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Guy's Edu Blog: Are we herding cats or a climbing team?
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This blog focuses on ways that art, technology, and literacy can interact in all educational settings. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Are we herding cats or a climbing team? I have been thinking this summer about the work we do together with teachers, wondering what metaphor we can adequately use to describe it. Recently, I have written about the boot camp metaphor. Another metaphor I have repeatedly heard through the years is one about herding cats usually accompanied by this video. Goals: Each journey has a g...
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Guy's Edu Blog: The 8 Apps I use in Teaching Now
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This blog focuses on ways that art, technology, and literacy can interact in all educational settings. Saturday, August 1, 2015. The 8 Apps I use in Teaching Now. I often talk about apps (not just iOS) and at any time point I have over 400 of them on my devices. This time, however, I would like to talk about the apps thatI use when I teach. Like everyone else teaching with technology I have a set of go to. 3 Socrative. I have tried other formative assessments apps (e.g. kahoot quizizz) but I ...6 YouTube...
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Guy's Edu Blog: February 2015
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This blog focuses on ways that art, technology, and literacy can interact in all educational settings. Saturday, February 21, 2015. Reflections on China Tour II- When the Stakes are High. Here in the US we often talk about High Stakes tests and their impact for example the work. And colleagues. In China the conversation about High Stakes was very different. We saw the importance of high stakes testing in almost every conversation with teachers and parents. Our research in China (With Stephanie Wessles.
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Guy's Edu Blog: January 2015
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This blog focuses on ways that art, technology, and literacy can interact in all educational settings. Saturday, January 31, 2015. Losing Faith in Journalism- a response to "Can Students Have too Much Tech? My dean directed me toward an opinion article in the prestigious New York Times by Susan Pinker. The title was "can students have too much tech? Who can resist this title? I would like to say that I agree with some of the premises in the article namely:. While we definitely need to be careful about te...
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Guy's Edu Blog: My/Your Digital Generation
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This blog focuses on ways that art, technology, and literacy can interact in all educational settings. Thursday, July 30, 2015. Summer, we are at the pool, relaxing. My son Asaf (19) looks around the pool eyeing many of adults on their smartphones. Not only adults but many. And yes, it did include me. He says, "everybody complains about my generation, the way we focus on all things digital. Your generation is worse.". 2 We must ask ourselves what we are protecting our children/ students from? My son Asaf...
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Guy's Edu Blog: July 2015
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This blog focuses on ways that art, technology, and literacy can interact in all educational settings. Thursday, July 30, 2015. Summer, we are at the pool, relaxing. My son Asaf (19) looks around the pool eyeing many of adults on their smartphones. Not only adults but many. And yes, it did include me. He says, "everybody complains about my generation, the way we focus on all things digital. Your generation is worse.". 2 We must ask ourselves what we are protecting our children/ students from? My son Asaf...
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Guy's Edu Blog: iPads in China- Excerpts from the Chinese media (loosely translated)
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This blog focuses on ways that art, technology, and literacy can interact in all educational settings. Saturday, May 31, 2014. IPads in China- Excerpts from the Chinese media (loosely translated). Working in China exposes the cultural differences AND the similarities of concerns. Despite all the concerns and challenges our project just won first prize in a National competition for Technology Integrated classroom. This is a great boost to our work and I am excited to continue. Do you have parental support?
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Guy's Edu Blog: The Value of Shared Experience
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This blog focuses on ways that art, technology, and literacy can interact in all educational settings. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. The Value of Shared Experience. My sister said nothing apparently thinking about my question. Curiously, this coincided with a video. I watched by Dan Ariely. I would argue that the value of shared experiences is linked to the uniqueness of the learning experience itself. If students are busy practicing and gaining fluency (essentially performing at the lower range of thei...
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Guy's Edu Blog: April 2015
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This blog focuses on ways that art, technology, and literacy can interact in all educational settings. Monday, April 27, 2015. FoF (Fear of Facebook). I met many great teachers all interested in finding new ways to integrate technology into their instruction. It was great seeing so many familiar faces, especially since five years ago during my first visit I did not know many of the participants. 2 Texas teacher from Duncanville resigned over an inflamatory tweet here. It was quite extreme and she resigned.
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Guy's Edu Blog: August 2015
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This blog focuses on ways that art, technology, and literacy can interact in all educational settings. Friday, August 28, 2015. Starting a new year. My students showed up to class. Most with bags full of stuff. Less than third had devices (other than phones) out. Ready to learn, even this generation is not digital first, most are composing on paper first. I wonder if this is a permanent difference or whether with devices early in schooling? Is it going to disappear, like cursive or shorthand? I was recen...