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Apps for Literacy Support : Spectronics – Inclusive Learning Technologies
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Weekend Homework: Video Story Problem | The Tech Savvy Educator
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Grazing the Net: Raising a Generation of Free Range Students
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I really don’t think this statement holds true today. I think collective knowledge is just as valuable as trusted sources.
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Students will learn that a printed book or a “pay for service” electronic information source will often prove more reliable and efficient than the Internet.
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I don’t think this is true anymore. Crowdsourcing is just as valuable and sometimes even more reliable than more traditional forms of information.
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The new information landscape requires literacy skills well beyond those needed in previous times, and learners soon find that digital sources are insufficient for many questions and topics.
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This was written well before the explosion of Web 2.0 and such rich internet sites like Wikipedia or the thought of Open Source Learning.
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student questioning must be intense before, during and after visiting cyberspace.
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This will always be true, with any information.
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We must stop asking for the educational equivalent of fast food. No more trivial pursuit.
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“Imagine that your parents have been given job offers in each of the three following cities: New Orleans, Seattle and Chicago. Knowing of your access to the Internet, they have asked you to help them decide which city will be the best for the family. Before gathering your information, discuss and identify with them the criteria for selecting a home city. Create a persuasive multimedia presentation showing the strengths and weaknesses of each city on the criteria your family considers important.”
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time to ask different questions.
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he infotective usually outgrows a word processor for note taking and opts for a database that will support more powerful searching, sorting and manipulation of data.
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Or, they could use a tool like Diigo to highlight and annotate certain passages. This information is saved online and accessed from anywhere.
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The Internet can set us free. It can also drown us in garbage.
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Students need to develop good filters, because serenditily is the essense of the joy of learning for some.
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HotBot or AltaVista
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Wow, this article is old. I haven’t heard anyone talk about hotbot for years. I think an advanced Google search is every bit as effective as most other search engines.
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It makes sense to have several Internet guides at the ready and a friend to call when lost. No need to start from scratch. No need to wander in the desert.
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Maybe edmodo would be good for this.
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Teaching Reading 3-5: Session 1: Creating Contexts for Learning
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Desktone Brings Microsoft Apps & Photoshop to Chromebook Users Right Now | Chromebook Blog
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HowStuffWorks Videos “Assignment Discovery: American Revolution”
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5 Apps for Creating Interactive Books and ePubs on your iPad
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Shared by Larry Ferlazzo, this inquiry driven punctuation guide is something I’d like to try.
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What I’ve Been Learning This Week (weekly)
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Shared Items – October 29, 2011
- Learning About Blogs FOR Your Students- Part I: Reading
October 29, 2011 – Another great post by Sylvia Tolisan. Sylvia will be writing a series of posts about classroom blogging. I look forward to her insight as I figure out the best ways to maximize learning through blogging in my classroom.
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New Ideas from My PLN This Weekend
Teaching for the first time in many years is so very exhausting. I’m teaching 5th grade at an urban school in Los Angeles.
I study the curriculum each night, make lesson plans according to the guides in the teacher’s editions, and then I curse myself every day because the lessons are uninviting and boring. Students are turned off and so am I. I need to make everything more student centered and engaging. I use the SMARTBoard, make presentations of vocabulary and lessons, but it is still too teacher directed. I have enough technology for almost 2:1, but I’m not leveraging the potential yet in ways I know can engage students. We’ve started blogs, and students know how to log in to their vendor math site and a few other didactic sites, but we haven’t begun to really create in innovate ways yet.
Like I said, it’s just so exhausting trying to follow the curriculum to make sure students score well on the CST’s. How do I turn this roadblock on it’s ear and make sure students need to know what is required, yet make it engaging?
I’m so fortunate to be connected in my PLN with so many amazing educators who know how to think outside the box. Each weekend, through Twitter, my RSS Reader, my Google Certified Teacher group, and Google Plus, I find new ways to engage students. I fill myself with enthusiasm and hope that I can make the curriculum more engaging, student centered, and creative.
This week, I revisited Voki, as a discussion about it had sprouted in my Google Certified Teachers group. I hadn’t used it in ages, since I had very little use for it except for showing it to teachers in my former job as an EdTech Facilitator. Now, in the classroom, the possibilities and potential for it in the classroom are exploding in my mind! Have students create their “focus” writing (a writing strategy that we are exploring right now in the curriculum) in digital form and have a voki read it. Each week, the writing could change so that the Voki would have updated text to read. For EL students, have them publish the writing they are working on using the voices of Julie, Kate, Steven, or Paul to model correct pronunciation. Better yet, have students record their own voice for their writing. I wasn’t aware of the Voki Classroom opportunity (for $29.95 a year) that allows you to create student accounts, even without email, and create assignments right inside the Voki environment. I could teach them how to embed these on their blogs, and voila, one step closer to more creativity.
