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Louise Phinney

Free Technology for Teachers: Create a Text Message Exchange Between Fictional Characters - 0 views

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  • Louise Phinney on 14 Mar 13
     
    Good for any class doing a character study The ever clever Russel Tarr has developed a new neat tool for creating fictional text message exchanges between fictional and or historical characters. The Classtools SMS Generator is free to use and does not require students to log-in. To use the SMS Generator just click the left speech bubble icon and enter a message. Then to create a reply just click the right speech bubble icon and enter a new message. You can make the exchange as long as you like.
Katie Day

Learning science through gaming - MIT - 1 views

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  • Katie Day on 23 Apr 11
     
    ""Vanished" is a two-month-long game, which debuted the week of April 4 and stems from an initial scenario revealed in recent video messages on the site. The premise is that people living in the future have contacted us in the present, to answer a question: What event occurred between our time and theirs that led to the loss of civilization's historical records? Students must decode clues in hidden messages, and in response find and provide information about Earth's current condition, such as temperature and species data, to help people in the future deduce what wound up happening. "
Louise Phinney

remind101 | Text Messaging For Teachers - 1 views

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texting cellphone tools education

shared by Louise Phinney on 25 Feb 12 - Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 25 Feb 12
     
    A safe way for teachers to text message students and stay in touch with parents. Free. Could be interesting?
Keri-Lee Beasley

ifaketext.com | The first iPhone text message screenshot generator. - 1 views

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fake text_message texting humanities english literacy socialstudies

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 25 Feb 12
     
    Create fake text message conversations. Useful for Social Studies and English
Louise Phinney

Teaching Children About Digital Footprints | Primary Tech - 1 views

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digitalfootprint

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  • Louise Phinney on 25 Feb 13
     
    "Unfortunately, I've come across a number of resources which only focus on the negatives of digital footprints and promote a culture of fear. The message I like to promote is that we should protect our digital footprints and try to ensure that they are positive. Encouraging students to avoid posting or doing anything online just seems counter productive."
Keri-Lee Beasley

iphonetextgenerator.com - Generate perfect iPhone text message chat screenshots in seco... - 0 views

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iPhone generator message text mobile technology creativity

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 09 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 09 Apr 13
     
    This could be kinda cool to play with.
Louise Phinney

Scott Steinberg: Teaching Technology: 10 Lessons Every School Should Share - 0 views

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technology education

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  • Louise Phinney on 27 Jan 13
     
    online etiquette, privacy and safety, permanence, digital citizenship, texting and messaging basics, tech isn't everything, addiction, when mistakes are made, tech as a teaching tool, the value of tech
Katie Day

Inside Out - TED Jr Prize winner - 0 views

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  • Katie Day on 09 Mar 11
     
    Watch the video.... Amazing photography project.... "INSIDE OUT is a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. Upload a portrait. Receive a poster. Paste it for the world to see."
Katie Day

Singapore- Kampong Lorong Buangkok (Part 1 of 3) - YouTube - 0 views

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singapore videos history documentaries

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  • Katie Day on 10 Mar 11
     
    "This is part 1 of 3 of a 23 min short documentary on the last rural village, or 'kampong', in Singapore - Kampong Lorong Buangkok. This documentary is a product of love, sweat, and mosquito bites, created by a group of final-year students from NTU's School of Communication & Information. All rights reserved by Retrospect Pictures. Feel free to drop us a message for inquiries on usage!"
Louise Phinney

ISTE take-home message #1: It's all about the iPads | ZDNet - 0 views

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edtech iPads

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  • Louise Phinney on 06 Jul 11
     
    the iPad, ooooh yeah.....
Keri-Lee Beasley

Google Fonts - 0 views

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fonts google typography font design technology creativity visual_literacy graphic_design

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 27 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 27 Mar 14
     
    Test out fonts then add to your collection in Google! Genius! Great for helping to show students how fonts can convey a message.
Keri-Lee Beasley

A Difference: You, Your Kids, and Your Phones - 1 views

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technology digital_citizenship digital_literacy parents safety

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 02 Mar 15
     
    Digital Citizenship isn't an expression often heard outside of school. The ways in which it's discussed in main stream media are quite different from how it's discussed in schools. Most often the popular press shares sensational negative stories how kids use the internet and their phones to hurt each other. We have to have open and honest conversations about how things can and have gone wrong and what we can do to make things better in the aftermath of things like cyber bullying, online harassment, or sexting. That said, it's a far more powerful message to talk to kids and parents about how engendering empathy helps us understand each other so we choose not to hurt each other. It's also important to share stories and ideas how our modern mobile technologies empower us to effect positive change in the world around us in ways that weren't possible 10 or 15 years ago. We have to move beyond stranger danger and scare tactics. Sharing frightening stories (often overstated) does nothing to model positive outcomes or move the conversation to discussions of how to deal with something gone wrong. Kids need more models of empathy and empowerment. Parents do too.
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."
David Caleb

How to change the default "Save" location from ... | Apple Support Communities - 1 views

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how to apple change default location save

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  • David Caleb on 29 Apr 15
     
    Want to change the default location from iCloud?
Katie Day

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

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teaching attention howard_rheingold social_media literacy

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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

IST Grade 2 - Welcome! - 1 views

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pyp grade_website international_school examples

shared by Katie Day on 27 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Karibu! and welcome to the International School of Tanganyika’s Grade 2 Information Portal. Here you will find ongoing information about what is happening in Grade 2 classrooms, links to IST events, curriculum, student work and much much more. Please check back often and feel free to leave us a message with your ideas, links and good thoughts. Asante!
  • Katie Day on 27 Mar 10
     
    Example of a Grade 2 website/blog - in an international PYP school (International School of Tanganyika)
Katie Day

What Messages Do We Give Students with Our Classroom Library Design? - 2 views

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literacy_program classrooms design childrens_lit teaching

shared by Katie Day on 28 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Katie Day on 28 Aug 11
     
    "In the article Room for Beliefs: Linking Classroom Design and What We Value, Debbie Miller helps us think through the ways that our room design reflects the things we value about student learning. She provides three important questions to think about when we map out our classroom designs that we want others to be able to answer when they visit our rooms:
Sean McHugh

Digital media can enhance family life, says LSE study - 1 views

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  • engaging in digital media activities together such as watching films, playing video games and keeping in touch via calls and messaging apps brings families together rather than dividing them
  • rather than displacing established ways of interacting, playing and communicating – digital media sit alongside them
  • the report’s authors highlighted parents’ concerns about “screen time”, which is a source of conflict in homes, though sleep and behaviour cause more disagreement. They also flag up a lack of support for parents who may face particular challenges regarding their child or family’s digital media use. Whereas on other issues they might turn to their own parents for advice, the digital generation gap means they are unlikely to be able to help
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  • traditional, shared activities persist in families, alongside newer digital activities
  • Rather than worrying about the overall amount of screen time children get, it might be better to support parents, many of whom are digital natives themselves, in deciding whether, when and why particular digital activities help or harm their child, and what to do about it
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