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S. Roualet

Lessons Worth Sharing--TED - 64 views

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TED

shared by S. Roualet on 25 Apr 12 - No Cached
    • hollandchris
      hollandchris on 16 Feb 13
       
      Ted ed is going to a powerful resource in my classroom
    • hollandchris
      hollandchris on 16 Feb 13
       
      Ted ed is going to be a great tool in helping my students achieve their specified learning goal.  Ted ed will accomplish this by allowing my students to access educational videos from their home, smartphone, or in the computer lab.  This will be so powerful, because of the tools that ted ed supplies the user with think, and dig deeper, and the ability for user created quizzes.  I plan to assign videos for homework and then hold students accountable by tracking their quizzes.
    • Mary Solymossy
      Mary Solymossy on 12 Aug 13
       
      Ted ed is going to shared to motivate my teachers and students. These resources will be infused into the curricular lessons to introduce engaging perspectives on information they're teaching/learning and to ignite creativity.
  • Elizabeth Resnick on 26 Apr 12
     
    this is an amazing new website from TED. Watch animated videos with built in quizzes and lessons, or upload your own videos and share. Wonderful resource for the flipped classroom
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  • deborahrinio on 11 May 12
     
    http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/neverendingsearch/2012/04/26/flip-this-video-a-ted-ed-update/ This article by Joyce Valenza explains how videos from TED-Ed can be "flipped" to become lessons plans and extension ideas, allowing for a richer and more differentiated experience.
  • Michelle Kassorla on 03 Feb 13
     
    The New TED website specifically for educators. Features illustrated videos. In Beta
  • Marc Patton on 11 Apr 13
     
    Create Lessons Worth Sharing around YouTube videos
Roland Gesthuizen

UK Study: Parents, Not Teachers, Key to Education | Education News - 79 views

www.educationnews.org/...-not-teachers-key-to-education

study parenting education homeschooling homework research

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 28 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Children are influenced by everything around them, the way their parents act, what their parents say and do, and increasingly as they spend more time ‘with’ celebrity figures how these role models act.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 28 Mar 12
     
    A study by the Royal Economic Society, to be presented this week, finds that parental effect on test results is five times that of teachers' influence. This comes in the wake of warnings by Sir Michael Wilshaw last week that teachers were unable to properly do their own jobs because parents were expecting them to cover their own parenting skill shortfalls and to become surrogate family for the students.
  • Mark Gleeson on 29 Mar 12
     
    It all happens well before school comes into the equation. If a child grows up in a literature rich, engaging environment with adults that spend quality time giving opportunities for great learning experiences in the world, the worst teachers still can't decoy that child's enthusiasm for learning. He can always learn at home. But if the child grows up neglected, not nurtured with rich learning experiences ( and I'm not talking about helicopter parents spending every waking moment ramming study down their throats - just quality conversation and hands on experiences )l doesn't get read to or taken out to shop, teachers are fighting an uphill battle with a disengaged individual. Parents, don't wait for school teachers to teach your kids. Start straight away..
trisha_poole

We Don't Need Digital Textbooks, We Just Need Digital Education | Singularity Hub - 0 views

singularityhub.com/...t-need-digital-education-video

shared by trisha_poole on 29 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Have you ever seen a grassy lawn on a college campus with a multitude of little dirt paths criss crossing it? Each trail is worn by students making the same decision, branching where someone thought to head somewhere new and others followed. That’s the right model for how we should let students teach themselves.
    • trisha_poole
      trisha_poole on 29 Nov 11
       
      Metaphor for textbooks and learning?
  • We need writers, and filmmakers, and animators, and everyone else who generates educational content. We need editors and watchdogs to evaluate the content and make sure it is good. We need teachers who can hold students hands as they walk their educational path, and who can inspire them to explore areas they may find boring at first. We need supervisors and tests to evaluate how well this system is working. We need parents and communities to decide our expectations for that system. We need all those things.
  • The future of education doesn’t depend on us digitizing and updating textbooks, it will rely on us leaving the textbook format behind entirely.
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  • Every page of Life on Earth will be filled with compelling animations of biological processes, real footage of organisms, and interviews with scientists. The textbook won’t be a dead piece of paper, it will be alive, constantly updated by the latest in scientific understanding. There will likely be homework servers and online forums to connect students together.
Roland Gesthuizen

