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Who Owns the Learning

The Digital Playground

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Learning on the Digital Farm

“To survive in the future economy, kids must learn how to research, publish & communicate, working with the Internet and other information tools.” -Alan November


Want to spend some time in the "digital playground" learning more about apps and online tools that can help innovate learning in your classroom? Check out these resources based on the learning roles in November's "digital farm."


You can find out more about November and his Digital Learning Farm analogy by viewing the link and/or watching his Ted Talk below.






TEDxNYED - Alan November - 03/05/2011

Students as Contributors: Digital Learning Farm | November Learning

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Tutorial Designer Tutorial Designer

"Students teaching students is a powerful method for building learning and driving creativity and innovation" -Alan November Who Owns the Learning (pg 79 iBook edition).


Provide opportunities for students to own their learning by creating tutorials to share their knowledge with peers as well as a potential global audience.





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Educreations

Educreations is a free app that turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. Learners of all ages will find creating a great video tutorial is as simple as touching, tapping and talking. Lessons, once created can be hyperlinked to a website or blog. You will need to create an account.


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Screencast-O-Matic

Screencast-O-Matic is a java-based screencasting tool that requires no downloads and will allow you to upload to YouTube or save to your hardrive.


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Skitch

Skitch is part of the Evernote platform and provides users with the opportunity to get their point across with minimal words and instead use annotations, shapes and sketches. Watch the video at this website for ideas.


Student Scribe Student Scribe

"Using a student scribe program encourages students who do not take notes to do so, and it helps students who struggle to take good notes improve their technique through positive feedback and advice from their teachers and peers" -Alan November Who Owns the Learning (pg 66 iBook edition.)



Students can work collaboratively to take notes which are then shared with the entire learning community. November suggests these notes can be posted on the class blog or shared through other digital means.

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Evernote

Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders--and makes these notes completely searchable, whether you are at home, at work, or on the go. You can organize your notes into folders and share them with other Evernote users.


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Google Docs

Google Docs let you create different kinds of online documents, work on them in real time with other people, and store them in your Google Drive online — all for free.


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Blogger

Blogger allows you and your students to collaborate create a class blog and share as a community of learners or with a global audience.


Researcher Researcher

"Many classrooms have one computer sitting in the back of the room or on the teacher's desk that gets very little use while instruction is taking place. What if that computer became the official research station where one student each day was responsible for finding answers to all the question in class--including the teachers questions" -Alan November Who Owns the Learning (pg 66 iBook edition.)




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YouTube

YouTube users have uploaded thousands of how to and informational videos. As with any online resource, you will find some great resources and some not to great. As educators, it is important that we support and guide students as they think critically to analyze the accuracy of the information they find. Here is a great lesson resource for beginning and intermediate learners that I have found beneficial.


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Creating a Google Custom Search Engine

This video, suggested by November in the book, will walk you through the steps to create a search widget that your students can use to research topics at "appropriate" sites that you and your students have identified.


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Diigo

Diigo is online tool that allows users to bookmark and tag webpages as well as highlight any part of a website and attach sticky notes. You will want to check out Diigo for Educators.


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