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Marc Patton

Seeing Math: Bringing Mathematical Thinking Into Focus - 3 views

seeingmath.concord.org

Teacher_Resources Mathematics Teaching_Ideas

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  • Marc Patton on 28 Jun 12
     
    Today's students need a strong grasp of mathematics to succeed both academically and in the job market. Seeing Math™ helps teachers, schools and districts rise to the challenge.
Kathleen N

Text Note Suggestion - 79 views

Along the lines of research I think have any bookmark or annotation come with a citation. If you copy into notebook programs (like Google NoteBook and OneNote) the citation comes with it. The tem...

suggestion

started by Matthew Clobridge on 23 Dec 08 3 follow-ups, last by Kathleen N on 05 Apr 09
Martin Burrett

Microsoft enhances tools for learning further into 2019 - 18 views

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Microsoft

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  • Martin Burrett on 16 Jan 19
     
    "With a greater focus on accessibility and inclusivity, Microsoft has announced ten major updates to their services available in 2019, that can have a positive impact on using their tools for teaching and learning. In a blog post, Mike Tholsfen highlighted how the Immersive Reader technology, along with Line Focus in Microsoft Word, and an even more impressive feature of being able to change page colours in Word desktop."
meghankelly492

Eastern Africa - New World Encyclopedia - 1 views

www.newworldencyclopedia.org/...Eastern_Africa

world Music

shared by meghankelly492 on 03 Jun 19 - No Cached
  • worldwide fame for their heavy concentrations of what is often termed the "big five": the elephant, water buffalo, lion, leopard, and rhinoceros.
  • African scholars have attempted to classify the peoples of Eastern Africa. The population is fragmented into many subdivisions based upon lineage—patrilineal in some areas, matrilineal in others—language, religion, subsistence and habitat among others. Despite such fragmentation and differences, the various groups tend to share much of their culture in common
meghankelly492

Culture of East Africa | USA Today - 1 views

traveltips.usatoday.com/culture-east-africa-17227.html

world Music

shared by meghankelly492 on 03 Jun 19 - No Cached
  • Up until the 15th century, the cultures of Eastern Africa lived in relative isolation, building up kingdoms and empires, spreading agriculture and civilization throughout the region.
  • n the 15th century, the Portuguese began exploring the coast of East Africa, seeking to seize control of the spice trade from the Muslim presence in the Middle East. Islamic resistance to this led to a large-scale Arab colonization of the coast, which lasted until European colonialism began in earnest in the 19th century.
  • There are hundreds of languages spoken throughout East Africa, ranging from those spoken by only a few thousand to those spoken by millions. The most widely-spoken language, by far, is Swahili, with more than 5 million native speakers, and millions more who speak it as a secondary trade language. The island nations of East Africa, such as Madagascar, do not speak Swahili, instead speaking their own native languages, such as Malagasy.
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  • Clothes are brightly colored and consist of simple wraps, covering either only the lower body or both the lower body and upper body. In Islamic regions, covering is more substantial, and daily wear includes a head wrap
  • The legacy of Islamic rule along the coast of East Africa remains strong, and the majority of those on the coast and in North-East Africa are practicing Muslims
  • East African music consists of simpler instrumentation than Central Africa or West Africa, with a heavy reliance on percussion and basic horns, and less in the way of complex bowing. Since the 1980s East Africa has produced a great deal of fusion music, incorporating elements from Western music to create mash-ups of traditional and modern. Many countries in North-East Africa draw on Arabic influence in their music as well, incorporating elements such as religious poetry into the songs.
solisg58

Favorite 2nd grade books - 4 views

www.greatschools.org/...orite-books-for-second-graders

Favorite books for 2nd graders

shared by solisg58 on 04 Jun 19 - No Cached
  • llows children to imagine the things they would do if they co
  • uld. This is a story everyone can relate to, no matter his or her background
  • climb into a tree and read” summer days.
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  • read-aloud
  • Poetry
  • Themes of racial or ethnic identity and pride are incorporated in the plot.
  • Friends
solisg58

