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in title, tags, annotations or urlEssential Tips to Help Parents and Students Connect with your Class Website | The Edublogger - 0 views
The Global Classroom Project: Building a Global Classroom | The Edublogger - 0 views
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We wanted our students to have regular opportunities to share, learn and collaborate with children around the world, helping them to discover our common humanity …
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We set out to create a community which fosters global dialogue and discussion between teachers and students …
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Education Week Teacher: Cultivating Student Leadership - 0 views
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"Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.
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One way to have power is by feeling a strong sense of self-efficacy—a strong belief that you can accomplish your goals.
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helping them learn to categorize information instead of just listing data.
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Educational Technology Guy: 10 Important Skills Students need for the Future - 2 views
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Here are the skills:Sense-making. The ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressedSocial intelligence. The ability to connect to others in a deep and direct way, to sense and stimulate reactions and desired interactionsNovel and adaptive thinking. Proficiency at thinking and coming up with solutions and responses beyond that which is rote or rule-basedCross-cultural competency. The ability to operate in different cultural settingsComputational thinking. The ability to translate vast amounts of data into abstract concepts and to understand data-based reasoningNew-media literacy. The ability to critically assess and develop content that uses new media forms and to leverage these media for persuasive communicationTransdisciplinarity. Literacy in and ability to understand concepts across multiple disciplinesDesign mind-set. Ability to represent and develop tasks and work processes for desired outcomesCognitive load management. The ability to discriminate and filter information for importance and to understand how to maximize cognitive functioning using a variety of tools and techniquesVirtual collaboration. The ability to work productively, drive engagement and demonstrate presence as a member of a virtual team
Preparing Students to Learn Without Us - 4 views
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Useful for 21stC skills & concepts and BYOD
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I don't know if blogging is part of our students lives, but I certainly want to find out
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Blogging is a fantastic tool for students who are creating a record of a project, particularly the Personal Project. Easy to share with supervisors, teachers and friends, easy to record ideas on the go - and best of all, no paper!
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personalizing learning means allowing students to choose their own paths through the curriculum
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t means connecting our expectations to students' passions and interests as learner
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Great to use for 21st Century Skills & Concepts and the BYOD initiative
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I don't think blogging is part of their social lives, but academically they like it. I've used it several times for projects, to share ideas, to recommend websites and they really know how to use it and take advantage of it.
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I just read this article and the whole personalized education makes a lot of sense.. it goes beyond diferentiation
The Connected Classroom - Classroom - 0 views
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Use digital technology and communication tools to access, manage, integrate and evaluate information; Construct new knowledge; Communicate with others effectively.
Using Skype at School - For Dummies - 0 views
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With Skype, teacher mentors can deliver personalized training directly to the classroom on subjects teachers need.
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Skype can double as a quick connection to a teacher, librarian, or even a traveling parent for a child in the midst of a homework crisis.
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One important way to inspire children to read is by reading aloud to them. Schools can arrange to have an author read a story over Skype so that the entire class can enjoy a favorite book and then ask questions for an author study
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Ten ideas for interactive teaching - 0 views
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By Jenna Zwang, Assistant Editor Read more by Jenna Zwang While lecturing tends to be the easiest form of instruction, studies show that students absorb the least amount of information that way. Interactive teaching methods are an effective way to connect with a generation of students used to consistent stimulation-and education professor Kevin Yee has some advice for how teachers can make their lessons more interactive.
Super Teacher Tools - 0 views
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Our Flash Jeopardy Review Game tool is by far the most popular tool on the site. With this tool you can create a custom jeopardy review game for use in classrooms, training sessions, or anywhere else a fun, team based review game is appropriate. You can even download the Jeopardy Flash Player file to use games that you have created offline without an Internet connection!
Helping your child learn to read - A parent's guide - 0 views
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Reading aloud to children is the best way to get them interested in reading
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pending time w
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ith word games, stories, and books will help your child to
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Digital Texts and the Future of Education: Why Books? (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views
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Mobility offers the ability to engage learners of all ages with anywhere, anytime access.
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The presence of socially connected, multitasking students in the classroom urges educators to move away from an "information-dissemination" role toward a more interactive, collaborative process in which they guide learners in the skill of evaluating and assessing available information.
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creating innovative and interactive learning activities that fully engage learners in experiences they perceive to be both interesting and relevant to their interests and future.
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