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ekpeterson

Educational Leadership:Teaching Screenagers:Too Dumb for Complex Texts? - 72 views

www.ascd.org/...b-for-Complex-Texts%C2%A2.aspx

reading technology education texts complex learning resources

shared by ekpeterson on 06 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • Willingness to Probe
  • readers may need to sit down with them for several hours of concentration.
  • hey insert a hesitant question before moving on.
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  • That willingness to pause and probe is essential, but the dispositions of digital reading run otherwise. Fast skimming is the way of the screen. B
  • they have grooved for many years a reading habit that races through texts, as is the case with texting, e-mail, Twitter, and other exchanges, 18-year-olds will have difficulty suddenly downshifting when faced with a long modernist poem.
  • They are deep and semiconscious behaviors that are difficult to change except through the diligent exercise of other reading behaviors.
  • Texts like this one are too complex to allow for rapid exit and reentry. They often originate in faraway times and places and discuss ideas and realities entirely unfamiliar to the modern teenager. To comprehend what they say requires a suspension of present concerns.
  • Finally, the comprehension of complex texts depends on a receptive posture in readers. They have to finish the labor of understanding before they talk back, and complex texts delay the reaction for hours and days.
  • Digital communications, on the other hand, especially those in the Web 2.0 grain, encourage quick response.
  • Complex texts aren't so easily judged. Often they force adolescents to confront the inferiority of their learning, the narrowness of their experience, and they recoil when they should succumb.
  • reserve a crucial place for unwired, unplugged, and unconnected learning. One hour a day of slow reading with print matter, an occasional research assignment completed without Google—any such practices that slow down and intensify the reading of complex texts will help.
Doug Johnson

echo - 2 views

echo.newtechnetwork.org/?q=ntlp/resource/library/view/211251946/16201

PBL project planning planning tool echo Literacy

shared by Doug Johnson on 09 Aug 12 - No Cached
    • Doug Johnson
      Doug Johnson on 09 Aug 12
       
      Great resource for driving questions involving Literacy!
  • Problem-Solution [Insert optional driving question]  After researching/reading/viewing  ________ (informational texts) on ________ (content), write/ create ________ (authentic product) that identifies a problem ________ (content) and argues for a solution. Support your position with evidence from your research. L2 Be sure to examine competing views. L3 Give examples from past or current events or issues to illustrate and clarify your position. 
  • After researching genetically modified foods, write an editorial that argues your position on the use of genetic engineering in food production. Support your position with evidence from your research.  Be sure to acknowledge competing views.  Give examples from past or current events or issues to illustrate, clarify, and support your position.
  • Doug Johnson on 09 Aug 12
     
    "NTN Literacy Task Quick Reference"
Mark Gleeson

TouchCast - interactive, browsable web in a video - insert possibilities here! - 96 views

mgleeson.edublogs.org/...touchcast

interactive video

shared by Mark Gleeson on 09 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Debra Spear on 17 Jul 13
     
    this has amazing possibilities - love it! I teach middle school so I want to check and see if it is possible to share only MY touchcasts with my students. If I can figure out how to use this safely - it will be great.Thank you for sharing this.
Tracy Tuten

Tech Learning TL Advisor Blog and Ed Tech Ticker Blogs from TL Blog Staff - TechLearnin... - 60 views

