Multi-faceted Refractions

[Live Blogged - please ignore misspellings and awkward phrasing] [Simul-blogged on Multi-faceted Refractions - my home blog] Julene Reed Why Global Referenced World is Flat and A Whole New Mind Students need to be global communicators Workplace requires global collaboration, project based activitities Engages and motivates for authentic experiences. Promotes creativity and empowers Use Challenge [...]

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Jonah Howland English Department Urban School of San Francisco [Live Blogged - please ignore mispellings and awkward wording] Was a skeptic, but now sees many more advantages than the problems that they had. Skeptical that students are not as different, maybe more changes in media. Students practice acquire knowledge and make sense of it, just [...]

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[Live blogged using note taking capabilities of the new tablet. Really excuse the spelling errors and awkward phrasing] Alice Bryant Harpeth Hall School   Presentation (old school)   Has done presentation in Photo Story   Has created a PowerPoint     Has attended Internet for Libraries   Rutgers presentation and research. she will shave.   [...]

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In the next session that I am going to sit, Laptops, Libraries, and Collaboration, I am going to run the new tablet pc I am using through its paces. I am going to handwrite my notes, the old fashioned way, and then post them after I convert them to text. How cool will that be?

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Kids today are different. (Referenced two new Time magazine articles.) Evidence is emerging that screens are not for passive dysfunction. Students are native and wired differently. We are immigrants, we speak digital as a second language. We retain some kind of an accent. Children’s brains are chemically and neurologically different. They process in parallel, not [...]

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