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John Evans

Perspective: A Game Changer in the Classroom and in Our Lives | Edutopia - 3 views

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    "What is perspective? What does it have to do with teaching, leadership, and learning? The Oxford English Dictionary defines perspective as: "A particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view." Blending this definition into our instruction, classroom cultures, and relationships, perspective drives all we are and do in our classrooms. Perspectives are bundles of beliefs, a mindset that we each embrace determining how we see one another, our experiences, and possibilities or lack thereof. As teachers, our perspectives directly impact student emotions and their learning, because emotions are contagious."
John Evans

TweetBeam Twitter Wall - Visualize Live Tweets - 1 views

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    Cool way to display your Twitter stream. Enter a hashtag and watch the Tweets stream by.
John Evans

Unexpected Learning After #BIT14 | Living Avivaloca - 1 views

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    "I'm one of four teacher facilitators for our Junior Coding Club. We meet once a week during second nutrition break to code. The group's made up of many beginner coders, but also a couple of advanced coders. At lunch today, one of the advanced coders came rushing into the classroom, so excited to share his news. He decided to put a hold on Code Academy, and start using Scratch. During the week, he used the computer version of Scratch to create a flight simulator. This simulator was truly incredible! This Grade 4 student was so thrilled about what he did, that it was hard not to also feel thrilled. While it was wonderful to see this student so passionate about learning, it was also amazing to hear all of the thinking behind his choices. I was honestly in awe! He thought of everything. He even researched to find out the details about planes at take-off, and used this information in his simulator. He could explain all of his choices and the thinking behind these choices. In this short video clip below you can hear just a tiny snippet of this explanation."
mahinda patirana

how-to-install-unicode-fonts-in-android - 0 views

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    You have change the wallpaper,Live wallpaper,Lock screen,and other your android phone.If you want to change the font use on your android phone.You don't have to root your phone.I am going to explain how to install any kind fonts in your android phones.fist of all you must download and install font application,you can get it free by using google play store.
creative outdoors

Superb Creative Outdoor Ideas - 1 views

I have always wanted to build a patio to enjoy a lazy afternoon whilst looking out to my garden or where I can enjoy a cup of coffee during weekends as well as an area to receive and entertain gues...

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Child Therapy

Friendly And Highly Skilled Therapist - 1 views

My eldest daughter who is now eight years old used to be very confident and lively both at home and in school. But lately, I noticed that she was just quiet though her playmates made unnecessary no...

started by Child Therapy on 29 Oct 12 no follow-up yet
David McGavock

MediaShift . Learning in a Digital Age: Teaching a Different Kind of Literacy | PBS - 0 views

  • "Education," scholar and writer Ralph Ellison once said, "is a matter of building bridges." And perhaps, no bridge is more important than the bridge to the future. As educators, it's our responsibility to prepare students for the world of tomorrow. Yet tomorrow isn't what it used to be.
  • How do we prepare students for work that hasn't been invented yet? While it's difficult to predict what the social and economic climate will be like in the years to come, we can analyze trends and extrapolate future scenarios.
  • While these 21st century skills are essential, they aren't enough. There is a growing expectation for these abilities to be leveraged and expressed using digital tools.
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  • Our global environmental, economic and social challenges require non-standardized skills such as creativity, problem-solving and collaboration.
  • literacy vs. technical skills
  • While a certain amount of technical skills are important, the real goal should be in cultivating digital or new media literacies that are arising around this evolving digital nerve center. These skills allow working collaboratively within social networks, pooling knowledge collectively, navigating and negotiating across diverse communities, and critically analyzing and reconciling conflicting bits of information to form a clear and comprehensive view of the world.
  • These new media literacy skills are expanding our definitions of literacy but must be cultivated from the foundation of traditional literacy.
  • "Traditionally we wouldn't consider someone literate if they could read but not write. And today we shouldn't consider someone literate if they can consume but not produce media."
    • David McGavock
       
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  • Those of us living in this digital age are required to learn, unlearn and learn again and again.
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    How do we prepare students for work that hasn't been invented yet? While it's difficult to predict what the social and economic climate will be like in the years to come, we can analyze trends and extrapolate future scenarios.
Natalia Giacosa

