Here is the definition of OCC. It is absolutely necessary to teach students to encode and decode online text because this is the way we communicate today. However, teachers need to be taught as well.

Well, I think there is a lot has changed since this article (2009) and the question is not "Why?" anymore. The real hard question is "How"? How are we going to keep up with the speed of changing technology and new digital literacies? How can we make sure that every child gets the opportunity to spend ample time on the computer, creating, building, constructing and not only consuming? How can we scaffold teachers so they are skilled and capable of using new digital literacies?

As I was reading this article, knowing that it's 10 years old, I was constantly trying to think back to 2009 and see how different education became since then. For us, today, the change is not enough and reforms take forever to get through the system. However, the speed of change has never been higher! So, for us, teachers, it has never been a more exciting time to face forward and see what's ahead, and participate in the Change. But we need to buckle up!

Yes! And this is why education cannot be "sold" and cannot be handled as a business. If we let money dictate the ways of education, it will hardly ever lead to social equity.

Since this article (2009) the way of learning has changed tremendously but it is changing now even faster! In 2009 few school were able to afford to give laptops or Chromebooks to each student in a class. Now, it is not uncommon at all to have it in your lesson plan that you're going to have the students work on their computers.

... and this article is from 2009!!! So, a Google search was unimaginable 20 years ago.

This is a great description of the difference between creation and construction of an online content.

This is a great paragraph about deep learning. Not just learning about but "learning to be" which involves design.

Creating machinima involves telling a story using tools found within the game engine. The resulting clips or “takes” are spliced together using movie editing software (e.g., iMovie, Sony Vegas). machinima.com

DynamiteBeakdown is a 17-year-old student who spends much of his spare time working on AMV, with some of his projects requiring months of time and hundreds of anime clips to complete.

It is fascinating to the mind and this is why I can get caught up "playing around" with technology for hours but it's not satisfying to the soul. The endless possibilities of seeing, watching, reading, and remixing are captivating, and it makes me feel like I'm doing something, but at the end, did I really create anything? It's possible, but I have to remind myself of what I'm really doing online.

This is so important and such a hot topic issue!!!

Yes, we always had this in music. Way before digital technology, even in the Renaissance, composers used each others' themes and pieces and rearranged ("re-made") them.

This is a new way of being creative and it's cool and it's fun, but will never be able to reach the depth of an original work that comes from one person's desire to express something that is uniquely theirs yet, at the same time, communicates something universal to what, for some mysterious reasons, we can all relate! (See Michelangelo, or Shakespeare, for example.) But, only time can tell whether I'm right or wrong. We should come back and see 300 years from now :-)

Contemporary text is about design and principles of composition. Relation between social environment and representation. More images, less writing and writing and image are combined.

Page 176 It is interesting that it bings up the opera as probably the only example before "screen" opportunities where modal ensembles were available for many people offering possibilities of representation that had not existed before. Today modal ensembles are available for anyone and everyone.

A mode is making meaning. Modes can be used to do different kinds of semiotic work. Transduction describes changes involving a change in mode, transformation described changes in arrangement within one mode.

4 key online skills are integrated in Common Core (2012): locating, evaluating, synthesizing and communicating.

For this, I love even Facebook! I am connected to choir director and music teach groups from many parts of the world and I can hear pieces that I would never hear without global connectedness and I get new ideas and choral techniques and hear about problems and struggles that are similar to mine.

Teach them to read as healthy skeptics!

"Inside Search"

this is a wonderful goal!

What a great way to empower a struggling student and open up new doors for them to feel skilled, helpful and in charge of something they're good at!

it makes sense!

this section is unreadable because of being over-highlighted - technologies' new problems and I don't have a solution :-(

Bloom's Taxonomy

This is very important to understand! Any rehearsal in music can and should be pre-planned with as much details as possible, but it will always have to be flexible, according to the needs of those problems that occur during the rehearsal. It's a constant doing, listening, evaluating, correcting, doing it again ... Music itself is a Teacher!

I will have to develop my own assessment strategies - formative and summative.

How to create a rubric for performance assessment?

