when an educator teaches a unit of study, then assigns a project, that is not project-based learning because the discovery didn’t arise from the project itself. And kids can see through the idea of a so-called “fun project” for what it often is – busy work. “They don’t see it as learning; they see it as something else to do,” said Terronez. “They don’t see the value.”
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United Laws of Physics Make More Accurate Predictions: Discovery News - 0 views
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Australian researchers have found a way to unite two laws of physics, which will lead to more reliable predictions of everything from disease spread to internet traffic.
DEN Blog Network » Discovery Education Webinars: 2009-2010 - 0 views
Exchange 2010 Role Based Access Control (Part 3) - 1 views
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"There is also another piece of the puzzle to look at, namely management role entries, which we will be doing here in part three. Once we understand what management role entries are, we shall then see what membership of the Discovery Management role group means for a user that needs to perform a mailbox search."
Creative Commons & the Association of Educational Publishers to establish a common lear... - 0 views
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Today Creative Commons and the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) announce the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative, a project aimed at improving education search and discovery via a common framework for tagging and organizing learning resources on the web. The learning resources framework will be designed to work with schema.org, the web metadata framework recently launched by Google, Bing, and Yahoo!, as well as to work with other metadata technologies and to enable other rich applications.
Taking risks outside our comfort zone - The Learner's Way - 8 views
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Possibly the most dangerous place to spend too much time is inside your comfort zone. Only when we take a risk and step away from the safety of the familiar and the ways we have always done things do we expose ourselves to new ideas and become open to the possibility of learning and discovery. The trouble is having the confidence to take that first step, to embrace discomfort and become open to the risks that come with trying something new.
Ideas - The Learner's Way - 14 views
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Ask any teacher what they wish they had more of and the most common answer is likely to be time. Schools are inherently busy places and there is always much to be done. We all want to meet the needs of every student, add value to their education with breadth and depth, ensure adequate coverage of the curriculum and include aspects of play and discovery. Add up all that is done in a day over and above face-to-face teaching and you can only wonder at how we manage to fit it all into the time we have. So is there an answer to this dilemma, is there a secret method to finding more time in our schedules to achieve all that we want to?
What Project-Based Learning Is - and What It Isn't | MindShift - 0 views
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onnect classroom learning to its applications in the outside world. He’s found that when the project is based in the real world, addressing problems that people actually face, and not focused on a grade, students are naturally invested.
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iligent planning by the teacher to design projects that give students space to explore themes
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Virtual Volcano - 0 views
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A good interactive stimulation of a volcano. Change the settings and see how the eruption changes. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Creativity in Science and Technology - 27 views
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CREST is a programme for schools run by Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation that aims to promote Creativity. By adding creativity to our science lessons we can move past boiling water and encourage students towards serious scientific and technological discovery.
Esther Wojcicki: Revolution Needed for Teaching Literacy in a Digital Age - 28 views
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But one area of American life that is consistently resistant to innovation is our education system.
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children who are below grade level by age ten tend to stagnate and eventually give up and drop out in high school. Harvard educational psychologist Jeanne Chall famously called this phenomenon the "fourth grade reading slump,
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In the classroom, digital media also have other major advantages. These media teach students to master the production of knowledge, not just the consumption of knowledge. Kids learn to create videos, write blogs, collaborate online; the also learn to play video games, do digital storytelling, fan fiction, music, graphic art, anime and even more. Their informal process of learning, collaboration, and transforming passion into knowledge is desperately needed in schools today.
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embrace the potential revolutionary power of the digital tools that have defined the first decade of the 21st century
Discovery Education - Where Learning Comes Alive - 0 views
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Beyond the Textbook Using Digital Media with students
All About Computers - Discovery Education - 0 views
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lesson plans for 21st Century skills: critical thinking, communication & collaboration, creativity & innovation, and digital citizenship
Techucation - 0 views
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Are textbooks in any format still adding value to the learning process? This article provides the argument that they are not.
Scotch/ Discovery Education Science Fair Central offers ideas for science fair projects... - 0 views
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Helpful resource for science fair projects. Includes steps to get started as well as parent resources.
Discovery Educator Network - 1 views
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