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Middle School Students Find Their Voice with Digital Cameras | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Middle School Students Find Their Voice with Digital Cameras
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Kids write more, gain ease with language, through texting | The Journal News | lohud.com - 0 views

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  • Megan Haddadi on 08 Mar 11
     
    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.
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Global Learning Scales Up - 0 views

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    Global-learning themes are becoming more popular in U.S. schools, with some districts offering more foreign languages, adopting immersion programs or embedding international perspectives across all curriculum areas.
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OMG! textspeak in schoolwork ;-) | The Columbian - 0 views

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    Eucators in a Washington state school district say they are seeing more texting lingo in students' written school work. Teachers say they correct students' use of abbreviations and shortened words and are working to help students understand when more formal language is called for, such as in school assignments or communications with potential employers.
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News Tribune - News - NCI - Better reading through technology in Dalzell - 0 views

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    An Illinois grade school is using Kindle e-readers to help encourage students of all levels to get excited about reading. The devices' dictionary feature has allowed students in fifth and sixth grade to better understand Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle," and the highlighting feature is being used to help kindergarten students sound out new words. Each device can hold up to 3,500 titles, a feature that educators say helps make up for their school's lack of sufficient library
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VocabGrabber : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus - 0 views

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    VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the "Grab Vocabulary!" button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save.
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Students as Contributors: The Digital Learning Farm | November Learning - 0 views

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    Alan November writes about six creative ways that your students can make valuable contributions to their learning community: tutorial designers, official scribes, researchers, collaborative coordinators, contributing to society, and curriculum reviewers.
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Myths and Opportunities: Technology in the Classroom by Alan November on Vimeo - 0 views

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    Alan November speaks about students as contributors and his desire to globalize curriculum, linking students to authentic audiences around the world.
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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
  • About half of all medical knowledge becomes obsolete every five years. Every 15 years, the world’s body of scientific literature doubles.
  • better integration of formal knowledge and clinical experience and a learning process that is individualized, not one-size-fits-all
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  • One of the goals of this whole model—of having students do a lot of the learning themselves rather than passively listening—is that they need to be lifelong learners
  • Gone is the traditional 50-minute lecture. (Also gone is paper, for the most part.) The students have completed the assigned reading beforehand and, because they’ve absorbed the facts on their own, class time serves another purpose. Self-assessment tests at the start of class measure how well they understand the material. Then it’s time to do a test case, to reinforce their critical thinking and push their knowledge and skills to another level.
  • The room’s interactive technology allows her to link to students’ laptops; it also enables their work to be broadcast onto the big screens. Instead of a blackboard, she can use a document camera, which is like an overhead projector, allowing her to write or draw a diagram that will project on the screens. Absentees can view a podcast of the session.
  • We’re trying to create a situation in which they are thinking as a physician working with a patient, not as a professional test taker,
  • Immediately following the exercise, students move to a separate room where, still highly energized, they watch the video and reflect on their decision making as physicians in that particular situation.
  • studies in modern learning theory indicate that hour-long lectures are not the best way to teach students because the average attention span for listening to one is about 12 minutes.
  • The circular learning studio, Pollart notes, is designed for learning, not teaching.
  • There was some initial resistance. Some faculty felt a little offended
  • Demetri Orlando on 04 Mar 11
     
    a lot of these ideas are applicable to k-12
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Focus Manifesto - 0 views

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    Free online book about focusing one's energy in this age of multi-tasking.

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Personal Learning Environments for Inquiry in K12 - 0 views

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    free online webinars for K12 teachers spanning topics that relate to Personal Learning Networks
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