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Educational Leadership:Technology-Rich Learning:Students First, Not Stuff - 0 views

  • Technological change is not additive; it is ecological, which means, it changes everything. —Neil Postman
  • If we see technology simply as additive, our questions will be about the technology
  • it's about addressing the new needs of modern learners in entirely new ways
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  • the ecological shifts we need to make: What do we mean by learning? What does it mean to be literate in a networked, connected world? What does it mean to be educated? What do students need to know and be able to do to be successful in their futures? Educators must lead inclusive conversations in their communities around such questions to better inform decisions about technology and change.
  • productive learning is the learning process which engenders and reinforces wanting to learn more
  • wanting to learn more" suggests a transfer of power over learning from teacher to student—it implies that students discover the curriculum rather than have it delivered to them. It suggests that real learning that sticks—as opposed to learning that disappears once the test is over—is about allowing students to pursue their interests in the context of the curriculum
  • with those changes comes a change in the role of the teacher. Teachers must be colearners with kids,
thebda

American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn't Exist | WIRED - 1 views

  • Our kids learn within a system of education devised for a world that increasingly does not exist.
  • Learning and doing have become inseparable in the face of conditions that invite us to discover.
  • Americans need to learn how to discover.
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  • Failing to create a new way of learning adapted to contemporary circumstances might be a national disaster.
  • Discovery environments are showing up as culture and entertainment, from online experiences to contemporary art installations and new kinds of culture labs.
  • Americans need to learn how to discover.
  • Students and participants in these kinds of programs learn something even more valuable than discovering a fact for themselves, a common goal of “learning discovery” programs; they learn the thrill of discovering the undiscovered
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The 100 Best Learning Tools Of 2012 As Chosen By You - Edudemic - 2 views

  • More than 500 learning professionals took part in voting for their favorite tools, apps, and learning resources. What follows is a useful guide
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    A collection of possibilities
thebda

On Cloud Nine -- THE Journal - 0 views

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     A few examples of tech tools being used in the classroom to boost student understanding and learning.
thebda

A Tech-Happy Professor Reboots After Hearing His Teaching Advice Isn't Working - Techno... - 0 views

  • "They would just be inspired to use blogs and Twitter and technology, but the No. 1 thing that was missing from it was a sense of purp
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  • It doesn't matter what method you use if you do not first focus on one intangible factor: the bond between professor and student.
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  • He's a lecturer. He's not breaking them up into small groups or having them make videos. That's my thing, right? But he's totally in tune with where they are and the struggle it takes to understand physics concepts. He is right there by their side, walking them through the forest of physics."
  • "Students can all sniff out an inauthentic place of learning," the professor argues. "They think, If it's a game, fine, I'll play it for the grade, but I'm not going to learn anything."
  • "None of this work is off-the-shelf," she said, noting that the group promotes a "scholarly approach" to teaching. "That means you aren't just picking something and plopping it in there, but you're really thinking through what its value is and what you would have to do to change it."
thebda

iPads changing teaching & learning - Mark Anderson's Blog - 1 views

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    Ideas in micro blog format
thebda

SAMR Model Explained Through Examples ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 2 views

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    Two examples of how classroom work can be viewed through the SAMR lens.
thebda

5 Critical Mistakes Schools Make With iPads (And How To Correct Them) - 2 views

  • iPads were designed as a single-user device and not meant to be shared via cart
  • sharing them separates the functionality from the use
  • Increasingly a 21st century education is less about place and more about space
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  • Focusing on iPad-versus.-laptop comparisons stifles the ability to see how the iPad facilitates student-centered learning
  • Teachers need instruction on how to incorporate the devices into the learning process, which is quite different than trying out a few apps.
  • Without guidance, iPads become expensive notebooks used by students in very traditionally structured stand-and-deliver classrooms
  • The most common mistake teachers make with iPads is focusing on subject-specific apps
  • Teachers need time
thebda

MindShift | How we will learn - 0 views

  • use technology to support learnin
  • GAMES AND GROUP WORK.
  • REACHING STUDENTS
Jess Keenan

Institute Resources - 1 views

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    Here are links to resources shared by presenters at the conference. Needless to say, we are learning a lot.
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