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Ross Hunter

Technology Integration Matrix - 0 views

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  • Ross Hunter on 02 Oct 09
     
    The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students." /> <!-- body { background-color: #FFFFFF; margin-left: 20px; margin-top: 10px; } --> This is a cached version of http://fcit.usf.edu/matrix/index.html. Diigo.com has no relation to the site.x
Darcy Goshorn

Mezzoman - Meet in the Middle! - 1 views

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shared by Darcy Goshorn on 28 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Darcy Goshorn on 28 Jun 10
     
    "Mezzoman was created to help people meet their friends, family, clients, and/or business associates in the middle. Mezzoman uses a revolutionary new "multi-point" system that allows a user to enter up to three addresses at one time to calculate a place to meet. Finding and sharing places to meet has never been easier! Next time you and your friends want to find a great place to meet, let Mezzoman help you "meet in the middle!""
Vicki Barr

Thinkport - 9 views

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middle school

shared by Vicki Barr on 08 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Vicki Barr on 08 Jun 10
     
    Maryland Public Television and Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology in Education developed some interactive media that are very engaging and promote critical thinking. You really need to check out this site and find resources that you can use in your classroom. Lure of the Labyrinth is a digital game for middle-school pre-algebra students. It includes a wealth of intriguing math-based puzzles wrapped into an exciting narrative game in which students work to find their lost pet - and save the world from monsters! Linked to both national and state mathematics standards, the game gives students a chance to actually think like mathematicians. I worked on some of the puzzles, and I'm sure this would extend to high school age students as well! Also, students don't have to play the full game. You can choose a puzzle that correlates to what you're teaching and just do that puzzle. Math by Design (MbD) gives students a highly creative experience in seeing geometry and measurement come alive. Under Educator Resources, check out some of the Math In Action videos! I loved the one on cake decorating. Bayville was developed for middle school students studying life sciences, ecology, and the environment. Under school or district, just choose Other States.
Kathe Santillo

Middle East Studies Internet Resources - 0 views

www.columbia.edu/...cuvlm

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  • Kathe Santillo on 01 May 09
     
    An in-depth collection of materials for the study of the Middle East and North Africa. It provides access to Columbia University’s Middle East library collections.
Dianne Krause

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Critical Evaluation Surveys and Resources - Kathy... - 7 views

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shared by Dianne Krause on 23 May 10 - Cached
  • Dianne Krause on 23 May 10
     
    "With the advent of the World Wide Web and the huge amount of information that is contained there, students need to be able to critically evaluate a Web page for authenticity, applicability, authorship, bias, and usability. The ability to critically evaluate information is an important skill in this information age. To help you get started with this process with your students, I have designed a series of evaluation surveys, one each at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels. The elementary, middle, and secondary surveys have been re-designed and updated in February of 2009. The virtual tour, blog, podcast, and teacher site evaluations have been added since 2005 and updated in 2009."
anonymous

MEPC - TeachMideast - Educational Resources on the Middle East and Islam - TeachMideast - 10 views

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shared by anonymous on 12 Nov 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 12 Nov 09
     
    Interesting site dedicated to helping teachers teach about the Middle East
Kathy Fiedler

2Plus1 Math Rocks! Educational Math Songs For All Ages - 0 views

www.mathrocks2plus1.com

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  • Kathy Fiedler on 16 Apr 13
     
    2 + 1 is comprised of middle school educators who have developed and present an innovative program called MathRocks! Their program combines the music of classic rock songs with original lyrics and PowerPoint slideshows to teach math concepts that range from basic counting to algebra.
Earn Bell

Tackle Unplanned Expenses In The Middle Of The Month! - 0 views

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Darin Wagner

Lure of the Labyrinth - 1 views

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shared by Darin Wagner on 15 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Darin Wagner on 15 Jun 10
     
    Lure of the Labyrinth is a digital game for middle-school pre-algebra students. It includes a wealth of intriguing math-based puzzles wrapped into an exciting narrative game in which students work to find their lost pet - and save the world from monsters! Linked to both national and state mathematics standards, the game gives students a chance to actually think like mathematicians.
Michelle Krill

YouTube - Facts of Congress - Primary Documents - 7 views

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shared by Michelle Krill on 03 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Michelle Krill on 03 Sep 10
     
    "Encourages students to go back and look at primary documents, such as the Constitution and the letters of the Founders such as Jefferson and Madison to better understand the intended role of Congress in our system of government. Appropriate for classroom use, middle school students and above."
Jason Christiansen

Free Technology for Teachers: Computational Thinking Lessons from Google - 6 views

