Author: abendelow
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A "technology intervention plan" for a 20th century K-12 district
Abstract: Systemic changes are needed in a traditional K-12 public school district that still operates on 20th century premises about learning. This plan proposes that the entire district be transformed from the traditional classroom model to the “blended” model of face-to-face learning activities with online individualized activities delivered via Web 2.0 applications. In order to bring…
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Using web 2.0 audio to enhance student engagement in literary study
An idea for enhancing student engagement in the material they need to learn via educational technology is using Edmodo, the social network for learning, to alter an old reading/writing assignment. Previously, students were given the assignment to interact with their texts by reading, annotating, and then writing a response to a passage from their reading.…
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This is what experiential learning looks like
on a recent day not far from my house: It happens to be from an October field trip arranged by master teacher Mr. Mike Torney. This 25 mile bike tour of Chicago’s west suburban gangsters delved into the local history of organized, violent crime that Mr. Torney’s US History classes were studying. The benefits of “experiential learning”…
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Millennials–tolerant of surface differences, but incapable of in-depth understanding?
I only pose it as a question, because the data isn’t in yet. tolerant teens growing up in Oak Park, Illinois But this article by Ted Gregory in today’s Tribune mentions that although today’s learner are about fifty percent more tolerant (as measured by attitudes towards gay marriage and inter-racial dating) than previous generations, they…
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How to teach the millennial learner? Critically.
the University of Southern Indiana’s hyperlinked Bloom’s taxonomy page If all education starts with the learner, and the learner has changed, then education must change with him/her. Those American public schools that have not yet acknowledged or adapted to the verified change in their learners may be operating as though the students have the same…
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Important message: sing or dance while the music is playing
It won’t be there forever. This Alan Watts talk and South Park animation work together to make the important point: important points will go missing if life is seen as journey (or video game) with fixed ends. Stay alive to all the wonder of the present, however scary or miserable it is.
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The Technology of crime, part 1
Had we but world enough, and time,this coyness, lady, were no crime. -Andrew Marvell And had I but wealth enough, and time, I could make much wealth with my well-timed stock picks. For proof I submit my recent trade, in which I realized a net gain over 100% in Google, inc. stocks. I would have…
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Sir Ken Robinson on waking kids up–not anesthetising them–in schools
I want to recommend a wonderful series of videos that are a new form: a whiteboard animation of lectures. Produced by The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA) in London, England, they convey what could be dry, economic lectures in engaging, visual images. On this one, Sir Ken Robinson explains…
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A future trend in research writing education? Let's hope so!
Putting the student in touch with the products and tools of the skill set s/he is learning makes obvious pedagogical sense, but in the “academic subjects” of math, science, and language, there is sometimes a “disconnect” between the student and his subject’s ultimate purposes–at least at the secondary level, where I work. In my high…
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Is it really "Superman" charters we should wait for?
Our society seems to be in a craze to privatize public services. Desperate to seem like reformers, and struggling with anemic public funding, politicians and administrators are looking to “the free market” to take care of what our American fore-bearers had thought too important to put in private hands. The argument goes: capitalism will save…
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