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Episode 16 – July 1, 2010

• (Episode Length: 8 minutes, 34 seconds)
• Previous episode - Become a Learner First and a Teacher Second

Feature of the Week

• School for the Deaf
  • Mountain2Mountain is a nonprofit working in Afghanistan
  • Helping to build and start a school for the deaf children
  • This population is often not respected and not given opportunities
  • School will teach them to communicate with others and other life skills

#Hashtag Talk

• ISTE10 – The big themes this year were digital citizenship, networked literacy, and web 3.0. The biggest roadblocks in the way of teaching this is the Locked Net Monster… Behind this = fear of cyberbullying and student safety. I will speak on this more during teach this.
• My favorite quotes from the conference (idk how they all came from Angela Maiers… I was a little starsruck
  • You should be the mirror of the learner you want your students to be.
  • You get out of the web what you put into the web.
  • We need a contribution mentality not a completion mentality.
  • Kids are no longer on the web but OF the web.
  • Teach kids for their futures not our past.
  • Teach kids to be not to do.
  • This was my favorite session – entitled 21 Things.
  • Kids need to be taught to be infosumers, synthesizers, question askers, translators, contributors.

Watch and Learn

• 1GOAL
  • Campaign to give all children and adults education opportunities
  • Using power of the World Cup and celebrities to help spread message
  • No donations, just requests to join the campaign and raise awareness

Teach This

• CyberSafety
  • We cannot stand by and do nothing; pretend the social media world doesn’t exist.
  • Teach digital citizenship like we teach the rules of the road.
  • Your kids need to be involved in the production of Internet safety media. (example: http://supersocialsafety.blogspot.com)
  • We cannot teach this unless we are there, modeling.
  • No one is anonymous.
  • Incredible idea – we are not on the web we are of the web…. we need to have positive representations attached to our names online.

E-Freebies

• Vocabulary Sites
  • VocabAhead
  • WeboWord
  • A Maths Dictionary for Kids

So, What Do You Know

• A world cup referee will run further than the players, at 12 miles in a 90 minute match.
• Paul Hunn holds the record for the loudest burp, 107.1 decibels. That’s LOUDER THAN A MOTORCYCLE and almost as loud as a CHAINSAW.

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