) Always come to class prepared: The students must bring their notebook,
pen, pencil, eraser, dictionary, etc. Whatever they need to help them learn
English. This includes a positive attitude. Merely coming to class prepared is
not enough. My students must also be prepared. This means sitting quietly in
their seats and in their groups before I enter the classroom. 2)
Always keep the classroom clean: If I see any paper on the floor, I tell
the students to pick it up. A dirty classroom should never be tolerated. I will
not start the lesson until the classroom is clean. I want my students to not
only respect their teachers and each other, but to respect the sanctity of the
classroom and the school as well.3) Be polite and show respect:
This doesn't only mean saying "Please" and "Thank you." It also means never
throwing things across the classroom. Far too often I've seen students throw
everything from pencils to books to their classmates. This also should never be
tolerated. When someone needs a pencil or an eraser, a student must physically
get up, walk over to the student in need, and hand it to him in a respectful
manner. Students must also use the proper honorific when referring to their
teacher. We must teach right speech AND right action.4) Pay attention
and cooperate: This means teaching the students to listen to the teacher and
listen to one another. Listening is the first step towards cooperating with each
other in order to get the job done and do the job well. 5) Work hard
and as a team: Team work is important in my classroom. I'm not looking for
individual superstars. I want students who are team players. Everyone learns
more that way. In working as a team, my students learn to plan their lessons
carefully and to think before they act.6) Sacrifice your time and
share your understanding: Now we're getting to the heart of the matter. If a
student understands something then he/she has an obligation to help another who
does not yet understand. The students must help and support each other. I love
to see a student physically get up, walk over to another, and kindly explain
what he has just learned to someone who is struggling. If one team does not
succeed in reaching the class/lesson objectives, then the other teams are
responsible for helping them until they do. This shows respect, cooperation, and
responsibility, and if we can teach our students that, then we are beginning to
succeed as educators.7) Be responsible for one another: Now we're
deep into the heart of the matter. This is the crux of my classroom culture.
Teaching my students to be responsible. Response-able. Or able to respond. Isn't
this what compassionate people do in a compassionate society? Isn't this our
main responsibility at educators--- to take on the responsibility of teaching
others how to be responsible? What a thrill it truly is to see students taking
responsibility for themselves AND others. If we can teach our students to
naturally respond to others in need, then we are truly succeeding as
educators.8) There are no free rides: I don't want slackers in my
class. If I see a student not pulling his weight, I let him know. The team is
relying on him. The team either succeeds or fails--- as a team. The class either
succeeds or fails--- as a class. In my classes, you will not get away with doing
nothing--- and that includes my co-teachers and myself! There are no free
rides.
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The Nerdy Teacher: 19 Pencils - A Review #EdChat #ElemChat - 0 views
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"I recommend 19 Pencils to teachers that are looking to easily and effectively:- integrate a website into their classroom - save websites and videos with visual representations- monitor their students online activity- create assignments with references to relevant web resources- add a teacher's note so that students have a clear understanding of what's expected of them- create quizzes from scratch or use pre-made flashcard quizzes- get instant feedback from your students with the social media Playground feature"
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Make a virtual paper snowflake with this great wintry site. Draw your pattern with the virtual pencil and cut out with the cyber scissors. Great to about out as Christmas cards. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Winter+%26+Christmas
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Cellphones as Instructional Tools (free webinar) - 0 views
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This free event is scheduled for Thursday, July 23, at 4 p.m. Eastern time. Cellphones have been called "the new paper and pencil" or "the new laptop," and they could be in the hands of as many as 10 million to 15 million schoolchildren in the next few years. For their instructional potential and ability to connect students to the Internet, mobile devices are quietly making their way into schools in the United States and abroad. What does your district, school, or classroom need to make this technology leap? Guests will discuss policy and implementation issues and offer practical curriculum ideas for every subject.
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MonkeyJam is a digital penciltest program. It is designed to let you capture images from a webcam, camcorder, or scanner and assemble them as separate frames of an animation. You can also import images and sound files already on your computer. Although it is designed for pencil and paper, MonkeyJam can also be used for StopMotion animation and has several features just for that. Movies created in MonkeyJam can be exported as AVI files.
