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Matt Renwick

Still more questions than answers about how to treat ADHD - The Washington Post - 16 views

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  • Matt Renwick on 04 Jun 15
     
    A change in diet helps some people; for others, solutions are hard to find and often incomplete.
Melissa Enderle

Biomes of the World - Biome Map - 15 views

www.thewildclassroom.com/...index.html

biomes science biome environment ecology biology ecosystems biodiversity deserts tundra rainforest savanna taiga forest ponds rivers wetlands coral reef

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  • Melissa Enderle on 15 Nov 11
     
    Click on the map for more information, informative videos, and links to scientist profiles, travel information, lesson plans and species profiles for each region. Has information on aquatic and terrestrial biomes.
joyce L

Learning Through Listening | Abstract - 71 views

www.learningthroughlistening.org/...144

listening Web2.0 newlit

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  • new technologies are challenging traditional definitions of what it means to be literate
    • joyce L
      joyce L on 05 Sep 10
       
      In what ways have literacy being changed by new technologies? Is reading / writing / speaking / listening skills different when applied to new contexts of online communication or online 'reading/writing'?
  • digital media have revived the importance of listening and oral literacy
  • individual learners approach the same learning task in widely varied ways, it is essential to provide multiple means for achieving success. Learners need multiple ways of recognizing important information, variety in how to strategically approach a learning task and multiple means of becoming engaged in learning
Trevor Cunningham

Staff Picks at the explOratorium - 70 views

www.exploratorium.edu/...color

science resources tools

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  • Trevor Cunningham on 04 Nov 13
     
    Groovy interactive resources. Found this through the Discovery Education Network.
Kenuvis Romero

John Crowley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • John Crowley (born December 1, 1942) is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction. He studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer. He is best known as the author of Little, Big (1981), which received the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and has been called "a neglected masterpiece" by Harold Bloom[3] and his Aegypt series of novels which revolve around the same themes of Hermeticism, memory, families and religion.
Judy Robison

Free Practice Tests - Varsity Tutors - 44 views

www.varsitytutors.com/practice-tests

Assessment teachers socialstudies english science math

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  • Judy Robison on 08 Nov 13
     
    Assessment | News Varsity Tutors Debuts Free Test Question Site By Dian Schaffhauser 11/07/13 Varsity Tutors, a providor of private tutoring to students online, has launched a new, free service with the intention of becoming the "Khan Academy" of practice tests. The company has introduced a Web-based assessment system intended to replace other forms of educational content such as SAT or ACT preparation books or online subscriptions to assessment materials. Varsity Learning Tools, as it's called, makes hundreds of free practice tests available in 95 subjects. Currently in open beta testing, the site lists assessment tests by subject and allows the user to choose to answer a single test, flashcards, or a question of the day. Each question can be shared through social network services. When the student answers it, a second page displays with an assessment and explanation and data on how much time was spent on the question, and how many others answered it correctly." (Read more at http://thejournal.com/articles/2013/11/07/varsity-tutors-launches-free-test-question-site.aspx?=THEEL#8hQzr0oig6X2IZmS.99)
Michele Brown

Games and Facts from Galleries of Canadian Museum of Nature - 33 views

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science nature animals interactive

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  • Michele Brown on 09 Jul 15
     
    These interactives originate in the galleries of the Canadian Museum of Nature. Even if you can't make it to the museum, you can enjoy a virtual experience!
leijosa

Visualizing gun deaths - Comparing the U.S. to rest of the world - 46 views

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gun deaths u s world

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  • leijosa on 22 Jun 15
     
    Map of the US from The Atlantic comparing gun related deaths in the states to other countries 
Diana Irene Saldana

NASA's Space Place :: Home :: NASA's The Space Place - 136 views

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Science nasa Astronomy Spanish

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  • Sedley Abercrombie on 18 Oct 11
     
    You could spend all year on this website learing about space and everything solar system.
  • Diana Irene Saldana on 14 Jan 15
     
    Wonderful website that is kid-friendly. It offers information, activities, and games. The whole site can switch to Spanish.
Nigel Coutts

Is STEM the Key? (Part Three) - 26 views

thelearnersway.net/...is-stem-the-key-part-three

STEM learning science

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  • Nigel Coutts on 24 May 15
     
