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Catherine Smyth
from EDP4130 Curator Project: Using the Evolution of the Telephone to Teach Student Knowledge and Understanding of Design and Technologies
July 16, 2013 12:59 AM
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Connecting with technology-ICT for university educators.
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“When the winds of change are blowing, some people are building shelters and some are building windmills” ~Chinese Proverb
Curated by
Catherine Smyth
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"Yesterday during the Vice Chancellor's Teaching and Learning Conference at Plymouth University, I presented a think piece with Oliver Quinlan. The thrust of our thinking is that students..." Via Robin Good
Thomas C. Thompson's curator insight,
July 7, 2013 10:48 PM
People were born to learn, this makes everyone they're own expert in the topic they love best.
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Newbies have arrived at the right page for basic information on Massive Open Online Courses. Bookmark this MOOC Resources page. We’ll add to it as we develop more material.
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A blog that explains what a MOOC is, traces the history of MOOCs and draws together MOOC news, ideas and research from around the world.
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Design, creation & management of library learning spaces. Filter by: public, university, school, learning, class, bookshelves
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This Scoop.it site focuses on library learning spaces but great ideas for creating other learning environments.
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Anne Sturgess's curator insight,
April 20, 2013 11:46 PM
There are so many great ways to use clouds, wordstorms, wordles, tagxedo, etc for writing, research, presenting...
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Everything for and about presentations - software, online tools, apps, templates, tutorials
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An inspiring and innovative range of resources for educators.
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A curated list of recommended free tools, websites & mobile apps for teachers, such as Google Docs, Prezi, Wordle, ClassDojo, TED, Quizlet, YouTube, etc. Via John Evans
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A useful and organised list.
Nancy Jones's comment,
May 27, 2013 10:27 PM
Thanks. This is a great list and I like the fact that it is not just about apps.
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Forget about Dropbox and Google Drive: Copy gives you 22GB of free cloud storage - and more if you act fast. For me Cloud replaced Dropbox in no time. Via John Evans
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Before the advent of Twitter, most educators I know had limited opportunities to collaborate with colleagues outside their building. Some subscribed to listservs or participated in online forums, but these outlets lacked critical mass; teachers also networked at in-person conferences and training sessions, but these isolated events didn't provide ongoing support.
Enter Twitter. I've heard many educators say that Twitter is the most effective way to collaborate and that they've learned more with Twitter than they have from years of formal professional development. Via Steven Engravalle, Rosie Peel
Ruth Vilmi's curator insight,
April 16, 2013 6:09 AM
I've made many more meaningful contacts through LinkedIn and Facebook. 
Andreas Kuswara's curator insight,
April 17, 2013 9:22 PM
twitter alone might not be sufficient, as we (or most of us) not 'always online', we have to do other things. combining twitter with a mechanism to comb through the # and compile personalized feed, would be useful. 
Catherine Smyth's comment,
April 23, 2013 9:20 PM
I'm a fledgling tweeter but love the way Twitter ignites discussion and ideas within a professional community.
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A massive survey of internet users reveals trends in social media usage across numerous platforms, ages, races, genders, population density and which social media sites do they frequently visit.
The Pew Research Center has released the results of a comprehensive social media survey, conducted over several years to evaluate which demographics were using social media, and on which platforms. Which social networking sites emerged on top?
Of the online adults surveyed at the end of 2012: 67% use Facebook 20% use LinkedIn 16% use Twitter 15% use Pinterest 13% use Instagram 6% use Tumblr
A decent amount of Americans appear to be using social media, but which demographics use social media in greater numbers?
It appears that women use social media 9% more than men do, at a whopping rate of 71%. Other frontrunners with the highest social network activity in their demographic include city dwellers(70%), Hispanics (72%) and adults with a household income below $30,000 annually (72%).
The most pervasive and consistent divider amongst social media users remains, unsurprisingly, their age. 83% of the young adult demographic (18-29 year olds) use social media, which is well over double the activity of online adults over 65 years old (32%).
Gust MEES's curator insight,
May 12, 2013 11:36 AM
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching
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The one indisputable characteristic of my work, play and love experiences today, is that it's all fueled by learning. In this time of rapid change, one must continue to skillfully, responsibly and habitually learn.
