May
18
Daily post 05/18/2012
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6 Emerging Technologies From the 2012 K-12 Horizon Report
Mobile, tablets, games, PLEs, AR, natural interfaces – are our graduating teachers ready to deal with these in the short term? what are we doing to prepare them?
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Top 36 Social Networks for Educators
Seeking to build or extend a Personal Learning Network? Here are some sites that may be worth exploring for links to other educators and ideas.
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May
17
Daily post 05/17/2012
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mLearning – Power in the Worker’s Pocket
It’s a slideshare so short on detail but has links and/or screenshots of significant resources. Momentum is building. How long can we resist mobile for learners and for staff? When will the institution realise that the workPLACE no longer exists because we work where we are on whatever device is to hand?
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Now that we have ubiquitously connected devices in our pockets the boundaries between work, learning and social/life are increasingly permeable. As I quoted from Microsoft in one of these recently, work is something that I do (wherever and whenever I can and want to) not a place I go. Organisations that try to lock professional/academic work and learning into physical locations and time slots are locked in a 19th century mindset and need to confront the realities of the 21st century.
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May
16
Daily post 05/16/2012
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How I assess a funding application: Part 1 – Track-records « The Research Whisperer
Useful information for those chasing grants, especially those with enough years ahead of them to be able to build the track record.
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20 ways of thinking about digital literacy in higher education
The core ideas apply at all levels of education. Staff and students both need to adapt practices. “It’s all about having time, having opportunities for ‘peer supported experimentation’ – which turns out to be the best way to learn new technical tricks” could be a useful line for our project application. That resonates with deep-play and the TPACK meme.
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Six Ways to Use Social Media in Education | Center for Instructional Technology
Useful, though not revolutionary, suggestions but perhaps that’s what makes them useful. They could be used by ordinary teachers with ordinary classes.
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Flipping Blooms Taxonomy | Powerful Learning Practice
Flip Bloom’s taxonomy upside down and begin with creating rather than climb the steps of the pyramid. It seems a bit radical but it does make sense in the examples provided.
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Can Online Learning Communities Foster Professional Development?
Article provides more support for ideas around PLNs for professional learning. Content and references also likely to be useful for OLT project.
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Are Smart Phones Spreading Faster than Any Technology in Human History? – Technology Review
Smartphones are becoming endemic. It can only be a matter of time before we can assume very high rates of access among tertiary students and even at younger levels. We need to be thinking about the potential for learning.
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Connectivism: Design and Delivery of Social Networked Learning
IRRODL special issue with more than one article that might be helpful in laying foundations for the project application we are building.
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May
15
Daily post 05/15/2012
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15 Current Technologies A Child Born Today Will Never Use
Having seen what happened with grandchildren 15 years apart learning how to use a mouse (younger generation has grown up with touch screens) I’m interested by this list of taken-for-granted technologies that are likely to disappear by the time some of those kids are grown. The implications for education are major as we prepare teachers who will need to evolve their approaches to working with new technologies.
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Five-Picture Charades: A Flexible Model for Technology Training
Some echoes of the deep-play approach proposed by Mishra, Koehler & colleagues in this paper. Plenty of food for thought about playful approaches to developing technology skills and the creativity to apply them in different contexts.
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May
14
Daily post 05/14/2012
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This may be a useful site for sharing and finding out about what others are finding useful.
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May
12
Daily post 05/12/2012
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Social Tools for Educators: Supporting the Needs of Specific Communities
LdShake and Ensemble are described briefly as social network tools for sharing learning designs or educational resources. One of these or something similar might be part of a solution if we proceed with our proposed project for OLT.
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May
11
Daily post 05/11/2012
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How Teachers Make Cell Phones Work in the Classroom | MindShift
Article has some useful ideas about using mobile devices in class, including recording explanations giving to small groups and immediately pushing to network for access by other groups/students.
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AirServer – The game console for Mac/PC has arrived
Useful, and cheaper, alternative to an AppleTV and converter if what you need is to get your iPad screen onto a projector or large TV. Install the software on a computer linked to the projector/TV and away you go.
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May
10
Daily post 05/10/2012
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Students in my EDP4130 class are bing asked to build and use a PLN to inform their work as part of an assignment. This piece may be helpful to them and to colleagues building their own PLNs.
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May
8
Daily post 05/08/2012
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Infographic illustrates how being connected to a PLN might influence the work of a teacher. Includes ideas about the components of a PLN and how connections might work.
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May
5
Daily post 05/05/2012
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The lessons I learnt from my iPhone mugging | Benjamin Cohen on Technology
Useful lessons about iOS device security.
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