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Classroom Guide: Top Ten Tips for Teaching with New Media | Edutopia - 0 views

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    We want to help you make the most of the latest technologies and innovative ways to use them during the school year, so we've put together a free resource for you. Full of succinct and practical ways to prepare our students for 21st-century success, this guide will help you deliver the relevant and meaningful education all students deserve.
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Social Media for Teachers: Guides, Resources, and Ideas | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Social Media for Teachers, resources!
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Texting in the Classroom: Not Just a Distraction | Edutopia - 0 views

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    New tools have been released recently that demonstrate that texting can, in fact, be used for educational purposes. 
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A Primer on Curriculum Sharing Sites | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Edutopia's research analyst Vanessa Vega shares her top list of websites for curriculum sharing.
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6 Ways to Honor the Learning Process in Your Classroom | Edutopia - 0 views

  • Roughly put, learning is really just a growth in awareness.
  • While morsels of information -- math theorems, for example -- may not change, the context in which students use them do change. Which in turn changes how we consider and use that morsel.
  • Even what we call facts -- significant historical dates, labels for ethnic groups, causes and effects of cultural movements -- all change endlessly, if not in form (how they're discussed), then in meaning and connotation (what we think of them).
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  • And thus changing how students use this skill or understanding. And thus changing how we, as teachers, "teach it."
  • This could be thought of as depth of understanding, a term that produced a depth of knowledge (DOK) framework for measuring understanding which is still used in many districts. Bloom's Taxonomy (1) or even the TeachThought Learning Taxonomy (2) are all tools to help evaluate understanding -- how well a student "gets it."
  • 1. Use Learning Taxonomies
  • 2. Use Concept Maps
  • Have students map, chart, diagram or otherwise visually represent their own learning pathways and changes in their own understanding.
  • 3. Use a Variety of Assessment Forms
  • 4. Build Metacognition into Units
  • Prime the pump by assigning students quick writing prompts about their own thinking.
  • 6. Connect Students to Networks
  • As students connect to networks, the learning process will plug them in, not just to one teacher, or 25 classmates, or eight texts, but to something much larger -- and more able to interact with students organically.
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    Some great thoughts on increasing the meaning of learning in your classroom
David Ellena

Your Lesson's First Five Minutes: Make Them Grand | Edutopia - 0 views

  • 1. Do Something You Love Every Day
  • Find either something you love to teach or some way you love teaching it if the topic doesn’t excite you.
  • 2. Use Teasers
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  • Start with a provocative statement about the upcoming lesson. Sometimes they can be used to end the previous lesson. "Tomorrow we will learn an amazing thing that happens when you touch the belly of certain African frogs -- see you tomorrow."
  • Teasers have two requirements to work effectively. First, there must be a tease that is related to the subject.
  • Secondly, your teasers must deliver.
  • Great questions have these things in common: They are related to the subject you're teaching. They amplify the students' natural sense of wonder. They challenge the students' belief of the way things are.
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    You have to grab their attention in order to help them learn. 
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Michelle Lampinen, NBCT | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Michelle Lampinen descries benefits of blogs in the classroom. Her Junior classroom is blogging for leaning and discovery.
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