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Alice Barr

100+ Free Sites to Learn about Anything and Everything - 0 views

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  • Alice Barr on 23 Aug 09
     
    This is an alphabetical list of websites which provide information and/or instruction about a wide range of subjects (ie they are not subject-specific sites). The websites cover a wide range of informational and educational topics and include general reference resources, how-to guides, wikis, how-to videos, podcasts, courses, lessons, tutorials (including open courseware), e-books as well as other reference resources and places to ask questions both online and on your mobile.< The resources are suitable for learners of all ages: students as well as workplace learners and lifelong learners - as well as teachers, educators and trainers.
Mike Arsenault

2¢ Worth » Technology-Transformed Learning Environments - 0 views

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  • What I would look for is a learning experience where the learner is propelled by continually encountering barriers, asking questions, coming to understand the barriers, and solving his or her way through them.
    • Mike Arsenault
      Mike Arsenault on 16 Mar 10
       
      Inquiry-based research is so important to create a personal investment by the student in the process.
  • The learning experience compels a personal investment by the learner and contributes to the learner’s identity.&nbsp; The learning work should result in value, either value to the learner (increased self-value) or in an end product that is of value to others.
Alice Barr

The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child Education - 0 views

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  • Alice Barr on 23 Feb 11
     
    Tools Focused > Instruction Focused > Learner Focused
Alice Barr

The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child Education - 0 views

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  • Alice Barr on 23 Feb 11
     
    Life in the 21st century provides a whole new world of opportunities for self-directed, passion-driven, personalized learning. Educators who are ready to move on from teaching the way they were taught, and have administrators who will let them, can begin supporting students using tools and strategies available to the 21st century learner. 
Molly Kellogg

Educational Leadership:Teaching for the 21st Century:Taking the Digital Plunge - 2 views

www.ascd.org/...Taking-the-Digital-Plunge.aspx

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  • I consider experimenting fearlessly with digital connections to be part of my job as a teacher.
    • Rod Corey
      Rod Corey on 23 Jun 10
       
      Experimenting fearlessly is an important step in redesigning education and encouraging the development of 21st century skills.
  • Clay Burell is Korea's best kept secret, asking provocative questions about the changing nature of schooling. Jenny Luca is an Aussie dynamo, encouraging teachers to create meaningful service learning projects. Kevin Jarrett runs one of the most inventive elementary-level computer labs in New Jersey.
    • Merry Stuhr
      Merry Stuhr on 23 Jun 10
       
      I need to check out their work!
  • The Tempered Radical
    • Megan Rice
      Megan Rice on 23 Jun 10
       
      subscribe later?
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  • Wouldn't young adults truly prepared for the 21st century have experience using computers to learn with—rather than simply about—the world
  • Don't today's 12-year-olds need to recognize that future coworkers are just as likely to live on the other side of the world as on the other side of town?
    • Mike Arsenault
      Mike Arsenault on 23 Jun 10
       
      More and more of our kids will be working with their peers from around the world. Technologies like Skype and WebEx will change how they work.
    • Rod Corey
      Rod Corey on 23 Jun 10
       
      This is a great point which is why worldwide collaboration in education is so important to pursue and engage in.
  • no one has taught them about the power of these connections
  • few are using those networks to pursue meaningful personal growth
  • Consider the potential: Students from different countries can explore global challenges together. Small cohorts of motivated kids can conduct studies of topics with deep personal meaning to them. Experts can "visit" classrooms thousands of miles away.
    • Rod Corey
      Rod Corey on 23 Jun 10
       
      This sounds great but where do I start and how do I get going?
  • Connecting with colleagues online
    • Rod Corey
      Rod Corey on 23 Jun 10
       
      This is something that I need to begin to explore.
  • no one has taught them about the power of these connections
    • Kimberly Grover
      Kimberly Grover on 23 Jun 10
       
