In this video blog I discuss all of the things that I learned and noticed while I was at the White House for the launch of the #FutureReady Schools initiative and all the things that it challenged me to do since I have been home. Please share your reactions as comments or video reactions.
Here are some videos of my time there for you to check out as well:
My panel with the assistant secretary of education: http://youtu.be/ouhEKyVcrJw?t=1h26m20s
The president speaking about #FutureReady Schools http://youtu.be/4eudtEDzluw
I just asked Andrew Stillman and Jesse Spevack privately, but I thought I would share it with this community as well, as I know how many of you folks might have insights too.
In Denver, we are in our first full year of implementing GAFE and are really trying to do a tightrope walk of Student Data privacy. I wanted to ask about the “Drive Apps” that you can globally allow or disallow for Google Drive within the GAFE domain. The settings is shown below.
We currently have this turned off because we are very aware that Google Drive apps have a variety of permissions that they request, and we are trying to figure out how to best comply with our guidance for Student Data Privacy and only allowing the “good apps” to have the permissions they need in order to do the great work allowed within Google Drive.
Do you have any thoughts around how to ensure we can do right by our kids in terms of access to the right tools and ensure that we aren’t giving out student (or teacher, for that matter) data to the “third party apps”?
Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to provide.
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What a wonderful way to use video in order to engage kids in higher order thinking skills, showing math in real life. How could we do this with other subjects?
What a wonderful way to use video in order to engage kids in higher order thinking skills, showing math in real life. How could we do this with other subjects?
I am always looking for new ways to make podcasts, music, and generally record audio. Because so many of our creation devices are chromebooks nowadays, I believe we need to push what those devices can do. This tool lets you create music and other audio through the web, and it does so in a collaborative manner. I like all of those things.
Make your music online – quick and easy! With Soundtrap you make music online. You can plug in your own instrument, use the software instruments available in Soundtrap or just record a song directly with your computer microphone. It’s super-easy!
I like a good technology framework as much as the next guy, but I would agree that things need to be simpler than TPACK and SAMR for a lot of teachers. I think that this blog post goes a little far in decrying the “Replace” culture that we have in many schools (i.e., where we replace paper with screens without actually changing anything else), but it also does a good job of making the case for why we should push for Transformation. That I can definitely get on board with.
Probably the single greatest challenge in my role is to encourage ICT use that does not make the mistake of just replacing or substituting pixels for pages. There are two frameworks, SAMR and RAT, I prefer RAT, but for some reason SAMR seems to get a lot more attention, which is crazy in my opinion, it’s far too complex to be of any really practical use, and it’s often misinterpreted.
I love beautifully designed things. It is one of the reason why I love Canva so much, but there hasn’t been a great webpage builder for a very long time, especially not one that allows for the type of commenting and responses that Tackk allows for. My head is swimming with the possibilities.
I haven’t seen a new (and good) analytics tool for Twitter in years, but this one does so many things that I need for capturing and analyzing events and hashtags. Go ahead and put in #EdChat or #BFC530 and see what comes up. It is fascinating.
