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
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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
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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.
(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.