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Simple free learning tools for students and teachers | Quizlet - 44 views

quizlet.com learning flashcards quiz
shared by Dora Gonzalez-Bañales on 07 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Miss Miller on 07 Apr 09
     
    Quizlet is a lightning fast way to memorize vocabulary lists. It's like flashcards, but much more fun and interactive.
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  • Melissa Enderle on 18 Jul 10
     
    Create your own flashcards or use already-made ones. Can use definitions (or words) already stored on the site. Share with others. Useful for ESL students.
  • trisha_poole on 09 Jan 11
     
    Vocabulary tool. Create flashcards, play games, search for word lists, etc.
  • Beth Panitz on 09 Jan 11
     
    Create flashcards. Play matching games.
  • Jody Monroe on 13 Jul 11
     
    Quizlet is the largest flash cards and study games website with over 5 million free sets of flashcards covering every possible subject. It's the best place to play educational games, memorize vocabulary and study online.
  • Marney Womble on 29 Mar 12
     
    Recently created flashcards for literary terms, every term my students need was there! Fast, easy, efficent use of time.
  • Martin Burrett on 30 Apr 12
     
    This is a comprehensive flash card study aid site. Make your flashcards to study anything. Add pictures, text and it supports a range of non-alphabetical languages like Chinese and Japanese. You can choose to learn, spell things, test yourself or play games with the information. Browse thousands of sets made by other users without signing in. A free account is required to make your own flashcards. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
  • Alysyn Thibault on 30 Apr 12
     
    My students have loved making their own flashcards for Greek/Latin roots on Quizlet!
  • Marc Patton on 19 Jul 12
     
    Quizlet is the largest study site in the U.S., providing powerful learning tools and games to over 7 million students and teachers each month.
  • Kate Pederson on 15 Nov 12
     
    Vocabulary Resource
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Four things every student should learn … but not every school is teaching - 162 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...t-not-every-school-is-teaching education teaching student technology netgeneration
shared by Michele Brown on 09 Feb 10 - Cached
  • An awareness of the views of those in other countries, an understanding of how Google ranks the results of a web search, a knowledge of the permanence of information posted online: These are some of the lessons that every student should be learning in today’s schools, says education technology consultant Alan November—but not every middle or high school is teaching these lessons.
  • Michele Brown on 09 Feb 10
     
    Alan November reveals several topics that he said every member of the Net Generation should learn
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Return to Sender -- THE Journal - 60 views

thejournal.com/...return-to-sender.aspx edtech
shared by Kevin Jarrett on 08 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • The upshot of this neglect, the report goes on to say, is to leave students unsuited for a work environment in which knowing core subject content can be secondary to being able to use technology to demonstrate the so- called 21st century skills that employers now demand:
  • increasingly value people who can use their knowledge to communicate, collaborate, analyze, create, innovate, and solve problems."
  • it's also about turning information into knowledge through Web searching and vetting. It's about developing effective multimedia presentations. It's about seamlessly using digital tools to collaborate and problem-solve.
  • Tony Bollino on 08 Mar 11
     
    Great article on the need for greater use of technology in instruction.
  • Kevin Jarrett on 16 Mar 11
     
    Send this to your principal, superintendent or school board member...
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eyePlorer.com - 85 views

eyeplorer.com/show visualization research web2.0 searchengine tools visual eyeplorer search
shared by Justin Medved on 13 Nov 09 - Cached
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  • Justin Medved on 13 Nov 09
     
    The graphical knowledge engine
  • Justin Medved on 13 Nov 09
     
    very cool searh tool
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WatchKnow - Videos for kids to learn from. Organized. - 90 views

www.watchknow.org
shared by Lisa Bradshaw on 25 Nov 09 - Cached
    • Lisa Bradshaw
      Lisa Bradshaw on 21 Jul 10
       
      Check "School Accesible" on the left if your web filter blocks videos. This may let you narrow your search by videos your filter will allow.
  • Brian Mull on 25 Nov 09
     
