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Ken Fuller

Big6 Resources - 2 views

  • RESOURCES for EACH BIG6™ STEP
  • 1. Task Definition
  • General-to-specific triangle
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  • 2. Information-Seeking Strategies
  • Primary and Secondary Sources
  • Read•Write•Think lesson plans for selecting best resources (grades 3-5).
  • 3. Location and Access
  • Pathfinders
  • Online Databases
  • Great places for teachers to find WWW sites and resources to support school projects
  • 4. Use of Information
  • The Trash-n-Treasure Method of Teaching Note-Taking - This is our favorite method for teaching/learning notetaking skills.
  • Note-taking
  • Graphic Organizers
  • Inspiration- Software for creating graphic organizers. Download a trial copy. Includes Kidspiration for younger kids
  • Citing Source
  • Copyright and plagiarism
  • Copyright for Kids
  • 5. Synthesis
  • Products and Assessments - Elementary
  • 6. Evaluation
  • Assessment and Project-Based Learning
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    Graphic organizers, webpages, reproducibles, lesson plans and other resources for use to explain, teach, and implement Big6 research skills.
William Russo

Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas: How to Teach Summarizing: A Critical Learning Skill for S... - 4 views

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    Nice artice that brings insight on how to work through levels of cognition for students. So many of them cannot summarize, because, for the most part, teachers may not be using the best techniques to elicit good responses.
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    While it may be true that teachers may not use the best techniques, summarizing is a difficult skill to teach in and of itself.Most students will equate summarizing with " giving a book report" and misconstrue what summarizing truly entails. Having students sift through details and information to arrive at "the important details" is a continuous cognitive process that children reach at different levels at different times in their cognitive development which is one reason why I think this skill is so difficult to teach.
Ken Fuller

14 Ways K-12 Librarians Can Teach Social Media by Joyce Valenza - 1 views

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    "This is the best time in history to be a teacher-librarian. Major shifts in our information and communication landscapes present new opportunities for librarians to teach and lead in areas that were always considered part of their role, helping learners of all ages effectively use, manage, evaluate, organize and communicate information, and to love reading in its glorious new variety."
Scott Nourse

More Schools Embrace the iPad as a Learning Tool - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • A growing number of schools across the nation are embracing the iPad as the latest tool to teach Kafka in multimedia, history through “Jeopardy”-like games and math with step-by-step animation of complex problems.
  • replace textbooks; allow students to correspond with teachers, file papers and homework assignments; and preserve a record of student work in digital portfolios.
  • extend the classroom beyond these four walls
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  • takes away students’ excuses for not doing their work.
  • e traditional scope of homework: go home, read, write,” he said, referring to its video and multimedia elements. “I’m expecting a higher rate of homework completion.”
  • spending money on tablet computers may seem like an extravagance.
  • invest in them before their educational value has been proved by research.
  • , is advancing its effort to go paperless and cut spending. Some of the tablets are being used for special education students.
  • “IPads are marvelous tools to engage kids, but then the novelty wears off, and you get into hard-core issues of teaching and learning.”
  • versatile tool with a multitude of applications, including thousands with educational uses.
  • laud the iPad’s physical attributes,
  • light weight
  • “There is very little evidence that kids learn more, faster or better by using these machines,”
  • simulate a piano keyboard on a screen or display constellations based on a viewer’s location
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    Pros and cons
William Russo

'Teach Naked' Effort Strips Computers From Classrooms - Technology - The Chronicle of H... - 0 views

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    Wow - what an article. This professor may have a point. Is there such a thing as "death by Powerpoint"? I'm sure the point is accurate if the technology is used as a digital replacement for poor teaching strategies. I'm interested in hearing your feedback on this article.
Ken Fuller

20 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have -- THE Journal - 3 views

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    This one is an oldie but a goodie. I use it whenever I work a new group of learners or learners that are new to educational technology. It's an easy read and can be modified to reflect the rapid changes in technology.
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    Yes, I agree with much of the article and the skills mentioned, but at first glance, it's quite daunting. You're talking about skills that, for the average educator, takes years to acquire and with which to become comfortable. That is something we ,as integration specialists,s need to keep in mind.
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    Absolutely Sui! I think TISs face the same challenge as classroom teachers. How do we hook them? For people like you and I it's an intrinsic motivation to grow our knowledge base and fine tune our craft. Once a teacher told me, "there are three kinds of teachers, those that were born to do it, those that can be taught to do it and those that will never get it." I want to believe that the overwhelming majority of teachers fall into that second category. So, back to how do we hook them. I agree with Bill that Atomic Learning is woefully underutilized. One way to get the teachers hooked and increase the likelihood that AL is used is to adopt AL as our launching point for developing all PLOs. Take a look at the AL Toolkit http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/atomictoolkit. Assuming that we have done our due diligence and prepared our teachers to register for AL and view relevant tutorials prior to the PLO. Use the toolkit materials to "promote" our PLOs. Encourage teachers to subscribe to the AL newsletter and our web site blog feeds. Design PLOs with their work in mind - flipcharts using upcoming unit actiities, etc. I think it was Kathy Shrock that said something like, when teaching an unfamiliar application use a familiar task and when teaching an unfamiliar task use a familiar application. We also need to change the mindset so that the "learning" is their bag of bricks to carry and that we are here to coach, and support them to that end.
William Russo

