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Jill Bergeron

Google Custom Search Engine - 0 views

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    Create a search engine for your students to use by limiting the websites that they can access.
Jill Bergeron

Directing Learning with Google Custom Search - Google Drive - 0 views

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    How to build your own search engine using Google. Great for LS teachers who want to limit the sites their students can visit but also give the children an opportunity to learn how to search.
Jill Bergeron

Findings - Project RED - 0 views

  • Change management leadership by principal: Leaders provide time for teacher professional learning and collaboration at least monthly.
  • Online formative assessments: Assessments are done at least weekly.
  • Virtual field trips: With more frequent use, virtual trips are more powerful. The best schools do these at least monthly.
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  • schools need to invest in the re- engineering of schools, not just technology itself
  • respondents say that schools with a 1:1 student-computer ratio outperform non-1:1 schools on both academic and financial benefits.
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How Google Search Works - YouTube - 0 views

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Jill Bergeron

Make the Most of the Maker Movement | Edutopia - 0 views

  • To realize the opportunity that the maker movement offers education, students need room for self-directed learning and interdisciplinary problem solving.
  • While setting up spaces for hands-on tinkering, schools also need to make mental space for creativity, risk taking, and learning from failure. Those qualities are central to maker culture, but still rare in too many school settings.
  • More important than gaining access to expensive tools is learning how to turn raw ideas into prototypes that can be tested, refined, and improved through feedback.
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  • Students who gravitate toward an engineering or STEM approach to problem solving may get fresh ideas from watching artists work out solutions (and visa versa). Collaboration is more likely to happen when thinking and tinkering take place in the open.
  • If you're interested in seeing a school makerspace in action, check out this curated list from Bob Pearlman
  • Encourage students to tell the stories behind their ideas and describe the process that took them from inspiration to finished product.
  • parents team up with their children for monthly Maker Saturdays.
  • Maker Education Initiative maintains a resource library, including sample projects.
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    Resources about in this article which emphasizes skills over stuff when it comes to making.
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