Playground: Kids are kids and sometimes they just have
something funny that they are dying to share. Create a “Playground” group
where students have free reign to post whatever they want (with guidelines for
appropriate use of course — encourage expression and creativity, but reinforce
the need for boundaries and appropriate behavior).
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Eye on Idioms - 133 views
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This is great because the student not only gets to interpret the idiom, it gives a visual of the literal translation, and the student also uses the expression in his/her own sentence.
CAST: Center for Applied Special Technology - 117 views
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WOW! Free tools related to literacy skills. The book builder tool has a section which reads a story (here's a link for "A Tortoise and a Hare") - They offer professional development and multimedia learning tools. ....."A Tortoise and a Hare" - just this one book offers an amazing variety of learning tools including: activating background knowledge, self assessment and reflection, collaboration and communication, action and expression, coping skills and strategies, challenge and support, recruiting interest, goal-centered learning, and designing flexible curriculum. Each of these skills has a specific activity within the story to address it (almost every page has a different one!). Every page also has a question to think about and respond to. At the end it discusses the moral in another activity and the story itself offers extension activities for follow-up. The story is read by a young girl, but there is also a text reader built in, a glossary, and word-by-word English/Spanish translations. - ...1 more comment...
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CAST is an educational research & development organization that works to expand learning opportunities for all individuals through Universal Design for Learning.
A Vision for 21st Century Learning - 112 views
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TED@Palm Springs presentation on game-based learning; creation of "immersive learning environments." Meyers, A. (2009). A Vision for 21st Century Learning [Video]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mirxkzkxuf4
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I disliked this video. Is my classroom extraordinary? The rest of the classrooms in the U.S. have unmoving, silent children stuck in desks all day? The students don't talk to each other? They don't collaborate to solve problems? They don't read? They don't write in order to analyze and express opinions? They don't use math manipulatives, do science experiments, build, draw, and do projects? They don't laugh together, digress, and then get back on track? Because that's what we do. It doesn't strike me as a response to the Industrial Revolution as much as a response to students' curiosity and to their future needs. "If we get it right, kids won't even know they're learning something." So, we're doing it wrong if the kids are actually aware that they're learning? Better they should be metaphorically anesthetized by the computer experience? We don't want them inoculated against feeling the discomfort of struggle. Every respected neuroscientist on the planet says struggle is necessary to wire neurons together, which is the physical manifestation of learning. The simulation of the village looks very cool. I love computers. But if all their learning about ancient Rome is based on this simulation, where are the primary sources? Will students encounter any? Or is their experience of the village based on someone else's interpretation of primary sources? If so, then someone else gets to decide what is important to include in the Roman village. They get to choose and interpret the facts that are used to create the virtual ancient Roman experience. That goes against best practice teaching of the social sciences.
Teaching to the Text Message - NYTimes.com - 50 views
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learning how to write concisely, to express one key detail succinctly and eloquently, is an incredibly useful skill, and more in tune with most students’ daily chatter, as well as the world’s conversation.
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A lot can be said with a little — the mundane and the extraordinary. Philosophers like Confucius (“Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.”) and Nietzsche were kings of the aphorism.
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I’m not suggesting that colleges eliminate long writing projects from English courses, but maybe we should save them for the second semester. Rewarding concision first will encourage students to be economical and innovative with language.
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College English prof advocates teaching students to write concisely with text-like assignments.
VoiceThread - Products - K-12 - 91 views
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I LOVE VoiceThread. I think it is super easy to use and provides students the opportunity to express themselves digitally. It works great for elementary students all the way up to high school students (even adults). You can create a single educator account for FREE or get a classroom subscription. Depending on how often you will use it I recommend splurging and buying the class subscription because you can create individual student accounts.
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About | Edge - 0 views
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Edge is different from the Algonquin Roundtable or Bloomsbury Group, but it offers the same quality of intellectual adventure. Closer resemblances are the early seventeenth-century Invisible College, a precursor to the Royal Society. Its members consisted of scientists such as Robert Boyle, John Wallis, and Robert Hooke. The Society's common theme was to acquire knowledge through experimental investigation. Another inspiration is The Lunar Society of Birmingham, an informal club of the leading cultural figures of the new industrial age — James Watt, Erasmus Darwin, Josiah Wedgewood, Joseph Priestly, and Benjamin Franklin. The online salon at Edge.org is a living document of millions of words charting the Edge conversation over the past fifteen years wherever it has gone. It is available, gratis, to the general public.
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Edge.org offers "open-minded, free ranging, intellectually playful ... an unadorned pleasure in curiosity, a collective expression of wonder at the living and inanimate world ... an ongoing and thrilling colloquium."
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encourages people who can take the materials of the culture in the arts, literature, and science and put them together in their own way. We live in a mass-produced culture where many people, even many established cultural arbiters limit themselves to secondhand ideas, thoughts, and opinions. Edge.org consists of individuals who create their own reality and do not accept an ersatz, appropriated reality. The Edge community consists of peole who are out there doing it rather than talking about and analyzing the people who are doing it.
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If you love TED this is possibly more rivetting!
There's Something in the Air: Podcasting in Education (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 1 views
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magine a busy commuting student preparing both emotionally and intellectually for class by listening to a podcast on the drive to school, then reinforcing the day’s learning by listening to another podcast, or perhaps the same podcast, on the drive back home.
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Can I use video camera to capture in class reading? What kind of parental permission is needed?
