למידה, אינטרנט ... ומה שביניהם

המורה הדגימה באמצעות המקרן כיצד להכנס לספריית כותר וכיצד לפתוח תיקייה על מנת לשמור בתוכה את הפעילויות והתרגול. היא הדגימה כיצד בוחרים נעצים ומקלידים את התשובות במקום המתאים בחוברת.

תגובות התלמידים המתלהבים לא אחרו לבוא: "cool", "שווה", "איזה גדול", "זה כ"כ מגניב"!

תוויות: דיגיטאליות, ספרי לימוד, קריאה

When having audience is no longer novel, simply having one is no longer motivating. We still must help kids have something powerful to say.

Many students still are driven to do well with the knowledge that they have an audience. But this is changing. Now, as many students already have an account at a place like Facebook or YouTube before they come to my classroom, the idea of posting content of your own online is not as novel as it used to be. The idea of having an audience is not as appealing.

Many bloggers seem to take the view that all that matters is numbers: the bigger the audience the better. This lack of discernment and discrimination is both disappointing and, more important, damaging to students' potential achievement. It is essential to make students understand that there is a right audience, and a wrong audience.

תוויות: כתיבה

Beyond the unresolved legal questions, there are philosophical ones. Joseph McDonald, a professor at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at New York University, said the online selling cheapens what teachers do and undermines efforts to build sites where educators freely exchange ideas and lesson plans.

Could this be the beginning of freelance teaching? a return to the time when a teacher found a good spot in the center of town and hung up a sign that said "Great knowledge here. Be enlightened for small fee?" This sounds odd, yes, but think of how easy it is to set up an online portal that tracks student progress, provides immediate feedback, exposes their work to a global audience, and allows for real-time collaboration and communication. It's something we all might be able to create with a web server, a good friend who can code and will work for food and beer, and a little marketing savvy. Is this the future of learning as we know it?

תוויות: הרהורים, פני החינוך

In the comments section of the article, one user posted a single word response referring to a part of a woman's anatomy. Of course, the site's moderators quickly deleted the comment but it soon reappeared - obviously this juvenile was intent on having their say.

Any attempt to manipulate the scientific literature, which can in turn mislead doctors to prescribe treatments that may be ineffective and/or cause harm to their patients, is very troubling.

Arthur L. Caplan, director of the Penn’s Center for Bioethics, said there was a difference in degree, if not in kind, between ghostwriting and plagiarism. Faculty members who sign their names to ghostwritten papers for research credit usually have some agreement with the paper, he said, even if, improperly, they did not write it. Students who plagiarize a paper may know nothing about the subject.

תוויות: אתיקה, העתקה-הדבקה

Rory was discussing how video games are often considered to be making us more isolated and how they are destroying students' ability to communicate. Rory points to the book as the real culprit.

In Socrates' world human communication was directly humane. You knew the speaker and you knew the listener. You had known them, most likely, forever. You looked in their eyes, you smelled their breath and their sweat. Your informational (and social) trust was built on a very complex, and very ancient, system of clues. Think of it this way, you know a lover is lying in ways very different than you know an author is lying. Socrates opposed writing and literacy because he didn't want to lose that intimacy.

But it’s one of those trade off things. Every advance creates new challenges.

תוויות: אוריינויות, למידה, משחקים, קריאה

In a move described by education campaigners as the "ultimate in dumbing down", pupils will be asked to write an essay on the etiquette and grammar of texting.

Many commentators have already expressed concern that youngsters are losing the ability to write correct English because they are becoming so used to communicating in abbreviated text code.

Surely with all the great literature that could be studied, it is a tragedy that pupils are being asked to do this as part of an English qualification. It is hardly believable and such a waste of time and effort. It is difficult to see what they will learn - it's the ultimate dumbing down.

This topic deals with new technologies that alter the demarcation between traditional areas of spoken and written language – MSN, text speak, etc. It opens up the ambiguity of imprecise language and, what seems like limited subject material, can actually prove a fertile ground for further analysis.

I think that sounds like a fine set of aims.

