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Jeffrey Plaman

This Photograph Is Not Free - 1 views

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  • Jeffrey Plaman on 12 Jan 12
     
    Interesting take RE free culture from a pro photographer
Jeffrey Plaman

New App Tells Teachers When Students Are Confused - 0 views

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  • Jeffrey Plaman on 14 Feb 12
     
    This looks interesting... app uses backchannel, statuses, polling, to take temperature of your class.
Jeffrey Plaman

How The Mind Really Works: 10 Counterintuitive Psychology Studies - PsyBlog - 2 views

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  • Jeffrey Plaman on 02 Mar 12
     
    Interesting tidbits about how we learn.
Jeffrey Plaman

Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling--Visualized | Co.Create | creativity + culture + commerce - 1 views

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  • Sean McHugh on 27 Nov 13
     
    A while back, now-former Pixar storyboard artist Emma Coats tweeted a series of pearls of narrative wisdom she had gleaned from working at the studio. This list of 22 rules of storytelling was widely embraced as it was applicable to any writer or anyone who was in the business of communicating (which is pretty much everyone, including software developers). And much of its advice (e.g. "You gotta keep in mind what's interesting to you as an audience, not what's fun to do as a writer. They can be very different") is still as applicable as ever. Thanks to the efforts of one fan, though, the rules may now become even more eminently shareable.
  • Jeffrey Plaman on 29 Nov 13
     
    Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling--Visualized By @joeberkowitz http://t.co/4rapIbGYav via @FastCoCreate
  • Jeffrey Plaman on 29 Nov 13
     
    Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling--Visualized By @joeberkowitz http://t.co/4rapIbGYav via @FastCoCreate
Keri-Lee Beasley

25 Creative Packaging Designs That Make Their Products Irresistible | DeMilked - 0 views

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 24 Apr 14
     
    Packaging designs that are as beautiful as they are clever & functional.
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.
Katie Day

Attention, and Other 21st-Century Social Media Literacies (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE ... - 0 views

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  • Howard Rheingold (howard@rheingold.com) is the author of Tools For Thought, The Virtual Community, Smart Mobs, and other books and is currently lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University.
  • I focus on five social media literacies: Attention Participation Collaboration Network awareness Critical consumption
  • lthough I consider attention to be fundamental to all the other literacies, the one that links together all the others, and although it is the one I will spend the most time discussing in this article, none of these literacies live in isolation.
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  • Multitasking, or "continuous partial attention" as Linda Stone has called another form of attention-splitting, or "hyper attention" as N. Katherine Hayles has called another contemporary variant,2 are not necessarily bad alternatives to focused attention. It depends on what is happening in our own external and internal worlds at the moment.
  • As students become more aware of how they are directing their attention, I begin to emphasize the idea of using blogs and wikis as a means of connecting with their public voice and beginning to act with others in mind. Just because many students today are very good at learning and using online applications and at connecting and participating with friends and classmates via social media, that does not necessarily mean that they understand the implications of their participation within a much larger public.
  • ut how to participate in a way that's valuable to others as well as to yourself, I agree with Yochai Benkler, Henry Jenkins, and others that participating, even if it's no good and nobody cares, gives one a different sense of being in the world. When you participate, you become an active citizen rather than simply a passive consumer of what is sold to you, what is taught to you, and what your government wants you to believe. Simply participating is a start. (Note that I am not guaranteeing that having a sense of agency compels people to perform only true, good, and beautiful actions.)
  • I don't believe in the myth of the digital natives who are magically empowered and fluent in the use of social media simply because they carry laptops, they're never far from their phones, they're gamers, and they know how to use technologies. We are seeing a change in their participation in society—yet this does not mean that they automatically understand the rhetorics of participation, something that is particularly important for citizens.
  • Critical consumption, or what Ernest Hemingway called "crap detection," is the literacy of trying to figure out what and who is trustworthy—and what and who is not trustworthy—online. If you find people, whether you know them or not, who you can trust to be an authority on something or another, add them to your personal network. Consult them personally, consult what they've written, and consult their opinion about the subject.
  • Finally, crap detection takes us back, full circle, to the literacy of attention. When I assign my students to set up an RSS reader or a Twitter account, they panic. They ask how they are supposed to keep up with the overwhelming flood of information. I explain that social media is not a queue; it's a flow. An e-mail inbox is a queue, because we have to deal with each message in one way or another, even if we simply delete them. But no one can catch up on all 5,000 or so unread feeds in their RSS reader; no one can go back through all of the hundreds (or thousands) of tweets that were posted overnight. Using Twitter, one has to ask: "Do I pay attention to this? Do I click through? Do I open a tab and check it out later today? Do I bookmark it because I might be interested in the future?" We have to learn to sample the flow, and doing so involves knowing how to focus our attention.
Katie Day

Cambodia For Kids: Make Connects With The Arts, Culture, and the People of Cambodia Via... - 0 views

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  • Cambodia 4 Kids is an evolving educational Web site for teachers, parents, and especially children who are interested in making connections with Cambodia, its people, and its arts & culture via the Internet.
  • Katie Day on 28 Nov 10
     
    website set up by Beth Kanter
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."
Katie Day

I.N.K. - interesting non-fiction for kids - 0 views

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childrens_lit blog recommended nonfiction

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  • Katie Day on 01 Mar 11
     
    a joint blog by a group of nonfiction writers for kids
Katie Day

7 Interesting Ways* to find Creative Commons re... - "Google Docs" - 2 views

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  • Katie Day on 27 Aug 11
     
    Tom Barrett presentation -- which all can edit/add to....
Miles Beasley

Classics Illustrated Comic Books - 0 views

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  • Miles Beasley on 08 Sep 11
     
    Classics turned into comics - interesting!
Jeffrey Plaman

Educational Leadership:The Transition Years:Positive Digital Footprints - 1 views

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digitalfootprint footprint reputation blogging ascd article

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  • One of my worst fears as [my children] grow older is that they won't be Googled well. … that when a certain someone (read: admissions officer, employer, potential mate) enters "Tess Richardson" into the search line of the browser, what comes up will be less than impressive. That a quick surf through the top five hits will fail to astound with examples of her creativity, collaborative skills, and change-the-world work. Or, even worse, that no links about her will come up at all. (p. 16)
  • Students who see digital tools as vehicles for collective action around ideas they believe in are less likely to engage in risky behaviors online because they see social media spaces as forums for learning first and entertainment second
  • begin to paint complex digital portraits of themselves by networking with like-minded peers, joining groups committed to studying topics of deep personal interest to them, and creating products that are an accurate expression of who they are and what they believe in.
  • Jeffrey Plaman on 21 Sep 11
     
    Good article illustrating the need for students to develop a positive digital presence.
nadinebailey

Compound Interest - 0 views

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chemistry infographics resources HS science images uwcsea_east

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  • nadinebailey on 02 Jun 14
     
    Some very useful infographics under CC licence.
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