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Keri-Lee Beasley

Handwriting Just Doesn't Matter - The New York Times - 2 views

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  • Perhaps, instead of proving that handwriting is superior to typing, it proves we need better note-taking pedagogy.
  • Many students now achieve typing automaticity — the ability to type without looking at the keys — at younger and younger ages, often by the fourth grade. This allows them to focus on higher-order concerns, such as rhetorical structure and word choice.
  • Some also argue that learning cursive teaches fine motor skills. And yet so did many other subjects that are arguably more useful, such as cooking, sewing and carpentry, and few are demanding the reintroduction of those classes
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  • Most students and adults write far more in a given day than they did just 10 or 20 years ago, choosing to write to one another over social media or text message instead of talking on the phone or visiting.
  • Because they achieve automaticity quicker on the keyboard, today’s third graders may well become better writers as handwriting takes up less of their education. Keyboards are a boon to students with fine motor learning disabilities, as well as students with poor handwriting, who are graded lower than those who write neatly, regardless of the content of their expressions. This is known as the “handwriting effect,” proved by Steve Graham at Arizona State, who found that “when teachers are asked to rate multiple versions of the same paper differing only in legibility, neatly written versions of the paper are assigned higher marks for overall quality of writing than are versions with poorer penmanship.” Typing levels the playing field.
  • In fact, the changes imposed by the digital age may be good for writers and writing.
  • The more one writes, the better a writer one becomes
  • The kids will be all right.
  • There will be no loss to our children’s intelligence. The cultural values we project onto handwriting will alter as we do, as they have for the past 6,000 years.
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 22 Aug 16
     
    "Perhaps, instead of proving that handwriting is superior to typing, it proves we need better note-taking pedagogy."
Jeffrey Plaman

Educational Leadership:Giving Students Ownership of Learning:Footprints in the Digital Age - 0 views

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  • these shifts demand that we move our concept of learning from a "supply-push" model of "building up an inventory of knowledge in the students' heads" (p. 30) to a "demand-pull" approach that requires students to own their learning processes and pursue learning, based on their needs of the moment, in social and possibly global communities of practice.
    • Jeffrey Plaman
      Jeffrey Plaman on 10 Feb 12
       
      This is the BIG shift in the way we see our jobs as educators. How much push do you do each day VS how much do students pull if from you? How can we help them want to pull, know where to pull from, etc? How does what we do in class day in and day out change if we believe that THIS is the way we need to be heading?
  • Our teachers have to be colearners in this process, modeling their own use of connections and networks and understanding the practical pedagogical implications of these technologies and online social learning spaces.
    • Jeffrey Plaman
      Jeffrey Plaman on 10 Feb 12
       
      What are we modeling for our students?
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  • Get Started!Here are five ideas that will help you begin building your own personal learning network.
    • Jeffrey Plaman
      Jeffrey Plaman on 10 Feb 12
       
      Great ideas on how to get started
  • Jeffrey Plaman on 10 Feb 12
     
    "In the Web 2.0 world, self-directed learners must be adept at building and sustaining networks."
  • Jeffrey Plaman on 10 Feb 12
     
    "In the Web 2.0 world, self-directed learners must be adept at building and sustaining networks."
Keri-Lee Beasley

Kids and Tech: Parenting Tips for the Digital Age - 0 views

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 19 Mar 12
     
    "The best way to make technology a healthy and positive part of family life is actually to embrace it, educate yourself about it and go hands-on with new devices, apps, social networks and services wherever possible."
Jeffrey Plaman

Digital Is...what exactly? | NWP Digital Is - 0 views

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  • Jeffrey Plaman on 23 Mar 12
     
    "What is Digital Is? The Digital Is website hosts a growing collection of stories, reflections, and resources about teaching and learning writing in a digital age. As the collection grows, we hope to maintain a certain point of view about teaching and the practice of writing: heavy on reflection, open to inquiry, focused on authentic student accomplishment. Here we collect five takes on the Digital Is point of view. "
Louise Phinney

Teaching and Modeling Good Digital Citizenship | MindShift - 1 views

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  • Louise Phinney on 03 Apr 12
     
    Somewhere between kids' intuitive social savvy and their online behavior lies an opportunity for both parents and educators to teach responsible digital citizenship, and there are plenty of organizations dedicated to this task alone. Define the Line, a project of McGill University in Canada, was recently awarded a digital citizenship grant by Facebook to help further its work in creating materials to open dialogue about finding the line where joking crosses into negative or criminal behavior. The site includes videos and scenarios designed to enhance discussion of real-world digital topics. Common Sense Media recently launched a free digital citizenship curriculum categorized by age. The curriculum includes both paper-based and digital activities and teaches online safety and Internet research skills in combination with ethics.
Louise Phinney

Departing the Text: Internet Safety for Kids (Grades K-12) Growing Up in the Informatio... - 2 views

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  • Louise Phinney on 16 Sep 12
     
    some good videos and ideas that would go along with our common sense media lesson plans
Louise Phinney

10 iPhone and iPad Apps for Animators - 1 views

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  • Louise Phinney on 16 Sep 12
     
