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Show/Hide Left Menus Description: The questions this blog ponders are three: (1) How can web 2.0 technologies be used to support Action Teacher Research? (2) What lessons can be taken from an elementary school's Teacher Research Professional Learning Community's use of web 2.0 technology and applied in the classroom? (3) What changes in the interactions of teachers engaged in professional development when the school-wide staff is introduced to an online collaborative environment?
McLuhan - Points of View
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"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury
when substituted for insight and understanding."
...............Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) Communications theorist
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Google Earth Unplugged
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http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=340
I love these people's poetry. It's about life, when that life is very much intertwined with technology - like kids.
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Some Thoughts About Using Technology for a PLC Communication Pathway
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- Clairvoy is time effective. Teachers can dip into to provide information or gather information at any time, any day, based on personal need.
- It is organic in the way that sharing is not forced, guided, mandated.
- Teachers tend to share their personal practice first, as a default, when sharing about their professional lives in an annonimous online environment.
- Making the quirky sharing of personal practice useful is a function of making it searchable.
- A single searchable environment allows searches on educational strategy and personal educational practice useful. When scattered among the Internet's billions of pages of information, this quirky sharing of personal practice is not searchable, becuase it returns too many results to be useful.
- If one defines "creativity" as making something unique which has value, then in an educational professional sharing environment there is a need for two elements for success. First is the sharing of unique personal educational practice. And second is the ability of the educator who values that particular educational practice to find it at a time when it is most useful.
- In order for education to evolve exponentially (as biology and technology do) we as educators will need to enhance our ability to grow professionally exponentially, not linearly. Our professional development will need to change its model. Using the collaborative internet in this way is one significant way we could change our professional development model, so that we would evolve the way we are evolving as educators.
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On Creativity: Ken Robinson at the 2006 TED Conference
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Many educational technologists are familiar with this talk by Sir Ken Robinson at the 2006 TED conference. More teachers should see it:
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End of Semester Summation
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Our last class (Graduate School class on Special Education Adaptive Technologies) was last night. My final words as a first time professor were:
"In summation: We created a 150 page website out of wikis, blogs, forums, podcasting, digital storytelling, social bookmarking, photosharing and other technologies --- all about Adaptive Technologies (how to evaluate and implement them). I don't think anybody can say we didn't 'get it'."
Then they gave their final presentations and left.
A sad but happy night.
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