www.techlearning.com/31582

learning storytelling publishing sme

shared by Tracy Tuten on 20 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Mixbook (or Mixbook for Educators) is a photo-based creation platform that offers hundreds of layouts and backgrounds to choose from along with customizable frames and text to make your book beautiful. Just pick a layout, drag-and-drop your photos into the photo slots, and edit to your heart's content.
  • Though the site's examples suggest using the books to gather wedding, travel, and baby albums, this program can absolutely used to create stories around historic photographs and artifacts, original art, to produce a class yearbook, to share an oral or personal history or journey, to tell the story of a field trip.  Mixbook for Educators now offers a secure collaborative environment for sharing their ebooks, as well as discounts on printed products, should you choose to print.  (A similar option is Scrapblog.)
  • Storybird, a collaborative storybook building space designed for ages 3-13, inspires young writers to create text around the work of professional artists and the collection of art is growing. Two (or more) people create a Storybird in a round robin fashion by writing their own text and inserting pictures. They then have the option of sharing their Storybird privately or publicly on the network. The final product can be printed (soon), watched on screen, played with like a toy, or shared through a worldwide library. Storybird is also a simple publishing platform for writers and artists that allows them to experiment, publish their stories, and connect with their fans.
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  • Myth and Legend Creator 2 shares a collection of traditional stories from England and around the world to hear and read. The site offers historical context for each story, story time lines and maps, ideas for use of the story in the classroom, and student work inspired by the story.  The Story Creator--with its libraries of backgrounds, characters, props, text bubbles, sound and video recording tools, and options to upload--provides students easy opportunities to create their own versions of traditional stories.
  • The Historic Tale Construction Kit is similar in that it helps students construct stories around a theme, in this case stories set in the middle ages with movable, scalable beasts, folks, braves, buildings. and old-style text.
  • Tikatok is a platform devoted to kid book publishing at a variety of levels.  Children have the option of exploring a collection of interactive story templates called StorySparks prompts, personalizing an existing book with their own names in Books2Go, with their own names, or starting from scratch in Create Your Own Book. Tikatok’s Classroom Program allows teachers to share lesson plans, view and edit students' work online, encourage collaboration, and track writing progress.
  • Big Universe is both an online library and a publishing and sharing community for grades K through 8.  Using Big Universe Author, students may create, research, and collaborate on books using a library of more than 7000 images and interactive tools.
  • Tracy Tuten on 20 Aug 10
     
    Digital publishing tools for creating story books
Judy Robison

Illuminations: Dynamic Paper - 120 views

illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx

math

shared by Judy Robison on 01 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Kathy Favazza on 01 Feb 10
     
    awesome dynamic paper from illuminations for use with geometry has spinners, graph paper, tessellations, nets, number lines. You can customize and print or download jpeg for insertion into another file.
  • Judy Robison on 14 Mar 13
     
    "Need a pentagonal pyramid that's six inches tall? Or a number line that goes from ‑18 to 32 by 5's? Or a set of pattern blocks where all shapes have one-inch sides? You can create all those things and more with the Dynamic Paper tool. Place the images you want, then export it as a PDF activity sheet for your students or as a JPEG image for use in other applications or on the web."
Carla Berryman

The Newspaper Clipping Image Generator - Create your own fun newspaper - 118 views

www.fodey.com/...snippet.asp

photoediting generator newspaper tools resources

shared by Carla Berryman on 27 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Lauren Rosen on 27 Apr 10
     
    Create your own fun newspaper article. Great way to get students writing in any language about something they are interested in and in a journalistic style. Download and save the image to embed in your course site.
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  • Lauren Rosen on 27 Apr 10
     
    Create your own fun newspaper article. Great way to get students writing in any language about something they are interested in and in a journalistic style. Download and save the image to embed in your course site.
  • trisha_poole on 09 Jan 11
     
    Text generator - insert your own text and it will generate a newspaper clipping. Other options include animated GIFs. Good resource for education - particularly for summarizing a lesson or a topic.
  • Carla Berryman on 08 Feb 14
     
    create a newspaper and so much more
Kalin Wilburn

Write In Private: Free Online Diary And Personal Journal | Penzu - 2 views

penzu.com

Journal writing diary web2.0 penzu

shared by Kalin Wilburn on 10 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Write in Private
  • Your own personal journal and online diary.
  • 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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  • Rich in Features Privacy First  Penzu was designed to focus on your privacy. Unlike blogging,your entries are private by default. A Picture Is Worth A Thousand…Insert your own photos (now with flickr) and bring your entries to life! Share If You Want To  You can shareyour individual entries via email or createa public link and share with the world... Instant Search  Find long-lost entries quickly and easily with our fast filtered search and sorting.
  • Good for You Less Stress  Expressive writing is an extremely cathartic process, helping you to relax and release stress. More → Be Healthier  Numerous studies have shown that keeping a journal can improve your immune function. More → Get Smarter  Keeping a journal or diary can not only boost your "working memory" but your grades too. More → Lose Weight  Keeping a food diary has been suggested to double weight-loss when combined with a diet. More →
  • Serious Privacy
  • Locking  You can password protect your individual entries for extra privacy. Or, with a Penzu Pro account, you can lock the contents of your entries using military-grade encryption and a unique distributed security process to keep your data safe. SSL  Your entries are even more secure with 128-bit SSL, the same technology used by online banks to transfer information across the web. That means all entries, passwords, and data are safely sent to our servers from your computer or device. Read All About Security →
Aly Kenee

