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Kelli Montgomery

Focus On Effectiveness | NETC - 0 views

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    Are you looking for practical ways to improve student achievement? Strengthen teaching and learning processes with research-based instructional strategies combined with effective technology use. Twelve core strategies link to 30 classroom examples that show how to apply key research, using technology to engage learners and improve achievement.
Randy Rodgers

Collaborize Classroom - Online Education Technology for Teachers and Students - 0 views

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    Free online tool for collaborative discussions; includes voting tool, graphing of results, and participation reports
Randy Rodgers

Accelerating Campus Technology - 0 views

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    Ning group for BISD technology camp
Randy Rodgers

open thinking » 80+ Videos for Tech. & Media Literacy - 0 views

  • Over the past few years, I have been collecting interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. Here are 70+ videos organized into various sub-categories. These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use.
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    Over the past few years, I have been collecting interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. Here are 70+ videos organized into various sub-categories. These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use.
Randy Rodgers

How to Summon Your Child's Inner Coder: 10 Questions With Raspberry Pi Inventor Eben Up... - 0 views

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    Interview with the inventor of the Raspberry Pi, Eben Upton. Some good nuggets and implications for education here.
Randy Rodgers

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

  • And yet the dominant model of public education is still fundamentally rooted in the industrial revolution that spawned it, when workplaces valued punctuality, regularity, attention, and silence above all else.
  • Decentralized systems have proven to be more productive and agile than rigid, top-down ones
  • In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills in demand were teamwork, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills
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  • We don’t openly profess those values nowadays, but our educational system—which routinely tests kids on their ability to recall information and demonstrate mastery of a narrow set of skills—doubles down on the view that students are material to be processed, programmed, and quality-tested. School administrators prepare curriculum standards and “pacing guides” that tell teachers what to teach each day. Legions of managers supervise everything that happens in the classroom; in 2010 only 50 percent of public school staff members in the US were teachers.
  • Teachers provide prompts, not answers, and then they step aside
  • There will be no teachers, curriculum, or separation into age groups—just six or so computers and a woman to look after the kids’ safety. His defining principle: “The children are completely in charge.”
  • “schools in the cloud,”
  • as the kids blasted through the questions, they couldn’t help noticing that it felt easy, as if they were being asked to do something very basic.
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    Must. Read. Such a valuable lesson and another example of how we are doing it wrong.
Randy Rodgers

Skype in Schools / FrontPage - 0 views

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    Directory of educator Skype users.
Randy Rodgers

Google For Educators - 0 views

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    Google tools for students and teachers
Randy Rodgers

From Toy to Tool: Cell Phones in Learning - 0 views

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    Great site for ideas for using cell phones in education.
Randy Rodgers

Marzano Research - 0 views

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    Research by Robert Marzano of effects of interactive whiteboards in education.
Randy Rodgers

Dr. Bob Marzano, CUE 2009 Keynote, Part I - 0 views

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    Marzano talks about technology's effects on education.
Randy Rodgers

Search Lesson Plans by Keyword and Subject for Your SMART Board - SMART Exchange - 0 views

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    Huge, free gallery collection for Smart Notebook software from Smart Technologies.
Randy Rodgers

Marzano's Instructional Strategies - 0 views

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    Integrating technology with Marzano's 9 strategies
Randy Rodgers

Library2Play - 0 views

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    Spring-Branch ISD library services program to introduce technology to librarians.
Randy Rodgers

FreshBrain - 0 views

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    Social site allows teens to explore and learn technology and participate in a variety of application projects.
Randy Rodgers

10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports - TheApple.com - 0 views

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    Nice list of some great online alternatives to doing the same old book report.
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