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Jeffrey Plaman

Why (And How) You Should Create A Personal Learning Network - Edudemic - 0 views

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shared by Jeffrey Plaman on 11 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Jeffrey Plaman on 11 Jan 13
     
    Great video to show staff on creating PLN's: http://t.co/4ZaGIIYH
Keri-Lee Beasley

Viewing Art to Start Students Reading | 4 O'Clock Faculty - 1 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 09 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • Replacing written text with artwork, photographs, or illustrations offers a number of advantages, especially early in the school year.  Visual imagery is very accessible and a lot less intimidating to a wide range of learners including non-readers, struggling readers, and English language learners. This enables these students a greater chance to practice some of the forms of complex thinking that they will need as the year progresses such as using text evidence, identifying theme, and making connections.
  • Another advantage the visual imagery has over written text is that it is very fast to decode.
  • Artworks can and should be treated just as a written text. By doing so, students can get their academic thinking started early, laying a foundation for them to build on throughout their school year.
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 09 Sep 15
     
    Interesting blog post advocating for the use of analysing images in support of literacy skills.
Sean McHugh

From Collecting Dots to Connecting Dots: Using Mind Maps to Improve Memory and Learning... - 0 views

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shared by Sean McHugh on 23 Jan 17 - No Cached
  • Build your mind maps over time, such as before class, during class, and after class: this makes use of distributed practice.
Keri-Lee Beasley

Re-envisioning Writing for a Networked Age: A Few Moments with Elyse Eidman-Aadahl | DM... - 1 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 23 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • To write still means to make something. Writers are makers.
  • much of the power of writing is that it takes thought and externalizes it
  • whether we are writing on a digital platform or in our spiral notebooks. There is a core to writing that is still about creating and sharing knowledge
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  • some components that have hugely changed, mainly the issues of what we can create and how it circulates.
  • teacher who acted as the sole reader of our material.
  • The internet and 21st century tools have opened up the possibility for one individual to not only produce the text but also to design it, circulate it, and manage publicity
  • very young or beginning writers can actually participate in all of those processes
  • we think of digital writing as writing that is not only created using digital tools, but is also typically created in or for a networked environment and meant to be interacted with on a screen.
  • 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.
  • As computers become increasingly networked, teachers could see the potential for the read/write web, for writing as a way to participate in online communities, to hyperlink vast amounts of information connected to a text, and to interact and even collaborate directly with others to create something
  • being a writer yourself and participating in digital environments alongside the youth you work with, you are able to observe patterns and experience the new in such a way that you could be part of remaking knowledge in the field of composition. The writing revolution is not done and we can be right in the middle of it.
  • it's all about an inquiry stance and creating learning experiences where students can do the same because the "textbook" is all around us in the reading and writing going on in the world
  • participating as a digital writer and deeply reflecting upon your work by looking for patterns and understanding what shifts are being required of you
  • shift from being the person who hands out formulas for writing success to the person who stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the students to understand what happens when we write for real in world.
  • build the platforms for publishing and circulation of student work
  • It’s vital for teachers and curriculum developers to start with the assumption that every young person not only can become a participant in the public internet, but will become a participant and likely already is a participant.
  • youth are going to have to manage their online identity. How they present and represent their identities and manage the multiple footprints they leave on the web are going to be key things for students to understand.
  • develop a sense of responsibility around what they put out there
  • sense of power and authority
  • making, creating, and collaborating about real work that matters to them
  • tools are not the issue
  • They allow us to do new things and expand our capacity to make things, yet deep, consistent issues remain at the center: what am I saying? Is what I have to say warranted? Have I been accurate and credible? Have I crafted something that my reader and my audience can take in? Am I listening to response and looking at my drafts iteration by iteration?
  • it’s so important to slow oneself down and to take one’s text quite seriously.
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 23 Mar 12
     
    "A learning environment expert and education advocate, Elyse is dedicated to improving the teaching of writing by helping educators understand the changing nature of the discipline in a digital age."
Keri-Lee Beasley

You'll Never Walk Alone……..building a personal learning network with Twitter ... - 1 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 26 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 26 Nov 11
     
    Twitter/PLN resources 
Keri-Lee Beasley

Building a Better Teacher - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 23 Feb 12 - Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 23 Feb 12
     
    Article from NY Times about a man who looked at successful teachers & wrote a book about 49 ways to become a better teacher. "He knew how to advise schools to adopt a better curriculum or raise standards or develop better communication channels between teachers and principals. But he realized that he had no clue how to advise schools about their main event: how to teach."
Keri-Lee Beasley

Digital Literacy Is the Key to the Future, But We Still Don't Know What It Means | WIRED - 1 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 20 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Jeffrey Plaman on 20 Sep 14
     
