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SMS services for schools – pros and cons
Mobile technology is growing by leaps and bounds in the U.S. and as such we're finally catching up with the rest of the world in SMS or texting. The question
EdTech – Stop kidding yourself
Why is it that as educational technologists we feel the need to stand on our digital soapboxes and scream, You're not doing enough! You're not trying all the
News vs marketing for your school web site
Making a presence for your school on the internet is much more than building a web site using Dreamweaver and putting it out there. Social networking
Dangerously Irrelevant: Are our training efforts helping educators or enabling codependence?
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I was concerned that we never seem to hold folks accountable for being self-learners.
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They’ve gotten so simple that the learning curve just isn’t that steep anymore.
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I, Cringely . The Pulpit . War of the Worlds | PBS
Here, buried in my sixth paragraph, is the most important nugget: we've reached the point in our (disparate) cultural adaptation to computing and communication technology that the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. They are ready to dump our schools.
I came to this conclusion recently while attending Brainstorm 2008, a delightful conference for computer people in K-12 schools throughout Wisconsin. They didn't hold breakout sessions on technology battles or tactics, but the idea was in the air. These people were under siege.
edSocialMedia » Why Schools Shouldn't Ignore Social Media
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Add Sticky Note6. 272 million manage a profile on a social network. How many of these 272 million are your current students, parents, faculty or alumni? 15%, 20 or 25%? The strategy many schools continue to use which relies heavily on printed materials, costly mailings and flat, one-way communication is not going to work on these 272 million. The percentage of members in your school community using social networks like FaceBook and LinkedIn is going to continue to increase exponentially. Taking steps to formulate a solid communication strategy around these tools is going to be critical to your schools advancement goals.
- This stat, while interesting, belies the greater issue for educators. There is no question that adoption rates are high but what are we sharing and discussing with students when it comes to these profiles and the information that can be derived not only by people by by corporations. - on 2008-12-18
TipLine - Gates' Computer Tips: Teaching with Google Earth
Tips and Tricks on teaching with Google Earth in the classroom
The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves - Practical Theory
This article is dealing with a school and a social environment that has deteriorated past the ability to self-regulate through a series of stated guidelines. Both your school and ours are able to maintain their levels of operation through similar sets of guidelines, but in viewing the situation in the article I can completely understand how that school would need to take those steps to regain control over what had become an unmanageable situation.
Looking at examples from the article of students who receive detention for failing to carry their ID after being reminded of it the previous day is not an unusual policy in most public schools. Denial of the "pleasant" aspects of school life for students who struggle academically or behaviorally is also nothing new. In this case they have made it a core part of the students life. Think about it this way: how many of these students who learn through these hard lessons of personal responsibility are going to be come parents who pass along to their children the values of personal responsibility?
Some of the parents at CCS have a saying..."It's good to be in the bubble." There is a safe, easily maintained environment at the school, reinforced by clear guidelines and rules with defined penalties for failure to comply. To those who would think this too strict or limiting I would refer you to the number of students returning to our school after venturing into the "real world" and realizing "the bubble" is a better place for them.
This is very similar to what I saw at SLA when I visited. Your students are committed to attending the school. They have a personal investment in their futures and the future of the school, something many mandatory schools lack. It's that personal investment that makes respect mean something to them and carry the weight it should in balancing their actions and behaviors with the greater good.
For those of us "in the bubble" it can be disturbing to observe the tactics necessary to restore, or in some cases create, the bubble for other students at o
Drape's Takes: A Refreshing Look At Networked Learning
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It is time to toss out the “blog, wiki, podcast” mantra. This is bigger than tools isolated for singular purpose. If we keep pushing the tools into categories, new users will continue to only use the tools for those purposes. We should be twisting, stretching and breaking these tools, not neatly packaging content with them.
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Networked learners are more confident than individual learners in questioning authority, discovering alternative realities and resolving critical concerns through thoughtful inquiry.
ClassTools.net: Games for Education
Allows you to use and create your own Flash based tools, diagrams, and games for use on the web with your students.
Technology Integration Matrix
Cross reference technology integration levels to characteristics of the learning environment.
The Bamboo Project Blog: Jane Hart's Top 100 Tools for Learning: Looks Like Workplace Learning is Still Web 1.0
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In looking at these two lists, I was intrigued and frankly bothered by how many "one-way" kinds of tools are being used by the workplace learning professionals. Most of the top 10 tools on their lists are presentation tools, with minimal interactivity for learners beyond what may get built in by an instructional designer. Related to this is the clear sense that workplace learning
professionals are using more of a "push" mode of learning, pushing
content to learners, and are focused on creating more structured,
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Is it that there are no models for how to use the tools for workplace learning, as there are with the educational community? Certainly I've seen educators having many more discussions about how to use Web 2.0 technologies in learning than I've observed among workplace elearning professionals, so maybe this is part of the issue.
Cyber Punk Cafe: List of Free Open Source Alternatives to Norton Ghost
Listing of open source alternatives to Norton Ghost for easy machine restoration.
The Connected Classroom: DIG-ging diigo...
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OK well there was a network, in delicious, why does this one work better for me?...well in del.icio.us I never knew who was joining my network or how they found me so I couldn't communicate with them directly if I had a question or comment about something they shared.
Surprises in Houston | 2¢ Worth
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We can’t drag this out. Stop demanding pilot projects and overhaul the system.
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Today I don’t need to know everything I just need to know how to find what I need to know.
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Technology, Learning, and Education Videos
Education, Learning, and Technology videos for the classroom and professional development
Seth's Blog: Getting vs. Taking
Getting an education versus taking one. Now where in this does giving back fit?
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Most people spend a lot of time to get an education.
They wait for the teacher (hopefully a great one) to give them something of value.
Many employees do the same thing at work. They wait for a boss (hopefully a great one) to give them responsibility or authority or experiences that add up to a career.
A few people, not many, but a few, take. They take the best education they can get, pushing teachers for more, finding things to do, exploring non-defined niches. They take more courses than the minimum, they invent new projects and they show up with questions.
A few people, not many, take opportunities at work. Marketers have the easiest time of this (sort of hard to commandeer the chain saw) but don't do it nearly as often as they should.
What have you taken today?
Is Your Photo Avatar Making You Look OLD? | Mobile Technology in TAFE
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Having the one online identity across all your accounts makes it easier for others to connect and relate to you.
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