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The Changing Landscape of the Global Digital Divide by Paul Resta
These are my notes from Dr. Paul Resta’s keynote address at SITE 2007: “The Changing Landscape of the Global Digital Divide: Opportunities and Challenges for Teacher Education.” I’m recording this and will share his address as a later podcast. Dr. Resta received the SITE Lifetime Achievement award prior to this ke This landscape is changing…
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iPods in Education conference
Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD in the Dallas area is sponsoring a one day conference on November 3, 2006 titled “Beyond4Walls: First Annual iPods and Podcasting in Education Users Group Conference.” The conference description is: Successful educators realize that teaching techniques, which appeal to the learner, are ever evolving. Identifying novel and enticing teaching techniques requires educators…
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Metacognition
Moving at the Speed of Mediocrity – Miguel Guhlin, Guest Blog Entry Metacognition involves awareness of one’s own thinking and application of problem solving strategies for particular situations…Many information inquiry models (i.e. I-Search, Big6, Research Cycle, REACTS) and inquiry-based approaches (i.e., WebQuests) incorporate metacognitive scaffolds to facilitate thinking. In a study focusing on middle school…
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Podcast39: The Vocabulary of 21st Century Learning
Where have we been, where are we now, and where are we going with respect to teaching and learning in classrooms across the United States in the 21st Century? Do we want to just use technology to do traditional education more efficiently, or do we want to do education differently and better? In this presentation…
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Quest for a survey instrument
I am on a quest for a survey instrument. I am looking for an established survey that has been published (has a theoretical framework and has passed statistical tests for validity and reliability) that addresses the following broad question relating to learning in 1:1 environments: What is really going on inside classrooms? These questions should…
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Extreme Technology Makeovers
A workshop by Chris Moersch at TCEA 2006. Chris is all about helping teachers elevate the level of their teaching on Bloom’s taxonomy, and thereby make teaching and learning more engaging and worthwhile activities. These are my notes from his session today. Chris’ blog: http://lotination.blogspot.com/ Makeover models – Experiential-based Action model (Moersch) – Enrichment Triad…
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Predisposed for risk taking?
Scientists are reporting discovery of “a gene that may control whether or not someone is a risk taker.” The published research cited in this article is from October 2005. The article’s author rhetorically asks: Why does one person like to skydive or ski off cliffs while someone else is happy reading a book? After studying…
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South Dakota laptops
Governor Mike Rounds in South Dakota is advocating for a statewide laptop program for students in grades 6-12. Based on Sunday’s Sioux City Journal article “Watertown High School a leader in laptop learning,” (use bugmenot to bypass registration if desired) some South Dakota schools are already piloting laptops for all students. The advocacy by Watertown…
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Podcast29: Thinking Critically About Web 2.0
Is enthusiasm for web 2.0 and its potential to positively reform educational teaching methods across the globe overblown? An international audience including Darren Kuropatwa in Canada, Ewan McIntosh in Scotland, Miguel Guhlin in San Antonio, Texas, and Wesley Fryer in Lubbock, Texas, engaged in a lively discussion this evening via skype to explore these and…
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Podcast15: Education That Matters
This podcast includes 3 websightings and an editorial entitled “Education That Matters.” Learn about how students can balance the US federal budget online (at least experiment with different approaches to accomplishing that goal) and gain insights about string theory through NOVA’s fantastic website and video series, “The Elegant Universe.” The editorial, “Education That Matters” focuses…