Why Are Some People Always Late? (And Other Human Puzzles) | Psychology Today - 30 views

www.psychologytoday.com/...s-late-and-other-human-puzzles

AlfieKohn truancy tardy late timemanagement psychology

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 23 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Try turning the question around:  How do other people usually get where they need to go on time?  What steps do they take to avoid being late?  First, they check the clock every so often, particularly when they know there's a deadline approaching.  They estimate how much time they'll need to get wherever they're going and thus what time they'll need to leave where they are.  They pause to figure out how long it will take to finish what they're currently doing and get ready for whatever is coming next.  And then they adjust their behavior accordingly
  • I suspect that those who chronically show up late don't do these things.  Perhaps they have a tendency to lose themselves in whatever they're currently doing and don't discover what time it is until it's too late.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 23 Jul 12
     
    "why some people never seem to be on time.  Surely you know such people, perhaps quite well.  Indeed, if you can overcome a rising bubble of defensiveness, you may admit that you are one of those people.  Everyone is late now and then, of course, but I'm talking about folks who habitually show up after an event has started.."
Lisa Fernette

Free Printable Homework Calendars | Preschool | Kindergarten | Pre-K Pages - 34 views

www.pre-kpages.com/calendars

shared by Lisa Fernette on 13 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Lisa Fernette on 13 Aug 12
     
    Printable calendars
Kate Pok

Southern Hospitality? Not for Immigrants - NYTimes.com - 43 views

www.nytimes.com/...tality-not-for-immigrants.html

race racism Teaching culture immigration immigrants race & ethnicity

shared by Kate Pok on 20 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Kate Pok on 20 Nov 11
     
    Good article illustrating the fluid definitions of race.
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  • Elaine Snow on 21 Nov 11
     
    Except that those ridiculous portions of the law, including the transport part, are now in the process of being repealed. As embarrassing as this all is, one should still do her homework.
  • Kate Pok on 21 Nov 11
     
    Many thanks for your comments. As far as I can tell, there's been a lot of debate about rescinding parts of the bill and there's certainly been support to change parts of it, but I haven't found anything that says that's definitely happening. At any rate, I was planning to use the article as an example of how racial categories tend to change based on circumstances rather than set in stone. Again, thanks for reminding me to double check details.
  • Elaine Snow on 21 Nov 11
     
    You are right, racial categories do tend to change based on the times as history shows us, but I'll point you to two articles in The Birmingham News which show a little more than just debate about rescinding parts of that bill. http://blog.al.com/breaking/2011/09/federal_judge_throws_out_xxxx.html http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2011/11/immigration_law_amendments_in.html The fringe parts of this law are embarrassing to me as a native of Alabama, so I'd love to have our lawmakers' second thoughts on this seen as part of what's going on with this law.....Thanks, not meaning to nit-pick!
  • Kate Pok on 21 Nov 11
     
    @Elaine, for some reason your message hasn't shown up and I wanted to make sure I responded. I absolutely agree with you that the there are plenty of wonderful Alabamans who are embarrassed by the fringe parts of the law and I certainly don't mean any disrespect by posting this article. In fact, I think this article actually points to the generosity of spirit and kindness I remember most about growing up in the south. I'm also glad to see that there's quite a bit of protest about the worst parts of this law and agree that the protests should also be part of the conversation so I'm including the links you sent me here: http://blog.al.com/breaking/2011/09/federal_judge_throws_out_xxxx.html and http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2011/11/immigration_law_amendments_in.html The articles do report that quite a few legislators and many immigrant rights activists are advocating revisions to the law and I look forward to seeing the repeals. That said, the articles also note that the bulk "of the new law is in effect despite a federal court challenge to it brought by the U.S. Justice Department, church groups and state and national civil liberties groups " and a "federal judge [Blackburn] this afternoon again upheld most sections of Alabama's tough new immigration law." In short, the fight for repeals is just beginning. Once more, I stress that I do NOT mean to offend anyone; rather, I think it's important to discuss the circumstances under which such a restrictive law could be passed as well as the reactions that have mobilized in response to it. I think it's a wonderful "teaching moment" about politics, economics, civic engagement, global economy, etc. Sincerest regards.
Roland Gesthuizen

