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Katie Day

1-to-1 Laptop Program Success Stories - 1 to 1 Schools - 0 views

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1:to:1 teaching education

shared by Katie Day on 22 Jul 10 - Cached
  • The three short videos below were recorded in Denver at an ISTE session entitled "1-to-1 Laptop Program Success Stories: Common Themes from Diverse Implementations."  It was a panel discussion with three presenters with extensive 1:1 experience. Mike Muir, Cyndi Danner-Kuhn, and Sam Farsaii. 
Sean McHugh

pr0tean: A Framework for Transformational Technology - SAMMS - 2 views

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cpd PD professional_development technology framework SAMMS SAMR

shared by Sean McHugh on 04 Aug 13 - No Cached
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 04 Aug 13
       
      SAMMS. Transform teaching with digital technologies by focusing on what  makes tech transformational.
  • Frameworks like SAMR and RAT are incredibly helpful here, but we still need a framework to assist with the top levels of redefinition/transformation of learning through effective uses of digital technologies.
  • what are the transformative, unique affordances of digital technologies?
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  • Five features or facets of pixels that out perform paper -  (SAMMS): Situated practice (work anywhere)Accessibility (access to information)Multi-modality (screen centred creations)Mutability (provisionality/fluidity/malleability)Social networking (syncronous/asyncronous people power) 
Sean McHugh

The Scientific Case For Teaching Cursive Handwriting to Your Kids Is Weaker Than You Think - 2 views

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teaching handwriting research

shared by Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16 - No Cached
  • here is ample evidence that writing by hand aids cognition in ways that typing does not: It’s well worth teaching. And I confess I’m old-fashioned enough to think that, regardless of proven cognitive benefits, a good handwriting style is an important and valuable skill, not only when your laptop batteries run out but as an expression of personality and character.
  • if they have the time and inclination.
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
       
      But should we be dedicating swathes of curriculum time towards this? Surely not.
  • what teachers “know” about how children learn is sometimes more a product of the culture in which they’re immersed than a result of research and data.
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
       
      Never were truer words written.
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  • What does research say on these issues? It has consistently failed to find any real advantage of cursive over other forms of handwriting
  • our real understanding of how children respond to different writing styles is surprisingly patchy and woefully inadequate
  • Evidence supports teaching both formats of handwriting and then letting each student choose which works best for him or her
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
       
      Shouldn't we include touch typing here as well?
  • So was cursive faster than manuscript? No, it was slower. But fastest of all was a personalized mixture of cursive and manuscript developed spontaneously by pupils around the fourth to fifth grade
  • They had apparently imbibed manuscript style from their reading experience (it more closely resembles print), even without being taught it explicitly
  • While pupils writing in cursive were slower on average, their handwriting was also typically more legible than that of pupils taught only manuscript. But the mixed style allowed for greater speed with barely any deficit in legibility.
  • The grip that cursive has on teaching is sustained by folklore and prejudice
  • freeing up cognitive resources that are otherwise devoted to the challenge of simply making the more elaborate cursive forms on paper will leave children more articulate and accurate in what they write
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
       
      Likewise if they can touch-type instead of wrestling with ascenders and descenders...
  • for typical children, there’s some reason to think manuscript has advantages
  • the difference in appearance between cursive and manuscript could inhibit the acquisition of reading skills, making it harder for children to transfer skills between learning to read and learning to write because they simply don’t see cursive in books.
  • There’s good evidence, both behavioral and neurological, that a “haptic” (touch-related) sense of letter shapes can aid early reading skills, indicating a cognitive interaction between motor production and visual recognition of letters. That’s one reason, incidentally, why it’s valuable to train children to write by hand at all, not just to use a keyboard.
  • even if being taught both styles might have some advantages, it’s not clear that those cognitive resources and classroom hours couldn’t be better deployed in other ways.
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
       
