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Web 2.0 is the 21st century. I'm particularly interested in bookmarking sites that discuss it's applications in schools and nonprofit settings.
Updated on 2009-12-03
Created on 2009-07-05
Category: Computers & Internet
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Connect Safely |Online Safety 3.0: Empowering and Protecting Youth | Commentaries - Staff
It’s time for Online Safety 3.0. Why 3.0 and why now?
The online-safety messages most Americans are getting are still pretty much one-size-fits-all and focused largely on adult-to-child crime, rather than on what the growing bodies of both Net-safety and social-media research have found.
Online Safety 2.0 began to develop messaging around the
peer-to-peer part of online safety, mostly harassment and cyberbullying and, increasingly, sexting by cellphones, but it still focuses on technology not behavior as the primary risk and characterizes youth almost without exception as
potential victims. Version 2.0 fails to recognize youth agency: young people as participants, stakeholders, and leaders in an increasingly participatory environment online and offline.
To be relevant to young people, its intended beneficiaries, Net safety needs to respect youth agency, embrace the technologies they love, use social media in the instruction process, and address the positive reasons for safe use of social technology. It’s not safety from bad outcomes but safety for positive ones. ... Safety is essential but only part of what we want for the people who are going to run this world!
Online Safety 3.0 enables youth enrichment and empowerment. Its main components – new media literacy and digital citizenship – are both protective and enabling. Ideally from the moment they first use computers and cellphones, children are learning how to function mindfully, safely and effectively as individuals and community members, as consumers, producers, and stakeholders. -
The School of One - The 50 Best Inventions of 2009 - TIME
This past summer, in a sixth-grade math class, New York City schools chancellor
Joel Klein piloted a small program in which individualized, technology-based
learning takes the place of the old "let's all proceed together" approach. Each
day, students in the School of One are given a unique lesson plan — a "daily
playlist" — tailored to their learning style and rate of progress that includes
a mix of virtual tutoring, in-class instruction and educational video games. -
Free Online Courses & Lectures from Great Universities | Open Culture
Download free courses & lectures from some of the world’s leading universities, including Stanford, Yale, Berkeley, MIT, Oxford, Harvard and others.
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Facebook | Open Culture: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats
we point you to The Life and Work of William Butler Yeats, an online exhibition created byThe National Library of Ireland. When you enter the tour, you can scan through 200 artifacts & manuscripts and “attend” three in-depth tutorials exploring the evolution of three major poems (‘Sailing to Byzantium’, ‘Leda and the Swan’ and ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’). You can also listen to Yeats, one of Ireland’s towering poets, reciting his famous poem ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree.’ To listen, click “Areas” on the bottom navigation, then click “Verse and Vision” on the center menu, and then the audio will begin to play. You can read the text of the poem here. Finally, you’ll find more Yeats poems in our Free Audio Book collection.
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100 Awesome Classroom Videos to Learn New Teaching Techniques | Smart Teaching
With so many good teachers out there, it’s fortunate they can share their knowledge via video on the Internet. From the funny to the poignant, these glimpses into the lives of teachers and their students will keep you entertained while learning a little something as well. Whether you are a new teacher storing up tips and tricks or an experienced teacher who could just use a fresh perspective, you are sure to find something helpful among these videos.
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50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom | Smart Teaching
Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum. They’re often appealing and fun for students to use, while at the same time ideal for encouraging participation, collaboration, and interaction. Read on to see how you can put wikis to work in your classroom.
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Cliotech: Going Googley with Google Tools - Week 11
I love the ways that Google Earth allows you to explore and interact with highly engaging visual data. So, when I came across kmlfactbook I nearly flipped! kmlfactbook allows users to tap into the data contained in the CIA World Factbook and the World Resources Institues EarthTrends. Registered users can also upload their own data sets to kmlfactbook.
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Weblogg-ed » “Willing to be Disturbed”
The cohort group had been meeting throughout the summer, focusing on learning about social networks, on making connections, reading blogs, trying Twitter and Facebook, and thinking about social tools in the context of their curriculum. The teachers come from every discipline, from math to special education to media specialists. ... [The Supt] started by asking everyone to read Margaret Wheatley’s “Willing to be Disturbed.”
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The cohort group had been meeting throughout the summer, focusing on learning about social networks, on making connections, reading blogs, trying Twitter and Facebook, and thinking about social tools in the context of their curriculum. The teachers come from every discipline, from math to special education to media specialists.
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YouTube - A Portal to Media Literacy
Michael Wesch lecturing at the University of Manitoba, June 17, 2008. Wow! The nature of learning, how the web can enhance learning, how Wesch and his classes use those principals in his Intro to Cultural Anthro undergraduate class.
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Rheingold.com
My 2002 book, Smart Mobs, was widely acclaimed as a prescient forecast of the always-on era. The weblog associated with the book has become one of the top 200 of the 8 million blogs tracked by Technorati, and won Utne Magazine's Independent Press Award in 2003. In 2005, I taught a course at Stanford University on A Literacy of Cooperation, part of a long-term investigation of cooperation and collective action that I have undertaken in partnership with the Institute for the Future. The Cooperation Commons is the site of my ongoing investigation of cooperation and collective action. I teach Participatory Media/Collective Action at UC Berkeley's School of Information, Digital Journalism at Stanford University, am a non-resident Fellow of the Annenberg School for Communication, and am a visiting Professor at the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. \n\n
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Social Media Classroom
The Social Media Classroom (we'll call it SMC) includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes-integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets , and video commenting are the first set of tools. The Classroom also includes curricular material: syllabi, lesson plans, resource repositories, screencasts and videos. The Collaboratory (or Colab), is what we call just the web service part of it. Educators are encouraged to use the Colab and SMB materials freely, and we host your Colab communities if you don't want to install your own.
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Mediated Cultures: Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University
Michael Wesch's Digital Ethnography page on netvibes.com. A host of resources, an excellent example.
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AASL's Best Websites for Teaching and Learning - NeverEndingSearch - Blog on School Library Journal
AASL's Best Websites for Teaching and Learning
July 17, 2009 One of the most exciting revelations at ALA last week was the Sunday panel that unveiled the inaugural AASL's Best Websites for Teaching and Learning. (If there was a Newbery kinda ceremony for the techie in many of us, this was it!) -
Weblogg-ed » Digital Inclusion
So, it is not a question of whether these technologies add value somehow to education, but the reverse, can education add value to the communications and information technologies of our present day world, and its future?
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Weblogg-ed » The Larger Lessons
In light of the interesting back and forth that occurred on my last post, I’ve been thinking about what the fundamental lessons of schooling ought to be and the role of technology in helping us teach them.
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Gallery: Low-Tech Computers From Prehistory to Today | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
A quick, interesting walk through "computing" history.
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