As parents, we’re now beginning to accept this, I think: “We live in a world that is re-creating itself one life and one digital connection at a time … a landscape for which there are no maps,” as Krista Tippett said it in her introduction to a timely radio conversation with Seth Godin on American [...]
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Tagged American Public Media, education, educon, James Paul Gee, learning, Seth Godin
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I’ve done it, have you? I have a feeling most of us have passed our cellphones back to a kid in the backseat so we could drive in peace while the child (who has been hounding us to let it happen) plays a game app. Of course, increasingly, this is happening with really little kids, [...]
Also filed in Mobile, mobile data, mobile games, mobile learning, mobile technology
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Tagged ACT, Dan Donahoo, education technology, educational apps, Joan Ganz Cooney Center, kids apps, mobile apps, Moms With Apps
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…with the focus on the learners, which can certainly include the teacher. This is the conceptual infrastructure, presented in educator Jackie Gerstein’s User-Generated Education blog, for using tech in the classroom. How does it play out? More emphasis on learners and learning, using technology to facilitate that. Starting when a class first meets. Literally – [...]
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Tagged digital citizenship, education technology, Jackie Gerstein, mobile learning, online safety, school, Social Media, wall wisher, wifitti
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I hope the news – of President Obama honoring 2010 Teacher of the Year Sarah Brown Wessling at the White House – strengthens support for the amazing tech educators I know and love. “In reciting Wessling’s qualifications for the award,” the Boston Globe reports, “Obama said her students ‘don’t just write five-paragraph essays, but they [...]
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Tagged 21st century learning, education technology, Global Kids, President Obama, Quest Atlantis, QuestAtlantis, ReactionGrid, Sasha Barab, Teacher of the Year, tech ed, Teen Second Life, Virtual Worlds, Wessling
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There are lots of good reasons why an assistant superintendent of schools would start a guild in World of Warcraft (WoW) – all laid out in a fascinating profile of the Cognitive Dissonance Guild and its educator members in The Journal this month. But the reason why Catherine Parsons, assistant superintendent for curriculum, instruction, and [...]