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In the 21st century, the most perceptive educational thinkers recognize that something new is happening to learning." 
As schools start to place mobile technologies in the hands of every student, the traditional use of the classroom PC is waning.
Lisa Nielsen, the author of "Teaching Generation Text: Using Cell Phones to Enhance Learning" and "The Innovative Educator" blog, believes it is time to shatter a few myths about students bringing their own devices (BYOD) to school. 
"Places should have a purpose. When they do and you establish community guidelines that are community enforced then it begins to work and that takes time. But you can't have community if you're in and out in the span of a few weeks. This takes long term relationships and community building. It will happen but right now online learning is so much in "project" mode and we need to move to "place" mode with projects moving in and out via groups." 
With such a heavy emphasis on inquiry and investigation, it is important that PYP educators remember how important it is to explicitly teach internet skills. Via Jessica V Allen 
This collection of links and applications highlights over 60 quality educational resources that are available on the web. Via Gust MEES Kyle Findlay, TNS Global Brand Equity Centre, South Africa and Kirsty Alberts, TNS Global Brand Equity Centre, South Africa "Gamification" is a buzzword current... Via Be Learning, Gust MEES 
Educator Studio inspires teachers looking for Web2.0 enhanced classrooms Featuring Lesson Plan ideas to tech infuse your classroom on all levels. Via Jessica V Allen 
For most young people today, engagement with new digital media is a routine aspect of life. Through computers, mobile phones, and other handheld devices, youth can blog, tweet, participate in social networks like Facebook, play massive multi-player games, use online information sources, and share videos, stories, music, and art they’ve created. Important skills and knowledge can be gained from such activities, but there are also risks. For example, young people may only rarely consider what it means to be an ethical, socially responsible “citizen” on the Internet. Via scmorgan |
21st cntry skills teachers need: Can s-t relations properly form online? 
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By Doug Ward If you want to see a teacher fume, just bring up the topic of cell phones in class. Technology, especially social media and text messaging, competes for students’ attention as never before. 
"What is 'connected learning'? It is a concept that the Connected Learning Research Network, a group of researchers supported by the MacArthur Foundation, will be working to develop and refine. Broadly speaking, connected learning refers to the increasingly complex ways in which young people’s learning ecologies are evolving. It is the notion that, in addition to happening anytime and anywhere, learning happens across the many different networks that teens’ navigate. School is an obvious node in a young learner’s network. But school represents only one node among many others, which includes after school sites, extracurricular activities, online communities, libraries, family, and peer communities just to name a few. When the lines that distinguish each of these is blurred and learning happens fluidly across the different nodes we believe that connected learning -- learning that is social, mobile, engaged, efficacious, student-driven, adult-supported, and civic-oriented -- is happening." Via anna smith 
I am a big fan of student choice.When students work on projects, I think that they should have as much choice as possible regarding both the... FULL TRANSCRIPT HERE: http://sivers.org/obvious Animation by Marvin Te. 
Although she is committed to boosting interactive digital technology for learning, Diana Rhoten’s talk is framed by movies.
“We really want to be disruptive in our work. Our goal is to shock the system, by bringing to light the concrete, cutting-edge examples of what the future of learning could look like.”- Diana Rhoten Via Steve Wheeler 
In 2010, Latitude asked children from all over the world aged 12 and below about their hopes, wishes and expectations about the Internet and technology in... Third grade class achieves impressive results in reading and mathematics, watch to find out how! http://sites.google.com/site/teamdrillhead/ (class website) ... The founder of Khan Academy (http://www.youtube.com/khanacademy), a free educational video library that features over two thousand titles and an interactive ... Via Gust MEES 
"I have been pondering how to use QR codes in the classroom. My favorite use being to tape QR codes into old textbooks to make them relevant. The code pictured below goes to a YouTube video with directions on how to do those math problems." 
Spotlight covers the intersections of technology and education, going behind the research to show how digital media is used in and out of classrooms to expand learning. |
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