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Michael Wacker

Google Apps EDU - All of the Above - 0 views

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    Building a 21st century school now has an easy answer:
Michael Wacker

Main Page - Digital Native - 0 views

  • An academic research team -- joining people from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland -- is hosting and working on the core of this wiki, which illustrates the beginning stages of a larger research project on Digital Natives.
Michael Wacker

http://www.latrobe.edu.au/teaching/assets/downloads/EffectiveOnlineDiscussion.pdf - 1 views

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    Learning does not occur spontaneously among a group of students, whether the setting is face to face or online. Online discussion requires structure just as in a faceto-face setting. 
Michael Wacker

Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • Elementary- and middle-school teachers who help raise their students’ standardized-test scores seem to have a wide-ranging, lasting positive effect on those students’ lives beyond academics, including lower teenage-pregnancy rates and greater college matriculation and adult earnings, according to a new study that tracked 2.5 million students over 20 years.
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    I like that this article address the obvious gaps of research and lack of control of multiple variables that could eschew results. Nevertheless there are some great data points on why keeping and retaining the best in our profession needs to be a continued focus and conversation. Is it enough to use test scores, of course not. But a balanced system that helps us speed up the process for removing ineffective folks in our profession can't hurt.
Michael Wacker

Bogus Websites - 0 views

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    Bogus or hoax websites are a wonderful resource to use with students to develop their critical evaluation skills.
Michael Wacker

7 Things You Should Know About VoiceThread | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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    VoiceThread is a media aggregator that allows people to post media artifacts-which might be a document, a slide presentation, a video, or a collection of photos-for community feedback. Commentators can add remarks by means of microphone, webcam, keyboard,
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