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Martin Burrett

Action Research - What and how? by @Clare2ELT - 20 views

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action research

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  • Martin Burrett on 26 Aug 16
     
    Many schemes of professional development for teachers, as well as advanced teaching certificates, include an element of 'Action Research' (AR). In my work as a team leader of EFL tutors, I've come to see just how important AR is for teachers to continue to develop and professionalise their teaching practices. And I'm so enthusiastic about teachers doing research that I want to share some introductory thoughts with a wider audience - with you, my dear blog readers! I hope I can inspire you to start your own AR projects, and would love to hear what you get up to...
Maureen Greenbaum

Sugata Mitra - the professor with his head in the cloud | Education | The Guardian - 16 views

www.theguardian.com/...itra-professor-school-in-cloud

hole in the wall SOLE Mitra children learning school teaching education

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  • “A generation of children has grown up with continuous connectivity to the internet. A few years ago, nobody had a piece of plastic to which they could ask questions and have it answer back. The Greeks spoke of the oracle of Delphi. We’ve created it. People don’t talk to a machine. They talk to a huge collective of people, a kind of hive. Our generation [Mitra is 64] doesn’t see that. We just see a lot of interlinked web pages
  • “Within five years, you will not be able to tell if somebody is consulting the internet or not. The internet will be inside our heads anywhere and at any time. What then will be the value of knowing things? We shall have acquired a new sense. Knowing will have become collective.”
  • if you imagine me and my phone as a single entity, yes. Very soon, asking somebody to read without their phone will be like telling them to read without their glasses.”
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  • Twenty children are asked a “big question” such as “Why do we learn history?”, “Is the universe infinite?”, “Should children ever go to prison?” or “How do bees make honey?” They are then left to find the answers using five computers. The ratio of four children to one computer is deliberate: Mitra insists that the children must collaborate. “There should be chaos, noise, discussion and running about,” he says.
  • . Year 4 children (aged eight to nine) were given questions from GCSE physics and biology papers. After using their Sole computers for 45 minutes, their average test scores on three sets of questions were 25%, 26% and 13%. Three months later – the school having taught nothing on these subjects in the interim – they were tested again, individually and without warning. The scores rose to 57%, 80% and 16% respectively, suggesting the children continued researching the questions in their own time.
  • he says the main benefit of his methods is that children’s self-confidence increases so that they challenge adult perceptions.
  • the propositions that children can benefit from collaborative learning and that banning internet use from exams will get trickier, to the point where it may prove futile. It’s worth remembering that new technologies nearly always deliver less than we expect at first and far more than we expect later on, often in unexpected ways.
Jeff Edwards

ICDL - International Children's Digital Library - 141 views

en.childrenslibrary.org

multilingual interlingual mother tongue

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  • Sue Franckel on 10 Jan 12
     
    Online books for all languages
  • Marc Patton on 29 Jun 12
     
    The mission of the International Children's Digital Library Foundation (ICDL Foundation) is to support the world's children in becoming effective members of the global community - who exhibit tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas -- by making the best in children's literature available online free of charge.
  • Jeff Edwards on 18 Mar 16
     
    A huge collection of projectable childrens books in many different languages. Would be great as a resource for parents to continue L1 development at home or in a mother tongue class
Glenn Hervieux

Thinking with Crash: Commenting, Part II - 17 views

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blogging writing comments

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  • Glenn Hervieux on 11 Feb 13
     
    Continuing discussions on Commenting by Ed Nagelhout
Marc Patton

Six Lingering Obstacles to Using Technology in Schools | MindShift - 1 views

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Teacher_Resources

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  • Marc Patton on 29 Jun 12
     
    Though educators are finding smart ways to integrate technology and learning, the road has been and continues to be challenging on multiple fronts. The NMC Horizon Report: 2012 K-12 Edition, a collaboration between the New Media Consortium, the Consortium for School Networking, and the International Society for Technology in Education, takes the birds-eye view and encapsulates some of the significant challenges that must still be addressed and offers the following assessment.
Marc Patton

National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) - What is NAAL? - 0 views

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ESL Teacher_Resources

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  • Marc Patton on 29 Jun 12
     
    A nationally representative and continuing assessment of English language literary skills of American Adults
dmassicg

New study examines print vs. eBooks for kids » Kidscreen - 1 views

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study print ebooks kids

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  • dmassicg on 30 May 12
     
    As the popularity of digital book reading continues to grow, especially with younger ages, The Joan Ganz Cooney Center has conducted a new study that explores the differences in the way parents and their preschool-age children (three to six) interact when reading print books, basic eBooks and enhanced eBooks together. Read more: http://kidscreen.com/2012/05/29/new-study-examines-print-vs-ebooks-for-kids/#ixzz1wMi11ATv
Margaret Moore-Taylor

