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What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Anu Partanen - National -... - 1 views

www.theatlantic.com/...250564 finland Education reform The Atlantic
shared by Tom March on 03 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • The answers Finland provides seem to run counter to just about everything America's school reformers are trying to do.
  • "There's no word for accountability in Finnish,"
  • "Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted."
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  • Decades ago, when the Finnish school system was badly in need of reform, the goal of the program that Finland instituted, resulting in so much success today, was never excellence. It was equity.
  • The problem facing education in America isn't the ethnic diversity of the population but the economic inequality of society, and this is precisely the problem that Finnish education reform addressed. More equity at home might just be what America needs to be more competitive abroad.
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Flash cards, vocabulary memorization, and studying games | Quizlet - 1 views

quizlet.com flashcards Web 2.0
shared by Tom March on 21 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Tom March on 21 Jul 09
     
    # Study vocabulary or almost anything # Create your own flashcards - sign up free # Share flashcards with your friends # View the quick guide or watch the video tour
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Location Sites Experiment to Attract Mainstream Users - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...30location.html Crumbware SixthSense Readings
shared by Tom March on 30 Aug 10 - Cached
  • 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.
  • 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.”
  • Tom March on 30 Aug 10
     
    I like how this picture mimics that of the SixthSense video - makes the reality that much closer and shows some of the steps along the way - giving up information to get discounts.
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Building the 21st-Century Mind: Scientific American - 1 views

www.sciam.com/article.cfm education Pedagogy Contemporary ICT Skills Thinking Prompts Learning to Look
shared by Tom March on 18 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Tom March on 18 Apr 09
     
    His most recent book, Five Minds for the Future, offers some advice for policy-makers on how to do a better job of preparing students for the 21st century. Mind Matters editor Jonah Lehrer chats with Gardner about his new book, the possibility of teaching ethics and how his concept of multiple intelligences has changed over time.
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Zonkk | Create your own Social Network: All site blogs - 1 views

www.zonkk.com/...everyone.php ning-replacement elgg Web 2.0
shared by Tom March on 06 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Tom March on 06 Jun 10
     
    "Based on the open source social networking script Elgg, we have added a whole host of plugins and enhancements that will hopefully make it the most feature packed and customisable place to start your own social network."
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ButlerBlog » WP-Members - 1 views

butlerblog.com/wp-members wordpress-plugins
shared by Tom March on 07 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Tom March on 07 Apr 10
     
    allows only members to see content - might be useful for school uses of Wordpress
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YouTube - EDU - 1 views

www.youtube.com/edu Resources youtube.edu Learning to Look
shared by Tom March on 29 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Tom March on 29 Mar 09
     
    Essentially iTunesU has come to YouTube. What do you think?
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Edna - Web 2.0 - Site Blocking in Schools - 1 views

shots.snap.com/...6699 Web 2.0 Educational Goals Contemporary ICT Skills
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  • jennyann north on 27 Apr 09
     
    This report focuses on identifying and overcoming the barriers associated with current site blocking practices in schools with regards to Web 2.0 services such as social networking, video sharing, blogs and wikis and popular sites such as YouTube, Facebook and Wikipedia.
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21st Century Pedagogy | 21st Century Connections - 1 views

www.21centuryconnections.com/...653 Pedagogy
shared by celia sutterby on 17 Mar 09 - Cached
  •  Developing thinking skills
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 17 Mar 09
       
      Thinking because the environment is complex. Spiro - Constructivism
  • digital natives
    • Paul Smith
      Paul Smith on 17 Mar 09
       
      Students find this second nature. The students in Year 6 at my school get a real buzz from making comments on other students' work and reading comments on theirs.
  • real world problems
    • Paul Smith
      Paul Smith on 17 Mar 09
       
      E.g. Constructing a blog that invites comment on school issues. This will invite ideas from all students on topics that have meaning to them. E.g. Fundraising ideas foir the school or special event days.
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  • scaffold
    • Mahendra Kapoor
      Mahendra Kapoor on 17 Mar 09
       
