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Louise Phinney

Interactives . The Rock Cycle . Introduction - 1 views

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  • Louise Phinney on 18 Jul 12
     
    Discover rock secrets through these activities. Create a rock collection as you learn about the three main types of rock, find out how to tell the different rock types apart, and see how rocks change from one type into another!
Keri-Lee Beasley

Use Google Docs to Facilitate a Digital Writer's Workshop ~ Cool Tools for 21st Century... - 0 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 21 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 21 Feb 12
     
    The features in Google Docs can be used to facilitate a digital writer's workshop based on peer editing, and they are particularly useful when combined with cooperative grouping strategies to fine-tune students' editing skills. While students are writing their drafts, teachers can take advantage of opportunities to lead small instructional groups to help them focus on specific cooperative grouping job-related skills, then students can share their drafts with other group members who use comments to suggest revisions based on their job. The immediate feedback provided by peers will likely encourage writers to check comments and revise at home and stay on task during classroom work time. The revision history will keep student comments and revisions honest and focused on the task.
Louise Phinney

Higher Level Technology Use | Creating Lifelong Learners - 0 views

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shared by Louise Phinney on 09 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 09 Mar 12
     
    A graphic that depicts the Technology Taxononmy I will talk about incorporating multimedia in the classroom as something all teachers should be doing but I definitely want teachers to know that they shouldn't stop there.  To reach high levels of engagement, thinking, and to narrow the digital divide, teachers must turn technology over to students and guide them as they become their own content producers and influencers on the community outside the classroom.
Katie Day

Neuroscience & the Classroom - 0 views

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  • Katie Day on 09 Jun 12
     
    "Neuroscience & the Classroom: Making Connections is a self-contained distance-learning course distributed free of charge on the Web. The course is designed by Kurt Fischer, director of the Mind, Brain, and Education Program at Harvard University Graduate School of Education; Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, assistant professor of education at the Rossier School of Education and assistant professor of psychology at the Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California; and Matthew H. Schneps, George E. Burch Fellow in Theoretic Medicine and Affiliated Sciences at the Smithsonian Institution and director of the Laboratory for Visual Learning at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). The multimedia course consists of six units, with an introduction and a conclusion. Each unit contains many integrated videos and sidebars of additional information, as well as a list of resources."
Keri-Lee Beasley

Five-Minute Film Festival: Classroom Makeovers to Engage Learners | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 16 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 16 Aug 15
     
    Lots of links to posts/videos about classroom setup and design
Katie Day

Learning Science Through Inquiry - 0 views

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  • Katie Day on 20 Sep 10
     
    <> Each one-hour program features classroom case studies and informative discussions. When you participate in the workshop in a group setting, you get the added benefits of peer interaction during pre- and post-viewing activities. The Learning Science Through Inquiry workshop provides a solid starting point to explore, discuss, and critique the inquiry approach - and ultimately put it to use in your own classroom.
Katie Day

Global Digital Citizen wiki - 0 views

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shared by Katie Day on 17 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Guiding Questions: What does collaborative learning and digital citizenship look like in a global context? What does it mean to be a responsible, reliable and respectful learner as well as culturally sensitive and globally aware? How can we embed social media and collaborative learning using emerging technologies effectively within global digital citizenship guidelines? How can we create the MODEL of the way forward?
  • Katie Day on 17 Sep 10
     
    "This wiki has been created to support the 'Relationship between Teachers and Students' Cohort at the Learning 2.010 Conference held in Shanghai, September 16-18, 2010."
Katie Day

Education Week Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: Change Agent - 0 views

