Developing student’s visual literacy through scaffolded image inquiry « literacy beat. A post from Bridget We live in a visual world.
The screen of the computer, eReader, smart phone, and game consul is dominated by visuals that we must interpret in relation to their design, communication purpose, and interactive capabilities. What is changing, however, is the degree to which the visual is entering the academic domain. While visual literacy has always held a place in the literacy curriculum, it is increasingly recognized as an essential literacy skill for the 21st century. According to the Common Core standards and the IRA/NCTE reading/language arts standards, students must learn how to be savvy consumers AND creative, adept producers of visual messages. In this post, I feature one of my favorite visual literacy resources, Image Detective, and share an example from Isabel Bauerlein demonstrating how the Image Detective scaffolded inquiry process can be extended in the classroom.
Click image to enlarge. Why the Internet is Like the Mall. Breakkie with a Teckkie. This Counselor's Journey. Understanding Inquiry. Sharism: A Mind Revolution. With the People of the World Wide Web communicating more fully and freely in Social Media while rallying a Web 2.0 content boom, the inner dynamics of such a creative explosion must be studied more closely.
What motivates those who join this movement and what future will they create? A key fact is that a superabundance of community respect and social capital are being accumulated by those who share. RT, MT, HT, via: Giving credit on Twitter. Author’s note: Be sure to read my follow-up post to this topic from August 2011.
Moreso than other social media, Twitter embraces an ethic of sharing credit. In fact, the more you recognize the work of others, the more you are engaging with the Twitterverse. It began with the simple RT, or retweet. If you liked what someone wrote or posted, you’d copy the tweet in its entirety, add RT along with his or her @name at the beginning, and post to your followers.
The retweet became so popular that Twitter eventually incorporated a built-in automatic retweet function. The problem with the manual method is it truncates the original tweet if the message is already 140 characters long. That editing outrages some users, especially when the trimming changes the meaning of the original tweet. Stop the Yelling! One of the most frustrating things for me as a group leader of young children is their voice volume…how it goes up, and up, and UP!
This is most problematic when I or someone else is talking and others want to be heard. Not only do kids invade body space as they get closer and closer trying to vie for my attention, but they invade air space as well. I’ve tried many strategies: reminding kids to lower their voices; telling them to stop interrupting; trying to elicit empathy explaining that others’ ideas are important too; reasoning that I can’t hear anyone when everyone is talking; speaking quietly, hoping they will mimic my voice volume; ignoring, hoping they will simply stop; using behavior charts; facilitating peer feedback, and more…all to no avail. Pocket Change Leadership: How Do You Use Change? Time-shifting instruction: flipped classroom and teaching. Announcing the 2011 Winners – Congrats to All! Dundas teacher engages students through technology. Hamilton Spectator.
The Year in Google Searches. iLearn Technology. Examples of Student Innovation - home. Search Results You Should Read. Auto DM to Twitter Followers? The hottest thing in Twitter seems to be sending automated DMs to new Twitter followers.
A DM is a direct message sent via Twitter which can only be seen by the receiver and sender, not by the entire Twitterverse. Exploring Ed Tech @ the Bi-Co. “You Don’t Need to Be Brilliant To Be Wise” Cc licensed flickr photo by photo.lady2000: I have never been a big believer in having a ton of school rules.
Often when we are confined to follow a ton of rules in school, they often are put in situations which lead to the wrong decisions. 5 Myths about mobile learning. [and how to overcome them] Photo by stefg74 Here are some common mLearning myths I regularly come across in English language teacher training – and some myth-busting lesson plans.
Myth 1: Mobile learning means learning via texting with mobile phones Mobile phones (or cell phones) are just one of the myriad devices that can be used for learning. ‘Learning with handheld devices’ is probably a less ambiguous and therefore more helpful term than ‘mobile learning’. Myth 2: Mobile learning means ‘learning on the move’ Reform Driven by Passionate Educators. Ask yourself why you or someone you know chose a profession in education for a living.
Is it because of the paycheck? Do you like the hours? Do the working conditions suit you? Is it because you couldn’t decide on a major until halfway through your Bachelor’s Degree and figured that teaching would be your best option? Finally...You Tube Education. Damming the River. Home — Whole Child Education. Sixth Grader Builds iPhone Apps and Sparks Learning in School « The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child Education.
You Should Read… (November 13, 2011) After a busy couple of weeks, I am glad that I can continue to share some of the great stuff that I am seeing shared on Twitter and social networks.
I really hope that you can share your thoughts through comments on this post, or else share these links with your colleagues if they might not be applicable to you directly. 1. Wright Stuff Music – I found this fantastic blog when I connected with Samuel Wright this past week. Educreations: DIY Whiteboard Video Tutorials on the iPad. The new app from Educreations is available in the Apple App Store today (iTunes link). The app is designed to make it easy to create, narrate, and record whiteboard video tutorials on the iPad and to share them with others. A Web version of the startup's whiteboard app has been available for some time now, but it's the native app for an iPad that makes this sort of tool make sense -- it's so much easier to write on a whiteboard with the finger than it is with a mouse, if nothing else.
Educreations is hardly the only app like this available for the iPad (I covered the very similar app ShowMe over on MindShift this summer, for example). But while Educreations' iPad app might be late to the whiteboard app market, its entry is a solid one. EDUC 578: University of San Diego. The Spicy Learning Blog. District Administration Magazine. "Carts of laptops haven’t raised student achievement—and neither will carts of iPads" Strength In EVERY Child. How I use twitter in my classroom UPDATE 2 « levdavidovic. Hi, I'm a Textbook and I'm a Tablet.