Free PD Resources for Teachers: Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook Directory - 46 views

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free resources teachers professional professional development

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  • Margaret Moore-Taylor on 30 Aug 12
     
    Welcome to the most complete interactive directory of K-12 PD products and services. Whether you're looking for yourself, or an entire school district, the Teacher Professional Development Directory can help you identify accredited programs, supplemental materials, software, workshops, and more to help you meet your continuing education needs.
Steven Engravalle

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: The 13 MUST Know Professional Development W... - 51 views

www.educatorstechnology.com/...13-must-know-professional.html

resources

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  • Steven Engravalle on 04 Sep 12
     
    Professional Development is a life-long  learning process that  involves different activities including individual progress, continuing education, inservice education, peer collaboration, study groups, and peer coaching or mentoring. The importance of professional development lays in the fact that it is closely related to the overall quality of education and students achievements. Teachers who stop learning and suffice themselves with the curriculum content soon turn into hard working students only a step above their actual students.
Thieme Hennis

Find Online College Courses That Fit Your Life - 1 views

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oer open-education oer-initiative search reference free courses education learning resources

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  • Thieme Hennis on 10 Aug 12
     
    "Taking your education to the next level! Online College Courses is dedicated to bringing you the best and latest information about continuing and online education. Go ahead, try our finder!"
Roland Gesthuizen

Why "open education" matters : JISC - 29 views

www.jisc.ac.uk/why-open

openeducation freedom socialnetworking

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  • open education goes across the boundaries of formal and informal, children and adults, across academic disciplines, into professional development and into making and crafting. Universities don’t own the “open education” space any more than any organisation could be said to own “learning”
  • We need to be digitally literate, but more than that, we need to find ways of doing our work online, to become open practitioners and digital scholars
  • For educational institutions to thrive, we need to explore models for how we can work in this space, with all its opportunities and risks, all its noise and vibrancy. It is here that we see possibilities for new models of collaboration, peer learning and accreditation.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 09 Mar 12
     
    "Open education" matters because it's already happening all around us. .. although it may not be mainstream yet, it is very real. The models continue to grow and combine with the ethos of open access and the methods of open source.The choice for us, as individuals and educational organisations, is in how we respond.
Peter Beens

PIPEDREAMS - Due Diligence and Social Media, Gaming and 21st Century Learning. Will edu... - 51 views

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socialmedia ethics education @zbpipe Minecraft

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  • Make Social Media and Blended Learning Strategies as much a priority as traditional literacies.
  • insist that all teachers have a solid understanding of the tools, strategies, and pedagogies so that we can help kids navigate in these online social environments
  • how many educators are encouraged to teach with it, without fully understanding the tool itself, or grasping the research behind its use, or acknowledging the implications of its use (including safety)
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  • where does the responsibility lay on education organizations to guide kids in an environment (even facebook, youtube, twitter, gaming)where they are spending so much time?
  • Peter Beens on 05 Jun 12
     
    I gasped. "What about Ethics? Character? Kindness?", I wonder. I continue to wonder (now with my TEACHER LENS),  "I've never heard of a school based PD about Minecraft servers, or world bucket". Come to think of it, I've never heard of a mandatory in-service, PD session about any social gaming , or media tool or strategy. 
Marc Patton

- 108 Ways to Use Word Clouds in the Classroom...Word Clouds in Education Series: Part ... - 57 views

www.techlearning.com/Default.aspx

Teaching_Ideas Teaching_Tools Online_Learning_Environments

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  • Marc Patton on 21 Sep 12
     
    Welcome to a this continuing series of posts devoted to the use of Word Clouds in education. I know you will find new information… whether you are a seasoned user of word clouds, or brand new.
adler71

Display Content Printable Version - 33 views

www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook_print.cfm

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  • old by Governor Harrison to place his faith in the good intentions of the United States, Tecumseh offers a bitter retort.
    • adler71
      adler71 on 29 Jan 14
       
      A retort is a response. 
  • revitalize their societies so that they can regain life as a unified people and put an end to legalized land grabs.
    • adler71
      adler71 on 29 Jan 14
       
      Revitalize.. .To bring back to life What does it mean to  regain life as a unified people? 
  • You wish to prevent the Indians from doing as we wish them
    • adler71
      adler71 on 29 Jan 14
       
      You wish... Tecumseh is talking to Governor Harrison. 
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  • unite and let them consider their lands as the common property of the whole.
    • adler71
      adler71 on 29 Jan 14
       
