tips for safe social networking:• Learn about and use the privacy and security settings on social networks. Consider restricting access to your page to a select group of people—for example, your friends from school, your club, your team, your community groups, or your family.• Think twice before posting pictures you wouldn’t want your parents or future employers to see.• Be cautious about how much personal information you provide on social networking sites. The more information you post, the easier it might be for a hacker, thief, or stalker to commit a crime.• Install a security suite (antivirus, antispyware, and firewall) that is set to update automatically.• Use tools to manage the information you share with friends in different groups. If you’re trying to create a public persona as a blogger or expert, create an open profile or a “fan” page that encourages broad participation and limits personal information. Use your personal profile for trusted friends.• Let a friend know if he or she posts information about you that makes you uncomfortable.• If someone is harassing or threatening you, remove the person from your friends list, block the person, and report the incident to the site administrator.• Make sure that your password is long, complex, and combines, letters, numerals, and symbols. Ideally, you should use a different password for every online account you have.• Be cautious about messages you receive on social networking sites that contain links. Even links that look they come from friends can sometimes contain malware or be part of a phishing attack.• Be aware that people you meet online might be nothing like they describe themselves, and they might not even be the gender they claim.• Flirting with strangers online could have serious consequences. Because some people lie about who they really are, you never really know who you’re dealing with.
A Principal's Reflections: What Constitutes Good Instruction? - 0 views
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Clearly stated objectives as to what the students are expected to learn or do by the conclusion of the lesson. Asking open and closed-ended questions during direct instruction in order to check for understanding, engage, and assess. I like to see my teachers randomly call on students so that they don’t get lost during the course of a lesson. An emphasis is also placed on the lecture being only 10-15 minutes if necessary. A do-now or anticipatory set that motivates the learner, reviews prior learning, and makes connections to the new content being presented. Students need to find meaning and relevancy in what they are learning or else they will be disengaged. Interdisciplinary connections. A variety of student-centered learning activities where students are afforded the opportunity to think critically, solve problems, work in cooperative groups, and create manifestations that demonstrate learning is taking place. Students need to be actively involved in the learning process. Informal and formal means of assessment in which the students have a clear indication of their performance in relation to expected learning outcomes. Rubrics or scoring guides should accompany any activity that is to be graded. The routine use of positive reinforcement to commend and praise students for taking risks, whether they are wrong or right. A stimulating learning environment that promotes inquiry with student work proudly displayed. Tied to this are classroom management techniques that afford all students the opportunity to learn. Effective technology integration. Teacher enthusiasm. If teachers aren’t enthusiastic about the lesson or content then how can they expect their students to be? A closure activity that reinforces the objectives of the lesson.
The Learning Registry - 0 views
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The USDoE released the Learning Registry is an open source technical system designed to facilitate the exchange of data behind the scenes, and an open community of resource creators, publishers, curators, and consumers who are collaborating to broadly share resources, as well as information about how those resources are used by educators in diverse learning environments across the Web.
Keeping Pace with K-12 Online Learning - 0 views
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K-12 online and blended learning have evolved in new directions in the past year. While nowfamiliar segments of the field, such as online charter schools and state virtual schools, have continued to grow, relatively new forms such as consortium programs and single-district programs are expanding even more rapidly, as is the range of private providers competing to work with districts. As of late 2011, online and blended learning opportunities exist for at least some students in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, but no state has a full suite of full-time and supplemental options for students at all grade level. See page 164 for WI.
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This is an annual report on policy and practice across the nation...state by state. Empahsis on quality of online and blended learning this year. You'll find this to be very informative and factual. Note the "Planning for Quality" section pages 50-62...well done.
Some top colleges offer free online classes; what does that mean for UW? - 0 views
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announcing a similar initiative in April called Coursera.
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but students who complete the classes don't earn university credit toward a degree. Instead they receive a certificate of completion, sometimes referred to as a badge.
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The Internet Generation Demands… Vigilant Discretion | Technology Story - 0 views
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Consider for a minute a couple of the dynamics Web 2.0 brought us, frictionless communication, and instant access to any piece of information, picture, or video from any device 24/7.
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With all of this opportunity, comes an increase in the need for responsibility, and ergo discretion.
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With all these choices, and the consequences that come with them, we better learn the art of discretion, and figure out how to teach it to young people. Fail that, and we will reap a generation that will be scarred by a billion cuts of bad technology augmented decisions…
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