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A Complete Look at Ms. Noonan's Classroom Techniques - 1 views

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    A 5th grade math class takes a new look at Common Core, formative assesment, creative/critical thinking, problem solving, classroom management techniques, group work. Some bil-lingual used. Individual students are addressed and encouraged in this exciting model classroom that is very hands-on.
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6 Back-to-School Tech Projects - 2 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 14 Sep 15
     
    These are absolutely great ideas to use technology appropriately, while adding creativity, critical thinking, and surprises. Some sites/ideas are also good for very young learners.
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Digital Storytelling with the iPad - 1 views

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    "Digital Storytelling can transform your students' writing into a visual masterpiece that is filled with voice and emotion, while enhancing critical thinking skills. The iPad takes digital storytelling to a new level by making the process easier, and even more engaging for students of all grade levels as well as for their teachers. " Apps and Tutorials for apps look esp. interesting.
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Study Guides and Strategies - 3 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 28 Aug 11
     
    100s of guides to learning and studying in dozens of languages. Especially good for writing, reading, and critical thinking skills. Also has some materials for students with learning disabilities, e.g., ADHD. Mainly native-speaker oriented.
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My Pop Studio: About this Site - 0 views

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    From the About page:\n\nMy Pop Studio is a creative play experience that strengthens critical thinking skills about television, music, magazines and online media directed at girls. Users select from four behind-the-scenes opportunities to learn more about mass media:\n\n Looks like fun for high school students, and was created by a team at Temple University, School of Communication. Focus is media literacy.\n--EHS
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Service Learning: Growing Action From the Roots of Passion | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 20 Nov 15
     
    "In 2007, my co-teacher and I noticed that students felt increasingly like the world was "happening to them," as if they had no ability to affect positive change. This, coupled with the question "When am I going to use this?" led to the inspiration which has become the Fifth-Grade Environmental Project. "Our goal was to create an educational model in which students' passions are the driving force, empowering them as global citizens. While we have limited time to cover required curriculum, we are committed to finding ways of embedding curriculum in "real-life" applications within the project. "While the project's topic changes each year, the roots (or required elements) are the same, and the work evolves based on student passions, allowing each individual to find and contribute his or her gift to the whole, and reaffirming our belief that together we are smarter." Explains how service learning can inspire student passion, critical thinking, and learning to affect change. Describes partnerships with community nonprofits, and products that students can create to inspire others.
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20 Free Tools for Making Comics and Cartoons for Teaching and Learning - 4 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 12 Dec 14
     
    A nice grouping from the EmerginingEdTech blogers. This might be a good blog to sign up for to receive email alerts. Comics are great for practicing reading, critical thinking, and writing. They can get the most jaded class rebooted.
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News & Media Literacy | Common Sense Education - 1 views

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    "EDUCATOR TOOLKIT News & Media Literacy In today's 24/7 digital world, we have instant access to all kinds of information online. Educators need strategies to equip students with the core skills they need to think critically about today's media. We teach foundational skills in news and media literacy through our Digital Citizenship program, specifically through our Creative Credit & Copyright and Information Literacy topics. Built on more than 10 years of expertise and classroom testing, these lessons and related teaching materials give students the essential skills to be smart, savvy media consumers and creators. From lesson plans about fact-checking to clickbait headlines and fake news, we've covered everything. To learn more about our approach, read the Topic Backgrounder on news and media literacy."
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Novel HyperDoc Template (Elementary Level) - Google Slides - 2 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 23 Apr 18
     
    A set of G-slides that can be used for writing a novel. This approach really works with short stories and poetry, and over the course of a semester or year term would work for a longer effort. Makes a great project for group effort as well. My niece wrote a novel in 2nd year of secondary school, and self-published on Amazon. Great idea for teaching writing, critical thinking, and long-range planning.
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Educators | National Museum of African American History and Culture - 0 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 22 Dec 17
     
    Programs and resources to "ignite critical thinking skills and creativity, to generate self-pride and insprie life-long learning for diverse audiences." Programs for early childhood Ed through Teachers, and school group tours.
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Cool Coding Apps and Websites for Kids - 0 views

