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CheckItOutOneTime: Different Ways to Use Blogs and Wikis with Students
A good list to check out of ways to use blogs and wikis
Langwitches » Brave New World Wide Web
If the learning outcome stays unchanged from the learning that occurred without the tech tool, then the “new” technology merely is a glorified (and usually more expensive) version of the traditional one used in the past.
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If the learning outcome stays unchanged from the learning that occurred without the tech tool, then the “new” technology merely is a glorified (and usually more expensive) version of the traditional one used in the past.
Upwardly Mobile » Blog Archive » Moment of clarity (albeit brief!)
My big push at the moment is to do with information literacy. Technology integration doesn’t work in so many classrooms because teachers are not adapting to what is available to their students.
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My big push at the moment is to do with information literacy. Technology integration doesn’t work in so many classrooms because teachers are not adapting to what is available to their students. Yes they copy/paste from Wikipedia - because they usually aren’t being given authentic learning tasks which require them to think about information. Until technology use moves away from “going to the computer room” and becomes integrated into everyday use many teachers are not going to learn this (that and there is still in my experience very little professional development available in this field). I am sure this is nothing new to you! However, this is where my thinking is coming from.
dy/av : 002 : the next-gen lecturer on Vimeo
Saw this a year ago and forgot about it... Dan Meyer at his best... tells a great story about moving to a digital teacher for all the right reasons.
Learn 4 Life » What happens when you give a class of 8 year old children an iPod touch each?
As well as the school going through a massive rebuilding programme, they have also introduced a set of iPod touches into one year 4 class, for each child, to see what happens.
All the touches are networked through an Apple Airport Extreme and out onto the internet through the school’s connection. It is not every day you see this sort of thing.
Top Ten Tools - home
All of the tools in this list are freely available online and useful for working with primary age students.
Is the term 21st Century out of date? | U Tech Tips
Remind yourselves that your teachers have ALWAYS been trying to prepare their students to succeed in the world they will live in. And then collaborate with them on how that world has changed.
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They all tell us what we want our kids to turn out like. They all remind us what we need to value in education.
But we don’t.
At least not in action. (GENERALIZATION ALERT:) Schools continue to push content-driven curricula. Teachers continue to plan lessons building expertise within the discipline. And if students get our “21st Century Skills”, it’s because of an exception-to-the-rule teacher, choices the students make outside of class, or just plain luck.
We all know that what we need is buy-in. We see the success stories, celebrate the schools that do it, and ultimately wonder, what does it take to make it work everywhere? Buy-in.
So back to the teacher accessibility issue.
How do we ensure that teachers see teaching a 21st Century Curriculum as part of their job?
technologythatworks - home
HOME
1-Setting Objectives
2-Providing Feedback
3-Providing Recognition
4-Cues, Questions, Advance Organizers
5-Nonlinguistic Representation
6-Summarizing, Note Taking
7-Cooperative Learning
8-Reinforcing Effort
9-Identifying Similarities & Differences
10-Homework and Practice
11-Generating and Testing Hypotheses
Technology: The Wrong Questions and the Right Questions (Education - Change.org)
In 1842 the doubters wondered what these new technologies could do for schools as they existed. Today, educators and policy makers constantly wonder what computers, mobile phones, and social networking will do for a curriculum largely unchanged since 1910.
That was the wrong question then, and it is the wrong question now. The right question is, what can schools, what can education, contribute to these new technologies?
open thinking » Freedom Sticks For The Classroom
So let’s go through the list of things of issues:
* Filtering blocked some really important, educational sites.
* No visual editor in Wordpress because of IE 6 (it seems).
* No ability to attach files to blogposts.
* No Flash player.
Frustrating!
Solution:
Strategies for Differentiating
Teachers new to differentiating instruction may initially choose to use individual strategies and begin by differentiating either content, process or product .
It is also important to recognize that there is a considerable overlap between the strategies listed below. As teachers become comfortable with these strategies several may be very effectively employed simultaneously.
My Best of series | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
I’ve separated my “The Best…” lists here by topics. A number of the lists, though, can fit into multiple categories, so it still might be useful to scan all of them.
CDS Professional Development - home
Welcome to the wiki I have set up to help with technology integration and professional development. I hope this will be a resource that you will find useful and will come back to.
The Power of Educational Technology: 10 Tips for Teaching Technology to Teachers
A brilliant post by Liz.
My favourite on the list:
6. Remember there is great teaching without technology: There are many ways to teach and many great lessons that do not use technology. Respect the expertise of your colleagues.
Student Technology Proficiency | SimpleAssessment
Introducing SimpleAssessment - the simple, yet powerful tool that takes the hassle out of assessing student technology proficiency.
The Connected Classroom: Supporting Reluctant Swimmers-or letting them drown?
There has been talk in the edtech community for a long time that we need to stop talking about the tools, but I disagree.
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I have to wonder how many folks would jump in at all if they were afraid of the water. As David Truss points out, "too many people fear drowning and never get into the pool” and that in most Teacher Ed programs the amount of technology skill they leave the program with seems to be optional... to me that's like throwing a non-swimmer into the deep end.
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I spend a day or two, sometimes a week “teaching folks to swim.” I give them the skills and we go SLOW.
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Durff's Blog: Swim Instructors or Swimmers?
My point is, how far are we to go with other educators? If we instruct on the technological skills, isn't our responsibility done? Isn't it the responsibility of individual educators to swim?
It seems that too many, I have met them too, educators lack the drive to do things for themselves. We all went to college where we had to study on our own, write papers on our own, take tests on our own.
I fail to understand the mindset.
The origins of BSOS – Bright Shiny Object Syndrome « Open Monologue
It's about the learning not the tools, but how do we find the balance when helping teachers that are new to the tools?
Empowering Education Through Technology Articles - Technology empowers differentiated instruction
Although many educators realize technology's enormous potential to help them differentiate their instruction so that all students can learn, regardless of students' needs, abilities, or learning styles, it might be hard for them to find concrete applications of this approach to emulate in their classrooms. But in a Jan. 28 webinar from the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), experts provided several examples of classroom projects that can help all students learn while keeping them engaged.
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Add Sticky NoteBoth presenters agreed that DI is student-centered, offers multiple paths to learning, and is grounded in assessment practices.
- It is so important to think about assessment before the end of the project! - on 2009-06-02
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