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Ed Webb

Is Technology Making Your Students Stupid? - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Educa... - 59 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 07 Jul 10 - Cached
  • what the evidence suggests is that, unless it's very carefully planned with an eye to how the brain processes information, multimedia actually impedes learning rather than enhances it
  • a very balanced approach. Educators need to familiarize themselves with the research and see that in fact one of the most debilitating things you can do to students is distract them.
  • the risk of using search for online research is that everybody gets led in the same directions to a smaller number of citations which, as they become ever more popular, become the destination for more and more searches. And ... he suggested that simply the act of flipping through paper copies of journals actually may expose researchers to a wider array of evidence.
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Silas St. James

CSI: Lord of the Flies: Introduction - 46 views

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shared by Silas St. James on 20 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Silas St. James on 20 Sep 10
     
    Web-based group project on LOTF: collect evidence on culpability of a character from the novel.
  • Silas St. James on 20 Sep 10
     
    Neat project - gives each group member a job that can be suited to his/her interests and strengths!
Roland Gesthuizen

Out-of-tune plans should hit a shorter note - News - TES Connect - 47 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 17 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • All an experienced teacher needs is one big plan and short prompts for lessons
  • Far from being scientific, as the word "evidence" implies, this faith in the written plan is almost superstitious
  • Teaching has become a plan-centred profession. The things you do are only validated by written evidence that you intended to do them. It makes no sense, yet is widely accepted
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  • Respond to the child, not the plan.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 17 Oct 10
     
    "If I could have your detailed lesson plans for next week, that would be great. Thanks!" Why? We plan too much. Long-term plans, in-depth plans, planning per week, per lesson, per pupil. Yet we work with unpredictable children, so we revise our plans because the lesson didn't go according to plan.
Jon Tanner

ISTE's NETS*S Curriculum Planning Tool - 122 views

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shared by Jon Tanner on 30 Nov 10 - No Cached
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  • Jon Tanner on 30 Nov 10
     
    Awesome! A tool from ISTE to help those of us developing curriculum to embed NETS in our current curriculum, add activities, and look for evidence that students understand and can demonstrate proficiency in the NETS.
  • Guy Ballard on 01 Dec 10
     
    This is exactly what I was looking for.
Rob Alexander

The American Conservative » Return of the War Party - 0 views

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shared by Rob Alexander on 27 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Rob Alexander on 27 Feb 09
     
    Before we let ourselves be stampeded into another unnecessary war, let us review a few facts that seem to contradict the war propaganda. First, last week's acknowledgment that Iran has enough enriched uranium for one atom bomb does not mean Iran is building an atom bomb. To construct a nuclear device, the ton of low-enriched uranium at Natanz would have to be run through a second cascade of high-speed centrifuges to produce 55 pounds of highly enriched uranium (HUE). There is no evidence Iran has either created the cascade of high-speed centrifuges necessary to produce HUE or that Iran has diverted any of the low-enriched uranium from Natanz. And the International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors retain full access to Natanz. And rather than accelerating production of low-enriched uranium, only 4,000 of the Natanz centrifuges are operating. Some 1,000 are idle. Why? Dr. Mohamed El-Baradei, head of the IAEA, believes this is a signal that Tehran wishes to negotiate with the United States, but without yielding any of its rights to enrich uranium and operate nuclear power plants.
Kimberly Vance

The Trouble with Black Boys - - by Pedro A. Noguera / Education Rights / In Motion Maga... - 0 views

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shared by Kimberly Vance on 07 Jan 09 - Cached
  • The effects of growing up in poverty, particularly for children raised in socially isolated, economically depressed urban areas, warrants greater concern, especially given that one out of every three Black children is raised in a poor household.(20) Here the evidence is clear that the risks faced by children, particularly African American males, in terms of health, welfare, and education, are substantially greater.(21) A recent longitudinal study on the development of children whose mothers used drugs (particularly crack cocaine) during pregnancy found that when compared to children residing in similar neighborhoods from similar socio-economic backgrounds, the children in the sample showed no greater evidence of long term negative effects. This is not because the incidence of physical and cognitive problems among the sample was not high, but because it was equally high for the control group. The stunned researchers, who fully expected to observe noticeable differences between the two groups, were compelled to conclude that the harmful effects of living within an impoverished inner-city environment outweighed the damage inflicted by early exposure to drugs.(22)
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      Kimberly Vance on 07 Jan 09
       
      This observational data seems to be confirmed by this study using EEG results - http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/12/02_cortex.shtml
  • Kimberly Vance on 07 Jan 09
     
    The Trouble with Black Boys - - by Pedro A. Noguera / Education Rights / In Motion Magazine
Sarah Horrigan

How People are using Twitter during Conferences - 0 views

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shared by Sarah Horrigan on 01 Jul 09 - No Cached
  • Sarah Horrigan on 01 Jul 09
     
    The popularity of microblogging, with special emphasis on twitter, the most famous application of the kind, is growing rapidly. This kind of tools for micro-exchange of information and communication is changing the daily life of knowledgeable worker as well as Internet savvy people. From this perspective this paper aims to show how Twitter can be used during conferences, and furthermore how different people are using it. With the help of a survey and analysis of the collected data, benefits regarding the use of a microblogging tool such as Twitter can be presented. The publication shows evidence on how Twitter can enhance the knowledge of a given group or community by micro-connecting a diverse online audience. Statistical data was also used to support this research.
Kelvin Thompson

Report: Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning - 0 views

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  • Kelvin Thompson on 16 Jul 09
     
    A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies conducted by US Department of Education
Nanette Blank