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    "Computer programming can help kids develop vital problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. Not sure where to begin? This list offers ways to jump-start a coding adventure. It also encourages kids to become creators and not simply consumers of technology. Teaching everything from simple commands to complex programs, our favorite coding apps and websites come in a range of formats designed for different ages and abilities. For even more popular picks to spark your kid's interest in coding, be sure to check out our favorite tools that cover STEM topics and our Learning with Technology topic center." Lots of choices for very young learners.
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Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • “The data is pretty weak. It’s very difficult when we’re pressed to come up with convincing data,”
  • he said change of a historic magnitude is inevitably coming to classrooms this decade: “It’s one of the three or four biggest things happening in the world today.”
  • schools are being motivated by a blind faith in technology and an overemphasis on digital skills — like using PowerPoint and multimedia tools — at the expense of math, reading and writing fundamentals. They say the technology advocates have it backward
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  • tough financial choices. In Kyrene, for example, even as technology spending has grown, the rest of the district’s budget has shrunk, leading to bigger classes and fewer periods of music, art and physical education.
  • The district leaders’ position is that technology has inspired students and helped them grow, but that there is no good way to quantify those achievements — putting them in a tough spot with voters deciding whether to bankroll this approach again. “My gut is telling me we’ve had growth,” said David K. Schauer, the superintendent here. “But we have to have some measure that is valid, and we don’t have that.”
  • Since then, the ambitions of those who champion educational technology have grown — from merely equipping schools with computers and instructional software, to putting technology at the center of the classroom and building the teaching around it.
  • . The district’s pitch was based not on the idea that test scores would rise, but that technology represented the future.
  • For instance, in the Maine math study, it is hard to separate the effect of the laptops from the effect of the teacher training.
  • “Rather than being a cure-all or silver bullet, one-to-one laptop programs may simply amplify what’s already occurring — for better or worse,” wrote Bryan Goodwin, spokesman for Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning, a nonpartisan group that did the study, in an essay. Good teachers, he said, can make good use of computers, while bad teachers won’t, and they and their students could wind up becoming distracted by the technology.
  • Larry Cuban, an education professor emeritus at Stanford University, said the research did not justify big investments by districts. “There is insufficient evidence to spend that kind of money. Period, period, period,” he said. “There is no body of evidence that shows a trend line.”
  • “In places where we’ve had a large implementing of technology and scores are flat, I see that as great,” she said. “Test scores are the same, but look at all the other things students are doing: learning to use the Internet to research, learning to organize their work, learning to use professional writing tools, learning to collaborate with others.”
  • It was something Ms. Furman doubted would have happened if the students had been using computers. “There is a connection between the physical hand on the paper and the words on the page,” she said. “It’s intimate.” But, she said, computers play an important role in helping students get their ideas down more easily, edit their work so they can see instant improvement, and share it with the class. She uses a document camera to display a student’s paper at the front of the room for others to dissect. Ms. Furman said the creative and editing tools, by inspiring students to make quick improvements to their writing, pay dividends in the form of higher-quality work. Last year, 14 of her students were chosen as finalists in a statewide essay contest that asked them how literature had affected their lives. “I was running down the hall, weeping, saying, ‘Get these students together. We need to tell them they’ve won!’ ”
  • For him, the best educational uses of computers are those that have no good digital equivalent. As examples, he suggests using digital sensors in a science class to help students observe chemical or physical changes, or using multimedia tools to reach disabled children.
  • engagement is a “fluffy term” that can slide past critical analysis. And Professor Cuban at Stanford argues that keeping children engaged requires an environment of constant novelty,
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      Engagement can also mean sustained interest over a long term, e.g., Tiny Zoo.
  • “There is very little valid and reliable research that shows the engagement causes or leads to higher academic achievement,” he said.
  • computers can distract and not instruct.
  • t Xavier is just shooting every target in sight. Over and over. Periodically, the game gives him a message: “Try again.” He tries again. “Even if he doesn’t get it right, it’s getting him to think quicker,” says the teacher, Ms. Asta. She leans down next to him: “Six plus one is seven. Click here.” She helps him shoot the right target. “See, you shot him.”
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      Student learns the game, not the concept. But this is "skills-based," not a thinking game. Technology mis-applied?
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      These are activities tat can't be measured with a standardized test. Can standardized tests encompass thinking skills beyond the most modest level?
  • building a blog to write about Shakespeare’
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      How much incremental improvement is made by having one student more or less? Ed research can't determine that, but it can be felt palpably in a classroom.
  • Professor Cuban at Stanford said research showed that student performance did not improve significantly until classes fell under roughly 15 students, and did not get much worse unless they rose above 30. At the same time, he says bigger classes can frustrate teachers, making it hard to attract and retain talented ones.
  • classmates used a video camera to film a skit about Woodrow Wilson’s 14-point speech during World War I
  • he resisted getting the interactive whiteboards sold as Smart Boards until, one day in 2008, he saw a teacher trying to mimic the product with a jury-rigged projector setup. “It was an ‘Aha!’ moment,” he said, leading him to buy Smart Boards, made by a company called Smart Technologies.
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      So it has to be teachers who find the creative uses.
  • . Sales of computer software to schools for classroom use were $1.89 billion in 2010. Spending on hardware is more difficult to measure, researchers say, but some put the figure at five times that amount.
  • “Do we really need technology to learn?”
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Teaching Higher Order Thinking Skills In Middle School - 0 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 07 Oct 14
     
