Feedback for teacher to see how thoughts and learning are developing. Threads and themes (or missing pieces) could guide future instruction and plans for projects.
What does Twitter do? Watch this and ask, what focus could this have for me or my students? How would this bring us together?
Finding a cure for stale ideologies
Instead of working within the system of teaching and learning, let’s turn our attention to changing the system itself by suggesting responses to the ideologies discussed previously:
1. The learning needed can be defined
2. Control is needed to achieve required learning
3. Students at similar stages need similar learning
4. Coherence and structure needed for learning
1) Digital citizenship (publics & participation v. consumers & audiences)
This defines a participation focus for the public sphere – information and social spaces for the purposes of active citizenship and civic, public and social purposes (publics, commons, communities, participants).
2) Digital character (purposeful social intelligences)
This defines much needed social dispositions such as empathy, compassion and respect for difference and diversity (culture, race, class, gender, sexual identity, belief and cognitive styles).
What Can You Do To Minimize The Chances Of An On-line Exploiter Victimizing Your Child?
Mike Donlin of Seattle Public Schools described his district’s cyberbullying program that trains students on techniques to protect themselves and their fellow students from bullying and harassment. Consistent with other experts, Donlin said that online bullying is typically associated with offline bullying. Problems that start in school often migrate online and it’s not uncommon for the bullies and victims to know each other in the real world.
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Education is evolving and becoming more collaborative. Learning environments and the learners are moving from fragmented groups to a place of sharing collective knowledge and understanding. This list is a place to maintain some of these ideas and innovations on the web.
Updated on Jan 11, 12
Created on Oct 18, 09
Category: Schools & Education
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