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WritingFix: prompts, lessons, and resources for writing classrooms - 0 views

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Education Week: Backers of '21st-Century Skills' Take Flak - 0 views

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Unless states that sign on to the movement ensure that all students are also taught a body of explicit, well-sequenced content, a focus on skills will not help students develop higher-order critical-thinking abilities, they said at a panel discussion here in the nation’s capital last week.
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Array of Skills In the Partnership for 21st Century Skills’ vision for K-12 education, the arches of the rainbow depict outcomes, while the pools represent the resources needed to support those outcomes. But critics contend that states implementing this vision might focus too heavily on discrete skills instruction, at the expense of core content. SOURCE: Partnership for 21st Century Skills
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Ten states have agreed to work with P21 to incorporate a focus on technology, analytical and communication skills into their content standards, teacher training, and assessments.
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“We’ve been having this curriculum war for years.”
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Mr. Kay, in contrast, painted the P21 vision as one that transcends this debate. The partnership tries to encourage states to be more deliberative about how they help students learn the skills,
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“[But] the liberal arts movement, which we embrace, has not been as purposeful and intentional about the skill outcomes as we need to be.”
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Mr. Willingham argued not only that the teaching of skills is inseparable from that of core content, but also that it is the content itself that allows individuals to recognize problems and to determine which critical-thinking skills to apply to solve them.
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Students become proficient critical thinkers only by gleaning a broad body of knowledge in multiple content domains, he said.
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Those techniques include student-directed methods such as project-based learning, which requires students to work in groups to solve a specified problem, relying on teachers for guidance rather than for explicit instruction.
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“Teachers will rise to the challenge given the kind of supports they need.”
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“If [curriculum] is just picking up a manual, or a series of nonconnected or nonsequenced experiments in science or literary works with no connection and no background knowledge, it’s not going to help our kids think any better,” she said in an interview.
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Academics like Ms. Darling-Hammond said that setting forth a clear understanding once and for all about what students should know, and which teaching methods best help students engage that content in depth, will be crucial to putting such debates to rest.
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The highest-scoring countries on international exams, she said, undertook efforts to outline such goals specifically 20 to 30 years ago. “When you really think about delivering a rich curriculum, it takes a very skillful type of teaching,” Ms. Darling-Hammond said. “It can be done badly; we have to acknowledge that. But we don’t really have a choice, if we want to join other nations.”
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Meanwhile the critics go about squawking while promoting their own panaceas
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he majority of kids just go right on tuning out, dropping out, or just getting by
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I challenge what I read by looking at source material. These are timeless skills. It's the technology that is 21st century.
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As for the topics we are unfamiliar with, the poster just before me rightly points out that the Internet is out there for just that purpose. Real teachers are also learners, and should be constantly seeking to know more.
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Many recent studies have concluded that the current system is broken beyond repair and that point solutions like those being advocates above cannot fix it. We know that people learn best when they teach others so small groups that encourage peer-to-peer mentoring should be encouraged. Those same small groups require the students to learn and use the high-performance skills advocated by P21. At the same time, there is a body of knowledge that has been determined to be important to a student's future - represented by the state academic content standards. Robust, in-depth discussions of academic content help achieve the mastery of academic content. To ensure the content has meaning, it is best learned in a multi-disciplinary environment. By embedding a selected set of content standards from a variety of disciplines into a realistic setting/project the students get the opportunity to use the knowledge and go beyond the standards as their interest leads them.
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The fact is, while "experts" pore over the fabric of pedagogical delivery methods, online teaching and learning is quietly replacing classroom environments globally. Educators better make some quick adjustments or the very definition of what an "education" means nowadays will make many of these folks irrelevant.
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Sheri Edwards on 05 Mar 09

What do you think? How do we envision the future and teach for it?

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BBC - Learning Zone Broadband Class Clips - Video and audio teaching resources for prim... - 3 views

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Maggie Verster on 16 Jul 09

3000 BBC clips divided into secondary, primary and by subject: http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">3000 BBC clips divided into secondary, primary and by subject: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/</a></div>

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Martin Burrett on 05 Jul 11

A superb, extensive video library collection for schools from the BBC. No teacher should be without it. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video,+animation,+film+&+Webcams

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A superb, extensive video library collection for schools from the BBC. No teacher should be without it. <a href="http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video,+animation,+film+&+Webcams" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video,+animation,+film+&+Webcams</a></div>

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Music and the Brain - 0 views

