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Ed Webb

News Blog Articles | Absurdist Literature Stimulates Our Brains | Miller-McCune Online ... - 1 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 20 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Absurdist literature, it appears, stimulates our brains.
  • our ability to find patterns is stimulated when we are faced with the task of making sense of an absurd tale. What's more, this heightened capability carries over to unrelated tasks.
  • "the cognitive mechanisms responsible for implicitly learning statistical regularities" are enhanced when we struggle to find meaning in a fragmented narrative.
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  • we have an innate tendency to impose order upon our experiences and create what they call "meaning frameworks." Any threat to this process will "activate a meaning-maintenance motivation that may call upon any other available associations to restore a sense of meaning,"
Rachel Ernst

Seth's Blog: Learning from the MBA program - 0 views

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shared by Rachel Ernst on 05 Jun 09 - Cached
  • I taught for five to twenty hours a week, and very little of it was about the books. So, if concepts from books are easy, what’s hard?Doing it.Picking up the phone, making the plan, signing the deal. Pushing ‘publish.’ Announcing. Shipping.We spent a lot of time on this area. Every morning, each person came in prepared to push someone in the group to overcome the next hurdle. This is what growth looks like, and it was energizing to be part of.We didn’t do this at all at when I was at Stanford. We spent a lot of time reading irrelevant case studies and even more time building complex financial models. The thing is, you can now hire someone to build a complex financial model for you for $60 an hour. And a week’s worth of that is just about all the typical entrepreneur is going to need. The rest of the time, it’s about shipping, motivating, leading, connecting, envisioning and engaging. So that’s what we worked on.It amazes me that MBA students around the world aren’t up in arms. How can schools justify taking $100,000 in cash and teaching exactly the wrong stuff?
    • Rachel Ernst
      Rachel Ernst on 05 Jun 09
       
      How much of our instruction is truly relevant to students? How much engages their imagination, builds meaningful relationships and equips with skills to develop their own talents?
Fran Bullington

No Limits, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach - 0 views

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shared by Fran Bullington on 15 Jul 09 - No Cached
  • Additional motivation comes from the opportunity for outstanding posters to be inducted into The Scribe Post Hall of Fame wiki.
  • Tony Baldasaro on 15 Jul 09
     
    The speedy evolution of technology over the past 30 years has often outpaced our ability to use it to transform teaching and learning in real and meaningful ways. Much of that time we just tried to keep up, with new technologies often simply bolted onto traditional curriculum practices. However, today, with three decades of digital experience under our belt, the time is ripe to begin instituting true change.
Virginia Meadow

Frames - Animation and Digital Storytelling Software | Tech4Learning - 6 views

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shared by Virginia Meadow on 12 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Introducing Frames 4! Frames is educational software for stop-motion animation, claymation, and digital storytelling. Creating illustrated animations, movies and digital stories engages students in the curriculum, encourages problem-solving, promotes creativity, and helps students develop 21st-century communication skills. Students can use Frames to create movies, animated GIF files, and Flash animations to share with the world.
  • dents more than creating clay animation. With Frames as the foundation in the Clay Animation Kit, this motivating process transforms your classroom into an active learning
  • Clay Animation Nothing engages stu
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  • Communicating visually is an essential 21st-century skill. With Frames integrated drawing tools, students can illustrate their own animated diagrams, graphs, procedures, and more, helping them understand concepts that are difficult to explain using text alone. (L
  • ents more than creating clay animation! Use Frames to transform your classroom into an active learning environment and begin having your student develop exciting cross-curricular group projects that incorporate writing and technology skills. (Learn More)
  • Virginia Meadow on 14 Sep 09
     
    Frames is educational software for stop-motion animation, claymation, and digital storytelling. Frames helps students develop 21st-century communication skills.
Marty Daniel

