This course is a great place to talk about technology issues with others facing the same issues. On Monday the technology teacher and I both received our current issue of Technology & Learning. We both were discussing one of the articles "Top 10 Tech Trends" We are both on our Technology Team in our district and the pace of technology seems to increasing every day and we feel we can't always keep up.
Here were the top 10 tech trends:
1. Data mining
2. Cyber-bullying
3. 21st Century skills
4. Digital content on the rise
5. Learning at leisure--on-line learning
6. Personal responders--Do you know what these even are?
7. Mobile tools--driving the path of ed reform
8. Bandwith is suddenly an issue--This is a huge issue in our school district this year!
9. The penguin is snowballing--open source Linux
10. The participatory web--Web 2.0--This certainly ties in.
These are all issues we all will be grappling with. There was another article in the same journal that people should read "Tossing out Texbooks" How a Tucson high school customized its curriclum around its laptop program.
If you haven't read Daniel Pink's "A Whole New Mind": why right brainers will rule the future" I highly recommend it. Pink is really on to something that will change the way we view education and should make us think about how we educate students now. Thought provoking!
ssn
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Week # 3 Flickr Post
Flickr has been such an interesting site. We are having trouble uploading photos from school so I will try it from home tonight. Exploring Flickr has given me several great curriculum ideas that I need to explore more. We do a intergrated Grade 5 Art, library, technology Shadow Theatre project. The theme this year is Explorers using a survival theme. I think the Art teacher will love this idea. There are lots of other activities I will also have to explore.
My photo that I uploaded is from the YSLead Conference at Endicott College that I was part, along with Elaine Loehmann from my school district. This is the building where we had a group dinner one night as part of the program.
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My photo that I uploaded is from the YSLead Conference at Endicott College that I was part, along with Elaine Loehmann from my school district. This is the building where we had a group dinner one night as part of the program.
ssn
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Week 1-2: 7 and 1/2 Learning Habits
This has been an interesting experience. This is my third try at creating this blog. I thought I had created my first one, only to find that I hadn't checked the availablity of the address, and someone else's blog came up. So then I tried several different names and they were all taken. At that point I gave up and decided to try another day. So now I went through and started again only to find I hadn't save it right. So here I am finally starting.
I found as I started this project that I kept putting it off. I like to read about it first or have someone else demonstrate before I start. When we finally got together as I group at my school I felt so much better. What does that say about learning? It is a highly social experience.
I loved that the course started with looking at the 71/2 habits of learners. I agree with all of them. I tried to practice many of them. Learning is definitely about cultivating an attitude and accepting responsibility for your own learning. Being confident is so important. Developing your own toolbox of options that work for you is something I try to get kids to do. Seeing problems as a challenge is so important. I just read this is a book which I love. If you continue to make old mistakes you haven't learned. Making no mistakes means you aren't learning anything new, you are just coasting on what you already know. The challenge is to make new mistakes because that is how you learn. It really is true. I can see that from just this blog. Now I really know how to set one up. It has been a challenge though. I always try to teach and mentor others to give them confidence. Probably the areas I am weakest in are: using technology to my advantage, and playing with technology. I don't really experiment. I would rather someone show me something new, and then I almost immediately see what I can do with it. I am not a real hands on learner so this course will be a new challenge and hopefully extend my learning in technology.
ssn
I found as I started this project that I kept putting it off. I like to read about it first or have someone else demonstrate before I start. When we finally got together as I group at my school I felt so much better. What does that say about learning? It is a highly social experience.
I loved that the course started with looking at the 71/2 habits of learners. I agree with all of them. I tried to practice many of them. Learning is definitely about cultivating an attitude and accepting responsibility for your own learning. Being confident is so important. Developing your own toolbox of options that work for you is something I try to get kids to do. Seeing problems as a challenge is so important. I just read this is a book which I love. If you continue to make old mistakes you haven't learned. Making no mistakes means you aren't learning anything new, you are just coasting on what you already know. The challenge is to make new mistakes because that is how you learn. It really is true. I can see that from just this blog. Now I really know how to set one up. It has been a challenge though. I always try to teach and mentor others to give them confidence. Probably the areas I am weakest in are: using technology to my advantage, and playing with technology. I don't really experiment. I would rather someone show me something new, and then I almost immediately see what I can do with it. I am not a real hands on learner so this course will be a new challenge and hopefully extend my learning in technology.
ssn
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