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Turhan Aluminyum Logo Animasyon - YouTube - 0 views
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İzmir Marka Advertising Agency, Advertising and Communication Services, under the Brand Management Consulting , impressive and powerful brand identity that created the brand's target customers define the target customers of the quality and explores the decision process of buying and brand positioning according to these criteria and a brand story writer compatible with the positioning to consumers through effective and powerful media we call this the story of the message.
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December Traditions - Collaborative Project - 21 views
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This free project has students sharing their December Traditions. Students will create either a digital or paper/pencil representation of a December tradition their family celebrates. Using a Web 2.0 tool, students can add a verbal component to their drawing and then publish their work to share other students around the world. Finally, students and teachers will have the opportunity to view and comment on the work of other students.
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Shift Happens - Now What? at Change Agency - 0 views
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While it is nice to have administrative support for new technology purchases, a "technology purchasing frenzy" is simply NOT the correct response to the realization that our schools are not doing enough to prepare students for their futures. This is really about changing adult perspectives and adult behaviors to create student-centered classrooms that exemplify research-based best practices around learning. It's not about buying the latest, greatest, and most expensive tech toys on the market. Expensive tech in the hands of educators who haven't made changes to their behaviors and instructional practice are no better than the good old chalk board, pencil, and paper. Even worse, expensive tech that the teachers see no use for will end up just collecting dust in a storage room.
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my nine year old daughter
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It was hard to keep away my oldest daughter, who is 12, so we could finish. Taylor told her teacher what she did and asked if I could bring in my Lap Top to show her. She asked if I would show the whole class as well.
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Sketchup is remarkably user-friendly! Technology in the classroom is a great tool... it motivates students, stimulates learning, and often levels the playing field. Sketchup is a terrific example... there were gasps of delight and exclamations of enthusiasm as Brian demonstrated just a few of the basics. We all wondered why we had spent so much time with pencil and paper... this looked to be a whole lot more fun and more versatile. Needless to say, every child wanted to try it and they were all able to quickly master a few simple steps with Brian's guidance. I think they would have gladly designed an entire city had we given them time!"
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As a teacher, I saw a multitude of curriculum connections; geometry, measurement, logic, problem solving, art, perspective... the list goes on and on.
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Educational Leadership:Literacy 2.0:Orchestrating the Media Collage - 1 views
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New media demand new literacies. Because of inexpensive, easy-to-use, widely distributed new media tools, being literate now means being able to read and write a number of new media forms, including sound, graphics, and moving images in addition to text.
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New media coalesce into a collage. Being literate also means being able to integrate emerging new media forms into a single narrative or "media collage," such as a Web page, blog, or digital story.
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New media are largely participatory, social media. Digital literacy requires that students have command of the media collage within the context of a social Web, often referred to as Web 2.0. The social Web provides venues for individual and collaborative narrative construction and publication through blogs and such services as MySpace, Google Docs, and YouTube. As student participation goes public, the pressure to produce high-quality work increases.
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Historically, new media first appear to the vast majority of us in read-only form because they are controlled by a relatively few technicians, developers, and distributors who can understand or afford them. The rest of us only evolve into writers once the new media tools become easy to use, affordable, and widely available, whether these tools are cheap pencils and paper or inexpensive digital tools and shareware.
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Thus, a new dimension of literacy is now in play—namely, the ability to adapt to new media forms and fit them into the overall media collage quickly and effectively.
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n the mid 1960s, Marshall McLuhan explained that conventional literacy caused us to trade an ear for an eye, and in so doing, trade the social context of the oral tradition for the private point of view of reading and writing. To him, television was the first step in our "retribalization," providing a common social experience that could serve as the basis for dialogue in the global village.2 However, television told someone else's story, not ours. It was not until Web 2.0 that we had the tools to come full circle and produce and consume social narrative in equal measure. Much of the emerging nature of literacy is a result of inexpensive, widely available, flexible Web 2.0 tools that enable anyone, regardless of technical skill, to play some part in reinventing literacy.
