6.1 Learning about Multiplication Using Dynamic Sketches of an Area Model - 29 views
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The figure below shows a rectangle with width 3 and height y. The product 3y represents the area of the 3-by-y rectangle. Change the value of y by dragging the red point up and down the vertical axis. Note that as the point is dragged, the area of the rectangle changes simultaneously.
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This is a great exploration for students to begin making connections between whole number multiplication and decimal multiplication. One modification I would make is to have students make a partition (on grid paper) to show the partial products so I could connect the figure to a symbolic algorithm for multiplication and the distributive property. For example, if it was 1.2 x 3, the partial products might be (1x3) + (.2 x 3).
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Are kids really motivated by technology? | SmartBlogs SmartBlogs - 10 views
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You can’t motivate students with technology because technology alone isn’t motivating. Worse yet, students are almost always ambivalent toward digital tools.
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Technology, as Dina Strasser likes to say, is a motivational red herring
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What students are really motivated by are opportunities to be social — to interact around challenging concepts in powerful conversations with their peers.
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Wikipedia:FAQ/Schools - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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Students should never use information in Wikipedia (or any other online encyclopedia) for formal purposes (such as school essays) until they have verified and evaluated the information based on external sources. For this reason, Wikipedia, like any encyclopedia, is a great starting place for research but not always a great ending place.
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It is possible for a given Wikipedia article to be biased, outdated, or factually incorrect. This is true of any resource. One should always double-check the accuracy of important facts, regardless of the source. In general, popular Wikipedia articles are more accurate than ones that receive little traffic, because they are read more often and therefore any errors are corrected in a more timely fashion. Wikipedia articles may also suffer from issues such as Western bias, but hopefully this will also improve with time. For more information
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Although the majority of edits attempt to improve the encyclopedia, vandalism is frequent.
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Red Tape - Govt. agencies, colleges demand applicants' Facebook passwords - 6 views
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job seekers applying to the state's Department of Corrections have been asked during interviews to log into their accounts and let an interviewer watch while the potential employee clicks through wall posts, friends, photos and anything else that might be found behind the privacy wall.
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schools are requiring them to "friend" a coach or compliance officer,
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it had reviewed 2,689 applicants via social media, and denied employment to seven because of items found on their pages
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The Perfect Workspace (According to Science) - 99U - 42 views
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making your own decisions about how to organize your workspace has an empowering effect and has been linked with improved productivity
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simple use of a pin-board to post your own pictures and messages could help you feel that the space is yours
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furniture that is curved and rounded rather than sharp and straight-edged
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Calls from Washington for streamlined regulation and emerging models | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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more of online “innovations” like competency-based education.
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reauthorization of the Higher Education Act might shake out.
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flow of federal financial aid to a wide range of course providers, some of which look nothing like colleges.
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Moving Toward the Paperless Institute - National Writing Project - 16 views
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But in our 2007 summer institute, we facilitators wondered aloud, "What if these responses could be put online?" Within minutes, Eric ignited a sea of change in Red Clay by creating a way for fellows to answer these questions via an online survey tool. Now, instead of mad scribbling, happy goodbyes, and plans for beer that night, the sounds at the end of any day in the summer institute have become mad typing, happy goodbyes, and plans for beer that night."
USA, Canada and the EU attempt to kill treaty to protect blind people's access to writt... - 0 views
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Right now, in Geneva, at the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization, history is being made. For the first time in WIPO history, the body that creates the world's copyright treaties is attempting to write a copyright treaty dedicated to protecting the interests of copyright users, not just copyright owners. At issue is a treaty to protect the rights of blind people and people with other disabilities that affect reading (people with dyslexia, people who are paralyzed or lack arms or hands for turning pages), introduced by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay. This should be a slam dunk: who wouldn't want a harmonized system of copyright exceptions that ensure that it's possible for disabled people to get access to the written word? The USA, that's who. The Obama administration's negotiators have joined with a rogue's gallery of rich country trade representatives to oppose protection for blind people. Other nations and regions opposing the rights of blind people include Canada and the EU. Update: Also opposing rights for disabled people: Australia, New Zealand, the Vatican and Norway.