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shared by Katie Day on 17 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • You’ve written that too many teachers are “un-Googleable.” What do you mean by that and why does it matter? What I mean is that too few teachers have a visible presence on the Web. The primary reason this matters is that the kids in our classrooms are going to be Googled—they're going to be searched for on the Web—over and over again. That's just the reality of their lives, right? So they need models. They need to have adults who know what it means to have a strong and appropriate search portfolio—I call it the “G-portfolio.” But right now—and this is my ongoing refrain—there’s no one teaching them how to learn and share with these technologies. There's no one teaching them about the nuances involved in creating a positive online footprint. It's all about what not to do instead of what they should be doing. The second thing is that, if you want to be part of an extended learning network or community, you have to be findable. And you have to participate in some way. The people I learn from on a day-to-day basis are Googleable. They’re findable, they have a presence, they’re participating, they’re transparent. That’s what makes them a part of my learning network. If you’re not out there—if you’re not transparent or findable in that way—I can’t learn with you.
  • Why do you think many teachers are not out there on the Web? I think it’s a huge culture shift. Education by and large has been a very closed type of profession. “Just let me close my doors and teach”—you hear that refrain all the time. I’ve had people come up to me after presentations and say, “Well, I’m not putting my stuff up on the Web because I don’t want anyone to take it and use it.” And I say, “But that’s the whole point.” I love what David Wiley, an instructional technology professor at Brigham Young University, says: “Without sharing, there is no education.” And it’s true.
  • What could a school administrator do to help teachers make that shift? Say you were a principal? What would you do? Well, first of all, I would be absolutely the best model that I could be. I would definitely share my own thoughts, my own experiences, and my own reflections on how the environment of learning is changing. I would be very transparent in my online learning activity and try to show people in the school that it’s OK, that it has value. I think it’s very hard to be a leader around these types of changes without modeling them.
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  • Secondly, I would try to build a school culture where sharing is just a normal part of what we do and where we understand the relevance of this global exchange of ideas and information to what we do in the classroom.
  • There’s a great book called Rethinking Education in an Era of Technology by Allan Collins and Richard Halverson. For me, these guys absolutely peg it. They talk about how we went from a kind of apprenticeship model of education in the early 19th century to a more industrialized, everybody-does-the-same-thing model in the 20th century. And now we’re moving into what they call a “lifelong learning” model—which is to say that learning is much more fluid and much more independent, self-directed, and informal. That concept—that we can learn in profound new ways outside the classroom setting—poses huge challenges to traditional structures of schools, because that’s not what they were built for.
  • What we have to do is build a professional culture that says, “Look, you guys are learners, and we’re going to help you learn. We’re going to help you figure out your own learning path and practice.” It’s like the old “give a man a fish” saying. You know, we’re giving away a lot of fish right now, but we’re not teaching anybody how to fish.
  • If you were a principal, in order to foster network literacy as you envision it, what kind of professional development would you provide to teachers? I think that teachers need to have a very fundamental understanding of what these digital interactions look like, and the only way that you can do that is to pretty much immerse them in these types of learning environments over the long term. You can’t workshop it. That’s really been the basis of our work with Powerful Learning Practice: Traditional PD just isn’t going to work. It’s got to be long-term, job-embedded. So, if I’m a principal, I would definitely be thinking about how I could get my teachers into online learning communities, into these online networks. And again, from a leadership standpoint, I’d better be there first—or, if not first, at least be able to model it and talk about it.
  • But the other thing is, if you want to have workshops, well, that’s fine, go ahead and schedule a blogging workshop, but then the prerequisite for the workshop should be to learn how to blog. Then, when you come to the workshop, we’ll talk about what blogging means rather than just how to do it.
  • If you were starting a school right now that you hoped embodied these qualities, what traits would you look for in teachers? Well, certainly I would make sure they were Googleable. I would want to see that they have a presence online, that they are participating in these spaces, and, obviously, that they are doing so appropriately. Also, I’d want to know that they have some understanding of how technology is changing teaching and learning and the possibilities that are out there. I would also look for people who aren’t asking how, but instead are asking why. I don’t want people who say, “How do you blog?” I want people who are ready to explore the question of, “Why do you blog?” That’s what we need. We need people who are willing to really think critically about what they’re doing.
Keri-Lee Beasley

LEARN on Vimeo - 0 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 08 Aug 11 - No Cached
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      Keri-Lee Beasley on 24 Aug 11
       
      This would be a great video for sharing editing techniques or just to show the sorts of things that people can learn in the world. 
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 08 Aug 11
     
    One of a beautiful series of 3 videos - Learn, Eat & Move which shows a guy learning things all over the world. Great for promoting lifelong learning - kind of the ideal UWCSEA student really!
Katie Day

» Ethical eLearners Technology Skills for the 21st Century Learner - 1 views

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creative_commons teaching lists

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  • Katie Day on 09 Sep 11
     
    list of resources for Fair Use and Creative Commons -- images, music, videos, etc.
Louise Phinney

Learner First - 3 views

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shared by Louise Phinney on 17 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 17 Sep 11
     
    was so intrigued by a video that was created by Rod Lucier's cohort at the Learning 2.011 conference (and this reflection that you should read) this last week in Shanghai that I wanted to share it. 
Mary van der Heijden

Learning Science Through Inquiry - 0 views

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science inquiry

shared by Mary van der Heijden on 18 Jul 11 - Cached
  • Mary van der Heijden on 18 Jul 11
     
    good PD could be useful for grades as professional learning for their planning
Jeffrey Plaman

Team and Community Building Using Mobile Devices « User Generated Education - 0 views

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Learner voice presence team mobile community

shared by Jeffrey Plaman on 15 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Jeffrey Plaman on 15 Oct 11
     
    Lots of activities for team and community building involving digital tools, mobile devices and online spaces.
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