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Jamie Payne

Google Reader - Hiking in Japan Blogs - 2 views

www.google.com/...%2FHiking%20in%20Japan%20Blogs

hiking japan blogs

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  • Jamie Payne on 17 Sep 11
     
    A bundle of blogs about hiking in Japan.
Ruth Ingulsrud

Why Johnny Can't Search - 6 views

www.wired.com/...st_thompson_searchresults

technology education learning search internet

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  • Ruth Ingulsrud on 15 Nov 11
     
    This is what we are starting to teach in 5th grade library as students prepare to begin a long research project.
  • Thinnes Anne-Marie on 17 Nov 11
     
    Thank you Ruth! This article is just about what I am trying to do with my students for years! This is very motivating! I found out last year that linking evaluating and citing sources is a good think to keep students focused: they search the author, publisher etc... and evaluate at the same time. You can read my blog post http://www.coetail.asia/amthinnes/ "changing the way we are teaching" (Sorry, the blog is difficult to read... getting better every week...) , for more info about it. The link I used so far is not bad from 9 grade, but too difficult for the younger children. If you have a better one, let me know! Anyway, it is great to know that we are at the same page.... Cheers, Anne-Marie
Jamie Payne

Mrs Emery connects « Human - 0 views

tomazlasic.net/...mrs-emery-connects

Group 9 article

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    • toomuchdot
      toomuchdot on 17 Sep 11
       
      Moddle and Blog? which is better?
    • Alex Guenther
      Alex Guenther on 17 Sep 11
       
      Moodle is for poodles!
  • vanity on the net
    • Ruth Ingulsrud
      Ruth Ingulsrud on 17 Sep 11
       
      Vanity, vanity... all is vanity. Facebook and blogging. Tweeting and texting. For a true introvert, this can't help but irritate me to a certain extent.
    • toomuchdot
      toomuchdot on 17 Sep 11
       
      yes...too an extent
  • ...6 more annotations...
  • Barrack
    • Alex Guenther
      Alex Guenther on 17 Sep 11
       
      Sp. - I hope she followed the right person!
    • Ruth Ingulsrud
      Ruth Ingulsrud on 17 Sep 11
       
      She should check the spelling on his birth certificate. :) I had a relative unfriend me for offering to send her a copy.
  • choice
  • choice,
    • Sunita Devadas
      Sunita Devadas on 17 Sep 11
       
      yeah choice is the key operating word.
    • Alex Guenther
      Alex Guenther on 17 Sep 11
       
      That's why I like Twitter more than FaceBook - you can choose exactly who to interact with, rather than having it based on family / friends
    • toomuchdot
      toomuchdot on 17 Sep 11
       
      too right!
  • The potential seemed endless.
    • toomuchdot
      toomuchdot on 17 Sep 11
       
      Yep!
    • Alex Guenther
      Alex Guenther on 17 Sep 11
       
      Yep!
    • Jamie Payne
      Jamie Payne on 17 Sep 11
       
      Is Twitter the right tool to connect two classrooms on other sides of the world? I don't know.
  • ntroduced me to Twitter.
  • Twitter
    • Ruth Ingulsrud
      Ruth Ingulsrud on 17 Sep 11
       
      Twitter is for TWITS
David

I'm So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...07awareness-t.html

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    • Jamie Raskin
      Jamie Raskin on 17 Sep 11
       
      Sort of like a motion-sensor camera that only activates and records when there's a change in the environment...
    • Jamie Raskin
      Jamie Raskin on 17 Sep 11
       
      Is it a coincidence that the rise of FB has been in line with the rise in reality tv?
    • Jamie Raskin
      Jamie Raskin on 17 Sep 11
       
      Why do we care about other people's gossip?
  • “Frankly, I don’t need to know or care that Billy broke up with Sally, and Ted has become friends with Steve.”
    • Adam Clark
      Adam Clark on 17 Sep 11
       
      While some people don't want to know this kind of info. Many people apparently do. 
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  • When I spoke to him, Zuckerberg argued that News Feed is central to Facebook’s success. “Facebook has always tried to push the envelope,” he said.
    • Adam Clark
      Adam Clark on 17 Sep 11
       
