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writing digital tools video teaching collective

shared by thebda on 23 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • thebda on 23 Aug 11
     
    Just trying out our new toys. NWP is a great organization and this is a link to their digital storytelling / tech section of their website.
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The New Digital Citizens - 0 views

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1:1 technology integration citizens

shared by thebda on 26 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Five Card Flickr.” Each drive contains a folder with five photographs downloaded from the photo-sharing website’s royalty-free photo bank. The students pop in the thumb drives and open the folders, and the images blossom on their screens: a pair of dice, a pale and lanky teenage boy, a flower, a parrot, drums, a toddler wearing huge glasses, a tropical island. In pairs, the students get to work, arranging the images in various sequences to tell a story in the form of a play. 
  • “I just want them to think of themselves as creators,” Vail says. “And I didn’t want them writing just another paper. I want them to use technology to actualize their ideas. To dramatize their creativity.” 
  • images to use as the cover page of their adaptations—like a playbill for a Broadway show
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  • sometimes you have to catch your bees with honey.” 
  • the most successful teachers are like Emily Vail: the ones who don’t revolutionize their pedagogical methods overnight, but take a “slow and steady approach.”
  • learning is often more about process and problem solving than accessing or memorizing static information.
  • “when there’s stress, you just do what works instead of trying something new and different.
  • The fallacy,” Hogan explains, “is that technology makes teaching easier. But it actually allows you to do things you couldn’t do before, which is much, much harder.”
  • n order for the program to be successful, Hogan says, the student needs to have a sense of ownership and accountability.
  • provide lessons of what she calls “digital citizenship,” teaching kids not to text in public, or answer their phones in the middle of conversations. “That’s on the parent,” Gordon says. 
  • thebda on 26 Apr 13
     
    ME Magazine article - thanks Linda
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http://advocacy.collegeboard.org/sites/default/files/2010-cb-advocacy-teachers-are-cent... - 0 views

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technology digital writing report research

shared by thebda on 19 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • thebda on 19 Feb 12
     
    This report highlights the stories of nine teachers who are making revolutionary changes in their classrooms. They are joined by colleagues, principals and districts across the country that have begun to embrace both the opportunities and challenges of using an array of digital tools for teaching.
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hear you are --- [murmur] Toronto - 0 views

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technology voices storytelling education

shared by thebda on 11 Feb 12 - Cached
  • is a documentary oral history project that records stories and memories told about specific geographic locations
  • In each of these locations we install a [murmur] sign with a telephone number on it that anyone can call with a mobile phone to listen to that story while standing in that exact spot
  • The stories we record range from personal recollections to more "historic" stories, or sometimes both
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  • always are told from a personal point of view
  • The stories are as personal as the relationship people have with the spaces
  • The physical experience of hearing a story in its actual setting — of hearing the walls talk — brings uncommon knowledge to common space
  • thebda on 11 Feb 12
     
    Digital storytelling meets history and community. This could be a future cross curricula project - history, writing, physical arts project for the campus.
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