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Engaging Students in the STEM Classroom Through "Making" | Edutopia - 71 views
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Get their hands dirty!
Elizabeth English: Why So Many Schools Remain Penitentiaries of Boredom - 80 views
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eaching is a highly skilled craft, requiring not only explicit objectives, but a beautifully designed and irresistible learning experience that asks students think critically, solve a problem, create a product.
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Educational leaders have to have the courage to reinvent our schools for real this time. And our teachers must be teachers of children as well as teachers of their subject area. This means possessing pedagogical knowledge -- the tools in the tool belt to design a lesson for the students of the present and the problems of the future.
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Why media tablets will transform education | Accenture Outlook - 48 views
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This is if the books are brand new. School systems don't spend that much money per student per year. The books get reused from year to year.
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Not in Australia I am afraid.
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Content can be revised and updated continuously. Textbooks no longer need to be text but can be any media. And a tablet can administer tests, enable students to engage in collaborative projects or support remote education for rural children. Since a tablet is a full-fledged computer, it can also support specialized applications that cater to children with learning disabilities or different learning styles. The possibilities are endless
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If all this were to come true, the biggest losers will be dogs—they’ll no longer have any homework to eat.
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Free Presentation Software that Engages | FlowVella - 77 views
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Presentation software for Mac & iPad. Free for students - four free flows for others.
Speak Truth To Power - 27 views
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Student video competition that encourages New York State MS and HS students to become engaged in human rights.
Do your students talk at each other or with each other - 70 views
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Posters relevant to active listening and modelling sharing thinking, disagreeing respectfully and asking clarifying questions - shareable resource from Jeromie Heath
Home/IWitness:Video testimonies from Holocaust survivors and witnesses - 9 views
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IWitness is a powerful tool in the Shoah Foundation Institute's mission to putting an end to prejudice, bigotry, and intolerance -- and the suffering they cause -- through the educational use of testimony. This resource is hands-on, constructivist, engaging, and relevant to students ages 13 and up. There are a variety of activities, including one especially for classes that read Elie Wiesel's book Night, videos that address ethical editing, a built-in online video editor, and more. -
would be great site for students to learn from personal accounts, more interactive than just reading
Blogs vs. Term Papers - NYTimes.com - 56 views
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We don’t pay taxes so kids can talk about themselves and their home lives.”
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Do they really think the only purpose of a blog in the classroom is to talk about home life? Do they think educators are incapable of designing blog assignments that further the learning of the course and help students better understand the importance of audience and exigency in writing?
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Her conclusion is that students feel much more impassioned by the new literacy. They love writing for an audience, engaging with it. They feel as if they’re actually producing something personally rewarding and valuable, whereas when they write a term paper, they feel as if they do so only to produce a grade.
UK Study: Parents, Not Teachers, Key to Education | Education News - 79 views
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Children are influenced by everything around them, the way their parents act, what their parents say and do, and increasingly as they spend more time ‘with’ celebrity figures how these role models act.
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A study by the Royal Economic Society, to be presented this week, finds that parental effect on test results is five times that of teachers' influence. This comes in the wake of warnings by Sir Michael Wilshaw last week that teachers were unable to properly do their own jobs because parents were expecting them to cover their own parenting skill shortfalls and to become surrogate family for the students.
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It all happens well before school comes into the equation. If a child grows up in a literature rich, engaging environment with adults that spend quality time giving opportunities for great learning experiences in the world, the worst teachers still can't decoy that child's enthusiasm for learning. He can always learn at home. But if the child grows up neglected, not nurtured with rich learning experiences ( and I'm not talking about helicopter parents spending every waking moment ramming study down their throats - just quality conversation and hands on experiences )l doesn't get read to or taken out to shop, teachers are fighting an uphill battle with a disengaged individual. Parents, don't wait for school teachers to teach your kids. Start straight away..
BoomWriter | Read, Write, Compete... And Get Published! - 123 views
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Boom Writer blends creative writing and social media technology to provide a competitive writing platform that is integrated into the national education curriculum. The goal is to give schools a platform for a more engaging creative writing process, give teachers a tool that focuses their students on creative writing techniques and all the students have fun in the process. With a slick and easy to use interface, Boom Writer is a worth while tool for writing in the classroom.
Googling Towards ePortfolios- Educational Collaborators - 178 views
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Something that is not often mentioned when touting the advantages of ePortfolios is how much work they entail on the part of instructors. I've used ePortfolios and they ARE worthwhile, but they took A LOT of time. EPortfolios essentially allow one on one engagement with students at a very focused level-- that type of work is VERY time consuming. Great for smaller classes but last semester I had 80+ students and I think I was ready to burn my computer... I'm interested in others' experiences?
Blogs vs. Term Papers - NYTimes.com - 8 views
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It sounds like he's saying that term papers must, by their very nature, NOT be interesting.
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The National Survey of Student Engagement found that in 2011, 82 percent of first-year college students and more than half of seniors weren’t asked to do a single paper of 20 pages or more, while the bulk of writing assignments were for papers of one to five pages.
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“It doesn’t mean there aren’t interesting blogs. But nobody would conflate interesting writing with premise, evidence, argument and conclusion.”
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Does he mean confuse or does he mean that there is no way for an argumentative assignment to be interesting? I'm also curious if Reeves is reading any academic and/or professional blogs. Perhaps I'm just angry at this sentence because I'm a blogger who works hard to make my argumentative posts interesting and valid to my readers..
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TweenTribune for the classroom | tweentribune.com - 64 views
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Engage, inform, and educate your students with TweenTribune and TeenTribune. These sites let students interact with the news, while fulfilling requirements for language arts, computer skills, and other classes. Kids love it - and so do their teachers. Find out what they're saying here.
BalancEdTech - Mini Maker Faire - 49 views
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Mini Maker Fair is designed to get students making with found materials, documenting the process, tweaking/hacking someone else's design, and reflecting throughout.
How to Use New-Media Tools in Your Classroom (Video Playlist) | Edutopia - 1 views
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Not really finding this video as helpful. Twitter has been a round for a while and I am very acquainted with its uses. Note - video was created in 2009...four years ago!
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There is NO WAY it is acceptable to friend our students on facebook. I agree that we should not make social media the elephant in the room. I just do not see how it is appropriate to be friends with a student on facebook.
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I would challenge kids to use their OWN digital devices (iPhones, etc) and see if they can make connections with what they see to what they are learning in school!
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Closing in on Close Reading - 73 views
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close reading means reading to uncover layers of meaning that lead to deep comprehension.
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Close, analytic reading stresses engaging with a text of sufficient complexity directly and examining meaning thoroughly and methodically, encouraging students to read and reread deliberately.
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If reading closely is the most effective way to achieve deep comprehension, then that's how we should teach students to read.
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Close Reading
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