      I'm wondering how the "news feed" of facebook has influenced our expectations for other contexts. Has it made us expect efficiency? Has it made us lazy? 
  • Users’ worries about their privacy seemed to vanish within days, boiled away by their excitement at being so much more connected to their friends
  • social norms catching up with what technology is capable of.”
  • In essence, Facebook users didn’t think they wanted constant, up-to-the-minute updates on what other people are doing. Yet when they experienced this sort of omnipresent knowledge, they found it intriguing and addictive. Why?
  • “I really hate it when people clip their nails on the bus”
    • Adam Clark
      Adam Clark on 17 Sep 11
       
      For me this is facebook type material. To my way of thinking Twitter should make me better - better informed, better connected, a better professional, human being etc.
    • Jamie Raskin
      Jamie Raskin on 17 Sep 11
       
      I think it all adds up to a growing informality in our day to day communications... brevity, immediacy, intimacy
  • The phenomenon is quite different from what we normally think of as blogging, because a blog post is usually a written piece, sometimes quite long: a statement of opinion, a story, an analysis.
  • Haley discovered that he was beginning to sense the rhythms of his friends’ lives in a way he never had before.
    • Jamie Raskin
      Jamie Raskin on 17 Sep 11
       
      This is not the promoted use of Twitter... I always see it as an intellectual/professional connection tool, but is that just the way it's evolved?
  • But they also discovered that the little Ping-Ponging messages felt even more intimate than a phone call.
  • the idea of using communication tools as a form of “co-presence”
  • Ambient intimacy becomes a way to “feel less alone,” as more than one Facebook and Twitter user told me.
  • “I have a rule,” she told me. “I either have to know who you are, or I have to know of you.”
    • Adam Clark
      Adam Clark on 17 Sep 11
       
      What rules do other's have about their social media? We were talking about this kind of thing in G9 PSHE the other day
  • awareness tools aren’t as cognitively demanding as an e-mail message.
  • “Things like Twitter have actually given me a much bigger social circle. I know more about more people than ever before.”
    • Jamie Raskin
      Jamie Raskin on 17 Sep 11
       
      Are these gratifying relationships? I don't know that I have gratifying relationships built on snippets of info...
  • What sort of relationships are these? What does it mean to have hundreds of “friends” on Facebook? What kind of friends are they, anyway?
    • Adam Clark
      Adam Clark on 17 Sep 11
       
      How do the fact that we are wrestling with these questions impact our relationships IRL (in real life)? Are they all in real life or are they distinct? 
  • This makes them skimmable, like newspaper headlines; maybe you’ll read them all, maybe you’ll skip so
    • David
      David on 17 Sep 11
       
      twitter feeds are "skimmable", don't have to read in great detail
  • psychological studies have confirmed that human groupings naturally tail off at around 150 people: the “Dunbar number,” as it is known. Are people who use Facebook and Twitter increasing their Dunbar number, because they can so easily keep track of so many more people?
  • “I outsource my entire life,” she said. “I can solve any problem on Twitter in six minutes.”
  • This rapid growth of weak ties can be a very good thing. Sociologists have long found that “weak ties” greatly expand your ability to solve problems.
  • Parasocial relationships can use up some of the emotional space in our Dunbar number, crowding out real-life people.
  • “They can observe you, but it’s not the same as knowing you.”
  • the sheer ease of following her friends’ updates online has made her occasionally lazy about actually taking the time to visit them in person.
  • It brings back the dynamics of small-town life, where everybody knows your business
  • a culture of people who know much more about themselves.
    • Adam Clark
      Adam Clark on 17 Sep 11
       
      Also maybe also a culture of narcissists.  http://www.narcissismepidemic.com/aboutbook.html
  • t’s like the Greek dictum to “know thyself,” or the therapeutic concept of mindfulness. (Indeed, the question that floats eternally at the top of Twitter’s Web site
  • The act of stopping several times a day to observe what you’re feeling or thinking can become, after weeks and weeks, a sort of philosophical act.
  • “It drags you out of your own head,
Madeleine Cox

The Ultimate Educator's Guide to QR Codes - 0 views

www.edlio.com/...te-educators-guide-to-qr-codes

learning technology QRCodes

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  • Madeleine Cox on 17 Sep 11
     