Moving at the Speed of Creativity - Copying the Textbook is NOT an Acceptable Assignment - 64 views

www.speedofcreativity.org/...s-not-an-acceptable-assignment

assessment homework blog learning revision textbook

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 21 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 21 Sep 12
     
    "Testing isn't teaching. Making students copy entire chapters out of their textbook as "a regular weekday assignment" isn't acceptable teaching, either."
Randolph Hollingsworth

CrowdGrader: Crowdsourcing the Evaluation of Homework Assignments - 57 views

arxiv.org/1308.5273

grading computer computer science technology resources tools

shared by Randolph Hollingsworth on 04 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 04 Sep 13
     
    Article on how their new crowdsourced grading platform worked for Computer Science students
Tricia Hunt

How to Teach with Technology: Language Arts | Edutopia - 70 views

www.edutopia.org/neration-language-arts-lessons

technology edutopia web2.0 writing education

shared by Tricia Hunt on 03 Sep 13 - Cached
    • Tricia Hunt
      Tricia Hunt on 03 Sep 13
       
      Never thought about letting kids "free blog" when they have a question!  Love that idea!
  • respond to a prompt on the blog for homework
    • Tricia Hunt
      Tricia Hunt on 03 Sep 13
       
      I LOVE Photostory!  In the advent of Animoto and Voicethread I have COMPLETELY forgotten about how easy it is to use!
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  • VoiceThread is collaborative slide show software that allows users to contribute audio, images, and video.
    • Tricia Hunt
      Tricia Hunt on 03 Sep 13
       
      Just used voice thread in my last online course and could totally see how commenting back and forth on the different images is AWESOME!
  • Doozla (13),
  • Comic Life
  • Tricia Hunt on 03 Sep 13
     
    Interesting perspectives and ideas about how to incorporate technology in the language arts classroom, but could easily extend beyond that
Maureen Greenbaum

How Big Data Is Taking Teachers Out of the Lecturing Business: Scientific American - 1 views

www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm

shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 19 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Any accurate evaluation of adaptive-learning technology would have to isolate and account for all variables: increases or decreases in a class's size; whether the classroom was “flipped” (meaning homework was done in class and lectures were delivered via video on the students' own time); whether the material was delivered via video, text or game; and so on. Arizona State says 78 percent of students taking the Knewton-ized developmental math course passed, up from 56 percent before
  • in Japan, where it is common for managers who have studied English with the adaptive-learning software iKnow to list their iKnow scores on their resumes.
  • “The reality is that it's going to be done,” says Eva Baker, director of the Center for the Study of Evaluation at the University of California, Los Angeles. “It's not going to be a little part. It's going to be a big part. And it's going to be put in place partly because it's going to be less expensive than doing professional development.”
  • Maureen Greenbaum on 19 Jul 13
     
    This whole article is essential reading 
Roland Gesthuizen

Public speaking in primary school - 34 views

www.schoolatoz.nsw.edu.au/...lic-speaking-in-primary-school

speaking self-esteem confidence motivation practice publicspeaking english

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 02 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 02 Sep 12
     
    "confidence in public speaking is a valuable tool for children to have. "A clear confident speaking voice is an essential life skill that fosters self-esteem and personal confidence,"" "Children need lots of opportunities to prepare and present speeches as well as to listen to and watch others speak."
Bill Kuykendall

