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Bonnie Grover

Information is beautiful - 147 views

www.informationisbeautiful.net

news resources Visualization info graphic

shared by Bonnie Grover on 29 May 11 - Cached
  • Gerald Carey on 29 May 11
     
    From a review by Alice Yoo (here: http://mylifescoop.com/featured-stories/2011/05/top-6-sites-that-inspire-and-educate.html) "Information is Beautiful was started by London-based writer and designer David McCandless. It's a blog that takes information - facts, data, ideas - and turns it into well-designed charts, graphs and data visualizations. Relevant to not just designers but anyone who appreciates statistics and facts, this site will not only keep you entertained, it will educate you on the world we live in." Love infographics - love to be able to do them as well as these people!
  • Mat Brown on 16 Aug 11
     
    Graphic representations of information.
BalancEd Tech

teachwithyouripad - Blooms Taxonomy with Apps - 118 views

teachwithyouripad.wikispaces.com/Blooms Taxonomy with Apps

iPad Apps Bloom

shared by BalancEd Tech on 08 Jun 11 - No Cached
    • BalancEd Tech
      BalancEd Tech on 11 Jun 11
       
      Inspiration for a quick PD activity. After playing with a range of Apps, ask participants to place their app in the taxonomy (depending on use of course). Then, ask them if they can imagine a different way to use the app that might place it in a different section. This could also be used with SAMR, LOTI, Prensky, etc.
Ruth Howard

About | Edge - 0 views

edge.org/about-us

bestpractices professionaldevelopment all_teachers edge news resources

shared by Ruth Howard on 19 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • 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.
  • 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." 
  • 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.
  • Ruth Howard on 19 Jun 11
     
    If you love TED this is possibly more rivetting!
Elizabeth Huck

Color Trends + Palettes :: COLOURlovers - 61 views

www.colourlovers.com

design color webdesign tools inspiration colors colour web

shared by Elizabeth Huck on 01 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 01 Aug 11
     
    A website dedicated to colour and design with a range of themes, background and ideas for your website and art designs. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Art,+Craft+&+Design
maureen greenbaum

Edu-Traitor! Confessions of a Prof Who Believes Higher Ed Isn't the Only Goal | HASTAC - 52 views

hastac.org/...ieves-higher-ed-isnt-only-goal

education Higher

shared by maureen greenbaum on 09 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • many brilliant, talented young people are dropping out of high school because they see high school as implicilty "college prep" and they cannot imagine anything more dreary than spending four more years bored in a classroom when they could be out actually experiencing and perfecting their skills in the trades, the skills, and the careers that inspire them.
  • The abolishing of art, music, physical education, tech training, and shop from grade schools and high schools means that the requirement for excellence has shrunk more and more right at the time when creativity, imagination, dexterity, adaptability to change, technical know-how, and all the rest require more not less diversity. 
    • Peg Mahon
      Peg Mahon on 10 Aug 11
       
      AMEN!
  • we make education hell for so many kids, we undermine their skills and their knowledge, we underscore their resentment, we emphasize class division and hierarchy, and we shortchange their future and ours,
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  • There are so many viable and important and skilled professions that cannot be outsourced to either an exploitative Third World sweat shop or to a computer, that require face-to-face presence, and a bucketload of skills--but that  do not require a college education:  the full range of IT workers, web designers, body workers (ie deep tissue massage), yoga and pilates instructors, fitness educators, DJ's, hair dressers, retail workers, food industry professionals, entertainers,  entertainment industry professionals, construction workers, dancers, artists, musicians, entrepreneurs, landscapers, nanny's, elder-care professionals, nurses's aids, dog trainers, cosmetologists, athletes, sales people, fashion designers, novelists, poets, furniture makers, book keepers, sound engineers, inn keepers, wedding planners, stylists, photographers, auto mechanics, and on and on.  
  • maureen greenbaum on 09 Aug 11
     
    Cathy Davidson
  • Carol Ansel on 09 Aug 11
     
    In general, I agree. However, novelists and poets don't need college?? And perhaps less so to artists and musicians? Perhaps... but what better way to learn the history and analysis of their Art, in order to place their own work in context?
  • Peg Mahon on 10 Aug 11
     
    I could not agree more with you Maureen. As a long time middle school teacher in Oakland and Mpls I am thoroughly convinced that our nation and our states are nuts to have cut all of the tech and arts classes out of elementary, middle and high schools. EVERY student should learn a trade/skill set in high school. The hs drop out rate is horrifying and no surprise that the crime rate follows. We have a nation of under achieving teens because the adults have not kept up with funding the myriad of opportunities that would capture and harness their interests and creativity. I look forward to reading your book Maureen and to following you on here.
anonymous

