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The truth is that everything you do changes your brain. Everything. Every little thought or experience plays a role in the constant wiring and rewiring of your neural networks. So there is no escape. Yes, the internet is rewiring your brain. But so is watching television. And having a cup of tea. Or not having a cup of tea. Or thinking about the washing on Tuesdays. Your life, however you live it, leaves traces in the brain.
Tom Stafford, writing about the anxiety surrounding brain attention spans in the age of the internet.
In short, everything you do changes your brain in some way. It’s better to approach these new cognitive challenges with an even keel, and not through the lens of technophobia.
A must read for fans of the brain and the internet, which you all clearly are (or else you wouldn’t be reading this).
BBC Future - Does the internet rewire your brain?
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When Teachers Demand to be Co-creators, not Consumers - EdTechResearcher - Education Week
Excellent article by Justin Reich sums up much of conversation happening here at Harvard University this week about Open Education.
“The richest exchanges on day two of the Hewlett Open Educational Resources Grantee Meeting came from those who challenged the fundamental premises of the meeting. In designing the meeting, Berkman staff imagined three groups: Learners, Facilitators (teachers, librarians, coaches, educators, etc.), and Builders. They assumed a kind of “supply and demand” model of OER where builders create stuff and distribute it to learners, sometimes through the mediation of facilitators (wholesalers, I guess?).
But the entrepreneurial educators in the audience, from Joi Ito of the MIT Media Lab, to Vicki Davis of Flat Classroom, to Jon Bergmann of the Flipped Classroom movement cried foul. “We don’t want to be the recipients of your pre-packaged learning objects,” they declared (I’m paraphrasing), “we want to be partners—along with our students—in co-creating the learning experience.”“
Learning Best When You Rest: Sleeping After Processing New Info Most Effective
Nodding off in class may not be such a bad idea after all. New research from the University of Notre Dame shows that going to sleep shortly after learning new material is most beneficial for recall.
Full Story: Science Daily
Looks like we should let kids nap after an important lesson.
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We, Our Digital Selves, and Us (by FlatClassroomProject)
Do people really know you who only know you offline? Should you manage your cyber infrastructure? How does your offline self relate to your online self and can you separate them?
These are some challenge questions that I’m asking myself after I viewed this video from Alan Levine. He’s my “go to” guy for new technology (formerly with the New Media Consortium.) I’m happy to say that he came and visited me on his trip around the country.
Alan Levine (@cogdog) shares how our online and offline worlds interact with some fascinating questions about online identity. (This was done as a keynote for the high school students on the NetGen and Flat Classroom project but could be used for multiple ages.)
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Foldit, crowdsourcing, and labor. - Slate Magazine
Foldit is made a game out of a problem, folding proteins, with startling results. I think that as we look for how games can be used at education, we should consider how problems themselves - even those we do not have the answers to - can become games and competitions. This is not a bad thing as some have said and the attitude of creating a game, even out of things that are very serious, has potential.
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(via TechLearning: Bloom’s Taxonomy Blooms Digitally)
Andrew Churches redid Bloom’s Taxonomy back in 2008 to include digital aspects. It is an excellent reference for all teachers to review.
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The Littlest Schoolhouse - Magazine - The Atlantic
This article is one people still point to when discussing personalizing learning for students. It is a great op-ed in the Atlantic. Software customizes the learning process so that students learn in ways that help them and progress at their own pace.
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Teacher Aaron Maurer shares his views of the Flat Classroom book, Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds.
This means so much to me. I’ve been told I was wasting my time writing for teachers and “don’t you know that you’re nothing unless Barnes and Nobles or Books a Million have your book in the store.” Whatever happens, when I see wonderful teachers like Aaron excited about the book, it helps me feel like those times of upset and frustration as we struggled with this book (if you look at the design, you’ll see it took a lot of work and permissions, plus the creation of the QR codes) - but it will seem worth it. Thank you, Aaron.
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K-2 Flat Classroom Project #kinderchat #elemchat
We’re forming a K-2 Flat Classroom global collaborative project. If you’re an innovative teacher and willing to participate in a pilot, you may be interested. We’ll work it out to make it simple, but for now, you may want to join if you’re a bit more advanced in your abilities.
- Flat Classroom K-2 project ‘Building Bridges to Tomorrow’ (123elearning.blogspot.com)
- Flat Classroom Book on Amazon now! (vickidavis.me)
- Eracism Project Forming now: Applications Open (coolcatteacher.blogspot.com)
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Digital Learning Farm: #ipad Apps by category #ipadchat
Silvia Tolisano’s digital Learning farm is amazing, especially if you’re using ipads in the classroom or with your children.
