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Karen McKelvey

What Is Taught in the EEI Curriculum? - 0 views

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    " What is Taught in EEI The EEI Curriculum is 85 K-12 grade units that teach California content standards in Science and History-Social Science to mastery. The EEI Curriculum also supports your students' efforts to master English Language Arts standards. The Curriculum teaches standards through an environmental lens, including understanding resources, conservation, where our food, energy, and water come from, and complicated decision-making processes related to climate change, green chemistry, and use of public lands. As students are taught the EEI custom learning objectives and standards, they also learn the Environmental Principles and Concepts. California examples make learning relevant, connecting students' learning to the communities they live in, and stimulating their involvement with the world around them. All of this bolsters your students' academic content mastery. "
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    Some great resources for teaching both content and ELA standards.
Karen McKelvey

Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning: Mike Schmoker: 9... - 0 views

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    "Bestselling author Mike Schmoker describes a plan for radically improving student learning that is built on three core elements: a focused and coherent curriculum (what we teach); clear, prioritized lessons (how we teach); and purposeful reading and writing, or authentic literacy. With this "less is more" philosophy, educators can help students learn content at a deeper level, develop greater critical thinking skills, and discover more clearly how content-area concepts affect their lives and the world around them. Both a call to action and a blueprint for creating more effective classrooms, Focus: Elevating the Essentials for Radically Improved Student Learning will challenge your assumptions about schooling and show how educators who have embraced this approach quickly achieved spectacular results."
Karen McKelvey

Learn It In 5 - Home - 1 views

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    "At the award-winning Learn it in 5, you'll learn what is Web 2.0, and strategies for using Web 2.0 technology in the digital classroom - all in 5 minutes or less. Learn it in 5 is a powerful library of how-to videos, produced by technology teachers, for the purpose of helping teachers and students create classroom strategies for today's 21st century's digital classroom. These step-by-step how-to videos walk teachers through Web 2.0 technology, demonstrating how to use Web 2.0 applications like blogs, social networks, podcasts, interactive videos, wikis, slide sharing and much more."
Karen McKelvey

LearnZillion - 1 views

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    LearnZillion is a learning platform that combines video lessons, assessments, and progress reporting. Each lesson highlights a Common Core standard, starting with math in grades 3-9. We started LearnZillion at E.L. Haynes Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. because we wanted to solve a problem. We knew what lessons our students needed but we didn't have enough time to teach each student the right lesson. To create more time, and to share best practices across classrooms, E.L. Haynes' teachers began to capture their expertise on screencasts. We posted them on a homemade website and coupled them with a short quiz to help us track student progress. Soon the idea grew. What if teachers from across the country could contribute to the site? What if new teachers could learn the new Common Core standards from the wisdom of experienced teachers? What if students could get a playlist of lessons that matched their needs? What if, over time, the video lessons got stronger and stronger, as more teachers contributed and the data showed which lessons had the biggest impact? Thanks to funding from the Next Generation Learning Challenge, NewSchools Venture Fund, Achievement Network, and others, we are about to find out!
Karen McKelvey

Providing Feedback | Researched-Based Strategies | Focus on Effectiveness - 0 views

  • Providing the right kind of feedback to students can make a significant difference in their achievement.
  • First, feedback that improves learning is responsive to specific aspects of student work,
  • There needs to be a strong link between the teacher comment and the student's answer,
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  • t must be instructive
  • Second, the feedback must be timely. I
  • When feedback is corrective in nature—that is, it explains where and why
  • students have made errors--significant increases in student learning occur
  • Feedback has been shown to be one of the most significant activities a teacher can engage in to improve student achievement
  • Implementation Fine-tune how you provide feedback by focusing on the details of what you say, as well as when you say it.
  • Take time to write comments, point out omissions, and explain your thinking when reviewing student work.
  • eedback is best when it is corrective in nature.
  • Give students opportunities to improve, try again, and get it right.
  • Students can monitor and provide feedback to other students, as well as compare their work to criteria.
  • Tests are more effective as opportunities for learning if a day has gone by between learning experiences and the test.
  • Rubrics provide criteria against which students can compare their learning.
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    Providing feedback to students can make a significant difference in their achievement.
Karen McKelvey

Pora Ora : The Online 3D Educational Game for Children - 0 views

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    From the website: "Pora Ora is a FREE 3D world designed to make learning fun, where primary school children are rewarded for completing educational tasks that are linked to the national curriculum. The educational content is embedded in games and quests throughout the world, so children really are learning while playing. "
Karen McKelvey

Five Keys to Successful Social and Emotional Learning | Edutopia - 0 views

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    "Studies show that sustained and well-integrated social and emotional learning (SEL) engages students and improves achievement. Explore classroom practices that make up the most effective SEL programs."
Karen McKelvey

Connected Learning: Interest, Peer Culture, Academics - YouTube - 0 views

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    "We commissioned filmmaker Nic Askew (http://soulbiographies.com) to make a series of films about connected learning, a new approach to learning he called "courageous" and "transformational.""
Karen McKelvey

