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N Butler

BBC - GCSE Bitesize - English Literature - Video summaries - 60 views

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  • N Butler on 28 Oct 11
     
    Great place for video summaries on stories.
Sasha Thackaberry

E-learning on the rise - 28 views

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  • ​E-learning is a growing trend at community colleges, according to survey results from the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE) and Hewlett-Packard (HP).
  • E-learning is already used at 47 percent of community colleges and is expected to increase to 55 percent within two years. The survey of 578 community college faculty was conducted by Eric Liguori, an assistant professor at California State University.
  • Eighty-four percent of respondents believe e-learning is a valuable educational tool.
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  • The top five benefits of e-learning identified by respondents are: It increases access through location and time-flexible learning. More resources and information are available to students 24/7. Teachers can use a wide variety of tools and methods for teaching. It is a good supplement to face-to-face curriculum. It can lead to a richer learning experience if integrated correctly, freeing up class time for more engaging activities. This experience is often referred to as “flipping the classroom.”
  • When asked about the barriers to adopting online learning, faculty cited such concerns as doubt about its capability and reliability, acceptance by students and teachers, and lack of resources, such as time and technical support.
  • Twenty-three percent of respondents said the effectiveness of e-learning depends on the resources available, including the format and features of courses. For example, e-learning is best when teachers are adequately trained to use it, there is high-quality content and curriculum design, it’s used in conjunction with real-world situations and there is opportunity for student-teacher interactions, discussion boards and collaborative projects.
  • “Our survey looked at how community college faculty members are using e-learning as a cost-effective means” to increase completion rates and ensure that “students walk away with credentials that are meaningful in the workplace and that they are prepared for the careers they hope to pursue, including, for many, the start of entrepreneurial endeavors,” said NACCE President and CEO Heather Van Sickle.
Drew Rosenshine

Does Teaching Kids To Get 'Gritty' Help Them Get Ahead? : NPR Ed : NPR - 49 views

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  • they need to have a "growth mindset" — the belief that success comes from effort — and not a "fixed mindset" — the notion that people succeed because they are born with a "gift" of intelligence or talent.
  • ducators say they see it all the time: Kids with fixed mindsets who think they just don't have the "gift" don't bother applying themselves. Conversely, kids with fixed mindsets who were always told they were "gifted" and skated through school tend to crumble when they hit their first challenge; rather than risk looking like a loser, they just quit.
  • We don't use the word 'gifted' — ever," Giamportone says. "In our school, you will never hear it." " 'Smart' is like a curse," adds social studies teacher June Davenport.
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  • Instead, the school is plastered with signs and handmade posters promoting a "growth mindset."
  • The focus is always more on putting out effort than on getting the right answers. Teachers have been trained to change the way they see students, and how they speak to them.
  • praise students for their focus and determination.
  • "If I was an outsider and I was hearing this conversation, I might think that this was some kind of hippie-dippy love fest," concedes the teacher, Nathan Cearley. "But what you see is actually a more rigorous and risky learning environment."
  • In three years, Cearley says, he's seen kids grow less afraid of making mistakes, and more willing to ask for help. Test scores at Lenox have jumped 10 to 15 points.
  • The number of schools using Brainology is expected to double this year, from 500 to 1,000.
  • A limited intervention, she says, if not consistently reinforced in and out of school, can only have limited results. "We don't know whether we've had any effect — the jury's out," says Duckworth. "It just seems to me extremely implausible that that's going to permanently and impressively change a child."
  • "Grit as a goal seems to be multiply flawed and very disturbing," says education writer Alfie Kohn. For starters, he says, "the benefits of failure are vastly overstated, and the assumption that kids will pick themselves up and try even harder next time, darn it — that's wishful thinking."
  • if there's a problem with how kids are learning, the onus should be on schools to get better at how they teach — not on kids to get better at enduring more of the same.
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      Drew Rosenshine on 15 Jul 14
       
      Yes, but once again this is not an either/or situation.
  • I don't think people can become truly gritty and great at things they don't love," Duckworth says. "So when we try to develop grit in kids, we also need to find and help them cultivate their passions. That's as much a part of the equation here as the hard work and the persistence."
  • But now, three years into the growth-mindset training at Lenox Academy, Blaze says, she believes "you can teach old dogs new tricks."
  • Does Teaching Kids To Get 'Gritty' Help Them Get Ahead?
  • After years of focusing on the theory known as "multiple intelligences" and trying to teach kids in their own style, Hoerr says he's now pulling kids out of their comfort zones intentionally.
Elaine Higuera

Common Core Lesson Resource - 31 views

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  • Rob Reynolds on 14 Oct 09
     
    "In a brave new world of learning, OER content is made free to use or share, and in some cases, to change and share again, made possible through licensing, so that both teachers and learners can share what they know. Browse and search OER Commons to find curriculum, and tag, rate, and review it for others."
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  • Melinda Waffle on 23 Oct 09
     
    Open Educational Resources: Free-to-Use teaching & learning content from around the world
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    Free-to-use teaching and learning content from around the world.
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    Find Free to Use Teaching and Learning Content from around the world
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    The revolution will not be televised!
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    ELA, Math, SS, Science, Art, etc. Create a free account, save lessons, upload lessons, etc. Searchable by subject or grade level.
kinglish

Explain Everything Educator Review - 43 views

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  • Explain Everything can also be used as a whiteboard with the iPad video display. Before you start, consider reading the help page to discern all the features. Then tap on New Project and choose a blank project screen or import from one of many sources (you must enter your username and password information for that source on the linking screen)
Matt Renwick

Kimberly schools create award-winning literacy model - 36 views

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  • worked on a variety of skills, including sentence structure, descriptive words and spelling.
  • teachers discuss student data, lesson plans for iBlock and student progress. They exchange ideas, offer feedback and set strategies.
  • The most important thing is we've already come back now twice and refined what we've done,
Brianna Crowley

Is Common Core the Enemy of Autonomy? - Teaching for Triumph: Reflections of a 21st-Cen... - 35 views

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  • Brianna Crowley on 13 Jan 14
     
    An elementary teacher in a 99% school elaborates on how the CCSS can improve the current system that we have.
Amy Burns

Oswego City School District Regents Exam Prep Center - 23 views

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  • Amy Burns on 21 Jul 14
     
    Collection of review questions and materials for math, science, history and more.
donnawesley

New Zealand Ministry of Education. (n.d.). Learning with digital technologies PLD for... - 10 views

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    This item will be referenced in my paper, but is not a part of the 3 item diigo annotated bibliography.
Michelle Kassorla

How Shadowing my 2nd Grader led to a new view of Tech in the Classroom - 68 views

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  • Michelle Kassorla on 02 Dec 13
     
    An essay that presents the difficulty of technology integration in the classroom and why we should do it anyway.
Glenda Baker

Is Curation The Future of The Social Web?Scoop.it - 4 views

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  • your “social graph” could help to make sense of the web again, to access not only content, but what is relevant to you. Ben Parr asked if Google+ was a new social media platform that was bringing a innovative way to share clusters of interests.
  • The debate around the need of filters, and how to be sure to find the “right” information
  • if we can be all creators, can we all be curators? Who should be the ones in charge of it? Journalists and educators were both examples of natural curators according to Burt Herman and Guillaume Decugis.
  • Glenda Baker on 07 Aug 11
     
    Discussion about social media, filtering content and the art/skill of curation
Chema Falcó

The Myth of Chinese Super Schools by Diane Ravitch | The New York Review of Books - 37 views

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    Fascinating article.
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