Days Like This… | alytapp - 132 views

alytapp.com/...days-like-this

jing assessment screencast edtech

shared by Aly Kenee on 04 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Instead of scribbling marks in the margins of printed papers, I opened each student’s paper in Google Docs, highlighted text and inserted comments to clarify my thoughts, and then turned on the screen recorder (Jing) to record my voice as I scrolled through the paper and pointed to items with my mouse. Right after recording, I uploaded the finished recording to Jing’s companion hosting site, and then I simply copied and pasted the link to the recording directly into the Google Doc.
    • brianhammel
      brianhammel on 04 Oct 11
       
      Adding value in context rather than providing repetitive written comments in the summation.
  • After about four minutes, they began the next task, copying and pasting my reflection questions into the bottom of their docs, and then responding to those prompts as they reflected on their work and my feedback.
  • As I watched them, I couldn’t help but remember the way that I used to provide feedback. Students would receive their graded papers, flip past the comments I had scribbled in the margin, glance at the final grade, and then forget all about it.
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  • I always knew there was more I wanted to convey to them about their writing, about how they had or had not created meaning for the reader.
  • It took me about 10 minutes per paper, times 68 papers, so the last week and a half have been intense. If you’re doing the math, that’s over 11 hours of paper grading. If I am going to put in that kind of time for grading, I must see my students growing as writers. Period.
    • brianhammel
      brianhammel on 04 Oct 11
       
      Technology tool is NOT a time saver. The main goal for using the tool is not increased productivity by the teacher, but instead increased understanding by the student.
    • Aly Kenee
      Aly Kenee on 05 Oct 11
       
      Yes! You state that so eloquently. We often think of tech as nothing more than a tool for expediency.
  •  I liked knowing that my essay got individual attention, individual feedback, and I feel like you cared about what I wrote.
  • A small number of students (actually, fewer than 5) said that they didn’t feel that the verbal comments were all that helpful.
  • hurtful to hear me say out loud what was wrong with their papers
  • Writing is personal, and feedback can feel like an attack.
    • brianhammel
      brianhammel on 04 Oct 11
       
      On the flipside, writing is personal, and receiving impersonal and confusing written feedback can also be hurtful. The student spends so much time writing the assignment, but only receives a small amount of scribbled comments in the margin.
  • tried out a new way of assessing student work — screencasting
anonymous

QRhacker.com - Pimp your code! - 82 views

www.qrhacker.com

qr_wImage qr qr_setup

shared by anonymous on 04 Nov 11 - No Cached
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 03 May 12
       
      Love this site that allows images inside the qr code
  • Martin Burrett on 04 Nov 11
     
    A well made and versatile QR code maker. Change colours and embed a logo into the code in a few easy steps. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
  • anonymous on 25 Apr 12
     
    This site lets you easily create QR codes with various foreground and background colors. You can insert images behind, on top of, or embedded into your QR code.
Katie Nettles

Educational Leadership:Multiple Measures:Teaching with Interactive Whiteboards - 27 views

www.ascd.org/...h-Interactive-Whiteboards.aspx

shared by Katie Nettles on 17 Dec 14 - Cached
    • Katie Nettles
      Katie Nettles on 17 Dec 14
       
      Pacing and organizing the content in a way that allows students time to interact with the content and classmates is important in content-retention.
  • Using too many visuals. Digital flipchart pages were awash with visual stimuli; it was hard to identify the important content.
  • Paying too much attention to reinforcing features. For example, when teachers who had worse results with the technology used the virtual applause feature to signal a correct answer, the emphasis seemed to be on eliciting the applause rather than on clarifying the content.
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  • They should group information into small, meaningful segments before they start developing the digital flipcharts.
  • To ensure that they don't run through the flipcharts too quickly, teachers can insert flipcharts that remind them to stop the presentation so students can process and analyze the new information.
  • Digital flipcharts should contain visuals, but those visuals should clearly focus on the important information. Also, no single flipchart should contain too many visuals or too much written information.
  • the teacher should typically discuss the correct answer along with the incorrect answers, making sure to elicit opinions from as many students as possible.
  • When using reinforcing features like virtual applause, teachers should make sure that students focus on why an answer is correct or incorrect.
Kristine Goldhawk

Any plans to add tablet PC "inking" functionality to Diigo? - 77 views

I third it! Demetri Orlando wrote: > Just wondering if Diigo developers are considering the possibility of adding inking functionality to allow Tablet PC users to insert digital ink on web pages. I...

tablet ink

started by Demetri Orlando on 24 Dec 08 3 follow-ups, last by Kristine Goldhawk on 11 Feb 09
atressler3

