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Martin Burrett

Have Fun Teaching - 137 views

www.havefunteaching.com

worksheets printables flashcards songs teaching resources reading comprehension English Literacy videos

shared by Martin Burrett on 16 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 16 Oct 11
     
    A superb cross-curricular site brimming over with downloadable resources. Find reading comprehensions, flashcards, videos, educational songs, colouring pages, teaching tools and much more. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular
steveatschool

Math is Fun - Maths Resources - 30 views

shared by steveatschool on 05 Jan 14 - No Cached
Carol Mortensen

Symbaloo-The Fun Continues - 7 views

www.myweb4ed.com/?p=825

Productivity organization symbaloo bookmarking

shared by Carol Mortensen on 14 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Carol Mortensen on 14 Mar 12
     
    Symbaloo has grown to become one of my most used tools. I am continuously blown away by its capabilities. My daughters and my husband are all now avid Symbaloo users. We've explored the Symbaloo main function as well as its Firefox Add-on that makes adding bookmarks to Symbaloo very easy but now it is time for us to explore the Social Media component to Symbaloo.
anthonytpascoe

Resource: Writing Prompts - You Are Carrying… | UKEdChat.com - Supporting the... - 138 views

ukedchat.com/...iting-prompts-you-are-carrying

twitter tools

shared by anthonytpascoe on 12 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • C CC on 12 Jul 14
     
    A great, and fun twitter bot account provides items which can be used as a writing prompt.
  • anthonytpascoe on 13 Jul 14
     
    A Twitter bot that will respond to a message with a list of things you are carrying - great writing prompt tool
Thieme Hennis

PowToon for education online animated presentation software - 101 views

www.powtoon.com/edu-home

presentation education tools animation fun

shared by Thieme Hennis on 19 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Thieme Hennis on 19 Nov 13
     
    very cool online presentation software.
Maureen Greenbaum

L3D Philosophy - 36 views

l3d.cs.colorado.edu/philosophy.html

technology Education

shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 17 Jun 13 - Cached
  • uture is not out there to be "discovered": It has to be invented and designed.
  • Learning is a process of knowledge construction, not of knowledge recording or absorption. Learning is knowledge-dependent; people use their existing knowledge to construct new knowledge. Learning is highly tuned to the situation in which it takes place. Learning needs to account for distributed cognition requiring knowledge in the head to combined with knowledge in the world. Learning is affected as much by motivational issues as by cognitive issues.
  • previous notions of a divided lifetime-education followed by work-are no longer tenable.
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  • Professional activity has become so knowledge-intensive and fluid in content that learning has become an integral and inseparable part of "adult" work activities.
  • require educational tools and environments whose primary aim is to help cultivate the desire to learn and create, and not to simply communicate subject matter divorced from meaningful and personalized activity.
  • current uses of technology in education: it is used as an add-on to existing practices rather than a catalyst for fundamentally rethinking what education should be about in the next century
  • information technologies have been used to mechanize old ways of doing business‹rather than fundamentally rethinking the underlying work processes and promoting new ways to create artifacts and knowledge.
  • important challenge is that the ?ld basic skillsº such as reading, writing, and arithmetic, once acquired, were relevant for the duration of a human life; modern ?asic skillsº (tied to rapidly changing technologies) will change over time.
  • We need computational environments to support "new" frameworks for education such as lifelong learning, integration of working and learning, learning on demand, authentic problems, self-directed learning, information contextualized to the task at hand, (intrinsic) motivation, collaborative learning, and organizational learning.
  • Instructionist approaches are not changed by the fact that information is disseminated by an intelligent tutoring system.
  • Lifelong learning is a continuous engagement in acquiring and applying knowledge and skills in the context of authentic, self-directed problems.
  • ubstantial empirical evidence that the chief impediments to learning are not cognitive. It is not that students cannot learn; it is that they are not well motivated to learn.
  • Most of what any individual "knows" today is not in her or his head, but is out in the world (e.g., in other human heads or embedded in media).
  • technology should provide ways to "say the 'right' thing at the 'right' time in the 'right' way
  • challenge of whether we can create learning environments in which learners work hard, not because they have to, but because they want to. We need to alter the perception that serious learning has to be unpleasant rather than personally meaningful, empowering, engaging, and even fun.
  • making information relevant to the task at hand, providing challenges matched to current skills, creating communities (among peers, over the net), and providing access to real practitioners and experts.
  • What "basic skills" are required in a world in which occupational knowledge and skills become obsolete in years rather than decades?
  • reduce the gap between school and workplace learning
  • How can schools (which currently rely on closed-book exams, the solving of given problems, and so forth) be changed so that learners are prepared to function in environments requiring collaboration, creativity, problem framing, and distributed cognition?
  • problem solving in the real world includes problem framing calls into question the practice of asking students to solve mostly given problems.
  • teachers should see themselves not as truth-tellers and oracles, but as coaches, facilitators, learners, and mentors engaging with learners
Marti Pike

Teachers: Five Ways to Ease Back into School | Edutopia - 49 views

www.edutopia.org/...ease-back-school-elena-aguilar

shared by Marti Pike on 13 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • planning to see kids on my first day or two back to school
    • Marti Pike
      Marti Pike on 13 Aug 14
       
      Find a techy way to arrange this for my 5th grade teachers missing their students now in Middle School.
    • Marti Pike
      Marti Pike on 13 Aug 14
       
      Perhaps a lunchtime Skype!
  • If you know that on that first day you will return to your classroom you'll have a friend to help and talk with it'll be much easier.
    • Marti Pike
      Marti Pike on 13 Aug 14
       
