Weekly Tech Tips: Student-Centered IWB Strategy - Centers

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Related Links:

• Whiteboards—A Modest Proposal by Gary Stager on Tech&Learning
• 33 interesting ways to use your interactive whiteboard

Video Festival:

• The Future of Public Education, featuring Diane Ravitch
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Link Stew:

• Arts education declines for US youth, worse for minority children. NEA survey results
• Recording posted of FutureofEducation.com interview with Kevin Kelly on his book What Technology Wants (Future of Education)
  
• State wants online charter school shut down: BlueSky Online School, in hot water because of alleged violation of graduation standards, says it will fight to remain open. (Star Tribune)
• Generations and their gadgets (Pew Internet)
• Why schools should try things not "research-based" (Washington Post)
• Most schools could face 'failing' label under No Child Left Behind, Duncan says (Washington Post)
• Budget repair bill passes Senate, Thursday vote set in Assembly (Wisconsin State Journal)
  

Blog Carnival:

• Writing without the Blocks by Ira Socol on SpeEdChange
• Big Lies (Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four) by Ira Socol on SpeEdChange
• Arts education declining, especially for minority youth by Sylvia Martinez on Generation YES Blog
• "But I Need to Assign Homework! Look at All I Have to Cover!" By Alfie Kohn on Huffington Post
• Can't we just "integrate it everywhere?" by Vicky Davis on Cool Cat Teacher Blog
  

Retweetable Tweets:

Thanks to WI for waking up the nation about efforts by super-rich to privatize education and de-professionalize it.less than a minute ago via webDiane Ravitch
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"What if school was the best seven hours of a kid's day?" -Gary Stager #edchat #abed #ecsd #inspiringedless than a minute ago via TweetDeckBrandi Clark
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I want to create a network of citizen journalists per district in Egypt, to help avoid rumors and have immediate eye-witness accounts.less than a minute ago via YoruFukurouSarahngb
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How did the budget crisis -- brought on by a recession caused by Wall Street -- end up in the laps of America’s schoolteachers?less than a minute ago via Twitter for iPadJoe Bower
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RT @debbiec1230: I love this quote! "Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners."John Holtless than a minute ago via TweetDeckCindy Brock
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"... are we giving weight to things merely because we''ve measured them?" Seth Godinless than a minute ago via webDarcy Moore
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"Google before you tweet" is the new "Think before you speak" I'm not very good at either.less than a minute ago via TweetDeckDean Shareski
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Goodhue 5th Graders Trying to Reach 6 Continents

Click here to listen: Goodhue5thGrade Podcasts

Mrs. Alper's 5th grade class in Goodhue, MN recently finished a Fractured Fairy Tales project. For this project they wrote their own versions of popular fairy tales, then recorded themselves reading them, and added sound effects and background music in Audacity. They have published them in a podcast and are currently working on illustrating these stories and compiling e-books using issuu.

They also included a Clustermap on their site and hope to reach all 6 continents (except Antarctica though that would be cool). Please take a moment to check out what they have done and populate their Clustermap.

Click here to listen: Goodhue5thGrade Podcasts

Clustermap for Goodhue5thGrade Podcasts

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Weekly Tech Tip - Data Mining (results of a technology survey given to 7-12 students)

Tech Tip:

This week's tech tip is not so much a tip but rather a report. Earlier this week all students grades 7-12 at Goodhue Schools took a survey about their own personal computer use, what they have access to at home, and their attitudes toward school (click here if you would like to see a copy of the survey questions). The survey produced some interesting results that should help us to make informed decisions regarding technology policy, purchases, and instruction. Please take a moment to look over these results. Did you find any of these results surprising? Does knowing this information change anything about what we expect of students or what we can or should do?



Link Stew:

• Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology - This amazing new technology apparently is going to be given away as free open source software and building instructions. Allegedly one of these devices could be build for as little as $300.
  

• WatchKnow - Videos for kids to learn from. Organized.

• Nintendo DS Browser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• University of the People – This is a free online global university that is in the process of being accredited. Interesting and fantastic implications.

• Dron & Anderson (2009) "How the Crowd Can Teach" - Fantastic paper on open source network learning. Discusses in depth the seemingly contradictory relationship between forms of learning made possible by web 2.0 tools and traditional institutions of learning such as schools, colleges, and universities.

• 20 Mindblowing Concept Laptop Designs