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Inspirational movie clips from many of your favorite films.

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Play: to experiment with one's surroundings as a form of problem solving.
Performance: The ability to adopt alternative identities .
Simulation: interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes.
Appropriation: The ability sample and remix media content.
Multi-tasking:The ability to scan one's environment and shift.
Distributed Cognition: The ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities.
Collective intelligence: The ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal.
Judgment: The ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources
Transmedia Navigation: The ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities
Networking: The ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information
Negotiation: The ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms.

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The VARK Questionnaire
How Do I Learn Best?

In a break from EdTechWeekly tradition, Dave and Jen explored their research projects and interests regarding "community" within an educational setting. If you are looking for the contributed links to news and resources shared by the EdTechTalk "community" this week, please point your browser to our EdTechTalk delicious folder. See you next week when John returns to get us back on track!

 EdTechWeekly #157
March 14, 2010

In a break from EdTechWeekly tradition, Dave and Jen explored their research projects and interests regarding "community" within an educational setting. If you are looking for the contributed links to news and resources shared by the EdTechTalk "community" this week, please point your browser to our EdTechTalk delicious folder.

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I'm sending an unauthorized newsletter (I'll probably hear it from the newsletter team) to tell you about why edtechtalk has been a little weird lately (that is, in a technical way). We've been compromised by some irritating folks who apparently want us to be more informed about the pornography scene on the internet.

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Implications for the use of classroom technology. See also http://www.business.ualberta.ca/People/Media/MediaReleasesAndStories/2010/03/ExpectingRapidFeedbackLowersHopesRaisesPerformance.aspx

Welcome to this week's EdTechTalk (ETT) newsletter!This has been a fantastic week of outstanding conversations and professional development shared at ETT. If you missed the K12Online Conference Echo webcast on Tuesday you missed a fun time of learning and growing professionally. Special guest presenter was Jackie Gerstein who shared the phenomenal ways she uses technology with her students. You will definitely want to listen to the recording of the session.

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Described by Panda's Thumb website: The Smithsonian Institution has launched a new web site focused on human origins. It includes a good deal of material on the evidence (behavior, fossils, genetics, and dating) and Smithsonian?s research projects, along with what looks like a very useful set of education resources including lesson plans for teachers, a teachers forum, and student resources including an interactive mystery skull interactive exercise

From the Scout Report: These resources are all accompanied by "custom-made, standards based K-12 curriculum material and are freely available to teachers, students, and researchers." The resources found on the site include 17,000 primary source documents and 150 lesson plans. The materials found by clicking on "K-12 Teachers" are contained within two primary sections, including "Lesson Plans" and "Virtual Expeditions".

From the Scout Report: The homepage has sections that are titled with playful directives: "Observe!", "Explore!", and "Explain!" Each of these sections contains helpful images and videos that can be used as stand-alone interactive activities, or they can be incorporated into a classroom setting. At the top of the homepage, visitor can use the "Collections" area to make their way through data-driven exercises, digital demonstrations, and "living textbooks".

A post worth reading.

21st Century Learning #121
February 2, 2010
What does Blogging Look Like in 2010?

This week, we discussed the experience of online learning with two students at The University of Montana. Amanda Armstrong, an undergraduate student taking a fully online degree in Media Arts and Jamie Lockman, a graduate student taking an online political science course. Topics discussed include:

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From the article: ?Technology doesn't teach,? said Sue Taylor, the Jefferson County School District instructional technology coach. ?It's just another tool in a teacher's bag of tricks. But it might help reach kids who weren't being impacted.? 6bb99a24693dbc9bbfbea3e11cf57607