    What is WatchKnow? Imagine hundreds of thousands of great short videos, and other media, explaining every topic taught to school kids. Imagine them rated and sorted into a giant Directory, making them simple to find. WatchKnow--as in, "You watch, you know"--is a non-profit online community devoted to this goal
  • Steve Ransom on 26 Nov 09
     
    Videos for kids to learn from. Organized.
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5 Myths About the 'Information Age' - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Ed... - 0 views

chronicle.com/...127105 education myths information age books
shared by D. S. Koelling on 20 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • 1. "The book is dead." Wrong: More books are produced in print each year than in the previous year. One million new titles will appear worldwide in 2011. In one day in Britain—"Super Thursday," last October 1—800 new works were published.
  • 2. "We have entered the information age." This announcement is usually intoned solemnly, as if information did not exist in other ages. But every age is an age of information, each in its own way and according to the media available at the time.
  • 3. "All information is now available online." The absurdity of this claim is obvious to anyone who has ever done research in archives. Only a tiny fraction of archival material has ever been read, much less digitized. Most judicial decisions and legislation, both state and federal, have never appeared on the Web. The vast output of regulations and reports by public bodies remains largely inaccessible to the citizens it affects. Google estimates that 129,864,880 different books exist in the world, and it claims to have digitized 15 million of them—or about 12 percent.
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  • 4. "Libraries are obsolete." Everywhere in the country librarians report that they have never had so many patrons. At Harvard, our reading rooms are full. The 85 branch libraries of the New York Public Library system are crammed with people.
  • 5. "The future is digital." True enough, but misleading. In 10, 20, or 50 years, the information environment will be overwhelmingly digital, but the prevalence of electronic communication does not mean that printed material will cease to be important. Research in the relatively new discipline of book history has demonstrated that new modes of communication do not displace old ones, at least not in the short run.
  • I mention these misconceptions because I think they stand in the way of understanding shifts in the information environment. They make the changes appear too dramatic. They present things ahistorically and in sharp contrasts—before and after, either/or, black and white. A more nuanced view would reject the common notion that old books and e-books occupy opposite and antagonistic extremes on a technological spectrum. Old books and e-books should be thought of as allies, not enemies.
  • Last year the sale of e-books (digitized texts designed for hand-held readers) doubled, accounting for 10 percent of sales in the trade-book market. This year they are expected to reach 15 or even 20 percent. But there are indications that the sale of printed books has increased at the same time.
  • Many of us worry about a decline in deep, reflective, cover-to-cover reading. We deplore the shift to blogs, snippets, and tweets. In the case of research, we might concede that word searches have advantages, but we refuse to believe that they can lead to the kind of understanding that comes with the continuous study of an entire book. Is it true, however, that deep reading has declined, or even that it always prevailed?
  • Writing looks as bad as reading to those who see nothing but decline in the advent of the Internet. As one lament puts it: Books used to be written for the general reader; now they are written by the general reader. The Internet certainly has stimulated self-publishing, but why should that be deplored? Many writers with important things to say had not been able to break into print, and anyone who finds little value in their work can ignore it.
  • One could cite other examples of how the new technology is reinforcing old modes of communication rather than undermining them. I don't mean to minimize the difficulties faced by authors, publishers, and readers, but I believe that some historically informed reflection could dispel the misconceptions that prevent us from making the most of "the information age"—if we must call it that.
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Infographics & Data Visualization | Visual.ly - 121 views

visual.ly illustrator tutorial infografias
shared by ivan alba on 13 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 13 Jul 11
     
    A good site for exploring, sharing and creating stylish infographics. Get your class you make visually stunning displays and posters to explain their ideas. [Be aware - Site was in Beta last time I checked]
  • Susan Harari on 26 Jul 12
     
    Visually is the largest data visualization showcase in the world. Create and share infographics. Site has own search engine for web based infographics, holds data from govt agencies, non-profits and other research and data-focused entities
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Curriculum21 - Annotexting - 62 views

www.curriculum21.com/...annotexting annotating
shared by anonymous on 11 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • We would also like to share this DISCUSSION RUBRIC (2007) that you can use as students submit annotations and begin to draw conclusions about what their evidence is pointing to.
    • Sharin Tebo
      Sharin Tebo on 11 Nov 14
       
