to be taught in primary (elementary) schools as part of a wider push to make online communication and social media a permanent part of the UK’s education system. And that’s not all. Kids will be taught blogging, podcasting and how to use Wikipedia alongside Maths, English and Science.
  • Traditional education in areas like phonics, the chronology of history and mental arithmetic remain but modern media and web-based skills and environmental education now feature.
  • The skills that let kids use Internet technologies effectively also work in the real world: being able to evaluate resources critically, communicating well, being careful with strangers and your personal information, conducting yourself in a manner appropriate to your environment. Those things are, and should be, taught in schools. It’s also a good idea to teach kids how to use computers, including web browsers etc, and how those real-world skills translate online.
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  • I think teaching kids HOW TO use Wikipedia is a step forward from ordering them NOT TO use it, as they presently do in many North American classrooms.
  • Open Source software is the future and therefore we need to concentrate on the wheels and not the vehicle!
  • Core skills is very important. Anyone and everyone can learn Photoshop & Word Processing at any stage of their life, but if core skills are missed from an early age, then evidence has shown that there has always been less chance that the missing knowledge could be learnt at a later stage in life.
  • Schools shouldn’t be about teaching content, but about learning to learn, getting the kind of critical skills that can be used in all kinds of contexts, and generating motivation for lifelong learning. Finnish schools are rated the best in the world according to the OECD/PISA ratings, and they have totally de-emphasised the role of content in the curriculum. Twitter could indeed help in the process as it helps children to learn to write in a precise, concise style - absolutely nothing wrong with that from a pedagogical point of view. Encouraging children to write is never a bad thing, no matter what the platform.
  • Front end stuff shouldn’t be taught. If anything it should be the back end gubbins that should be taught, databases and coding.
  • So what’s more important, to me at least, is not to know all kinds of useless facts, but to know the general info and to know how to think and how to search for information. In other words, I think children should get lessons in thinking and in information retrieval. Yes, they should still be taught about history, etc. Yes, it’s important they learn stuff that they could need ‘on the spot’ - like calculating skills. However, we can go a little bit easier on drilling the information in - by the time they’re 25, augmented reality will be a fact and not even a luxury.
  • Schools should focus more on teaching kids on how to think creatively so they can create innovative products like twitter rather then teaching on how to use it….
  • Ed Webb on 25 Mar 09
     
    The British government is proposing that Twitter is to be taught in primary (elementary) schools as part of a wider push to make online communication and social media a permanent part of the UK's education system. And that's not all. Kids will be taught blogging, podcasting and how to use Wikipedia alongside Maths, English and Science.
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If you were on Twitter...... - 2 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 04 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 04 Jun 11
     
    A wonderful synopsis of a day on twitter and the professional development opportunities it presents. If you ever said that twitter is just a silly little tool, read this and weep
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The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry that makes us love Google, Twitter, and tex... - 0 views

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  • Google searches are becoming a cause of mistrials as jurors, after hearing testimony, ignore judges' instructions and go look up facts for themselves.
  • "My boyfriend has threatened to break up with me if I keep whipping out my iPhone to look up random facts about celebrities when we're out to dinner."
  • In 1954, psychologist James Olds and his team were working in a laboratory at McGill University, studying how rats learned.
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  • He eventually discovered that if the probe was put in the brain's lateral hypothalamus and the rats were allowed to press a lever and stimulate their own electrodes, they would press until they collapsed.
  • For humans, this desire to search is not just about fulfilling our physical needs.
  • when we get thrilled about the world of ideas, about making intellectual connections, about divining meaning, it is the seeking circuits that are firing.
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The List | Foreign Policy - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 10 Aug 09 - No Cached
  • Foreign Policy's Twitterati 100 Twitter enables breaking news and  ideas to travel at the speed of your fingers. Here, in no particular order, are the 100 best Twitter users in international affairs.
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How to Wake Up Slumbering Minds - WSJ.com - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 27 Jul 09 - Cached
  • what school requires students to do -- think abstractly -- is in fact not something our brains are designed to be good at or to enjoy
  • it is critical that the task be just difficult enough to hold our interest but not so difficult that we give up in frustration. When this balance is struck, it is actually pleasurable to focus the mind for long periods of time
  • Students are ready to understand knowledge but not create it. For most, that is enough. Attempting a great leap forward is likely to fail.
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  • students cannot apply generic "critical thinking skills" (another voguish concept) to new material unless they first understand that material
  • Trying to use "reading strategies" -- like searching for the main idea in a passage -- will be futile if you don't know enough facts to fill in what the author has left unsaid.
  • what is being taught in most of the curriculum -- at all levels of schooling -- is information about meaning, and meaning is independent of form
  • At some point, no amount of dancing will help you learn more algebra
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 27 Jul 09
       
      But if you learn dancing AND algebra, you may be better at both, or at least approach each in a more interesting way.
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The English Teacher's Companion: Of Our Teachings: What Do They Remember? - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 11 Apr 09 - Cached
  • What was clear today was that it was our relationship and their appreciation for the importance of ideas and my subject that remained one, two, eight or ten years later.
  • After all these encounters, these smiles, these chats and talks in the cafe, through emails and Twitters, what do I realize, what's the lesson? (Does there always have to be a lesson, Mr. Burke? they whine....). Relationships matter: you to your kids, you to your subject, kids to each other.
  • you can't teach kids if you don't know who they are or what they care about. The lesson is that if you don't know or care about what you teach, they will not remember it, will not value it going forward.
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