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How to Keep Kids Engaged in Class | Edutopia - 2 views

  • 10 Rules of Engagement
  • 1. Start Class with a Mind Warm-Up
  • 2. Use Movement to Get Kids Focused
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  • 3. Teach Students How to Collaborate Before Expecting Success
  • 4. Use Quickwrites When You Want Quiet Time and Student Reflection
  • 5. Run a Tight Ship When Giving Instructions
  • before
  • (1) total silence, (2)
  • complete attention, and (3) all five eyeballs on you (
  • To hold everyone accountable for listening the entire time, make it clear that you will never repeat your instructions after you have finished going over them.
  • 6. Use a Fairness Cup to Keep Students Thinking
  • 7. Use Signaling to Allow Everyone to Answer Your Questio
  • 8. Use Minimal-Supervision Tasks to Squeeze Dead Time out of Regular Routines
  • 9. Mix up Your Teaching Styles
  • 10. Create Teamwork Tactics That Emphasize Accountability
anamaria menezes

There's Good eLearning and there's Bad eLearning: how do we tell one from the other? [R... - 0 views

  • There’s Good eLearning and there’s Bad eLearning:
  • bad eLearning.
  • Bad eLearning is when you try to do something just because you can and just because it is using technology.’
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  • ‘relying on the technology to do the teaching for you; thinking that a new tool will substitute for engagement and interest in your students.’
  • The teacher or lecturer who uses Twitter or Facebook or Bebo or whatever as a medium for the sharing of ideas, discussion, assignments and so on with his or her students risks being perceived as intruding on students’ personal and social territories.
  • We should start, where we can, with the core purpose of education,
  • A good educational system should have three purposes: it should
anamaria menezes

Collaborate, facilitate, educate - Box of Tricks - 3 views

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    the use of wikis w/ students
anamaria menezes

Shaping Tech for the Classroom | Edutopia - 0 views

  • When a new technology appears, our first instinct is always to continue doing things within the technology the way we've always done it.
  • It appears that students who write on a computer turn in longer and higher-quality assignments than those who compose by hand, even though it's still writing.
  • But new technology still faces a great deal of resistance.
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  • (clothes, supplies, and even homework) on eBay and the Internet; exchanging music on P2P sites; building games with modding (modifying) tools; setting up meetings and dates online; posting personal information and creations for others to check out; meeting people through cell phones; building libraries of music and movies; working together in self-formed teams in multiplayer online role-playing games; creating and using online reputation systems; peer rating of comments; online gaming; screen saver analysis; photoblogging; programming; exploring; and even transgressing and testing social norms.
Emma Heath

Travel Blog - TravelPod™ - 0 views

shared by Emma Heath on 20 Sep 10 - Cached
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    travelblog where students can keep their own travel journal
Emma Heath

Free Language Courses and Assessment | ALISON - 0 views

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    Free online courses for English students
anamaria menezes

TeachPaperless: 21 Things That Will Become Obsolete in Education by 2020 - 3 views

  • the teacher who hasn't yet figured out how to use tech to personalize learning will be the teacher out of a job.
  • we will see Digital Portfolios replace test scores
  • traditional temporal boundaries between home and school disappear
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  • Because computing is going mobile
  • language acquisition is only a smartphone away
  • network-based concepts of flow, collaboration, and dynamism
  • all reading will be via digital means
  • experiential learning.
  • Students will form peer groups by interest
  • power of a PLN
  • parents and teachers will become closer than ever as a result of virtual communication opportunities
  • schools will decrease their paper consumption
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