Crimes Against Children Research Center - 0 views

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shared by Marty Daniel on 04 Jun 09 - Cached
  • he nature of crimes in which online predators used the Internet to meet and victimize youth changed little between 2000 and 2006, despite the advent of social networking sites. Victims were adolescents, not younger children. Most offenders were open about their sexual motives in their online communications with youth. Few crimes (5 percent) involved violence
  • Marty Daniel on 04 Jun 09
     
    This is interesting. With all the hype it's interesting that the facts don't support the hysteria.
Martin Burrett

BigHugeLabs: Do fun stuff with your photos - 7 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 18 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Become a pop icon! Inspired by Warhol's famous paintings of Marilyn Monroe.
  • Make your own magazine cover! Be a superstar! Prove to your friends how famous you really are!
  • Make your own customized movie poster. You choose the photo, titles, and credits. Be a star!
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    • Kalin Wilburn
      Kalin Wilburn on 19 May 11
       
      This site offers a wide variety of tools for school. Some that you may use on your own and others you can have your students using for any project imaginable. Feel free to check out everything they have to offer but I have highlighted some of my favorites.
  • Make your own inspirational, funny, parody, sports or other motivational poster for any occasion.
  • Steve C on 27 Sep 09
     
    Flickr toys!
  • Martin Burrett on 03 Jul 11
     
    A superb image manipulator site. Make your photos into works of art, jigsaws, photo cubes, calendars and many more. Free sign in required. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+&+Images
Rich Robles

News: The 'Prior Learning' Edge - Inside Higher Ed - 15 views

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  • An examination of the educational records of more than 62,000 adult undergraduates at 48 colleges finds that students who had sought and been awarded academic credit by their institutions for "prior learning" earned in the military, corporate training and other non-classroom settings were more than twice as likely to graduate, and to persist even if they did not graduate, than were their peers who had not earned such credit.
  • “CAEL’s research confirms that prior-learning assessment can help adults move faster toward their associate’s and baccalaureate degrees. We need to see more institutions offering this option and more adults participating in it.”
  • The concept of "prior learning assessment" is decades old, and it has grown to include multiple types of mechanisms for measuring knowledge and skills that students have accumulated through various types of formal and less formal formats, such corporate training, work experience, and independent study. The most common types of assessments include standardized exams developed by the College Board (the College Level Examination Program exams and Advanced Placement exams), the American Council of Education's guides for recognizing credit for instructional programs offered in the military and by employers, and institutional reviews of individualized student portfolios.
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  • credit awarded through prior learning assessments offers an opportunity to entice adults back to college with the prospect that they can build on learning they've already gained and reduce both the time and money they might have to expend to earn a credential.
  • "Do PLA students have higher graduation rates because PLA enhances the self-esteem and motivation of students by showing them that they have already mastered college-level learning? Is it also because PLA students already possess characteristics that are associated with better academic outcomes? What institutional policies are influencing whether and how students are using (or not using) PLA, and whether or not this helps them achieve a shorter time to degree?"
Siri Anderson

What Makes a Great Teacher? - The Atlantic (January/February 2010) - 71 views

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shared by Siri Anderson on 15 Jan 10 - Cached
  • hey avidly recruited students and their families into the process; they maintained focus, ensuring that everything they did contributed to student learning; they planned exhaustively and purposefully—for the next day or the year ahead—by working backward from the desired outcome; and they worked relentlessly, refusing to surrender to the combined menaces of poverty, bureaucracy, and budgetary shortfalls.
  • one way that great teachers ensure that kids are learning is to frequently check for understanding: Are the kids—all of the kids—following what you are saying? Asking “Does anyone have any questions?” does not work,
  • Students are not always the best judges of their own learning.
  • Chris Sloan on 15 Jan 10
     
    "For years, the secrets to great teaching have seemed more like alchemy than science, a mix of motivational mumbo jumbo and misty-eyed tales of inspiration and dedication. But for more than a decade, one organization has been tracking hundreds of thousands of kids, and looking at why some teachers can move them three grade levels ahead in a year and others can't. Now, as the Obama administration offers states more than $4 billion to identify and cultivate effective teachers, Teach for America is ready to release its data."
  • Siri Anderson on 02 Feb 10
     
