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Four steps to get your classroom management off to a great start Pt2 | Expert Professio... - 76 views
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Education Week: Teachers, Don't Forget Joy - 19 views
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overlooked something in our discussion
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three-letter word we take for granted
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missing in the recent conversations
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I step into a classroom and learn alongside teachers and kids
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It is about a deep-felt sense of wonder, of expectation, of delight, of engagement.
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How different school would be if joy fueled each day's experience of learning.
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joyless space we have created for students and ourselves.
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everyone is both teacher and learner.
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Rage Against the Common Core - NYTimes.com - 22 views
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Race to the Top program to encourage states
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misconception that standards and testing are identical has become widespread
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Many teachers like the standards, because they invite creativity in the classroom — instead of memorization, the Common Core emphasizes critical thinking and problem-solving.
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unreliable and biased against those who teach both low- and high-achieving students.
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76 percent of teachers favored nationwide academic standards
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Obama administration has only itself to blame
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emphasized high-stakes “accountability” and market-driven reforms
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link talented teachers with engaged students and a challenging curriculum
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10 tips for engaging pupils and parents in e-safety and digital citizenship | Teacher N... - 124 views
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"From watching TED talks to a quiz that gets pupils thinking about protecting personal information, education experts share ideas on building digital citizenship skills with students and parents"
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Kids Create at Google I/O Youth | TIME For Kids - 35 views
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Google I/O conference, now in its seventh year.
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Who knew that there was a Google I/O conference for youth? How do you get invited to such?
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Where does one go to study to be a web developer? What kind of degree is that? Where would one intern? What other companies hire web developers?
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A web developer’s job
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I notice that the more the folks in my department try to create, individualize, or make unique for our users, the more we need to access embed codes. So, to learn the language of coding may really be an important part of what students need to know in the near future.
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“Curiosity is the key to unlocking anything you’re interested in,”
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“Mistakes mean that you can improve your ideas.”
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elearnspace. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age - 17 views
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Over the last twenty years, technology has reorganized how we live, how we communicate, and how we learn.
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I aggree that as teachers we need to realize that technology has changed instruction and the way that our students learn and the way that we learn and instruct. -
Technology has always changed the way we live. How did we respond to changes in the past? One thought is that some institutions, some businesses disappeared, while others, who took advantage of the new tech, appeared to replace the old. It will happen again and we as educators need to lead the way. -
With technology our students brains are wired differently and they can multi-task and learn in multiple virtual environments all at once. This should make us think about how we present lessons, structure learning and keep kids engaged. -
Rubbish. The idea that digital native are adept at multitasking is wrong. They may be doing many things but the quality and depth is reduced. There is a significant body of research to support this. Development of grit and determination are key attributes of successful people. Set and demand high standards. No one plays sport or an instrument because it is easy rather because they can clearly see a link between hard work and pleasure.
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Information development was slow.
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Many learners will move into a variety of different, possibly unrelated fields over the course of their lifetime.
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Informal learning is a significant aspect of our learning experience.
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Learning is a continual process, lasting for a lifetime.
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Technology is altering (rewiring) our brains.
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Connectivism is the integration of principles explored by chaos, network, and complexity and self-organization theories.
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Principles of connectivism:
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Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions. Learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources. Learning may reside in non-human appliances. Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning. Ability to see connections between fields, ideas, and concepts is a core skill. Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities. Decision-making is itself a learning process. Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.
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The organization and the individual are both learning organisms.
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Classrooms which emulate the “fuzziness”
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So what does this look like? I feel that when I attempt this, evaluators and administrators don't necessarily understand. They want a neat, quiet, well-managed, orderly classroom.
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If new learning approaches are required, then why are we still being evaluated in a linear way?
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John Seely Brown presents an interesting notion that the internet leverages the small efforts of many with the large efforts of few.
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The pipe is more important than the content within the pipe. Our ability to learn what we need for tomorrow is more important than what we know today.
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Knowledge is growing exponentially
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amount of knowledge
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is doubling every 18 months
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To combat the shrinking half-life of knowledge, organizations have been forced to develop new methods of deploying instruction.”
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(the understanding of where to find knowledge needed).
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know-where
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learning
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a persisting change in human performance or performance potential…[which] must come about as a result of the learner’s experience and interaction with the world”
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Learning theories are concerned with the actual process of learning, not with the value of what is being learned.
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The ability to synthesize and recognize connections and patterns is a valuable skill.
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knowledge is no longer acquired in the linear manner
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What is the impact of chaos as a complex pattern recognition process on learning
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An entirely new approach is needed.