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A little known fact about Einstein is that when he was young he did extremely poor in school. His grade school teachers told his parents to take him out of school because he was "too stupid to learn" and it would be a waste of resources for the school to invest time and energy in his education. The school suggested that his parents get Albert an easy, manual labor job as soon as they could.
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Instead of following the school's advice, Albert's parents bought him a violin. Albert became good at the violin. Music was the key that helped Albert Einstein become one of the smartest men who has ever lived. Einstein himself says that the reason he was so smart is because he played the violin. He loved the music of Mozart and Bach the most. A friend of Einstein, G.J. Withrow, said that the way Einstein figured out his problems and equations was by improvising on the violin.
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Another example of how rhythm orders movement is an autistic boy who could not tie his shoes. He learned how on the second try when the task of tying his shoes was put to a song. The rhythm helped organize his physical movements in time.
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Classical music from the baroque period causes the heart beat and pulse rate to relax to the beat of the music. As the body becomes relaxed and alert, the mind is able to concentrate more easily. Furthermore, baroque music decreases blood pressure and enhances the ability to learn. Music affects the amplitude and frequency of brain waves, which can be measured by an electro-encephalogram. Music also affects breathing rate and electrical resistance of the skin. It has been observed to cause the pupils to dilate, increase blood pressure, and increase the heart rate.
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Mozart's music and baroque music, with a 60 beats per minute beat pattern, activate the left and right brain. The simultaneous left and right brain action maximizes learning and retention of information. The information being studied activates the left brain while the music activates the right brain. Also, activities which engage both sides of the brain at the same time, such as playing an instrument or singing, causes the brain to be more capable of processing information.
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According to The Center for New Discoveries in Learning, learning potential can be increased a minimum of five times by using this 60 beats per minute music.
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Dr. Lozanov's system involved using certain classical music pieces from the baroque period which have around a 60 beats per minute pattern. He has proven that foreign languages can be learned with 85-100% efficiency in only thirty days by using these baroque pieces. His students had a recall accuracy rate of almost 100% even after not reviewing the material for four years.
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Group 1 was read the words with Handel's Water Music in the background. They were also asked to imagine the words. Group 2 was read the same words also with Handel's Water Music in the background. Group 2 was not asked to imagine the words. Group 3 was only read the words, was not given any background music, and was also not asked to imagine the words. The results from the first two tests showed that groups 1 and 2 had much better scores than group 3. The results from the third test, a week later, showed that group 1 performed much better than groups 2 or 3.
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One simple way students can improve test scores is by listening to certain types of music such as Mozart's Sonata for Two Piano's in D Major before taking a test. This type of music releases neurons in the brain which help the body to relax.
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William Balach, Kelly Bowman, and Lauri Mohler, all from Pennsylvania State University, studied the effects of music genre and tempo on memory retention. They had four groups learn vocabulary words using one of four instrumental pieces - slow classical, slow jazz, fast classical, and fast jazz.
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Surprisingly, the results showed that changing the genre had no effect on recall but changing the tempo decreased recall.
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One key ingredient to the order of music from the baroque and classical periods is math. This is realized by the body and the human mind performs better when listening to this ordered music.
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George recognized that Saul overcame his problems by using special music. With this story in mind King George asked George Frederick Handel to write some special music for him that would help him in the same way that music helped Saul. Handel wrote his Water Music for this purpose.
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Dr. Ballam goes on to say that, "The human mind shuts down after three or four repetitions of a rhythm, or a melody, or a harmonic progression."
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Bob Larson, a Christian minister and former rock musician, remembers that in the 70's teens would bring raw eggs to a rock concert and put them on the front of the stage. The eggs would be hard boiled by the music before the end of the concert and could be eaten. Dr. Earl W. Flosdorf and Dr. Leslie A. Chambers showed that proteins in a liquid medium were coagulated when subjected to piercing high-pitched sounds
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Rock music was played in one of the boxes while Bach's music was played in the other box. The rats could choose to switch boxes through a tunnel that connected both boxes. Almost all of the rats chose to go into the box with the Bach music even after the type of music was switched from one box to the other.
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She found that the plants grew well for almost every type of music except rock and acid rock. Jazz, classical, and Ravi Shankar turned out to be the most helpful to the plants. However, the plants tested with the rock music withered and died. The acid rock music also had negative effects on the plant growth.
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One cannot deny the power of music. High school students who study music have higher grade point averages that those who don't. These students also develop faster physically. Student listening skills are also improved through music education. The top three schools in America all place a great emphasis on music and the arts. Hungary, Japan, and the Netherlands, the top three academic countries in the world, all place a great emphasis on music education and participation in music. The top engineers from Silicon Valley are all musicians. Napoleon understood the enormous power of music. He summed it up by saying, "Give me control over he who shapes the music of a nation, and I care not who makes the laws" .
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Tero Toivanen on 16 May 09

