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The Heart of Innovation: 50 Ways to Foster a Culture of Innovation on 2009-12-12
Using Screencasting to Engage and Build Community with Online Learners on 2009-12-07
- Using Screencasting to Engage and Build Community with Online Learners
  
  By: Jacqueline Mangieri, PhD. in Online Education
- Screencasting allows you to take a digital video of what you are doing on your computer desktop, and most screencasting tools allow you to narrate your video while recording. The possible uses for screencasting are endless; these include providing course orientations, delivering instructional lectures, providing feedback, and encouraging student collaboration.
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- - Provide course orientations: A faculty member might create a brief screencast to provide a welcome and visual orientation to a class.
  - Deliver instructional lectures: Screencasting also allows the professor the opportunity to provide some direct instruction in the online classroom.
  - Provide student feedback: Screencasting can be a highly effective tool for giving feedback. It’s a great way to have an asynchronous “conference” with students about their work.
  - Encourage student sharing: An important online learning opportunity in many classes occurs when students are encouraged to share their work, and screencasting can take this sharing to a powerful level. In a screencast, students can articulate what they have learned and can explain their work process.
  - To explore some free screencasting tools, visit the following online resources:
    
    Jing - http://www.jingproject.com/
    
    Screencast-O-Matic - http://screencast-o-matic.com/
    
    Free Screencast - http://freescreencast.com/
    
    ScreenToaster - http://www.screentoaster.com/
    
    ScreenCastle - http://screencastle.com/
    
    uTIPu - http://www.utipu.com/app/download
    
    Dr. Jacqueline Mangieri is an Associate Professor in the School of Education and in the Student Success program at American Public University System.
    
    Permalink: http://www.facultyfocus.com?p=7439
BBC News - Children who use technology are 'better writers' on 2009-12-07
- Children who use technology are 'better writers'
- Children who blog, text or use social networking websites are more confident about their writing skills, according to the National Literacy Trust.
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- - A survey of 3,001 children aged nine to 16 found that 24% had their own blog and 82% sent text messages at least once a month.
    In addition 73% used instant messaging services to chat online with friends.
    However, 77% still put real pen to paper to write notes in class or do their school homework.
  - Of the children who neither blogged nor used social network sites, 47% rated their writing as "good" or "very good", while 61% of the bloggers and 56% of the social networkers said the same.
  - Young people aged nine and upwards are texting like crazy - inside and outside the classroom," he said.
    "It is a form of reading and writing. It might not be conventional but they are communicating, so there is a general gain."
NASSP - Shifting Ground on 2009-12-06
- Shifting Ground
- Stand outside any U.S. high school at dismissal time and face the doors. As you watch the students file out, you will see them pull out all sorts of devices—most of them banned in school— and get on with the way they live their lives, often viewing school as nothing more than a necessary evil in an otherwise modern life. For most students, the tools and talents they employ outside of school have little place in their academic classes.
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- - Moreover—and perhaps most damning—by blocking and banning many of the tools and Web sites that form the cornerstone of teenagers’ experiences, educators deny themselves access to the conversations that students are having about how to use these tools intelligently, ethically, and well. And given the overwhelming flow of information that students can access using such tools, it is essential that educators become part of those conversations.
  - Postman (1992) wrote that certain technologies are transformative, not additive, and used the Guttenberg printing press as his example: when the printing press was invented, the outcome wasn’t Europe plus some books, but a whole new Europe. Despite investing billions of dollars in hardware, wiring, and professional development, too many schools are the same as ever, only with some computers, when they should be whole new schools where kids are accomplishing things that no one ever dreamed possible.
  - Christensen (2008) makes the claim that by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught either fully online or in a “blended” fashion, with between 30% and 80% of the interaction happening online
  - there is no technological reason why classes can’t be taught online or become blended, but what will those classes look like? How will they be taught? Who will teach them? Everyone—parents, teachers, administrators, and students—must be willing to rethink many of their basic assumptions about what classes—and schools—can be.
  - schools should strive for is student empowerment.
  - interactive whiteboards only enable a teacher-centric style of teaching to be more engaging than it would have been with a traditional chalkboard.
  - True empowerment comes when students take the skills they have learned in classrooms and apply them to ends of their own creation.
  - The tools to achieve John Dewey’s dream of what schools can be are in place, but schools must embrace the opportunity to harness the 21st century tools and marry them to a more progressive pedagogy to put the responsibility—and the joy—of learning and creation into the students’ hands.
  - we as a society need to understand what schools can be if they become transparent through the use of 21st century tools. When the classroom, the teacher at the front of the room, and the school library are not the be-all and end-all of gaining information, schools can become truly inquiry driven.
  - The single greatest challenge schools face is helping students make sense of the world today.
  - Schools must create ways for students to come together as a community to ask powerful questions and dare them to bring all of their talents to bear on real-world problems. With technology tools at their disposal, students can research, collaborate, create, present, and network in meaningful ways. Those activities blend and blur and cross boundaries, but they all stem from an inquiry-driven process that allows students to build knowledge with the help of a skillful teacher.
  - After students have created questions, they must conduct research to find answers.
  - the tools that are available now can allow students to collaborate in new and powerful ways. Collaboration does not have to be limited to time spent in class or be bound by geography. Students can use instant messaging; text messaging; course management software; and collaborative writing tools, such as Google Docs, to work together at all hours of the day. The idea of community has changed dramatically in the past 10 years, and that idea should be reflected in classrooms.
  - Once students have worked together, the question must become, What can they create? Students have access to powerful, easy-to-use production tools to create authentic content that can be shared. Students can make films and podcasts, presentations and poetry, and they can publish them and share them with the world.
  - Whether they are making documentary films, writing blog entries, or collaborating on a wiki project, students can create original work and share it with virtually everyone.
  - Social networking has changed the landscape of society. High school reunions are being planned on Facebook, so this is no longer simply a “kid” thing. But it is not enough for educators to simply be aware of social networking; they have an obligation to teach students the difference between social networking and academic networking. Students can be known for more than just photos they took on their latest vacations; they can be known as serious evolving scholars. Educators can help them understand how to paint a digital portrait of themselves online that includes the work they do in school and help them network, both locally and globally, to enrich themselves as students.
  - Schools can and must be transformative—when they encourage kids to harness the new tools at their disposal to create real work of meaning, students can be authentic voices in the world. In the end, it is time to stop thinking of school as preparation for real life and instead show students that the time they spend in school can be a vital and enriching part of their very real and very important lives.
  - References
    
