- Tony Wagner
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Friday, January 29, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Week of 1/10/10 01/26/2010
Math and Algebra Help - Videos from MathTV.com
Great site that might help students better understand the math we are teaching them (at all levels).
Week 2 Lecturecasting with Ustream, Blip.tv and MPEGstreamclip » Moving at the Speed of Creativity
If you built it would they come?Great post about how you can "lecture cast". Record the audio of your lecture and perhaps even include some video of either you talking or graphics from your presentation. Wonderful learning opportunity for students. But I have to wonder if students will avail themselves of this change to "hear it again". What do you think?
How do we get punctuation? Apparently we get it from websites that are trying to patent it. Someone has a site with a new punctuation symbol....the sarcmark. Looks like a mangled question mark. If you want to use it looks like you have to download it for $. I don't recall paying for other punctuation marks.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
If Your Kids Are Awake, They’re Probably Online - NYTimes.com
If Your Kids Are Awake, They’re Probably Online - NYTimes.com
Excellent article about newly published report on children's media use. A must read for all teachers and even more important for parents.
Highlights for me:
"And because so many of them are multitasking — say, surfing the Internet while listening to music — they pack on average nearly 11 hours of media content into that seven and a half hours."
“I feel like my days would be boring without it,” said Francisco Sepulveda, a 14-year-old Bronx eighth grader who uses his smart phone to surf the Web, watch videos, listen to music — and send or receive about 500 texts a day.
Dr. Michael Rich, a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital Boston who directs the Center on Media and Child Health, said that with media use so ubiquitous, it was time to stop arguing over whether it was good or bad and accept it as part of children’s environment, “like the air they breathe, the water they drink and the food they eat.”
The study could not say whether the media use causes problems, or, rather, whether troubled youths turn to heavy media use.
“I don’t think parents should feel totally disempowered,” she said. “They can still make rules, and it still makes a difference.”
The heaviest media users, the study found, are black and Hispanic youths and “tweens,” or those ages 11 to 14.
Even during the survey, media use was changing. (At the start of the survey period Twitter did not yet exist)
So what are the implications for us as teachers? For us as parents?
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Week of 1/10/10 01/14/2010
Flexknowlogy – Jared Stein's ARCHIVED blog – update to jaredstein.org » Defining "Creepy Treehouse"
Article discussing the Creepy Treehouse effect. Is Blackboard a creepy treehouse? For that matter, is any tool we "require" a student to use online a creepy treehouse itself?
Give It A Ponder: Things to ponder before you text
Great videos to teach about thinking before texting. For the older students only.
Protecting Reputations Online in Plain English - Common Craft - Our Product is Explanation
Great video to use with kids about being careful about what they publish online.
Kidblog.org - Blogs for Teachers and Students
Looks like a great tool for a teacher who wants to get at least get started with blogging with their kids. This could be used as a replacement for students who typically are required to keep a reading notebook.
The Tempered Radical: Wasting Money on Whiteboards. . .
Anti-whiteboard article. It isn't about smartboards as much as how they are used. Can't we say that about any classroom innovation?
The End of Techno-Critique: The Naked Truth about 1:1 Laptop Initiatives and Educational Change
One of the better articles about 1-1 can't work without a more comprehensive implimentation plan that goes well beyond just technology
A “Naked Truth” about Technologies in Schools? « Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
Interesting argument about why 1-1 has failed to work as of yet. Larger argument is not necess. about tech as much as failed improvement initiatives.
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