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Teacher-Replacing Tech: Friend or Foe? | Fast Company - 0 views
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Just as the Internet replaced telephone operators and the nightly news anchor as the default source of information, teachers may be next on the chopping block. Automated learning is a cheap solution to recession-swelling class sizes and renewed calls to make technological innovation a centerpiece of education.
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“Students who took all or part of their class online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through traditional face-to-face instruction.”
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Unlike one-size-fits-all lectures, the report finds that computers can custom tailor the pace of learning to each individual student.
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The lure of video games and other mindless online activity quickly eclipse the fleeting intrigue of scientific exploration.
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Professors Barbour and Reeves find that they still favor students with “independent orientations towards learning, [who are] highly motivated by intrinsic sources, and [who] have strong time management, literacy, and technology skills.”
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"Just as the Internet replaced telephone operators and the nightly news anchor as the default source of information, teachers may be next on the chopping block. Automated learning is a cheap solution to recession-swellingbclass sizes and renewed calls to make technological innovation a centerpiece of education."
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Foundational Skills - 0 views
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Create distribution lists for class groups
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“Bcc” (Blind carbon copy)
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Only when mistakenly sending emails about they didn't actually want people to see...
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What is this anyway? I thought it meant you published your emails to BBC TV
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It's a means of sending an email to various other people at once. For example, you might send an email addressed to a parent concerning a manner but you'd CC the same email to your year level co-ordinator so they know exactly what you're communicating to said parent.
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c Set up your own collection of RSS feeds
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Contribute resources you find to local and online colleagues
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Maintain a list of core course documents throughout the year
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Why just Powerpoint? Why not a HTML based presentation? Or one done in Flash? All are possible.
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Yes, what about great online presentation tools? How much (if at all?) do we still have to play by the "Everyone needs to know MS suite so schools need to do this as 'Job Prep?'" Do you feel this as a need in your schools?
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Juxtapose other stimulus prompts ito challenge thinking
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Edit a word processed document by: using find and replace, checking word counts, inserting page breaks, accessing the spellcheck and thesaurus functions
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Is this more of a "basic" skill that we assume that all educators already know? If this section is regarding posting documents, we are talking about a different set of skills.
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I assume this is a somewhat mandatory skill that users of Word Processing applications should have. How unprofessional to read a doc that has spelling errors etc!!
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Analyse class maps as tools for discussion
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Join a professional learning community and follow posts for several weeks
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Partner with a colleague to offer a new technology to extend or enrich learning for a group of your students
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Use tables and styles to enhance the formatting of a document
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Consider taking an active role in an online community.
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Embed a video
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Create opportunities for students to post sincere comments
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Finding online resources (Wikis, Blogs) that dont require email addresses and passwords can be an issue with younger students.
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That's why setting up an in-house system where you can create a large number of individual student accounts at the start of the year (such as VBulletin) comes in very handy.
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On the flipside, we use a vocabulary training website in LOTE which students can't access if they declare their DOB to make them younger than 13!
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Upload presentations, videos or animations for student use
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Any ideas about the best way to do this? Should it be a WEB 2.0 application, such as Dropbox? Or is bandwith use a concern, so a LAN setup should be used?
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Just to save on costs, you'd probably have to do it over a LAN. It would also create a more reliable system, since an intranet/local network is less likely to fail than the connection to outside resources.
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(QuickTime Pro)
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Create opportunities for students to synthesise their learning through projects that call for a creative, problem-solving or innovative response.
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c Join a professional learning community and follow posts for several weeks c Join an online chat, webinar or presentation as an observer c Choose one aspect of the learning framework to research
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Choose at least one work that you are willing to publish to the Web and do so. This may be in any format: visual, written, video, audio, presentation, etc. The forum may be a wiki, professional journal, educators’ social network, iTunes, etc.
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Attach files appropriately to email messages
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Explore a new Web application and use it yourself for a lesson
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c Review a new personal device & suggest how it could aid student learning
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21st Century Pedagogy | 21st Century Connections - 1 views
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Developing thinking skills
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digital natives
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The key features of 21st Century Pedagogy are:? building technological, information and media fluencies [Ian Jukes]? Developing thinking skills? making use of project based learning? using problem solving as a teaching tool? using 21st C assessments with timely, appropriate and detailed feedback and reflection? It is collaborative in nature and uses enabling and empowering technologies? It fosters Contextual learning bridging the disciplines and curriculum areas
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Learning to know Learning to do Learning to live together Learning to be (http://www.unesco.org/delors/fourpil.htm)
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Preoccupations - Texting in Meetings - It Means 'I Don't Care' - NYTimes.com - 8 views
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AS technological devices have become more portable and more popular, they've enhanced our connectedness at work. But they have also led to a greater degree of incivility - a trend that is damaging our workplace relationships.
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Increasingly schools are having to deal with this issue, in classrooms with students and with colleagues in meetings. At conferences delegates seem to be hiding behind their screens and I wonder what level of engagement is taking place between them and the speaker/s? What messages are being sent and received..on a number of levels?
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Location Sites Experiment to Attract Mainstream Users - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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This month, Facebook introduced Places, which adds some Foursquare-like features to its social network. If Places catches on with Facebook’s 500 million users, many think it could bring location-sharing to the masses.
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Ms. Aley has chosen to use the app to also reveal her location to her Facebook friends and Twitter followers. The rewards make using the app worthwhile, she said, and the privacy trade-off “really never crossed my mind.”
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me.edu.au (myedna) » I know it works, but is the theory valid? - 2 views
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Common sense tells us that learning is enhanced by social activity, which is the basic idea underlying the use of Web 2.0 tools. But is there educational theory to support it? Of the three dominant theories, one strongly emphasises the importance of social interaction. The theory of Social Constructivism is well established. Vygotsky is considered the father of the concept. As the Wikipedia says in its excellent entry, “Where Piaget argued that people should create their own version of the truth, Vygotsky added the importance of discussing this version of truth with others, in order to, through the process of mediation, get to a higher order of truth that has also been socially tested (Derry 1999)”
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"I know it works, but is the theory valid? Common sense tells us that learning is enhanced by social activity, which is the basic idea underlying the use of Web 2.0 tools. But is there educational theory to support it? Of the three dominant theories, one strongly emphasises the importance of social interaction. The theory of Social Constructivism is well established. Vygotsky is considered the father of the concept. As the Wikipedia says in its excellent entry, "Where Piaget argued that people should create their own version of the truth, Vygotsky added the importance of discussing this version of truth with others, in order to, through the process of mediation, get to a higher order of truth that has also been socially tested (Derry 1999)""
Did You Know Moodle 2.0 Will….? (Online Educa 2009) « Hans de Zwart: Technolo... - 6 views
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Best of Web 2 for Learning » Edge-ucators Workshops - 31 views
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These are indeed 'influential presentations' but better suited to higher level thinkers - not an upper primary class. YouTube offers better suited, more catchy videos.
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I think the kids would love this: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html
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TED web site
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to help your learning.
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Useful for a number of needs...these may include the need for: laughter, instruction, knowledge, understanding, clarification, etc...even down to information about how to renovate your bathroom!!
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Love the variety of videos available! (May need to be sifted through and checked to be sure of credibility)
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Far more than music
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best site