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Copyright "rights for the user" champion and author, Cory Doctorow, reports on efforts to guarantee rights for the blind and others with reading disabilities to gain access to the printed word. It's happening at the UN's World Organization for Intellectual Property, and it's the first time they are working on rights for copyright USERS in addition to copyright HOLDERS. Read about how U.S. negotiators have opposed this protection for disabled. It's an important issue for educators worldwide, but especially for those in the U.S., whose copyright law has been written to strongly favor corporate interests.
From Lab to Red Carpet - NYTimes.com - 24 views
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If anything, stories like Ms. Portman’s show that great success, like DNA, is constructed of a few basic building blocks: tenacity, focus, and the old Woody Allen line about just showing up.
QuadernsDigitals.NET: DISEÑO DE MINI-QUEST CON LA HERRAMIENTA APTURE, UN RECU... - 2 views
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Tratamos de mostrar los problemas que surgen a menudo en la práctica diaria docente a la hora de acometer realmente una webquest con el alumnado, y proponemos una alternativa viable para solventar esos problemas: la realización de mini-quest de una sola sesión, ayudándonos de la herramienta web Apture, que genera ventanas emergentes incrustadas dentro de la pantalla inmediata de visión del alumnado.
Keys to long life: Longevity study unearths surprising answers - 41 views
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Keys to long life
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Friedman and Leslie R. Martin , a 1996 UCR alumna (Ph.D.) and staff researchers, have published those findings in "The Longevity Project: Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade Study" (Hudson Street Press, March 2011).
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It's never too late to choose a healthier path, Friedman and Martin said. The first step is to throw away the lists and stop worrying about worrying. "Some of the minutiae of what people think will help us lead long, healthy lives, such as worrying about the ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids in the foods we eat, actually are red herrings, distracting us from the major pathways," Friedman said. "When we recognize the long-term healthy and unhealthy patterns in ourselves, we can begin to maximize the healthy patterns." "Thinking of making changes as taking 'steps' is a great strategy," Martin advised. "You can't change major things about yourself overnight. But making small changes, and repeating those steps, can eventually create that path to longer life."
SPAN 103N W01 S111: Foro de lenguaje y cultura - Semana 9 - El embarazo - Due Sunday, 7/17 - 7 views
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Suggestions: Use past tense (preterite) more often to talk about things that happened in the past. The verbs you recognized are good examples. At this point, though, not only should you recognize words, but phrases and TENSES/CONCEPTS, as well. These are the grammar examples you will need to share on your chart. Did you see any reflexive verbs? Commands? Preterite? If so, share the example AND the English equivalent (translation).
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Also, for your chart you might end up being short on Country-Specific resources. When looking for things to share, think about sharing info from a particular country. It is too late for this post, but since your resource is from California, perhaps you could find some info on the Hispanic population in California. Where are they from? Then pick one of those countries of origin and find some info about it for us. Bingo! Country-specific example for your chart.
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Since this forum is over, you can post this info on the "country-specific catch-up forum" that I will make available immediately.
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I sense a lot of stress about the forum requirements, so I am going to provide group feedback this way. Make sure to click on each "sticky note" to get my feedback on the post. This will help you complete your chart as best as possible.
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HIGHLIGHTS: You will see a lot of highlights on this page. Pink/red highlights indicate a mistake is present. I have not highlighted ALL mistakes, just some that you should be able to fix with what you know at this point. GREEN means GOOD! I have highlighted many phrases that indicate good/correct grammar usage. Sometimes I highlight in green things that I really like :-) Green means GO!!!
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YELLOW highlights are for important things - read them!
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FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE WORRIED ABOUT BEING SHORT ON COUNTRY-SPECIFIC REFERENCES, I WILL SHARE IDEAS ON HOW TO INCLUDE THOSE AND PROVIDE A SEPARATE "Country-Specific Catch-Up Forum" where you can explore individual countries a bit further.
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siertas
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Panoramas.dk- Midsummer in Sweden, Red Army Pop Art in Sofia, Buckingham Palace, Salt L... - 45 views
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A great site containing hundreds of 360 degree panorama photos from all over the world. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+%26+Images
SNHU: How Paul LeBlanc's tiny school has become a giant of higher education. - 1 views
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Students are referred to as “customers.”
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t deploys data analytics for everything from anticipating future demand to figuring out which students are most likely to stumble.
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“Public institutions will not see increasing state funding and private colleges will not see ever-rising tuition.”
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