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shared by Jason Christiansen on 16 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Jason Christiansen on 16 Nov 10
     
    "Through Dan Meyer's blog I just learned that Google has recently released dozens of lessons for exploring computational thinking through the use of Python programming. Now if you're wondering, "what the heck does that mean?" don't worry, I wondered the same. But since Dan Meyer is one of the people in the edu-blog-o-sphere that I have great respect for, and since he wrote one of the lessons, I had to investigate exploring computational thinking through Python. Python is a programming language. Exploring computational thinking through Python is a series of lessons in which middle school and high school students use Python to try to put mathematics and science concepts to use."
Darcy Goshorn

Worth Monkey - The blue book for used electronics and more! - 6 views

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  • Darcy Goshorn on 09 Nov 10
     
    Worth Monkey works by searching data all over internet regarding the current asking price and selling price of the used goods you're looking for. It then brings back all of that data and performs calculations on each piece and on the data as a whole, giving you the average low, middle, and high price of the product. As an added treat, it also shows you where you can purchase that product for the highest average price or lower, leveraging your purchasing options and saving you time and money.
Michelle Krill

Top News - Big district dumps grade levels -- for starters - 0 views

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shared by Michelle Krill on 17 Feb 09 - Cached
  • There was a sense of urgency to attend to what wasn't happening for kids here," says Roberta Selleck, district superintendent, explaining why she decided to go with a drastic approach. "When [we saw] the stats for the whole school district over time, we realized we are disconnecting [from] our kids."
  • Michelle Krill on 17 Feb 09
     
    ...when the elementary and middle school students come back next fall, there won't be any grade levels--or traditional grades, for that matter.
Michelle Krill

Speak Up Press Release - 0 views

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shared by Michelle Krill on 14 Apr 08 - Cached
  • The 2007 online survey collected authentic, unfiltered views and ideas from over 367,000 education stakeholders representing schools in all 50 states, bringing the total of survey participants to over 1.2 million over the past 5 years.
  • This disconnect is evident in the fact that 66% of school administrators, 47% of teachers, and 43% of parents say "local schools are doing a good job preparing students for the jobs and careers of the future," but over 40% of middle and high school students stated that teachers limit their use of technology in schools. Forty-five percent of middle and high school students indicated that tools meant to protect them, such as firewalls and filters are inhibiting their learning.
  • "It is in our nation's best interest that we support and facilitate student usage of technology for learning."
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  • 46% said they would like to receive specific professional development on how to effectively integrate gaming technologies into curriculum.
  • With the release of Speak Up 2007 results, Evans called upon education leaders at all levels to put aside their own "digital immigrant" paradigms and to listen to students who are not only on the cutting edge of technology innovation but whose future is dependent upon our ability to deliver upon the promise of a world quality, global 21st century education.
  • Michelle Krill on 14 Apr 08
     
    Students Want the 21st Century Classroom, but Schools Not Meeting Student Expectations, According to Latest National Study
Ann Baum (Johnston)

Studio 4 Learning - 0 views

www.studio4learning.tv

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  • Ann Baum (Johnston) on 05 Dec 08
     
    Free middle & HS video tutorials - Thanks to Vicki Davis for sharing this one!
Kathe Santillo

Interactivate: Home Page - 0 views

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CFFButler All_Maths Interactive_Activities

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  • Kathe Santillo on 01 May 09
     
    The goals of this site are the creation, collection, evaluation, and dissemination of java-based courseware for middle school mathematics explorations.
Michelle Krill

Having Our Say Video Clip - 0 views

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  • Michelle Krill on 27 Aug 08
     
    Middle Grade Student Perspectives on School, Technologies, and Academic Engagement
anonymous

Educational Leadership:Teaching for the 21st Century:What Would Socrates Say? - 0 views