Guideline on Some Questions and Answers about Grammar - 36 views

www.ncte.org/...qandaaboutgrammar

shared by atressler3 on 30 Aug 17 - Cached
  • Grammar names the types of words and word groups that make up sentences not only in English but in any language
  • sentence structure
  • conventions and style of language.
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  • apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions (e.g., spelling and punctuation)"
  • language use, patterns, and dialects
  • Students benefit much more from learning a few grammar keys thoroughly than from trying to remember many terms and rules.
  • Experiment with different approaches
  • show students how to apply it not only to their writing but also to their reading and to their other language arts activities.
  • If they know how to find the main verb and the subject, they have a better chance of figuring out a difficult sentenc
  • Traditional drill and practice will be the most meaningful to students when they are anchored in the context of writing assignments or the study of literary models
  • apply it to authentic texts.
  • Try using texts of different kinds, such as newspapers and the students' own writing, as sources for grammar examples and exercises.
  • entence combining: students start with simple exercises in inserting phrases and combining sentences and progress towards exercises in embedding one clause in another.
  • practice using certain subordinate constructions that enrich sentences.
  • All native speakers of a language have more grammar in their heads than any grammar book
  • If a word can be made plural or possessive, or if it fits in the sentence "The _______ went there," it is a noun. If a word can be made past, or can take an -ing ending, it is a verb
  • whole sentence or a fragment
  • verb phrase
  • subject
  • pronoun f
  • Students can circle the sentence subjects in a published paragraph, observe this pattern at work, and then apply it to their own writing.  
  • Most sentences start with information that is already familiar to the reader, such as a pronoun or a subject noun that was mentioned earlier.
  • end focus.
meghankelly492

Legislation and Common Law Impacting Assessment Practices in Music Education - Oxford H... - 1 views

www.oxfordhandbooks.com/...oxfordhb-9780190248130-e-39

world Music

shared by meghankelly492 on 02 Mar 20 - No Cached
  • Russell and Austin (2010) have claimed that in music education, a system of benign neglect in assessment practices has been allowed to endure, even though there has (p. 4) been a long-term, consistent call for reform, for more meaningful assessments, and for policymakers to adapt to laws as they are enacted and court rulings as they are handed down.
  • ead to the growing body of scholarship in educational law, the evolving and more active role courts are taking in impacting educational practices,
  • chapter is to inform music teachers about contemporary court cases that have resulted in rulings on assessment issues in educational settings, and how these rulings impact assessment in the music classroom.
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  • in teacher preparation programs and in professional development activities so that students and in-service music educators will better be able to negotiate the increasingly litigious educational world
  • egal issues facing music educators remain one of the least important topics of conversation for preservice music educators.
  • how active they have been willing in inserting their decisions in school-based assessment policy.
  • Historically, courts have been somewhat deferential to school leaders and have not been willing to hear too many cases dealing with educational law and assessment.
  • Based on this decision, courts would be more likely to defer to school leaders in making their final rulings.
  • distinguish issues are purely academic from those that are purely disciplinary.
  • s. Three basic factors must exist for constitutional due process to exist: a student must have proper notice, a student must be given the chance to be heard, and the hearing should be conducted in a fair manner
  • The court decided that denying a student of education, regardless of the amount of time, could not be considered an inconsequential thing and claimed that a person’s right to education was equitable to the rights to liberty and property. In the majority decisions, the Supreme Court justices argued:
  • The US Supreme Court’s decision in Goss created the opportunity for students, parents, and their representatives to challenge not only disciplinary suspensions and expulsions but also other decisions by school officials that may affect liberty or property rights, including grades and grading policies.
  • that of courts taking a more active role and deferring less often to school leaders.
  • Because of these high stakes (real or imagined),
  • little more than attendance and participation, others feel that grades must represent academic achievement and that “allowing non-academic factors to affect academic grades distorts the truth about students’
  • however, because music is addressed minimally in these laws, their enactment has had minimal direct impact on music educators’ assessment practices.
linda_augusto

The 5 Best Free Slideshow Presentation and Creation Tools for Teachers - eLearning Indu... - 48 views

elearningindustry.com/nd-creation-tools-for-teachers

shared by linda_augusto on 24 Apr 17 - No Cached
  • Animoto
  • Kizoa
  • allows users to create zooming slideshow presentations that truly capture your students’ attention.
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  • Users create memorable and mentally engaging videos by inserting pictures, videos, and text into a template video style.
  • slideshows, videos, or animated collages.
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