      This is showing what Tecumseh wants to happen. 
  • ou take the tribes aside and advise them not to come into this measure.... You want by your distinctions of Indian tribes, in allotting to each a particular, to make them war with each other.
    • adler71
      adler71 on 29 Jan 14
       
      What strategy is the United States taking to gain the tribes land? 
  • ou are continually driving the red people, when at last you will drive them onto the great lake
    • adler71
      adler71 on 29 Jan 14
       
      What is happening to the tribes? What choices do they have?
  • endeavored
    • adler71
      adler71 on 29 Jan 14
       
      Endeavored: Work to do something. 
  • this land that was sold, and the goods that was given for it, was only done by a few.
    • adler71
      adler71 on 29 Jan 14
       
      Who are the people selling the land? What is the problem with this? 
  • If you continue to purchase them, it will make war among the different tribes,
    • adler71
      adler71 on 29 Jan 14
       
      Why will the tribes fight amongst each other? 
  • If you will not give up the land and do cross the boundary of our present settlement, it will be very hard, and produce great trouble between us.
    • adler71
      adler71 on 29 Jan 14
       
      What is Tecumseh asking Governor Harrison to do? 
  • the only way to stop this evil is for the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land,
    • adler71
      adler71 on 29 Jan 14
       
      How will the tribes (red men) make improve their lives? 
  • adler71 on 29 Jan 14
     
    Use the prompts to help you summarize what is happening. 
Maureen Greenbaum

Palo Alto Online : Higher ed leaders meet edtech startups - 25 views

www.paloaltoonline.com/...show_story.php

online higher higher ed startups edtech

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  • "moving from episodic to continuous learning -- getting a degree doesn't end your education any more and everyone will have to continue to learn
  • moving away from having faculty that were the conveyers of content to -- now that there's so much more information available -- becoming more curators of the content, of helping guide all the sources,
  • some thought that the emphasis on degrees may be reduced as other kinds of assessments come into play,
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  • "If we recognize the need to organize ourselves differently, deliver education differently, then how do we fund it, how do we govern it?"
  • moving away from students being associated with an individual institution to students aggregating their own educations from a whole variety of sources and players
  • although there are counselors and advisers available in higher education "what a lot of people need is more of a coach, not necessarily associated with a particular institution
  • needs to reorganize itself to serve students
  • digital badges that signify various accomplishments
Martha Hickson

Pinterest Targets Casual Visitors With New "Pinterest For Teachers" Site, May Add More ... - 71 views

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pinterest

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  • Martha Hickson on 21 Aug 13
     
    Pinterest has launched what may be the first of several official "hubs" featuring content targeting a particular segment of its user base, with today's debut of a new "Pinterest for Teachers" site at pinterest.com/teachers. Obviously timed to coincide with the back-to-school rush and news cycle, the company tells us that the new hub will also serve as something of a test to see if it makes more sense to continue down this path in the future, with more hubs devoted to other interests or groups.
Donal O' Mahony

One Device Per Group | eLearning Island - 26 views

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device group pedagogy

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  • Donal O' Mahony on 15 Sep 13
     
    ..a continuation of my thoughts on One Device per Group!
Martin Burrett

AppShed - Build HTML5, iPhone and Android apps online for schools, education and business - 3 views

appshed.com

apps website builder coding

shared by Martin Burrett on 12 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 12 Nov 13
     
    This is a superb site for creating mobile browser apps online. The builder is quick and easy to use with lots of functions to include. You can continue to update and tweak your app. It's a great way for your class to begin making apps before they move on to full coding. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Roland Gesthuizen

All Work and No Play: Why Your Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed - Esther Entin - The At... - 60 views

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play children TheAtlantic behaviour psychology

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 05 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 05 Oct 13
     
    "For more than fifty years, children's free play time has been continually declining, and it's keeping them from turning into confident adults"
anonymous

Clausewitz's Fog and Friction and the Military Transformation Fiction | Ballots & Bullets - 3 views

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military friction fog Clausewitz 'military history'

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  • anonymous on 02 Dec 13
     
    Strategic studies have retained the thinking of Karl von Clausewitz at its core. The Prussian General's understanding of war by reference to the political process saw wars as the "continuation of politics by other means" (Clausewitz, 1997). In conflict research, this has become the most widely quoted definition of war. What made Clausewitz's work 'On War' so successful was that he wrote about war by focusing on its general aspects, or more simply, on the spirit of war as he saw it. In this way, war no longer drew on narrow and specific contexts, but rather became understood, as an enduring phenomenon, in general terms.
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