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Maggie Verster

Using Mobile Technologies to Promote Children's Learning (pdf ebook) - 7 views

joanganzcooneycenter.org/...pockets_of_potential.pdf

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shared by Maggie Verster on 02 May 10 - No Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 02 May 10
     
    The report Pockets of Potential: Using Mobile Technologies to Promote Children's Learning, by Cooney Center Industry Fellow Carly Shuler, makes the case that our nation's leaders should not overlook the role mobile technologies can play, if well deployed, in building human capital and in helping to stimulate valuable innovation. As Sesame Street has proven over four decades of remarkable work, exposure to research-tested educational media starting early in life can accelerate children's skills, while producing enduring economic benefi ts to society. Pockets of Potential argues that despite legitimate public concern about the "disruptive track record" of mobile devices in schools, there is reason to be excited about their potential. As an analysis of key industry trends, opportunities, and challenges, including small-scale studies of academic and industry projects, the paper recommends a series of urgent action steps for key sectors to consider. Of particular note are the promising innovations developed by an international group of mobile technology thought leaders - from Silicon Valley to Seoul to sub-Saharan Africa - whose pioneering work is featured in this report and its appendices. The report joins a series of studies the Cooney Center has undertaken since launching one year ago. We hope to stimulate a new debate that will lead industry, funders, scholars, and caregivers to consider how the devices children now rely upon as their social currency may one day help them learn essential skills needed for success. As Mrs. Cooney recently noted, "Now is the time to turn the new media that children have a natural attraction to into learning tools that will build their knowledge and broaden their perspectives." Unless we do, the gulf between what children do informally and in school will widen, diminishing the educational opportunities all of our children need and deserve.
David Wetzel

How to Beat the Fear of Losing a Presentation - 3 views

www.teachscienceandmath.com/...-fear-of-losing-a-presentation

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shared by David Wetzel on 20 May 10 - Cached
  • David Wetzel on 20 May 10
     
    How many times have you prepared an updated or new dynamic math or science PowerPoint or Keynote presentation for class and it would not open in school? Also, how many times has it happened to your students when it's time to give a class presentation? Now you need to postpone their presentation to another day, disrupting even the best planning.
Gilmar Mattos

Fluid Learning - 0 views

blog.futurestreetconsulting.com/?p=94

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shared by Gilmar Mattos on 27 Dec 08 - Cached
  • control is over. This is not about control anymore. This is about finding a way to survive and thrive in chaos.
  • We can’t roll back the clock to an earlier age without computers, without Internet, without the subtle but profound distraction of text messaging. The school is of its time, not out it.
  • The role of the instructor has changed
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  • helps the students find the material available online, and helps them to make sense of it, contextualizing and informing their understanding. even as the students continue to work their way through the ever-growing set of information.
  • The instructor facilitates and mentors, as they have always done, but they are no longer the gatekeepers, because there are no gatekeepers, anywhere.
  • the more something is shared, the more valuable it becomes.
  • Education happens everywhere, not just with your nose down in a book, or stuck into a computer screen
  • Many students will never be very computer literate, but every single one of them has a mobile handset, and every single one of them sends text messages.
  • net filtering throws the baby out with the bathwater
  • Services like Twitter get filtered out because they could potentially be disruptive, cutting students off from the amazing learning potential of social messaging. Facebook and MySpace are seen as time-wasters, rather than tools for organizing busy schedules
  • media sites are blocked because the schools don’t have enough bandwidth to support them; Wikipedia is blocked because teachers don’t want students cheating.
  • Filtering, while providing a stopgap, only leaves students painfully aware of how disconnected the classroom is from the real world.
  • the maxim of the 21st century: connection is king
  • Students must be free to connect with instructors
  • difficult for instructors to manage, but it is vital.
  • Connection is expensive, not in dollars, but in time. But for all its drawbacks, connection enriches us enormously.
  • We need to let go, we need to trust ourselves enough to recognize that what we have now, though it worked for a while, is no longer fit for the times.
  • Gilmar Mattos on 27 Dec 08
     
    I: Out of Control Our greatest fear, in bringing computers into the classroom, is that we teachers and instructors and lecturers will lose control of the
Gilmar Mattos

Education Articles : Interviews & Excerpts :: Tales of a 40-Something Student Teacher - 3 views

www.teachhub.com/...664

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shared by Gilmar Mattos on 09 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • rarely does one outside of a classroom have to juggle so many skills nearly simultaneously in such a dynamic environment
  • Keeping students engaged from bell to bell so they have minimal opportunities to act out or disrupt the class is another key challenge
  • matching my style with my students is a work in process as I learn more and different pedagogical approaches.
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  • parental involvement is paramount in student success
  • helping them learn how to learn.
  • many schools today rely too much on parents, giving assignments that students are unable to complete on their own. This is inequitable and inappropriate in my opinion.
  • It is easier said than done
  • I challenge anyone who has not spent time in a classroom recently to teach anything they choose to students for one week
  • Be passionate
  • Observe as many classes in your subject area in as many schools as possible.
impalasue

College students' use of Kindle DX points to e-reader's role in academia - University o... - 3 views

www.washington.edu/...e-reader2019s-role-in-academia

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shared by impalasue on 21 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • “Most e-readers were designed for leisure reading – think romance novels on the beach,” said co-author Charlotte Lee, a UW assistant professor of Human Centered Design and Engineering. “We found that reading is just a small part of what students are doing. And when we realize how dynamic and complicated a process this is, it kind of redefines what it means to design an e-reader.”
  • The Kindle DX was more likely to replace students’ paper-based reading than their computer-based reading.
  • With paper, three quarters of students marked up texts as they read. This included highlighting key passages, underlining, drawing pictures and writing notes in margins.
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  • A drawback of the Kindle DX was the difficulty of switching between reading techniques, such as skimming an article’s illustrations or references just before reading the complete text. Students frequently made such switches as they read course material. The digital text also disrupted a technique called cognitive mapping, in which readers used physical cues such as the location on the page and the position in the book to go back and find a section of text or even to help retain and recall the information they had read.
  • “E-readers are not where they need to be in order to support academic reading,” Lee concludes. But asked when e-readers will reach that point, she predicts: “It’s going to be sooner than we think.”
  • impalasue on 21 Jul 11
     
    This discusses the effect of e-readers on cognitive mapping and other reading techniques.
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