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What is new is that the tools of literacy, as well as their effects, are now a topic of literacy itself.
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Students need to be media literate to understand how media technique influences perception and thinking. They also need to understand larger social issues that are inextricably linked to digital citizenship, such as security, environmental degradation, digital equity, and living in a multicultural, networked world. We want our students to use technology not only effectively and creatively, but also wisely, to be concerned with not just how to use digital tools, but also when to use them and why.
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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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there is no good way to quantify those achievements — putting them in a tough spot with voters deciding whether to bankroll this approach again
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“We’ve jumped on bandwagons for different eras without knowing fully what we’re doing. This might just be the new bandwagon,” he said. “I hope not.”
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$46.3 million for laptops, classroom projectors, networking gear and other technology for teachers and administrators.
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If we know something works
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The high-level analyses that sum up these various studies, not surprisingly, give researchers pause about whether big investments in technology make sense.
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Good teachers, he said, can make good use of computers, while bad teachers won’t, and they and their students could wind up becoming distracted by the technology.
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“Test scores are the same, but look at all the other things students are doing: learning to use the Internet to research, learning to organize their work, learning to use professional writing tools, learning to collaborate with others.”
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“There is a connection between the physical hand on the paper and the words on the page,” she said. “It’s intimate.”
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“They’re inundated with 24/7 media, so they expect it,”
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The 30 students in the classroom held wireless clickers into which they punched their answers. Seconds later, a pie chart appeared on the screen: 23 percent answered “True,” 70 percent “False,” and 6 percent didn’t know.
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engagement is a “fluffy
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rofessor Cuban at Stanford argues that keeping children engaged requires an environment of constant novelty, which cannot be sustained.
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that computers can distract and not instruct.
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guide on the side.
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But she loves the fact that her two children, a fourth-grader and first-grader, are learning technology, including PowerPoint
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Mr. Share bases his buying decisions on two main factors: what his teachers tell him they need, and his experience. For instance, he said he resisted getting the interactive whiteboards sold as Smart Boards until, one day in 2008, he saw a teacher trying to mimic the product with a jury-rigged projector setup. “It was an ‘Aha!’ moment,” he said, leading him to buy Smart Boards, made by a company called Smart Technologies.
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“Do we really need technology to learn?” she said. “It’s a very valid time to ask the question, right before this goes on the ballot.”
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Getting Started with Diigolet - Diigo help - 0 views
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Tags help you find and organize your bookmarks by letting you select all of your bookmarks with a certain tag or combination of tags. Quickly add relevant tags to a bookmark by clicking on any of the recommended tags that appear under the description field on the “Save Bookmark” pop-up. When you are satisfied with the information in the “Save Bookmark” pop-up, click the “Save Bookmark” button. Now a link to the page is stored in your Diigo library, and the information you entered is stored with it.
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Highlight Highlighting lets you denote important information on a page, just like highlighting in a book, but with Diigo, the highlighted text will be conveniently saved to your library as well. There are some important things for me to denote on my recipe. My wife doesn’t like pineapple, my grandfather can’t have eggs or chocolate, and I don’t like coconut very much, so I highlight those items on the recipe to let me know I need to deal with them. Highlight by clicking “Highlight” on the Diigolet. Then select the text you want to highlight. The text will be visually highlighted and the text is now stored in your library. It’s that easy. Click the button again to exit highlighter mode. You can also change the color of a highlight by clicking the downward-pointing arrow next to “Highlight” and choosing a color. Colors are useful for differentiating different types of highlights. I will use a different color for each of the different people I need to consider.
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To add a sticky note to a highlight, simply move your mouse cursor over a highlight. When the little pop-up tab with the pencil on it appears, move the cursor to it and a menu will appear. Choose “Add Sticky Notes”. Now you can type and post a sticky note just like before, but this time it will be tied to the highlighted text.
