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04 Nov 08

MMISchools.com: Educational Gaming—From Edutainment to Bona Fide 21st-Century Teaching Tool [Available Full-Text, Free]

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Gee was curious about why video games were able to do so much that our education system was having trouble doing—continuously engage students, make students feel that it is safe to fail, make students unafraid to ask questions, and provide contextual learning that makes the learning relevant to the learner.
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- Gee was curious about why video games were able to do so much that our education system was having trouble doing—continuously engage students, make students feel that it is safe to fail, make students unafraid to ask questions, and provide contextual learning that makes the learning relevant to the learner.
- edutainment
- edutainment

03 Nov 08

edflin - 1:1 Laptop Program Reports

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DatacomIT - Information Technology Solutions & Innovation

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Will Technology Transform Education or Will the Schools Co-Opt Technology?

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Essay - At School, Technology Starts to Turn a Corner - NYTimes.com

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nytimes transfor education ICT

ratio of computers to pupils is one to one. Technology isn’t off in a computer
lab.
Computing is an integral tool in all disciplines, always at the ready.
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- Parents become more engaged because they can monitor their children’s
  attendance, punctuality, homework and performance, and can get tips for helping
  them at home. Teachers can share methods, lesson plans and online curriculum
  materials.
- The project-based approach, some educators say, encourages active learning and
  produces better performance in class and on standardized tests.

01 Nov 08

Share More! Wiki » Main/Home Page?

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wiki web2.0 tools

30 Oct 08

ASET 2002: McCarthy - digital literacy - information literacy - the new literacies

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digital literacy

Internet and the access it provides to vast amounts of information has raised
concerns regarding the need for increased attention to digital literacies.
Internet is "unproofed" information
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- digital literacy is "the ability to understand and use information in multiple
  formats from a wide range of sources when it is presented via computers"
- have access to a vast expanse of digital information.
- fastest growing communications media in world history
- Information is expanding at an unprecedented rate
- digital divide
- ability to locate, evaluate and effectively use the needed information
- too much information
- Surely the challenge now is on acquiring and developing the necessary skills to
  effectively use the information
- World Wide Web pages at face value
- troubling
- students must learn to manage, retrieve and analyse information, think
  rationally and creatively, solve problems and communicate effectively.
- technological workplace
- We have created a complicated city of information with superhighways for very
  high speed travel, without training drivers... or teaching them how to use road
  maps
- Teachers are learners in this too and must master technology in order to assist
  their students.
- "We are a generation in transition. Generally reared in a print period, but
  increasingly required to function electronically. We are required to teach in a
  way that we have never been taught."[8]
- learned how to learn
- can learn from them
- prepared for lifelong learning
- 1999.[
- 2002
- Computers to a large extent have overtaken sport and other leisure pursuits
- They are mostly self taught and often find their way more by accident than
  design.
- almost 40 years ago
- individual help
- How to conduct a search for information
  Defining a search and the need for information including prior knowledge
  Initiating a search strategy after brainstorming ideas and defining key
  words
  Locating a variety of resources including human, print, digital
  Assessing and understanding information including reliability and
  currentness, key points and differentiating between fact and opinion
  Synthesise, analyse and organise information
  Communicate results
- curriculum which incorporates Information skills and Digital Literacies across
  all Learning Areas
- With of course, no continuation in secondary schools!
- after years of ICT and IT, it is time to teach to their future, not our past!

28 Oct 08

Turned On, Plugged In, Online, & Dumb: Student Failure Despite the Techno Revolution | Britannica Blog

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were trained to integrate technology into their instruction

Why Web 2.0 Will Not be an Integral Part of K-12 Education: A Reply to Steve Hargadon | Britannica Blog

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predictor of the future is the past,
Why has technology not revolutionized teaching,

Notebooks for Students 1:1

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Brave New Classroom 2.0 (New Blog Forum) | Britannica Blog

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web2.0 britannica teaching technology

face dramatic changes in the institutions they attend thanks to new digital technologies
face dramatic changes in the institutions they attend thanks to new digital technologies
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