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in title, tags, annotations or urlEsther 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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Free Technology for Teachers: 11 Techy Things for Teachers to Try This Year - 1 views
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So a blog doesn't provide quite what you're looking for and a wiki doesn't either? Try building your own website. On your website you can include calendars of assignment
Geni - Free Online Family Trees - 0 views
Building Blogs | Teachers TV - 1 views
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Learn how blogging, video conferencing and computer technology can be used simply and effectively as teaching and learning aids in the classroom. In this programme, students from Acton High School in west London are motivated into journalistic action as they create the Newszine blog for the enjoyment of their peers. Ealing City Learning Centre facilitates the students' use of cutting edge technology to drive understanding of subject matter, independent learning and critical thinking.
BuiLD YouR WiLD SeLF - 0 views
Autonomous Language Learning - 0 views
Web 2.0 - Part 1 | Metamurphism - 0 views
Voki - Personal Avatars - 1 views
Weblogg-ed » Personalizing Education for Teachers, Too - 0 views
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The key to this transformation is not to standardize education but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of the each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions (238). The curriculum should be personalized. Learning happens in the minds and souls of individuals–not in the databases of multiple-choice tests (248).
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Sir Ken lays out the case for personalizing our kids’ educations in the context of transforming (not reforming) schools:
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Sir Ken Robinson’s new book “The Element”
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Our Courts - Build a Curriculum - 0 views
JeopardyLabs - Online Jeopardy Template - 9 views
Personal Learning Networks Are Virtual Lockers for Schoolkids | Edutopia - 0 views
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Tony Wagner, from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, lists assessing and analyzing information as one of the seven survival skills in the new world of work. I think the ability to create a PLN is a fundamental information-management skill that will help my students succeed in the future.
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An RSS reader is a Web site that puts together all this information in an easy-to-read format. Google Reader, netvibes, Pageflakes, Bloglines, and my preferred reader, iGoogle, are all examples of sites providing RSS readers. The RSS reader is the raw material for building a PLN.
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With PLNs, we can now empower the personalized learning we've been longing to bring to education. I'm thrilled that my students know how to connect efficiently to great sources of information and can now construct an environment that will make them lifelong learners. And, truly, creating a self-directed learner is the pinnacle of educational achievement.
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