Alright, Cait is taking Advanced Algebra this coming year and needs a graphing calculator. The prescribed calculator, you may have guessed, is of the Texas variety. I do need to note that Cait hasn’t had her class yet and hasn’t been told which equipment to get. This information comes from a friend that checked the [...]
Archive of posts tagged Educational Tech
Digital Literacy: Curation
Curation is an important skill in our information rich society. The skill is useful for organizing and digesting information that ultimately makes your Personal Learning Network or PLN. More on that later. Curation in the digital age is about what tools you use to get information and who you choose to listen to. Just like a museum curator chooses what to exhibit and the best way to display the artifacts of that exhibit. For example, one of the tools I use in my PLN is Twitter. Choosing who to follow is the way to curate the stream of information in Twitter.
Design Lab Update #1
I have this nice little computer lab next off of my main lab/shop space. There is room for 13 or so workstations. In the beginning, this was a mixed space with half Mac and half Windows PCs.
More from Dr. Wesch on “Participatory Media”
Dr. Wesch just posted some thoughts about Participatory Media, a.k.a. Social Media, a subset of Web 2.0. Most interesting is his point about barriers to participatory media in the classroom by faculty and students, yes students. The surprising-to-most-people-fact is that students would prefer less technology in the classroom (especially *participatory* technologies that force them to [...]
Wesch: A Portal to Media Literacy
Dr. Wesch is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. If you haven’t heard of him, you should have, he and his students have created some powerful YouTube videos, The Machine is Us/ing Us, A Vision of Students Today, and Information R/evolution. These short videos shine a light on how we use [...]
Advanced Primer: Collaboration Tools specifically for Students and Teachers
with Stephen Best [These are notes from a session at the Collaborative Tools for Learning Conference held Nov. 12th, 2007] What are these tools? Blogs, Podcasts, Wikis, and Media Viewing/Sharing Tools Issues Blocking, Access @ Home, Speading out user across multiple sites (that we don’t have control over), Ads, Board of Ed and Parent blowback. [...]
