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Dealing with My/Our Attention and Information Issues | Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech
No question that how we manage information and how we teach students to manage it will be a huge part of our lives. It is already. I refuse to engage in conversations about "the good old days" in which we usually look back and attribute fonder and more positive memories about the past that we grew up in. It doesn’t really matter anyway. It’s never going to be like that. If, however, you want to discuss timeless values and characteristics that may be forgotten at times, that’s worth my time. I hope these are some timeless principles that I can get better at implementing.
From the Fox Hole
So, on the topic of connecting ... I now understand that connectivism values the pursuit of knowledge and the modern day, forward-thinking, instructor is socially connected to an endless web of contacts, communities, resources, tools and information through a virutal space that is not constrained by time or place.
Hoover Institution - Education Next - How Do We Transform Our Schools?
That schools have gotten little back from their investment in technology should come as no surprise. Virtually every organization does the same thing schools have done when implementing an innovation. An organization’s natural instinct is to cram the innovation into its existing operating model to sustain what it already does. This is the predictable course, the logical course—and the wrong course.
Half an Hour: The Future of Online Learning: Ten Years On
In this essay I offer a renewal of those predictions. I look at each of the points I addressed in 1998, and with the benefit of ten year’s experience, recast and rewrite each prediction. This essay is not an attempt to vindicate the previous paper – time has done that – but to carry on in the same spirit, and to push that vision ten years deeper into the future.
Remote Access
An RSS feed is like a window on the world, a lens through which we view a place, a person, or a situation. For these reasons it is very important when we are assigning feeds to students as required reading to closely consider why we are doing so. A major goal I have for students in my classroom is that they become more informed of different nations, cultures, and ways of living around the globe. Teaching young teenagers in a small community, my classroom is for some of them their first real contact with people from around the world so I need to be very careful about the impressions they form.
Sentiments On Common Sense » Blog Archive » Dispatch from the Road: Tech before Pedagogy?
How much we develop our classrooms really is starting to depend on how far we stretch the pedagogy. Teachers teach. Student learn. Or…. perhaps student create, and build and… teach?
Magic is Not the Hard Part | 2¢ Worth
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It isn’t something that can be solved with workshops or lesson plans. They aren’t skills that must be learned, and then “problem solved.“ Learning it is easy. Being in the habit of learning and using it is hard.
How to Change the World: Ten Things to Learn This School Year
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it's inspired me to blog about what students should learn in order to prepare for the real world after graduation. This is an opportune time to broach this subject because the school year is about to begin, and careers can still be affected.
First, take this little test about the state of your understanding of the real world right after you graduated from school.
Weblogg-ed » Student Books on Lulu
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Now see this is cool! Talk about coming full circle and talk about engage students in the learning process for an authentic audience. You know these kids are proud of their work and you know they're checking Amazon every day waiting for there book to show up there. From digital to print...that seems way to cool!
Congrats to Mr. Mayo's class!
- jutecht on 2007-04-17
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George Mayo, who has been doing great work over the past couple of years with his seventh graders in Virginia, and who attended that workshop, has helped his kids put together a book that is now for sale at Lulu. It’s a set of personal narratives titled “Stories from the Past.”
The book is a compilation of narrative essays, written by my seventh grade students, telling the stories of their grandparents, parents and other relatives. These essays show the amazing diversity we have at Silver Spring International Middle School. The stories range from a guerilla war in Ecuador, to WW II and the Great Depression, to two survival stories from the Holocaust, escaping Vietnam during the war, and many more.
It’s a free download, and it costs about $12 to get the paperback version. As George writes “The students are amazed that they are actually published.” In a few weeks, the book will be available on Amazon, Borders, and Barnes and Noble. And, I’m sure, it will have a place in his school library.
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