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Chaos is the breakdown of predictability, evidenced in complicated arrangements that initially defy order.
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Meaning-making and forming connections between specialized communities are important activities.
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Chaos, as a science, recognizes the connection of everything to everything.
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If the underlying conditions used to make decisions change, the decision itself is no longer as correct as it was at the time it was made.
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principle that people, groups, systems, nodes, entities can be connected to create an integrated whole.
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Connections between disparate ideas and fields can create new innovations.
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Learning is a process that occurs within nebulous environments of shifting core elements – not entirely under the control of the individual
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decisions are based on rapidly altering foundations
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The ability to draw distinctions between important and unimportant information is vital.
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Behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism do not attempt to address the challenges of organizational knowledge and transference.
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The health of the learning ecology of the organization depends on effective nurturing of information flow.
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This cycle of knowledge development (personal to network to organization) allows learners to remain current in their field through the connections they have formed.
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This amplification of learning, knowledge and understanding through the extension of a personal network is the epitome of connectivism.
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Diverse teams of varying viewpoints are a critical structure for completely exploring ideas
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An organizations ability to foster, nurture, and synthesize the impacts of varying views of information is critical to knowledge economy surviva
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As knowledge continues to grow and evolve, access to what is needed is more important than what the learner currently possesses.
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Access is not enough. Prior knowledge and understanding is needed. Processing is needed. Evaluation of processing and outputs is needed. Feeding that back into the "system" is needed.
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learning is no longer an internal, individualistic activity
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learning is no longer an internal, individualistic activity
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Closing the talent gap | Social Sector Office - 16 views
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Improving teacher effectiveness to lift student achievement has become a major theme in U.S. education. Most efforts focus on improving the effectiveness of teachers already in the classroom or on retaining the best performers and dismissing the least effective. Attracting more young people with stronger academic backgrounds to teaching has received comparatively little attention.
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while informal writing is an integral part of youth culture, teenagers also overwhelmingly understand the importance of good writing: 86 percent of teens consider formal writing skills essential to future success. While today's "screenagers" may offer but cursory glances at web pages that does not mean they discount the importance of a sustained engagement with a Shakespearean drama.
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in the best-case scenarios, teachers will use these changes to demonstrate to students the power of the written word and the importance of communicating clearly, and teachers will then give students new tools and strategies to improve their command of prose and persuasion.
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Web pages and accompanying multimedia are now integral primary sources for chroniclers and historians of the 21st century.
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The Edurati Review: Making the Shift, Part 4: From "Target Future" to Teaching - 0 views
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But if you recognize that authentic understanding is constructed by the brain, and that executive function processes play critical roles in working memory’s constructing of understanding, then you may see this ideal as representing a potentially real instructional, or better yet, an effective learning environment. Students are still accountable for their work and learning, but they get a say in how that work and learning will develop. They become participants in the learning, not merely recipients.
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If you teaching something that is heavily skill-focused, could an occasional focus, form, and frame that engages students in applying several of those skills help them connect what you are teaching with the executive function processes they’ll use to determine when and where to use the learned skills?
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Ideason curriculum design. I like how the tech teacher talks to the class on the ways to present similiar to the librarian.
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The Innovative Educator: Fix Boring Schools, Not Kids Who Are Bored - 73 views
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stop trying to fix the student to fit in the setting of the school and start fixing the schools to engage our children. We need to help students find their passions using tools they choose, use, and know will help them grow their wings and soar to the heights which most of their teachers and parents were never allowed to reach.
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Four steps to get your classroom management off to a great start Pt1 | Expert Professio... - 69 views
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Energizing Brain Breaks - What are Energizing Brain Breaks? - 124 views
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s love them. Why do they love them? Because they are fun and make you laugh. They also challenge your brain. Energizing Brain Breaks help you to cross the mid-line of your body which helps both sides of your brain engage. It is suggested to use an Energizing Brain Break every 30 minutes with your class or audience. You can imagine a class of students sitting most of the day. Energizing Brain Breaks help student to stand up and be active every 30 minu
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Prezi in the Classroom - 199 views
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Thanks for posting this resource. I'm just about to get started on some presentations and I wanted my students to use this or Vuvox, because PowerPoint is soooooo done. Thanks.
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Reading and the Web - Texts Without Context - NYTimes.com - 49 views
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It’s also a question, as Mr. Lanier, 49, astutely points out in his new book, “You Are Not a Gadget,” of how online collectivism, social networking and popular software designs are changing the way people think and process information, a question of what becomes of originality and imagination in a world that prizes “metaness” and regards the mash-up as “more important than the sources who were mashed.”