      When does this education begin? Or, does it matter? The impulse of typing the "emotion of the moment" overides what the adolescent brain has been taught.
  • each conversation includes opportunities for students to ask questions and feel a push against their preconceived notions.
    • Stephanie Robison
      Stephanie Robison on 23 Jun 10
       
      This sounds like such an awesome opportunity to encourage students to defend their thinking (which is something we want them to do) in a form where it doesn't feel like a teacher assignment
  • experimenting fearlessly
    • Megan Rice
      Megan Rice on 23 Jun 10
       
      same wording as ohler article
    • Stephen Fox
      Stephen Fox on 23 Jun 10
       
      Same editor
    • alan hall
      alan hall on 23 Jun 10
       
      Sara, did you get this response?
  • I began using discussion tools like VoiceThread (http://voicethread.com) to create electronic forums for my students to interact with peers around classroom content—with extraordinary results
    • Stephanie Robison
      Stephanie Robison on 23 Jun 10
       
      Voice thread is something I would like to use in the classroom. Students seem motivated by it.
    • Molly Kellogg
      Molly Kellogg on 23 Jun 10
       
      They love it! And there are plenty of colleagues you can learn from, like the 5th and 8th grade teams.
  • "I love it when someone disagrees with me online because it makes me think again."
  • Begin by signing up for a Twitter account
    • Kimberly Grover
      Kimberly Grover on 23 Jun 10
       
      Why twitter? Aren't there other forums to find this same information?
  • Clay Burell
  • our students have no trouble connecting, but no one has taught them about the power of these connections. Although tweens and teens may be comfortable using digital tools to build networks, few are using those networks to pursue meaningful personal growth. Our challenge as teachers is to identify ways that students can use these tools for learning.
    • Mike Arsenault
      Mike Arsenault on 23 Jun 10
       
      This points to the fact that we must teach students about digital citizenship. They are creating their own rules in these online environments. They need some direction to cut down on the terrible negative sides of online life.
  • Model learning transparently.
    • Rod Corey
      Rod Corey on 23 Jun 10
       
      What if we build time into the daily classroom routine for checking and interacting with our digigal relationships. Teachers would visit their professional learning communities and students would do the same. This could be a once a week activity, or every day...
  • The key to becoming an effective 21st century instructor is to become an efficient 21st century learner.
  • Wouldn't young adults truly prepared for the 21st century have experience using computers to learn with—rather than simply about—the world?
    • Megan Rice
      Megan Rice on 23 Jun 10
       
      This is exactly what I've been saying in my blog posts...
  • Once you've taken your digital plunge, share with students how the digital connections you engage in enhance your skills and deepen your knowledge. Model learning transparently.
    • Mike Arsenault
      Mike Arsenault on 23 Jun 10
       
      This is so important. Teachers need to be learners and must model how they learn with their students.
  • but no one has taught them about the power of these connections
    • Megan Rice
      Megan Rice on 23 Jun 10
       
      I agree, but is this taught through the content we already need to cover, or a technology component?
  • Our challenge as teachers is to identify ways that students can use these tools for learning.
    • Megan Rice
      Megan Rice on 23 Jun 10
       
      yes!
  • This is why I experiment with every new tool that bursts onto the teenage radar
    • Megan Rice
      Megan Rice on 23 Jun 10
       
      I wish I had the time to keep up with all the sites out there! I remember when we first showed VoiceThread - kids loved it. Now, they are more familiar and not as excited because they use it elsewhere, which is wonderful, but requires me to keep up on the "newer" options.
    • Molly Kellogg
      Molly Kellogg on 23 Jun 10
       
      This is why we need regular time scheduled into staff meetings or inservice days to just EXPLORE and collaborate with colleagues around new tools.
  • Through Twitter, you'll get short online messages from fellow practitioners that point you to resources or pose questions.
    • Megan Rice
      Megan Rice on 23 Jun 10
       
      Am I ready to be tethered to my phone even more than I am?
  • Then start by following some of the good education blogs written by teachers. Many of these are listed in the Support Blogging wiki (http://supportblogging.com) and on my list of resources (www.pageflakes.com/wferriter/16618841).
Alice Barr

