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If our schools are filled with "teaching places" instead of "learning spaces," what are we doing to change that? All of us. What are we doing? Because whether you are in a national government, or you're a school superintendent, or principal, or teacher, you can be changing things, if that's what you want to do. I had to write about this because of what happened with a Tweet from my friend William Chamberlain: "McDonald's has better learning spaces than most schools," Chamberlain wrote, and, of course, he is right. Fixing it... third grade teacher Derk Oosting doesn't wait, he acts "Fixing it" doesn't always require money or getting new things, it often requires more subtraction than addition, getting rid of desks and miserably uncomfortable classroom chairs. We remove the cultural expectations which have nothing to do with how humans learn. Interlude: the eyes of a designer There is a problem here, of course, which lies with the way educators are educated. The why? What do we look for?
Practical Advice for Teaching with Twitter – ProfHacker
Last week I introduced a pedagogical framework for using Twitter in your teaching, organized along two axes: monologic to dialogic and passive to active. These high-falutin terms are fine for a theoretical matrix, but what about the real life implementation of Twitter in and outside of your classroom? How do you actually do it? I’m going to leave behind the pedagogy (mostly) in this post, and instead offer some practical advice for teaching with Twitter. I’ll cover six aspects of Twitter integration where it pays to plan ahead of time (i.e. sometime last week): organization, access, frequency, substance, archiving, and assessment. Organization A question I often hear from colleagues interested in using Twitter is Do I have to follow all of my students in order to teach with Twitter? Creating a list requires you to manually add each student to the list (think of it as a Twitter Roster), whereas hashtags rely upon students themselves to tag their tweets. Access Frequency Substance Archiving
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Tweet about me ... Aitken Creek Primary School student Campbell Walsh raised the above question about his NAPLAN results with the Prime Minister via Twitter. Photo: Jason South CAMPBELL Walsh was sick of waiting for his NAPLAN test results. ''I wanted to know how I'd done. It had already been about four months and I still hadn't got the results,'' says the year 5 student from Aitken Creek Primary in the outer Melbourne suburb of Craigieburn. In another era, Campbell might have been told to sit down and be quiet. Twitter, which has been described as the ''SMS of the internet'', enables users to send messages of 140 characters or less. Spink then sent it on her iPad using the class Twitter account @acps456. Advertisement Welcome to the social media revolution. According to the American author and international speaker on digital media, Erik Qualman, social media has become the number one activity on the web. Despite this, Spink's use of social media in the classroom is still unusual.
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The Twitteraholic’s Ultimate Guide to tweets, hashtags, and all things Twitter
Most educators who learn to use Twitter effectively say they learn more from their personal learning network (PLN) on Twitter than they’ve achieved from any other forms of professional development or personal learning. Unfortunately educators often dismiss Twitter, or fail to see the value of Twitter, when they’re first introduced to Twitter. Our aim of this post is to provide all the information you need to learn how to use Twitter effectively as an educator. We regularly update this post with new information. This post was last updated Oct, 2013. Click on a link below to go to the section you want to read: About the Twitter-a-holic’s Ultimate Guide The original Twitter-a-holic’s Guide was published in July, 2010 when I’d just returned from attending a large conference overseas and realized that while a conference can make you feel really overwhelmed and alone — especially amongst the 13,000 ed tech professionals participants who attend it each year — I never felt alone. Why? Back to Top 1.
Modern Learning Environments – the underlying philosophy to success | Karen Boyes Speaker
Modern Learning Environments (MLE) are all the talk in educational circles right now. Schools, around the world, are knocking out walls and creating bright stimulating classrooms with multi purpose furniture and giving students access to technology. On the surface it looks fantastic, however I am concerned that without a big pedagogy shift, students will be simply just learning the same way many teachers have been teaching – just in bigger classrooms with new furniture. MLE’s are so much more than the bright new furniture and the technology. When moving from a structured, and often heavily teacher-dominated classroom, to a less formal student led environment it is paramount students understand their role and responsibilities as the learner and indeed the learning process. Here are five considerations that are vital to address for success. Be clear on your underlying philosophy of learning. Do you believe all students can learn? Create a safe environment by redefining mistakes and failure
Twitter me this…why use Twitter for school communication?
Twitter me this… Why would an administrator want to take on the headache of using social media with their parents and community? What if I asked if you, as an administrator, would like to have more communication with your parents, keep them updated and alerted to any and all important school news, while only taking up a fraction of your time? Twitter provides just such an opportunity. Our parents today are busy. How do I envision Twitter as an asset? In a world where anything can happen, and information travels SO fast, Twitter allows for timely communication. Every week a stack of reminders are sent home. Not all of our parents are on Twitter. If you don’t have a Twitter account (and don’t want one!) To get started text: “Follow @username” to 40404 and you will start receiving tweets from that user on your device. They won’t need a Twitter account or to sign up for anything. Twitter is not the silver bullet that will allow seamless communication between school and home. Tweetingly, Amber
The Complete Guide To Twitter Hashtags In Education
What is a hashtag? A word or phrase preceded by a “#.” How do hashtags work? Twitter can be a busy place with lots of tweets–and thus lots of “noise.” A #hashtag is a way to aggregate tweets that are appended with a hashtag. Picture it like a magnet that attracts all messages categorized by that topical word or phrase. Who can use hashtags? Anyone. What else do I need to know? Don’t hashtag spam–if your tweet doesn’t add to that hashtag’s topic, discussion, or user base, don’t add the hashtag.Use more than one hashtag if it applies to more than one topic, but choose wisely. Meeting Times Many of the hashtags have “meeting times” where educators agree to “meet and tweet”–that is, send out messages on a topic at a certain time on a certain day. If you do participate at the agreed upon time, you’ll see the tweets stream in live and participate in said conversation (via twitter) in what is nearly real-time. Updated: Added #edcamp, #ukedchat Popular Hashtags Trends General Content Areas Literacy iPad
