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Steve Ransom

ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: Using Microblogging and Social Networking to Explore Chara... - 53 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 14 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 14 Oct 09
     
    Students use microblogging and social networking sites to trace the development of characters and examine writing style while reading a novel of manners such as Jane Austen's Emma.
Ed Webb

Liberal Education Today : 7 Things You Should Know About Collaborative Annotation - 63 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 15 Oct 09 - Cached
  • 7 Things You Should Know About Collaborative Annotation “7 Things You Should Know About Collaborative Annotation” introduces readers to programs like Diigo, SideWiki, and ReFrameit (pdf). A group of liberal arts faculty and staff use Diigo to share their research into computer gaming for teaching and research.
Ed Webb

Times Higher Education - Next-gen PhDs fail to find Web 2.0's 'on-switch' - 62 views

www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp

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shared by Ed Webb on 07 Nov 09 - Cached
  • only a small proportion of those surveyed are using technology such as virtual-research environments, social bookmarking, data and text mining, wikis, blogs and RSS-feed alerts in their work. This contrasts with the fact that many respondents professed to finding technological tools valuable.Just under half of those polled used RSS feeds and only about 10 per cent used social bookmarking, with Generation Y students exhibiting the same behaviour as other age groups.
Steve Ransom

Teacher-Led Professional Development: Eleven Reasons Why You Should be Using Classroom ... - 108 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 18 Apr 11 - Cached
  • "I'm done talking ... it's time to take this training into the classroom - that's where the teaching is going on. Besides, you need to build your local capacity."
  • f the large group is "the lecture," the CWT is the "lab."
  • Steve Ransom on 18 Apr 11
     
    Another great post by Peter Pappas
Susan Jackson

Teach Gen Now | - 101 views

www.teachgennow.com.au

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shared by Susan Jackson on 27 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 27 Apr 11
     
    TodaysMeet is a free online tool that allows you to backchannel. What is a backchannel I hear you ask? Backchanneling is having real time online conversations alongside live presentations. A backchannel lets participants ask questions, discuss what is being presented, share links and reflect on their learning. Backchanneling could be describe as "virtual whispering or note passing" during lessons, presentation or activities.
  • Susan Jackson on 08 Jul 11
     
    Scrumblr is a free online tool that allows you to create a virtual whiteboard. This whiteboard can be accessed from multiple computers and used as a collaborative space for education.
Roland Gesthuizen

5 myths about teachers that are distracting policymakers - The Answer Sheet - The Washi... - 111 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 07 May 11 - No Cached
  • Political leaders at every level are demanding we evaluate and pay teachers based on student test scores and value-added statistical formulas. If that turns out to be a bad strategy, the long-term ramifications for the nation could be staggering.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 07 May 11
     
    "Now's the time to transcend the usual debates over how to make our schools better and our teachers more effective - and break free of the myths that keep us fighting 20th century battles. Instead we need to look hard at the realities, framed by research evidence as well as the challenges teachers face everyday"
Roland Gesthuizen

Recognising the obviously incapable « newteachersblog - 52 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 30 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 30 Oct 11
     
    The new chief inspector for schools has indicated he intends to improve quality and standards by singling out weaker teachers - it was "pretty straightforward" to identify teachers who were "obviously incapable" he said. Is it?
Steve Ransom

Revisiting Extra Credit Policies | Faculty Focus - 3 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 20 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • ere’s how it works. The instructor attaches a blank piece of paper to the back of every exam. Students may write on that sheet any exam questions they couldn’t answer or weren’t sure they answered correctly. Students then take this piece of paper with them and look up the correct answers. They can use any resource at their disposal short of asking the instructor. At the start of the next class session, they turn in their set of corrected answers which the instructor re-attaches to their original exam. Both sets of answers are graded. If students missed the question on the exam but answered it correctly on the attached sheet, half the credit lost for the wrong answer is recovered.
  • Steve Ransom on 20 Jul 11
     
    The blank paper idea is very interesting. I don't give that many exams of this type, but if I did, I'd seriously consider this strategy.
Carole Redline

4 Tips for Flipped Learning - 60 views

Thanks Joe, These ideas are for all teachers whether they flip or not. Just good teaching

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started by Joe Hirsch on 23 Jul 14 1 follow-up, last by Carole Redline on 23 Jul 14
Brianna Crowley

Is Common Core the Enemy of Autonomy? - Teaching for Triumph: Reflections of a 21st-Cen... - 35 views

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shared by Brianna Crowley on 13 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Brianna Crowley on 13 Jan 14
     
    An elementary teacher in a 99% school elaborates on how the CCSS can improve the current system that we have.
Ed Webb

