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Realism in American Literature on 2009-11-10
Content Standards - Standards & Frameworks (CA Dept of Education) on 2009-09-21
College and Career Pathways for the 21st Century on 2009-09-17
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My School, Meet MySpace: Social Networking at School | Edutopia on 2009-06-26
- Then, weeks before the first day of school, the incoming students jumped onboard -- or, more precisely, onto the Science Leadership Academy Web site -- to meet, talk with their teachers, and share their hopes for their education. So began a conversation that still perks along 24/7 in SLA classrooms and cyberspace. It's a bold experiment to redefine learning spaces, the roles and relationships of teachers and students, and the mission of the modern high school.
- When history teacher Matt Baird posed a sensitive question -- "On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate race relationships at the school?" -- he had students post comments rather than speak. "People often don't listen when they have to talk in class," he says. "They're thinking about what they'll say. And you hear from the loudest, not necessarily the most thoughtful."
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- - As part of the study of memoirs, for example, Alexa Dunn's English class read Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas's account of growing up Iranian in the United States -- yes, the students do read books -- and talked with the author in California via Skype. The students also wrote their own memoirs and uploaded them to SLA's network for the teacher and class to read and edit. Then, digital arts teacher Marcie Hull showed the students GarageBand, which they used to turn their memoirs into podcasts. These they posted on the education social-networking site EduSpaces (formerly Elgg); they also posted blogs about the memoirs. (You can read student and teacher blogs on the school Web site.)
The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus | Sightings on 2009-06-23
NETS_for_Students_2007_Standards.pdf (application/pdf Object) on 2009-06-23
"Living and Learning with Social Media" on 2009-06-23
- Social network sites are not like email where it doesn't matter if you're on Hotmail or Yahoo. Teens who use MySpace can't communicate with those on Facebook and vice-versa. So if you don't participate, you're written out of the story. This means that divisions are re-inforced. Forget all of the rhetoric about how the Internet is the great equalizer - it's the great reproducer of inequality.
- More importantly, I've listened as many of you have talked about doing things on Facebook because "everyone" is on Facebook. What about those who aren't? What happens to students who enter this university only ever having known MySpace? Are there differences in skills that need to be taken into account? What about familiarity and networks? What happens at school when everyone has been using Facebook for years except you?
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- - More problematically, I've heard many of you talk about using Facebook directly in the classroom. And I've heard you talk about recruiting through Facebook. What kinds of assumptions are you making? Are you aware of these issues?
  - But I want to make one thing clear... Just because youth are using social media doesn't mean that it can fit well into the classroom. It needs to be thought through pedagogically and y'all need to understand how it's being used in everyday life before bringing it into the classroom.
  - Since we're using social network sites as a case study, let me point out one of the places where they FAIL miserably. On social network sites, you have to publicly list your Friends and you have to have the functioning network to leverage it. What happens if you're an outcast at school? Does bringing it into the classroom make it worse? What happens if you're forced to Friend someone who torments you because you share a class? And then you have to face that person in your "private" space online as well? Bringing social network sites into the classroom can be very very tricky because you have to contend with social factors that you, as a teacher, may not be aware of.
  - It's critical to realize that just because young folks pick up a technology before you do doesn't inherently mean that they understand it better than you do. Or that they have a way of putting it into context. What they're doing is not inherently more sophisticated – it's simply different. They're coming of age in a culture where these structures are just a given. They take them for granted. And they repurpose them to meet their needs. But they don't necessarily think about them.
Writing, Reading, and Social Media Literacy - Now, New, Next - HarvardBusiness.org on 2009-06-23
- Learning to use online forums, be they social network services like MySpace and Facebook, blogs, or wikis is not a sexily contemporary add-on to the curriculum - it's an essential part of the literacy today's youth require for the world they inhabit.
- How do you find out anything you want to know by entering the right question into a search engine? Equally important - how do you determine whether the answer returned by a search engine is true?
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- - The way today's students will do science, politics, journalism, and business next year and a decade from now will be shaped by the skills they acquire in using social media, and by the knowledge they gain of the important issues of privacy, identity, community, and the role of citizen media in democracy.
  - Whether digital media will be beneficial or destructive in the long run doesn't depend on the technologies, but on the literacy of those who use them.
  - Just as learning the alphabet requires further education before a literate person can compose a coherent argument, learning the skills of effective social media use requires an education that today's institutions and teachers are ill-prepared to provide.
EBSCOhost: Becoming Network-Wise on 2009-06-23
- But the fact is that students continue to explore networking online, few of them are being taught how to leverage its potential and benefit from the deep learning that can ensue.
  - Nicole Kukral on 2009-06-23
    
    As people in the public education profession, it is probably our responsibility to teach kids responsible network habits--especially if their parents have no idea where to begin. Maybe we can also educate the parents, too, though.
- In short, they must be self-directed, self-motivated, lifelong learners who are network-literate in their creation and participation in these spaces.
  - Nicole Kukral on 2009-06-23
    
    We need to help facilitate the capacity to be self-directed learners.
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- - The way today's students will do
    science, politics, journalism, and business next year and a
    decade from now will be shaped by the skills they acquire in
    using social media and by the knowledge they gain of the
    important issues of privacy identity community and the role
    of citizen media in democracy. (2008)
  - The current numbers of people participating in social networks are staggering: 250 million on MySpace, 125 million on Facebook, and hundreds of millions more on such sites as LinkedIn, Live Journal, and Library Thing ("List of Social Networking Websites," n.d.).
  - Even the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) recognizes the changing shape of traditional literacy, calling it "malleable" and suggesting that 21st-century readers and writers should be able to not only use technologies effectively but also "build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally" and "design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes" (NCTE, n.d.).
  - For instance, students studying the effects of global warming could use RSS feeds to subscribe to stories about the topic from the New York Times and compare those stories with ones they get in similar feeds from the Times of India and China Daily. In addition, they could use RSS feeds to scour the blogosphere to identify expert voices.
    Nicole Kukral on 2009-06-23
    
    I don't really even know how to do this, but what a great tool! That is so neat!!!
  - f we continue to simply pass paper back and forth in our classrooms, we are not preparing students for the world they are entering.
  - For instance, the days of saving great Web sites to our browser as bookmarks or favorites have passed. Today, we share those great online finds using social bookmarking sites like Delicious.com or Diigo.com, where others can find them and, subsequently, find us. In fact, by using RSS feeds, others can "subscribe" to our bookmarks, finding out what we are reading and, with any luck, enriching their own learning in the process.
  - We must teach students to seek out "critical friends" and voices of dissent who will respectfully challenge their thinking.
    Nicole Kukral on 2009-06-23
    
    How do we do this?
Jessica Gross: Embracing the Twitter Classroom on 2009-06-23
- As traditional reporting gives way to citizen journalism, and user-generated review sites like Yelp attract more traffic than renowned publications like Zagat, it's prudent to teach collaboration, too.
- This year, M.I.T.'s physics department moved away from professorial spiels and toward group work. "Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV," said Harvard Professor Eric Mazur, who influenced M.I.T. to shift, "likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it." The upshot: a more than 50-percent drop in failure rate.

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