Learning from Our Mistakes

I recently read a post from Teach Paperless. Here is a very thought provoking excerpt.

We live in a culture that tells us that you learn from your mistakes, yet which continually punishes and shuns those who make mistakes. It is teachers who have the power to change this. It is teachers who have the power to teach a generation that to fully live and to fully know one's self is to fully live and to fully know one's self in the public conversation. And that to be wrong or to come off as shrill is not always a bad thing; because those too are forms of experience and in reflection they too are to be learned from.

And so, we should teach this new generation to move beyond embarrassment and fear. This is not to condone manifestly insolent behavior online, rather in teaching the qualities -- the unique qualities -- of the globally connected public square, we should be instilling in students both a strident determination to take part in the unadulterated public debate and yet have humility.

So, how is it that we KNOW we learn from our mistakes, yet are still punishing kids for making them?

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How to Sign-Up and Use Animoto - Guidelines for Use

Step 1. Sign up with Animoto for Education. They will verify your identity and send an email with a classroom code.

 
 

Teachers MUST HAVE KIDS USE THIS CODE TO CREATE AN ACCOUNT, THEY MUST BE OLDER THAN 13, and they MUST USE THEIR GAGGLE ACCOUNT AS THE ASSOCIATED EMAIL ADDRESS.

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

According to COPPA, websites cannot collect information from anyone younger than 13.

 
 

 
 

 
 

If kids are younger than 13, the teacher must use an alternate email address (Gaggle or Gmail) to create a dummy Animoto account under which students will create their video content. Again, any account which uses the teacher's classroom code provided by Animoto will be allowed to create full length video content.

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

When creating an account, with any child, please do not allow them to use their last name. Place the first initial only of their last name in the last name box. Additionally, do not let students identify themselves in the producer box. Have them pick something that is non-identifying.

 
 

 
 

Once an account has been created, provide the login information to the students. Have them begin to create content.

 
 

Both photos and videos can be uploaded to create an Animoto video. Please make sure that the students have permission to upload their content, and that it is not copyright protected, (including music).

 
 

After creating the video by adding text and rearranging video and photo clips, make sure prior to creating the video that the student is not identified in the PRODUCER box by their real name. What they put in the Producer Name box will show up on the video itself in the "created by" underneath the title when the video is published.

 
 

 
 

Commenting is allowed on each video on Animoto. Please know that whatever is entered in the first and last name box when creating the account is what shows up under the comment. Additionally, only the account owner can delete any comments made under the published video.

 
 

 
 

 
 

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