This is a great example of self-assessment in choir

It is interesting to notice that this article from a decade ago doesn't even mention any online assessment. So much has changed since then! I'm glad to see that from measuring attendance and attitude we are moving toward a more professionally acceptable system where we can teach, assign and assess measurable knowledge in music ed, more specifically in choral programs.

Only 11% for knowledge! That is surprising and could be more if we don't try to measure "talent" but the knowledge that is teachable and factual. Again, this is old data (1991) so today the numbers might look different.

Yes. I agree. And these are the characteristics of our Online Reading Comprehension module as well. It is not the grade. It is not the achievement, but the process, the participation and engagement.

Yes. I noticed that in schools.

This is old data (1987) but still true on some levels. By now, what I see in practice is that music educators have figured out what is that's measurable and what is not and in the school I was student teaching, the choral program is taken as an academic subject and is graded.

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The benefits of using Internet Inquiry are exploring real-life problems and improving online reading comprehension skills at the same time.

the most rewarding aspect ... the sense of agency!

Phase 3 question

process vs. product (result) Internet Reciprocal Teaching Phase 3: Student-Centered Learning

I could use this process in my project.

Great idea. Maybe I can ask my students to search for famous composers, conductors or/and performers who were foster children (orphans).

So true! I often feel the same way. I'm expected to do things that I've never learned and use tools that I'm not familiar with. On one hand, this is part of life and it is great if at one point in our life we learn to put aside our discomfort, feel comfortable or even excited to "step out of our comfort zone", but on the other hand, if we are giving out assignments, it is important to be aware of where our students are, what they know and what tools they capable of using.

student-centered, active exploration of real-world challenges and problems

WebQuest seems to be difficult to create but "Webquests can be a valuable addition to a collaborative classroom. One of the goals is to increase critical thinking by employing higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy and Webb’s Depth of Knowledge. This is a goal of the American educational system's Common Core and many new American state standards for public education."

Internet Workshop - instructional model that educates students on a newly emerging form of literacy, the Internet. It is good to be aware of the skills that my students will need as young adults, applying for jobs.

Creative Commons is doing a very important job! There is a lot of misunderstanding in our world of education about who owns what and it is great to have an organization who specifically targets "reducing friction of sharing".

Or why not share? Excellent argument!

Don Wettrick's approach is very attractive. He believes that what he does is great and that if he shares it, someone else can benefit from it. He acknowledges that the Internet is dangerous but so is driving a car. I agree with him and love his approach to openness and living a transparent life.

Open Education Resources OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license permitting their free use or re-purposing by others Much of the challenge in identifying ownership is due to the fact that it is hard to differentiate between who is the user and who is the producer when it comes to open learning in the classroom.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Specifically four areas of practice are covered by CC licenses: Reuse—the right to reuse content in its unaltered, verbatim form; Revise—the right to adapt, adjust, modify or alter the content itself; Remix—the right to combine the original or revised content with other content to create something new; and Redistribute—the right to make and share copies of the original content, revisions, or remixes with others (Wiley, 2010).

Open Learning is ... a set of practices, resources, and scholarship that are openly accessible, free to use and access, and to re-purpose. Open Learning is a fantastic opportunity for learning together and learning from each other.

Randall has frequent meetings with the Superintendent and school board in his district regarding the teaching and learning content that he is sharing openly online.

Very interesting story about Randall. This must be common in rural area schools. Randall had a natural interest in recording his teachings and sharing it with students and parents. The reaction of the school leadership must have been discouraging but Randall was patient and finally the school leadership realized that what Randall was doing could be useful for the whole school. This is a good lesson about how new things sometimes meet opposition but with time, people will understand the importance of it and will agree and work together.

I clicked on both buttons but couldn't locate the "Strategies for online reading comprehension" article.

Scaffolding Online Readers ... new tools to check out and then decide whether or not it would be useful in my teaching, for my students. It's good!

I love the breaking down of READ. It's very helpful!

Keep us on our toes and keep us learning and adding new tools. We can't think that we have our degrees and now we just go ahead and teach what we have learned in school.

The slide deck is great to keep me focused on what we're learning in a module. I enjoy the clear logic with which it is done!