      To facilitate (hopefully) higher order thinking processes for students. To enable them to discover things through minimum guidance/ handholding etc. To challenge them rather than to tell them everything and bore them.
  • 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
    • celia sutterby
      celia sutterby on 17 Mar 09
       
      A helpful summary for establishing the context of this research
  • Learning to know Learning to do Learning to live together Learning to be (http://www.unesco.org/delors/fourpil.htm)
    • celia sutterby
      celia sutterby on 17 Mar 09
       
      UNESCO statement on the place of collaboration in 21st century learning can inform our approach to working with Web 2.0 Digikids.
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Google TV: Australian Launch Date 2011 | Google Web TV | Sony - 1 views

www.theage.com.au/...eres-web-tv-20100521-vvvq.html google tv
shared by Tom March on 24 May 10 - Cached
  • Tom March on 24 May 10
     
    "Internet giant Google is out to expand its kingdom to the living room with an ambitious new service that lets people mesh television viewing with surfing the web."
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TED | Talks - 0 views

www.ted.com/browse Resources Learning to Look Intrinsic Motivation
shared by Tom March on 15 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Tom March on 15 Mar 09
     
    A fantastic source for the greatest thinkers and achievers of our day. Use the Web or iTunes interface to view, download and watch snippets to support Learning to Look
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Tag Galaxy - 1 views

taggalaxy.com flickr Learning to Look Resources
shared by Tom March on 15 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Tom March on 15 Mar 09
     
    This is a great interface for using tagged Flickr images for developing concepts.
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MOUSE - 0 views

www.mouse.org Exemplars New Models
shared by Tom March on 17 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Tom March on 17 Nov 09
     
    Student tech support program
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Exploratree - 0 views

www.exploratree.org.uk Critical Thinking Web 2.0 Scaffolds
shared by Tom March on 15 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Tom March on 15 Mar 09
     
    The best set of tools to scaffold thinking
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Overview of Self-Determination Theory - 0 views

www.psych.rochester.edu/...theory.html Motivation SDT
shared by Christen Jacobs on 17 Mar 09 - Cached
    • Christen Jacobs
      Christen Jacobs on 17 Mar 09
       
      Ensure the learning environment allows students to explore their interests.
    • Christen Jacobs
      Christen Jacobs on 17 Mar 09
       
      Three basic needs are choice, a feeling of competence and relatedness
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Thinking Dispositions: A review of current theories, practices, and issues - 0 views

learnweb.harvard.edu/...Dispositions.htm Readings dispositions Critical Thinking
shared by Tom March on 15 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Good thinkers certainly have thinking skills. But they also have more: Motivations, attitudes, values and habits of mind all play key roles in good thinking, and in large part it is these elements that determine whether people use their thinking skills when it counts.
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 17 Mar 09
       
      This is the key behind "Dispositions." Yes, people need the skill/abiity to think critically, but this doesn't tend to happen unless they have a desire to do so.
  • What Kinds of Thinking Dispositions Are There?
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 17 Mar 09
       
      This is where other frameworks for thinking could be used as well. If a school has been working with Art Costa's Habits of Mind or Robert Marzano's Dimensions of Learning, these can be used here. The main point is that "enculturation" is the solution, not "teaching" critical thinking.
  • a disposition is something we want students to evidence on their own ─ without being pushed or prompted to evidence it"
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 17 Mar 09
       
      Suggestion: this is where an online space, focused on intrinsically motivating experiences is an asset. Changes in thinking and motivation require substantial time and repetition.
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  • culture of thinking
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 17 Mar 09
       
      Here's a link to their current work on "Thinking Routines." Here
  • What does it mean to be a good thinker?
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 31 Mar 09
       
      This is the essential question?
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 31 Mar 09
       
      Let's read this with a How-to perspective.
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