Tips by Tony

Articles I Found Interesting in the Last Week

• Are there educational lessons that require the use of technology because they can’t be replicated without it?

  Thought provoking article by Scott Meech. Scott proposed a list of fundamental learning experiences he believes cannot be replicated as well without technology.

  While many schools’ mission statements include “lifelong learning” as an essential component, what are we really doing to foster this ability? We need to identify sound educational activities that foster connections with technology, students’ basic learning skills and the classroom’s content.

• Technology Guidelines

  A short post by Ben Grey that is more a question than anything else. The post sparked interesting discussion in the comments section. Here’s the meat of the issue:

  1. The statement was made that all of the data being produced by teachers and students should be housed within a district. One specific example given was that you shouldn’t allow teachers to use a site like Wikispaces as legally, a district can’t control the data, and thus can’t shut it down should teachers or students do or say something inappropriate. Same thing for blogs, podcasts, or any other data produced by students.

  2. A teacher should never allow a student’s work to be posted if it isn’t entirely free of grammatical or spelling errors. Their work should be perfect before being shared with the public. It would be embarrassing to a student, their family and the district if someone else saw their work that had obvious errors in it.

  I have so many thoughts on this, but needed to bounce it off someone. I thought you all would be able to give me good insights about both points. If you were establishing guidelines for emerging technologies, what approach would you take?

Who/What I’m Following on Twitter

Added in the last week: @edtechcowgirl, @kdwashburn, @JasonFlom, @ccj3, @Larryferlazzo, @tomaswk, @jamesfk, @Monique McWayne, #teachertuesday

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