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An educator's guide to cultivating a professional learning network.
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If we build it, they will come...Sam Wineburg argues education scholars must embrace digital media to truly influence teaching practices.
Maree Whiteley's curator insight,
May 8, 2013 1:21 PM
How do you receive and share information? Do you check your letterbox when you get home? Email inbox? My favourite mail boxes these days are Scoop.it, Twitter and Facebook...how are you connected? |
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Catherine Smyth's insight:
Links to a range of applications for content curation of topics.
Robin Good's curator insight,
July 6, 2013 4:41 PM
Good news for those interested in signing up for the Content Curation Master Class coming up this Monday. Two more curations tools have lined up to freely offer their PRO or yet-unavailable features to all participants to the master class organized by TheNextWeb Academy. These are: 1) Handpick - custom curated email news to your selected contacts 60 days access to PRO account for free 2) NOOWIT - early access to Editor / Publishing features and PRO features for free - as soon as they become available (for blog authors) These two line up to complete a full bonus-set that includes: 3) Spundge - content curation/publishing platform 60 days access to PRO account for free 4) Listly - create/curate/publish professional-looking embeddable lists 60 days access to PRO account for free 5) Twtrland - find true influencers and experts for every niche, skill or place 60 days access to PRO account for free + free 30-minute custom demo 6) Swayy - news discovery and curated social sharing direct access to private Beta + PRO plan free for 45 days 7) Scoop.it - content curation/publishing platform access to PRO account for free for 3 months 8) OpenTopic - content curation/publishing platform access to Private Beta 9) Permamarks - permanent archival of web pages access to Private Beta Participants to the "Content Curation for Everyone" class will also get:
N.B.: Though the official promotion says for "beginners" this is really an "intermediate" class designed for those who already understand the basics and want to go beyond them. You can sign-up for the class here: http://thenextweb.com/academy/ For more info, contact me directly at: Robin.Good @ masternewmedia.org (Image credit: Chocolate candies - Shutterstock)
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Using 3D virtual worlds (OpenSimulator, Second Life) to teach design, programming and other subjects.
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Catherine Smyth's insight:
Interesting, provocative ideas about the future of learning. Check out Hack Education created by Audrey Watters. She explains: To “hack” can mean a lot of things: To break in and break down. To cut to the core. To chop roughly. To be playful and clever. To be mediocre. To solve a problem, but to do so rather inelegantly. To pull systems apart. To "MacGyver" things back together. To re-code. To rebuild. To “Hack Education,” in turn, has multiple interpretations: a technological solution, a technology intrusion, a technological possibility, a technological disaster.
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The back channel discussions at the MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) Symposium held at the University of Sydney.
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The new vision for learning spaces across RMIT, fitted with innovative technologies and specialised furniture to support teaching approaches that foster collaboration, engagement and student-centred learning. Via Anne Whisken
Carolyn Eccleston's comment,
July 2, 2013 8:03 PM
Progressive thinking here ! The need for students to put forward their own ideas about a concept and then seek to discover what others have perceived about the same idea is more likely to occur in a learning space that has these features. Once all of the perceptions are aired then the facilitator can access current well researched knowledge via quality websites and present this for further clarification of ideas and learning.
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Use of technology and ICT to provide feedback to students
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Good ideas on assessment and giving feedback.
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What is the definition of digital citizenship?
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Interesting perspectives on the characteristics of digital citizenship.
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"I have received several requests on how to perform certain tasks on Google Spreadsheets and since I am really out of time to answer each of these requests I deemed it important to share with you these useful tutorials.
Via John Evans
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Everything for and about presentations - software, online tools, apps, templates, tutorials
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An inspiring collection of resources!
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Explore the possibilities for learning through iPad technology.
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An interesting blog collecting news and stories on innovative approaches to education, technology and learning from all corners of the internet.
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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Learning Theory, zone of proximal development The area of capabilities that learners can exhibit with support from a teacher., Montessori constructivism, Lave & Wenger...
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This is my own PLN created on Pinterest. I have been working on it for quite a while and have 28 followers. The board aims to curate resources, ideas and information that will be beneficial to me as a future teacher. It also aims to help other teachers to ensure that modern teaching and learning is valuable, effective, authentic and engaging.