למידה, אינטרנט ... ומה שביניהם

Until last month, John Bush, 52, was a physical education teacher at Landrum. According to St. Johns County School Board's attorney, Bush was terminated after the school superintendent saw an inappropriate photograph and some text messages on Bush's social networking Web page.

School officials conceded that the online content was not pornographic, but contained information parents would not want their children to know about their teacher.

תוויות: גלישה בטוחה

The lost art of handwriting is one of the few ways we can uniquely express ourselves. There’s something poetic about grasping a writing instrument and feeling it hit the paper as your thoughts flow through your fingers and pour into words. So, the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association (WIMA) suggests you take advantage of National Handwriting Day on January 23 and use a pen or a pencil to rekindle that creative feeling through a handwritten note, poem, letter or journal entry.

In the days before typing, penmanship wasn't about creativity. Writing had to be neat and consistent from writer to writer so that anyone could read it. Sir Joseph Porter, first lord of the Admiralty, was a successful clerk who became ruler of the queen's navy because he could "copy all the letters in a big round hand." (הכוונה היא לדמות באופרטה "הפינפור" של גילברט וסליבן) Schools emphasized penmanship because they saw themselves as training the next generation of letter copiers, not the next generation of poets.

Handwriting only became a badge of individuality once it was no longer an essential writing technology. That had happened in the U.S. by the 1930s with the rise of the typewriter. In 1932, researchers even demonstrated that children learned better and faster with typewriters on their desks, but schools stuck with pencils.

תוויות: כתיבה

I turned to the guy sitting next to me and told him about the Blog I wrote a couple of days before hand, and how there were people out there taking a serious interest in my opinion... which to be honest really surprised me. When I had finished the story there was a pause. He then asked me, "What's a Blog??"... My only thought after that was if only he knew. If only he had discovered. Not just what a Blog is, but what a Wiki is, what an RSS or and Atom feed is. How it could benefit him. If only he had been taught...

I would like you to think about how it could be if school 2.0 was put into place... there are teenagers my age that could be in school not only learning about English, Physics or History, but gathering their own information about whatever aspect of that subject they need to know about, not only relying on that one person standing at the front of the class telling them how it is. They could be writing Blogs or making Wiki's about what they have just learned about, and discussing it with others, not just from the same class as them, but from different parts of the world as them. What's more is that it will all be there to refer to when exam time comes around. All the notes they've made, all the Blogs posts they've made and all the discussions they've had can all be accessed by typing in the URL.

תוויות: כלים חברתיים, שימוש בבתי ספר

So now, a few months on how do we sit with blogging? The answer has to be, very comfortably. By any measure blogging is now a positive feature of all ICT lessons. It has given lessons structure where explanation and summary are regular components and the teacher instruction “post to your blog…” is eagerly responded to by pupils. Feedback is now embedded into lessons as pupils look forward to viewing teacher comments added to their posts.

Here lies the key to successful class blogging. It is the fact that the blogs are conspicuous and that pupils know that they can be, and are, monitored and any abuse of the kind we saw in the first few weeks has, apart from the occasional transgression, subsided. This is partly through the routine viewing and marking by teachers, but also because pupils know any member of the school leadership team may view them. The fact that blogging and feedback from teachers is a regular part of pupil classwork has a regulatory affect.

תוויות: כלים חברתיים, שימוש בבתי ספר

תוויות: כלים חברתיים, מידענות

ספינת האנטרפרייס 2.0 המריאה ב-2007, כמו שווב 2.0 המריא ב-2006 וכמו שטלקום 2.0 יהיה הלהיט של 2008. אנטרפרייס 2.0 פירושו ארגון שמשתמש בכלי ווב 2.0 לשירות לקוחותיו ולייעול העבודה של עובדיו.

התלמידים הם יצרני חומרי הלימוד העיקריים ולא המורים ולא מערכת החינוך ולא האוניברסיטאות. ווב 2.0 יקדם אותנו יותר לקראת וויקי-כיתה וויקי-אוניברסיטה.

יחזיר את הילד לעולם הלמידה של המאה ה-21 במקום העולם שבו אנו תוקעים אותו כיום של המאה ה-15.

תוויות: כלים חברתיים

But to be honest, the whole TIVO thing has been a bummer on one level in that I find myself watching more television, which is something I really don’t want to do. I mean, this is the Age of Participation, right?

It's easier to procrastinate now than ever before. We have so many more temptations…. It's never been harder to be self-disciplined in all of history than it is now.

The other day I was up at the farm watching my daughter ride her pony, and also in the ring was an older girl who was atop her horse, walking slowly, all the time texting messages into her cell phone. I found that to be a pretty unsettling sight. I mean, the whole zen of participation takes on a totally different meaning in that respect.

על המורה לדאוג שהתלמיד יבין כי:
  *  המחשב הוא מכשיר טכנולוגי שנבנה בידי האדם, אשר ממשיך לפתחו ולשדרגו לצרכיו, ולכן הפונקציות שלו מתפתחות, משתנות ומתעדכנות כל הזמן.
  *  קיימים צרכים שעליהם המחשב מסוגל לתת מענה וצרכים שעליהם המחשב אינו נותן מענה. שימוש מושכל במחשב מבוסס, בין היתר, על היכולת להבחין בין המצבים הללו.

תוויות: כלים חברתיים, סטנדרטים

The perfect page is out there somewhere. It's the page that has exactly the information you're looking for and to you it's beautiful and unattainable like a faraway star. If only you had a super-sized net for capturing it!

תוויות: חיפוש, מידענות

סוף טוב, הכל טוב. לאם ולבת שלום ... לפני כמעט חודשיים. מזל טוב לכולם!
(יש גם צילום)

תוויות: מידענות

After months of outrage over a ban on cell phones in the nation's largest school system, officials are now signaling that there may be room for compromise.

They are exploring whether to install special lockers outside schools to store the devices, a development that delayed recent court arguments on the ban.

I already have teachers using cell phones to call parents and or have students call parents regarding homework of forgotten band instruments. (This in a school where we have only 3 outside lines and none of them available from a teacher's classroom…) I think it is only a short time before my teachers realize that by using some pretty unobtrusive (email to SMS gateways…) tools they will be able to connect with their students/families to remind them of assignments or inform them of events related to class work. I must say I'm very proud of my staff. They embrace the change because many are parents themselves, and they see the benefit of this type of communication. Of course there will be issues and concerns, but there are with just about anything. Teach responsible use and deal with those that are irresponsible just as you would do with any other rule or procedural violation. I'm also proud of my students. To date we have not had any issues with inappropriate mobile phone use.

תוויות: סלולארי

החוקר איוון גולדברג (ש)הגדיר סימפטומים להתמכרות לאינטרנט.

אבל אנשי מחשב רבים סבורים שההתייחסות לשימוש מוגבר באינטרנט כאל מחלה, היא ניסיון דיכוי שמבצעת התרבות השולטת והנסוגה נגד התרבות החדשה והעולה.

תוויות: נוער

Students today depend too much upon ink. They don’t know how to use a pen knife to sharpen a pencil. Pen and ink will never replace the pencil.

The pens improve quality of work because they force children to take care, and better work improves self-esteem.

תוויות: טכנולוגיה