Encourage Students to Use AAC by Supporting Communication Partners: Help embed AAC use ... - 2 views

leader.pubs.asha.org/...leader.scm.24042019.36

Using an AAC device

shared by solisg58 on 04 Jun 19 - No Cached
  • speech-language pathologists hope to accomplish with augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)
  • In her inclusive kindergarten classroom, she tried an AAC app with a basic grid display on a mobile tablet and made measurable progress with it. However, Lily’s team felt the AAC app lacked depth, so they switched her to a more advanced version
  • this research-supported approach provides the foundation for several training programs
Clint Heitz

Do we read differently on paper than on a screen? - 9 views

phys.org/...-differently-paper-screen.html

reading digital resources

shared by Clint Heitz on 21 Mar 18 - No Cached
  • In total, there are more than 180 researchers from 33 different countries participating in the COST-initiated research network E-READ, reading in an age of digital transformation. This network examines the effects and consequences of digital developments in terms of reading.
  • It is not a case of "one size fits all," but patterns are beginning to emerge from empirical research into the subject. The length of the text seems to be the most critical factor. If the text is long, needs to be read carefully and perhaps involves making notes, then studies show that many people, including young people such as students, still often prefer a printed book, even if it is available as both an e-book and in electronic formats with options for making notes, enabling the user to search for and highlight the text digitally. This is not the case when it comes to shorter texts.
  • When reading long, linear, continuous texts over multiple pages that require a certain amount of concentration, referred to as "Deep Reading," the reader often experiences better concentration and a greater overview when reading from a printed medium compared to a screen. When we are reading from a screen, only one section can be seen at a time and the available reading surface area is limited. If you read a printed medium such as a book, several text areas are available simultaneously and it feels easier to form an overview and make notes in the margins.
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  • However, an interesting finding in some of the empirical studies is that we tend to overestimate our own reading comprehension when we read on screen compared to on paper.
  • it has been found that we tend to read faster on screen and consequently understand less compared to when reading from paper. This is a very new research topic and there are studies that have not found any differences in this area.
  • such findings do highlight something very important, namely that we may have a different mental attitude to what we read on a screen. This has very significant implications, including in the context of education.
  • For example, reading literature has proven to have a stimulating effect on the imagination and encourage the development of empathy. Reading has an effect on our ability to concentrate and for abstract thinking. We want to discover if such processes are influenced by the reading medium.
  • There is a need for more empirical research on reading comprehension in terms of screen reading and also on the subjective reading experience.
Maughn Gregory

Helping Children Become More Mindful | Tufts Now - 77 views

now.tufts.edu/...g-children-become-more-mindful

education children mindfulness WillardChris breathing

shared by Maughn Gregory on 24 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • kids are distracted and a little on edge these days, says the Tufts psychologist Christopher Willard
  • Child’s Mind: Mindfulness Practices to Help Our Children Be More Focused, Calm and Relaxed (Parallax Press)
  • The central idea of mindfulness, he says, is to bring a very focused awareness of the present moment into our everyday lives through things such as breathing exercises and actively listening to and observing the world around us.
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  • Studies have shown that children can learn to regulate their emotions and concentrate better with the aid of mindfulness practices. Even children with attention deficit disorders have learned to concentrate better using these kinds of exercises.
  • Children as young as four, he says, can be taught to breathe in and out in a conscious way, with a little visual help. To do this, he suggests having the child lie on her back with a stuffed animal or pillow on her belly, which helps her become aware of her breathing as she watches the object go up and down.
  • Another mindfulness exercise is to ask a child to listen carefully for about a minute and then name five sounds he heard while being quiet.
Chema Falcó

Ideas - The Learner's Way - 53 views

thelearnersway.net/ideas

evaluación_formativa

shared by Chema Falcó on 15 May 16 - No Cached
  • Nigel Coutts on 15 May 16
     
    Ask any teacher what they wish they had more of and the most common answer is likely to be time. Schools are inherently busy places and there is always much to be done. We all want to meet the needs of every student, add value to their education with breadth and depth, ensure adequate coverage of the curriculum and include aspects of play and discovery. Add up all that is done in a day over and above face-to-face teaching and you can only wonder at how we manage to fit it all into the time we have. So is there an answer to this dilemma, is there a secret method to finding more time in our schedules to achieve all that we want to?
clbrink

