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Keri-Lee Beasley

A lawyer rewrote Instagram's terms of service for kids. Now you can understand all of t... - 1 views

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digital_citizenship digital_literacy technology privacy

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 09 Jan 17
     
    Student-friendly terms and conditions of Instagram. Similar to many Social Media apps.
Katie Day

Tablets - essay by Paul Graham - 0 views

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technology ipad ipod

shared by Katie Day on 20 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Katie Day on 20 Dec 10
     
    "I was thinking recently how inconvenient it was not to have a general term for iPhones, iPads, and the corresponding things running Android. The closest to a general term seems to be "mobile devices," but that (a) applies to any mobile phone, and (b) doesn't really capture what's distinctive about the iPad. After a few seconds it struck me that what we'll end up calling these things is tablets. The only reason we even consider calling them "mobile devices" is that the iPhone preceded the iPad. If the iPad had come first, we wouldn't think of the iPhone as a phone; we'd think of it as a tablet small enough to hold up to your ear."
Katie Day

Jonah Lehrer on Buildings, Health and Creativity | Head Case - WSJ.com - 0 views

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space design psychology architecture learning thinking article

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  • Katie Day on 01 May 11
     
    Article re how the color and shape of rooms affects the thinking that goes on inside the rooms... "They tested 600 subjects when surrounded by red, blue or neutral colors-in both real and virtual environments. The differences were striking. Test-takers in the red environments, were much better at skills that required accuracy and attention to detail, such as catching spelling mistakes or keeping random numbers in short-term memory. Though people in the blue group performed worse on short-term memory tasks, they did far better on tasks requiring some imagination, such as coming up with creative uses for a brick or designing a children's toy. In fact, subjects in the blue environment generated twice as many "creative outputs" as subjects in the red one. Why? According to the scientists, the color blue automatically triggers associations with openness and sky, while red makes us think of danger and stop signs. (Such associations are culturally mediated, of course; Chinese, for instance, tend to associate red with prosperity and good luck.) It's not just color. A similar effect seems to hold for any light, airy space."
Katie Day

Net wisdom - re reading on the internet -- FT.com - 0 views

www.ft.com/...ea-11e2-9891-00144feabdc0.html

longreads online reading

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  • Katie Day on 28 Feb 13
     
    by the creator of The Browser, a great place to get good long-reads; he celebrates what the internet gives us in terms of reading opportunities
Katie Day

Google Keep: Worth Trying, with Caution | TIME.com - 0 views

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google tools

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  • Katie Day on 22 Mar 13
     
    "As expected, Google has flipped the switch on Google Keep, a dead-simple website and Android app for recording notes, checklists, images and audio. Also as expected, there's no shortage of tech pundits - still sore from Google's decision to shut down Google Reader - telling you to stay far, far away. As we witnessed with Reader, you can't trust Google to keep products around anymore, even popular ones, if they don't fit the company's long-term strategies. So maybe Google Keep won't exist in five years - it's still worth trying. "
Louise Phinney

Technology in Schools: Defining the Terms | Edutopia - 0 views

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technology edtech

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  • Louise Phinney on 02 Jun 13
     
    "In fact, the focus of the framework rests on a much larger concept of the ways in which humans have altered and continue to alter the "natural world" with the goal of fulfilling "needs and desires." Technology is much bigger and more complex than a single device or site."
Louise Phinney

Definition Of Digital Citzenship - 2 views

www.teachthought.com/...finition-of-digital-citzenship

digitalcitizenship

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  • Louise Phinney on 04 May 13
     
    "defining digital citizenship in terms of its actions and habits"
James Dalziel

Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals - 0 views

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Grit Perseverance Long term goals UPenn UWCSEA Profile Resilience

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  • James Dalziel on 08 Feb 13
     
    The importance of intellectual talent to achievement in all professional domains is well established, but less is known about other individual differences that predict success. The authors tested the importance of 1noncognitive trait: grit. Drive and energy in childhood are more predictive of success, if not creativity, than is IQ or some other more domain-specific ability" (p. 293)
Jeffrey Plaman

Coming of Age in the Digital Age | GeekDad | Wired.com - 1 views

www.wired.com/...ming-of-age-in-the-digital-age

digital citizenship parent parents gud age socialmedia facebook

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  • Jeffrey Plaman on 25 Feb 13
     