Digital Domain - Computers at Home - Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality - NYTimes.com - 32 views

www.nytimes.com/...11digi.html

broadband education

shared by Bill Kuykendall on 11 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Economists are trying to measure a home computer’s educational impact on schoolchildren in low-income households.
  • little or no educational benefit is found. Worse, computers seem to have further separated children in low-income households, whose test scores often decline after the machine arrives, from their more privileged counterparts.
  • few children whose families obtained computers said they used the machines for homework. What they were used for — daily — was playing games.
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  • “Scaling the Digital Divide,” published last month, looks at the arrival of broadband service in North Carolina between 2000 and 2005 and its effect on middle school test scores during that period. Students posted significantly lower math test scores after the first broadband service provider showed up in their neighborhood, and significantly lower reading scores as well when the number of broadband providers passed four.
  • The expansion of broadband service was associated with a pronounced drop in test scores for black students in both reading and math, but no effect on the math scores and little on the reading scores of other students.
  • THE one area where the students from lower-income families in the immersion program closed the gap with higher-income students was the same one identified in the Romanian study: computer skills.
  • How disappointing to read in the Texas study that “there was no evidence linking technology immersion with student self-directed learning or their general satisfaction with schoolwork.”
Dimitris Tzouris

Wolfram|Alpha Homework Day - 64 views

homeworkday.wolframalpha.com

education wolfram web2.0 resources

shared by Dimitris Tzouris on 07 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Dimitris Tzouris on 07 Oct 09
     
    Sounds fun! Let's go! :-)
Marc Patton

Lingt Classroom | Speak more. Give your students online voice based assignments. - 117 views

lingtlanguage.com

ESL Spanish Teaching_Tools

shared by Marc Patton on 18 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Melissa Enderle on 18 Jul 10
     
    Free site - create homework where students can practise listening comprehension and pronunciation by recording their own voices. Can incorporate multimedia, archive assignments & student responses. Other features: create oral exams for IB/AP that are easier & faster to administer/assess, targeted feedback to individual responses. Signup required.
  • Marc Patton on 28 Sep 12
     
    Create online assignments that make engaging and assessing
    spoken performance as natural as giving out a worksheet.
Mary Beth Messner

5 Fantastic Ways to Use Wallwisher in the Classroom - SimpleK12 - 138 views

blog.simplek12.com/...se-wallwisher-in-the-classroom

Wallwisher Student Engagement Web 2.0 Speeches Writing Tools Brainstorming Announcements

shared by Mary Beth Messner on 27 Aug 10 - Cached
  • 5 fantastic ways to use Wallwisher in the classroom: Writing activities – Wallwisher has a 160 character limit for each comment/post that you leave on the wall. Which is, in a way, a good thing! It allows for short story/collaborative projects, essay plans, note-taking, memos, poems, etc… the writing possibilities are endless! Brainstorming activities – This is a great ice breaker for the beginning of class! And better yet, it’s a great way to post a homework assignment/food for thought for that evening and then discuss it the next day. Vocabulary/Grammar Activities – You could easily use Wallwisher for practicing tenses, definitions, vocabulary matching (you can even use audio or video!), or even find a theme and have the students fill the sticky notes with their ideas for the vocabulary theme! Speaking activities – I was never one to love speaking in front of people so Wallwisher is a great way to create short speaking activities to help students feel more comfortable in front of a group of people. These activities could be to talk about a photo or video for X minutes, create a story based upon X number of photos, or even put debate topics on a sticky note for the student to create. Notifications – That is the original thought, right? You could use Wallwisher for orientation information, classroom rules, student profiles, daily/weekly plan, or even fun messages to other students who might be out sick or on trips with their families.
Adam Babcock

Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com - 63 views

www.nytimes.com/...21brain.html

edtech education reading

shared by Adam Babcock on 21 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Bypassing Vonnegut, he clicks over to YouTube, meaning that tomorrow he will enter his senior year of high school hoping to see an improvement in his grades, but without having completed his only summer homework. On YouTube, “you can get a whole story in six minutes,” he explains. “A book takes so long. I prefer the immediate gratification.”
  • is that developing brains can become more easily habituated than adult brains to constantly switching tasks — and less able to sustain attention.
  • plays video games 10 hours a week
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  • regularly sends Facebook status updates at 2 a.m., even on school nights
  • his best friend calls him a “YouTube bully.”
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