Mozart's music and baroque music, with a 60 beats per minute beat pattern, activate the left and right brain. The simultaneous left and right brain action maximizes learning and retention of information. The information being studied activates the left brain while the music activates the right brain. Also, activities which engage both sides of the brain at the same time, such as playing an instrument or singing, causes the brain to be more capable of processing information.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Mozart's music and baroque music, with a 60 beats per minute beat pattern, activate the left and right brain. The simultaneous left and right brain action maximizes learning and retention of information. The information being studied activates the left brain while the music activates the right brain. Also, activities which engage both sides of the brain at the same time, such as playing an instrument or singing, causes the brain to be more capable of processing information.</div>

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Y2K, the Bad: Fear, hype and the blame game ( - IT Management - Business Issu... - 0 views

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Was the Y2K threat overblown? Had the managers that controlled the purse strings been hoodwinked into paying for far more tech upgrades than were necessary? No good deed, as they say, goes unpunished. Welcome to the dark side of Y2K.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Was the Y2K threat overblown? Had the managers that controlled the purse strings been hoodwinked into paying for far more tech upgrades than were necessary? No good deed, as they say, goes unpunished. Welcome to the dark side of Y2K.</div>

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lisandro mierez on 02 Jan 10

Was the Y2K threat overblown? Had the managers that controlled the purse strings been hoodwinked into paying for far more tech upgrades than were necessary? No good deed, as they say, goes unpunished. Welcome to the dark side of Y2K.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Was the Y2K threat overblown? Had the managers that controlled the purse strings been hoodwinked into paying for far more tech upgrades than were necessary? No good deed, as they say, goes unpunished. Welcome to the dark side of Y2K.</div>

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Story Time | Literary Elements | Third Grade - 18 views

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Key words=Common Craft, Videos, Social Studies, Middle School, 19th Century History, Fu... - 0 views

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Microsoft Collage Creator - 0 views

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Collage photo image art Microsoft

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Martin Burrett on 08 Aug 11

Make amazing collages with just a few clicks with this great downloadable tool from Microsoft Research. Sign in required. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+&+Images

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Create your own Piccassohead - 0 views

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Create a portrait in the style of Picasso with this simple to use, click and drag resource. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Art,+Craft+&+Design

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Create a portrait in the style of Picasso with this simple to use, click and drag resource. <a href="http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Art,+Craft+&+Design" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Art,+Craft+&+Design</a></div>

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UVic's Language Teaching Clipart Library - 13 views

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This library consists of about 3000 images which UVIC hope will be useful in the teaching of basic vocabulary in a variety of languages. The characters and objects depicted are as culturally neutral as UVIC could make them.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This library consists of about 3000 images which UVIC hope will be useful in the teaching of basic vocabulary in a variety of languages. The characters and objects depicted are as culturally neutral as UVIC could make them.</div>

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Lessons from Africa | Free Lesson Plans and Games for kids | Africa resources for KS1 K... - 0 views

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Martin Burrett on 08 Jan 14

This is a wonderful site which has a large set of lesson ideas that will bring Africa into your school. The activities range from KS1-4 and are spread across the curriculum. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This is a wonderful site which has a large set of lesson ideas that will bring Africa into your school. The activities range from KS1-4 and are spread across the curriculum. <a href="http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental</a></div>

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Content Curation by Lucian Duma | ZEEF - 0 views

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LUCIAN DUMA on 27 Jan 14

Dear teachers, researchers and social media curators if you like my online research with more than 100 edtools, ipad and windows phone apps to mLearning please share: tweet, Like, G+ my #startup #curation page http://goo.gl/5U7EtN If I achieve more than 200 shares I will add other 100 killer #ipad apps to #mlearning on the page and if you know a killer app please suggest it on the page topic and if you like my page leave a comment or mail me .þff

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Dear teachers, researchers and social media curators if you like my online research with more than 100 edtools, ipad and windows phone apps to mLearning please share: tweet, Like, G+ my #startup #curation page <a href="http://goo.gl/5U7EtN" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/5U7EtN</a> If I achieve more than 200 shares I will add other 100 killer #ipad apps to #mlearning on the page and if you know a killer app please suggest it on the page topic and if you like my page leave a comment or mail me .þff</div>

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tsmd1961 on 17 Jul 14

The Internet Curator's role is to seek on the web information related to a specic domain,fillter them, select them,organise,share,present them in a unique mode.Curation-Art of:searching,selecting, sharing/bookmarking ,organizing online informations.Discover more than 300 ipad apps in my Startup Portfolio https://ipad-apps.zeef.com/lucian.duma A very large and organized collection of Ed Tech resources

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The Internet Curator's role is to seek on the web information related to a specic domain,fillter them, select them,organise,share,present them in a unique mode.Curation-Art of:searching,selecting, sharing/bookmarking ,organizing online informations.Discover more than 300 ipad apps in my Startup Portfolio <a href="https://ipad-apps.zeef.com/lucian.duma" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ipad-apps.zeef.com/lucian.duma</a> A very large and organized collection of Ed Tech resources</div>

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