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Tracy Watanabe

Innovation Math Challenge - 1 views

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innovation math contest

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 05 Sep 13
     
    "The Innovation Math is a challenge for educators, student teams, gamers, programmers, and anyone who has a great idea to create fun and engaging math educational media. "
Tracy Watanabe

STEM related contests and competitions | Generation YES Blog - 1 views

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stem challenge

shared by Tracy Watanabe on 23 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Trash Transformation Challenge from Tech Directions
  • The deadline is January 31, 2013
  • Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision Launches 2013 Program Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision, the world’s largest K-12 science and technology competition is now accepting entries for 2013. Students research scientific principles and current technologies as the basis for designing inventions that could exist in 20 years.
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  • The deadline is January 31, 2013.
  • The Extreme Redesign 3D Printing Challenge 2013 is Now Open! Calling all engineering, design, art, and architecture students and teachers across the globe: The 2013 Extreme Redesign contest is now accepting entries.
  • “Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge” Opens Call for Entries As global environmental challenges increase, the Siemens Foundation and Discovery Education are looking to our country’s future leaders for innovative solutions.
  • The deadline for all entries is March 5, 2013.
  • National MASTERMIND BrainTwister Challenge In the first annual MASTERMIND BrainTwister Challenge, students will be challenged to come up with their own games, puzzles, and riddles for the MASTERMIND BrainTwister Challenge. Children ages 7 through 12 are eligible and can enter online. Deadline December 31, 2012.
  • SpaceTech Engineering Design Challenge Challenge: Design a Thermal Control System for a space station in lunar orbit.
  • Call for Entries for 2012 Digital Media Teacher Innovator Awards PBS LearningMedia and The Henry Ford are sponsoring the third annual Teacher Innovator Awards, recognizing PreK-12 educators using media in new and unique ways to enhance students’ learning.
  • The deadline to apply for the awards is December 12, 2012.
  • Tracy Watanabe on 23 Oct 12
     
    Great opportunities here for authentic learning...
Tracy Watanabe

#GeniusHour Blog Post Index | Dare to Care - 1 views

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genius Denise_Krebs resources pd innovation

shared by Tracy Watanabe on 04 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Tracy Watanabe on 04 Dec 11
     
    Need ideas for innovation in the classroom? Great post and resources by Denise Krebs.
Tracy Watanabe

Innovative Teacher Toolkit - Home - 3 views

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innovative elearning toolkit teacher tools partners_in_learning

shared by Tracy Watanabe on 30 May 11 - No Cached
  • Resources for 21st century teaching and learning Help your students develop 21st century skills while exploring global themes. The Innovative Teacher Toolkit provides whitepapers, customizable lesson plans, and technology tools to reinforce skills such as collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, assessment, and organization
Tracy Watanabe

Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Essential Question: How did it come to be this way? - 0 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 15 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • I wonder if instead of personal action projects and awareness campaigns students should practice collective action that has a concrete and measurable result.
  • Tracy Watanabe on 15 Apr 12
     
    I love this idea of having the PBL measurable -- not only a PSA, and an action step, but MEASURING the changes in behaviors/beliefs through tangible measurements. (Makes me think about Kirkpatrick)... It also makes me think about how this is a great CommonCore unit too! I would love to see an authentic school-wide (or grade level) PBL. How innovative would that be? While also causing us to behave as a PLC.
Tracy Watanabe

CIESE - Curriculum: K-12 CIESE Online Tele-Collaborative Classroom Projects - 1 views

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 26 Sep 13
     
    "Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education" Global Collaboraitons
Tracy Watanabe

(re)defining Excellence Awards: authorspeak 2012 - 0 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 14 May 12 - No Cached
  • One collaborative teacher team (two or more individuals) nominated for the award will win. The award honors extraordinary efforts and contributions to a school and classroom. In addition to $10,000, this team will receive a $200 credit to purchase Solution Tree materials for their school, along with two free registrations ($1,398 value) to authorspeak 2012 and recognition at the closing session. Nominees will demonstrate: Commitment and dedication to collaboration and innovation Active leadership and dedication to continuous improvement Contributions to the advancement of instructional best practices
  • e)defining Excellence in the School Award
  • )defining Excellence in the District Award
Tracy Watanabe

Common Core | November Learning - 0 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 10 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Inherent Skills: Global Empathy Questioning Problem Solving Creativity and Innovative Thinking Self-direction
  • Explicit Skills: Critical Thinking Global Communication Collaboration Information Literacy Information Management Media/Technology Literac
  • “Maximizing the Common Core involves a change in creativity, critical thinking, and a fundamental shift in relationships. It is where the role of the teacher becomes more essential than ever, as students develop their capacity to question, discover, connect, collaborate and contribute on a global scale, and where they are empowered by an increase in direction and management of their own learning.”
Tracy Watanabe

Education Week: Educators Evaluate 'Flipped Classrooms' - 1 views

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Education Week flipped flipped classroom

