Story Time | Story Elements | Fourth Grade - 22 views
Visual Learning For Special Needs Children - 0 views
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This is the fourth article in the series on Virtual Learning entitled VISUAL LEARNING FOR SPECIAL NEEDS. If you have a special needs child that has encountered finding educational solutions that provide successfully for your child, then you should read this article about what Visual Learning and the use of subtitled educational videos offers for special needs children of all ages. Read more...
Change and why we all see it differently - The Learner's Way - 3 views
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If the young people of today are to thrive beyond the walls of the classroom they will need to be able to cope with a world characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. The children of todays Kindergarten will enter the workplace in the fourth-decade of the 21st Century. We debate the merits of teaching 21st Century Skills and what they might be while teaching children who have lived their entire lives in that very century. The challenge is how will schools and individual teachers respond to this drive for urgent change.
Search Tutors | TutStu - 0 views
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"Search Tutor" is the fourth option in the Left Menu, inside Student Portal. Using this option, Students can Search, Find and Connect with more Tutors, as per their choice. Suppose, you already take tutoring for Math, you already have a Math tutor. Now you want to find another Math tutor. You might click on "Search Tutor", to search for another Math tutor. Again say, you already have a Math tutor. Now you may want to find an English tutor. Then you must click on 'Search Tutor' to find an English tutor. There is no limitation. Students can have unlimited number of tutors. Students can have multiple tutors in any subject. A Student might have 5 Tutors for Math, 3 Tutors for English, 4 Tutors for Science, 2 Tutors for History and so on.
Learning in the 21st century | TODAYonline - 38 views
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Teaching is not simply presenting ideas and insights, nor filling students’ heads with what we know or transmitting information. Learning is not just committing facts to memory but the ability to critique, synthesise, analyse, use and apply information.
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The addition of greater interactivity is essential to make knowledge transfer in universities more meaningful in today’s world
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. But how do we integrate the digital world’s resources into classroom-based learning?
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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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Commentary: Don't prop up failing schools - CNN.com - 0 views
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Story HighlightsChristensen, Horn: Federal spending on schools is set to jumpThey say it would be a big mistake to use money to let failing schools resist changeCo-authors: Federal money should go to innovators challenging traditional waysThey say technology should be used to create new forms of schooling
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The most likely result of this stimulus will be to give our schools the luxury of affording not to change.
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Fourth, direct more funds for research and development to create student-centric learning software. Just a fraction of 1 percent of the $600 billion in K-12 spending from all levels currently goes toward R&D. The federal government should reallocate funds so we can begin to understand not just what learning opportunities work best on average but also what works for whom and under what circumstance. It is vital to fund learning software that captures data about the student and the efficacy of different approaches so we can connect these dots.
Digital Comics Spur Students' Interest in Writing - National Writing Project - 0 views
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Summary: Fourth grade teacher Glen Bledsoe has his students create comic strips together, which engages their creativity and teaches them writing, critical thinking, and other skills.
Critical Issue: Using Technology to Improve Student Achievement - 0 views
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Technologies available in classrooms today range from simple tool-based applications (such as word processors) to online repositories of scientific data and primary historical documents, to handheld computers, closed-circuit television channels, and two-way distance learning classrooms. Even the cell phones that many students now carry with them can be used to learn (Prensky, 2005).
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Bruce and Levin (1997), for example, look at ways in which the tools, techniques, and applications of technology can support integrated, inquiry-based learning to "engage children in exploring, thinking, reading, writing, researching, inventing, problem-solving, and experiencing the world." They developed the idea of technology as media with four different focuses: media for inquiry (such as data modeling, spreadsheets, access to online databases, access to online observatories and microscopes, and hypertext), media for communication (such as word processing, e-mail, synchronous conferencing, graphics software, simulations, and tutorials), media for construction (such as robotics, computer-aided design, and control systems), and media for expression (such as interactive video, animation software, and music composition). In a review of existing evidence of technology's impact on learning, Marshall (2002) found strong evidence that educational technology "complements what a great teacher does naturally," extending their reach and broadening their students' experience beyond the classroom. "With ever-expanding content and technology choices, from video to multimedia to the Internet," Marshall suggests "there's an unprecedented need to understand the recipe for success, which involves the learner, the teacher, the content, and the environment in which technology is used."
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In examining large-scale state and national studies, as well as some innovative smaller studies on newer educational technologies, Schacter (1999) found that students with access to any of a number of technologies (such as computer assisted instruction, integrated learning systems, simulations and software that teaches higher order thinking, collaborative networked technologies, or design and programming technologies) show positive gains in achievement on researcher constructed tests, standardized tests, and national tests.
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skype - 0 views
looking for some people to skype with some colleagues. A fourth grade teacher looking to chat with a dairy farmer, grain mill etc. A second grade teacher looking to chat with someone about insects,...
Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 9 views
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Critics counter that, absent clear proof, schools are being motivated by a blind faith in technology and an overemphasis on digital skills — like using PowerPoint and multimedia tools — at the expense of math, reading and writing fundamentals. They say the technology advocates have it backward when they press to upgrade first and ask questions later.
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district was innovating
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how the district was innovating.
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New! FREE Algebra Games - 32 views
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First Grade - Algebra - Pictorial Symbols and Patterns
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Third Grade - Algebra - Patterns, Relationships and Functions
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Fourth Grade - Algebra - Equations and Inequalities
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