Grading 2.0: Evaluation in the Digital Age | HASTAC - 1 views

www.hastac.org/...ding-20-evaluation-digital-age

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  • Alice Barr on 09 Dec 09
     
    In this HASTAC forum, three Scholars invite you to consider evaluation and assessment in the face of new forms of digital media, new kinds of skills and technologies, and the ever-changing landscape of education and academia. Grading 2.0: Evaluation in the Digital Age   As the educational and cultural climate changes in response to new technologies for creating and sharing information, educators have begun to ask if the current framework for assessing student work, standardized testing, and grading is incompatible with the way these students should be learning and the skills they need to acquire to compete in the information age. Many would agree that its time to expand the current notion of assessment and create new metrics, rubrics, and methods of measurement in order to ensure that all elements of the learning process are keeping pace with the ever-evolving world in which we live. This new framework for assessment might build off of currently accepted strategies and pedagogy, but also take into account new ideas about what learners should know to be successful and confident in all of their endeavors. 
Alice Barr

ALA | AASL Top 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning - 0 views

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  • Alice Barr on 04 Aug 11
     
    Top 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning     The "Top 25" Websites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.
Alice Barr

The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education - 2009 | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the D... - 1 views

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  • Alice Barr on 04 Oct 09
     
    In order to make this list, a site had to be: * accessible to English Language Learners and non-tech savvy users. * free-of-charge. * appropriate for classroom use. * completely browser-based with no download required.
Alice Barr

TopTen for Young Learners - All the Best! - 0 views

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  • Alice Barr on 15 Nov 09
     
    "The Tenth Best Web 2.0 Tool for Early Learning!"
Alice Barr

100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner | College@Home - 0 views

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  • Alice Barr on 01 Dec 09
     
    For those unfamiliar with the term, a learning style is a way in which an individual approaches learning. Many people understand material much better when it is presented in one format, for example a lab experiment, than when it is presented in another, like an audio presentation. Determining how you best learn and using materials that cater to this style can be a great way to make school and the entire process of acquiring new information easier and much more intuitive. Here are some great tools that you can use to cater to your individual learning style, no matter what that is.
David Pearl

Educational Leadership:Teaching for the 21st Century:Why Creativity Now? A Conversation... - 0 views

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  • Really, creativity is a disciplined process that requires skill, knowledge, and control.
    • Molly Kellogg
      Molly Kellogg on 23 Jun 10
       
      And we need to include kids in the process of creativity - what structure do they naturally follow? Have them use Bloom's taxonomy to mull over the process of creativity. What is the difference between a wild idea that is outside of the box and a wild idea that is totally out of the realm of possibility? Once the kids establish a process and structure for creative thinking, they can also begin to fill their tool kit with creative thinking tools, like SCAMPER and reverse brainstorming.
    • Annie Ouimet
      Annie Ouimet on 23 Jun 10
       
      Three creatvity misconceptions: *only about special people *only about special activities *is about letting go
  • we're going to need every ounce of ingenuity, imagination, and creativity to confront these problems.
    • Molly Kellogg
      Molly Kellogg on 23 Jun 10
       
      What else can we do to bring the focus in our school onto the vital importance of creativity and innovation?
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  • "We need people who can be innovative, who can think differently."
  • At the moment, instead of promoting creativity, I think we're systematically educating it out of our kids.
    • Annie Ouimet
      Annie Ouimet on 23 Jun 10
       
      I'm not sure about this...there has to be a balance I have said for years that we need more time in school
  • America is now facing the biggest challenge it's ever faced—to maintain it's position in the world economies. All these things demand high levels of innovation, creativity, and ingenuity. At the moment, instead of promoting creativity, I think we're systematically educating it out of our kids.
    • Molly Kellogg
      Molly Kellogg on 23 Jun 10
       
