The attitude of teachers towards EVEs and their adoption into classroom activity is another factor. Some teachers may not be interested in new technologies, perceiving them as a waste of time or as a too radical change to their traditional methodology, or simply they may not be familiar with computers and they may not like the fact that their students often have more expertise than them. This issue can be partially tackled by involving teachers in the design of EVEs, by offering them computer training and by developing learning environments that do not require them to demonstrate any expertise.
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Google Life Project; A Resource of Great Images to Use in Classroom ~ Educational Techn... - 0 views
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Search millions of historic photos Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
A great How-to Tutorial on Creating Student Portfolios on iPad Using Google Drive App ~... - 0 views
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Watching the video tutorial you will get to learn how students can easily create a complete portfolio using Google Drive app for iPad. You will also learn how to create and collaborate in real time on a document or spreadsheet and everything in between from editing to sharing finished work.
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teachers must encourage students to express themselves in writing as much as possible so teachers can sense whether everyone is on the same page.
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Students can create screencasts, record their voices, and share the videos with the teacher and the other students.
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Teachers, who used technology, claimed that it facilitated the teaching and learning process for their students, but it was time consuming.
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One Approach to Guiding Peer Response - National Writing Project - 3 views
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Summary: Kim Jaxon, a teacher-consultant with the Northern California Writing Project, describes a peer response strategy that, in addition to providing responders with focused guiding questions, allows them adequate time to draft thoughtful responses. Excerpt from Article When I first asked students to give feedback, they were writing immediate feedback in class.
Use PowerPoint Visuals, Not Bullets - What the World Eats - 0 views
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Are you still annoying your audience with boring slide after boring slide? Break free from PowerPoint bullets! Learn from photojournalists - tell stories with visuals, and your audience will love you. A Visual Feast - What the World Eats This article is inspired by a captivating photo essay from Time magazine titled: What the World Eats.
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Background/Context: New information technologies make information available just-in-time and on demand and are reshaping how we interact with information, but schools remain in a print-based culture, and a growing number of students are disaffiliating from traditional school. New methods of instruction are needed that are suited to the digital age.
Anne Balsamo: Videos and Frameworks for "Tinkering" in a Digital Age | Spotlight on Dig... - 1 views
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1.30.09 | The Maker's Movement, the return of "handicrafts," tinkering-these are some of the most fascinating cultural practices making the news recently. In early 2008, an article in the New York Times described the Bay Area Maker's Faire as a gathering of "folks from all walks of life who blend science, technology, craft and art to make things both goofy and grand."
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