    ""The amount of potential unlocked by the industrial revolution is dwarfed in information terms by what you can do with computers," said Ari Geshner, a senior software engineer at Palantir, a much-discussed data analysis startup whose customers include US intelligence and defense agencies. "Digital literacy is about learning to use the most powerful tools we've ever built." The tricky part comes in defining what exactly is meant by "use." Most people who use computers don't know how to build software. Does that mean they're digitally illiterate?"
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 22 Sep 14
     
    "Digital literacy is about learning to use the most powerful tools we've ever built."
Katie Day

YouTube - The United Nations: It's Your World - 0 views

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shared by Katie Day on 30 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • This video reveals the scope and impact of the UNs work focusing principally on peace and security, development and human rights. It highlights the UNs role as a forum for united action for the common good, and for building partnerships to address problems that know no borders, like natural disasters and climate change.
Mary van der Heijden

Building A Reading Community - 0 views

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shared by Mary van der Heijden on 30 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Mary van der Heijden on 30 Dec 10
     
    Some nice literacy ideas for early years writers/readers workshop
Louise Phinney

Art Project, powered by Google - 0 views

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shared by Louise Phinney on 06 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Katie Day on 06 Feb 11
     
    "What is the 'Art Project'?A unique collaboration with some of the world's most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail. Explore museums with Street View technology: virtually move around the museum's galleries, selecting works of art that interest you, navigate though interactive floor plans and learn more about the museum and you explore.Artwork View: discover featured artworks at high resolution and use the custom viewer to zoom into paintings. Expanding the info panel allows you to read more about an artwork, find more works by that artist and watch related YouTube videos.Create your own collection: the 'Create an Artwork Collection' feature allows you to save specific views of any of the 1000+ artworks and build your own personalised collection. Comments can be added to each painting and the whole collection can then be shared with friends and family."
Mary van der Heijden

The Home of Building Learning Power - 0 views

www.buildinglearningpower.co.uk

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shared by Mary van der Heijden on 17 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Mary van der Heijden on 17 Mar 11
     
    Guy Claxton great ideas learning to learn and metacognition
Katie Day

News: What Students Don't Know - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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shared by Katie Day on 05 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • The prevalence of Google in student research is well-documented, but the Illinois researchers found something they did not expect: students were not very good at using Google. They were basically clueless about the logic underlying how the search engine organizes and displays its results. Consequently, the students did not know how to build a search that would return good sources. (For instance, limiting a search to news articles, or querying specific databases such as Google Book Search or Google Scholar.)
  • In other words: Today’s college students might have grown up with the language of the information age, but they do not necessarily know the grammar.
  • Librarians often have to walk that line between giving a person a fish and teaching her how to fish, proverbially speaking, says Thill. And the answer can rightly vary based on how quickly she needs a fish, whether she has the skills and coordination to competently wield a pole, and whether her ultimate goal is to become a master angler.
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  • “It’s not about teaching shortcuts, it’s about teaching them not to take the long way to a goal,” says Elisa Addlesperger, a reference and instruction librarian at DePaul. “They’re taking very long, circuitous routes to their goals.… I think it embitters them and makes them hate learning.” Teaching efficiency is not a compromise of librarianship, adds Jagman; it is a value.
  • Katie Day on 05 Sep 11
     
    results of an ethnographic study of college students and their relationship with libraries and level of information literacy...  Quote: "In other words: Today's college students might have grown up with the language of the information age, but they do not necessarily know the grammar."
Jeffrey Plaman

100 Tips, Tools, and Secrets to Develop a Successful Personal Brand - 0 views

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shared by Jeffrey Plaman on 21 Sep 11 - Cached
  • Jeffrey Plaman on 21 Sep 11
     
    100 tips for building your Personal Brand
Katie Day

Jonah Lehrer on Buildings, Health and Creativity | Head Case - WSJ.com - 0 views

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shared by Katie Day on 01 May 11 - No Cached
  • Katie Day on 01 May 11
     
    Article re how the color and shape of rooms affects the thinking that goes on inside the rooms... "They tested 600 subjects when surrounded by red, blue or neutral colors-in both real and virtual environments. The differences were striking. Test-takers in the red environments, were much better at skills that required accuracy and attention to detail, such as catching spelling mistakes or keeping random numbers in short-term memory. Though people in the blue group performed worse on short-term memory tasks, they did far better on tasks requiring some imagination, such as coming up with creative uses for a brick or designing a children's toy. In fact, subjects in the blue environment generated twice as many "creative outputs" as subjects in the red one. Why? According to the scientists, the color blue automatically triggers associations with openness and sky, while red makes us think of danger and stop signs. (Such associations are culturally mediated, of course; Chinese, for instance, tend to associate red with prosperity and good luck.) It's not just color. A similar effect seems to hold for any light, airy space."
Jeffrey Plaman

Facilitating Learner Voice and Presence in the Classroom Using Mobile Devices... - 1 views

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shared by Jeffrey Plaman on 15 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Jeffrey Plaman on 15 Oct 11
     
    This post shows some ideas on how you can leverage mobile content created by students to build community and give them a platform for interaction.
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