Texting and driving is a big problem with teens as well as adults. According to PEW’s November 2009 report, “Teens and Distracted Driving:” One in three (34%) texting teens ages 16-17 say they have texted while driving. That translates into 26% of all American teens ages 16-17. 48% of all teens ages 12-17 say they
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This past October when I participated in the 21st Century Learning conference in Hongzhou, China, I learned about the Buck Institute for Education. BIE has a fantastic website including a multitude of videos about project based learning, like this one titled, “Teachers Learn Through Modeling.” A few weeks ago I tweeted EduTopia staff and asked
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PBS Frontline’s digital_nation: life on the virtual frontier is a fantastic program as well as media-rich website filled with videos, articles, and information about our digital youth culture. The documentary premieres this week on February 2nd, but the website is already filled with outstanding resources. One of my favorites is project’s Digital Native Map, an
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It’s coming and you won’t want to miss it! The 2010 PodStock conference will be held July 16-17, 2010, at the Old Town Hotel in Wichita, Kansas. The 2009 PodStock conference was a GREAT event, made superb by the contributions of lots of creative educators from around the midwest of the USA and beyond. Mark
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It is very important we help students in our classrooms develop deeper, broader, authentic world views through the information we share and collaborative activities in which we engage together during and after class. It is also critical we help students develop values like respect, empathy, and compassion. Learning is most powerful when it is experiential
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This past Wednesday, my 11 year old son and I were on a three mile hike in the Arbuckle Mountains of south-central Oklahoma, heading to “three falls” about a mile from from Camp Classen. I turned to him and said, “Wow, isn’t this amazing? Just think, you could be sitting in school today, and here
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This podcast is a recorded presentation from the Podstock 2009 conference on May 1 in Wichita, Kansas, by some of the most innovative elementary teachers you could ever hope to meet. Linley Voboril, Tamara Padfield, and Kimberly Herron presented this session titled, Get Out of Your FUNK, Cut the JIVE! Make Your Classroom Come Alive!!!
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Here’s a collection of four, short video interviews from this past Wednesday with different school administrators in Hong Kong and from our journey on the MTR (Hong Kong’s subway system) between schools. In this 40 second clip, Deputy Head of College Peter Lasscock explains “rapid prototyping” and how the technology design lab at Discovery College
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These are my notes to the “Classsroom 2.0: What Is Web 2.0′s Role in Schools?” at NECC 2009. This was a panel discussion. I captured the entire backchannel for this session as a PDF file. Thanks to Vicki Davis for setting up the backchannel in Chatzy! Julie Lindsey: I covet the learning connections and networks
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These are my notes from the NECC 2009 session “Best Practices for Encouraging Learning 24/7: Models that Work!” Official program description is: Several distinguished educators will offer actual examples of 24/7 learning approaches to educational practice. Can these technology-based, best practices inform your classroom teaching? Presenters are: Michael Searson, Kean University with Judith Beaver, Andrew
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These are my notes from the presentation “Get Out of Your FUNK, Cut the JIVE! Make Your Classroom Come Alive!!!” Presented by – Kim Herron, Tamara Padfield, Linley Voboril from Inman Elementary School: Inman, Kansas. This was shared at the PodStock 2009 conference in Wichita, Kansas, hosted by ESSDACK. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN
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These are my notes from “Getting a Global Perspective – The Power of Collaborative Projects” by Dyane Smokorowski at the PodStock09 conference in Wichita, Kansas. Her wiki with links for this session is on: http://podstock.wik.is MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. THIS IS VERY SIMILAR STRUCTURE WISE TO DR JUDY HARRIS’ TELECOMPUTING PROJECTS FRAMEWORK WHICH
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When I visited New Zealand at the end of February 2009 for the Learning@School conference, I met Mr W00dy and we came up with a rather creative project idea. It seems we both have young daughters who love cooking, and would like to share their cooking with others. Why not start an International Cooking Show,
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At the February 2009 Oklahoma Technology Association’s conference, keynote speaker Will Richardson told a story about the worksheets his own students bring home from their public school each week which resonated with me. Will said he’d contemplated keeping all the papers for an entire school year in a big stack, and then photographing them to
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These are my notes from the unconference time at Learning@School 09 Different models are suggested for inquiry units. These are stages or steps for one model discussed by a teacher at our table: immersion (provocation, exploration phase, building relevance) questioning plan gather and sort create and share take action At one school, they are doing
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These are my notes from Erin Freeman and Heath Sawyer’s presentation “Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools” at Learning@School 09 in Rotorua, New Zealand today. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. ERIN IS TEACHING AT AN AMAZINGLY INNOVATIVE SCHOOL WHICH PERMITS STUDENTS TO BRING THEIR OWN LAPTOPS TO SCHOOL. THEY HAVE FIVE CLASSROOMS
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This past Friday, February 13, 2009, 8th and 9th grade students from Tammy Parks’ journalism class at Howe Public Schools in southeast Oklahoma shared a student-led virtual field trip with students in Irasburg Village School, Vermont, conducted from the Fort Smith National Historic Site in Fort Smith, Arkansas. A two minute video about the field
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These are my notes from Tammy Parks‘ session “Student-Created Virtual Field Trips: Howe Public Schools Live and On Location!” at the Oklahoma Technology Association (OTA) conference on 11 February 2009. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Howe PS has 475 students PK-12. Talking today about a virtual field trip that Tammy’s high school
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These are my notes from the presentation “International Education Partnerships: The Need for a Global Perspective” at the OU K-20 Center’s MidWinter Conference in Norman, Oklahoma, on 29 January 2009. MY REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The conference Ning is http://k20center.ning.com, and is open to anyone. How do we broaden students’ perspectives so they are
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Based on conversations during tonight’s “Teachers Teaching Teachers” webcast, I posted “EduCon 2.1 Lessons for NECC?” on ISTEconnects. Please share your thoughts! Technorati Tags: #necc09, necc, necc2009, educon, educon21, technology, education, conference
