Class+Notes

7-22-10
====In our first class, the teacher mentioned Peter M. Senge's book __The Fifth Discipline__, as well as the idea of context. Here is an [|excerpt]from Senge's book (pdf) that will give you the gist of what he is saying.==== Senge says that any decision you have to make fit into one of six archetypes (see book).
 * **Inter-Relationships**
 * Diversity of opinion when the roles are played out
 * You have to recognize all the different sides of an issue
 * **Mental Models**
 * The way we believe things should work
 * Based on your own experience
 * **What is a mental model? [|Click here to learn more about it]**

We discussed Adam Greenfield's concepts in his work __Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computin__g. Here are two of his websites: [|everyware]and [|speedbird].

The topic of using of social network sites like FB to help or harm was addressed. We watched the [|video]about the teenager using FB for unlawful purposes on cbsnews. Watch it [|here]. We also learned about the use of [|Google Scholar] to search academic documents. The term[| Digital Bombardment] was brought up. Learning is all about establishing context. Higher Order Thinking (students) = Senge’s Inter-Relationships (admin). If an email takes up more than four sentences, it should really be a personal conversation. The site [|Second Life] and the potential social ramifications was brought up (did you know that you can give talks and [|make money] on Second Life?). Last but not least, we learned that [|Edward Tufte] would be teaching us about presenting data. ==

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7-29-10
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 * We discussed the [|digital divide] (click to link to Edutopia's site about this) in classrooms.
 * [|Jonathon Kozol: Equality in Education/Social Equality]
 * Management Aspect of Technology versus Improvement of Learning Through Technology
 * Kids in transition versus teachers in transition re: the volume of information and accessibility of tech info
 * Learning to teach students to sort through info and deem validity, then accumulate the data by “building context”

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7-31-10
To see these notes, click on the Student Choice Technology Presentations page.