10 Steps to Kick Start Your Twitter Network | edte.ch:
When you join Twitter it can seem a strange little place, with it’s own rules and secret ways. Having helped many people make a start I wanted to share some of the key things to help you early on so you can tap into the huge potential a Twitter network has. Here are my 10 steps:
Students Have No Idea How Google Works:
In a detailed study of 30 college students by anthropologists at Illinois Wesleyan, only seven were able to do a “reasonably well-executed search.” According to Inside Higher Ed:
Seth’s Blog: Back to (the wrong) school:
Large-scale education was never about teaching kids or creating scholars. It was invented to churn out adults who worked well within the system.
What FACEBOOK and GOOGLE are Hiding from world. (by thoughtawakening)
Google+: 10 things it does better
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/08/23/google.plus.better.cashmore/index.html
Do Kids Have Too Much Homework? | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine:
The results of international tests give the homework skeptics ammunition. David Baker and Gerald LeTendre, professors of education at Penn State, found that in countries with the most successful school systems, like Japan, teachers give small amounts homework, while teachers in those with the lowest scores, such as Greece and Iran, give a lot. (Of course the quality of the assignment and the teacher’s use of it also matter.) The United States falls somewhere in the middle—average amounts of homework and average test results. Finnish teachers tend to give minimal amounts of homework throughout all the grades; the New York Times reported Finnish high-school kids averaged only one-half hour a night.
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Do-Kids-Have-Too-Much-Homework.html#ixzz1WEa1w38s
Seth’s Blog: The warning signs of defending the status quo:
As you continue to push yourselves to think deeper, to think different to try something new this blog posts popped up this morning and I thought of our conversations this past weekend and how hard change can be.
Great to be Back!
9:00 – 9:15:
Welcome to Course 4
9:15 – 10:15
A Skype Presentation by Brian Bennett
Mastery Learning and the Flipped Classroom
Utilizing 21st century technology and web distribution, the classroom is no longer confined to the building. Learning can happen anywhere and anytime. Using podcasting as a medium, the classroom is turned around…homework becomes classwork and instruction becomes the homework. This allows for 24/7 content access and increased differentiation. Student learning becomes personalized and performance objectives become the new standard of assessment.
This presentation is based off of Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams’ Mastery Learning and the Reverse Classroom model.
Links and Resources:
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10:15 – 10:30
Break
10:30 – 10:45
Project: Preparing for the end
10:45 – 11:00
Split into divisional levels and discuss the NETs and how they apply to what you teach.
1:30 – 1:45
Split into cross divisional groups and discuss the NETs and how/if they are supported in the TAS curriculum K-12.
1:45 – 2:00
In cross divisional groups have a look at the NET Student Profiles and discuss:
11:45 – 12:30
Lunch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlvKWEvKSi8 (Dan Meyer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FEMCyHYTyQ (Chris Lehmann)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsUgj9_ltN8 (Heidi Hayes Jacobs)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni75vIE4vdk (Will Richardson)
2:00 – 2:30
Update Blogs and new blogging system
Google+
Twitter
Your PLN
2:30 – 3:30
Defining Technology Integration (Week 2)
Small group work/discussion
3:30 – 4:30
Technology Learning Theories (Week 4)
Small Group Work/Discussion (Snowball Discussion)
More to come……
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Ready or not a new school year is upon us and here on the CoETaIL site we’re looking forward to another great year as the CoETaIL program continues to expand. This will be the second year of CoETaIL under this site and structure and the expansion of the program to international schools continues to grow. Here’s a list of schools and cohorts and where they are in the program.
Taipei American School Cohort: Beginning course 4: Course 4: Technology: A Catalyst for Learning
BKK Cohort: Beginning course 2: Course 2: 21st Century Literacy Ideas, Questions, and Issues
EARCOS Cohort: Beginning course 3: Course 3:Visual Literacy: Effective Communicators and Creators
We’re also excited to see three new cohorts get started this Fall.
All together that’s about 150 active CoETaILers to start the school year with the potential for other cohorts to come online throughout the year.
Get Connected:
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Throughout the CoETaIL program we talk about being connected, creating your personal learning network and using the educators connected around the world to learn from. As CoETaILers you have a unique opportunity to connect with and learn from each other. There are many different ways to do this.
Twitter:
In your Google Docs you’ll find a Google Spreadsheet where you can add your Twitter URL. Once you do that you’ll be added to the CoETaIL twitter list where you can follow all the CoETaILers that are on Twitter. Here’s the link:
http://twitter.com/#!/jutecht/lists/coetail-asia
Simply click on the link and follow then click follow on the list. You’ll then be able to follow all the CoETaILers, learn from them, bounce ideas off them, and have them be part of your learning network.
Groups and Forums on the Site:
Right here on the CoETaIL site we’ve given you ways to communicate and connect with others as well. There are many different groups that you can join as well as forums that might have answers to some of your most pressing of questions about this site, the program, or ideas to use in your own classroom.
Get involved:
At the end of the day it’s about being engaged in the conversation and being involved in the community. What you get out of this course and how it changes your life, your teaching, your perspective is up to you. You’ll get out of this program what you put into it. Start creating new habits around how you learn, who you connect with, and how you engage in your personal learning network. Making a conscious effort to start the year off right will help and keep you motivated all year long.
Learn your way around the site:
The CoETaIL site is running the latest WordPress Multi-User installation with the Buddypress plugin. Making it a very robust social network. There are other great features of this social-network like the ability to friend someone, send private messages and even update your status much like Facebook. Take some time in these beginning weeks to click and find your way around the site. Some updates:
- New Themese have been added
- New Plugins have been added…including a Google+ plugin!
Take some time to set up your blog and get it looking great for the new year.
We’re here to help:
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Kim and I are excited to be adding Dana Watts as an administrator running the American Embassy School Cohort. Kim and I worked with Dana at ISB and she was a graduate of the first CoETaIL cohort two years ago. Since then she’s left ISB to join AES in the role of Middle School Technology Coordinator where she’s spearheading a lot of new initiatives at the school including running their CoETaIL program.
Know that we are here to help, yes the technology can be frustrating at times, and yes it doesn’t always work the way it should, but that’s what we’re here for. You can e-mail us, ask a question in the forum or catch us online and we’ll do the best we can to help you out. The CoETaIL community is very supportive so I highly recommend asking a question in the forums or to a group. An e-mail to use is just one set of eyes on the problem. By posting to the forum you’ll get many more people thinking and helping you out.
We’ll see you online!
I for one am looking forward to a great year of learning from all of you. What I love about teaching these courses is that I learn way more from all of you and the great stuff you’re doing in your classrooms then I could ever imagine. This is a great community to belong to and I’m looking forward to learning along with you.
A Tale of Two PD’s « My Island View:
This is where my mind plays its little game. I had thoughts of those leaders in the Middle East who led their countries the same way for generations. They were, if not uncaring, at the very least unaware of the needs of the people. The ruling class failed to keep up with the influence of Social Media affecting change on the population. The ruling class continued in the same old way as their people changed predictable habits. The ruling class was unaware until the end. My concern is what will fill the void? Being as old as I am I can vividly recall the time we invoked some sayings of the 60’s. “If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem”. “If you can’t move forward, move out of the way”. No, I am not saying Administrators are Tyrannical leaders. I am saying that as leaders, if they are not relevant, they are not effective leaders. Additionally, this is not an age issue it’s a relevance issue.