תוויות: SMS

Yet I was puzzled by their claim that using these devices had substantially altered how they taught. Policymaker decisions to buy and deploy high-tech devices was supposed to shift dominant ways of traditional teaching to student-centered, or progressive approaches. That is not what I encountered in classrooms.

Change clearly meant one thing to teachers and another to researchers. Teachers had, indeed, made a cascade of incremental changes in their daily lessons. Researchers, however, keeping in mind what policymakers intended, looked for fundamental changes in teaching.

... unconsciously overstate how traditional they were prior to the introduction of the-new-technology-that-changed-their-practice.

תוויות: הוראה, הטמעה

We're teaching kids something that if they were to do it later, they could get in trouble for.

תוויות: הרהורים

Top-down grading by the prof turns learning (which should be a deep pleasure, setting up for a lifetime of curiosity) into a crass competition: how do I snag the highest grade for the least amount of work? how do I give the prof what she wants so I can get the A that I need for med school?

The point of “This Is Your Brain on the Internet” is to show how, in Internet culture, we are often judging, responding, offering feedback, and working together through crowdsourcing but our educational system rarely if ever does anything to prepare students for offering or receiving feedback. In fact, very little in our society prepares us for responsible and responsive exchange. Typically, we learn how to please a figure in power. We do not practice or learn principles for helping one another through an iterative, interactive process. In a digital age, everyone is offered an invitation to participate. But where in our schooling or even in our informal learning process do we teach young people how to take responsibility for representing themselves in public, for participating in public dialogue?

תוויות: דיגיטאליות, הערכה, למידה

Geocities is a cautionary tale for all of us. Now that we've come to expect permanence from the Internet and move deeper into cloud computing, it's tempting to think that everything is safe and backed up. But, as the Archive Team reminds us, all that data, writing, photos, movies, etc. are at the mercy of corporations. The lesson to our students can't just be "be careful what you post on the Internet because it will be there forever," but must also include, "BACKUP what you've posted on the Internet, because it may not be there forever!"

However, that’s also true for schools where we put a lot of effort into selectively censoring the flow, trying hard to control what information enters the classroom.

But we keep trying.

תוויות: גלישה בטוחה, למידה, פרטיות

If we're going to be a modern school and teach them things that are relevant for them in modern life, we have to teach them how to use the internet.

The main precaution is that we trust them.

The teachers also think the nature of the questions make it harder to cheat in exams. Students are no longer required to regurgitate facts and figures. Instead the emphasis is on their ability to sift through and analyse information.

תוויות: מבחנים, מידענות

The Enemy Within: Stop Students from Bypassing Your Web Filters

risks posed by Web 2.0

Sales 101 is about reflecting the language and attitudes of your customers. They wouldn’t be saying it if they weren’t hearing it. Sales 102 is creating a climate of need, fear-based if necessary, that if you don’t have whatever they are selling, something horrible will happen.

תוויות: גלישה בטוחה, כלי ווב 2.0

And the answer is: like this! By working, writing and thinking in my own space, and making it available to anyone who is interested to watch and follow.

תוויות: בלוגים, רשתיות

But this is not the typical agreement to sell a textbook to every student.

The Boston publisher is selling some textbooks to Detroit, but most of the contract is for such software such as Learning Village - a customized, interactive classroom network.

Detroit’s teachers will be able to prepare and assign homework through Learning Village and use its tools to measure how well students learn - even how well they understand a lesson taught earlier in the day.

It’s also changing the relationship between schools and publishers. It’s one thing to discard a paper text; it’s more difficult for a school district to walk away from a computer system on which teachers and students depend.

A product such as Learning Village, Mickey said, “puts the publisher at the center of school action. It ties the school district to the publisher.’’

I have one question for Ms. Byrd-Bennett: Have you heard of Google Apps for Education?

could have been used to empower students to go beyond the confines of their textbooks, schools, and neighborhoods and to tap into learning communities engaging in dialogue and debate in real-time the world over.

תוויות: דיגיטאליות, ספרי לימוד