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Chris Harrow

Explore Mars, Inc. Launches the 2011-2012 Mars Education Challenge- ExploreMars.org - 0 views

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Mars Challenge NASA Nye

shared by Chris Harrow on 17 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • MEC asks science educators who teach grades 7-12 to develop inspiring ways to fit Mars science and exploration into their “every day” classroom lessons – such as biology, chemistry, physics, geology, etc.  MEC empowers teachers to create lessons that will enable educators to teach these topics in new and interesting ways by using Mars as an example.
  • Chris Harrow on 17 Nov 11
     
    Curriculum challenge for Science teachers in grades 7-12.
Chris Harrow

Educational Leadership:Literacy 2.0:The Joy of Blogging - 0 views

www.ascd.org/...The-Joy-of-Blogging.aspx

elementary blogging literacy

shared by Chris Harrow on 19 Nov 11 - Cached
  • These 5th graders in a suburban elementary school in southeast Georgia have been engaged in a yearlong blogging project whose purpose was to create a space for the students to converse about what they were learning in class and beyond.
  • We chose to leave our blogs open, giving students a worldwide audience.
  • Because students' blogs were available for outsiders to view, we carefully reviewed guidelines for safe and responsible blogging
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  • n our classroom discussion on safe and responsible blogging, we advised students not to reveal personal identifying information. If they received anything online that made them feel uncomfortable, they were to minimize their screens and immediately report concerns to the teacher.
Robert Ryshke

Eric Mazur on new interactive teaching techniques | Harvard Magazine Mar-Apr 2012 - 1 views

harvardmagazine.com/...twilight-of-the-lecture

education teaching methods

shared by Robert Ryshke on 26 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Robert Ryshke on 26 Feb 12
     
    In 1990, after seven years of teaching at Harvard, Eric Mazur, now Balkanski professor of physics and applied physics, was delivering clear, polished lectures and demonstrations and getting high student evaluations for his introductory Physics 11 course, populated mainly by premed and engineering students who were successfully solving complicated problems. Then he discovered that his success as a teacher "was a complete illusion, a house of cards." THIS IS A MUST READ ARTICLE!
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