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17 Nov 09

MRC CBU, Cambridge » Matt Davis

Improve your vocabulary...go to sleep!

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TeachPaperless: Social Media and Digital Portfolios for College Admissions

  • The validity of the portfolio can easily be weighed up against four years worth
    of work. In other words, the portfolio would not represent some sort of
    'capstone' project, but rather would be an honest reflection of four years of
    formative development.

http://digitallyspeaking.pbworks.com/Voicethread

  • While the format may be different, the purpose remains
    the same:  Our students are crafting identities and are driven
    to connect.
  • We need to recognize that not all learning is about book learning -
    brains mature through experience, including social
    experiences.  (Boyd)
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09 Oct 09

Embrace the constructive uses of cell phones in the classroom for learning » Moving at the Speed of Creativity

  • Cell phones are viewed as distractions in school settings generally because the
    focus of “learning experiences” is usually on content transmission. As Roger
    Shank exhorted the higher education audience at his keynote a couple of weeks
    ago at SITE    , K-12 teachers need to GET OVER the idea that they are or should
    attempt to be “content experts” for the subjects we “teach” in school. The role
    of teachers in the classroom needs to BROADLY change from “content expert” to
    “learning facilitator.” We’ve heard these slogans about “guide on the side”
    instead of “sage on the stage” for many years, but the availability of rich
    content from the web AND interactive digital technologies (both synchronous and
    asynchronous) make the need for this transition more glaring as well as
    realistic than ever before.
  • Authentically engaging diverse learners is always a MUCH more challenging
    endeavor. We need teachers in our classrooms who are willing to take on the
    challenges of “wicked teaching” with technology, rather than those who prefer
    the easy road of pulling out overhead transparencies which have been “working”
    with kids for the last 10 to 20 years. Readers of this blog are more likely to
    fall into the first group, but working as I do in “the real world” of K-12
    education away from the bells, whistles and magic of educational technology
    conferences, I know there are PLENTY of teachers in the latter group who do and
    will likely continue to balk at the suggestion they should find ways to use cell
    phones (or other types of digital technologies) with students for instructional
    and learning purposes.

A New Learning Tool in the Classroom: Cell Phones at Glick Report

  • It's a fascinating question. Should we allow mobile devices in the classroom for
    educational purposes? At the moment, teachers do not want kids using phones in
    the classroom because they don't want kids texting each other while in class or
    being distracted. But, imagine a world, where mobile devices took over a portion
    of the role that computers play in the classroom. It would be much cheaper
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