      In other ways... the time it takes for kids to learn cursive, spread over years, compared to the relatively short time it takes to master touch-typing being a case in point.
  • that cursive is still taught primarily because of parental demand and tradition, rather than because there is any scientific basis for its superiority in learning
  • inertia and preconceptions seem to distort perception and policy at the expense of the scientific evidence
  • How much else in education is determined by what’s “right,” rather than what’s supported by evidence?
  • Beliefs about cursive are something of a hydra: You cut off one head, and another sprouts. These beliefs propagate through both the popular and the scientific literature, in a strange mixture of uncritical reporting and outright invention, which depends on myths often impossible to track to a reliable source.
  • the reasons to reject cursive handwriting as a formal part of the curriculum far outweigh the reasons to keep it.
  • This must surely lead us to wonder how much else in education is determined by a belief in what is “right,” unsupported by evidence.
  • it’s often the case that the very lack of hard, objective evidence about an issue, especially in the social sciences, encourages a reliance on dogma instead
  • There needs to be wider examination of the extent to which evidence informs education. Do we heed it enough? Or is what children learn determined more by precedent and cultural or institutional norms?
  • Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
     
    There needs to be wider examination of the extent to which evidence informs education. Do we heed it enough? Or is what children learn determined more by precedent and cultural or institutional norms?
Katie Day

Global Digital Citizen wiki - 0 views

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global digital wikis online_projects teachers students

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."
Keri-Lee Beasley

How to Make a Common Craft Style Video (Mr. Fogle, SVSD, HMS) - YouTube - 1 views

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commoncraft video howto technology

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 30 Jan 12 - Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 30 Jan 12
     
    A good basic overview of how to make a Common Craft Style explanation video.
Keri-Lee Beasley

How Google Is Changing The Way We Think - 0 views

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technology learning google thinking skills

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 27 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • According to Small’s research, using a search engine increased activity in the regions of the brain dealing with decision making, complex reasoning and vision. Also, the more-experienced Internet users exhibited more than twice as much brain activity as the less-experienced subjects, leading Small to predict that the more we search, the stronger the brain’s reaction to searching.
  • One influential study, produced by researchers at Columbia, Harvard and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, found that people were less likely to remember a piece of trivia when they had access to the Internet. Instead, they were more likely to remember where the information had been saved.
  • “The Internet has become a primary form of external or transactive memory, where information is stored collectively outside ourselves,” the researchers concluded.
Katie Day

A Citizen Scientist Changes Our Understanding of Whales: Scientific American Podcast - 0 views

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science inquiry whales flickr

shared by Katie Day on 17 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Using the photo-sharing site Flickr and a personal history of studying whale photos, she identified a picture, taken in 2001 by tourist Freddy Johansen in Madagascar, of an Antarctic humpback known to scientists as number 1363. Two years earlier, researchers had spotted 1363, a female, swimming alongside another whale in Brazil. Brazil to Madagascar. That’s a distance of 6,000 miles, nearly double any documented migration by a humpback.
  • The discovery led to her co-authoring a paper published earlier this month in Biology Letters, and earning her the esteemed title of citizen scientist. In the process, she changed our understanding of the humpback whale.
  • Katie Day on 17 Nov 10
     
    great little story of how a school teacher added to the world's knowledge of humpback whales thanks to her own ongoing passion and inquiry into whales AND the benefit of Flickr, where she could examine other people's photographs of whales
Louise Phinney

VisualBlooms - HOME - 0 views

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bloomstaxonomy Web2.0

shared by Louise Phinney on 03 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • A Visual Representation of Bloom's Taxonomic Hierarchy with a 21st Century Skills Frame.
  • Louise Phinney on 03 Sep 11
     
    A Visual Representation ofBloom's Taxonomic Hierarchywith a 21st Century Skills Frame.
Keri-Lee Beasley

Common Craft Cut-Out Library | Common Craft - 1 views

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commoncraft videos digital_storytelling explanation howto tutorials

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 11 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 11 Dec 12
     
