TIE 2009 – Create, Communicate, Collaborate – Howie DiBlasi June 25, 2009
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Started with Green Eggs and Ham. More statistics about jobs moving from the US to overseas, from Friedman’s “The World is Flat”. Also mentioned Pink’s “A Whole New Mind” and Jim Collins “Good to Great” – get the right people on the bus, get them in the right seats, get the wrong people off the bus. Howie says we also need to get a driver. Short video about people who failed before achieving greatness (lincoln, etc). Can we still reward kids for doing anything rather than allowing them to fail? If you want change, be the change.
Will change happen if we don’t change our classrooms? Short video “Is this what the future in the US looks like” from ScreamingFrog. Skills for success:
- creative problem solving
- critical and analytical thinking
- information gathering
- team work and collaboration
- Everyone is not the same
- Conflict isn’t always negative
- Learning is individual to each person
- Naps are important
- We all deserve the opportunity to share our stories
- Failure is a powerful teacher
Twitter Fine March 29, 2009
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Looks like Twitter and the NBA have something going here. Previously, a player was told not to tweet during games, and another player said he was going to tweet during a game. Now an owner has been fined by the league office for publicly criticizing the referees in public, in this case, on Twitter. Mark Cuban has quite a history with NBA fines, and also has his own connections to the Internet prior to being the owner of the Dallas Mavericks. Seems like someone should have explained to Mark that comments made on the Internet can be seen by anyone, employers, governing boards, just about anyone! At $25,000 a tweet, even Mark Cuban won’t be able to afford that for too long.
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban fined $25,000 for ref comments – ESPN
Blogging in the Classroom – Langwitches December 31, 2008
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Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano, author of the excellent Langwitches blog, put together a series of lesson plans to assist teachers who are interested in blogging for elementary students. To make things even easier, she’s posted the entire collection in .pdf format. Well worth looking into, especially if you aren’t sure how to get your students blogging.
Langwitches » Blogging Unit for Download
Careful Where You Click October 21, 2008
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One part of Internet safety is keeping your own system infection free. This isn’t as simple as it may seem. According to Sophos, Adobe is potentially spreading a virus around through their web server. Have you visited Adobe recently?
Sophos discovers serious threat for vloggers on Adobe website
Cyber-Bullied Don’t Snitch October 3, 2008
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The New York Times has an article about a cyber-bullying study. Turns out most kids who are on the receiving end don’t tell anyone.
Research indicates that as many as 75 percent of teens have been bullied online, but only one in 10 have reported the problem to parents or other adults, a new study shows.
It would be interesting to see if these numbers differ from the experience of those who are bullied in the physical world, but no comparison was mentioned in the article. Popular reasons for not telling an adult ranged included needing to “learn to deal with it”, worrying that Internet access would be cut off, and fear of getting into trouble with parents. Again, it would have been interesting to see how this correlates or not to the physical world experience.
Parents Often Unaware of Cyber-Bullying – Well Blog – NYTimes.com