How to Teach with Tech Tools - 0 views

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    Nice basic read.
Ken Fuller

Online free touch typing program | School environment | Teacher login - 4 views

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    Ever hear this one? "Aren't you the computer person? Why don't you teach the students how to type?" Be polite and point them to this site.
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    Might want to try this one too http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/
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    Deb that's pretty cool. I'll have my girls take it for a test drive this weekend.
Sarah Edwards

The Interactive Whiteboard Revolution - A place for conversations that promote effectiv... - 1 views

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    Only had time for the 10cent tour but this looks interesting...
Ken Fuller

Common Sense Media - 0 views

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    I've used this site to evaluate books, and movies that I consider sharing with my own children. A national organization led by concerned parents sharing common interests in the quality of media families choose to consume. Common Sense Media's mission is built upon the foundation of ten beliefs, two of which I think will appeal to most educational technology and library media specialists: * We believe in media sanity, not censorship. * We believe in teaching our kids to be savvy media interpreters -- we can't cover their eyes but we can teach them to see.
William Russo

23 Things about Classroom Laptops « - 2 views

  • Work avoidance just went digital
  • ou need to find ways to bring that into class, not try and ban it.
  • Find ways in which one or two students can ‘share’ work with many. Create online spaces where students can use ‘friend-networks’.
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  • 11. Don’t be boring! Using a laptop to type in answers to textbook questions, print them out and hand it is absolutely facile. Your textbook is NOT compatible with student motivation towards technology. Boring computer activities lead to work avoidance strategies and self-interest use of the internet.
  • 12. Don’t try to win the proxy war Filters can be got around, they will always find a way. Entering a proxy war means more wasted time trying to work out what sites will work – You have to test your lessons using THEIR proxy (web access) – as you’ll find that things you want to use are blocked. Overtly policed and blocked networks are counter-productive.
  • 15. The wipe-board is no longer the hub of activity – unless you put it online. The board is not the place to ‘look’. Consider how it can be used to work with ‘small groups’ to workshop ideas – and use the laptops as a student management tool to keep them busy and focused on work – not you or the board.
  • 18. Empower and enlist your Library Librarians are teachers with an additional skill – enlist them in your classroom as a team-teacher. Don’t ask them to find online resources for you – that’s lazy, as them to teach you how to do it, or teach your students.
  • Powerful learning, comes from passionate, motivated teachers who never stop learning. Don’t lock-step these people by industrialist notions of hierarchical power play – or resort to moral or ideological pressure to teachers to do more. It is a long slow process to renew learning, not overnight change. Recognise how important the goodwill of staff is – given the absolute lack of central government funding to invest in teachers – the way it is investing in infrastructure. The criteria used to target ‘future leaders’ is not going to be as effective as it once was, so be prepared for innovation to come from the grassroots.
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    Andrew Church
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    Intersting thoughts in this article regarding 1:1. When you read the section on leadership, think of ways we can nurture our teacher tech leaders.
William Russo

Virginia using iPads to teach social studies | Business News | eSchoolNews.com - 6 views

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    Pearson loaded the social studies content on apps - this is crucial that content is available and students don't have to search too much.
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    How many of our textbooks are able to be loaded on the ipad. Could this be a means of providing an ipad for every student with textbook costs?
Ken Fuller

Free Online Learning at GCFLearnFree.org - 2 views

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    I was looking for something to replace AtomicLearning and this is what I found. It's pretty basic (read teacher friendly). There are many offerings for self-paced online training for productivity apps (MS Word, Excel); internet and social networking tools, and more.
Ken Fuller

The Electric Educator: Google-Proof Questioning: A New Use for Bloom's Taxonomy - 0 views

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    "So, what is a "Google-proof question?" It is a question that can not be directly answered via Google (or any other search engine) because it requires, analysis, interpretation, and investigation. Writing such questions can be challenging. A helpful tool is Bloom's Taxonomy. "
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    This is a cool article. Take time to look at the "new" Bloom's Taxonomy Wheel.
Ken Fuller

Grazing for Digital Natives - ppln - 0 views

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    A rich source of professional learning network tools. Many examples of how teachers are connecting with each other, the students, and classrooms to classrooms.
Ken Fuller

Cool Cat Teacher Blog - 0 views

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    One of the best educator's blog I've found. The posts are informative and thought provoking.
Scott Nourse

Google Earth Lessons - 0 views

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    Lessons and tips on  using Google Earth to help students think Geo Spatially.
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    Check out the lessons section....
Scott Nourse

RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms « Sir Ken Robinson - 0 views

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    A very creative animation of a condensed speech on Changing Education Paradigms by Sir Ken Robinson.
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