Critical Thinking and Technology - 0 views

  • to recapture the significance of our inquiries,
  • We must help them understand why anyone might want to solve this problem or answer this question. We must remind them of the connection between today's smaller question and the larger issues.
  • faith in their ability to succeed, if we ask about their attitudes and their values as well as about their ability to understand, if we act excited, and if we ask them both to understand abstract concepts and to see the relevance of those concepts to people's lives. We must appeal directly to their curiosity.
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  • teaching students to understand, analyze, synthesize, evaluate evidence, and so forth.
  • specific abstract reasoning capacities.
  • ess telling and more asking.
  • bring models of knowledge with them to our classes, preconceptions that have a profound influence on what they think they learn and how they react to what we tell them.
  • Relatively few people have fixed styles of learning in which they can learn from only one kind of experience, but many people do have learning personalities in which they often express preference for one approach or another.
  • If we provide that diversity, we can speak to different personalities while encouraging everyone to expand their preferences, and to consider the joys of learning in new ways.
  • feel comfortable,
  • uneasiness, the tension that stems from intellectual excitement, curiosity, challenge, and intense concern with a particular question, the tension that emerges primarily from the questions that we ask, the challenges that we issue,
  • provisions an author must make are the ones that lead a student to rectify incorrect responses.
  • work collaboratively in solving important problems.
  • Think about uncovering it so your students can better understand it.
  • sustained, substantial, and positive influence on the way they think, act, or feel)
  • solve
  • create
  • a sense of control over their own education;
  • work will be considered fairly and honestly
  • try, fail, and receive feedback from expert learners
  • Good Practice Emphasizes Time on Task
  • paradigms of reality are students likely to bring with them that I will want them to challenge
  • challenge students to rethink their assumptions and examine their mental models of reality?
Phil Taylor

Let's Change the Conversation About Education (Technology) | Digital Promise - 4 views

  • When it comes to technology – something so ingrained in our daily lives – what if we stop asking “why” and start asking “how”? What if we told stories about solutions instead of failures?
John Evans

I've Interviewed 300 High Achievers About Their Morning Routines. Here's What I've Lear... - 2 views

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    "The choices we make during the first hour or so of our morning often determine what the rest of the day will look like. Will your morning routine grant you a day full of productivity and peace of mind? Or will you be looking at an eight-hour stretch of haphazard work? Over the past five years I've interviewed more than 300 successful people about their morning routines. Through talking with business leaders and university presidents to Olympians, fashion models and artists, I've learned that while there isn't one "best" morning routine that works for everyone, there are best practices that some of the most successful people I spoke with follow every day. Here are some of the most common morning routines I've found among successful people."
John Evans

How to Clean Your Filthy, Disgusting Laptop - The New York Times - 1 views

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    "Like any tool we use every day, our laptops accumulate dust, grime, oils from our skin and who knows what else. Yours is probably due for a cleaning, and here's how to do it right."
John Evans

Stop Asking Kids What They Want to Be When They Grow Up - The New York Times - 0 views

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    ""What do you want to be when you grow up?" When I was a kid, I dreaded the question. I never had a good answer. Adults always seemed terribly disappointed that I wasn't dreaming of becoming something grand or heroic, like a filmmaker or an astronaut. In college, I finally realized that I didn't want to be one thing. I wanted to do many things. So I found a workaround: I became an organizational psychologist. My job is to fix other people's jobs. I get to experience them vicariously - I've gotten to explore how filmmakers blaze new trails and how astronauts build trust. And I've become convinced that asking youngsters what they want to be does them a disservice."
Phil Taylor

Three Ways Parents Can Make Digital Media a Positive for Young Kids | MindShift | KQED ... - 2 views

  • Kids are living in the same world we do, the world where grown-ups check their phones 50 times a day,
Phil Taylor

What the fourth industrial revolution could mean for education and jobs - 0 views

  • Whereas we once learned to do work, learning has now become the work. Longer working lives and changing skill demands increase the need for continuous learning throughout life.
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