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National PBS Survey of Teachers Finds Access to Classroom Tech Is Good, But Teachers Wa... - 0 views

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survey teachers research

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  • aniazielinska on 14 May 13
     
    " PBS LearningMedia announced today findings from a national survey of teachers grades pre-K-12 that sheds light on the rising role of technology in America's classrooms, as well as barriers teachers face to accessing the "right" digital resources.  Ninety-one percent of teachers surveyed reported having access to computers in their classrooms, but only one-in-five (22 percent) said they have the right level of technology.  PBS released the survey results at the 2012 Florida Education Technology Conference (FETC), where educators from across the country have gathered to share best practices about the use of technology in the classroom"
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Naace: The iPad as a Tool For Education - a case study - 0 views

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ipad research review

shared by aniazielinska on 14 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • aniazielinska on 14 Feb 13
     
    It's really exciting to be able to announce our research into the use of iPads. After a successful implementation at Longfield Academy in Kent and two terms of embedded use, the research shows some incredibly positive impacts on teaching and learning. The report on the research, carried out on behalf of Naace and supported by 9ine Consulting is available below. It outlines the conclusions of one of the most extensive studies so far undertaken into the use of tablets for learning. As one teacher put it, "The iPads have revolutionised teaching", with appropriate use of iPads helping to enhance learning across the curriculum and encouraging collaborative learning. Whilst it's early days for evaluating the impact on achievement, there are significant gains in quality and standard of pupil work and progress and potential for extending use even further. As more schools across the country consider adopting the use of tablets in classrooms, the messages from this research will be incredibly helpful for those who are deciding on their next steps.  
Jason Prohaska

Visible Thinking - 0 views

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      Jason Prohaska on 21 Aug 13
       
      Visible thinking will 1) cultivate students thinking skill and dispositions and 2) deepen content learning
  • Thinking Routines
  • short, easy-to-learn mini-strategies that extend and deepen students' thinking
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  • Thinking Ideals
  • Four Ideals
  • Understanding, Truth, Fairness and Creativity
  • Teacher Study Group
  • In these groups teachers reflect on student work, or documentation, generated by students when using routines or investigating an ideal
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Change by Decree - 0 views

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leadership change vision

shared by aniazielinska on 13 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Everyone is opposed to making educators implement lousy ideas
  • quality of an idea doesn’t justify an attempt to shove it down people’s throats.
  • he idea will eventually just be, um, coughed back up.
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  • Many of us have been appalled by the behaviorist, corporate-styled policies known collectively as “school reform.
  • hose writings, in fact, eloquently explain the importance of having students construct ideas
  • They’re still orders.
  • In the end, policy makers and consultants cannot change what goes on in classrooms
  • All they can do is invite teachers to change what they do in classrooms.
  • Good teaching can't be imposed from above because it "doesn't rest on specific practices but on how well the educator actively thinks through hundreds of decisions that no program can script
  • “What do you need?  How can we help?”
  • Your job then is to be a buffer, protecting those who report to you from its worst effects rather than robotically implementing and enforcing what doesn’t make sense. 
  • It’s not just about “getting buy-in” for your pet idea
  • because the focus is on strategies for deflecting resistance.
  • respectful and collaborative,
  • something closer to democratic decision-making from the beginning.
  • “People don’t resist change.  They resist being changed.”
  • aniazielinska on 13 Mar 13
     
    excellent article from Alfie Kohn 
Andrea Walker

To Get the Most Out of Tablets, Use Smart Curation | MindShift - 0 views

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pedagogy iPads research curation evernote portfolio

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  • The critical task is not finding information or stimuli, but organizing, cataloging, archiving, and developing habits and practices to exercise control over our surfeit of opportunity.
  • How might efforts to curate benefit from the portability and ubiquity of mobile devices? What would a “relevance portfolio” look like, where students catalog their daily encounters with ideas or experiences?
  • the task of the teacher is no longer to collect and distribute, but to empower students to curate their own collections of intellectual resources.
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  • Evernote is one of the best apps to start to bridge this gap between the digital and physical.
  • Students can collect, organize and annotate web sites on Diigo, books on GoodReads, photos of Flickr, scholarly references on Zotero, music on SoundCloud, and anything and everything on a Tumblr or WordPress blog.
  • Touch App Creator allows users to organize eBooks, text, images, and web-based content together into web apps hosted on Google Drive.
  • In the spirit of Gardner’s beauty journals, we should aim not just to help students get organized, but to closely and intentionally examine what they read, watch, see, hear, and collect.
  • Andrea Walker on 13 Jun 13
     
    Excellent article- "The critical task is not finding information or stimuli, but organizing, cataloging, archiving, and developing habits and practices to exercise control over our surfeit of opportunity." So we need to help students get organized (a few key tools highlighted here for this) and "closely and intentionally examine what they read, watch, see, hear, and collect."
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http://grunwald.com/pdfs/Grunwald%20Mobile%20Study%20public%20report.pdf - 0 views

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      aniazielinska on 19 May 13
       
      parents  more than ever could be key partners in contributing to this new frontier in  learning.  Parent perceptions matter. Their support and influence can smooth the way  for educational technology in schools and help overcome the limitations of  school coffers, without which digital initiatives can stall.
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      aniazielinska on 19 May 13
       
      Fifty-six percent  of parents say they'd be willing to purchase a mobile device for their child  to use in the classroom if the school required it
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      aniazielinska on 19 May 13
       
      At the same time, many parents look to  teachers and schools for guidance on helping children use mobiles and  apps for educational purposes.
    • Johnny Hogan
      Johnny Hogan on 20 May 13
       
      Absolutely. The need for us to be actively pursuing ways to use technology effectively and safely is essential.
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    • aniazielinska
      aniazielinska on 19 May 13
       
      Defining Terms To ensure parents had a consistent basis for responding to questions  about different types of technology, the survey provided them with these  definitions and examples:  nMobile devices-wireless handheld devices that use Wi-Fi, 3G or 4G to  connect to the Internet, many of which use an operating system such as  iOS, Windows or Android, and can run various types of apps. Examples  include smartphones, tablets, e-readers, and the iPod Touch.  nPortable devices-laptops, notebooks, netbooks, ultrabooks
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      aniazielinska on 19 May 13
       
      Many children are using many different devices-and using them often.  Even some pre-K children are using multiple devices. Smartphones are the  most commonly used mobile device; 43 percent of all children (pre-K-12),  and 60 percent of high school students, use a smartphone. One in three  children (34 percent) use tablets. Children use most devices daily or weekly,  with smartphones the most commonly and frequently used device. 
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