But when people talk to me about the technology I have to constantly Reframe the Issue and explain how I’m not all pro any technology for its own sake. You don’t go, “Oh here’s this cool technology let me shoehorn it into my classroom.” Instead you go, “I think I have thought of the best way to teach this, and it would be impossible in an analog world, but I know enough about the technologies to realize this idea.” You don’t go to a twenty-minute inservice about xyz.com and go “I’m going to make an xyz.com lesson.” You use xyz.com for your own purposes, or you suspect its utility and put it in your back pocket, until your awesome instruction idea needs xyz.com in order to exist. Your lesson is the fuel and xyz.com is the oxygen.
But when people talk to me about the technology I have to constantly Reframe the Issue and explain how I’m not all pro any technology for its own sake. You don’t go, “Oh here’s this cool technology let me shoehorn it into my classroom.” Instead you go, “I think I have thought of the best way to teach this, and it would be impossible in an analog world, but I know enough about the technologies to realize this idea.” You don’t go to a twenty-minute inservice about xyz.com and go “I’m going to make an xyz.com lesson.” You use xyz.com for your own purposes, or you suspect its utility and put it in your back pocket, until your awesome instruction idea needs xyz.com in order to exist. Your lesson is the fuel and xyz.com is the oxygen.
… let me take this opportunity once again to distinguish between personal learning and personalized learning:
- ‘personal learning’ is when you create your own learning - self-directed learning is the typical instantiation of personal learning
- ‘personalized learning’ is when someone else creates some standard learning, and then tailors it (‘personalizes’ it) for you.
- ‘personal learning’ is when you create your own learning - self-directed learning is the typical instantiation of personal learning
- ‘personalized learning’ is when someone else creates some standard learning, and then tailors it (‘personalizes’ it) for you.
Grandmother tips via http://www.behance.net/gallery/Grandmother-Tips/2392946#.TtUakVKTedY.facebook
Unley swimming pool wall - Adelaide, Australia.
I think many people are coming to see that who they are online is their real self. I see students having difficulty with that. It’s like Facebook and Twitter are a fantasy world that has no consequences. Clearly, that’s a problem.
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via Laura
commenting on a post by Alan Levine
Who will win?
It would be fun to try, though.
From Tymn Armstrong at the Cargo Collective - a graphic depicting a concept from the movie Groundhog Day.
