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Jen Bartsch

"NCSS People, Places, and Environment" - 0 views

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    Students discuss merchants located in their community. Then students choose a local business to write a letter to.
Breanna Kalal

Preschool Education Library : Book Reviews > Tops and Bottoms - 0 views

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    The book Tops and Bottoms teaches children about the parts of the vegetables that have the food we eat. Some plants the food grows on top of the soil and others grow in the ground below the soil. The story teaches students about knowing your vegetables and how to run a business.
Nichole Bartella

CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News - 0 views

shared by Nichole Bartella on 05 Sep 09 - Cached
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    CNN.com delivers the latest breaking news and information on the latest top stories, weather, business, entertainment, politics, and more. For in-depth coverage, CNN.com provides special reports, video, audio, photo galleries, and interactive guides.
Siri Anderson

Paradigms Restrained: Implications of New and Emerging Technologies for Learning and Co... - 1 views

  • Instructional technology seeks to disprove the idea that "great teachers are born, not made."
  • "Students today can't prepare bark to calculate their problems. They depend on slates, which are more expensive. What will they do when the slate is dropped and it breaks? They will be unable to write." From a Teachers Conference, 1703. "Students today depend on paper too much. They don't know how to write on a slate without getting chalk dust all over themselves. They can't clean a slate properly. What will they do when they run out of paper?" From a principal's publication, 1815. "Students today depend too much on ink. They don't know how to use a pen knife to sharpen a pencil. Pen and ink will never replace the pencil." From the National Association of Teachers Journal, 1907. "Students today depend on store-bought ink. They don't know how to make their own. When they run out of ink they will be unable to write words or cipher until their next trip to the settlement. This is a sad commentary on modern education." From The Rural American Teacher, 1928. "Students depend on these expensive fountain pens. They can no longer write with a straight pen and nib. We parents must not allow them to wallow in such luxury to the detriment of how to cope in the business world, which is not so extravagant." From the Parent Teachers Association Gazette, 1941. "Ballpoint pens will be the ruin of education in our country. Students use these devices and then throw them away. The American values of thrift and frugality are being discarded. Business and banks will never allow such expensive luxuries." From Federal Teachers, 1950.
  • What this suggests is that all technologies, be they things that plug in or advances in thought, have various affordances that make them at times useful and at times not useful. The trick is to figure out what makes them useful in what situations in order to leverage their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.
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  • Organizational instructional strategies are those decisions the instructional designer makes when designing learning activities. The most important of these decisions is how the designer will assist learners to process new information and to process at a deeper level, producing meaningful learning, whether or not a teacher is presen
  • The choice of strategy is based on the designer's belief in the independent existence of knowledge: does it exist without the learner? Which epistemological approach to learning a designer espouses will have great impact on the organizational instructional strategy selected for use.
  • The goal of learning from the objectivist perspective is to communicate or transfer complete and correct understanding to the learner in the most efficient and effective way possible
  • In simple terms, objectivism holds that learners are the passive receivers of knowledge.
  • Cognitivism requires that learners devise methods for learning content.
  • Cognitivism recognizes that most people must develop a method of processing information to integrate it into their own mental models. The most recognizable mechanism in cognitive theory may be the definition of short term and long-term memory, and the need then to devise learner-appropriate methods of moving information from short-term memory to long-term memory. Learners must develop methods to learn how to learn. Consequently, interest in critical thinking skills has become fashionable in education. In terms of what this means for learning, it may be said that the truths are absolute in terms of what people are supposed to learn, but that we provide them latitude in how they arrive at those truths.
  • Constructivism, described by von Glaserfeld (1977) as an alternate theory of knowing, is the belief that knowledge is personally constructed from internal representations by individuals who use their experiences as a foundation (
  • he major differences between objectivism and constructivism involve beliefs about the nature of knowledge and how one acquires it. Objectivists view knowledge as an absolute truth; constructivists are open to different interpretations depending on who is interpreting. Objectivists believe learning involves gaining the answer; constructivists believe that because there are many perspectives, a correct answer is a limiting factor in learning. Constructivists say learning should focus on understanding and it may involve seeing multiple perspectives.
  • Transfer of inert knowledge from one context to another unfamiliar context (i.e. the real world) is difficult and unlikely.
  • nchored instruction is simply the idea that learning should be centered on problems.
  • Cognitive-flexibility theory is centered on "the ability to spontaneously restructure one's knowledge, in many ways, in adaptive response to radically changing situational demands . . .
  • The idea is to allow students to criss-cross the landscape of a content area so that they might have a rich mental model of the domain. The trick is to determine how much complexity a given group of learners is capable of handling without becoming lost or discouraged. A series of scenarios escalating in complexity can usually accommodate most learners.
  • Kurzweil (1999) says there is exponential growth in the rate of exponential growth; examining the speed and density of computation beginning with the first mechanical computers and not just the transistors that Moore used, he concluded that this doubling now occurs every year. He notes that "if the automobile industry had made as much progress [as the computing industry] in the past fifty years, a car today would cost a hundredth of a cent and go faster than the speed of light" (Kurzweil 1999, 25).
  • Already today it is becoming archaic and superfluous to teach facts. Instead, education needs to focus on ways of thinking. In particular, students will need to be able to recognize a problem, determine what information might be needed to solve a problem, find the information required, evaluate the information found, synthesize that information into a solution for the problem, apply the solution to the problem, and evaluate the results of that application
  • By the year 2099 there will no longer be any clear distinction between humans and computers.
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    This artcle really struck me in terms of the descriptions of instructional design and the way they influence the type of learning that happens. Much social studies instruction, it seems to me, produces "inert knowledge" which is why most of us can't remember it later. Consider the descriptions I've highlighted of anchored instruction for an alternative approach.
kristinaolson30

