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Patrick Seamars

12 Effective Ways To Use Google Drive In Education - Edudemic - 4 views

  • The Android and iOS apps let students (and teachers) do this from virtually anywhere. In fact, you can literally do it anywhere considering there is an ‘offline mode’ for Google Drive so you don’t even need a web connection to keep your online collaboration document or project humming along.
    • Patrick Seamars
       
      Many of our students may not have a computer at home, but they do have a smartphone...
  • The other big way I’d recommend trying out Google Drive would be for mind maps.
    • Patrick Seamars
       
      There are a ton of add-ons for Drive that can create really cool looking mind maps:  https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/mind%20maps I've used Lucid Chart (http://bit.ly/1oa2drr) and Coggle (http://bit.ly/SvoMYO). Really. Cool. Stuff.
Noah Geisel

Year-long projects inspire independent learning | Brilliant or Insane - 1 views

  • help fan students’ intrinsic motivation, leading them to embrace learning rather than grades
  • A year-long project is one in which students set a long-term goal and work backwards, creating checkpoints that the teacher can set.
  • goal of 2,500 books read by June. This averages to roughly 25 per student. Of course, some will read 50 while a few will read 15. Along the way, we learn genre, book structure, literary elements and the fundamentals of writing.
allancutler

Beyond Knowing Facts, How Do We Get to a Deeper Level of Learning? | MindShift - 0 views

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    Look! learning isn't just the facts.
Noah Geisel

Is All This Student Data Changing the Way Teachers Teach? | MindShift - 2 views

  • There is a place for data, but it can be overrated
    • Noah Geisel
       
      Like this
  • We look, we listen, we give regular quizzes and tests to see what a child has retained. We confer with children, we ask them what will interest them, what will make them tick and want to keep working hard at school,
  • embrace data-driven teaching
Patrick Seamars

New Minecraft Mod Teaches You Code as You Play | Enterprise | WIRED - 0 views

  • MinecraftEDU
  • TeacherGaming
  • In fact, Levin says TeacherGaming is working on its own mod building education program called ComputerCraftEdu, which will eventually be offered both online and in-person. And there are already a few other classes that teach students to create mods, such as MakersFactory’s class in Santa Cruz and YouthDigital’s online class. But most of these other classes require students to write code in a programming language called Java. And Java can be cumbersome.
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    Look into this stuff
jeannie anderson

Your Kid's Brain Might Benefit From an Extra Year in Middle School - 1 views

  • as a teacher who has spent much of her career in the middle-school trenches, I wonder whether the solution to slow development lies in granting an extra year to a precious few or in redeveloping curricula to focus more on executive-function skills
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    Would love to hear thoughts from teachers and parents who have experience with the advantages and disadvantages of retention in middle school.
Patrick Seamars

Text 2 Mind Map - Simple mind mapping online - 1 views

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    Use this for mind mapping or web making or teaching categorization...
jeannie anderson

Good Reads - 0 views

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    I have just started using this site and find it very useful.
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    Resource to find books and share reading experiences with your network
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    I love this site! However, some people are kind of crazy when commenting...
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