April 2012
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dy/dan » Blog Archive » Ten Design Principles For...
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy I am nota big Pearson fan, but DanMeyer is definitely his own man there. His 10 design principles for engaging math tasks could just as easily be more generally, “How to engage learners with careful design”. Here are the ten. Adapt them for your own tech pedagogy. I certainly will. Make sure you look at the comments as well. Many more rules for...
The Flipped Class: Myths vs. Reality - THE DAILY...
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy Best nuts and bolts case study of the ‘flipped’ learning model. It is a three part intro to what three practitioners actually did in the classroom with results. Handy. Here are a few more scoop.it resources for the flipped classroom: Jennifer Luzzadder’s site: http://www.scoop.it/t/the-flipped-classroom-a-new-take-on-classroom-instruction ...
Pedagogical Ethics in a Digital Age | HASTAC
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy Tech ethics—much needed and an important read. See on hastac.org
Democratizing Digital Activism: Tools for Turning...
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy Community organizers and those who teach digital activism have many lessons in tech pedagogy to offer all of us. Consider the Tactical Technology Collective’s attempts to use digital means to turn info into action. That is a damned good shorthand definition of teaching and learning. I plan on spending some time on this site and learn some of the tactics of...
12 Step Teacher Technology Rehab Program
See on Scoop.it - TeacherWorkflow Don’t have an interactive whiteboard or Classroom Response System? That’s okay! You don’t need fancy gadgets to integrate technology into your class. See on goedonline.com
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by Lee Rainie, Kathryn Zickuhr, Kristen Purcell,...
See on Scoop.it - TeacherWorkflow Testing a bit of teacher/learner workflow with summarizing using cruxbot, copying to pasteboard recorder (PR), uploading with PR to Evernote, editing into a rough draft post using Evernote, sharing as a page using Evernote’s capacity to turn a note into a webpage. From there to using scoop.it and its share function to get the original material to my...
Ten Fun Ways to Use YouTube Videos in an Online...
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy I use YouTube in my lit class for some of these purposes. I think most of these are pretty passive uses of Youtube in lit pedagogy. I would like to see another list with creative uses for learners (that includes the teacher as well) like mashups, simple video editing, student productions, student poetry, use of annotations features, ‘explicating on the fly...
A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy Ideas are the ultimate technology. They are the meta-tools for all teaching and learning. The Dr’s sonic screwdriver so to speak. Read this if you want to re-shuffle your toolbox so that this one is on top. This idea has stayed in my consciousness for weeks. It explains much of the failure of ed reform and it explains why ‘imposed...
A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy Ideas are the ultimate technology. They are the meta-tools for all teaching and learning. The Dr’s sonic screwdriver so to speak. Read this if you want to re-shuffle your toolbox so that this one is on top. This idea has stayed in my consciousness for weeks. It explains much of the failure of ed reform and it explains why ‘imposed...
Save Web Pages as PDFs Without Installing...
Via Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy You can save web pages as PDF files directly in Google Chrome without installying an PDF drivers or extensions. Via labnol.org
Save Web Pages as PDFs Without Installing...
Via Scoop.it - iPedagogy This is one very handy tool in Chrome. You can save web pages as PDF files directly in Google Chrome without installying an PDF drivers or extensions. If you are using an iPad this is a great way to to get content into your annotation apps especially if you are using screencasting tools like Explain Everything. Via labnol.org
A Media Specialist's Guide to the Internet: Web...
Via Scoop.it - Etextbooks WKU An “excellent list of web tools for screen casting!” Via mediaspecialistsguide.blogspot.com
Fast Prototyping: YouTube Video Editor on YouTube
Via Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy I think this is still the best introduction to the process of creating and publishing video—KYou Tube Video Editor, that is. You can learn to shoot, upload, edit, mashup, edit some more and publish. It is the classic programmers ‘fast prototype’. Make stuff, make it fast, make mistakes, make it right. You cannot beat the feeling of learning...
Good Game Spawn Point - Quarrel
Via Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy Looks like lots of fun. And a lesson there for techpedagosists (man that is one ugly word) is to have fun. Nice review here and makes me wanna play. Via abc.net.au
Usable Learning
Via Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy This is an eye-opening, post along with a slideshare that has lots of implications for techpedagogy. Here is the quote that has me spinning, “So I think that information-deliverers are going to need to add to their skill set pretty quickly, or they’ll find themselves obsolete. I think we need to think of ourselves as business consultants, experience designers...
3D Printing Project RE_ by Samuel Bernier
Via Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy 3-D Printing is becoming affordable. The creative power and immediacy of prototyping (taking from mind to sketched object to tangible product) cannot be underestimated. Every classroom can use a 3-D printer to great effect. No one can predict where this will lead, but I sure want to be around as it happens. So…check this out and let’s find grant money...
Bill Campbell - Google+ - Google Apps Script Who...
Via Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy Do not read this if you don’t want to lose an afternoon to the coolest explorations of some ways to automate and extend G+ with scripts. Amazing. Google Apps Script Who knew that there was a back door to do all kinds of things in Google Docs outside of the standard interface? Via plus.google.com
5 video case studies of e-portfolio implementation...
Via Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy This is a very good model for how help someone learn: give them a project, give them case studies of how others have approached the problem in the project, and provide a toolkit to help them do it. Bravo, brava! “JISC has created a site with videos from five UK universities and colleges that document their experience in implementing e-portfolios across a...
Publish a Multimedia Web Page Instantly: Checkthis
Via Scoop.it - TeacherWorkflow This is a frictionless method for getting content up and online very quickly. Reminds me of the very old, very venerable ‘pita pages’ from early on in the Internet timeline. “Robin Good: With no need for registration, no set-up, and no installation requirements Checkthis makes it as easy as it can get, to publish a web page of multimedia...
MITx: MIT's new online learning initiative
Via Scoop.it - Etextbooks WKU MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses for free to a virtual community of learners around the world… Via mitx.mit.edu
What is MITx? - MIT News Office
Via Scoop.it - Etextbooks WKU This would be the way I would approach University credentialing if I were coming out of high school today. I would take just enough university course work to keep my full time, but I would do this stuff on the side for badges and certificates. “Answering common questions about the Institute’s new approach to online education.” Via web.mit.edu
The Secrets of Large Skype Meetings
Via Scoop.it - Etextbooks WKU Today I have an emergency visit to the chiropractor set up. Back very bad. “I can’t commute in a car” bad. I would have liked to come across this post on advice on how to use Skype with larger groups. (I am thinking much of the advice cross-applies to Google+ Hangouts.) I might have thought to run my class from home. Best advice? “For...
diylms
Via Scoop.it - Etextbooks WKU Wow! Follows the maestro model of education. Learning is the repertoire and the conductor works to bring all the pieces together. Reminds me, also, of Chris Weinberger’s ‘small pieces loosely joined’ view of the Internet. Any way you look at it, teachers need to become tech conductors guiding the orchestra toward common performance goals. Via...
Cliplets: Juxtaposing Still and Dynamic Imagery
Via Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy Reminscent of cinemagraphs but with a little more time to capture and tell a narrative moment. “A still photograph is a limited format for capturing moments that span an interval of time. Video is the traditional method for recording durations of time, … Via youtube.com
