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Sara Wilkie

Teaching Empathy: Turning a Lesson Plan into a Life Skill | Edutopia - 0 views

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    "In cooperative learning, students work together, think together and plan together using a variety of group structures designed along an instructional path. This dynamic learning model breaks with the dusty forms of frontal teaching that often create classrooms of "lonesome togetherness" -- students who may sit together but live worlds apart. Cooperative learning creates what Daniel Goleman calls "cognitive empathy," a mind-to-mind sense of how another person's thinking works. The better we understand others, the better we know them -- pointing toward (among other virtues) greater trust, appreciation and generosity. "
Cally Black

Scootle Support - What is a Learning Path? - 0 views

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    Janine McIntosh, Schools Manager at the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute walks teachers through the design and effective use of Scootle Learning Paths, collections of resources which can easily be shared with students or colleges.
Sara Wilkie

The Digital Down Low: Some critical questions about iPads and 1-1 learning - 0 views

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    Here are some questions I have for anyone in the edtech community that has taken their school down the path of 1-1 learning with iPads: Does giving every student an iPad mitigate or exacerbate issues of equity in our school communities? iPads are often times promoted as being really 'easy' to use. Is this true? And is 'easy' what we really want? What are the learning dispositions we aim to foster in our students and school community and is going all-in with iPads going to help us build these dispositions? How are iPads helping your students participate in the long tail of invention, creation and manufacturing (the 'Third Industrial Revolution' as some have called it)?
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