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Getting Started with Diigolet - Diigo help - 0 views
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Tags help you find and organize your bookmarks by letting you select all of your bookmarks with a certain tag or combination of tags. Quickly add relevant tags to a bookmark by clicking on any of the recommended tags that appear under the description field on the “Save Bookmark” pop-up. When you are satisfied with the information in the “Save Bookmark” pop-up, click the “Save Bookmark” button. Now a link to the page is stored in your Diigo library, and the information you entered is stored with it.
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Highlight Highlighting lets you denote important information on a page, just like highlighting in a book, but with Diigo, the highlighted text will be conveniently saved to your library as well. There are some important things for me to denote on my recipe. My wife doesn’t like pineapple, my grandfather can’t have eggs or chocolate, and I don’t like coconut very much, so I highlight those items on the recipe to let me know I need to deal with them. Highlight by clicking “Highlight” on the Diigolet. Then select the text you want to highlight. The text will be visually highlighted and the text is now stored in your library. It’s that easy. Click the button again to exit highlighter mode. You can also change the color of a highlight by clicking the downward-pointing arrow next to “Highlight” and choosing a color. Colors are useful for differentiating different types of highlights. I will use a different color for each of the different people I need to consider.
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To add a sticky note to a highlight, simply move your mouse cursor over a highlight. When the little pop-up tab with the pencil on it appears, move the cursor to it and a menu will appear. Choose “Add Sticky Notes”. Now you can type and post a sticky note just like before, but this time it will be tied to the highlighted text.
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Education Outrage: Why do we still have schools? - 1 views
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Adults earn about things they want to learn about. Before the age of 6, prior to school, one kid becomes a dinosaur specialist while another knows all about dog breeds. Outside of school people drive their own learning. Schools eliminate this natural behavior.
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Classrooms make no sense as a venue for learning unless of course you want to save money and have 30 (or worse hundreds of) students be handled by one teacher.
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Grades: Any professor can tell you that students are pretty much concerned with whether what you are telling them will be on the test and what they might do for extra credit.
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Parents do not give grades to children and employers do not give grades to employees. They judge their work and progress for sure, but not by assigning numbers to a report card.
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Certification: We all know why people attend college. They do primarily to say they are college graduates so they can get a job or go on to a professional school.
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Of course in school, sitting still is the norm. So we have come up with this wonderful idea of ADD, i.e. drug those who won’t sit still into submission. Is the system sick or what?
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Those who are good at these subjects go on to be professors. So those are certainly the smartest people we have in our society.
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But, I can tell you from personal experience that our society doesn’t respect professors all that much, so something is wrong here.
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Practical skills not valued: When I was young there were academic high schools and trade high schools. Trade high schools were for dumb kids. Academic high schools were for smart kids.
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The need to please teachers: People who succeed at school are invariably people who are good out at figuring what the teacher wants and giving it to them.
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Politicians in charge: Politicians demand reform but they wouldn’t know reform if it hit them over the head.
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Major learning by doing mechanism ignored: And last but not least, scholars from Plato to Dewey have pointed that people learn by doing. That is how we learn. Doing. Got it? Apparently not. Very little doing in schools. Unless you count filling in circles with number 2 pencils as doing.
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Government use of education for repression: As long as there have been governments there have been governments who wanted people to think that the governments (and the country) is very good.
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Discovery not valued: The most important things we learn we teach ourselves.
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This kind of learning is not valued in school because it might lead to, heaven forbid, failure, and failure is a really bad word in school. Except failure is how we learn, which is pretty much why school doesn’t work.
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Boredom ignored: Boredom is a bad thing. We drug bored kids with Ritalin so they will stop being bored.
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Not accepting students with straight A's only shows your own prejudices. Students can be good at a range of subjects, without being passionately interested in all of them. Lots of people are self motivated, without being teacher pleasers, they just wish to do their best in everything for their own satisfaction.
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Why do we have schools? Instead of answering this question by listing all the good things that schools provide, which anyone can do, I will turn the question around: What is bad about having schools?
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Why do we have schools? Instead of answering this question by listing all the good things that schools provide, which anyone can do, I will turn the question around: What is bad about having schools?