Thinking out of the box

Today's class focused on all of the different tools that Jonassen considers "Mindtools." I could see the far away looks in everyone's eyes as they waited (politely) for me to wind down so they could get to the really important stuff--building their web pages.

As usual, I am most concerned with the higher order thinking but the class stays focused on the "product." Fortunately, Debbie came today to reinforce that you can surface after the class and decide maybe this isn't just something to do to get the 3 credits.

Your Turn!!!

I have nothing to blog about but you can comment on it anyway!

The Rest of NECC!

Other interesting items at NECC

Interesting People

• Keynote -- Deneen Frazier
  


• I-TOTEMS: Seven Essentials of Technology-Rich Learning -- Annette Lamb


• David Warlick at Landmark Project -- Stop Integrating Technology. Emphasize 5 E's.


• Judi Harris -- Telecomputing-Enhanced Learning Activity Types


• Teach42 -- Blog of an elementary teacher


• Punya Mishra (not at NECC)

Interesting Resources

• Digital movie resources from AFI


• Pics For Learning -- free for educator use


• ARKive - Images of life on Earth


• Ease History - Historical Events, Campaign Ads, Core Values


• Kitzu - Find, Learn, Create


• Copyright info at benedict.com

Interesting Projects

• Visit Tower Hill's wiki (I'll log us in)


• Podcasts and Webzine created by middle schoolers -- rmayo.typepad.com/magazine/

Just Interesting

• Question wheel: (don't remember where I got this) but when I googled I found this as well Task Oriented Question Construction Wheel Based on Bloom's Taxonomy
  
  
  
  • What I observed
  
  
  • What I found interesting
  
  
  • My questioins
  
  
  • Questions I can answer
  
  
  • MY QUESTION
  
  
  
  


• Estimate from 2003 -- 5 exabytes of new information published per year, 30% increase per year, .01% printed!


• Average American student spends 90 min/day reading and 6 hrs/day receiving visual information


• California Open Source Textbook Project


• LeapFrog's FLY pentop computer


• Grokker - A New Way to Look at Search