Yes, it can be overwhelming, and as being overwhelming can keep me away from dealing with it - unless I really need something, because when I really want to know something, I go after it and dig in and search until I find my answer!

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this link is not working!

Very true! I would make teachers use something that they are not completely enthusiastic about. They should be taught the same way as students. They will not be effective technology users if they don't love it, or don't agree with it. "Have to ..." as we know, doesn't get us very far! But if technology is offered as something that is exciting, helpful, easy to use, makes teaching more fun ... sure! I'd be all for it!!!

... and not only that but technology works only 50% of the time even if the teacher and the students know how to use it. There's always a lot of time spent with fixing the tools, applications and connection which makes me feel like the positive impact of technology is almost equals out by the negative part of the lost time that could have been spent with valuable, face-to-face, "old fashion" teaching which is good information and personal connection inside the classroom. Technology can be super frustrating and that takes away a lot of the value that it otherwise carries. But this can improve, of course, and hopefully will.

Agenda (for research), learning theory (based on personal interest and passion) and model for design (connecting the spheres of home, school and peers).

Dr. Puentedura's Questions and Transitions Ladders can be extremely useful as a reference. Very practical and helps to connect with our Educational Standards. I will save this document (link) for myself!

This is a bold statement but we should also be aware of that with our choices as teachers, we are shaping the society of the 21st century as well. Also, not everything "old" is necessarily useless and bad, so we need to distinguish between "modern" and "valuable" as well as "old" and "worthless". I think one of the most important value that we need to teach to our students and to ourselves, too, is flexibility.

Sounds like a great learning opportunity for Chicago teens where they can experiment with technology and find their interest while connecting with each other not only in the digital space but in real life, face-to-face as well.

Good to know that there's research behind it!

We've always known that but does it mean that we should only teach kids what they're interested in?

And if learning can be irresistible and life-changing, then that can change the meaning of "school" for our students!

It is amazing to see how the "virtual world" is becoming more and more real! It affects real people's real life, and does in a positive way.

This looks like an amazing opportunity for economically disadvantaged children.

A beautiful alternative to gangs. Providing an emotionally safe place and a sense of belonging are the absolute most important things for young people! From that base, they can fly and everything becomes possible.

"The Web Literacy Map, while presented in grid form with three strands (e.g., Exploring, Building, and Connecting), recognizes literacy as a culturally defined social act." Highlight!!!

"When asked why he spends so much time learning, and then sharing for free, Garth indicated he “wanted to help others”. He was also asked how teachers could bring this into classrooms; how do teachers deal with students who learn openly on the web? Garth thought quizzically about this and responded, “Let us play, but guide us.” This guy is a genius! "Let us play, but guide us!" The only challenge is with this, for us, teacher and parents, that we have to be comfortable and familiar with what our students/kids know! So, we kind of have to be ahead of the, which is pretty challenging!

Right! That is the core and essence of this article! And life, too - kind of :-)

Absolutely! It seems obvious to me (maybe because I'm old) but yes, it's so important! Also, not everything needs to be shouted out loud into the space, not really knowing who is listening.

Yes, that makes sense. And they will learn how to use a hashtag "on the go", as they accomplish their tasks and work on their projects.

With literacies, for us, music teachers, there is always the question of what text do we want our students to read? because music is not primarily words comprised of the letters of the Latin alphabet but music notes on a 5-line staff or on the Grand Staff. So, while it is easy to agree that literacies are important, in music, we need to translate this to being literate in music-reading. For that, we need to be familiar of the available music literacy resources, and teach students to use technology to read and write (and record) music.

21C leadership skills

• critical thinking
• collaboration
• problem solving
• creativity
• communication It's nice to have these ideas are summarized and written down. I like organized thinking!

Yes! So true.

1. reading
2. writing
3. arithmetic
4. navigating in digital world!

Very helpful blog on assessment!

Yes, I agree! Journaling is a great tool! My children didn't like it when they had to do it for school but I was glad their English teacher required it.

Nice to meet you!!!

I see that it's crossed out. Does it mean that you're not on LinkedIn anymore? How do I tag you?

Sounds exciting! Looking forward to seeing my classmates annotations!