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Carole Redline

Free Technology for Teachers: 10 Free Typing Practice Activities for Students - 2 views

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typing practice

shared by Carole Redline on 18 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Carole Redline on 18 Jun 14
     
    Wanted this for my grandsons
  • Marianne McGuire on 18 Jun 14
     
    Our students love, love ABCYa. There are lots of games in addition to typing practice. They claim they've even found a game on there that is similar to Minecraft. Dance Mat Typing makes them laugh because the narrator has a British accent ('Allo there, all you rock and rolla's!"
JoAnne Hall

Sites we found while exploring in our class - 8 views

JoAnne Hall - I created 3 lists and 4-5 websites in each list. This a project in motion. Here are a few of my favorite sites Youtube videos. www.starfall.com great for PK - 3rd graders www.fun4...

educational ideas

started by Carole Redline on 18 Jun 14 3 follow-ups, last by JoAnne Hall on 19 Jun 14
kgrill

who gets the most out of educational technology? - 0 views

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shared by kgrill on 26 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • With the spread of educational technology, they predicted, “the not-so-small disparities in skills for children of affluence and children of poverty are about to get even larger.”
  • Granted access to technology, affluent kids and poor kids use tech differently. They select different programs and features, engage in different types of mental activity, and come away with different kinds of knowledge and experience.
  • “Matthew Effect”:
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  • Some studies of the introduction of technology have found an overall negative effect on academic achievement—and in these cases, poor students’ performance suffers more than that of their richer peers.
  • Why would improved access to the Internet harm the academic performance of poor students in particular? Vigdor and his colleagues speculate that “this may occur because student computer use is more effectively monitored and channeled toward productive ends in more affluent homes.”
  • mproving the way that technology is employed in learning is an even bigger and more important issue. Addressing it would require a focus on people: training teachers, librarians, parents and children themselves to use computers effectively.
  • And it would require a focus on knowledge: background knowledge that is both broad and deep.
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