Harvard Education Letter - 126 views

www.hepg.org/507

pedagogy thinking teaching critical thinking questions questioning

shared by anonymous on 10 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • When students know how to ask their own questions, they take greater ownership of their learning, deepen comprehension, and make new connections and discoveries on their own.
  • Typically, questions are seen as the province of teachers, who spend years figuring out how to craft questions and fine-tune them to stimulate students’ curiosity or engage them more effectively.
  • to introduce students to a new unit, to assess students’ knowledge to see what they need to understand better, and even to conclude a unit to see how students can, with new knowledge, set a fresh learning agenda for themselves. The technique can be used for all ages.
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  • ask as many questions as you can; do not stop to discuss, judge, or answer any of the questions; write down every question exactly as it was stated; and change any statements into questions.
  • for an open-ended thinking process.
  • The teacher begins this step by introducing definitions of closed- and open-ended questions.
  • “Choose the three questions you most want to explore further.”
  • Students will be asking all the questions. A teacher’s role is simply to facilitate that process. This is a significant change for students as well.
  • Garth Holman on 10 Sep 11
     
    Mike and I have been using this in our classrooms for a few years and it has really made a difference...it helps to inspire learning.  
Kalin Wilburn

Pinterest / Home - 56 views

pinterest.com

socialnetworking inspiration design social bookmarking

shared by Kalin Wilburn on 04 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Dimitris Tzouris on 04 Apr 11
     
    Pinterest is a place to catalog the things you love.
Susanna Livingston

Interactive Writing Tools - 176 views

www.squidoo.com/multimediamuse

tools writing

shared by Susanna Livingston on 26 Apr 11 - Cached
    • Susanna Livingston
      Susanna Livingston on 26 Apr 11
       
      Site gives ideas for use in helping students come up with writing ideas- has other great links as well!
Josh Flores

The Innovative Educator: Developing an Authentic ePortfolio - 139 views

theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/...ping-authentic-eportfolio.html

real world stigma resources review tools

shared by Josh Flores on 05 May 11 - No Cached
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 06 May 11
       
      DANG!
  • real world
  • School shouldn’t be preparing you for more school. Should be preparing students for the world,
Mr Gamble

WritingFix: Mentor Text Lessons...inspired by Picture Books - 1 views

writingfix.com/picture_book_prompts.htm

Writing Teaching and Learning Literacy 6-traits

shared by Mr Gamble on 23 Jun 11 - Cached
    • Mr Gamble
      Mr Gamble on 23 Jun 11
       
      This page has a lot of info about the 6 trait writing approach in general. It's great! If you scroll down you get the most popular texts organised by trait.
  • r bibliography page.
Martin Burrett

Moodstream - 17 views

moodstream.gettyimages.com

music inspiration mood photography design photos

shared by Martin Burrett on 22 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 22 Oct 11
     
    I love this site and often listen to instrumentals with it while working. A great way to expand your music palette. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts
Jennie Snyder

Design Thinking in Schools: An Emerging Movement Building Creative Confidence in our Yo... - 46 views

gettingsmart.com/...ding-creative-confidence-youth

creativity designthinking design education innovation

shared by Jennie Snyder on 08 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • design thinking is a set of tools, methods, and processes by which we develop new answers for challenges, big and small.
  • Through applying design thinking to challenges, we learn to define problems, understand needs and constraints, brainstorm innovative solutions, and seek and incorporate feedback about our ideas in order to continually make them better. The more we apply design thinking to the challenges we see, the deeper we strengthen the belief in our ability to generate creative ideas and make positive change happen in the world.
  • If you are interested in finding a program or resources to help integrate design thinking in your school, the directory offers a great set of organizations already listed for inspiration and new connections.
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  • We are living in an age of increased complexity, and are facing global challenges at an unprecedented scale. The nature of connectivity, interactivity, and information is changing at lightening speed. We need to enable a generation of leaders who believe they can make a difference in the world around them, because we need this generation to build new systems and rebuild declining ones. We need them to be great collaborators, great communicators, and great innovators.
  • As we help today’s students build their foundation of core academic knowledge and skills, we also need to look at the ways we are helping our youth build their confidence in their abilities to create.
Michele Rosen

Presentation Software that Inspires | Haiku Deck - 76 views

www.haikudeck.com

shared by Michele Rosen on 25 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 13 May 13
     
    This is a presentation creating app for iPads. Enter a few titles and pieces of text and the app finds stunning images for you to choose from to add to your slides. The finished creations use html and can be viewed on most web enabled computers, tablets and mobiles. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
  • psmiley on 22 May 13
     
    Free iPad app
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