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Kevin Crouch

Amara - Caption, translate, subtitle and transcribe video. - 0 views

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    Caption videos for YouTube. Great for language classes.
Kevin Crouch

4 Tips To Help Students Start Blogging - Edudemic - 0 views

  • She stressed the importance of having students write their first blog post on paper. Once they have completed their writing, they hang their posts around the perimeter of the room. The students then use post-it notes to comment on two different blogs. This is where she begins the process of helping students learn to comment effectively.
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      Interesting idea here about using paper to teach blogging concepts.
  • I decided that I had to teach my students how to create catchy titles for their blogs so they could entice other people to actually read their writing.
Kevin Crouch

Why BYOD Makes Sense: Thinking Beyond a Standardized 1:1 | Edutopia - 0 views

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    "Standardizing a device across an entire school pushes the feeling of an "add-on" and must be used consistently and effectively. "
Kevin Crouch

With Tech Tools, How Should Teachers Tackle Multitasking In Class? | MindShift - 0 views

  • Important research compiled on the effects of students multitasking while learning shows that they are losing depth of learning,
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    "Important research compiled on the effects of students multitasking while learning shows that they are losing depth of learning, "
Kevin Crouch

CloudConvert - convert anything to anything - 0 views

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    "convert anything to anything"
Kevin Crouch

How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Busine... - 0 views

  • Decentralized systems have proven to be more productive and agile than rigid, top-down ones. Innovation, creativity, and independent thinking are increasingly crucial to the global economy.
  • The study found that when the subjects controlled their own observations, they exhibited more coordination between the hippocampus and other parts of the brain involved in learning and posted a 23 percent improvement in their ability to remember objects.
  • Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi to Jean Piaget and Maria Montessori have argued that students should learn by playing and following their curiosity.
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  • This group played longer and discovered an average of six attributes of the toy; the group that was told what to do discovered only about four. A similar study at UC Berkeley demonstrated that kids given no instruction were much more likely to come up with novel solutions to a problem.
  • If you program a robot’s every movement, she says, it can’t adapt to anything unexpected. But when scientists build machines that are programmed to try a variety of motions and learn from mistakes, the robots become far more adaptable and skilled.
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    "Decentralized systems have proven to be more productive and agile than rigid, top-down ones. Innovation, creativity, and independent thinking are increasingly crucial to the global economy."
Kevin Crouch

Screenr | Instant screencasts: Just click record - 0 views

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    A web-based screen recorder
Kevin Crouch

ImageQuiz - 0 views

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    "a website that uses the power of images (1 image = 1000 words) to help you learn. The website contains a variety of quizzes, tagged according to topic: just select a topic that interests you from the sidebar, then select a quiz. Can't think of one? Do a random quiz."
Kevin Crouch

Newsletter for Educators - October 2013 - 0 views

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    There is a lot of good stuff in this communication from Common Sense.
Kevin Crouch

Todoist - 0 views

Kevin Crouch

Paper for the Web | Padlet (Wallwisher) - 1 views

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    wallwisher now padlet on the ipad
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