      An idea or resource perhaps...
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 11 Nov 14
       
      Start off modeling what you expect students to do.  Then, move more toward asking students to look at a text with a certain set of questions in mind.  Finally, just share a simple short list of terms or words which will guide student reading/annotating.
  • These annotations, rather than being on paper, can be collected with different web tools so that students can collaborate
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    • anonymous
      anonymous on 11 Nov 14
       
      Great use of Diigo or Google documents!
  • Students submit their annotations via their smart phones or other digital devices, and then analyze each other’s notations collectively.  They could be looking for main ideas, thematic and literary elements, or big ideas from the work.   They could be looking for evidence of connections to other texts, their own experiences, or world issues. They could simply be searching for meaning to support them when reading complex texts.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 11 Nov 14
       
      Reading, analyzing, and collaborating about annotations helps open the eyes of readers and provides feedback which promotes even more thinking.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 11 Nov 14
       
      FABULOUS way to utilize Google docs and tools!
  • annotexting will allow students to engage with other audiences in tasks with an expanded purpose
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 11 Nov 14
       
      Anytime something is shared and ideas are discussed and shared, there seems to be more of a 'real-life' purpose for digging in and completing the task.
  • In order to get students to own this process, we have to relinquish some control. Let them think, let them make mistakes and respond. Let them draw conclusions even they are not the conclusions we would have drawn. We can be there to coach them through misconceptions.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 11 Nov 14
       
      Step back!  It is amazing to learn from the student's perspective.  Then, if the thinking is not focused toward the goal or objective of the teacher's lesson, a bit of guidance and coaching is all that is needed to steer students toward that goal/objective.
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The best free cultural & educational media on the web | Open Culture - 17 views

www.openculture.com opensource free resources
shared by Roy Sovis on 16 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Kelly Christopherson on 16 Apr 09
     
    Site with educational media that users can search and then use.
  • BJ Madewell on 24 Feb 11
     
    YIKES so much to learn.... so many free sources
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Using Social Bookmarking in Schools and with your Students- Part Two | Silvia Tolisano-... - 17 views

langwitches.org/...nd-with-your-students-part-two b social bookmarking education bookmarking socialbookmarking social students web2.0 Technology
shared by afager212 on 26 Feb 18 - No Cached
    • afager212
      afager212 on 26 Feb 18
       
      Could be a useful tool when just starting
  • Remember that it is NOT about the tools we use with our students, but the skills we are exposing them to and want them to get proficient in.
  • need to evaluate and interpret information tag bookmarks (their own and/or the ones collected by their teacher) summarize bookmarks (their own and/or the ones shared by teacher) take advantage of “experts in the field” (by subscribing to their RSS for specific tags) learn to search for relevant information beyond “googling” collaborate with other members of a study group (local or global)
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  • a critical mistake when introducing digital tools by assuming that armed with a username and a password, students will automatically find meaningful ways to learn together.
  • Handout_SocialBookmarkingRoles.pdf
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Bib 2.0: Before Blogs and Wikis: Three Tools to Enhance Collaboration - 6 views

bib20.blogspot.com/...-and-wikis-three-tools-to.html diigo education review
shared by Maggie Tsai on 05 Aug 07 - Cached
  • Diigo: Once they start their web-related search, Diigo, an add-on extension for Firefox and Internet Explorer, allows students to highlight text and post sticky-notes directly onto webpages, then share their comments within the group. Others can add their own comments to the note. Selected text is archived to a "my bookmarks" page, along with the comments and a copy of the website. Students can collaborate within the bookmarks site or on the individual websites. Diigo supports RSS feeds, allowing teachers to follow student progress. The more I use this tool, the more I'm convinced it ought to be integral to every research project. It allows students to actively connect with the information they're reading--to question, annotate and infer. All in collaboration with their group. How amazing is that???
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