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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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What Connected Learning Truly Promotes Might Surprise You

What Connected Learning Truly Promotes Might Surprise You | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

"Continuing to teach in the stretching shadow of technology while only dealing with it through glimpses and gimmick is an awkward arrogance we may be dealing with for some time to come. But while education bickers on about how to best educate children, those children are making powerful moves–sometimes intentionally, sometimes as thoughtless, drifting trends–to fully reinvent the way human beings connect."

Beth Dichter's insight:

When you think of technology do you think of connected learning? Do you consider how you can use the Internet? Have you considered what the word Internet means: "inter, meaning connected, and net, as in network, visualizing multiple connectors and connectees."

Many of our students have access to the Internet, and they use that access outside of school. How? They communicate, text messaging, twitter, video and more. 

This post explores what may happen as more and more students connect using social media. After exploring acces the post moves on to discuss how technology impacts "peer performance" (and assessment). Technology provides tools that allows students to curate and critique performance.

The final section explores how this common experience has the potential to impact learners, in "visible and invisible ways."

Nikolaus Wood's curator insight, May 24, 2013 12:50 PM

Business in terms of infomation technology is interesting. When education comes into the picture it becomes important to make sure that the product is actually useable for the students and that it can be used in a way that will benifite not only the students but also the teachers.

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Intuition and Research - 21st Century Educator

Intuition and Research - 21st Century Educator | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

"There are a number of things which have been discovered over the years through research which are not entirely intuitive. In fact, many of the results that have been discovered are down-right odd."

Does extra pay improve or reduce performance? 

Do children play with toys differently if they explore on their own or are told how to use it?

What happens if you do not teach math classes? Will the students catch up five years later?

Links to reseach on these topics and two other are included in this post.

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Educational Leadership: For Each to Excel: Make Standards Engaging

Educational Leadership: For Each to Excel: Make Standards Engaging | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

At the core of education standards is a simple premise: High expectations beget high performance. But wishing doesn't always make it so...

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