7 Key Considerations for Online and Blended Learning Programs -- THE Journal - 19 views

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tie tieclass flipped blended online learning blended learning

shared by clbrink on 01 Jun 18 - No Cached
  • Online courses provide students with a level of flexibility and choice
    • clbrink
      clbrink on 01 Jun 18
       
      This is true....choice and voice are important 
  • Infuse digital literacy and citizenship into your online strategy. "
  • Find a good partner to work with
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  • Reach out when students appear to be struggling.
  • Use online learning to reach a more diverse group of learners.
  • Put a spotlight on interpersonal communications.
  • strong collaboration between students, teachers and parents.
  • . The discussions are asynchronous, so students can share their input when it best suits them.
  • Outline the virtual school's objectives and goals early in the game.
  • discipline, commitment, and organization are key traits for any successful student,
  • four- to five-day orientation course
    • clbrink
      clbrink on 01 Jun 18
       
      Should we be doing this in CAA?
meghankelly492

The association of music experience, pattern of practice and performance anxiety with p... - 0 views

journals.sagepub.com/...0255761415597151

world Music

shared by meghankelly492 on 30 Aug 19 - No Cached
  • Music inexperience, changed pattern of practice and performance anxiety are associated with playing-related problems in child instrumentalists and are therefore important issues for music education.
  • Research on adult musicians has adopted these models and identified individual intrinsic factors such as age and gender, music performance anxiety and enjoyment, extrinsic factors such as music practice habits and type of instrument played and intrinsic–extrinsic interaction factors such as playing posture, technique and student–teacher interaction which influence the development of PRMP.
  • The aim of this study was to describe the music practice of child instrumentalists and determine their associations with playing-related musculoskeletal problems (PRMP), accounting for gender and age
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  • Symptoms of performance anxiety are generally categorized into cognitive (e.g. catastrophic thoughts), behavioral (e.g. avoidance of performance/auditions) and physiological (e.g. dry mouth, shaking arms/hands, increased heart rate) (Plaut, 1990; Salmon, 1990).
  • Shoup (1995) reported performance anxiety negatively affected performance in 55% (234/425) junior high and high school instrumentalists.
  • Over a third of students (36%, 263) reported they experienced the feeling of butterflies most times to always when playing in a concert or competition (Table 1).
  • There was a significant association between gender and the experience of butterflies (χ2 = 32.32, df (4), p < .001) with more females reporting the experience of butterflies than males. There was a significant association between age and reported experience of the feeling of butterflies (F = 9.012, df (3), p < .001), with older children reporting the experience of butterflies more than younger children.
Siri Anderson

60 Minutes Cut Women Leaders Out Of A Story On Getting Girls Into Tech, And It Broke Th... - 7 views

womenyoushouldknow.net/60-minutes-women-leaders-tech

CS computational_thinking gender women STEM bias CSforALL

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  • Siri Anderson on 08 Mar 19
     
    Argh! We need good journalism!
JD Pennington

Diigo in College/University - 253 views

Some questions: Is it possible to get an RSS feed of group annotated links that are no longer live pages, but are instead highlighted static pages? This way I can get a feed of a the links that ...

education diigo

started by Bill Guinee on 10 Apr 09 9 follow-ups, last by JD Pennington on 15 Jul 09
Martin Burrett

Dropbox - Simplify your life - 95 views

www.dropbox.com

storage backup sharing links collaboration sync

shared by Martin Burrett on 28 Aug 10 - Cached
    • Kalin Wilburn
      Kalin Wilburn on 19 May 11
       
      Use dropbox to keep track of files you need at home, work, and anywhere else you might be. It provides you the ability to access your files from any location, allow others to "drop" files into your dropbox, and to share any files you have placed in there. You can use it for student work or just as a personal productivity tool.
    • Kalin Wilburn
      Kalin Wilburn on 19 May 11
       
      It has to be downloaded on your computer so if you want to use this at school you will need your tech coordinator's permission.
    • S. Cosmo
      S. Cosmo on 06 Sep 11
       
      But you can use it at school with the access to the web page...
    • smithirowa24
      smithirowa24 on 07 Jan 12
       
      Dropbox synchs with your smart phone like an iphone, and it also synchs with tablets like the ipad.  This way I can carry my files no matter where I am.
    • Bill Shelly
      Bill Shelly on 19 Jun 12
       
