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Keri-Lee Beasley

The Touch-Screen Generation - Hanna Rosin - The Atlantic - 0 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 22 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 22 Mar 13
     
    Great read about the Touch Screen Generation & technology. Challenges the status quo in a well articulated way.
David Caleb

Parents of the 'Touch-Screen Generation,' Don't Free Your iPad Yet - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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parents generation ipad nytimes

shared by David Caleb on 15 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • David Caleb on 15 Apr 13
     
    Great article about the sub group of 'touch screen" generation within the "digital natives" generation
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

YES students use iPod touches to improve reading skills - 0 views

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shared by Katie Day on 29 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Katie Day on 29 Dec 10
     
    "Students use the iPod touches to record themselves reading what Nienhueser calls a fresh read passage, as it is the first time they have read it. They then listen to the recording and score themselves based on a rubric given to them by their teacher. The rubric scores students based on their level of fluency, expression, pacing and smoothness. Next, each student meets with a partner so they can evaluate someone else's recording. Nienhueser said students have to be able to explain why they chose the scores they selected. The partners also take time to see if they agree with each other's scores."
Louise Phinney

Five Useful Tips To Master iBooks On Your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch [Feature] | Cult ... - 0 views

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tips iphone ipad books reading ibooks

shared by Louise Phinney on 02 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 02 Jun 13
     
    That said, there's always room to learn just a few more tricks to make the experience even better for you. Here, then, are five tips to master iBooks on your iOS device of choice.
Louise Phinney

How Devices in the Classroom Enable Mobile Learning - 0 views

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mobile learning

shared by Louise Phinney on 18 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 18 Mar 12
     
    In education, the words "mobile learning" are starting to appear more often. Mobile learning is anytime, anywhere seamless learning. In other words, it is ubiquitous learning. A mobile learning device could be a net book, iPad, iPod Touch or even a smartphone.
Louise Phinney

4 Lessons In Creativity From John Cleese | Co.Create: Creativity \ Culture \ Commerce - 1 views

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shared by Louise Phinney on 03 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 03 Jul 12
     
    Interesting post on creativity "If you have a decisions to make, what is the single most important question to ask yourself? I believe it's 'when does this decision have to be made'? When most of us have a problem that's a little bit unresolved, we're a little bit uncomfortable. We want to resolve it. The creative architects had this tolerance for this discomfort we all feel when we leave things unresolved." "Why would those two things be importance? The playfulness is because in that moment of childlike play, you're much more in touch with your unconscious. The second is that when you defer decisions as long as possible, it's giving your unconscious the maximum amount of time to come up with something."
Louise Phinney

10 Incredible iPad Apps for Education - The Next Web - 2 views

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apps ipad education

shared by Louise Phinney on 09 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 09 Jul 12
     
    Write up for nice looking apps for creating, reading etc Evernote, Paper, Goodreader, Bamboo Paper Notebook, iA Writer, SimpleMind, EasyBib, iStudiez Pro, Wordflex Touch Dictionary, 
Louise Phinney

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

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trends Technology

shared by Louise Phinney on 20 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 20 Dec 11
     
    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
Louise Phinney

Mrs. Dent Scarcello's Class: iClassroom {apps} - 1 views

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class apps technology

shared by Louise Phinney on 11 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 11 Jan 12
     
    Our class is very lucky to have two iPad2s and five iPod Touches as we explore what it's like to be an iClassroom. This project is supported by the Manitoba Association of Multiage Educators. Here is a list of the apps we are using in our grade 2 classroom. We wanted to start with a complete list and will work to add descriptions of the apps. Also click on the iClassroom tag on our main page to see all of our blog posts about our iClassroom.
Louise Phinney

remind101 | Text Messaging For Teachers - 1 views

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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?
Katie Day

'There is a light at the end of the tunnel': Why novelist Alan Garner's reality is ting... - 0 views

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childrens_lit authors alan_garner interview

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  • Katie Day on 02 Oct 10
     
    "Fifty years on from his first novel and it's still unclear whether Alan Garner is in touch with an alternative reality or just the 'dream-maker' he claims. Here, he explains how he died three times and why spending two years in the foetal position is not the best career move"
Louise Phinney

Using iPod Touches in the Kindergarten Classroom - 0 views

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kindergarten touches classroom

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  • Louise Phinney on 06 Mar 11
     
    using ipods in kindergarten blog
Jeffrey Plaman

Soundtrack: An App for YouTubers | MacTrast - 0 views

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tweet app creativecommons music royaltyfree ios

shared by Jeffrey Plaman on 22 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Jeffrey Plaman on 22 Apr 12
     
    Soundtrack - easily find royalty-free music for your YouTube videos (new today on the App Store!) http://t.co/Y2T2FqPQ
  • Jeffrey Plaman on 22 Apr 12
     
    easy way to find royaltyfree tunes on iPad or iPod Touch
Keri-Lee Beasley

Sensu Artist Brush & Stylus for iPad and Touch Screen Devices - 0 views

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artist brush stylus ipad technology art

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 01 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 01 Jun 12
     
    A classy looking stylus & brush for the iPad
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