    "Create higher order questions in order to analyze and discuss a text," a 6-min video with a real 6th grade teacher.
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Rethinking the Way College Students Are Taught - 9 views

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  • "We need to educate a population to compete in this global marketplace," says Lukoff. We can't do that by relying on a few motivated people to teach themselves. "We need a much larger swath of [the] population to be able to think critically and problem-solve."
  • , Mazur told the students to discuss the question with each other. Eric Mazur teaching his class at Harvard. (Photo: Emily Hanford) "And something happened in my classroom which I had never seen before," he says. "The entire classroom erupted in chaos. They were dying to explain it to one another and to talk about it."
  • But here's the irony. "Mary is more likely to convince John than professor Mazur in front of the class," Mazur says. "She's only recently learned it and still has some feeling for the conceptual difficulties that she has whereas professor Mazur learned [the idea] such a long time ago that he can no longer understand why somebody has difficulty grasping it." That's the irony of becoming an expert in your field,
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  • Mazur says. "It becomes not easier to teach, it becomes harder to teach because you're unaware of the conceptual difficulties of a beginning learner."
  • You can see a video of Mazur's peer instruction approach in action here:
  • g. Students end up understanding nearly three times as much now, measured by a widely-used conceptual test.
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      How can this approach best be applied in teaching languages?
  • Peer instruction has proven effective in a range of subjects from psychology to philosophy.
  • "I know I'm frustrated now with some of my other classes when I go to lecture and I have to just sit there and take in information and I don't really get the opportunity to think about what I have just learned," she says. Lyne says she's learning more in this new way.
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    Be sure to view the 2.21 min. video of Mazur at work in his "lecture" class. If students "end up understanding nearly three times as much..." in a flipped classroom, how can this approach best be used in a language class?
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The 4 Brain Essential Learning Steps - Edudemic - Edudemic - 1 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 21 Nov 13
     
    "The handy infographic below takes a look at the BELS process - Brain Essential Learning Steps. In other words, how does the brain process information in the learning process? The graphic breaks it down in terms of how to teach the material, making this a super useful reminder for teachers planning their lessons. Keep reading to learn more." The 4 Steps: Introducing material, collaborative brainstorming, students develop a learning plan, and then "take action," through writing, music, visuals, etc., and share.
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40 Sites for Educational Games | Digital Learning Environments - 4 views

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    Each site mentioned includes a brief description. Lots of math, science, and reading sites. A mix of grade levels/student ages.
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What Should Schools Teach? 10 suggestions by @RichardJARogers - UKEdChat - 0 views

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    Each of these is explained in detail: "#1 How to manage money #2 How to manage emotions (especially worrying) #3: The importance of a healthy lifestyle #4 To question everything #5: To respect other peoples' rights to an opinion #6 To value creative arts #7 To respect the natural environment #8 Public speaking #9 Manners and etiquette #10: How to teach themselves"
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The Complete Beginner's Guide to Choice Boards - 1 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 21 Apr 18
     
    "Student choice is not only a simple way to increase student engagement, it's also an essential factor in developing digital literacy while building 21st century life and career skills. Choice boards typically start with a specific learning goal, then provide students with a variety of ways to practice a skill, learn a concept, or demonstrate understanding." Site offers a variety of Choice board templates for your classroom use.
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How To Build A Culture Of Learning - 0 views

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    The teacher uses questions and activities to build a "Culture of Learning" that empowers students to ask questions, not just fulfill a task. Video of real classes with sidebar food for thought. From the Teaching Channel.
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Amazon Storybuilder - 3 views

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    This is "a free, easy-to-use screenwriting tool that helps you build stories for Movies or TV." The interface is a set of notecards on a virtual corkboard that can be moved around to create and organize a storyline. Accessible from table or smartphone as well as desktop. Additionally, there are "post-it notes" that you can stick anywhere to remind yourself where further information is needed, etc. Colorful and flexible, this is a nice graphic organizer for teens and young adults.
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