Bad News : CJR - 30 views

www.cjr.org/...bad_news.php

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shared by Ed Webb on 15 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Students in Howard Rheingold’s journalism class at Stanford recently teamed up with NewsTrust, a nonprofit Web site that enables people to review and rate news articles for their level of quality, in a search for lousy journalism.
  • the News Hunt is a way of getting young journalists to critically examine the work of professionals. For Rheingold, an influential writer and thinker about the online world and the man credited with coining the phrase “virtual community,” it’s all about teaching them “crap detection.”
  • last year Rheingold wrote an important essay about the topic for the San Francisco Chronicle’s Web site
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  • What’s at stake is no less than the quality of the information available in our society, and our collective ability to evaluate its accuracy and value. “Are we going to have a world filled with people who pass along urban legends and hoaxes?” Rheingold said, “or are people going to educate themselves about these tools [for crap detection] so we will have collective intelligence instead of misinformation, spam, urban legends, and hoaxes?”
  • I previously called fact-checking “one of the great American pastimes of the Internet age.” But, as Rheingold noted, the opposite is also true: the manufacture and promotion of bullshit is endemic. One couldn’t exist without the other. That makes Rheingold’s essay, his recent experiment with NewsTrust, and his wiki of online critical-thinking tools” essential reading for journalists. (He’s also writing a book about this topic.)
  • I believe if we want kids to succeed online, the biggest danger is not porn or predators—the biggest danger is them not being able to distinguish truth from carefully manufactured misinformation or bullshit
  • Ed Webb on 15 Mar 10
     
    As relevant to general education as to journalism training
Tony Baldasaro

Weblogg-ed » "What Did You Create Today?" - 1 views

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shared by Tony Baldasaro on 22 Aug 09 - Cached
  • What did you make today that was meaningful? What did you learn about the world? Who are you working with? What surprised you? What did your teachers make with you? What did you teach others? What unanswered questions are you struggling with? How did you change the world in some small (or big) way? What’s something your teachers learned today? What did you share with the world? What do you want to know more about? What did you love about today? What made you laugh?
  • Tony Baldasaro on 22 Aug 09
     
    In a couple of weeks, both Tess and Tucker will be starting their first day at brand new schools. They'll know no one, have all new teachers, new surroundings, and, hopefully, new opportunities. I'm not sure they're totally at peace with these changes, but as I keep telling them, it's the kind of stuff that builds character. (I keep regaling them with school switching stories of my own, the most challenging being when my mom moved us out to New Jersey from Chicago when I was beginning 6th grade and three days before school started I was wading barefoot in a creek, stepped on a broken bottle, and ended up with 10 stitches in the bottom of my foot and a pair of crutches for the first week of classes. Talk about character building.) Wendy and I have been trying to prepare them for this shift as best we can, and while I know it's a bit scary for them, I'm really hopeful the change will be good for them on a lot of different levels.
Mrs. Lail2

Success is a Four Letter Word - 37 views

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shared by Mrs. Lail2 on 04 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • it turns out that the one thing present in every successful person is one consistent trait. It’s not a person’s education or lack of it, or their IQ, their upbringing, their financial abundance or lack, their test scores, their birth order or their gender. It’s one odd, rarely mentioned quality: Grit.
  • But grit is more than just an attitude. It’s about the actions we take when faced with doubt and obstacles. In 2006, Drs. Angela Duckworth and Martin Seligman discovered that the correlation between self-discipline and achievement was twice as large as the correlation between IQ and achievement.
  • A clear goal Determination despite others’ doubts Self-confidence about figuring things out Humility about knowing it doesn’t come easy Persistence despite fear Patience to handle the small obstacles that obscure the path A code of ethics to live by Flexibility in the face of roadblocks A capacity for human connection and collaboration A recognition that accepting help does not equate to weakness A focus and appreciation of each step in the journey An appreciation of other people’s grit A loyalty that never sacrifices connections along the way An inner strength that helped propel them to their goal
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  • “… Grit may be as essential as IQ to high achievement. In particular, grit, more than self-control or conscientiousness, may set apart the exceptional individuals who … made maximal use of their abilities.”
  • Mark Gleeson on 04 Nov 12
     
    And that word is grit
  • Mrs. Lail2 on 05 Nov 12
     
    Interesting article - I need to track down the original research! 
Glenn Hervieux

I Teach English to Great Kids...A Blog: Plagiarism and the Google Tools to Reduce It - 128 views

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shared by Glenn Hervieux on 15 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Glenn Hervieux on 15 Sep 13
     
    Jennifer Roberts, a veteran English teacher in San Diego, and a Google Certified teacher, shares how she approaches plagiarism with her students and uses the tools in Google Apps & Google Search to help curb intentional and unintentional plagiarism.
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