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No Limits, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach - 0 views

  • Best Practices Center's 21st Century Learning Project. The project helps teachers gain the skills needed to prepare students for a world dominated by digital technologies.
  • While many educators still see technology and the Internet as just ways to obtain or manage information, Tomlinson sees it as a lot more. "It's about whole new ways to work and think and learn, to conduct your business and your life," says Tomlinson.
  • With the right support and leadership, Tomlinson says, teachers can have the best of both worlds: they can build strong literacy skills while using technology to push students into higher levels of learning.
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  • After each field trip, students create Webcasts documenting what they have seen and learned during their travels. "That's where these 21st-century tools can help us with our basic teaching and learning mission here at George Hall," Tomlinson says. "The children are actually talking about where they've been and what they've learned, using new vocabulary in authentic contexts." She
  • "a new kind of digital divide exists, one that 10 years from now will separate those who know how to use new media to band together online from those who don't."
  • "It will not be on 'official' channels and much of it will be 'under our radar' and on their own time. But this will change the relationships and deepen them between our classes. And more important, it changes our role as teachers and leaders of student learning."
  • K12Online Conference, Marsha Ratzel, a 6th-grade math and science teacher at suburban Leawood Middle School in Kansas's Blue Valley School District, began to consider how she might give the new student-centered strategies a try.
  • creating learning opportunities that help students develop the skills and motivation that result in success throughout life.
C Clausen

The Week in Rap - 0 views

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    One week's news in music video form
C Clausen

The End Of Work As You Know It - 0 views

  • They're going to change where we work, how we work, and even the nature of work itself. Already the changes are coming fast and furious.
  • telepresence systems,
  • videoconferencing
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  • She fields his calls, rerouted via Cisco's phone system; arranges meetings; and even can overhear his phone conversations to anticipate his needs. "Marthin and I haven't missed a beat," says Hooshmand, who can see into De Beer's office through her own screen in Texas. As she waves down another San Jose (Calif.) colleague walking by, from 1,600 miles away, it's hard not to believe her.
  • "The line between our customers and our staff continues to blur."
  • It's an emerging dynamic variously dubbed mass collaboration, peer production, or crowdsourcing
  • Seriosity, a startup that's beginning to use game psychology in business applications: "Enterprises will steal sensibilities from games and virtual worlds and embed them into business."
  • Amazon is creating an on-demand workforce for companies that can't afford to hire staff for such quick or ephemeral jobs.
  • Turkers
  • b, "this is a more virtual, self-managed ecosystem.
  • digital technology will transform work into a global supply chain of talent to carry out carefully programmed tasks on demand.
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      Much like the industrialization of America turned to mass construction of goods Ford and the idea of the assembly line but this takes it to a whole different level
  • "A job is a bundle of privileges and obligations,"
  • "Digital technology has allowed us to break up that bundle" and reassemble it into "mass-customized jobs," he adds, as they fit our skills, the work to be done, and the goals of the companies we're working for.
  • All that raises a fundamental question about technology's ultimate impact on workers. Will this be a new world of empowered individuals encased in a bubble of time-saving technologies? Or will it be a brave new world of virtual sweatshops, where all but a tech-savvy few are relegated to an always-on world in which keystrokes, contacts, and purchases are tracked and fed into the faceless corporate maw?
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      BINGO... THE SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
  • it can't change human nature. "A
    • C Clausen
       
      I'm not sure if I agree with that, human nature has already begun to change...
  • "aren't going to be a substitute for face-to-face interaction."
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      Really, hasn't it already?
C Clausen

CAST: What is Universal Design for Learning? - 0 views

  • one-size-fits-all approach
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      The idea of the "one-size-fits-all approach is being changed in the pages of textbooks, but sometimes it is more difficult for teachers to make this ideological change-over in their teaching methods.
    • Sean Wybrant
       