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native expressiveness,
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s there a noncommercial alternative to Podshow, Odeo, or other such services? Yes: “Ourmedia: The Global Home for Grassroots Media” (http://www.ourmedia.org/).
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Write In Private: Free Online Diary And Personal Journal | Penzu - 2 views
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Write in Private
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Your own personal journal and online diary.
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Don't want to share everything with the world? Easily keep your personal thoughts, memories,and ideas safe and secure in the cloud!
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Generation Plagiarism? - 88 views
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What is BHASD policy regarding plagiarism?
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A PLAGIARISM CRIB SHEET To avoid trouble, follow these tips: * Always attribute words or ideas that didn't originate from you. * Use quotation marks and proper citation when you copy large sections of text. * If you're paraphrasing, use your own words to express the idea, and cite the source. * Better to err on the side of too much attribution than too little. * Don't buy or borrow an assiqnment-from the Web or elsewhere.
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What citation format is taught at BHASD?
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Teaching: Prepare and Connect | U.S. Department of Education - 35 views
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As a result, the technology of everyday life has moved well beyond what educators are taught to and regularly use to support student learning.
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I'm wondering why businesses, especially, don't recognize that teachers do not have the latest and greatest technological tools and work to provide those materials for students who will eventually become members of the workforce.
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In connected teaching, individual educators also create their own online learning communities consisting of their students and their students' peers; fellow educators in their schools, libraries, and after-school programs; professional experts in various disciplines around the world; members of community organizations that serve students in the hours they are not in school; and parents who desire greater participation in their children's education.
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The most effective educators connect to young people's developing social and emotional core (Ladson-Billings 2009; Villegas and Lucas 2002) by offering opportunities for creativity and self-expression.
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Expressing Technology: A Roundtable With Sir James Dyson | Epicenter | Wired.com - 88 views
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Interesting article connecting technology, innovation, and education. Brilliant man - brilliant ideas - read well.
Creating Custom Video Channels : The Moss-Free Stone - 62 views
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<div class="greet_block"><div class="greet_text"><div class="greet_image"><img src="http://randyrodgers.edublogs.org/wp-content/plugins/wp-greet-box/images/rss_icon.png"/></div>Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to <a href="http://randyrodgers.edublogs.org/feed/rss/" rel="nofollow"><strong>subscribe to the RSS feed</strong></a> for updates on this topic.<div style="clear:both"></div><div class="greet_block_powered_by"><a href="http://omninoggin.com/projects/wordpress-plugins/wp-greet-box-wordpress-plugin/">Powered by Greet Box</a></div></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div> One concern I have heard expressed by teachers with regard to the use of video sites such as YouTube, TeacherTube, etc. in the classroom is that students tend to
Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You - Secret Worlds: The Universe Within - I... - 27 views
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St with the universe and get closer until you get to the subatomic level Great so use in a variety of grades.
Helping First-Year Students Help Themselves - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Educ... - 1 views
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According to a yearly national survey of more than 200,000 first-year students conducted by researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles, college freshmen are increasingly "overwhelmed," rating their emotional health at the lowest levels in the 25 years the question has been asked. Such is the latest problem dropped at the offices of higher-education administrators and professors nationwide: Young adults raised with a single-minded focus on gaining admission to college now need help translating that focus into ways to thrive on campus and beyond.
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Many young adults weren't taught the basic life skills and coping mechanisms for challenging times.
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The consequences for students who lack those skills have become increasingly clear both on campus and after graduation. At Pitt, where I teach, and at other institutions, student-life administrators have noticed a marked decrease in resiliency, particularly among first-year students. That leads to an increase in everything from roommate disagreements to emotional imbalance and crisis. After graduation, employers complain that a lack of coping mechanisms makes for less proficient workers: According to a 2006 report by the Conference Board, a business-research group, three-quarters of surveyed employers said incoming new graduates were deficient in "soft" skills like communication and decision making.
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English 102 - Bear | Blog | The review of Ideas - 14 views
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“If we want to actually reduce the number of divorces, we need to make divorce less appealing to women.”(Davidson). What Davidson is expressing is that women are attracted to divorce. Marriage was once a partnership. “A person doesn’t cling to what they do not need. Therefore a woman will not cling to a man who is not needed.”(Feldman) Feldmon forwards Davidson’s thought, but it adds to it. Marriage is hard enough. If a the partner is not needed why would either party wish to go through the difficulties. “The origins of marriage was a simple set up, the man worked, the woman did not.”(Hendrix) Hendrix continues to expand on a common thought of partnership. Hendrix shows that originally that marriage partners were dependent on each other. The woman was dependent on the man for money and the man dependent on the woman for the upkeep of the house. Was it the best system? Possibly. Couples stuck together back then. They fought tooth and nail to keep their marriage strong and did what was best for the family. However, no one disagrees with women becoming part of the work force. “We need to find a middle ground”(Cochrane). Cochrane is speaking on the terms of interdependence. She is saying that there has to be a middle ground between the powers.
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Excellent "conversational style" here, Daniel.
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very article agrees on one thing.
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Good, but where are you other sources? If everyone agrees, can you show us little pieces of text that deomonstrate how they agree?
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ePals Global Community - 39 views
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Great project for building self awareness and confidence as well as getting an opportunity for self-expression; great way to begin a connection with epals
Project ROME for Education | Features - 49 views
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Project ROME for Education lets students and educators express, collaborate and communicate ideas using graphics, photos, text, video, audio and animation in a simple, unified content creation and publishing environment to enhance the learning experience.
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