Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Another View of Contemporary Classroom Life
Here's another view on classroom life brought to you by the Simpsons. I wonder how typical this type of interaction is today. We need a direct alignment between graduate education for teachers and student engagement and learning in the classroom. Go Tufts University. Click here.
Monday, September 21, 2009
The Digital Native: Embracing Learning Possibilities
After your group synthesizes the results of your student interviews into the two most salient points, have one person from your group post your group's two points on this blog.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Students Want to be Engaged & Challenged
This is a cool video in which students deliver the message that they want to be engaged and challenged in school. And that much of the engagement comes through allowing them to explore their own ideas using a variety of tools. http://newlitcollaborative.ning.com/video/preston-park-21st-century
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Do Schools Kill Creativity?
This is a great TED talk on creativity and schools. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Scenes from Maui
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Woices--Share interesting sounds
I just stumbled upon Woices http://woices.com/ which is free internet service that allows people to create, share and consume echoes. Echoes are audio recordings that are linked to a very specific geographical location or real-world object. Woices ultimate goal is to extend reality by creating a new layer of audio information, what the creators of the site call the echoesphere, that will make the world a more interesting place. I will introduce this concept to my new literacies and media course this Fall.
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