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Wikipedia is an incredible teaching tool for the importance of citation, peer review, and evaluating sources. Without proper citations, the entry will change to reflect only sourced information.

"Using Chris Argyris's theories of learning, this presentation describes how we can better understand the way we make decisions when planning student learning experiences and considering the use of technology. Using Argyris's Theories of Action show us how we can evaluate our instructional decisions, and exploring Argyris's theory of single and double loop learning establishes a strong framework that can guide our decisions of when and how to utilize technology in learning."

e5 = Engage, Explore, Explain, Evaluate, Elaborate

"It is Benjamin Bloom's belief that the entry point to learning is the acquisition of knowledge. He postulates that a solid foundation of terms, facts, theories, and skills is the educational base that will allow the mind to evaluate information effectively and inspire innovation. Our schools' emphasis on and devotion to standards-based instruction and high-stakes testing reflects a desire for students to become proficient at memorizing terms, and facts as well as and mastering various sets of skills. "

"Bloom's Revised Taxonomy breaks each learning stage (remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate and create) into four separate levels of knowledge. These levels include the factual, conceptual, procedural, and metacognitive. Together the levels of knowledge are making incremental movements from a factual understanding, to the personal command and realization of the learning process. The revised taxonomy also lists two cognitive processes within the applying stage: executing and implementing.1 These two processes illustrate the range of thinking skills possible within a stage. Executing requires the application of factual knowledge and refers to the ability to carry out learned procedures such as solving a long division problem. On the other hand, implementing reaches up into the metacognitive level and demands that students be able to apply learned skills to a task that initially appears to be an unrelated to prior learning experiences. "

"Presented in an easy to use and understand format, this teacher observation and evaluation tool is a modern day answer for high performing teaching staff developers, instructional coaches, peer coaches, and school principals trying to improve classroom instruction in their schools."

12 Habits of Highly Effective ICT-Enabled Development Initiatives The 12 Habits of Highly Effective ICT-Enabled Development Initiatives are a set of best practice guidelines for project management, which aim to ensure the internal health of initiatives harnessing ICT for development. Like the Real Access criteria, the 12 Habits can be used proscriptively for planning, or retrospectively for evaluation.

Order in the Library -- great interactive tool for training and or evaluating skills for library staff including volunteers and student aides.

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Here are the most popular items in the month of November: 1. Why Teachers Use Twitter 2. 9 Resources for Website Evaluation Lessons 3. 6 Ways for Students to Publish Their Writing Online 4. 12 Ways for Students to Publish Slideshows Online 5. Intro to Wikis Video Created By Kids 6. Ten Trends to Affect Teaching In the Future (and now) 7. Daylight Saving Time Explained

Using peer critiques to evaluate and improve student work is a natural outgrowth of the movement toward more authentic assessments in education (Henderson & Karr-Kidwell, 1998). Both formative and summative assessments now commonly go beyond multiple-choice tests to include live performances, digital presentations, simulations, and so on. We have moved from a focus on judging whether students know isolated facts to a focus on assessing whether students can apply newly acquired skills and concepts.

"With the release of Apple's iPad 2, educators are still determining best practices for the classroom"

"Brainstorming is a way for an individual or group to collect ideas about a specific problem or situation. The goal is to collect as many as you can and then go back and evaluate the ones that might be worth developing further. These ideas can then be developed, enhanced and modified."

"Google receives between 2.5 and 3.5 million job applications a year. It only hires about 4,000 people. Senior vice president of People Operations, Laszlo Bock presides over the ultra-selective process. In interviews with The New York Times, the Economist, and students on Google+, the hiring boss sheds light on how the search giant evaluates candidates. We sifted through those interviews for the most surprising takeaways. Find them below."