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22 Sep 08

» Making Connections: Social Networking in the Elementary Classroom always learning

Kim gives some amazing advice to those interested in starting any kind of online project with students

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  • For me, the power of social networking, especially in the elementary school classroom, is the ease with which students can begin to take a leadership role.
  • the ability to create a private Ning allows our students to have open conversations, while still emphasizing online safety and appropriate use.
18 Aug 08

» An Open Letter to Teachers Bud the Teacher

As you gear up in whatever way that you do, I selfishly wanted to jot down a few reminders that I’d be telling myself if I were about to get started.

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  • I hope you take lots of risks for the sake of learning this year. Not just for your students, but also for you. Make it a goal to try to learn something in a sustained and meaningful way that has little to do with your classroom life.
  • You need no one’s permission to postpone a due date or modify an assignment for the benefit of a student, or to delay some grading for the benefit of yourself or your family.
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25 Jun 08

Edupunk or Educational Leader? | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

These are not Edupunks, they are Educational Leaders! The reality is that anti-establishment, Do-It-Yourself, transformative, collaborative, networked teachers doing new things, in new ways, in new wall-less, time-zone-less, textbook-less, standardized-test-less classrooms are paving the way for a new kind of schooling.\nAlso see Footnotes 'as a teacher'.

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  • Footnotes: As a teacher…


    I guess you could say that at times I too have ‘acted my way into a new way of thinking’. My actions as a learner influenced my actions as a teacher, as these footnotes suggest.


    ¹ As a teacher, I don’t take any marks off for something coming in late. It is my job to make sure that students demonstrate their learning and meet the learning outcomes during the year. All time lines within the year are arbitrary (and usually teacher determined) and not a requirement worthy of penalty. Exceptions may be made where either Personal Planning or Goal Setting are part of the outcomes.


    ² As a teacher, I am very vocal about students needing to speak up and ask questions. “Don’t be a Marshmallow!” was a saying that I took from my Grade 10 English teacher Mr. La Point who used it to symbolize placid students sitting in his class and choosing not to speak up. At first being called Marshmallows in my class was funny, but soon students would catch on that they were not meeting expectations when they were being Marshmallows!


    ³ As a teacher my response to ‘how long does this assignment need to be?’ has always been, “It needs to be as long as it needs to be.” Students hate this answer, but after a while they get it. In a nutshell: I’ve read three brilliant sentences that have said more than three long-winded paragraphs.

Digital Edventures: Words of wisdom

It is helpful to have like minded colleagues supporting this approach to teaching and learning, it is not always easy when you feel you are on your own with this one, and hard to imagine with the technology we now have at hand that so many continue to act as if they can continue to teach AND ASSESS in their time honoured traditional ways.

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  • It is helpful to have like minded colleagues supporting this approach to teaching and learning, it is not always easy when you feel you are on your own with this one, and hard to imagine with the technology we now have at hand that so many continue to act as if they can continue to teach AND ASSESS in their time honoured traditional ways.
24 May 08

The Three “E’s” « Ed Tech Journeys

  • Educators don’t need to feel threatened by this because we still maintain our own ownership and accountability; but to educate the disaffected, angry, and powerless students in many of our traditional classrooms, we must open the circle of power to include the learners themselves. - datruss on 2008-05-24
  • Educators don’t need to feel threatened by this because we still maintain our own ownership and accountability; but to educate the disaffected, angry, and powerless students in many of our traditional classrooms, we must open the circle of power to include the learners themselves.

Two ’stuck’ posts, a borrowed post with an added rant, and a few questions. | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

‘Context‘ is where you start. ‘Scaffolding‘ is the structure(s) we build in order to increase the effectiveness of the technology use. ‘Pedagogy’ is the artful things we do to enhance learning regardless of technology use.

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  • All these tools are technological with only the potential to be pedagogical… but they aren’t designed with pedagogy in mind.
    • Am I the only one who feels like a 30 hour day would still be too short?
    • Are there others out there who wonder what kind of commitment it will take for a teacher to be technologically savvy enough to meaningfully engage students with all these new tools?
    • Are we focusing too much on the tools and not enough on pedagogy?
    • Will educational structures change fast enough to provide our students with a relevant education?
    • … and for that matter… What would an ideal education look like today?
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21 May 08

The Pulse: Willfully Ignoring the Lessons of the Past

  • The following video clip is a 1940s-era news-reel style report on the latest thing, "progressive education." Beware the ideas are quite radical! Schoolwork is relevant, learning-by-doing is advocated - datruss on 2008-05-21
17 May 08

The Clever Sheep: Minimally Invasive Education

let's be minimally invasive in allowing the learning to happen, but maximally invasive in ensuring that the problems we present to learners are relevant, compelling and appetizing.