In math, we’re just beginning our adventure into multiplying, 5th grade style (multiplying whole numbers, fractions, decimals, etc). Most of my students have scored in the lower levels of the CST, which is our annual state assessment. Most don’t have their times tables memorized and many don’t understand the concept of multiplication. I had thought of having them take pictures of arrays around the school. What would be the best (and most effecient) way to publish them, however? Should students use Animoto or VoiceThread? There are so many choices! I haven’t bought VoiceThread EDU, but maybe I will. I could have students publish their photos on a Google presentation and add the captions, but that sounds so traditional – and kind of boring. I’ll work this one out and share what we did.
I also revisited Sumo Paint this morning, having read about it on the Google Certified Teachers group (that group of teachers is amazing!). Sumo Paint is a powerful image editing site, online and free. What fascinated me this morning were the Kaliedescope and Triangle filters in Sumo Paint. How about students creating a design that could also be converted into multiplication equations? We could use Jing to capture and publish the creation. I’m thinking of something like this:
I hope to keep sharing the ideas that inspire me, but I’m not promising I’ll be consistent. I’m too inundated with the day to day pull of trying to do my best.
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Shared Items – October 10, 2011
- Serendipitous Discoveries
- Podcast381: Reach for the Stars Using Media in Your Classroom
- Drinking from a fire hose
October 2, 2011
October 3, 2011 – I need to listen to this. I always get inspired by Wes Fryer. So great that he shares his learning with the world.
October 3, 2011 – What a beautiful way to describe the firehose! Today, I dipped in after a long time away and was delighted to find this in my feed. My return to classroom teaching after many years has given me more than my share of catching up to do! I miss the firehose, but I know it will be there when I can dip in again.
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Shared Items – October 3, 2011
- Not Just the Facts, Ma'am
October 3, 2011 – That’s what it needs to look like.
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Shared Items – September 17, 2011
- The Students Share Why the Internet is Like the Mall
- The Students Share Why the Internet is Like the Mall
September 17, 2011 – Love this blog. Now that I’m in the classroom, this teacher really resonates with goals I have this year. Great classroom blog, Mrs. Ripp!
September 7, 2011
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Starting the New Year!
This is my first post as a classroom teacher! After 6 years as an edtech facilitator for the district, and 9 years more as a technology resource teacher in an elementary school, I’m back in the classroom teaching 5th grade, …and I’m terrified. How will it go?
For years, I’ve been supporting teachers and offering workshops and learning opportunities on how to use technology in the classroom. What I shared was well received, but except for a few who embraced using technology regularly, most teachers lamented that there wasn’t time to use all these wonderful tools. I often felt that I needed to walk the talk to really demonstrate how learning can fundamentally shift from teacher centered to student centered, by using collaborative tools to create knowledge from learning.
Now, I’m faced with reality. I don’t have control over my schedule because I will be team teaching during the required 2 hours of Language Arts, 45 minutes of ESL, possibly 1 hour of math, as well as during Science 2 afternoons out of the week. One afternoon is for PE, one is a shortened day, so that leaves me with one afternoon block to teach digital citizenship, internet safety, and how to use some of the tools I plan to use this year. I’ll just need to be creative, and get it in during instructional time, along with Social Studies, somehow. The other 5th grade teachers want to learn to use more technology in the classroom. Maybe we’ll work through some of it together.
I’ll be documenting and reflecting here on what steps I’ll be taking to make sure students are allowed the opportunities they need to ask good questions, research, collaborate, publish, and reflect.
Right now, I have a few things started:
- I have a classroom website and a classroom blog set up.
- I’ve upgraded the 2 iMacs in my room to 10.4 and added 512MB of memory to the one that only had 128MB. (Thank goodness the 2 Windows 7 computers in my room are new.)
- I updated my Acer Netbook to Ubuntu 11.
- I updated my Chrome Notebook.
- I’m browsing for good 5th grade apps to add to my 2 iPads, iPodTouch, and old iPhone 3G.
- I’m thinking about what programs I’m going to be putting on all computers and IOS devices, so that work is seemless and flowing.
Right now, as I go through the curriculum, I’ll be noting where I can bring in technology to make the learning more meaningful, relevant, and authentic.
Students will be start next week. They deserve the very best!
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Shared Items – August 8, 2011
- On keeping up with search
- AAEEBL Conference
August 8, 2011 – Great post on the state of (Google) “search” by Dr. Joyce Valenza on her blog. It’s amazing how many ways you can search on just Google, let alone other tools.
August 8, 2011 – A reflection from Helen Barrett on her presentation on e-portfolios, using Google Sites. Love this message:
…Adopt student-centered tools that can be maintained across the lifespan, not tools that require a lot of technical support or fees to maintain beyond graduation.
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Shared Items – July 3, 2011
- When I Become a Teacher – Sinnea Douglas
July 3, 2011 – Awesome poem by Chris Lehman’s students at the ISTE closing keynote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zBKZtqnmcM
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Check out my office
I just downloaded the Photosynth app to take panoramic photos on my iPad. It’s really an iPhone/iPodTouch app, but it works fine on the iPad. Here’s my office:
Imagine what students could do with this app. They could make a virtual museum of art or any type of object. They could make virtual tours that could be attached to Google Earth or Google Maps. The possibilities are endless!
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