Sunday, October 26, 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008
My Diigo Bookmarks (weekly)
MapSkip - Places Have Stories!
tags: maps, collaboration, geography, storytelling, Mapping, photos, mapskip, Web2.0, literature, language
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Sunday, October 12, 2008
My Diigo Bookmarks (weekly)
Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game
tags: physics, game, science, flash, interactive, contraption, fun, kids
21stcenturylearning » Engaging Staff & Students- Using Web 2.0 Tools for Global Collaboration
tags: ulearn08
Math TV Problem Solving Videos
tags: mathematics, problem solving, tv, math
Farmers Helping Farmers: Why is Fair Trade Coffee Important?
On-line Teaching Resources · Resources · Fair Trade in Norfolk
tags: norfolk, fair trade
tags: jason, science, global warming, storms, ecosystems
Sesame Street . Grover . Global Grover Cultural Dance Game | PBS KIDS
tags: grover, sesame, international dance
BBC News | E-CYCLOPEDIA | Globalisation: What on Earth is it about?
tags: cyclopedia, ecyclopedia, globalisation
Friday, October 10, 2008
Tony Ryan: Thinking About Thinking Ulearn08
Meta level
Big 5 for thinking
“thinking as an optional extra?”
learning is thinking is learning
o self-talk
o code
o focus question – key question that draws everything in
o assessment tasks
o thinking strategies
strong digital literacy component
colour partners
signal – hands up but talking – not listening
Paired interview – max of 3 questions
Intellectually loaded – not glib
A interviews B
How do you think?
B then interviews A
NO interruptions
Anal – logical sequencial
2 types of time – chronos – ceros?
Developing an awareness for their thinking
What are you thinking at any moment?
What are you feeling?
Becoming self reflective and aware
“sky is blue”
say it loud in their mind
MUST BECOME AWARE
AHA!!
Nod along
Impassive face
Say it five times using fingers
49x5
245
how did you do that?
LOTS of ways of looking at learning – no one single theory
Model your thinking – say it out loud
You model everything
“think buddies” – up to age 10. Bring a toy in (about size of hand) talk to your thinking buddy ( a physical thing – talk aloud for a start then think it – 3rd step is to remove the physical thing
become deeply aware of self talk
lazy intellectually – doesn’t think – instead use self talking
curriculum - what
pedagogy – how (4-18)
assessment – how well we have done
reporting –
get kids to code your practice – have them code themselves
handwriting example
bad good
blunt sharp
dirty clean
slopes bad slope good
brain stuff/ memory
synapes 10-15 years most important time to work on synapse - impulsing as strong as poss
get alcohol AWAY
stretch the brain
sparkle questions
assessment tasks should be intellectually rigorous
Web 2.0 and Education: Ulearn08 with Greg Gebhart
kids are not critical at using information. kids like to blog but often in other ways like myspace
core of cutting edge teachers
huge number of teachers that havent come on board - big divide between teachers and teachers
49%of blogging done at school
google docs vs office suites
home on ps3 -- huge changes in virtual worlds
IWB's as chalk and talk - how do we engage kids in using these properly - pedagogy must be in place - talk show hosts
interactive desktops
hps new monitor - interactive desktop
technology adoption cycle.
ipod moved from being banned to being embraced and used in schools for podcasting etc
cellphones - coming up
websites for using with cellphones (some sites not available outside of us)
scanR - take photo of doc and get it emialed to you
Gcast - ring number - talk into phone - press # - recorded as podcast and is fed to rss
gabcast - same
talkshoo ?
eyespot
qik - live feed from mobile
utterli
jott - reminders sent to phones
radar - picture conversation
3jam - send to groups
math4mobile - creating math on phones
wattpad -
myartspace - pics from museum
exam where kids had to use mobile etc to find info
how are we to get educators to here?
how do they learn how to use these things? learning is often play
"collective" - check presenters blog out
hitchhikr
TED.com - cover all areas including education - good idea as a PD option
delicious
slideshare
flickr
digital dossier
Sunday, October 5, 2008
My Diigo Bookmarks (weekly)
Block Posters - Create large wall posters from any image for free!
tags: photos, poster, tools, photography, design, image, posters, printing
glowtxt.com, the best glowing text generator
tags: glowtxt, text, generator, glowtxt.com
Exploratree - Exploratree by FutureLab
tags: mindmapping, brainstorming, web2.0, mindmap, visualization, collaboration, tools, thinking
My Ulearn notes wiki
tags: ulearnchch08, plns, twitter, diigo, 21classes, blogging, secondlife, nings
Scribblar - simple, effective, online collaboration
tags: collaboration, scribblar, whiteboard, Web2.0
Story Starters for Grades 1-4 | Scholastic.com
tags: writing, scholastic.com, story starters, literacy, written language
tags: ecospot
tags: brainormous.com, math, brainormous, elementary, education, numeracy, basic facts
Thursday, October 2, 2008
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