    The message from PwC is clear, Australia needs to take action now if we are not to slip behind the rest of the world. 'Australia is waking up to the fact that the good times can't go on forever. In the face of economic challenges and a digital revolution that's reshaping business and the workforce, we need to act.'
Sharin Tebo

ISTE | Build student-centered learning the right way - 43 views

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SDW iste student-centered personalizedlearning

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  • when you ask Tiarra Bell, a rising senior at Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, what student-centered learning means to her, she doesn’t mention a word about tools and software. Instead, she embraces school because “the teachers are human and care about your life.”
  • Bell prefers projects over standardized tests “because those don’t show what I can do or who I am
  • Let the students own the classroom.
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  • she encourages her students to move desks, sit on the floor, change the physical environment every day if they like.
  • Lean on the kids to tell the community about their schools.
  • He’s not above using the substitute teacher budget to fill classrooms with instructors for a half day to give his full-time educational staff time for these discussions.
    • Sharin Tebo
      Sharin Tebo on 29 Jun 15
       
      I think this approach has been used in our school district in some cases. Creative!
  • Understand you are asking for a paradigm shift.
  • In a student-centered learning classroom, the teacher doesn’t have to know everything. It’s OK for students to teach each other
  • The students themselves can be your most enthusiastic ambassadors showing how powerful learning is shaping their lives.
  • Ask technology to do the heavy lifting.
  • Sharin Tebo on 29 Jun 15
     
    Student-centered learning
Mary Glackin

Glean - Find the best videos in education for you - 93 views

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  • Mary Glackin on 30 Jan 15
     
    Hundreds of amazing teachers post educational videos online every day. At Glean, we've structured and organized these videos, tagged them by educational standard, and wrapped them in interactive tools (like Q&A and practice exercises). We've even built technology to pick the ideal teacher for the student based on his/her learning style and ability.
ashleecopper

KUSD Google Apps for Education - 41 views

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1st Grade 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade Art Classroom ELA Enrichment Health Individual Kindergarten Math Music Remediation Science Social Studies STEM World Languages kestech

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    • ashleecopper
      ashleecopper on 24 Jun 15
       
      Check out this link (https://www.google.com/edu/products/productivity-tools/) and other Google Apps for Education links. What are some ideas for ways that you could use this in your classroom?
  • ashleecopper on 24 Jun 15
     
    Google Apps provides filtered email to individual students in grades 2 and higher (and to classrooms of kindergarten and 1st grade students). Collaboration and other tools that are available that can be used across all subject areas.
Christophe Gigon

elearnspace. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age - 17 views

www.elearnspace.org/...connectivism.htm

connectivism MEMOIRE learning elearning theory collaboration technology community

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  • Over the last twenty years, technology has reorganized how we live, how we communicate, and how we learn.
    • Rose Molter
      Rose Molter on 30 Aug 11
       
      I aggree that as teachers we need to realize that technology has changed instruction and the way that our students learn and the way that we learn and instruct.
    • Orlando Gonzalez
      Orlando Gonzalez on 13 Mar 12
       
      Technology has always changed the way we live. How did we respond to changes in the past? One thought is that some institutions, some businesses disappeared, while others, who took advantage of the new tech, appeared to replace the old. It will happen again and we as educators need to lead the way.
    • Maureen Curran
      Maureen Curran on 24 Mar 12
       
      With technology our students brains are wired differently and they can multi-task and learn in multiple virtual environments all at once. This should make us think about how we present lessons, structure learning and keep kids engaged.
    • Mike Burnett
      Mike Burnett on 18 Aug 14
       
      Rubbish. The idea that digital native are adept at multitasking is wrong. They may be doing many things but the quality and depth is reduced. There is a significant body of research to support this. Development of grit and determination are key attributes of successful people. Set and demand high standards. No one plays sport or an instrument because it is easy rather because they can clearly see a link between hard work and pleasure.
  • Information development was slow.
  • Many learners will move into a variety of different, possibly unrelated fields over the course of their lifetime.
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  • Informal learning is a significant aspect of our learning experience.
  • Learning is a continual process, lasting for a lifetime.
  • Technology is altering (rewiring) our brains.
  • Connectivism is the integration of principles explored by chaos, network, and complexity and self-organization theories.
  • Principles of connectivism:
  • Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions. Learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources. Learning may reside in non-human appliances. Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning. Ability to see connections between fields, ideas, and concepts is a core skill. Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities. Decision-making is itself a learning process. Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.
    • Rose Molter
      Rose Molter on 30 Aug 11
       
