First of all, it is a joy to learn from you and to know about all of these new technologies. I keep learning and catching up. I was impressed by what Andy shared with us. I looked at Noah's , statement.. and thought
How do we invite, attract, explain and involve teachers in meaningful ways in this conversation? What is the gateway to this material for use in schools? Pros and cons. I did note that few women were involved in this great conversation. . I may have missed it, ie how do we share to inform teachers of Wikis ie best practices in using them?. I have a lot of time most of the time. How do we create enough time for teachers to explore, evaluate, add, augment, and try out these new practices? With the current policies in education, how do we allow, create , share possibilities for educational use in this very NCLB testing , memorization era? Teachers want to know. Andy said...that Tim Berners Lee said... What Iâd like to see happen: Iâd like to see lots of curricula like the MIT open courseware initiative being picked up by K-12.... The tricky thing is that when you try to put down things like encyclopedia articles, like Wikipedia, you really need to keep education materials sown together. So Iâd love to see a student be able to fly through this courseware, maybe in 3-D, following his or her interests. I know it takes a huge amount of efforts to keep these things [like Wikipedia and the Open Courseware Project] up to date, and Iâd like to see teachers help contribute to it.... There are some amazing projects out there.. so how do we share with teachers? With whose permission? Students can work together when they can interact with simulations, with teachers, but particularly with each other. And for that we need lots of tools, lots of standards, lots of technologyâ Thereâs lots of work to do out there.... Bugscope http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/ The Bugscope project is an educational outreach program for K-12 classrooms. The project provides a resource to classrooms so that they may remotely operate a scanning electron microscope to image "bugs" at high magnification. The microscope is remotely controlled in real time from a classroom computer over the Internet using a web browser. Bugscope provides a state-of-the-art microscope resource for teachers that can be readily integrated into classroom activities. The classroom has ownership of the project - they design their own experiment and provide their own bugs to be imaged in the microscope. The Bugscope project is primarily oriented towards K-12 classrooms and there is no cost to participate in the project. Some of the work is involving teachers in meaningful practice in education with professional development and support.. see www.eot.org EOT-PACI Projects These projects are undertaken by and in association with partners of the Education, Outreach and Training Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (EOT-PACI). With an emphasis on how projects may be used by students, teachers, science and engineering professionals, government planners and the general public, EOT-PACI invites everyone to take advantage of the wide variety of useful tools, resources, workshops and technological know-how generated by the more than thirty collaborating organizations of EOT-PACI. Biology Student Workbench http://www.eot.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=printpa ge&artid=7 The Biology Workbench is widely recognized as a significant bioinformatics resource that provides a suite of interactive tools which draw on a host of biology databases and allows people to compare molecular sequences using high performance computing facilities, visualize and manipulate molecular structures, and generate phylogenetic hypotheses. ChemSense ChemSense is an NSF-funded research project to examine the impact of representational tools, chemical investigations, and classroom discourse on chemistry learning. http://www.eot.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewart icle&artid=10 First a conversation needs to be started about linking technology people with teachers and some kind of time sharing and understanding. I saw Tim Berners Lee at WSIS or RSIS or both, but the problem is that those of us who talk about technology and get it, don't actually translate the great educational practices, ideas, and ways of working to teachers. http://education.sdsc.edu/enrich Language: en Description: The San Diego Supercomputer Center and Balboa Elementary have pooled their resources to create a learning project that has the kids coming back for more. The Math Technology Project was created to develop students\' interest in mathematics, using the broad spectrum of technology that we have today as tools to assist in the learning process. The basic goal is to develop the students\' thinking patterns to go beyond written directions, by teaching more diverse problem solving and communication skills. Using this sequential thought process, we begin to see more excitement in learning and understanding of mathematics among these students. The Math Technology Project involves the 4th, 5th, and 6th graders at Balboa Elementary. The student must be willing to participate in classroom discussions and activities along with completing and submitting their homework assignments. Good behavior during school is an absolute must. The times spent on the activities are strictly voluntary, and require the student to be dedicated. The students learn beyond the norm by adventuring on a survivor trip, building robots, and creating pseudo companies they must manage. For more information on starting a program such as this at your school, please visit our website. Relation: There are others.. I just selected a few Furthermore the technopolitical vendors kind of dumb down and create ILS and other programs that are hardly the thing to make teachers love technology, or want to be involved. Bob Metcalfe has long been concerned about schools and has been an advocate for change. He is one of my mentors. There is a conference called Poptech that takes the citizens of Camden Maine, and others attending through new ideas and the use of technologies. When does this stuff hit prime time? How do we give teachers permssion to use technology ? 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