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Keith Hamon

Harvard Study Finds Teens Online Lack Ethics - 0 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 22 Sep 10
     
    the team has found that most young people are devoid of ethical thinking or consideration for others when using the web.
Keith Hamon

From Groups to Teams: The Key to Powering up PBL | Edutopia - 1 views

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  • PBL teachers need a set of tools that establish a team ethic. They also need to set aside time for this during a project and before a project.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 15 Apr 11
       
      Team ethic is key to successful collaboration.
  • Use a solid, detailed collaboration and teamwork rubric
  • Distinguish working groups from teams.
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  • Help students focus on the core element that distinguishes a group from a team: The commitment to each other’s success.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 15 Apr 11
       
      We don't teach students how to identify & capitalize upon the different strengths they each bring to a team.
  • Keith Hamon on 15 Apr 11
     
    PBL is still kind of a cool way to address standards and, too often these days, is simply coverage by another name. But its ultimate benefit is to help students think, learn, and operate in the new century by challenging them at deeper levels. That requires reversing the equation between skills and content: PBL is method for teaching students to find, process, understand, and share information, not a way to extend the industrial landscape of regurgitation and recall.
Stephanie Cooper

Funny Norwegian Video Tackles Plagiarism| The Committed Sardine - 2 views

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  • Stephanie Cooper on 29 Jun 10
     
    This is funny!!
Stephanie Cooper

Anti-Plagiarism Strategies - 0 views

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  • Students are faced with too many choices, so they put off low priorities.
  • A remedy here would be to customize the research topic to include something of real interest to the students or to offer topics with high intrinsic interest to them.
  • If you structure your research assignment so that intermediate parts of it (topic, early research, prospectus, outline, draft, bibliography, final draft) are due at regular intervals, students will be less likely to get in a time-pressure panic and look for an expedient shortcut.
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  • Many students have poor time management and planning skills. 
  • Some students fear that their writing ability is inadequate.
  • Reassuring students of the help available to them (your personal attention, a writing center, teaching assistants, online writing lab sites, etc.) may give them the courage to persevere.
  • Do not assume that students know what plagiarism is, even if they nod their heads when you ask them. Provide an explicit definition for them.
  • In addition to a definition, though, you should discuss with your students the difference between appropriate, referenced use of ideas or quotations and inappropriate use. You might show them an example of a permissible paraphrase (with its citation) and an impermissible paraphrase (containing some paraphrasing and some copying), and discuss the difference.
  • A degree will help students get a first job, but performance--using the skills developed by doing just such assignments as research papers--will be required for promotion.
  • Many students do not seem to realize that whenever they cite a source, they are strengthening their writing. Citing a source, whether paraphrased or quoted, reveals that they have performed research work and synthesized the findings into their own argument. Using sources shows that the student in engaged in "the great conversation," the world of ideas, and that the student is aware of other thinkers' positions on the topic. By quoting (and citing) writers who support the student's position, the student adds strength to the position. By responding reasonably to those who oppose the position, the student shows that there are valid counter arguments. In a nutshell, citing helps make the essay stronger and sounder and will probably result in a better grade.
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Stephanie Cooper

Our obligation to prepare students for what is and will be, not what was | Dangerously ... - 1 views

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  • What's our moral / ethical / professional obligation as school leaders to prepare students for the world as it is and will be, not what was? I think it's pretty high.
  • You note that students aren't using the technology for anything 'meaningful.' Why would they be? Have their schools, teachers, or parents helped them understand the power of using digital technologies for productive work within the relevant discipline of study? Most have not, instead utilizing technology primarily for replicating factory, rather than information age, models of schooling. Absent productive use and modeling by their instructors and/or parents, of course students are going to use technology primarily for social purposes (just like we adults do).
  • In my recent experience of integrating technology into my classroom, I’ve found that the mode of communication changes but several elements of classroom do not change.
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  • What stays the same is the need students have to be engaged as active learners, not passive receptacles. (That’s an old, old idea that still sticks like tar in the minds of too many teachers.) Technology provides ways for students to enrich even the most elaborate and complex presentation a teacher can provide.
  • I guess the bottom line is this: If the content they are expected to learn is not interesting to them, they are not engaged. If they are not being asked to think critically in their learning, they are not engaged. It wont matter what tools or technology you use. However, today’s technology resources are available 24/7 and allow us to reach and engage students in ways we never could before. This is paying off big-time at my school.
Stephanie Cooper

The Importance of Teaching Technology to Teachers - TheApple.com - 0 views

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  • Because technology has increased the intensity and complexity of literate environments, the twenty-first century demands that a literate person possess a wide range of abilities and competencies, many literacies. These literacies—from reading online newspapers to participating in virtual classrooms—are multiple, dynamic, and malleable. As in the past, they are inextricably linked with particular histories, life possibilities and social trajectories of individuals and groups. Twenty-first century readers and writers need to: > 1. Develop proficiency with the tools of technology > 2. Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally > 3. Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes > 4. Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information > 5. Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts > 6. Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments
    • Stephanie Cooper
      Stephanie Cooper on 25 Feb 10
       
      This sounds right on track with our QEP mission!
  • Teachers are hungry to use technology in their classrooms. But they don’t. While part of this lack of usage stems from problems with education reform that emerges from administrators and education boards not fully understanding the technologies themselves, another part of teachers not using technology in the classroom comes from the simple fact that they don’t know how to use the technologies, let alone how to incorporate these technologies into their classrooms. In some cases, the teachers don’t know about the technologies at all.
  • How in god’s name can we talk seriously about 21st Century skills for kids if we’re not talking 21st Century skills for educators first? (URGENT: 21st Century Skills for Educators (and Others) First )
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  • Take a minute and ask yourself what technologies you are well versed in. Have you posted to YouTube? Do you use PowerPoint to aid in your lectures? What other technologies do you use? Do you have a Twitter account? Make a list. When you have your list made, consider your colleagues. Do they know these technologies? Do they know how they can use them in the classroom? Is there a technology that you know one of your colleagues knows that you would like to be familiar with? Now, instead of waiting for somebody to put together a workshop on one of these technologies, consider creating your own workshop. Think about it. You’re a teacher. You know these technologies. Is there really a difference in teaching what you know about Google Earth to your colleagues and teaching it to your students? Within your own school you can create a technology club (much like a book club, except that instead of reading a book a month, you experiment with a technology each month). Get together as a group and discuss the technologies and how you could use these to aid your teachers. This is exactly what I’m doing with the colleagues I know are interested in using the technology but don’t know how. Sure, you may have to wait for education reform to allow you to use these technologies, but if you start using them, you can readily become one of the advocates who aids in getting the reforms to education that we need to teach these technologies to our students.
    • Stephanie Cooper
      Stephanie Cooper on 25 Feb 10
       
      This sounds like something we could incorporate into the QEP classes/workshops that Hugh & Tom conduct. A "tech club" might even appeal to people not currently involved in QEP at this moment.
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