    This is a thoughtful blog post with practical use...
Carl Knudsen

Asia Region Art Educators - Art educators living, working or interested in Asia - 0 views

ararte.ning.com

art

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  • Carl Knudsen on 17 Sep 11
     
    asia teachers art blog
Ruth Ingulsrud

Elementary Writing » Blog Archive » Famous Love Poems & The Stories Behind Them - 0 views

www.makeliterature.com/...famous-love-poems

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    • Ruth Ingulsrud
      Ruth Ingulsrud on 17 Sep 11
       
      Lit. Lesson: Good example for lesson on how to capture the inner qualities of a subject in one's writing; going deeper and increasing significance.
Alex Guenther

Google Reader - COETAIL Participant Blogs - 2 views

www.google.com/reader/bundle/user/08738396445863883641/bundle/COETAIL Participant Blogs

COETAIL technology japan education Reader google

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  • Alex Guenther on 17 Sep 11
     
    Might not be comprehensive - sorry! Taken from google doc "Participants Online"
Miss Uchii

Seth's Blog: Back to (the wrong) school - 17 views

sethgodin.typepad.com/...back-to-the-wrong-school.html

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    • Chris Betcher
      Chris Betcher on 16 Sep 11
       
      Read this article and leave a sticky note comment on anything that resonates with you. You can also highlight any words that particularly strike a chord with you.
    • Chris Betcher
      Chris Betcher on 16 Sep 11
       
      I like the title.
    • aleafinjapan
      aleafinjapan on 17 Sep 11
       
      I like Seth Godin!
  • Back to (the wrong) school
  • standardized testing
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  • Are we going to applaud, push or even permit our schools (including most of the private ones) to continue the safe but ultimately doomed strategy of churning out predictable, testable and mediocre factory-workers?
  • The bottom is not a good place to be, even if you're capable of getting there.
  • Large-scale education was never about teaching kids or creating scholars. It was invented to churn out adults who worked well within the system.
    • Chris Betcher
      Chris Betcher on 17 Sep 11
       
      This reminds me of the book The World is Flat
    • Monna McDiarmid
      Monna McDiarmid on 17 Sep 11
       
      It makes me crazy that Seth Godin does not permit people to comment on his blog posts.
    • Adam Clark
      Adam Clark on 17 Sep 11
       
      Ya, what's with that? I'm surprised he's not more open considering his purple cow worldview.
    • Monna McDiarmid
      Monna McDiarmid on 17 Sep 11
       
      His line is that he knows himself well enough to know that he'll get "into it" with commenters... and that he doesn't want to spend his life energy in conflict with the haters. I get that... but there's no opportunity for conversation at its source.
    • Garry Leroy Baker
      Garry Leroy Baker on 17 Sep 11
       
      Are teachers in tradable or non-tradable positions?
    • Chris Betcher
      Chris Betcher on 17 Sep 11
       
      Interesting question. Certainly the nature of the POSSIBILITIES of what we do has changed. My mother was a teacher and I don't feel that she had the same opportunities to shift what she did the same way that I can.
  • If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it.
    • aleafinjapan
      aleafinjapan on 17 Sep 11
       
      I agree!
    • Sunita Devadas
      Sunita Devadas on 17 Sep 11
       
      me tooo!!
  • Every year, we churn out millions of of workers who are trained to do 1925 labor.
    • Jean Hino
      Jean Hino on 17 Sep 11
       
      We are teaching to a new generation
    • Chris Betcher
      Chris Betcher on 17 Sep 11
       
      Yes, yes we are...
    • Miss Uchii
      Miss Uchii on 17 Sep 11
       
      A new generation, not by birth but by education.  An octogenarian can equally become a part of the new generation depending on their commitment to learning new skills. 
  • Sure, there was some moral outrage at seven-year olds losing fingers and being abused at work, but the economic rationale was paramount. Factory owners
    • Rebekah Madrid
      Rebekah Madrid on 17 Sep 11
       
      Links to my Child Labor (gr 8) assignment. Interesting way to start a class (Compare and Contrast)
  • If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it.
    • Adam Clark
      Adam Clark on 17 Sep 11
       
      This is why I never follow the instructions :) 
    • toomuchdot
      toomuchdot on 17 Sep 11
       
      Whats this??
    • tasha cowdy
      tasha cowdy on 17 Sep 11
       
      s we get ready for the 93rd year of universal public education, here's the question every parent and taxpayer needs to wrestle with: Are we going to applaud, push or even permit our schools (including most of the private ones) to continue the safe but ultimately doomed strategy of churning out predictable, testable and mediocre factory-workers?
    • Madeleine Cox
      Madeleine Cox on 17 Sep 11
       