      For the kids too.  See if parents can let you know who they are then make arrangements for them to pass notes in the halls and meet at lunch. 
  • fun back-to-school tasks
    • Marti Pike
      Marti Pike on 13 Aug 14
       
      Rebuild my webpage.  Create my first 3 Committee webpages so I'll feel like I'm ahead. Watch video clips and TedEd flip them. Marti Pike less than a minute ago Print, read, and mark up interesting articles that might be used in class or committees.  
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  • Our mindset is the key to how we experience our reality. If we can help our minds land on thoughts that are energizing, empowering, and affirming then we'll experience our return to school in an easier way.
    • Marti Pike
      Marti Pike on 13 Aug 14
       
      See also Carol Dweck's Mindset.  
  • The key is learning to shift these stories into interpretations that offer possibilities and empowerment
  • a rut story. A different interpretation could be
    • Marti Pike
      Marti Pike on 13 Aug 14
       
      This committee they've made me chair might turn out to be a powerful Think Tank on issuses that are important to me. I'm looking carefully for applications. 
  • Our thoughts create our realities
    • Marti Pike
      Marti Pike on 13 Aug 14
       
      "Nothing is but what thinking makes it so."  Shakespear
  • rejuvenated
    • Marti Pike
      Marti Pike on 13 Aug 14
       
      I spent time at the Family History Center. 
  • no more than three hours a day of work.
    • Marti Pike
      Marti Pike on 13 Aug 14
       
      It felt that way because I did the things I enjoyed about my job...and a few "must dos."
Michael Sheehan

50 websites that help make learning science fun - 96 views

seekoutlearning.blogspot.com/...s-that-help-make-learning.html

learning websites science

shared by Michael Sheehan on 09 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Michael Sheehan on 09 Mar 14
     
    Huge collection of great science website.
Michele Brown

MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages - 16 views

www.makebeliefscomix.com

comics writing storytelling

shared by Michele Brown on 15 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Jason Keown on 19 Jun 12
     
    Create your own comic
  • Becky Roehrs on 20 Jun 12
     
    This was really fun-I just created one! Thanks for the post
  • Michele Brown on 16 Jan 13
     
    Create comics
Gerald Carey

Observations: Welcome to 'Bring Science Home' - 71 views

www.scientificamerican.com/...post.cfm

science resources activities

shared by Gerald Carey on 07 May 11 - No Cached
  • Today we kick off Scientific American's Bring Science Home initiative, which will offer 20 free tabletop science activities during the month of May. We hope they will make for easy—and fun—ways to enjoy science at home
Derrick Grose

Fun ways to promote healthy eating in your classroom, library or school - 19 views

clatoolbox.ca/...331hcen.html

health nutrition School Libraries

shared by Derrick Grose on 02 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • Derrick Grose on 02 Feb 15
     
    Health Canada provides free educational resources for use in K-12 schools.
George Hess

Using Music to Close the Academic Gap - Lori Miller Kase - The Atlantic - 73 views

www.theatlantic.com/...280362

shared by George Hess on 13 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • George Hess on 13 Oct 13
     
    Why isn't music in the Common Core
  • Bob Calder on 14 Oct 13
     
    Research demonstrates that music doesn't help as such. The same effect can be got from any discipline where practice and persistence are important. The musical component can be duplicated with explicit phonemic instruction in a short time. You would be better off drawing because it is the only non-academic that has a direct academic relationship - with geometry. The evidence for that has to do with the above, plus junction recognition and visualization. The only thing I didn't touch on is openness to new experience which has a strong correlation to measured intelligence. That's a component of the arts in general.
  • George Hess on 15 Oct 13
     
    I'm aware of the studies and also of the garbage science like the "Mozart Effect." While they don't support the correlation, they are also not definitive. This appears to be a valid study and it is working. Whether the reasons are because they learn practice and persistence or something else is irrelevant, a correlation still exists. Maybe it's just that music is fun and the way we learn music--practice, reflect, refine, repeat--is a good model for learning in general. It's certainly better than standardized tests. Personally, I don't feel a need to justify music's existence by its value to other subjects. It represents some of humanity's greatest achievements. That should be enough.
mrssalasyoshii

WeAreTeachers: 6 Back-to-School Tech Projects You Have to Try - 98 views

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shared by mrssalasyoshii on 07 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • mrssalasyoshii on 07 Sep 15
     
    Have your students get to know one another by sharing with their classmates their favorite things and what they did this summer using these fun tech projects! Invite your students to create a . The site is easy to navigate. ​To save their page, they simply hit print and save their profile as a ​PDF to their desktop.
Roland Gesthuizen

24 Educational iPad Apps for Kids in Reading & Writing « Imagination Soup | F... - 172 views

imaginationsoup.net/...-apps-for-kids-reading-writing

ipad writing reading literacy numeracy imagination

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 12 May 12 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 12 May 12
     
    "As I started a go-to list of the best educational iPad apps for kids, the list got so long, I split up my posts into categories. So, today we'll start with my favorite iPad apps for literacy - reading and writing for toddlers, preschoolers, and elementary-age kids. Also, I've included special needs iPad app resources at the end of this post."
jojomitty

Educational gaming expands in Florida district | eSchool News - 8 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...ng-expands-in-florida-district

technology education edtech tieclass gaming

shared by jojomitty on 26 Jan 16 - No Cached
    • jojomitty
      jojomitty on 26 Jan 16
       
      I can see where students would be very engaged with gaming in an education setting. You could cover a wide variety of topics in a fun and interesting way!
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