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WebSlides - Turning bookmarks and feeds into interactive slideshows…
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Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship
Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use.
- Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use. - By Fred Delventhal
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Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use.
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Programs for Educators Tips for Teachers Development for Educators
Media and Education Common Sense Schools A Parent Media Education Program Common Sense Media helps you get smart about kids and media.
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A Ning site dedicated to K12 English teachers.
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Technology Integration in Education - Seamlessly integrating technology into the K-College classroom
- Great professional network of educators and professionals working to help integrate technology in education. - By Greg Limperis
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YouTube - Watch Movies on YouTube
Watch full videos on Youtube
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Using Technology to Differentiate Instruction - TheApple.com
Using Technology to Differentiate Instruction
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Kids Create — and Critique on — Social Networks | Edutopia
“Self-Directed Learning
When students are motivated to create work that they share online, it ignites an independent learning cycle driven by their ideas and energized by responses from peers.”
- Self-Directed Learning
“When students are motivated to create work that they share online, it ignites an independent learning cycle driven by their ideas and energized by responses from peers.” - By Sheri Edwards
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“With Web 2.0, there’s a strong impetus to make connections,” says University of Minnesota researcher Christine Greenhow, who studies how people learn and teach with social networking. “It’s not just creating content. It’s creating content to share.”
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And once they share their creations, kids can access one of the richest parts of this learning cycle: the exchange that follows. “While the ability to publish and to share is powerful in and of itself, most of the learning occurs in the connections and conversation that occur after we publish,” argues education blogger Will Richardson (a member of The George Lucas Educational Foundation’s National Advisory Council).
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In this online exchange, students can learn from their peers and simultaneously practice important soft skills — namely, how to accept feedback and to usefully critique others” work.
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“I learn how to take in constructive criticism,” says thirteen-year-old Tiranne
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image quality, audio, editing, and content
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Using tools such as the social-network-creation site Ning, teachers can easily develop their own networks, Mosea says. “It is better to create your own,” he argues. “If a teacher creates his or her own network, students will post as if their teacher is watching them, and they’ll tend to be more safe.
“You can build social networks around the curriculum,” Mosea adds, “so you can use them as a teaching resource or another tool.” An online social network is another tool — but it’s a tool with an advantage: It wasn’t just imposed by teachers; the students have chosen it.
- Self-Directed Learning
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Studybeat - a great site for help with just about anything edu!
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Attention and distraction - elearnspace
Designing Choreographies for the “New Economy of Attention” is an interesting discussion of attention and distraction. You may not agree with their core argument - that we need to choreograph technologies that are under the control of learners (such as back channels) in a manner similar to how we organize more traditional classroom components - but the approach of blocking software and banning mobiles/laptops in classrooms is simply not sustainable. Today’s reality of connectedness is dramatically different from what existed even ten years ago. Banning is at best a short term solution that will isolate and agitate the very group education is expected to serve. The battle for control of information and interaction has already been won by “the individual”. Organizations, governments, and universities that have not yet recognized this may continue to limp along for a while…but their current stance is not tenable.
- Designing Choreographies for the “New Economy of Attention” is an interesting discussion of attention and distraction. You may not agree with their core argument - that we need to choreograph technologies that are under the control of learners (such as back channels) in a manner similar to how we organize more traditional classroom components - but the approach of blocking software and banning mobiles/laptops in classrooms is simply not sustainable. Today’s reality of connectedness is dramatically different from what existed even ten years ago. Banning is at best a short term solution that will isolate and agitate the very group education is expected to serve. The battle for control of information and interaction has already been won by “the individual”. Organizations, governments, and universities that have not yet recognized this may continue to limp along for a while…but their current stance is not tenable. - By Rob Jacklin
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100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Teaching Students About Social Media | Teaching Degree.org
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Discovery Student Adventures, about to embark to China.
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book by my friend @jepecke http://ftcpublishing.com/
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Science in Action » Learning with the Funnies
Learning w/ the Funnies
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On the Deaths of Peter Pan & the Beauty Queen | Jimboland Jots
This week, Generation Xers faced an inevitable rite of passage: the death of two of their popular and iconic figures, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. Fittingly, Twitter reported that nearly 1/3 of its tweets were about Michael Jackson’s death, and there are rumors that Google slowed down because of all of the searchers seeking news.
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iPhone 3G dangly earrings by picnicbybarbfeldman on Etsy
Just what you always wanted… iPhone earrings! Thanks @kathyshrock
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