      Try this in combination with dropitto.me. Awesome!
    • benjaminv
      benjaminv on 19 Sep 12
       
      I am not sure, but the idea of bringing referals to increase storage are awesome.
    • 玉昆 吴
      玉昆 吴 on 03 Feb 20
       
      Great application
  • Glenn Hervieux on 28 Aug 10
     
    This is an amazing solution for storing, sharing, and back up your data. The ability to access files from any computer & mobile devices makes this a great solution. Up to 2GB storage free! Learn more about the public folder to share files with others, while keeping your other files private. I have it on both my Apple computers and on two PCs. This rocks!
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  • Cathy Edwards on 29 Aug 10
     
    I love my Dropbox!! It makes life so much easier!
  • Jonathan Wylie on 29 Aug 10
     
    I have it too, and have used it for a couple of years now to go between my mac at school and PC at home. I recently blogged about it here: http://www.educationtechnologyblog.com/1/post/2010/08/dropbox-for-educators.html
  • Glenn Hervieux on 29 Aug 10
     
    @Jonathon, thanks for sharing the blog post. I'll pass that along to others. @Cathy, thanks for confirming it's been a useful tool.
  • Martin Burrett on 08 Jul 11
     
    One of the leading and best online file storage option. It works across many different devices and is great for teachers who like to travel light. Download required. Basic package is free with 'paid for' option with more storage. Easily share files with others. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools
David Sladkey

Teaching with Smartboard Podcast and Book - 132 views

http/teachingwithsmartboard.com

teachingwithsmartboard.com teaching smartboard

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  • David Sladkey on 12 Sep 10
     
    If you would like to learn about using the Smartboard in your classroom you should check out the website teachingwithsmartboard.com. There are 75+ episodes each with 15 to 20 minutes of using the Smartboard in the classroom. Also, there is a book called "Easy Smartboard Teaching Templates" that you can check out there as well. The book goes into great detail how you can use the "free" templates on the website and begin making interactive lessons for your students in minutes.
Philip Brown

Circumcision of the Heart in Leviticus and Deuteronomy: Divine Means for Resolving Curs... - 0 views

equip.sbts.edu/...lving-curse-and-bring-blessing

shared by Philip Brown on 08 May 20 - No Cached
  • These three uses of “uncircumcised” imply that the foreskin is an impediment or obstacle to hearing, speaking, and producing good fruit. That is, the state of being uncircumcised impedes something, which, if it did not have the foreskin, would otherwise be prepared for true function and vitality. But since it has the foreskin, it is impeded
    • Philip Brown
      Philip Brown on 08 May 20
       
      Excellent assessment up to this point. The conclusion "and will die," however, has no clear basis in the evidence for uncircumcised ears, lips, or fruit.
  • There is a progression in Leviticus from “outward” holiness to “inward” holiness or better, from the holiness symbolized in sacrifice, cult, and purity laws to holiness exhibited in the obedience of a prepared and consecrated people which Leviticus 17-27 envisions.
  • The foreskin of their heart was the cause of their stubbornness in 24:10-23, which led to God’s curse coming upon them in exile. They became as the “foreskined fruit trees” in Leviticus 19:23 that were unable to yield fruit. Their hearts still had the foreskin, the impediment or obstacle which prevented them from vital covenant faithfulness and ensuing blessing
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  • Within this scheme, Leviticus presents the humbling of the foreskin of the heart as the resolution to the stubborn heart which brought the people into exile. Heart circumcision will bring the blessing of restoration.
  • It is in the context of the covenant curses that our reference to heart circumcision occurs in Leviticus 26:41, revealing that Israel had an internal heart problem which led them to curse God and therefore undergo his covenant curses.
  • Leviticus 26 describes the outworking of the blessing, curse-exile, and return from exile
  • Deuteronomy presents circumcision of the heart as important means for attaining the Deuteronomic vision of loyalty from a devoted heart.4
  • e root לוּמ ּto circumcise
mrtomak

Duolingo: Home - 49 views

www.duolingo.com

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  • Ginna Watson on 12 Apr 14
     
    Duolingo is an intuitive, fun way to learn languages! It contains a variety of activities for both audio and visual learning. It's easy to incorporate this free, cloud-based program into your daily routine.
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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