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Core discussion topic? From this, I see a few discussion issues: 1. Do we prize "mash-ups" more than original work? Who is "we" in this? 2. If the answer to #1 is "yes," then the next question is: is this good or bad? 3. Finally, if the answer is "bad" to #2, what place do "mash-ups" have, and how do we help our students see the value in original work?
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Web 2.0 is creating a “digital forest of mediocrity” and substituting ill-informed speculation for genuine expertise;
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How do teachers help students rise above this "digital forest of mediocrity"?
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Mr. Johnson added that the book’s migration to the digital realm will turn the solitary act of reading — “a direct exchange between author and reader” — into something far more social and suggested that as online chatter about books grows, “the unity of the book will disperse into a multitude of pages and paragraphs vying for Google’s attention.”
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If Johnson's predictions are true, is this necessarily bad? How much of this concern is "nostalgia"? What would be lost from an academic p.o.v, and what migh be gained?
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Instead of reading an entire news article, watching an entire television show or listening to an entire speech, growing numbers of people are happy to jump to the summary, the video clip, the sound bite — never mind if context and nuance are lost in the process; never mind if it’s our emotions, more than our sense of reason, that are engaged; never mind if statements haven’t been properly vetted and sourced.
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Should teachers "fight" this, or embrace it? Can summaries/sound bites ever be appropriate for academic discussions?
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And online research enables scholars to power-search for nuggets of information that might support their theses, saving them the time of wading through stacks of material that might prove marginal but that might have also prompted them to reconsider or refine their original thinking.
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Digital insiders like Mr. Lanier and Paulina Borsook, the author of the book “Cyberselfish,” have noted the easily distracted, adolescent quality of much of cyberculture. Ms. Borsook describes tech-heads as having “an angry adolescent view of all authority as the Pig Parent,” writing that even older digerati want to think of themselves as “having an Inner Bike Messenger.”
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Can teachers moderate this attitude? Does our (adults) use/non-use of technology help breed this attitude?
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authors “will increasingly tailor their work to a milieu that the writer Caleb Crain describes as ‘groupiness,’ where people read mainly ‘for the sake of a feeling of belonging’ rather than for personal enlightenment or amusement. As social concerns override literary ones, writers seem fated to eschew virtuosity and experimentation in favor of a bland but immediately accessible style.
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Does this ring true to educators? Are social concerns and literary conerns opposites? How does web publishing affect "literary" publishing, as opposed to "non-literary" publishing?
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However impossible it is to think of “Jon & Kate Plus Eight” or “Jersey Shore” as art, reality shows have taken over wide swaths of television,
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Drill Down: Mobile Devices in Education -- THE Journal - 105 views
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"As educators continue to weigh the many considerations attached to allowing student-owned handheld devices on campus, Speak Up asked parents what good they think the use of mobile technologies would have on their children's education."
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Just shut up and listen, expert tells teachers - 178 views
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JOHN HATTIE has spent his life studying the studies to find out what works in education. His advice to teachers? Just shut up. -
Hattie makes some good points, and I was with him until I read his comment about "not spending a penny" on smaller class sizes. Smaller class size is exactly what makes it possible for a teacher to oversee student-directed learning and "engage closely and listen" -
That is my experience too thank you Carol I missed that! I rely on volunteers so that I can teach hands on skills. The students themselves give me the feedback I need to adjust instruction. And of course the type of skills and content that they enjoy too.
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Autism Issues Complicate Anti-Bullying Task - Education Week - 15 views
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examine the entire school environment
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Positive Behavioral Supports
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target students' conversational ability and social skills
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increase the empathy and social skills
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paraprofessionals were taught to initiate games and age-appropriate activities
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understanding the 'hidden' curriculum
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Those types of interventions can work if they're embedded in a systematic framework for addressing a school's climate
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One-shot approaches—such as a school rally or asking students to sign pledges promising not to engage in bullying—"have relatively little impact
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teach bullies different ways to behave
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supports schoolwide approaches that spell out clear behavior expectations and schoolwide monitoring, such as the models of positive behavioral supports
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A Neurologist Makes the Case for the Video Game Model as a Learning Tool | Edutopia - 45 views
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"The popularity of video games is not the enemy of education, but rather a model for best teaching strategies" Several years old but still excellent.
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It's Time To Rethink Our Use Of Technology In Schools - 113 views
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Exchange: swapping traditional ways of doing things with ICT Enrich: engaging learners with a richer mix of media Enhance: encouraging deeper learning through the use of ICT Extend: encouraging students to take their learning further Empower: giving students control over their own learning