November Learning Resources
Here you will find links to a variety of valuable resources.
* Archive of Articles ( 25 items )
A series of articles written by Alan November.
Featured Articles:
Teaching Zack to Think
Designing Libraries: Learning for a Lifetime
Banning Student Containers
Students as Contributors: The Digital Learning Farm
A monthly post of daily anniversary's, birthdays, notable events with links to resources that might be useful to teachers and students. November, for example (as I post this): Aviation History Month; National American Indian Heritage Month; births of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, several presidents, authors, artists; Opening of the Berlin Wall (and, in a perverse sort of coincidence, Kristallnacht in Germany). ...
"I have been using Scratch, a drag and drop programming language developed by researchers at MIT, since November 2007. I am quite excited about its potential for teaching other skills besides programming.
I have set up this wiki to build-up a course for beginner programmers."
Conservapedia is a clean and concise resource for those seeking the truth. We do not allow liberal bias to deceive and distort here. Founded initially in November 2006 as a way to educate advanced, college-bound homeschoolers, this resource has grown into a marvelous source of information for students, adults and teachers alike.
ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan as described by the site, "In this lesson students learn how to use comprehension strategies involving a sequence of planning, predicting, monitoring, and evaluating. Once students learn the strategies, they read a variety of hoax websites and evaluate the content. They then demonstrate their learning through the creation of outlines for hoax websites."
Would writing
blog entries throughout the research process improve the quality of the final drafts that students
submitted? "
It
showed that students who blogged felt better about writing
overall, and about writing research papers in particular.
he students commented that blogs helped them organize their
thoughts, develop their ideas, synthesize their research, and
benefit from their classmates' constructive comments.