    Christensen, C. (2008). Disrupting class: How disruptive innovation will change the way the world learns. New York: McGraw-Hill.
    Postman, N. (1992). Technopoly: The surrender of culture to technology. New York: Knopf.
  - Chris Lehmann (chris@practicaltheory.org) is the principal of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, PA.
Community colleges -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com on 2009-12-06
- Online learning opens doors wider for students in tough economy
- expand online learning for strategic purposes: 1) to be able to offer access to education in the absence of funds to construct buildings; 2) to provide our students with courses and degrees entirely online, which reduces their need to commute to one of our campuses; 3) to enable higher education to "fit into" the busy and complicated lives of our students; and, 4) to position Broward College as an accessible, affordable and convenient provider of higher education. This year, 10 percent of our enrollment will be attributable to online students, and that comes during a year when our "traditional" student enrollments will increase by more than 10 percent.
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- - Already we have close to 200 courses online and nine full degrees and four certificates that are accessible on our website, http://www.broward.edu . We will be embracing the notion of "blended learning" for those that prefer a mix of the best of traditional and online learning.
  - in an era of diminishing state support, we must find ways to reduce cost while increasing access. Clearly, the face-to-face model cannot be sustained in an era of diminished public support and demand for increased access. Nor can higher education increase degree production, as we need to do, by building capacity through tuition increases that make higher education unaffordable. We must build in new ways — we must reach out to adults to help them complete their college education while maintaining employment, and we must use redesigned online learning opportunities to connect with students.
New Full Text Report: “Lessons Learned: How College Students Seek Information in the Digital Age” « ResourceShelf on 2009-12-04
- New Full Text Report: “Lessons Learned: How College Students Seek Information in the Digital Age”
- A report of findings from 2,318 respondents to a survey carried out among college in six campuses distributed across the U.S. in the spring of 2009, as part of Project Information Literacy. Respondents, while curious in the beginning stages of research, employed a consistent and predictable research strategy for finding information, whether they were conducting course-related or everyday life research. Almost all of the respondents turned to the same set of tried and true information resources in the initial stages of research, regardless of their information goals.
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Rafe Esquith Offers His Fiery Teaching Methods : NPR on 2009-12-03
- Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56, which Esquith likens to a cookbook for teaching in an urban classroom. The title of the book comes from an incident that occurred while he was helping a student in class with a chemistry experiment.
  "In trying to get her alcohol burner to light, I set my hair on fire and didn't even know it until the kids started screaming," he says. "But as ridiculous as that was, I actually thought, if I could care so much I didn't even know my hair was on fire, I was moving in the right direction as a teacher — when I realized that you have to ignore all the crap, and the children are the only thing that matter."
Poll finds sexting common among young people - Yahoo! News on 2009-12-03
- Poll finds sexting common among young people
- Sexting — sharing sexually explicit photos, videos and chat by cell phone or online — is fairly commonplace among young people, despite sometimes grim consequences for those who do it. More than a quarter of young people have been involved in sexting in some form, an Associated Press-MTV poll found.
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- - Sammy, a 16-year-old from the San Francisco Bay Area who asked that his last name not be used.
    