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  • Far be it for me to suggest that we abandon teaching and leave students to their own devices. Rather, let's be minimally invasive in allowing the learning to happen, but maximally invasive in ensuring that the problems we present to learners are relevant, compelling and appetizing.
15 May 08

Digital immigrants or digital natives? A discussion of digital competence… A spectrum, not a dichotomy! | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

  • So if I were to make the post title into a statement it would be:

    Rather than a Digital Native/Digital Immigrant dichotomy,
    students have a wide spectrum of digital competence
    positively correlating to their digital exposure.     - datruss on 2008-05-15
  • Rather than a Digital Native/Digital Immigrant dichotomy,

    students have a wide spectrum of digital competence

    positively correlating to their digital exposure.

How to Prevent Another Leonardo da Vinci | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

  • STUDENTS ARE CAPABLE OF FAR MORE THAN WE GIVE THEM CREDIT: SCHOOLS WILL BETTER MEET THE NEEDS OF STUDENTS WHEN EDUCATORS DO A BETTER JOB COLLABORATING WITH STUDENTS TO CREATE MEANINGFUL LEARNING EXPERIENCES. - datruss on 2008-05-15
  • STUDENTS ARE CAPABLE OF FAR MORE THAN WE GIVE THEM CREDIT: SCHOOLS WILL BETTER MEET THE NEEDS OF STUDENTS WHEN EDUCATORS DO A BETTER JOB COLLABORATING WITH STUDENTS TO CREATE MEANINGFUL LEARNING EXPERIENCES.

Wikis in the classroom: a reflection. | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

  • here it is
  • Before reading the feedback, my initial impression was given in my Some Assembly Required post
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The New Face of Learning: The Internet Breaks School Walls Down | Edutopia

  • I can say without hesitation that all my traditional educational experiences combined, everything from grade school to grad school, have not taught me as much about learning and being a learner as blogging has. My ability to easily consume other people's ideas, share my own in return, and communicate with other educators around the world has led me to dozens of smart, passionate teachers from whom I learn every day. It's also led me to technologies and techniques that leverage this newfound network in ways that look nothing like what's happening in traditional classrooms. - datruss on 2008-05-15
  • I can say without hesitation that all my traditional educational experiences combined, everything from grade school to grad school, have not taught me as much about learning and being a learner as blogging has. My ability to easily consume other people's ideas, share my own in return, and communicate with other educators around the world has led me to dozens of smart, passionate teachers from whom I learn every day. It's also led me to technologies and techniques that leverage this newfound network in ways that look nothing like what's happening in traditional classrooms.
  • In many schools and even states, it's been, rather, a movement to block and bust: no blogs, no cell phones, no IM. We take away the powerful social technologies our kids are already using to learn and, in doing so, tell them their own tools are irrelevant. Or, instead of using the complex and challenging phenomenon of a site such as Wikipedia to teach the realities of navigating information in this new world, we prohibit its use. In fact, at this writing, the U.S. legislature is in the process of deciding whether schools and libraries should have access to any of the potential of the Read/Write Web at all. When you read this, blogs and wikis and podcasts (and much more) may be things that students (and teachers) can access and create only from off-campus.
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14 May 08

YouTube - 21st century pedagogy

  • Need to develop a new pedagogical dna for schooling in todays world in order to break from the past - datruss on 2008-05-14
23 Apr 08

“Some Assembly Required” | Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts :: David Truss

My class is assembling a lego model without the instructions, or even the image of the final product on the front of the box. This isn’t a problem for the creative/motivated students; they will assembly a better model in ways that I could never have ‘instructed‘ them… but some students need structure, they have been fed it for years and expect it (even from yours truly - this isn’t finger pointing, it is observation).

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  • My class is assembling a lego model without the instructions, or even the image of the final product on the front of the box. This isn’t a problem for the creative/motivated students; they will assembly a better model in ways that I could never have ‘instructed‘ them… but some students need structure, they have been fed it for years and expect it (even from yours truly - this isn’t finger pointing, it is observation).


    I let technology supersede pedagogy.

  • How to deal with “structure dependent” students (most of them) is one of my concerns. They get puzzled when you don’t provide the expected, clear and well organized instructions. I love playing that game, though.I have to admit that I have failed many times. The worst was to feel frustrated and give up. Then I learnt to insist and be patient (both things at the same time). Success is not guaranteed, but when it finally happens the feeling of achievement the students get is so rewarding that it’s worth the “discomfort”. If students have the chance of making decisions, they have an experience and you also have an experience.
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16 Apr 08

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. 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. - datruss on 2008-04-16
  • 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.
    • People get stuck doing 'old things in new ways'! - on 2008-04-16
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