    Article on teacher effectiveness as studied through Teach for American data. Thrilling and scary in implication all at the same time.
Sandy Munnell

YouTube - RSA Animate - Drive - 19 views

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  • Sandy Munnell on 20 May 10
     
    Daniel Pink's lecture about his book, Drive. While directly addresses the business world but the connections to education are apparent. Speaks to why incentive pay for teachers is a ridiculous idea. Even why grades are a lousy incentive for students.
Sandy Munnell

Using music in the science classroom | Science in School - 53 views

www.scienceinschool.org/...music

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shared by Sandy Munnell on 24 May 10 - Cached
  • Sandy Munnell on 24 May 10
     
    Great article by a teacher who links music to the lesson
Susanna Livingston

Four steps to get your classroom management off to a great start Pt1 | Expert Professio... - 69 views

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  • Susanna Livingston on 02 Jan 11
     
    Classroom Management- Starting the year off right!
anonymous

Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes | Video on TED.com - 106 views

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 15 Jan 11
     
    "Diana Laufenberg shares 3 surprising things she has learned about teaching -- including a key insight about learning from mistakes."
Ted Curran

Student Learning with Diigo - 109 views

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  • With Diigo you can keep track of those favorite websites and revisit them from any computer at any time.
  • With Diigo  you can keep track of those favorite websites and revisit them from any computer at any time.
  •  Diigo is a great web-based tool for teachers to utilize, to motivate, and to engage students of all ages in the learning process.
G Hubler

YouTube - RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us - 4 views

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  • Jason Finley on 26 Mar 11
     
    Speaks to how teachers should practice their work with students....and administrators should approach theirs with teachers.
Donna Cantarella

Using Picture Books to Teach Plot Development and Conflict Resolution - ReadWriteThink - 93 views

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    • Donna Cantarella
      Donna Cantarella on 16 Mar 11
       
      Might motivate some students to do more planning than paper and pencil.
anonymous

Social Networking as a Tool for Student and Teacher Learning - 52 views

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  • Online social networking includes much more than Facebook and Twitter. It is any online use of technology to connect people, enable them to collaborate with each other, and form virtual communities, says the Young Adult Library Services Association
  • Among students surveyed in a National School Boards Association study, 96 percent of those with online access reported using social networking, and half said they use it to discuss schoolwork. Despite this prevalence in everyday life, schools have been hesitant to adopt social networking as an education tool. A 2010 study into principals’ attitudes found that “schools are one of the last holdouts,” with many banning the most popular social networking sites for students and sometimes for staff.
  • Survey research confirms, however, that interest in harnessing social networking for educational purposes is high. As reported in School Principals and Social Networking in Education: Practices, Policies and Realities in 2010, a national survey of 1,200 principals, teachers and librarians found that most agreed that social networking sites can help educators share information and resources, create professional learning communities and improve schoolwide communications with students and staff. Those who had used social networks were more positive about potential benefits than those who had not. In an online discussion with 12 of the principals surveyed, most said, “social networking and online collaboration tools would make a substantive change in students’ educational experience.” They said these tools could improve student motivation and engagement, help students develop a more social/collaborative view of learning and create a connection to real-life learning.
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  • Most national, state and local policies have not yet addressed social networking specifically; by default, it often falls under existing acceptable use policies (AUPs). While AUPs usually provide clear language on obscenities, profanity and objectionable activities, they also leave out gray areas that could open students to harmful activities while excluding them from certain benefits of social networking. Likewise, boilerplate policies that ban specific applications, such as Twitter, may miss other potential threats while also limiting the ability of students to collaborate across schools, districts, states or countries. The challenge for districts is to write policies that address potentially harmful interactions without eliminating the technology’s beneficial uses.
Jensy Richards

theorganizedclassroomblog.com - 211 views

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  • Jensy Richards on 30 Jul 11
     
    I stumbled on this and liked it. Lots of ideas... good motivation to get us going for the next couple of weeks!
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