    10 apps to use on the ipad for digital animation, good for all ages
Ted Cowan

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - 1 views

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  • Ted Cowan on 15 Dec 11
     
    Good Math manipulatives for all ages.
Louise Phinney

Why Johnny Can't Search - a Response - 0 views

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  • Louise Phinney on 06 Nov 11
     
    And isn't this all so ironic. We live in an information age that puts a premium on the ability to find, decode, evaluate, store and communicate information. Today's student should be in training to become a critically-thinking citizen and the best response schools can come up with is to force-feed students in sanitized information feedlots.
Mary van der Heijden

Guess My Lexile - The Book Whisperer - Education Week Teacher - 1 views

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  • Mary van der Heijden on 26 Jul 12
     
    What do Jeff Kinney's popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Ray Bradbury's classic Fahrenheit 451 have in common? What about Gossip Girl: A Novel, Cicely von Ziegesar's catty romance and The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson's 1979 Newbery Honor book? While clear distinctions exist between each book's literary merit, age appropriateness, and reader appeal, these titles possess one similarity--they sit within the same Lexile text complexity band.**
Keri-Lee Beasley

Elyse Eidman-Aadahl: Re-envisioning writing for a networked age | DMLcentral - 0 views

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  • It’s very important for us to build this into our understanding of what it means to teach writing. We need to be able to make that part of our understanding of the new normal of writing -- not an additional piece -- but the new normal.
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 08 Mar 12
     
    "It's very important for us to build this into our understanding of what it means to teach writing. We need to be able to make that part of our understanding of the new normal of writing -- not an additional piece -- but the new normal."
Louise Phinney

R.I.P. handwriting… | Ben Grundy: There's a World Out There - 0 views

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 09 Mar 12
     
    Blog post from CIS teacher Ben Grundy about handwriting's slow demise. "With the continual development of technology features such as predictive text, autocorrect and speech recognition, along with the rapidly developing field of mobile technology giving us access to these tools whenever we need to 'write', it's safe to say that we no longer need to handwrite. Well, at least not in length."
  • Louise Phinney on 10 Mar 12
     
    Interesting article - The age of teaching handwriting is finished!
Katie Day

Annenberg Learner: browse all programs available - 0 views

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  • Katie Day on 09 Jun 12
     
    free online courses for learners of all ages
Jeffrey Plaman

Google: Exploring Computational Thinking - 1 views

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  • Jeffrey Plaman on 25 Nov 13
     
    Database of lessons for teaching computational thinking in a variety of areas of the curriculum across age groups.
Katie Day

Scholastic.com - The SpotLit collection - 2 views

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  • Katie Day on 23 Oct 13
     
    50 top choices for different age groups from primary to middle school, selected by a team of 27 expert adults
Sean McHugh

How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | WIRED - 1 views

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  • he had happened on an emerging educational philosophy, one that applies the logic of the digital age to the classroom. That logic is inexorable: Access to a world of infinite information has changed how we communicate, process information, and think.
  • In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills in demand were teamwork, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills. We need schools that are developing these skills.”
  • That’s why a new breed of educators, inspired by everything from the Internet to evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, and AI, are inventing radical new ways for children to learn, grow, and thrive. To them, knowledge isn’t a commodity that’s delivered from teacher to student but something that emerges from the students’ own curiosity-fueled exploration. Teachers provide prompts, not answers, and then they step aside so students can teach themselves and one another. They are creating ways for children to discover their passion—and uncovering a generation of geniuses in the process.
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  • “So,” Juárez Correa said, “what do you want to learn?”
  • human cognitive machinery is fundamentally incompatible with conventional schooling. Gray points out that young children, motivated by curiosity and playfulness, teach themselves a tremendous amount about the world. And yet when they reach school age, we supplant that innate drive to learn with an imposed curriculum.
  • inland pared the country’s elementary math curriculum from about 25 pages to four, reduced the school day by an hour, and focused on independence and active learning. By 2003, Finnish students had climbed from the lower rungs of international performance rankings to first place among developed nations.
  • n Finland, teachers underwent years of training to learn how to orchestrate this new style of learning; he was winging it. He began experimenting with different ways of posing open-ended questions on subjects ranging from the volume of cubes to multiplying fractions.
  • Juárez Correa had mixed feelings about the test. His students had succeeded because he had employed a new teaching method, one better suited to the way children learn. It was a model that emphasized group work, competition, creativity, and a student-led environment. So it was ironic that the kids had distinguished themselves because of a conventional multiple-choice test. “These exams are like limits for the teachers,” he says. “They test what you know, not what you can do, and I am more interested in what my students can do.”
  • They do it by emphasizing student-led learning and collaboration
  • Sean McHugh on 24 Sep 14
     
    In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills in demand were teamwork, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills. We need schools that are developing these skills." That's why a new breed of educators, inspired by everything from the Internet to evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, and AI, are inventing radical new ways for children to learn, grow, and thrive. To them, knowledge isn't a commodity that's delivered from teacher to student but something that emerges from the students' own curiosity-fueled exploration. Teachers provide prompts, not answers, and then they step aside so students can teach themselves and one another. They are creating ways for children to discover their passion-and uncovering a generation of geniuses in the process.
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