    Sammy said he had shared naked pictures of himself with girlfriends. He also shared naked pictures of someone else that a friend had sent him.
    
    What he didn't realize at the time was that young people across the country — in Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania — have faced charges, in some cases felony charges, for sending nude pictures.
  - Research shows teenage brains are not quite mature enough to make good decisions consistently. By the mid-teens, the brain's reward centers, the parts involved in emotional arousal, are well-developed, making teens more vulnerable to peer pressure.
  - But it is not until the early 20s that the brain's frontal cortex, where reasoning connects with emotion, enabling people to weigh consequences, has finished forming.
  - Beyond feeling invincible, young people also have a much different view of sexual photos that might be posted online, Bogle said. They don't think about the idea that those photos might wind up in the hands of potential employers or college admissions officers, she said.
  - Sexting doesn't stop with teenagers. Young adults are even more likely to have sexted; one-third of them said they had been involved in sexting, compared with about one-quarter of teenagers.
  - helma, a 25-year-old from Natchitoches, La., who didn't want her last name used, said she's been asked more than once to send naked pictures of herself to a man.
    
    "It's just when you're talking to a guy who's interested in you, and you might have a sexual relationship, so they just want to see you naked," she said, adding that she never complied with those requests.
    
    "But with my current boyfriend, I did it on my own; he didn't ask me," she said, adding that she was confident he would keep the image to himself.
    
    Those who sent nude pictures of themselves mostly said they went to a boyfriend, girlfriend or romantic interest.
  - 14 percent said they suspect the pictures were shared without permission, and they may be right: Seventeen percent of those who received naked pictures said they passed them along to someone else, often to more than just one person.
    
    Boys were a little more likely than girls to say they received naked pictures or video of someone that had been passed around without the person's consent. Common reasons were that they thought other people would want to see, that they were showing off and that they were bored.
  - Girls were a little more likely to send pictures of themselves. Yet boys were more likely to say that sexting is "hot," while most girls called it "slutty."
  - 10 percent said they had sent naked pictures of themselves on their cell phone or online.
  - Criminal charges aren't the worst consequences. In at least two cases, sexting has been linked to suicide. Last year in Cincinnati, 18-year-old Jessica Logan hanged herself after weeks of ridicule at school; she had sent a nude cell phone picture to her boyfriend, and after they broke up, he forwarded the picture to other girls.
  - And three months ago, 13-year-old Hope Witsell hanged herself, after relentless taunting at her school near Tampa, Fla. She had sent a nude photo of herself to a boy she liked, and another girl used his phone to send the picture to other students who forwarded it along.
  - Other teenage suicides have been linked to online bullying, also a subject of the AP-MTV poll. Half of all young people said they have been targets of digital bullying.
  - That can mean someone wrote something about them on the Internet that was mean or a lie, or someone shared an e-mail or instant message that was supposed to be private. Less often, it can be more serious, such as taking pictures or video of someone in a sexual situation and sharing it with others.
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