Digital Literacy
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June 12, 2012 by tomwhitby Whenever I think of a teacher, I also think of a scholar.
Hypocrisy in the Profession of Education
21st Century Learning…blah blah blah
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by mrsdkrebs Right now you probably hear as many people talk about how annoyed they are with the term “21st Century Learning” as you will hear people talking about the importance of it. I will have to admit, I am in the “annoyed” camp.
40 Future Uses for Educational Technology [Infographic]
Educators spend entire careers writing lesson plans and curricula to better prepare students for challenges they’ve yet to encounter.
Teachers Are Poor Consumers of Learning
July 24, 2012 by tomwhitby There are only a few explanations that many educators offer up as reasons not to learn and use any technology as tools for learning.
Google has developed an interactive curriculum on YouTube to support teachers in educating students on how to be safe, engaged and confident model netizens. The initiative is aimed at students aged 13 to 17 and will help them to develop digital literacy skills on YouTube that would be applicable across the web.
Google launches YouTube curriculum to educate students on digital citizenship (video)
There is a buzz around me these days about how EdTech is failing to live up to its promise fueled primarily by the In Classrooms of Future, Stagnant Scores . What is surprising to most when they share this piece with me or ask me my opinion about the failures of EdTech is my response. For the most part, I agree that it is failing but that failure has more to do with us than with the technology. Why?
Wrong Focus: Teacher-Centered Classrooms and Technology
Transliteracy is defined on Wikipedia as The ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks. The modern meaning of the term combines literacy with the prefix trans-, which means “across; through”, so a transliterate person is one who is literate across multiple media. Ryan Nadel , in an interview on Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning , defines transliteracy even further: “The most fundamental notion of transliteracy is the ability to adapt. It’s creating a literacy and fluidity between mediums that’s not tied to space or modality.”
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Five-Minute Film Festival: Flipped Classrooms
I really enjoyed Mary Beth Hertz's excellent blog published earlier this week, "The Flipped Classroom: Pro and Con" (1) -- one of the most concise and balanced views I've read on the buzz-wordy concept of flipping the classroom. Advocates say that "flipped classrooms" help overburdened teachers differentiate their instruction to reach more learners, provide an avenue into more hands-on and student-driven learning during classtime, and shift the teacher's role from "sage on the stage" to learning coach and facilitator.cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by Ken Whytock
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The Flipped Classroom: Pro and Con
I recently attended the ISTE conference (1) in San Diego, CA.The Real Reason Change Isn't Happening #iste12
teachers know where they're going -- they're just afraid of what will happen when they get there "The biggest barrier to tech integration is professional development. Simply giving teachers iPads won't change anything," I overhear someone saying in the Blogger's Cafe.We planned. We met to go over the plans. We talked.
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iPads in Primary Education: Part 1: Raising Standards in Boys' Writing using the iPad for Gaming
f) Discussion ( reasoned argument presenting differing viewpoints).Since technological advances are driving much of the change that we see in information and communication, researchers and educators are attempting to answer two important questions: What does it mean to be literate in the 21st century?
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