Digital Filing Cabinet/General Purpose Documents

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Several of the Information Age Education Wiki pages are about Digital Filing Cabinets.

Introduction

Every teacher of teachers, every preservice teacher, and every inservice teacher can benefit by having a Digital Filing Cabinet. A good Digital Filing Cabinet helps its owner/user to solve the problems and accomplish tasks relevant to his or her professional interests and work.

In this document, think teachers of teachers, preservice teachers, and inservice teachers in two ways:

  1. They are all teachers. Thus, they need materials that are specific to their current and future professional teaching activities.
  2. They are all students. Indeed, we are all both lifelong learners and lifelong facilitators. But those of us who choose to go into the education professional have an extra strong obligation to continue to grow in knowledge and skills, and to "keep up" with changes going on in the world that relate to our professional careers.

Many aspects of teaching and learning are quite personal. Humans are not machines. Thus, many aspects of a person's Digital Filing Cabinet will be personal—in the sense that they are personally meaningful to the owner of the DFC.

Other parts of a DFC are designed to share with one's professional colleagues, students, and others. Using current vocabulary, they tend to have the characteristic of being open content or open source.

Each teacher (teacher of teachers, preservice teacher, inservice teacher) can help his or her students to develop a personal Digital Filing Cabinet. Each such teacher can provide help both in initial design and in "seeding" the initial DFC with content of potential immediate ad/or long term value.

The purpose of the Web page you are currently reading is to provide some general categories and some specific materials (links to materials) that might be useful to a very broad range of teachers.

This is a Work in Progress. The goal is to have lots of people contribute their best examples of materials that belong in the DFC of teachers.

Web Searching

All educators need to have a reasonably high level of expertise in doing Web searches. In addition, each teacher needs to help his or her students become better at Web searching within the specific disciplines the teacher teaches. Thus, a student taking a history course needs to gain an increased level of history Web searching expertise, while a student taking a biology course needs to gain an increased level of biology Web searching expertise. Students in elementary school need to gain general Web searching skills, and their level of expertise should increase significantly on a year to year basis.

The Internet Public Library has a very nice page of information, complete with active links, designed to help people learn about Web searching. Quoting from the beginning of that page:

Looking for information on the Web? The sites listed below are some of the IPL's favorite general Internet search engines and web directories. No search engine or catalog is comprehensive, so it's important to use a variety of tools.

Computational Thinking

Computational thinking is an updated version of computer literacy. The National Science Foundation is now pushing it quite heavily in its various educational programs.

Computational thinking is learning to think about problem representation and problem solving from a computer modeling point of view. Since every discipline includes a focus on representing and solving the problems of the discipline, computational thinking is relevant to every discipline.

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