Educator Sandbox | Wonderopolis - 0 views

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    Welcome to Wonderopolis®, a place where natural curiosity and imagination lead to exploration and discovery in learners of all ages. Brought to life by the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL), our Wonders of the Day® will help you find learning moments in everyday life-ones that fit in with dinner preparations, carpool responsibilities, a stolen moment between breakfast and the bus, or within school curriculum and education programs. Wonder is for everyone. It can happen anywhere and at anytime. Connecting the learning we do in our schools, our homes, and our communities, Wonderopolis walks the line between formal and informal education. Each day, we pose an intriguing question and explore it in a variety of ways. Our approach both informs and encourages new questions, sparking new paths of wonder and discovery in family and classroom settings. - See more at: http://wonderopolis.org/about/#sthash.X4AZFEHQ.dpuf
Karen McKelvey

The 13 MUST Know Professional Development Websites for Teachers - 0 views

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    "Professional Development is a life-long learning process that involves different activities including individual progress, continuing education, inservice education, peer collaboration, study groups, and peer coaching or mentoring. The importance of professional development lays in the fact that it is closely related to the overall quality of education and students achievements. Teachers who stop learning and suffice themselves with the curriculum content soon turn into hard working students only a step above their actual students."
Karen McKelvey

TOP 10 FREE Timeline Creation Tools for Teachers - 0 views

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    "Timelines have become an indispensable part of the learning experience as they enable students to participate more actively in learning and acquire knowledge the easy way. In other words, timelines help students easily understand and memorize events and dates. But how easy it is to create them? Which are the best - and free- tools that you can use? In the following list you will find the TOP 10 FREE Timeline Creation Tools for Teachers that are very effective, free and easy to use. "
Karen McKelvey

K-8 Science Techbook | Digital textbooks and standards-aligned educational resources - 0 views

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    "Science Techbook is built from the ground up to be a unique, web-based teaching and learning tool. Unlike other digital science programs that are converted from existing textbooks, Techbook™ takes full advantage of digital capabilities to offer multi-modal resources that transform teaching and learning. Powerful yet simple-to-use, K-8 Science Techbook saves teachers time and provides on-going support as they transition to digital."
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    Something to perhaps look at. Integrate text, video, interactive activities and more
Karen McKelvey

Social Studies Techbook | Digital textbooks and standards-aligned educational resources - 1 views

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    "Social Studies Techbook is built from the ground up to be a unique, web-based teaching and learning resource. Unlike other digital social studies programs that are converted from existing textbooks, Techbook™ takes full advantage of digital capabilities to offer multi-modal resources that transform teaching and learning. Powerful yet simple-to-use, Social Studies Techbook supports teachers as they transition to digital, while simultaneously helping them to meet Common Core State Standards. Real-time assessments also enhance a teacher's ability to individualize instruction. From interactive maps to "enduring debates", Social Studies Techbook links social studies to key historical resources, features activities that help students to think critically, and encourages students to develop arguments that are supported by evidence. "
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    Something to think about
Karen McKelvey

iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » 5 of the BEST Virtual Field Trips - 0 views

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    "Field trips can be amazing learning experiences.   They provide students with the opportunity to actively participate in education, offering learning possibilities that aren't readily available in the classroom.  Unfortunately, it isn't always practical or possible to take students on field trips.  Tight budgets, location, transportation, time, and resource restrictions can keep your students school-bound.  Virtual field trips can fill this void.  Virtual field trips have come a long way from the page of links they used to be.  Now students can explore the world with simulations that are so realistic, they will believe they have left the classroom."
Karen McKelvey

ScootPad :: Practice. Learn. Succeed. - 0 views

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    Personalized practices to meet each individual student's learning needs.
Karen McKelvey

New Version of Blooms Taxonomy for iPad ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 0 views

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    Blooms Taxonomy is one of our topical themes in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning. Over the last couple of years, we have been posting dozens of articles on how teachers can can apply the HOTS ( Higher Order Thinking Skills ) in their teaching. You can check the resources below to learn more.
Karen McKelvey

Educreations - Teach what you know. Learn what you don't. - 0 views

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    Teach what you know. Learn what you don't. Create and share amazing video lessons with your iPad or browswer
Karen McKelvey

Innovate My School - 107 favourite iPad apps for learning - 1 views

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    107 iPad apps..."Tablet computing and mobile devices promise to have a dramatic impact on education. A growing number of schools across the world are jumping on the digital bus and embracing iPads as the latest tool to teach literature in multimedia, history through games and simulations, and maths with step-by-step animation of problems."
Karen McKelvey

MindShift - 0 views

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    Launched in 2010 by KQED and NPR, MindShift explores the future of learning in all its dimensions, covering cultural and technology trends, innovations in education, groundbreaking research, education policy, and more. The editor is Tina Barseghian. Get in touch by sending an email to MindShift [at] KQED [dot] org.
Karen McKelvey

Resources for Project-Based Learning - 0 views

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    A list of resources for PBL created by Wikispaces.
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