The New York Times Upfront | The news magazine for high school - 1 views
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Is a brain that's wired differently a bad thing?
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It seems at times that "wired differently" is being used as an excuse for a growing inability to stay on task. When the need for immediate gratification leads you to think that 6 minutes of YouTube is a substitute for reading Vonnegut, I get a little worried. The social world of the teenagers may center around multitasking, but that seems to suggest that we need to have them work on focused concentration in the classroom ... rather than reinforcing skills that they are mastering on their own.
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Jon- I totally agree that we should still make them read Vonnegut and can't use new culture/brain learning styles as excuses- how to reconcile the new ways students are and our teaching styles is where we need to research more so we can implement instructional practices that meet them where they are at and get them to the place we need them to be.
On Twittercide « That'SLife - 3 views
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An interesting post coming from Gavin Dudeney on why he felt it was time for his twitter to close -food for thought? the opposite side of the coin? Let's discuss!
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Jan - I had doubts as whether to add Dudeney's post here - but I decided to do so -to see other people's views-and especially those who have been using twitter for some time now (I am a new user myself). I have the same concerns as you and I happen to respect Gavin's work a lot (I am a little bit biased) as I have had the opportunity to meet him online in courses, read his books etc.
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I will check out his books now that you mention that he has some. He seems to be quite commonsensical, which appeals to me. thanks.
facebook for educators - 1 views
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Downloadable educator's guide by Linda Fogg Phillips, written at Facebook's request. The homepage says: "Our commitment to you is to provide an easy way to stay updated as changes occur with Facebook. We created this website to do just that, in addition to providing you with even more insights, guidance, and resources." but that still doesn't tell me much about what's in the guide...
Teacher Challenge - 0 views
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You’ll find students learn more, are more motivated and their writing improves faster when they’re allowed to write posts. And the best way to get them started is by writing posts on the class blog.
Mobile Devices in Classroom Give English Learners a Leg Up - New America Media - 0 views
Thinglink in the classroom - 2 views
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Thinglink is a digital tool that makes any image into an interactive graphic (with links to videos, websites, etc.).
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Thanks for sharing this article, Laura. I've been investigating and working with this app for the last week and, though it has its challenges, I'm enjoying where it can take a project!
Complimentary ChinesePod Course · Courses · Library · ChinesePod® - 1 views
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"This complimentary course features a number of all time favorite ChinesePod lessons from each academic level. Users are welcomed to try all the content and tools available for each lesson including full lesson podcast, lesson dialogue, audio review, PDF transcript, annotated dialogue, vocabulary, expansion, grammar and exercises."
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Thank you for sharing such a useful tool that allows the students to explore the resource of learning Chinese.
Ditch That Textbook - 4 views
Nik's Learning Technology Blog: Managing behaviour in the digital age - 4 views
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I was expecting something totally different when I clicked on this article. Teaching at a community college, I thought it might be about online behavior on a discussion board assignment or something online and collaborative. Even though it was about something else, I found this tool to be fascinating and thought if I taught in the K-12 system, this would be a great tool.
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A Guidebook for Social Media in the Classroom | Edutopia - 6 views
80 Interesting Ways To Use Google Forms In The Classroom - 2 views
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Questionnaires? Reading inventories? Interest inventories? A mastery-by-standard database?
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allows students to direct their own mastery of content in peer-to-peer and school-to-school learning environments
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Flubaroo Overview - Welcome to Flubaroo - 2 views
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This is a script you can install on a google doc. I could spend time explaining it, but the demo is very clear. It will save you a ton of time! We use Google Forms with flubaroo to do common formative assessments in our department as well as a homework assignment to get data for flexible groupings the next day. If you have not used Google Forms before I would strongly recommend playing around with them, and then learn how to Flubaroo to save yourself some time!
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Google for Teachers: 100+ Tricks | TeachHUB - 7 views
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25. Create online surveys for research projects. Quickly and easily create online surveys for any research project that requires feedback from others. The answers are saved to your Google Docs account.
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Who else still calls it Google Docs?
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Looks like it was published a year ago (from the comment dates - it would be nice if they dated the article...) When did they switch to call "Drive"? =)
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From what I understand, Google Docs exist within one's Google Drive in the same manner as your files and applications exist within your hard drive. I think Google is trying to make a distinction between a larger body and the parts within it. For example, I have an icon on my laptop's menu bar that takes me to my Google Drive. In my Google Drive are "My Drive" which contains my files and folders. I can also access my email, files that are shared with me which I have no ownership of and cannot move to "My Drive" folders, I can also access any Google Groups from my Google Drive, but they are not part of my Google Docs. That's my take on it.
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Thanks for that analogy. That helps a bit, but my head still swims with the amount of vocabulary bounced around in this tech world. I am trying to understand my OneDrive, SharePoint and things like that, with work having switched to Office 365. I am not liking it so far, because of the learning curve.
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Great site for practicing in google search.
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The Educator's Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons - The Edublogger - 3 views
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This may seem obvious, but judging by the notices we have received, many teachers (and especially students) are under the impression that if it is on the web, then it is up for grabs.
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This is protocol in my classroom-they may as well learn it right the first time rather than the hard way later. When using Google images: go all the way to the cog wheel pull down on the right side of the toolbar; 2) go down to Advance Search; 3) inside Advanced Image Search, all the way at the bottom is a pulldown for usage rights, select "free to use or share" or, if you need to alter the image in anyway "fee to use share or modify."
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That is, in some cases, if an image, text, video, etc. is being used for educational purposes, there might be more flexible copyright rules.
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Well, that's a relief, huh?!
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Just yesterday I was watching a webinar from a national organization, and on one of the PowerPoint pages I saw a picture of one of my district's students with his PE teacher. I was shocked and wondered how it came to be in this webinar. I can only guess that there was a newpaper article with this picture in the local paper, and that put it out there on the web, and it was found and inserted into this PowerPoint. I also thought it was pretty cool - one of ours in something like that. It was crazy just happening upon it like I did though.
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But make sure to check specific copyright restrictions before uploading anything you’ve scanned to the web!
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This is a biggie! I know of some teachers who upload all their homework handouts in .pdf format. I can think of only one who might have asked permission to do so. But, why bother buying that textbook's workbook if I can download it from another district for free. I can certainly see publishers having issue with that.
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