shared by Tracy Watanabe on 17 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • the flipped-classroom technique has also garnered criticism from some who believe that flipping is simply a high-tech version of an antiquated instructional method: the lecture
  • "My concern is that if you're still relying on lecture as your primary mode of getting content across, … you haven't done anything to shift the type of learning that's occurring," said Andrew Miller
  • "That's not how all of us learn," he said. "Just because you flipped your classroom doesn't mean your students will watch the videos. How are you engaging your kids?"
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  • "Everyone initially thought that [flipping] was an innovative way [to teach] because we're so rooted in this idea that students don't like homework," he said. "However, when you step back a little bit, what you're looking at is simply a time-shifting tool that is grounded in the same didactic, lecture-based philosophy. It's really a better version of a bad thing."
  • 2. Be thoughtful about what parts of your class you decide to “flip” and when.
  • Tips for Flipping
  • "It's a thing you do in the context of an overarching pedagogy," not the pedagogy itself, he said.
  • 1. Don’t get hung up on creating your own videos.
  • What's the best use of your face-to-face instruction time?
  • 4. Address the issue of access early
  • 5. Find a way to engage students in the videos. Just having students watch videos instead of listening to lectures doesn’t guarantee that they will be more engaged. Requiring students to take notes on the videos, ask questions about the videos, or engage in discussion about them will help ensure that they watch and absorb the material.
  • mastery-based model
  • made adjustments to the flipped classroom, moving from what they call the "traditional" flip to the "mastery based" flipped classroom.
  • 3. If possible, find a partner to create videos with. Students enjoy hearing the back-and-forth conversation of two teachers, especially when one teacher plays the role of mentor while the other plays the role of learner.
  • work through the material at their own pace
  • "For students who had not been challenged in the classroom, this was an opportunity for them to just fly," she said. "For others, it was an opportunity to take the time that they needed to move slower. And for some, self-paced became no pace," and teachers had to step in and create deadlines.
Shauna Hamman

Map Your World - Nexus 7 Tablet Application - 0 views

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shared by Shauna Hamman on 17 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • If you work with middle school and/or high school youth and want to incorporate technology into your curriculum, we invite you to participate in an exciting new project -- Map Your World -- an innovative, multi-platform project that places the power of new technologies into the hands of young change agents. To participate, follow the prompts at the bottom of the page to complete the application. If selected, you will be awarded five Nexus 7 tablets (valued at $200 each!) to support implementing Map Your World in classrooms and/or youth programs.
Tracy Watanabe

Games for Change - 1 views

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 30 Sep 14
     
    Digital games that focus on social impact with humanitarian or educational benefits
Tracy Watanabe

Design Thinking for Educators - 2 views

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innovation Suzie_boss toolkit resources

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 30 Sep 14
     
    There is a free downloadable Design Thinking Toolkit for Educators which is a K-12 guide for educators. "Design Thinking for Educators is… A creative process that helps you design meaningful solutions in the classroom, at your school, and in your community. The toolkit provides you with instructions to explore Design Thinking."
Tracy Watanabe

Becoming a 21st Century School or District: Use the 4Cs to Build Professional Capacity ... - 0 views

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PeerCoaching peer_ed edutopia 21stCentury PD

shared by Tracy Watanabe on 30 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Welcome back to our series on becoming a 21st century school or district! For the earlier installments of this series, please scroll to the bottom of this page. Previously we focused a lot of attention around the 4Cs: Critical thinking Communication Collaboration Creativity
  • Another strategy for using collaboration to transform PD is "peer coaching."
  • Reflections How would you rate the quality of professional development in your school or district? Does your PD challenge your educators to: Think critically and reflect deeply on their practice? Communicate and collaborate effectively? Bring innovative and creative practices to their classrooms? Have you established professional learning communities? Are they focused on the 4C's? Conclusion We have two major recommendations on PD: Be sure your PD exhibits the characteristics of the 4C's; Focus your PD on how teachers teach and assess the 4C's.
  • Tracy Watanabe on 30 Sep 11
     
    Building 21st Century Schools with collaboration coaching...
Meaghan Davis

E Pals - 1 views

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collaboration global project Project Based Learning

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 03 May 11
     
    "The mission of ePALS Classroom Exchange is to offer safe, innovative ways for learners to make contact with other cultures. They currently connect over 4.5 million users from 191 countries, speaking 136 languages, by providing built-in Webmail language translation and safety features such as monitored e-mail and profanity filters. All of the tools and resources on the site are free to anyone with a computer, anywhere in the world. The site also offers collaborative projects that students can join, as well as tools for creating projects and contacting students in remote locations."
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  • Gina Fraher on 03 May 11
     
    This is the site that I found our Kenya buddies project.
  • Marcy Saggio on 03 May 12
     
    ePals is the social network optimized for K-12 learning. Over half a million classrooms in 200 countries and territories have joined the ePals Global Community to connect, collaborate and exchange ideas. ePals now translates in 35 languages! It looks like a great way to connect with other students and classes around the world. It had projects you can collaborate on with other classrooms. I noticed many of these topics were about content we worked on this year in second grade.
  • Bonnie Barrett on 03 May 12
     
    ePals is the social network optimized for K-12 learning. Over half a million classrooms in 200 countries and territories have joined the ePals Global Community to connect, collaborate and exchange ideas. ePals now translates in 35 languages! The benefits of the site are that the students can connect with other students and classrooms around the globe. You connect with them by the projects that you are working on in the classroom. This gives the common ground to talk about back and forth. The possible pitfalls are if you get a classroom that is not as involved as yours. It could be a let down and you may have to find another classroom that you could connect with.
  • Meaghan Davis on 25 Jan 13
     
    This site is free and connects you with other educators seeking to connect classrooms for global projects. It has great safety features and has a variety of projects for all content areas and grade levels. You can form e-mail pen pal connections with classrooms around the world. Very cool!
Tracy Watanabe

The 2012 Lesson Challenge Is Here - Enter Your Best Lessons Now « Virtual Sch... - 0 views

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contest challenge

shared by Tracy Watanabe on 02 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Show us your best! We know you’ve created some amazing content with SoftChalk this year because each day we see lessons that WOW us on CONNECT. SoftChalk’s annual Lesson Challenge is our way to recognize your innovative teaching, lesson design skills and hard work! If you have lessons or eCourses that you’re proud of—submit them to the 2012 SoftChalk Lesson Challenge now! A $500 cash award will be awarded to each lesson challenge winner.
  • Tracy Watanabe on 02 Nov 11
     
    I think our CCs should enter your lesson improvements/pbls to this contest. You might even win $500 cash.
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