A Day Without a Mexican (2004) - IMDb - 0 views

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    A thick fog surrounds California's borders, communication beyond state lines is cut off, and the Mexicans disappear: workers, spouses, and business owners are missing. Cars are abandoned in the street, food is left cooking on the stove. We meet the wife of a musician who's gone, a state Senator whose maid doesn't show up for work, and a farm owner whose produce is ripe and unpicked. A scientist asks any Mexicans who haven't disappeared to volunteer for genetic experiments: a female newscaster and the daughter of the musician may be the only missing links around. Why them? And where have all the Mexicans gone? Even the border guards grieve. The state and its economy grind to a halt.
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    I don't know if this is an appropriate video or not, but one of my friends mentioned it at Bunco last night so I thought I would share it.
Siri Anderson

American Experience . The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie . The Steel Busines... - 0 views

  • His relentless efforts to drive down costs and undersell the competition made his steel mills the most modern in the world, the models for the entire industry.
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      Notice that they begin by noting the good things that came from Carengie's penny pinching. Why do you think this is?
Siri Anderson

The Media Equation - For Media, a Sunset Is Followed Quickly by a Sunrise - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Painful but smart.
Kelly Nuthak

getSTEM - Connecting Educators and Businesses around STEM - 0 views

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      online tools for STEM in Minnesota
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nikkilh

The Power of Mindfulness: What You Practice Grows Stronger | Shauna Shapiro | TEDxWashi... - 0 views

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    TED Talk Dr. Shauna Shaprio
Katelyn Karsnia

The-Personal-Care-Attendant-Program.pdf - 1 views

shared by Katelyn Karsnia on 19 Mar 22 - No Cached
  • The types of care and services you require depend upon how much assistance you need with your Activities of Daily Living (ADLs). These are the activities that are essential to day-to-day functioning such as: • Bathing • Dressing • Toileting (assistance going to the bathroom) • Incontinence (lack of bladder or bowel control) • Eating, and • Transferring (getting in and out of bed or chair).
  • primary role of a personal care attendant is to “fill in the gaps” so that the highest level of independence and socialization in the community can be achieved
  • Through this personalized service, program participants receive hands-on care, help with social and business affairs, such as escorting while doing errands or visiting friends, going on walks and outings, opening and reading mail, paying bills and making light meals.
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  • REFERRAL Screen for Initial Eligibility Placement on wait list until slot a v ailable Referral to Access Agency Care Manag er Assessment
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      This diagram shows referral process for a PCA
  • To qualify for personal care attendant services you must: • Be between the ages of 18 and 64 • Have a long-term health condition that requires hands on care with at least two activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, eating, and walking. • Meet financial eligibility requirements • Be able to supervise the personal care attendant or have a conservator who do can do it
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      This diagram shows how the PCA program works and who benefits from what role
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    Determines who is eligible for PCA and an explanation of what a PCA does in regard to what an individual needs based on their enrollment/eligibility
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