Author: abendelow
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a 21st century transaction
Teacher-Do this wiki. Student– Do I have to? Who would wiki? I mean, if they didn’t have to? The answer I and other “wiki-vangelist” teacherswant to give is that that people will wiki because the wiki is the best tool for the job. As naturally and frequently as they now pick up a pen or…
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Good tech is invisible
I love how Carla Beard puts it in the NCTE Council Chronicle of September 2008: …as we use technology more, we notice it less. For example, we think less, “My students are blogging” and more, “My students write regularly for an authentic audience.” At that point, the technology has become fully integrated. She quotes David…
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Krebs says…
that once they know how to work constructively with social network data, marketers and opinion leaders can use social network data to create change on large social scales. The political unit of the future will be mobs fed by the web, Krebs says. According to the article, “the key… is identifying the strong individuals or…
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Will the web make us into better sheep?
This item from Wired’s blog describes the work of social networking software creator Valdis Krebs: According to Krebs… a social network creates a pseudo-truth that overrides real, objective truth [and] help[s] explain why pack mentality dominates the web. Using the current election as a model, Krebs says that the internet does not bring people with…
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What a difference a few years makes!
It’s been that long since I taught sophomores. This time though, because the students were all born in the 90’s, i’m working with digital natives. And wow–these monkeys swing easily from their digital vines! Today, for instance, as a follow-up to Oates’ Big Mouth and Ugly Girl, we began work on a gossip and rumors…
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Life = Risk
Totally stolen from the Fischbowl :A short video (via a tweet by Dale Basler) just to spur some thinking on our risk-averse schools, teachers and students. Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.– John Dewey Labels: failure, risk, thought_for_the_day, video, youtube
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Where wikis work and blogs don't
From Ruth Reyner a couple of days ago: She cites as one of the five most common mistakes of teachers beginning to wiki-fy: 3. Misuse of the environment As I mentioned before, blogs are not wikis and they are not online discussion forums. The essential difference between a blog and other online tools is that…
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A very scary thing about wikis
to today’s public school teacher might be the way it extends the professional relationship beyond the walls of school. The prospect of online collaboration appears about as welcome as a surprise visit from annoying in-laws. In my colleagues’ frightened expressions and excuses for not wiki-ing up, I read the ominous change web 2.0 collaboration must…
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The Brits appreciate Web 2.0
From a new report out of Scotland and the UK schools comes this summary of how the read/write web is enhancing education: * Web 2.0 helps to encourage student engagement and increase participation – particularly among quieter pupils, who can use it to work collaboratively online, without the anxiety of having to raise questions in…
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Sort of like handwriting was for the analog age?
Will new tests assess students’ 21st-century literacies? From today’s e-School News come good tidings for those wanting more sensible testing. For the first time ever, technological literacy will become part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation’s Report Card, the test’s governing board has announced. Beginning in 2012, the…
The Wikiness 