Digital Learners Video

I found this great little video on Rachel Boyd's blog.  This video is prefaced with the following:

Since most of today's students can appropriately be labeled as "Digital Learners", why do so many teachers refuse to enter the digital age with their teaching practices?

This presentation was created in an effort to motivate teachers to more effectively use technology in their teaching.

Please see http://t4.jordandistrict.org/payattention to learn how you can become a better teacher.

April 16, 2007 | | 1 Comment »

Thought of The Day

“Computer networks are social networks.”

(I can’t remember where I read this recently)

April 15, 2007 | | Comments Closed

Thinking about … Social Networks

I was thinking about Konrad’s Post and all the different places I have recently started to generate lists of friends in social networks:

Also thinking about the social networking laws that Rheinhold mentioned in “Smart Mobs.”

Moore’s Law – The empirical observation made in 1965 that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit for minimum component cost doubles every 24 months.

Reed’s Law- The utility of large networks, particularly social networks, can scale exponentially with the size of the network.

Metcalfe’s law - The value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of users of the system (n2).

Sarnoff’s Law – The value of a broadcast network is proportionate to the number of viewers.

April 14, 2007 | | Comments Closed

The 10 Keys to Effective Professional Development

From David Jakes Wiki of TechForum Orlando presentation on Professional Development.

The Ten Keys are:

Key 1:  Understand the purpose of professional growth.

Key 2:  Align professional development with school district goals.

Key 3:  Know your usership.

Key 4:  Use pilot programs.

Key 5:  Invest in "peopleware."

Key 6:  Develop space for professional learning.

Key 7:  Get off site.  Get new ideas.

Key 8:  Encourage informal learning

Key 9:  Use Learning teams and clubs

Key 10:  Evaluate, evaluate, evaluate

Visit his session wiki: http://professionalgrowth.pbwiki.com/

April 13, 2007 | | Comments Closed

Quote of the Day

From Teaching and Learning with the Net Generation by Kassandra Barnes, Raymond C. Marateo, and S. Pixy Ferris

. . . But Net Geners Learn Differently

Although they value education highly, Net Geners learn differently from their predecessors. This generation is unique in that it is the first to grow up with digital and cyber technologies. Not only are Net Geners acculturated to the use of technology, they are saturated with it. By the time he or she has reached 21 years of age, the average NetGener will have spent

  • 10,000 hours playing video games,
  • 200,000 e-mails,
  • 20,000 hours watching TV,
  • 10,000 hours on cell phones, and
  • under 5,000 hours reading (Bonamici et al. 2005).

Having been raised in an age of media saturation and convenient access to digital technologies, Net Geners have distinctive ways of thinking, communicating, and learning (Oblinger and Oblinger 2005; Prensky 2006; Tapscott 1998).

April 12, 2007 | | 2 Comments »

Leading Learning 2007: MAKING CONNECTIONS

An Invitation To You:

 

Leading Learning 2007 presents its third annual conference May 6-8 at Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville, Ontario. The title of this year’s conference is “Making Connections”.  

We invite you to participate in this interactive learning conference, where you will explore how educators are making effective use of technology to develop innovative models for teaching, learning and training.

Educators will enrich their thoughtful and effective use of ICT to enhance teaching practice and increase student achievement.  

Leading-edge e-learning programs, technologies, and the effective practices presented at this conference will provide participants with opportunities to interact, network, engage and make connections.

Web-registration is now open at www.leadinglearning.org.

Leading Learning 2007 is jointly hosted by, Toronto Catholic DSB, Trillium-Lakelands DSB, Peel DSB, York Region DSB, The Strategic Alliance for eLearing and York University .

 

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Please tag items related to the Leading Learning 2007: Making Connections with "LL2007".

 

(Full Disclosure – I am on the Development Committee for the Leading Learning Conference)

April 11, 2007 | | Comments Closed

More Streaming Video

I mentioned that I had found a number of streaming satellite television web sites before. This time Rob pointed me over to Videohybrid, where you can watch full length movies and television shows online.  Again, I do question the legality of the web site and could see it being shut down by copyright holders in the very near future, but it is worth a look.

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Update:  You may have to try the web site again later, as it is quite busy.

April 10, 2007 | | Comments Closed

The Hacker Ethic

Just thinking about Stephen Levy’s book  Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution and the Hacker Ethic that he phrased:

  • Access to computers—and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works—should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the Hands-on Imperative!
  • All information should be free.
  • Mistrust authority—promote decentralization.
  • Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race or position.
  • You can create art and beauty on a computer.
  • Computers can change your life for the better.

Perhaps we all have a little bit of that hacker ethic in us when we are working online.

April 9, 2007 | | Comments Closed
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