    This past week, my first-born became legal. Not to drive, vote or drink, though; that comes later. My son turned 13 years old, making him eligible under terms of service to have his own social media account. That isn't to say he hasn't been on those sites for years, though. His social media cred is older than our daughter, who turns four in a couple months. He has had moments where he used Facebook too much, only to self-censor like a boss when he found it was cutting into his reading time. These days, his activity is largely limited to liking Doctor Who content on my geeky Pinterest board and collaborating with peers on Google (despite his original account there being deleted due to age restrictions). He has never had much interest in tweeting, but he got a video camera yesterday that may signal the beginning of a new vlog.
Jeffrey Plaman

The Information Bingers - Future Tense - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Co... - 0 views

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technology information_literacy

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  • Jeffrey Plaman on 18 Feb 12
     
    "We often hear the term 'information overload' but is it a case of over-consumption as much as filter failure? There's a school of thought that says we now take in information in the same way we consume fast food-without control or moderation."
Louise Phinney

My view: Starting the school year on the right foot - Schools of Thought - CNN.com Blogs - 0 views

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  • Louise Phinney on 20 Aug 12
     
    One of the most misunderstood terms in education is "classroom management," which is often seen as a synonym for discipline. Imagine asking the manager of a store to explain his job and he says, "My job is to discipline the customers." And when the same question is posed to the manager of a team, she says, "I discipline the players." Yet, discipline is the prevailing response of most educators when asked about classroom management.
Louise Phinney

Free Technology for Teachers: Guest Post - Using Microsoft Word to Create better Word W... - 1 views

www.freetech4teachers.com/...t-using-microsoft-word-to.html

microsoft word walls

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  • Louise Phinney on 23 Feb 12
     
    Word Walls are an effective strategy for building vocabulary with students, especially for subject-specific terms. These lists are usually posted on classroom walls and sometimes have a definition attached to them. A more interactive word wall that includes images requires students to be more active learners as they attach meaning to each of the words in the list. Teachers may post these in the classroom after first using them as teaching tools when introducing a concept.
Jeffrey Plaman

What is Sugar? - Sugar Labs - 0 views

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sugar development labs coding software opensource

shared by Jeffrey Plaman on 08 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Jeffrey Plaman on 08 Nov 13
     
    "Sugar is a learning platform that reinvents how computers are used for education. Collaboration, reflection, and discovery are integrated directly into the user interface. Sugar promotes "studio thinking" and "reflective practice". Through Sugar's clarity of design, children and teachers have the opportunity to use computers on their own terms. Students can reshape, reinvent, and reapply both software and content into powerful learning activities. Sugar's focus on sharing, criticism, and exploration is grounded in the culture of free software (FLOSS)."
Katie Day

A Rubric for Evaluating Student Blogs - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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blogging rubrics students technology

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  • Katie Day on 30 Sep 10
     
    re tertiary education expectations, but still useful in terms of younger students
Katie Day

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

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teaching 21stcenturylearning

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  • 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.
Katie Day

Grant Robinson : Guess-the-google - 0 views

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google game search keywords images

shared by Katie Day on 23 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Katie Day on 23 Oct 10
     
    based on Google's image search, you are shown a set of images and must guess the search term used to find them -- could use it with students, calling it Guess the Keyword
Keri-Lee Beasley

BBC/OU Open2.net - Creative Archive - A-Z of video - 0 views

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bbc archive cc footage video stock_footage technology images

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 13 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 13 Dec 10
     
    This content from the Open University is provided for you to use free of charge under the terms of the Creative Archive licence.
Katie Day

The Educational Benefit Of Ugly Fonts | Wired Science | Wired.com - 0 views

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literacy reading online digital research learning cognitive_science

shared by Katie Day on 06 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Katie Day on 06 Jan 11
     
    "Shouldn't learning be as easy and effortless as possible? Unfortunately, this assumption turns out to be mostly wrong, as numerous studies have found that making material harder to learn - what the researchers call disfluency - can actually improve long-term learning and retention: There is strong theoretical justification to believe that disfluency could lead to improved retention and classroom performance. Disfluency has been shown to lead people to process information more deeply,more abstractly,more carefully, and yield better comprehension, all of which are critical to effective learning. This new paper attempted to provide the most direct test yet of the benefits of disfluency ."
Katie Day

Alfie Kohn vs Dwight Schrute - YouTube - 2 views

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shared by Katie Day on 28 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Katie Day on 28 Aug 11
     
    such fun... even if you aren't a fan of The Office (UK or US).... re what doesn't work in the classroom in terms of motivating students.... couldn't help bookmarking here.....
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