    Awesome symbols/cutouts for Common Craft style videos 
Sean McHugh

Anne Murphy Paul: Why Floundering Makes Learning Better | TIME.com - 0 views

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learning teaching research floundering grappling

shared by Sean McHugh on 24 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • the “learning paradox”: the more you struggle and even fail while you’re trying to master new information, the better you’re likely to recall and apply that information later.
  • let the neophytes wrestle with the material on their own for a while, refraining from giving them any assistance at the start.
  • These students weren’t able to complete the problems correctly. But in the course of trying to do so, they generated a lot of ideas about the nature of the problems and about what potential solutions would look like. And when the two groups were tested on what they’d learned, the second group “significantly outperformed” the first.
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  • The apparent struggles of the floundering group have what Kapur calls a “hidden efficacy”: they lead people to understand the deep structure of problems, not simply their correct solutions.
  • they’re able to transfer the knowledge they’ve gathered more effectively than those who were the passive recipients of someone else’s expertise.
  • “design for productive failure” by building it into the learning process.
  • Sean McHugh on 24 Mar 13
     
    " Kapur has identified three conditions that promote this kind of beneficial struggle. First, choose problems to work on that "challenge but do not frustrate." Second, provide learners with opportunities to explain and elaborate on what they're doing. Third, give learners the chance to compare and contrast good and bad solutions to the problems. And to those students and workers who protest this tough-love teaching style: you'll thank me later." Originally shared by JPL! Still awesome. (yes, you Jeff, and this article)
Louise Phinney

Buy or Make Touchscreen Styluses for Cheap - Tony Vincent - Learning in Hand - 1 views

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stylus iPad making creativity

shared by Louise Phinney on 01 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 01 Feb 13
     
    For those who like to tinker! "It might be fun for you or for students to make do-it-yourself styluses. CNET shows you how to make a stylus in two minutes using a Q-tip and foil. Make Use Of has instructions for constructing a styles from foam, wire, and an old pen. Students at Anastasis Academy made with own iPad styluses for less than 10 cents using a sponge and wire. "
Katie Day

How to work with styles in iBooks Author [Video] | Inkslinger Industries - 2 views

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ibooks ipads howto videos

shared by Katie Day on 09 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Katie Day on 09 Jul 12
     
    various videos explaining how to create books in iBooks
Louise Phinney

Deflated | Intrepid Teacher - 1 views

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shared by Louise Phinney on 06 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 06 Dec 11
     
    Interesting blog post from Jabiz Raisdana - do your reporting methods match our teaching methods and do the 21c learning tools we are using and expecting the students to use fit into the 'old' style report cards. Interesting things to think about
Keri-Lee Beasley

Creating Common Craft Videos | U Tech Tips - 2 views

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commoncraft howto explanation technology

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 31 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 31 Jan 12
     
    Post I wrote a while back on Creating Common Craft style videos. Some good examples of student work here too.
Louise Phinney

The Great Question Press - 3 views

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questioning research inquiry

shared by Louise Phinney on 16 Jul 12 - Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 16 Jul 12
     
    this is an old post, but I like how it looks at changing questioning style i order to get the most out of our students No more trivial pursuit. No more topical research. No more hunts for simple facts - deadly, tiresome and lacking in value, mind-numbing activities without import. This article offers something like a cider press - but one that easily produces intriguing questions from the mass of curriculum content that usually inspires mere collection or varieties of trivial pursuit.
Keri-Lee Beasley

SimpleDiagrams | Create simple diagrams in a snap! - 1 views

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visualization diagrams images technology graphic_organizers inquiry creativity

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 25 Feb 12 - Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 25 Feb 12
     
    Create simple chalk-style diagrams using this desktop app. Looks pretty neat!
Louise Phinney

Welcome to the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) - 1 views

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writing english reference

shared by Louise Phinney on 29 Feb 12 - Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 29 Feb 12
     
    reference for writing and teaching writing, research, grammar, style guides, ESL and professional writing
Jeffrey Plaman

Teaching Style, Not Computers, Appears To Be Biggest Factor In Classroom Distraction | ... - 1 views

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teaching distraction professional_development uwcsea_east

shared by Jeffrey Plaman on 09 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Jeffrey Plaman on 09 Mar 12
     
    Strategies for dealing with off-task behaviors. Study of Law students sheds light.
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