Category: pbl
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Keys to PBL and Student Centered Learning
I’m on the first leg of my journey to Shanghai and the Learning 2.011 Conference. I’m reading Ted Bayles and Ted Orland’s thought provoking book, “Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking.” It’s a book I encountered while researching the origins of a story I included about creativity in my book,…
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Adventure Based Learning by Brian Dufresne #wildtech
These are my notes from Brian Dufresne’s learning walk presentation, “Adventure Based Learning,” at the 14th Annual August Institute, “Technology Runs Through It” conference at the University of Montana in Missoula. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Going to share some lessons learned, taking kids backpacking for the past several years – I’ve…
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Collaborative Learning Spaces for Students at Texas Tech
The new student collaboration spaces in the library at Texas Tech University offer great opportunities for student collaboration and a digital sharing. Multiple large displays, multiple “hockey puck” VGA laptop connectors, webcams and 360 degree H.363 videoconferencing equipment are some of the highlights. I want my home office to look this good and have such…
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Learning about Scratch Basics (a podcast interview with 7 and 10 year olds)
My daughters, Sarah and Rachel, recorded this fourteen minute Cinchcast with me today discussing their initial experiences learning how to create with Scratch software from MIT. They discussed learning how to move Sprites, about costumes, loops, coordinate geometry basics, and more. Download Scratch for free from scratch.mit.edu. Scratch resources from my Fall 2010 undergraduate course,…
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PhotoShop, Art, and Ning Collaboration with Students in Maine and China
In this 5 min, 23 sec video, Abbie (a high school student in Yarmouth, Maine) explains how students in her class are using cameras, PhotoShop, and a Ning website to engage in a collaborative project with a partner classroom in China. Melissa Noack is the Yarmouth art teacher who designed and is facilitating this project…
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The 21st Century Teachers’ Toolkit by Alice Barr @alicebarr #cmtc10
These are my notes from Alice Barr’s breakout session, “The 21st Century Teachers’ Toolkit” at the the 2010 Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference in Manchester, NH on 30 Nov 2010. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Track conference conversations using the Twitter hash tag #cmtc10. Alice is the Instructional Technology Integrator at Yarmouth High…
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Mobile Digital Storytelling with StoryKit, Storyrobe, and SonicPics #edapp
Mobile digital storytelling is easier than ever thanks to applications like StoryKit, Storyrobe, and SonicPics on iOS devices. (iOS devices include iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads.) In the following five minute screencast, I provide an overview of these three applications, how they work, and some of their differences as well as relative advantages. This screencast…
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Carl Anderson on Learning and the Purpose of School (video)
Yesterday in St Paul, Minnesota, I had an opportunity to interview educator Carl Anderson about his ideas on learning and the purpose of school. Carl has been conducting interviews with many people the last few years and asking them about these topics, and he’s heard some diverse answers. Many people disagree about the purpose of…
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Passion-based learning in action: Brian Crosby at TEDxDenverEd
Do you consider yourself a passionate person? What are the things about which you are passionate? Are you passionate about kids and helping kids learn? Are you passionate about opening up new vistas of experiences and understanding for others which – absent your intervention – they might never experience? Are you passionate about creating moments…
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Podcast351: Leading Schools with Digital Vision in a Bubblesheet World (part 2 of 2)
Part 2 of 2: This podcast is a recording of a presentation by Wesley Fryer on June 16, 2010, in San Antonio, Texas, at the summer administrative leadership conference for Northeast ISD. This was a 2+ hour presentation, so the recordings have been separated into two parts. See the podcast shownotes for links to referenced…