Global Warming for Non-science Majors - 13 views

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shared by Nanette Blank on 21 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Nanette Blank on 21 Apr 10
     
    This 10-week course for non-science majors focuses on a single problem: assessing the risk of human-caused climate change. The story ranges from physics to chemistry, biology, geology, fluid mechanics, and quantum mechanics, to economics and social sciences. The class will consider evidence from the distant past and projections into the distant future, keeping the human time scale of the next several centuries as the bottom line. The lectures follow a textbook, "Global Warming, Understanding the Forecast," written for the course. For information about the textbook, interactive models, and more, visit: http://forecast.uchicago.edu/
Holly Barlaam

Variation, Selection, and Time - 38 views

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shared by Holly Barlaam on 20 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Jean Potter on 20 Jan 11
     
    lots of information, lesson plans, and resources related to genetics. Check out the "Things You May Not Have Known About Evolution" slide show.
  • Holly Barlaam on 19 Apr 11
     
    a variety of activities related to evolution from the amazing Learn.Genetics site. Addresses misconceptions, geologic time, fossil and DNA evidence, eye evolution, and more.
trisha_poole

Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate... - 236 views

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  • trisha_poole on 15 Jan 11
     
    Good foundation for why two spaces after a period is wrong. Supported by historical evidence and common sense.
  • Beth Panitz on 15 Jan 11
     
    Actually the new 6th Edition of APA Manual now says you MUST put 2 spaces after a period when writing for publication. Go figure.
Kate Pok

Writing in College - 1. Some crucial differences between high school and college writing - 55 views

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shared by Kate Pok on 08 Feb 11 - Cached
  • you will be asked to analyze the reading, to make a worthwhile claim about it that is not obvious (state a thesis means almost the same thing), to support your claim with good reasons, all in four or five pages that are organized to present an argument .
  • They expect to see a claim that would encourage them to say, "That's interesting. I'd like to know more."
  • They expect to see evidence, reasons for your claim, evidence that would encourage them to agree with your claim, or at least to think it plausible.
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  • They expect to see that you've thought about limits and objections to your claim.
  • This kind of argument is less like disagreeable wrangling, more like an amiable and lively conversation with someone whom you respect and who respects you; someone who is interested in what you have to say, but will not agree with your claims just because you state them; someone who wants to hear your reasons for believing your claims and also wants to hear answers to their questions.
  • We also know that whatever it is we think, it is never the entire truth. Our conclusions are partial, incomplete, and always subject to challenge. So we write in a way that allows others to test our reasoning: we present our best thinking as a series of claims, reasons, and responses to imagined challenges, so that readers can see not only what we think, but whether they ought to agree.
  • And that's all an argument is--not wrangling, but a serious and focused conversation among people who are intensely interested in getting to the bottom of things cooperatively.
  • So your first step in writing an assigned paper occurs well before you begin writing: You must know what your instructor expects.
  • Start by looking carefully at the words of the assignment.
  • When most of your instructors ask what the point of your paper is, they have in mind something different. By "point" or "claim" (the words are virtually synonymous with thesis), they will more often mean the most important sentence that you wrote in your essay, a sentence that appears on the page, in black in white; words that you can point to, underline, send on a postcard; a sentence that sums up the most important thing you want to say as a result of your reading, thinking, research, and writing. In that sense, you might state the point of your paper as "Well, I want to show/prove/claim/argue/demonstrate (any of those words will serve to introduce the point) that "Though Falstaff seems to play the role of Hal's father, he is, in fact, acting more like a younger brother who . . . ."" If you include in your paper what appears after I want to prove that, then that's the point of your paper, its main claim that the rest of your paper supports.
  • A good point or claim typically has several key characteristics: it says something significant about what you have read, something that helps you and your readers understand it better; it says something that is not obvious, something that your reader didn't already know; it is at least mildly contestable, something that no one would agree with just by reading it; it asserts something that you can plausibly support in five pages, not something that would require a book.
  • Kate Pok on 22 Nov 11
     
    great guide to college writing- print out and give out to students.
Debbie Costello

Intel Teach Free Tools &Resources - 68 views

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  • Debbie Costello on 09 Feb 11
     
    Visual Ranking Assessing Projects Seeing Reason Showing Evidence
Steve Ransom

Course: Teenagers, Legal Risks and Social Networking Sites - 49 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 21 Mar 11
     
    Further evidence (as if we needed it) that all educators need to be addressing these issues in targeted and developmentally appropriate ways.
Florence Dujardin

Revisiting Professional Learning Communities to Increase College Readiness - 17 views

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shared by Florence Dujardin on 02 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Florence Dujardin on 02 Jun 11
     
    For over a decade, professional learning communities (PLCs) have been touted as an effective way to build upon the knowledge and skills of experienced teachers, yet much of the evidence base is derived from self-reports by practitioners. Although several generations of school reform (the standards movement, No Child Left Behind, and now the Common Core State Standards) have cited improving teacher effectiveness as key to improving student achievement, little change has occurred in the nature of professional development. This article argues that professional development generally, and PLCs in particular, would benefit from the insights gleaned from the extensive literature on teacher expertise that focuses on how well teachers understand the content they teach and how well they understand how students learn that content.
Susan Harari

Read, write, think persuasion map - 116 views

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shared by Susan Harari on 03 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 03 Aug 11
     
    Create a persuasion map online with this simple resource to plan an argument. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
  • Susan Harari on 14 May 12
     
    Graphic organizer for creating thesis statement, supporting evidence, conclusion. Good for group work on Activboard.
Michael Hylton

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

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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.
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