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Louise Phinney

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

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    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
Sean McHugh

The Overselling of Ed Tech - Alfie Kohn - 0 views

  • the rationale that I find most disturbing — despite, or perhaps because of, the fact that it’s rarely made explicit — is the idea that technology will increase our efficiency . . . at teaching the same way that children have been taught for a very long time
  • The first involves adjusting the difficulty level of prefabricated skills-based exercises based on students’ test scores, and it requires the purchase of software. The second involves working with each student to create projects of intellectual discovery that reflect his or her unique needs and interests, and it requires the presence of a caring teacher who knows each child well
  • these are examples of how technology may make the process a bit more efficient or less dreary but does nothing to challenge the outdated pedagogy. To the contrary: These are shiny things that distract us from rethinking our approach to learning and reassure us that we’re already being innovative
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  • We can’t answer the question “Is tech useful in schools?” until we’ve grappled with a deeper question: “What kinds of learning should be taking place in those schools?” If we favor an approach by which students actively construct meaning, an interactive process that involves a deep understanding of ideas and emerges from the interests and questions of the learners themselves, well, then we’d be open to the kinds of technology that truly support this kind of inquiry. Show me something that helps kids create, design, produce, construct — and I’m on board. Show me something that helps them make things collaboratively (rather than just on their own), and I’m even more interested
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      Yeah, so?
  • even if ed tech were adopted as thoughtfully as its proponents claim, we’re still left with deep reasons to be concerned about the outmoded model of teaching that it helps to preserve — or at least fails to help us move beyond
  • teachers are far more likely to use tech to make their own jobs easier and to supplement traditional instructional strategies than to put students in control of their own learning
Jeffrey Plaman

Flipping Parenting: My Family's Media and Tech Agreement | Psychology Today - 2 views

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    "Flipping Parenting: My Family's Media and Tech Agreement "
Louise Phinney

Make It Work: Sharing Class Sets of iPads - 1 views

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    "Do NOT allow the iPads to live in mobile carts - when I see an iPad in a cart, I see money being burned. The carts should be where the iPads sleep when school is closed. This is where they re-charge. But there should be a school-wide routine that as soon as kids enter a room with an iPad cart, they each walk up to the cart and get their assigned iPad. They should keep that iPad on their desk until the end of the day and return it to the cart as they walk out of the classroom. iPads should be as essential to a student desk as pencils were 20 years ago. Teachers (and kids) will be much more likely to pick up and use the devices if they're right there, as opposed to having to plan to take them out and use them for "tech time" and then put them away. Think about how you use mobile tech in your everyday life - you pull your phone out of your pocket to look up information when it's relevant, rather than waiting until your "computer time" later in the week. Students should be able to do the same."
Louise Phinney

Tech Mentors' Retreat - Day 1 (VIDEO) · klbeasley · Storify - 3 views

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    An example of using Storify to collect all the tweets about the first day of the Tech Mentors' Retreat
Louise Phinney

12 Education Tech Trends to Watch in 2012 | MindShift - 2 views

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    GAMING: Game-based learning has been on the cusp of being "the next big thing" for a while now. Perhaps 2012 will be the year. With the flourishing of mobile technologies, with the promise of data and analytics, and with a realization that we can create new and engaging ways to move through lessons, we are likely to see an explosion of educational gaming apps this year. The big question, of course - with this as with every new ed-tech development: does this actually improve learning? When is a educational game fun? What makes it engaging? What makes it actually educational?
Keri-Lee Beasley

Technology beckons classes, but some schools lag | GazetteNET - 0 views

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    "Teacher Kelly Finn, left, works with students Rachel Mathews, center, and Sarah Xu during a writer's workshop at The Barstow School in Kansas City, Mo." - Photo to the right of the article.  Article advocating tech use in schools. One school is doing writer's workshop and using technology as part of the process. Not much detail on how they are doing that exactly, but interesting to see how schools are forging tech & writers workshop together
Keri-Lee Beasley

7 Habits of Highly Effective Tech-leading Principals -- THE Journal - 1 views

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    A good read of things leaders can do to model best practice with tech.
Keri-Lee Beasley

10 steps to successful tech integration… « What Ed Said - 1 views

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    Great blogpost from Edna on 10 steps to successful tech integration. I like that she suggests working with the willing & getting admin on board.
Louise Phinney

Hack Education - 0 views

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    Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012
Jeffrey Plaman

An Illustrated Guide To Our Maddening Relationship With Tech | Co.Design: business + in... - 1 views

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    Ah, modern life. The way we live now is intrinsically tied to increasingly pervasive technology, our relationship to which could be permanently set to "it's complicated." French graphic designer Jean Jullien presented his own playful take on our ever-evolving connection to gadgets, gizmos, and yes, human interaction for Allo?, currently on display at London's Kemistry Gallery.
Keri-Lee Beasley

15 Awesome Interactive Virtual Field Trips « History Tech - 0 views

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    History Tech website chooses 15 virtual field trips. Useful for Humanities?
Louise Phinney

The Top 10 tech trends for 2012 - CNN.com - 2 views

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    1. Touch computing, 2. Social gestures, 3. NFC and mobile payments, 4. Beyond the iPad, 5. TV Everywhere, 6. Voice control, 7. Spatial gestures, 8. Second-screen experiences, 9. Flexible screens, 10. HTML5
Keri-Lee Beasley

Teach Parents Tech - 0 views

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    Clever letter from google on how to teach your parents tech. Lots of useful and practical ideas. Worth checking out.
Jeffrey Plaman

Using the Tech Tuesday Archives for Hands-On Training | Technology Teaching Tips and Tools - 2 views

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    Nice list of tech train modules for PD
Keri-Lee Beasley

thefishbowl - CleanUp - 1 views

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    The KIS tech team's wiki - great tips on how to clean up your mac
Sean McHugh

Want to cure cancer? There's an app for that - News - Gadgets & Tech - The Independent - 0 views

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    A new gaming app is in development that will help scientists to analyse genetic data in the search for cancer cures. Cancer Research UK have teamed up with Google, Facebook and Amazon to develop a game you can play on your mobile that will simultaneously sort through genetic data. "A new gaming app is in development that will help scientists to analyse genetic data in the search for cancer cures. Cancer Research UK have teamed up with Google, Facebook and Amazon to develop a game you can play on your mobile that will simultaneously sort through genetic data.
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