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in title, tags, annotations or urlOfficial Google Cloud Blog: The skills agenda: Preparing students for the future - 0 views
Basic Digital Skills Every Teacher Should Have ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 1 views
The Big Disconnect - 0 views
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Research tells us that, at the most basic level, children’s social skills may be in decline from spending less face-to-face time and more time on screens.
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Middle school children leading digital lives pose a particular challenge.
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middle, and high school is how hungry they are for their teachers to teach them pro-social strategies for dealing with these difficult social dynamics
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20 Things Educators Need To Know About Digital Literacy Skills - 0 views
25 Things Skilled Learners Do Differently - 0 views
Are You Ready to Join the Slow Education Movement? - 0 views
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✓ We create learning environments that are carefully crafted, receptive, still, intuitive, unhurried, patient, reflective, quality-over-quantity and engaging. ✓ We develop curriculum that has greater depth than breadth. ✓ We make sure our curriculum takes into account local culture and celebrates the uniqueness of our local community. ✓ We don’t isolate skills development but let students grow their skills as they engage with important content. ✓ We construct learning environments that foster questioning, creativity and innovation, such as the maker movement and project/problem based learning. ✓ We find the courage to have serious discussions about abolishing standardized testing, classroom marks and grading, and the use of “birth year” as our primary criterion for sorting students. ✓ We lobby our governments for funds to assure true equality in education for all children. ✓ We discontinue the ranking of teachers and schools. ✓ We replace our egg-carton grades with flexible, personalized learning that takes into account when students are ready to engage in and acquire important skills. ✓ We make time for teacher collaboration a top priority.
The Six 21st Century Skills You REALLY Need - 0 views
A Google a Day - 0 views
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On April 11th Google launched a new daily puzzle to help teachers and students learn how to search more effectively. AGoogleADay.com presents an ever-changing search challenge that exercises your internet search skills, and if you get stumped, there's a solution path just one click away to show you how to solve the problem. In the first two weeks, AGoogleADay.com has had more than 300K visitors, all coming to learn what's possible on Google, challenge their Google-Fu, and learn a bit more about what can be done to improve your search skills.
Kids write more, gain ease with language, through texting | The Journal News | lohud.com - 0 views
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Many educators say text-messaging actually may improve students' writing skills and their ability to communicate, allowing them to experiment with language. Other educators stress the need for students to know how and when to employ different writing styles. "It's up to teachers to understand the digital media and help students bridge their casual and formal writing," said Sharon Washington, executive director of the National Writing Project.
Return to Sender -- THE Journal - 1 views
UVA Med School Embraces Innovative Teaching - 0 views
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they are expected to graduate with the habits of mind—curiosity, skepticism, compassion, wonder—that will prepare them to be better physicians
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About half of all medical knowledge becomes obsolete every five years. Every 15 years, the world’s body of scientific literature doubles.
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better integration of formal knowledge and clinical experience and a learning process that is individualized, not one-size-fits-all
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Simulations Helping New Teachers Hone Skills - 0 views
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The student-teacher faces a rowdy class. “We’re not going to have that kind of behavior in here,” she says. “It’s too loud in here to move on.” The students don’t pay much attention. A boy in the back row, wearing a sleeveless T-shirt, slumps his shoulders. Another student waves his hand aimlessly. “Nah, just stretching,” he replies, when the teacher asks if he needs something. Scenes such as that aren’t uncommon in urban classrooms, but in this case there is one critical difference: These students are avatars—computer-generated characters whose movements and speech are controlled by a professional actor. Each of the five characters—all with distinct abilities, personalities, and psychological profiles, and even names like “Maria” and “Marcus”—were created as part of the TeachME initiative at the University of Central Florida, in Orlando. There, teacher-candidates can practice in a virtual classroom before ever entering a real one. Real-time classroom simulations like TeachME, supporters say, offer promise for a host of teacher-training applications. Through them, candidates could learn to work with different groups of students, or practice a discrete skill such as classroom management. Most of all, such simulations give teachers in training the ability to experiment—and make mistakes—without the worry of doing harm to an actual child’s learning. “It allows the teacher to fail in a safe environment,” said Lisa Dieker, a professor of education at the University of Central Florida and one of the designers of TeachME. “Real kids, trust me, will remember in May what you said to them in August. You can’t reset children.”
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