Educational Origami

The guys from Educause have released their latest addition in the Seven things you should know series.
You can download the pdf version at  http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7045.pdf
Great work and well worth downloading – read the brief at – http://connect.educause.edu/blog/pkurkowski/neweli7thingsbriefexplore/48028

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Tool or technology:GIS or Geographical Information System. Google Earth – Downloaded and installed client, internet connection required
Curriculum area:
Humanities
Synopsis:
This starter sheet looks at the power of Google Earth. While it only looks at one aspect of the tool, the Global Awareness Layers, particularly the Crisis in Darfur, this tool has a range of other uses in [...]

Starter Sheets
Link:
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Starter+Sheets
Tool or technology:
Google Documents Forms
Curriculum area:
Information technology
Synopsis:
Students use Google forms to structure, collate and process data on the level of piracy of music and software within the student community.
Google forms are an extension of the Google documents product http;//docs.google.com

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A group I am working with have asked for a definition of Critical thinking. These are my thoughts.. probably not so much a definition as explanation. I take the Bloom’s perspective (remember, understand, apply, analyse, evaluate, create). I would appreciate comments, corrections, additions and suggestions etc.
Locating and applying knowledge to a specific situation to provide [...]

PEW Internet has release one of their presentations  – this one called Teens and the internet is from CES – Kids@Play Summit. These are some of the key points for me that make interesting reading. Key to this is that this is an American Life project.

email – 22 years old  – today 87% of teens [...]

@Heyjudeonline twittered this link. http://vimeo.com/2696386
This is an 8 minute video about the history of the internet from pre 1957 to 2009. It has all the key elements APRANET, DARPA, and more. This is an excellent teaching resource for teachers of IT or ITGS. Its well narrated, high quality animation with good detail.
A good find and [...]

Colin an Australia Educator left this comment on my wiki and I believe this is a very relevant one that I would like to share. Here is Colin’s discussion:
“technology and boys
For educational technology, this is one of the most relevant and useful sites I have found. We have an interesting dilemma currently with the Australian [...]

This is the latest installment in the starter sheets. This sheet looks at the use of a collaborative mind mapping tool in Mathematics.
Mindmeister is free in its basic addition and allows the users to collaborate on the map. The interface is simple to use and quick and easy to learn. Users are required to register.

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This is another update to the Bloom’d Digital taxonomy Rubrics. This one looks at Blog journalling which is at the understanding level of the taxonomy.

The PDF version of the rubric is at http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/blogging+rubric.pdf
Bloom’s Digital taxonomy is available on the edorigami wiki

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This is an update on the Advanced Search Rubric and exemplar as part of the revision I am undertaking on Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy.
The update can be found at http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/advanced+search+rubric.pdf
Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy is found at http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy
You can also find starter sheets for searching at http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Starter+Sheets The starter sheets for searching and Boolean searches provide classroom exemplars [...]