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Jill Bergeron

Buncee for Education - 0 views

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    Flip teaching tool that allows you to create interactive lessons. Check out their intro video as well as their archive of educational lessons.
Jill Bergeron

40 more maps that explain the world - 0 views

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    Useful maps for world history
Jill Bergeron

21 YouTube videos that help make learning the Constitution fun - 1 views

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    21 YouTube videos that help make learning the Constitution fun
Jill Bergeron

Q&A with Freeman Hrabowski: UMBC carving a singular niche in cyber, STEM education - Ba... - 0 views

  • The broader a person’s education, the stronger a person’s thinking skills and ability to solve problems.
  • What do you see as the next essential skill for tech-savvy students?
  • We’re seeing this combination of working in teams, using collaboration, knowing how to not get upset when they have not seen something before. Being willing to ask good questions, being willing to get to people who can work with them in developing skills. More and more what we’re seeing is, the m
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    STEM skills being practiced aren't just related to the subjects- collaboration and creative problem solving are big ones.
Jill Bergeron

Metta - Storytelling + Polling In One Compact Format. - 0 views

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    Easy to use tool for creating flipped classroom lessons. Use the built-in search tool to find videos, images, or social media posts, put them into a timeline, add text and/or polls, and share. Free account has very limited media storage, but not an issue if you only use embedded media. Paid service has educator discount and is only $2.50/month.
Jill Bergeron

101questions - 0 views

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    Great way to spark a conversation! Good for advisory.
Jill Bergeron

GeoGebraTube - 0 views

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    Support for teachers who use GeoGebra.
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MathDisk Home | Exponential Learning - 0 views

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    Able to build interactive worksheets.
Jill Bergeron

Striking a Balance: Digital Tools and Distraction in School | Edutopia - 0 views

  • In Age of Distraction: Why It's Crucial for Students to Learn to Focus (1), Katrina Schwartz refers to studies showing that the ability to focus on a task has been linked to future success. She quotes psychologist and author Daniel Goleman as saying, "This ability [to focus] is more important than IQ or the socio economic status of the family you grew up in for determining career success, financial success and health."
  • In a similar article, With Tech Tools, How Should Teachers Tackle Multitasking in Class? (2), author Holly Korbey explores research around student study habits and talks to veteran teachers about their experiences with students using technology in the classroom.
  • Instead, we should be deliberately teaching students how to manage their attention with their devices.
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  • The reality is that devices are not going away, and we need to teach our students how to effectively manage them so that they can be successful in whatever they do.
Jill Bergeron

Teach Kids to Use the Four-Letter Word | Edutopia - 0 views

  • Today's classrooms are notorious for handing students the basic skills to live in the world while denying them the strength of character to transform it.
  • Angela Duckworth (1), an associate professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, studied (among others) the performance of West Point cadets during basic training. She discovered that the most powerful predictor of success -- acceptance into the academy -- was grit. Duckworth calls grit "the tendency to sustain interest in and effort toward very long-term goals."
  • Duckworth’s research is heir to the work of Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck (2) on mindsets. Believing that we can succeed even after suffering repeated setbacks (what Dweck calls a "growth mindset") can actually re-wire our brains -- and rewrite our fortunes.
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  • By shifting the focus of our feedback to effort as opposed to outcome, we leave students with the feeling that their best is yet to come.
  • Every Friday, my students cap a week of learning with self-rating journal entries like "Something New I Learned" or "This Week's Memorable Moment." To test their grit, I've added a new prompt: "Something I Struggled With."
  • Finally, create a forum for class-wide discussion about grit at community meetings. These are scheduled, relaxed opportunities for students to sound off on issues affecting their class and their world
Jill Bergeron

I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why. - Kyle Wiens - Harvard Business R... - 1 views

  • I have a “zero tolerance approach” to grammar mistakes that make people look stupid.
  • Everyone who applies for a position at either of my companies, iFixit or Dozuki, takes a mandatory grammar test. Extenuating circumstances aside (dyslexia, English language learners, etc.), if job hopefuls can’t distinguish between “to” and “too,” their applications go into the bin.
  • Yes, language is constantly changing, but that doesn’t make grammar unimportant.
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  • Good grammar is credibility, especially on the internet. In blog posts, on Facebook statuses, in e-mails, and on company websites, your words are all you have. They are a projection of you in your physical absence. And, for better or worse,
  • people judge you if you can’t tell the difference between their, there, and they’re.
  • If it takes someone more than 20 years to notice how to properly use “it’s,” then that’s not a learning curve I’m comfortable with.
  • I’ve found that people who make fewer mistakes on a grammar test also make fewer mistakes when they are doing something completely unrelated to writing — like stocking shelves or labeling parts.
  • programmers who pay attention to how they construct written language also tend to pay a lot more attention to how they code.
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    What grammar indicates about a person's competencies.
Jill Bergeron

The Fine Art of Tough Love - Joanne Lipman - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

  • true expertise requires about 10,000 hours of practice.
  • 2. Set expectations high.
  • 3. Articulate clear goals –and goal posts along the way.
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  • 4. Failure isn’t defeat.
  • 5. Say thank you.
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    Why tough love works and why it matters.
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