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Dear Governor: Lobby to Save a Love of Reading - SchoolBook - 0 views

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reading testing elementary standardized

shared by Chris Harrow on 22 Jan 12 - No Cached

By asking young students to spend time taking tests like this we are doing them a double disservice: first, by inflicting on them such mediocre literature, and second, by training them to read not for pleasure but to discover a predetermined answer to a (let’s not mince words) stupid question.
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Literary texts, whether by A.A. Milne or Leo Tolstoy, always admit multiple interpretations — and the greater the work, the more robust the tension among these readings, and the graver the loss in trying to reduce the work to a single idea.
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Chris Harrow on 22 Jan 12

While focused on teaching reading to elementary students, the points raised here apply also to mathematics teaching ... reducing everything to a single way and a single answer is stifling, minimizing, and counterproductive.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">While focused on teaching reading to elementary students, the points raised here apply also to mathematics teaching ... reducing everything to a single way and a single answer is stifling, minimizing, and counterproductive.</div>

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Teaching Elementary Students the Magic of Math | Edutopia - 0 views

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Math Professional Development

shared by Robert Ryshke on 24 Sep 11 - No Cached

Robert Ryshke on 24 Sep 11

An Oregon elementary school has improved test scores by integrating math across all subject areas and focusing on teacher training.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">An Oregon elementary school has improved test scores by integrating math across all subject areas and focusing on teacher training.</div>

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

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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.
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We chose to leave our blogs open, giving students a worldwide audience.
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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.
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Common Sense Media - 0 views

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shared by Beth Holland on 30 Sep 11 - Cached

Beth Holland on 30 Sep 11

This site has more resources than just Internet Safety or Cyber Bullying. The parent section is an excellent reference, as are the "homework helpers." To find the latter, search for "homework" in the search area, as they are not readily available. The weekly e-Newsletter is also a great resource, particularly for the parents and teachers of elementary/middle school aged students.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This site has more resources than just Internet Safety or Cyber Bullying. The parent section is an excellent reference, as are the "homework helpers." To find the latter, search for "homework" in the search area, as they are not readily available. The weekly e-Newsletter is also a great resource, particularly for the parents and teachers of elementary/middle school aged students.</div>

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Education experts disagree on importance of school class size - The Denver Post - 3 views

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Class size

shared by Robert Ryshke on 29 May 12 - No Cached

Robert Ryshke on 29 May 12

When Greg Sumlin looks at the incoming kindergarten class at East Elementary School in Littleton, he sees a group of English learners who need immediate, intensive instruction - in small classes where teachers can give them individual attention.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">When Greg Sumlin looks at the incoming kindergarten class at East Elementary School in Littleton, he sees a group of English learners who need immediate, intensive instruction - in small classes where teachers can give them individual attention.</div>

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Mathematics: What is it like to have an understanding of very advanced mathematics? - Q... - 1 views

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mathematics thinking

shared by Chris Harrow on 29 May 12 - No Cached

I'm interested to hear what very talented mathematicians and physicists have to say about "what it's like" to have an internalized sense of very advanced mathematical concepts
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Mathematicians will often spend days thinking of a clean argument that completely avoids numbers and strings of elementary deductions in favor of seeing why what they want to show follows easily from some very deep and general pattern
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America Needs To Study Fractions: Scientific American Podcast - 2 views

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fractions division pedagogy elementary

shared by Chris Harrow on 25 Jun 12 - No Cached

a new study finds that Americans are falling significantly behind in math aptitude compared with China, Finland, the Netherlands and Canada. And the root cause is deficiencies in knowledge of fractions and division.
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Bright children should start school at six, says academic | - 2 views

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learning elementary balance

shared by Chris Harrow on 16 May 12 - No Cached

“But the evidence is now quite overwhelming that such an early introduction to institutional learning is not only quite unnecessary for the vast majority of children, but can actually cause major developmental harm, and at worst a shortened life-span.”
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Kitchen math and science | The Rhode Show - 0 views

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shared by Chris Harrow on 19 Jun 12 - No Cached

As children, most of us were told not to play with our food. However, when appropriately approached food can be a useful tool to teach children math and science. Science and math are throughout your house indoors and outdoors, especially in the kitchen.
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Resources : Siemens We Can Change The World Challenge - 0 views

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Creativity Innovation

shared by Robert Ryshke on 24 Sep 11 - No Cached

Robert Ryshke on 24 Sep 11

This section includes resources to help you facilitate the Challenge and provides a variety of enriching tools to integrate into your classroom instruction. Please take a look at the lesson plans, videos, reading passages, e-books, and more.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This section includes resources to help you facilitate the Challenge and provides a variety of enriching tools to integrate into your classroom instruction. Please take a look at the lesson plans, videos, reading passages, e-books, and more.</div>

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Creative Teaching - 3 views

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Creative Teaching

shared by Robert Ryshke on 29 Sep 11 - Cached

Robert Ryshke on 29 Sep 11

Creative Teaching provides useful tips, suggestions, lesson plans and worksheets to creatively teach children at the elementary- and middle-school grade levels, along with suggested resources for parents and teachers. The information and materials cover content areas including reading, writing, math, science and social studies. We hope you find these useful in both classroom and homeschool environments.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Creative Teaching provides useful tips, suggestions, lesson plans and worksheets to creatively teach children at the elementary- and middle-school grade levels, along with suggested resources for parents and teachers. The information and materials cover content areas including reading, writing, math, science and social studies. We hope you find these useful in both classroom and homeschool environments.</div>

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K-5 iPad Apps for Remembering: Part One of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy | Edutopia - 1 views

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shared by Beth Holland on 08 Sep 11 - No Cached

In attempts to integrate mobile technology, educators are left to the mercy of app developers who or may or may not fully understand how imperative it is that our children become critical and creative thinkers.
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I will highlight apps useful for developing higher order thinking skills
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Apps that fit into the "remembering" stage improve the user's ability to define terms, identify facts, and recall and locate information.
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practice reciting math facts, counting money, telling time, recognizing fractions, decimals, geometric shapes, number patterns and even square roots
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- Beth Holland on 08 Sep 11
  
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  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This sounds like an excellent app. The basic account is free, but the membership is only $19.95 <a href="http://www.flashcardexchange.com/membership" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.flashcardexchange.com/membership</a></div>
  
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Beth Holland on 08 Sep 11

Part 1 of a new series by Edutopia

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