      True, but I am not convinced that the concept of UDL is really as much of a change as CAST is making it out to be. This is kind of a repackaging of ideas instead of a new idea. The concept of backwards design and Understanding By Design are all kind of the same thing. We are really just being asked to think about the end goal and how it fits everyone at the beginning. Or am I missing the point of UDL?
    • C Clausen
       
      I agree with you, UDL is looking at designing lesson plans and units in the same fashion that backwards lesson design does, but one difference may be that UDL looks at brain research. Granted I know little to nothing about the theory behind Backward Lesson Design, but is there a key component regarding brain research and actively engaging students using differeniated learning to activate the various neural networks? Perhaps UDL is Backwards lesson design with a splash of Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences and a dash of Pavio's Dual Coding System?
  • "Universal" does not imply a single optimal solution for everyone.
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  • the need for multiple approaches to meet the needs of diverse learners.
  • Embedded features that help those with disabilities eventually benefit everyone.
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      Throughout last year, this was a common phrase that was used as I learned to make accomidations for both my IEP studnets and my ELL students.
  • Recognition networks
  • Strategic networks
  • Affective networks
  • Multiple means of representation
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      Paviov's Dual-code processing
  • Multiple means of action and expression
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      Authentic, inquiry, project-based assessment
  • Multiple means of engagement
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      Direct instruction, technology as a teaching tool and/or learning tool, collaboration, self-directed learning, etc.
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    Just in case there is anyone that would like to compare notes on the Universal Lesson Design information, I thought I would include the website in the list of resources.
C Clausen

The Wiki Workplace - BusinessWeek - 0 views

  • New social computing tools such as wikis and blogs put unprecedented communication power in the hands of employees.
  • empowering employees to collaborate in unorthodox ways is all about "unleashing the power of human capital."
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      And shouldn't that be what is in the forefront of people's minds while they are limiting the money put into educaiton? How can we teach students "21st Century Skills," if we don't have the technology to teach, show, and do. You can't get the skills without having the tools.
C Clausen

Cribbs Class: Week 4 Blog Post (Game Plan Continued) - 0 views

  • I will let them pick a source of media that they believe will help others learn better.
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      This is a great way to incorporate technology into a mathematics course. Often, assessments tend to be forced choice, but by creating a problem-based, authentic assessments, students will be able to apply many of the 21st century skills that they will utilize after graduation.
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      Having students create a Prezi (prezi.com) would be a new and exciting way for students to present the information from the project-based assessment to the class
  • I plan to survey to my tutees about their experience with the real-world problems and its affect on their learning.
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      A tool that may be useful in analyzing students' perspecives of these projects is SurveyMonkey (http://www.surveymonkey.com). The surveys are easily created and the results can be formated in graphs, charts, etc. In fact, perhaps using SurveyMonkey within the class integrated into one of the authentic-assessments might be a second way to utilize this free and user-friendly learning/teaching tool.
  • real-world problems, and performance-based to see if their misunderstanding is with the concepts or the real-world application. I would use project-based to assess their understanding of larger amounts of material.
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    A blog posting by a fellow classmate in my Integrating Technology Across the Content Areas blog group.
C Clausen

How Should We Measure Student Learning? The Many Forms of Assessment | Edutopia - 0 views

  • You can't know where you're going unless you know where you are.
  • These abilities -- recall, analysis, comparison, inference, and evaluation -- will be the skills of a literate twenty-first-century citizen. And they are the kinds of skills that aren't measured by our current high-stakes tests.
  • adding assessment vehicles such as student portfolios and presentations as additional measures of student understanding.
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  • With these formative and summative types of assessment come the ability to give students immediate feedback. They also allow a teacher to immediately intervene, to change course when assessments show that a particular lesson or strategy isn't working for a student, or to offer new challenges for students who've mastered a concept or skill.
C Clausen

Kids and Adults Design New Tech Tools | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Amazing ideas...is this UDL at work?
C Clausen

Bill of Rights - 1 views

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    Teacher and Student resources about the United States Bill of Rights
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    Information for both teachers and students about the Bill of Rights. The site includes free resources, news, etc.
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