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 20/20 from National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS)
Global [...]

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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 the media has changed. Subject is [...]

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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.
 
Has.
 
Past
 
-students go
through.
 
 
Present
Now work with teachers
 
 
 
Future
 
Student Focus
 
Main focus.
 
Meet the needs of our students.
 
 
old model [...]

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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 sequential like [...]

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