      I think it is important for us to realize the importance of connections.
  • The organization and the individual are both learning organisms.
  • Classrooms which emulate the “fuzziness”
    • Maureen Curran
      Maureen Curran on 24 Mar 12
       
      So what does this look like? I feel that when I attempt this, evaluators and administrators don't necessarily understand. They want a neat, quiet, well-managed, orderly classroom.
    • Maureen Curran
      Maureen Curran on 24 Mar 12
       
      If new learning approaches are required, then why are we still being evaluated in a linear way?
  • John Seely Brown presents an interesting notion that the internet leverages the small efforts of many with the large efforts of few.
  • The pipe is more important than the content within the pipe. Our ability to learn what we need for tomorrow is more important than what we know today.
  • Knowledge is growing exponentially
  • amount of knowledge
  • is doubling every 18 months
  • To combat the shrinking half-life of knowledge, organizations have been forced to develop new methods of deploying instruction.”
  • (the understanding of where to find knowledge needed).
  • know-where
  • learning
  • a persisting change in human performance or performance potential…[which] must come about as a result of the learner’s experience and interaction with the world”
  • Learning theories are concerned with the actual process of learning, not with the value of what is being learned.
  • The ability to synthesize and recognize connections and patterns is a valuable skill.
  • knowledge is no longer acquired in the linear manner
  • What is the impact of chaos as a complex pattern recognition process on learning
  • An entirely new approach is needed.
  • Chaos is the breakdown of predictability, evidenced in complicated arrangements that initially defy order.
  • Meaning-making and forming connections between specialized communities are important activities.
  • Chaos, as a science, recognizes the connection of everything to everything.
  • If the underlying conditions used to make decisions change, the decision itself is no longer as correct as it was at the time it was made.
  • principle that people, groups, systems, nodes, entities can be connected to create an integrated whole.
  • Connections between disparate ideas and fields can create new innovations.
  • Learning is a process that occurs within nebulous environments of shifting core elements – not entirely under the control of the individual
  • decisions are based on rapidly altering foundations
  • The ability to draw distinctions between important and unimportant information is vital.
  • Behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism do not attempt to address the challenges of organizational knowledge and transference.
  • The health of the learning ecology of the organization depends on effective nurturing of information flow.
  • This cycle of knowledge development (personal to network to organization) allows learners to remain current in their field through the connections they have formed.
  • This amplification of learning, knowledge and understanding through the extension of a personal network is the epitome of connectivism.
  • Diverse teams of varying viewpoints are a critical structure for completely exploring ideas
  • An organizations ability to foster, nurture, and synthesize the impacts of varying views of information is critical to knowledge economy surviva
  • As knowledge continues to grow and evolve, access to what is needed is more important than what the learner currently possesses.
    • BalancEd Tech
      BalancEd Tech on 25 Mar 12
       
      Access is not enough. Prior knowledge and understanding is needed. Processing is needed. Evaluation of processing and outputs is needed. Feeding that back into the "system" is needed.
  • learning is no longer an internal, individualistic activity
  • learning is no longer an internal, individualistic activity
Jacquelyn Karney

For Anxious Dementia Patients, Robot Pets May Be A Solution - 10 views

www.science20.com/...ot_pets_may_be_solution-115320

shared by Jacquelyn Karney on 28 Jul 13 - No Cached
    • Jacquelyn Karney
      Jacquelyn Karney on 28 Jul 13
       
      I think that is interesting.  I bet that a real pet would be better though
  • It can show emotions such as surprise, happiness and anger, can learn its own name and learns to respond to words that its owner uses frequently.
    • Jacquelyn Karney
      Jacquelyn Karney on 28 Jul 13
       
      That is pretty amazing but these emotions aren't "real" since the robot has no brain!
  • owever, the presence of animals in residential care home settings can place residents at risk of infection or injury and create additional duties for nursing staff. Robots would obviously alleviate that.
    • Jacquelyn Karney
      Jacquelyn Karney on 28 Jul 13
       
      What do you think of robot pets?  What are the pros and cons?
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