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Aly Kenee

Days Like This… | alytapp - 132 views

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jing assessment screencast edtech

shared by Aly Kenee on 04 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Instead of scribbling marks in the margins of printed papers, I opened each student’s paper in Google Docs, highlighted text and inserted comments to clarify my thoughts, and then turned on the screen recorder (Jing) to record my voice as I scrolled through the paper and pointed to items with my mouse. Right after recording, I uploaded the finished recording to Jing’s companion hosting site, and then I simply copied and pasted the link to the recording directly into the Google Doc.
    • brianhammel
      brianhammel on 04 Oct 11
       
      Adding value in context rather than providing repetitive written comments in the summation.
  • After about four minutes, they began the next task, copying and pasting my reflection questions into the bottom of their docs, and then responding to those prompts as they reflected on their work and my feedback.
  • As I watched them, I couldn’t help but remember the way that I used to provide feedback. Students would receive their graded papers, flip past the comments I had scribbled in the margin, glance at the final grade, and then forget all about it.
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  • I always knew there was more I wanted to convey to them about their writing, about how they had or had not created meaning for the reader.
  • It took me about 10 minutes per paper, times 68 papers, so the last week and a half have been intense. If you’re doing the math, that’s over 11 hours of paper grading. If I am going to put in that kind of time for grading, I must see my students growing as writers. Period.
    • brianhammel
      brianhammel on 04 Oct 11
       
      Technology tool is NOT a time saver. The main goal for using the tool is not increased productivity by the teacher, but instead increased understanding by the student.
    • Aly Kenee
      Aly Kenee on 05 Oct 11
       
      Yes! You state that so eloquently. We often think of tech as nothing more than a tool for expediency.
  •  I liked knowing that my essay got individual attention, individual feedback, and I feel like you cared about what I wrote.
  • A small number of students (actually, fewer than 5) said that they didn’t feel that the verbal comments were all that helpful.
  • hurtful to hear me say out loud what was wrong with their papers
  • Writing is personal, and feedback can feel like an attack.
    • brianhammel
      brianhammel on 04 Oct 11
       
      On the flipside, writing is personal, and receiving impersonal and confusing written feedback can also be hurtful. The student spends so much time writing the assignment, but only receives a small amount of scribbled comments in the margin.
  • tried out a new way of assessing student work — screencasting
Samantha Fecich

WednesdayswithSam - 54 views

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spedchat interactives tools resources games learning teaching_training

shared by Samantha Fecich on 12 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Samantha Fecich on 12 Sep 11
     
    This wiki was created to be a resource for teachers, students, and parents to utilize in order to reinforce topics discussed in the classroom. This site is updated weekly as I obtain new information and resources. You will find many websites all separated by subject area. Learn and enjoy!
Michael Hylton

Quality Homework - A Smart Idea - NYTimes.com - 70 views

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teachers homework news

shared by Michael Hylton on 12 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • The studying that middle school and high school students do after the dismissal bell rings is either an unreasonable burden or a crucial activity that needs beefing up. Which is it? Do American students have too much homework or too little? Neither, I’d say. We ought to be asking a different question altogether. What should matter to parents and educators is this: How effectively do children’s after-school assignments advance learning?
  • The quantity of students’ homework is a lot less important than its quality. And evidence suggests that as of now, homework isn’t making the grade. Although surveys show that the amount of time our children spend on homework has risen over the last three decades, American students are mired in the middle of international academic rankings: 17th in reading, 23rd in science and 31st in math, according to results from the Program for International Student Assessment released last December.
  • “Spaced repetition” is one example of the kind of evidence-based techniques that researchers have found have a positive impact on learning. Here’s how it works: instead of concentrating the study of information in single blocks, as many homework assignments currently do — reading about, say, the Civil War one evening and Reconstruction the next — learners encounter the same material in briefer sessions spread over a longer period of time. With this approach, students are re-exposed to information about the Civil War and Reconstruction throughout the semester.
Linda Hoff

Creating Custom Video Channels : The Moss-Free Stone - 62 views

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Moss-Free creating channels rogers

shared by Linda Hoff on 20 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • <div class="greet_block"><div class="greet_text"><div class="greet_image"><img src="http://randyrodgers.edublogs.org/wp-content/plugins/wp-greet-box/images/rss_icon.png"/></div>Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to <a href="http://randyrodgers.edublogs.org/feed/rss/" rel="nofollow"><strong>subscribe to the RSS feed</strong></a> for updates on this topic.<div style="clear:both"></div><div class="greet_block_powered_by"><a href="http://omninoggin.com/projects/wordpress-plugins/wp-greet-box-wordpress-plugin/">Powered by Greet Box</a></div></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div> One concern I have heard expressed by teachers with regard to the use of video sites such as YouTube, TeacherTube, etc. in the classroom is that students tend to
John Phillips

National STEM Video Game Challenge - 10 views

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shared by John Phillips on 19 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • John Phillips on 19 Sep 11
     
    2011 Video game deisgn challenge for students.  Site also includes free game developing tools that are easy to use!
Tamara Connors

