HCZ continues to offer innovative, efficiently run programs that are aimed at doing nothing less than breaking the cycle of generational poverty for the thousands of children and families it serves.
Even better than Doodle for scheduling, Students can self-schedule themselves for conferences on your e-calendar. When you accept, Jiffle sends a confirmation.
"Teach Us Something" - Microlectures
There have been several recent articles written about the idea of microlectures as an alternative to traditional, longer lecture formats. Short & energetic presentation styles such as Pecha Kucha and Ignite are becoming more popular in conferences & classrooms. A similar style of concise instruction has become common through websites such as Instructables and 5Min.com. Microlectures seems to satisfy the need for discrete units of knowledge coupled with decreasing attention spans.
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Criticial Thinking Org
Center
for Critical Thinking Library for K-12 Educators
Tactical
and Structural Recommendations for bringing critical thinking into
the K-12 classroom - Excellent ideas for teachers!!!
Critical Thinking
Across the Curriculum Project
Mission Critical page San
Jose University's Critical Thinking Web Page
Logical Arguments
A
Brief History in the Idea of Critical Thinking
Google.Com
Search on "Bloom's Taxonomy"
Google.Com
Search on "Critical Thinking"
Links to General info about Critical Thinking on About.com
dana boyd reminded us that "technology does not determine practice"
Just shoving broadband into a group of kids, just giving them an iPhone, we can think of a gazillion designs that are valuable ... but, if you don't have a culture embedded in it, [it] becomes just another toy you can text your friends with... I've become so infinitely frustrated with... "let's just dump a bunch of laptops into a population and see what they do with it"... That doesn't work... We've watched students rip out the batteries and use them for everything else under the sun.... I don't think we can just think about the technology.... We have to think about it in a broader system.