      See Ken Robinson's talk on how schools kill creativity for more on this; I think this is an opportunity to look at all of the amazing things we do in our schools already to encourage creativity and innovation and then to figure out how to expand those things rather than to feel singled out as a cause of creativity's demise.
  • And when you find things you're good at, you tend to get better at everything because your confidence is up and your attitude is different.
    • Annie Ouimet
      Annie Ouimet on 23 Jun 10
       
      This idea needs to be bottled and distributed to every educator...confidence is the key to learning
    • Molly Kellogg
      Molly Kellogg on 23 Jun 10
       
      Giving kids the chance to find their passion is the most empowering and exciting gift that we can give them!
  • A policy for creativity in education needs to be about everybody, not just a few.
    • Cathy Wolinsky
      Cathy Wolinsky on 23 Jun 10
       
      How do we give students assignments so that they are responding with creativity and not just following directions?
  • We know this because human culture is so diverse and rich—and our education system is becoming increasingly dreary and monotonous
    • Molly Kellogg
      Molly Kellogg on 23 Jun 10
       
      We MUST differentiate, differentiate, differentiate - our learning environments, our teaching styles, our materials, our content and our processes to avoid this stiffling conformity. Isn't diversity envigorating?!
    • David Pearl
      David Pearl on 23 Jun 10
       
      I agree
  • It's no surprise to me that so many kids are pulling out of it.
    • Molly Kellogg
      Molly Kellogg on 23 Jun 10
       
      The number of kids who check out or actually drop out of school is alarming - a noticable portion of whom are gifted learners. This really concerns me.
  • This is one of the great skills we have to promote and teach—collaborating and benefiting from diversity rather than promoting homogeneity. We have a big problem at the moment—education is becoming so dominated by this culture of standardized testing, by a particular view of intelligence and a narrow curriculum and education system, that we're flattening and stifling some of the basic skills and processes that creative achievement depends on.
  • So there's no doubt in my mind that collaboration, diversity, the exchange of ideas, and building on other people's achievements are at the heart of the creative process. An education that focuses only on the individual in isolation is bound to frustrate some of those possibilities.
  • The regime of standardized testing has led us all to believe that if you can't count it, it doesn't count. Actually, in every creative approach some of the things we're looking for are hard, if not impossible, to quantify. But that doesn't mean they don't matter. When I hear people say, "Well, of course, you can't assess creativity," I think, "You can—just stop and think about it a bit."
    • Molly Kellogg
      Molly Kellogg on 23 Jun 10
       
      This is where the value of standards based education becomes clear. I want to use meaty criteria based on student actions and products to assess learning and growth, not numbers and letters. Both my students and I can most effectively assess creativity and innovation by using criteria embedded in content standards. For example, a student can look at their brainstorming notes, organized ideas, idea development work and product creation materials to determine whether they have taken their knowledge all the way up to the top of Bloom's Taxonomy. Have they generated multiple ideas to respond to the guiding question or problem? Have they made connections between ideas to generate new thoughts? Have they piggybacked off others' ideas to create new ones? Have they organized their ideas, explored the logistics behind them and selected the best one for the situation? Have them woven their best idea into new content mastery to apply their knowledge in an innovative way? To me a student reflection around these types of questions is a much more authentic and valuable means of assessment that any attempt to put a numerical value on creativity.
    • David Pearl
      David Pearl on 23 Jun 10
       
      The Float
Alice Barr

Teacher Professional Development and Teacher Resources by Annenberg Media - 0 views

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  • Alice Barr on 31 Jul 09
     
    Advancing Excellent Teaching in American Schools Annenberg Media uses media and telecommunications to advance excellent teaching in American schools. This mandate is carried out chiefly by the funding and broad distribution of educational video programs with coordinated Web and print materials for the professional development of K-12 teachers. It is part of The Annenberg Foundation and advances the Foundation's goal of encouraging the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge.\n\nAnnenberg Media's multimedia resources help teachers increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods. Many programs are also intended for students in the classroom and viewers at home. All Annenberg Media videos exemplify excellent teaching.
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