Digitally Speaking / FrontPage - 43 views

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  • Our kids’ futures will require them to be: Networked–They’ll need an “outboard brain.” More collaborative–They are going to need to work closely with people to co-create information. More globally aware–Those collaborators may be anywhere in the world. Less dependent on paper–Right now, we are still paper training our kids. More active–In just about every sense of the word. Physically. Socially. Politically. Fluent in creating and consuming hypertext–Basic reading and writing skills will not suffice. More connected–To their communities, to their environments, to the world. Editors of information–Something we should have been teaching them all along but is even more important now.
  • are today's teachers prepared for the significant changes that must happen before this new vision of an educated citizen becomes a reality?
Abir Qasem

A Perfect Storm in Undergraduate Education, Part 2 - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher E... - 56 views

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  • Increasingly, students are buying an "experience" instead of earning an education, and, in the competition to attract customers, that's what's colleges are selling.
  • The common experience is that getting admitted is the most exhausting part. After that, the struggle mainly is financial. But at the major universities, most professors are too busy to care about individual students, and it is easy to become lost amid a sea of equally disenchanted undergraduates looking for some kind of purpose—and not finding it.
  • Academically Adrift ends on a depressing note: "A renewed commitment to improving undergraduate education is unlikely to occur without changes to the organizational cultures of colleges and universities." Institutions are inherently conservative; they do not change easily. Many leaps of faith are necessary, and the people involved—teachers, students, parents, administrators, lawmakers, and others—have so many fundamental disagreements about the purposes of higher education that it is hard to know where to begin the conversation. It's far easier to make cuts to an inherently broken system than to begin building something new.
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  • The student as consumer
  • Changing forms of literac
  • Declining academic engagement.
  • Alienation from professors
  • Expanding social and extracurricular commitments.
  • The escalating cost of education.
  • Students feeling disillusioned, bored, apathetic, scared, and trapped
  • Anxiety about future employment.
Gerald Carey

Three Trends That Will Shape the Future of Curriculum | MindShift - 85 views

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curriculum trends future education

shared by Gerald Carey on 25 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Given the growing momentum of these trends, what does it mean for students, teachers, schools, and the education community at large? Collaborating and customizing. Educators are learning to work together, with their students, and with other experts in creating content, and are able to tailor it to exactly what they need. Critical thinking. Students are learning how to effectively find content and to discern reliable sources. Democratizing education. With Internet access becoming more ubiquitous, the children of the poorest people are able to get access to the same quality education as the wealthiest. Changing the textbook industry. Textbook publishers are finding ways to make themselves relevant to their digital audience. Emphasizing skills over facts. Curriculum incorporates skill-building.
  • Gerald Carey on 25 Apr 11
     
    Sorry forgot the three trends (the above are consequences of these trends) 1. Digital delivery "No longer shackled to books as their only source of content, educators and students are going online to find reliable, valuable, and up-to-the-minute information" 2. Interest driven curriculum "Though students typically have to wait until their third year of college to choose what they learn, the idea of K-12 education being tailored to students' own interests is becoming more commonplace" 3. Skills 2.0 " Instead of learning from others who have the credentials to 'teach' in this new networked world, we learn with others whom we seek (and who seek us) on our own and with whom we often share nothing more than a passion for knowing"
Tracy Watanabe

Education Week Teacher: The Courage To Blog With Students - 59 views

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blog

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 28 Apr 11
     
    How to start blogging in your classroom
Steve Ransom

Science teachers at Loxahatchee middle school strike back against hands-on labs - 106 views

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science testing handson labs testscores performance

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  • Steve Ransom on 16 Oct 11
     
    Just plain sad.
Sharin Tebo

How Google Plus Communities Could Connect Students - 29 views

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shared by Sharin Tebo on 29 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • With a connection to his previous Texas home, Ashby has helped set up collaborative student projects between North Carolina and Texas schools, among others. "We're just trying to basically let our students get connections, and then we want our students to take it from there," Ashby said. These connections — both in the U.S. and globally — help students understand that their work is not just for their teacher, but for a broader audience. He hopes that will give them intrinsic motivation to perform better.
    • Sharin Tebo
      Sharin Tebo on 29 Oct 14
       
      Writing for an Authentic Audience with Purpose!
Elaine Higuera

Common Core Lesson Resource - 31 views

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Common Core Lessons ELA Math

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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
  • Amy Roediger on 31 Oct 10
     
    Free-to-use teaching and learning content from around the world.
  • Colette Massoglia on 12 Mar 12
     
    Find Free to Use Teaching and Learning Content from around the world
  • Trevor Cunningham on 12 Sep 12
     
    The revolution will not be televised!
  • Elaine Higuera on 06 Nov 13
     
    ELA, Math, SS, Science, Art, etc. Create a free account, save lessons, upload lessons, etc. Searchable by subject or grade level.
Matt Renwick

Kimberly schools create award-winning literacy model - 36 views

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standards-of-excellence

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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,
Nigel Coutts

The future of Schools - 65 views

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news resources learning future

shared by Nigel Coutts on 29 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Nigel Coutts on 29 Mar 15
     
    Ask the average adult to describe a school and you are likely to get similar responses. There will be a focus on the places and spaces in which their education occurred, the teachers who taught, the rows of desks, the daily schedule of classes and breaks. But what is the future of schools?
Sandy Avoa-Belinga

10 Faulty Teaching Strategies to Avoid - 9 views

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teaching strategies

shared by Sandy Avoa-Belinga on 14 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • Sandy Avoa-Belinga on 14 Oct 15
     
    Teachers using effective teaching strategies are never afraid to try new things and are always developing their craft, but must pay attention to their innovations.
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