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	<title>Lesson Upgrades &#187; Symphony</title>
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		<title>Help Your Students Conduct a Better Google Search</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google is great, but we all get frustrated at times when we just can&#8217;t find what we want. And what about your students?  If they are like mine, they try one search and then give up. I think that Google searching is an integral component of developing the  aptitude of Symphony as described by Dan Pink in A Whole New Mind.  How can your kids make connections amongst patterns of information if they struggle with basic internet search? Part of the answer can be found in this great article from lifehacker, which gives advice on what you should do when Google doesn&#8217;t give you what you want.  What&#8217;s a good query?  How do you use the &#8220;around&#8221; function?  What about site-specific search? If you are not comfortable teaching your kids about these tools, then you really should take a few minutes and read this article before sharing it with your kids. I know that for my students this article will be required reading before we hit the lab! The Best Ways to Tweak Your Search When Google Doesn&#8217;t Give You What You Want. Share]]></description>
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		<title>10 Evernote Tips For School – Dan Pink&#8217;s Symphony</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 11:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So how do kids these days keep everything organized?  Listen straight from the mouth of one college student who is offering advice on the app known as Evernote. When Dan Pink speaks of Symphony in A Whole New Mind, he refers specifically to the ability to take many seemingly disconnected thoughts and create a pattern out of the chaos.  I think this article gives us one method of enhancing our aptitude of Symphony, and also provides us an opportunity to pass along some good advice to students of our own. Take 2-3 minutes and read this article.  I really found it enlightening.  I felt as if I was reading a top secret document on the minds of the millenials.  This is how the newest generation is using our technology.  Their iPhones keep track of everything, thanks in part to the Evernote app. But the really unique thing is that Evernote doesn&#8217;t care what medium you use.  Snap a picture of your car, record a verbal memo, or save a text.  It all gets stored in Evernote.  And to add another element, you can take advantage of the GPS positioning in the iPhone to help you remember what you did where. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teachers Using Technology &#8211; A New York Times Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 02:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a great article for Thanksgiving week, and a great glimpse at how teachers across our country are developing Dan Pink&#8217;s aptitude of Symphony. Take a few minutes to read through the article, and if you have time, check out these teacher-submitted videos.  They really do show you why Bloom&#8217;s Taxonomy was revamped to put &#8220;Creating&#8221; as the highest level of learning. As I look towards this shortened week, dreading the classroom management issues that will surely arise, this article was a nice release.  I don&#8217;t come close to their level of technology, but it doesn&#8217;t mean I shouldn&#8217;t try.  Maybe I&#8217;ll see if a little bit of Symphony and technology will help me manage 120 restless students this week! From Some Teachers, Excitement About Classroom Tech &#8211; NYTimes.com. Share]]></description>
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		<title>Learn like a kindergartner: High Tech, Dan Pink, and A Love of Learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember &#8220;Everything I Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten&#8221;? Well imagine that concept with the technology of today. That is what Professor Mitch Resnick discusses in this hour-long video about technology and learning.  Learn like a kindergartner. Don&#8217;t you remember those times?  When you wanted to go to school?  Things were new and fun.  We were motivated to learn.  We were excited about new experiences. As the &#8220;new&#8221; of the school year begins to wear off for some of us, this video reminds us of what education can be. Technology adds an element of play to learning.  And AWNM reflects the importance of this aptitude in the modern economy.  So why not infuse a little &#8220;playful&#8221; element to your classroom? Technology can also enhance our mastery and result in added autonomy, which are two of the key factors in motivation as stated by Dan Pink in Drive.  What about incorporating that old favorite of kindergarten, the &#8220;sensory station&#8221;? This week I&#8217;m going to take a bit of time and try to think like a kindergartner.  I&#8217;m going to reflect back on those simpler, innocent times and see what I can share with my students.  Maybe they can re-experience some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seth&#8217;s Blog: Whatever happened to labor?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We say we want insightful and brilliant teachers, but then we insist they do their labor precisely according to a manual invented by a committee&#8230; via Seth&#8217;s Blog: Whatever happened to labor?. So as I am sitting back and enjoying Labor Day, I ran into Seth Godin&#8217;s comments about modern labor, and of course, this excerpt about teachers. Seth Godin always has insightful, succinct observations about society, and I recommend that everyone subscribe to his blog if you do not already do so.  It is one of the most popular in the blogosphere and for good reason. And in this season of teacher-bashing it is nice to see someone appreciate the creative and challenging labor of teachers specifically.  Who hasn&#8217;t felt as if creativity is punished while blind obedience is rewarded in their professional life?   After all, as the famous Japanese proverb states:  &#8220;The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.&#8221; Have you ever felt like this: You must implement the latest pedagogical techniques in order to raise your test scores.  Don&#8217;t ask questions about its efficacy, just do it and turn in the paperwork.  Trust us, your test scores will rise.  Never mind your individual student needs.  We will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using iTunes U to Develop Symphony Without an iPad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s iPad has taken the world by storm, and it seems that educators everywhere are fascinated by the device. At Julia Green Elementary school in Nashville, Apple&#8217;s iPad will be utilized in all of their kindergarten classrooms.  