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The Curse of Knowledge — The More You Know, the Worse You Become At Communicating That Knowledge | I'd Rather Be Writing - Tom Johnson
"The trick is, how do you know what you do not know? How do you maintain the fresh perspective of one who is seeing for the first time?"
Support Blogging! - Educational Blogging
In a broader and more educational system, blogs are about communicating. You observe your experience, reflect on it, and then write about it. Other people read your reflections, respond from their perspectives by commenting or writing their own blog article. You read their perspectives, often learn something through their eyes, and write some more.
1. Blogging is about reading and writing.
2. Literacy is about reading and writing.
3. Blogging is about literacy. (dfw)
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Add Sticky Notefocus primarily on the educational process and educational interests.
- Important to have a focus! - on 2009-08-07
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s the opportunity for the student to become a "teacher" by presenting material to an audience.
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Top News - ISTE urges tech training for future teachers
Lawmakers created the Preparing Teachers for Digital Age Learners (PTDAL) program last year when they reauthorized the Higher Education Act. The program awards three-year grants to colleges of education to make sure they are equipping pre-service teachers with the skills they'll need to integrate technology effectively into K-12 classrooms
The Way We'll Work - The Future of Work - TIME
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It will be run by a generation with new values — and women will increasingly be at the controls.
Glogs: Virtual Online Posters - Arizona K-12 Center Blog
Now there's a techie way for students to create and share virtual posters, and they're called glogs. Glogster is
a free website where teachers and students can create glogs and it doesn't require any paper, markers, or glue. Glogs and can be shared with the world because they are published online. Unlike physical posters glogs can include audio and video. Glogs can be easily edited and changed at anytime.
Virginia DOE Pilots Immersive Gaming Statewide : April 2009 : THE Journal
The Virginia Department of Education's Office of Education Technology has recently announced a pilot program using Tabula Digita's immersive educational video game, DimensionM.
Tech Futures | Scholastic.com
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First, technology is changing the way students interact with information. It has revolutionized the way we obtain, gather, evaluate, and search for information, and schools that have not adapted to these changes find themselves disconnected from their students.
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Secondly, many technology initiatives are specifically designed to increase a student’s access to technology. Therefore, a school district can achieve its goal without actually improving student learning. The problem is that access to technology should not be the goal; improving teaching and learning should be.
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Education Week: Schools Seen as Inhibiting Student Tech. Use
Students are using personal technology tools more readily to study subject matter, collaborate with classmates, and complete assigments than they were several years ago, but they are generally asked to “power down” at school...
How Google Is Making Us Smarter | Machine-Brain Connections | DISCOVER Magazine
Humans are "natural-born cyborgs," and the Internet is our giant "extended mind."
The Evolution of Education
Empowering Learners To Think, Create, Share, and Do
From: January 2009 : THE Journal
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- They are causing a shift in the kinds of knowledge and skills the world values;
- Driving the development of new methods of teaching and learning; and
- Changing the basic characteristics of learners of every age."
We live at a really interesting time in the evolution of education, he continued, referring to the extraordinary range of new media available to students and educators. "These technologies are doing three very important things at once:
Internet2 hits 100Gbps, could scale 10x beyond that - Ars Technica
Internet2 now rockets along at 100Gbps, and it also allows researchers to set up dedicated 10Gbps point-to-point links on the fly. Want to transfer a third of a terabyte in the time it takes to order a burger? Now you can.
Struggling With Math, Students Turn to YouTube for Help - On Education (usnews.com)
Rather than paying for tutors, students are turning to free YouTube videos for help
Charter schools' problems surfacing | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12/29/2008
Critics and some lawmakers say the Pa. law that launched the educational experiment needs an overhaul.
New Study Shows Time Spent Online Important for Teen Development
MacArthur Foundation ~ Results from the most extensive U.S. study on teens and their use of digital media show that America’s youth are developing important social and technical skills online – often in ways adults do not understand or value.
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- There is a generation gap in how youth and adults view the value of online activity.
Significant findings include –
- There is a generation gap in how youth and adults view the value of online activity.
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Youth are navigating complex social and technical worlds by participating online.
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Annals of Education: Most Likely to Succeed
Good teachers are important. How can we tell which ones will be good ones?
The Prose of Blogging (and a Few Cons, Too) : November 2008 : THE Journal
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"We don't start out by saying we want to start a blog," he says. "We say, 'We want to do X or Y--
what's the tool that makes the most sense to use?'" - 4 more annotations...
Top News - Four trends that could change everything
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As a result, educators might do well to take heed of four of the more ubiquitous of these trends, which I'll allude to by means of these labels: (1) parallel computing, (2) cloud computing, (3) brain mapping, and (4) the "global dis-assembly line."
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Humanity is developing a network-enabled, computer-assisted global consciousness.
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