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  • The noted philosopher once said, "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." My fear is that instead of knowing nothing except the fact of our own ignorance, we will know everything except the fact of our own ignorance. Google has given us the world at our fingertips, but speed and ubiquity are not the same as actually knowing something.
  • Socrates believed that we learn best by asking essential questions and testing tentative answers against reason and fact in a continual and virtuous circle of honest debate. We need to approach the contemporary knowledge explosion and the technologies propelling this new enlightenment in just that manner. Otherwise, the great knowledge and communication tsunami of the 21st century may drown us in a sea of trivia instead of lifting us up on a rising tide of possibility and promise.
  • A child born today could live into the 22nd century. It's difficult to imagine all that could transpire between now and then. One thing does seem apparent: Technical fixes to our outdated educational system are likely to be inadequate. We need to adapt to a rapidly changing world.
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  • Every day we are exposed to huge amounts of information, disinformation, and just plain nonsense. The ability to distinguish fact from factoid, reality from fiction, and truth from lies is not a "nice to have" but a "must have" in a world flooded with so much propaganda and spin.
  • For example, for many years, the dominant U.S. culture described the settling of the American West as a natural extension of manifest destiny, in which people of European descent were "destined" to occupy the lands of the indigenous people. This idea was, and for some still is, one of our most enduring and dangerous collective fabrications because it glosses over human rights and skirts the issue of responsibility. Without critical reflection, we will continually fall victim to such notions.
  • A second element of the 21st century mind that we must cultivate is the willingness to abandon supernatural explanations for naturally occurring events.
  • The third element of the 21st century mind must be the recognition and acceptance of our shared evolutionary collective intelligence.
  • To solve the 21st century's challenges, we will need an education system that doesn't focus on memorization, but rather on promoting those metacognitive skills that enable us to monitor our own learning and make changes in our approach if we perceive that our learning is not going well.
  • Metacognition is a fancy word for a higher-order learning process that most of us use every day to solve thousands of problems and challenges.
  • We are at the threshold of a worldwide revolution in learning. Just as the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the wall of conventional schooling is collapsing before our eyes. A new electronic learning environment is replacing the linear, text-bound culture of conventional schools. This will be the proving ground of the 21st century mind.
  • We will cease to think of technology as something that has its own identity, but rather as an extension of our minds, in much the same way that books extend our minds without a lot of fanfare. According to Huff and Saxberg, immersive technologies—such as multitouch displays; telepresence (an immersive meeting experience that offers high video and audio clarity); 3-D environments; collaborative filtering (which can produce recommendations by comparing the similarity between your preferences and those of other people); natural language processing; intelligent software; and simulations—will transform teaching and learning by 2025.
  • So imagine that a group of teachers and middle school students decides to tackle the question, What is justice? Young adolescents' discovery of injustice in the world is a crucial moment in their development. If adults offer only self-serving answers to this question, students can become cynical or despairing. But if adults treat the problem of injustice truthfully and openly, hope can emerge and grow strong over time. As part of their discussion, let's say that the teachers and students have cocreated a middle school earth science curriculum titled Water for the World. This curriculum would be a blend of classroom, community, and online activities. Several nongovernmental organizations—such as Waterkeeper, the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and Water for People—might support the curriculum, which would meet national and state standards and include lessons, activities, games, quizzes, student-created portfolios, and learning benchmarks.
  • The goal of the curriculum would be to enable students from around the world to work together to address the water crisis in a concrete way. Students might help bore a freshwater well, propose a low-cost way of preventing groundwater pollution, or develop a local water treatment technique. Students and teachers would collaborate by talking with one another through Skype and posting research findings using collaborative filtering. Students would create simulations and games and use multitouch displays to demonstrate step-by-step how their projects would proceed. A student-created Web site would include a blog; a virtual reference room; a teachers' corner; a virtual living room where learners communicate with one another in all languages through natural language processing; and 3-D images of wells being bored in Africa, Mexico, and Texas. In a classroom like this, something educationally revolutionary would happen: Students and adults would connect in a global, purposeful conversation that would make the world a better place. We would pry the Socratic dialogue from the hands of the past and lift it into the future to serve the hopes and dreams of all students everywhere.
  • There has never been a time in human history when the opportunity to create universally accessible knowledge has been more of a reality. And there has never been a time when education has meant more in terms of human survival and happiness.
  • To start, we must overhaul and redesign the current school system. We face this great transition with both hands tied behind our collective backs if we continue to pour money, time, and effort into an outdated system of education. Mass education belongs in the era of massive armies, massive industrial complexes, and massive attempts at social control. We have lost much talent since the 19th century by enforcing stifling education routines in the name of efficiency. Current high school dropout rates clearly indicate that our standardized testing regime and outdated curriculums are wasting the potential of our youth.
  • If we stop thinking of schools as buildings and start thinking of learning as occurring in many different places, we will free ourselves from the conventional education model that still dominates our thinking.
  • anonymous on 07 Sep 09
     
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  • anonymous on 07 Sep 09
     
    A VERY interesting article. If you've got Diigo installed, why not add your comments
Darcy Goshorn

Free Mathsframe Interactive Whiteboard Teacher Resources - 2 views

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  • Darcy Goshorn on 27 Sep 09
     
    Great interactive whiteboard practice activities for elementary or middle level math.
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