Students will be able to use the technology to surf the web, access iTunes U, and create their own content.  Educators at Julia Green say that this type of technology is essential in preparing students for the global economy. In A Whole New Mind, Dan Pink cites the aptitude of symphony as the ability to look at vast amounts of information and to find meaningful patterns.  As I read about iPads in the classroom, the aptitude of symphony came to mind. With the deluge of information that comes across the screen of an iPad, how can we prepare students to process that information and make sense of it all? The obvious answer is to let our students use an iPad.  Principal Eileen Willis of Julia Green calls this the process of developing &#8220;global mindedness&#8221; and &#8220;preparing children to be in this world&#8221;. But what about the rest of us who do not have the resources to provide an iPad for our students to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pro-BlackBerry Obama: iPads, iPods Are &#8216;Distraction&#8217; &#8211; ABC News</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 01:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This headline was confusing to me, so I had to look a bit further.  But after reading through the context of President Obama&#8217;s comments about technology as a &#8220;distraction&#8221;, his meaning became more clear. I think the gist of the President&#8217;s concerns are found as he discusses the role that constant information has taken in our society.  President Obama stated that information has become more of a &#8220;form of entertainment&#8221; rather than a &#8220;tool of empowerment&#8221;. And as a teacher I have to agree.  I have read some articles that question the validity of texting as a communication tool for example.  Instead, texting could be seen as a form of instantly gratifying entertainment.  After all, do we really need to drop everything we are doing just so we can see the response from our last text? This is where Dan Pink&#8217;s aptitude of Symphony comes into play.  In A Whole New Mind, Dan Pink states that the future belongs to those people that can take seemingly disconnected information and create meaning from it. This is where teachers and education come in.  As the President stated in his commencement address, &#8220;Education&#8230; can fortify you, as it did earlier generations, to meet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marzano&#8217;s Instructional Strategies and Dan Pink</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a great site for resources on Robert Marzano&#8217;s instructional strategies. If you are familiar with Marzano, then you will find this site particularly interesting as it connects instructional technology resources with each of his strategies.  If you are not familiar with Marzano, each strategy is briefly defined so that you can implement the technology while knowing which instructional strategy you are using. I also sorted out a few of Marzano&#8217;s strategies and applied them to Dan Pink&#8217;s aptitudes from A Whole New Mind.  Here are a few of the obvious connections that I made after reviewing the strategies on the Marzano website: #3 Complex Cognitive Tasks (Symphony) #4 Cooperative Learning (Empathy) #8 Graphic Organizers, #12 Non-linguistic Representations (Design) #11 Interactive Games, #12 Kinesthetic Activities (Play) #19 Summarizing (Story/Design) I&#8217;m sure there are any number of parallels that can be drawn between Marzano and Dan Pink&#8217;s aptitudes, but I thought these were the easiest to implement. So if your district is asking you to utilize the Marzano startegies, don&#8217;t worry.  You can still develop your students&#8217; right-brain aptitudes at the same time! Marzano&#8217;s Instructional Strategies. Share]]></description>
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		<title>Futurity.org – Digital sink or swim for college undergrads</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article has an interesting take on the &#8220;digital divide&#8221; and how it applies to college freshmen. The study looks at 500 college freshmen from California and surveyed their technical computer skills.  The findings looked at high school and home computer skills and found that many students may have used technology for academic purposes, but their actual ability to apply it to their daily lives was lacking.  Since you need computer skills to register, turn in assignments, and communicate with professors in college, students who cannot apply technology are at a definite disadvantage. That is when I began to think of the aptitude of symphony from Dan Pink&#8217;s A Whole New Mind.  Instead of going to the lab as an insular event, removed from daily activity, why not make it a part of the larger picture?  Use the technology to solve real-world problems. This article made me think, and I hope it does the same for you.  What can we do to prepare our students better for their post-high school options? Futurity.org – Digital sink or swim for college undergrads. Share]]></description>
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		<title>Futurity.org – Web access alone won’t bridge digital divide</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is something that most of us would assume, but here is the data to back it up. Just providing access to the internet will not necessarily benefit students.  They must know how to use it. The study surveyed freshmen from the University of Illinois to test their &#8220;internet know-how&#8221;.  Students from lower socio-economic backgrounds had considerably less skill in using the internet than those students that were &#8220;better off&#8221; economically. I know that as a teacher I get frustrated with the capabilities of my students to use technology in an effective, research-based manner.  After all, they can use their I-Phones and I-Pods well enough. But that only makes them efficient consumers of technology, not effective users.  So even though I assume that all of my students are digitally savvy does not make it so. This is where Dan Pink&#8217;s right-brain aptitudes from A Whole New Mind become a necessity.  Students may be able to access the information, but can they find the relevant patterns?  Symphony.  Do they know how to look at a web page and understand the organization?  Design.  What about the slanted viewpoints of a blogger?  Empathy. So I&#8217;m always glad to read articles like this one.  [...]]]></description>
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