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TED-Ed | Lessons Worth Sharing - 0 views

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    You can take an existing Ted Talk and create classroom materials that relate to the talk AND your lesson.  A way to "flip" your classroom or deepen content.
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The New Digital Citizens - 0 views

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1:1 technology integration citizens

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  • 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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Once blocked, Twitter and other social media become classroom tools - 1 views

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social media classroom tools

shared by thebda on 03 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • unblock the sites so he could incorporate social media into his lessons,
  • Lazarski believes, he's better engaging students and reinforcing responsible use of the online tools that have become part of the fabric of modern society
  • educators such as Lazarski are teaching students to engage with the same tools they use in their social life in a more professional and academic capacity.
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  • the tweets from other students can be revelatory.
  • Education should be about play and experimentation, not absorption.
  • he's better engaging students and reinforcing responsible use of the online tools
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