ChisholmCC

"Does anyone have any suggestions for apps, uses, or creative ideas for iPad use in the Spanish classroom? I teach 7th grade Spanish and would love to begin implementing iPads into my classroom"

" When you're trying to teach people how to do something new on their computers having screencast videos or annotated screen capture images can be invaluable to you and the people you're trying to help. Here are some free tools that you can use to create screen capture videos and images. "

Thoughtful article on the challenges in delivering vital 21st century skills to students.

Response to Andrew Hacker's New York Times Op-Ed essay "Is Algebra Necessary?" Includes examples and links to CCSS

"Exceptions don't contradict what I'm trying to explain here, but rather prove the point that: A tool is just a tool! I can use a hammer to build a house and I can use the same hammer on a human skull. It's not the tool, but how you use it that matters."

"Often students are called upon to make presentations for class projects, and many are eager to break out of the mold of the standard PowerPoint and do something really special."

"Poet, playwright, and cultural critic T. S. Eliot was born 124 years ago today. In this passage from The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (public library), cited in the 1942 gem Anatomy of Inspiration, Eliot adds to previously explored theories of how creativity works by taking a curious look at how physical illness brings a near-mystical quality of poetry, driven by two key elements of creativity: the presence of an incubation period when unconscious processing of existing ideas takes place, and the removal of habitual inhibitions, or something John Keats has termed "negative capability"."

"I don't think you should ever miss this slide from Tom Barret. It is one of the best ones available online that provides awesome tips on how teachers can use iPad in their classrooms. "

Excellent overview & explanation of the Flipped Classroom Model.

Online Discussions: Affordances & Constraints Integration Ideas Examples & Resources

"The goal is to move beyond superficial peer conferencing and commenting, to dig into feedback that helps the "author" grow and improve in whatever form they are using. Too often the feedback students provide is superficial, commenting on what they liked without explaining why, offering generic improvement ideas, or focusing on less important elements (i.e. spelling, punctuation, etc.). How do we help students provide each other meaningful, productive feedback? How do we help students internalize those conversations to become their own best critical friend? "

Great resource for student-owned learning

A list of brief tutorials (audio & video) on how to use, navigate and manage wikispaces wikis.

The Research Cycle.  Interesting stuff from Jamie McKenzie which focuses on Questioning, planning etc which the use if ICT enhances.  Very good to understand some of the principles ICT implementation can be based on and to look into McKenzie's work. 

The Home Page for the Purdue Online Writing lab highlight in my previous post.  Resources here can be adapt for school use.     

Purdue Universities Online Writing an incredible resource for writing that could be used by teachers in English, S&E, Rel, Media, Business etc.  This link is the Argumentative Essays to give an example of what is there    

"research that suggests that when students assess their peers' work, they do score similarly to the grades professors would give (although others have found that peer grades are higher." Some of the problems w peer feedback...