      How does this relate to national, as well as international schools? So many discussions on Twitter that I've followed seem to come from educators at U.S. state schools who are struggling with the restrictions imposed by law and policy makers, which seem intent on crushing creativity and connections within - and between - schools.
  • Our current system of teaching kids to sit in straight rows and obey instructions isn't a coincidence--it was an investment in our economic future. The plan: trade short-term child labor wages for longer-term productivity by giving kids a head start in doing what they're told.
    • Chie Mizukoshi
      Chie Mizukoshi on 17 Sep 11
       
      That is ture. It reflects on a country's politics too.
  • igning chairs and answering the phone) and non-tradable jobs (like mowing the lawn or cooking burger
    • toomuchdot
      toomuchdot on 17 Sep 11
       
      what????
    • Alex Guenther
      Alex Guenther on 17 Sep 11
       
      Exactly!
  • Some argue we ought to become the cheaper, easier country for sourcing cheap, compliant workers who do what they're told.
    • Susan MacIntosh
      Susan MacIntosh on 17 Sep 11
       
      Consider Pink's assertion that our society will become a "thinking economy" where jobs will reflect emphasis on leadership skills.  Are we there yet?
    • Brendan Lea
      Brendan Lea on 17 Sep 11
       
      Finally got this working on the iPad 
  • disconnect
    • Alex Guenther
      Alex Guenther on 17 Sep 11
       
      Weird how disconnect is a noun but connect isn't.
  • post-industrial revolution
    • Miss Uchii
      Miss Uchii on 17 Sep 11
       
      This revolution just simply changes how people understands the world and changes how people react to each other.  New kinds of training is needed more and more. 
Darren Laverick

News: 'The World Is Open' - Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

www.insidehighered.com/...bonk

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    • Kristen Blum
      Kristen Blum on 17 Sep 11
       
      What I'm thinking already is positive--greater access is important. Negative. What about face time? Will this erase time spent face-to-face?
  • What if someone listened to hundreds of podcasts, watched dozens of online lectures, explored countless online resources related to Introduction to Auditing, Astronomy 101, or Ancient Rome, and then discussed them with friends and family or reflected on many of them in an online forum or series of blog posts?
    • Kristen Blum
      Kristen Blum on 17 Sep 11
       
      Seems like they absolutely should get credit for this real-world learning
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  • The jury is still out on the need for a guide or facilitator in open education. As co-editor of a handbook of blended learning, I can say that I personally believe that blended is best. Recent research seems to suggest that this is true
    • Kristen Blum
      Kristen Blum on 17 Sep 11
       
      Without a guide or facilitator, do you leave too much room for interpretation, making up the facts?
    • Madeleine Cox
      Madeleine Cox on 17 Sep 11
       
      The very nature of this workshop suggests to me that we all need guides and human contact to a greater or lesser extent. I'm really enjoying these conversations - both online and in person!
    • Darren Laverick
      Darren Laverick on 17 Sep 11
       
      Open learning people connected uni sharing learning courses Informal learning skyrocketing open learning movement
    • Zoe Page
      Zoe Page on 17 Sep 11
       
      Universities sharing courses, children can access them. Go with them or they will go without you
    • Girish Dogra
      Girish Dogra on 17 Sep 11
       
      This is great article about how education is evolving and how it will be in the next century. My apprehension is that without a human interference how effective will it be?
  • Technology is changing higher education
  • Leading universities are putting course materials or even entire courses online -- free.
David

Tech Tidbits: Increasing Teachers' Digital Efficiency | always learning - 1 views

kimcofino.com/...ng-teachers-digital-efficiency

learning

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  • ow all of our students in grades 6 – 12 (around 400) have their own
Alex Guenther

Seth's Blog: Back to (the wrong) school | Diigo - 0 views

www.diigo.com/...back-to-the-wrong-school.html

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    • Alex Guenther
      Alex Guenther on 17 Sep 11
       
      Funny how disconnect is a noun and connect isn't
Kaori Sensei

dy/dan - 1 views

blog.mrmeyer.com/

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  • Kaori Sensei on 17 Sep 11
     
    Lots of ideas for Maths teachers.
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