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Using a "Tea Party" to Incorporate Reading into Science - Planet Blog - Blog - Promethe... - 40 views

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reading Science strategy

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  • London Jenks on 28 Mar 11
     
    Strategy for evaluating science readings
London Jenks

Teenagers, Legal Risks and Social Networking Sites | Lucacept - intercepting the Web - 49 views

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legal networking social risks

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  • a significant minority (36.1%) of the teachers who were asked this question indicated that they had used SNS for educational purposes, including communicating with their students about schoolwork.
  • These educational activities should be aimed primarily at equipping children and young people with the skills required to be effective digital citizens, and not focussed on rare or hypothetical fears.
  • the importance of SNS in the lives of students, and the potential significance of social media for future digital citizenship, suggests that room should be found for these issues to be directly addressed.
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  • Research findings like these will support our use of new technologies in classrooms. What is evident from their recommendations is that further teacher professional development is required to ensure that we have teachers with the skill set to produce the ‘effective digital citizens’ we need in society today.
London Jenks

Education Week: Effective Use of Digital Tools Seen Lacking in Most Tech.-Rich Schools - 100 views

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EMT502 technology effective edtech tools digital pedagogy digitallearning digital techintegration flexiblelearning blendedlearning fbl education elearning

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  • cut their photocopying and printing budgets in half.
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      London Jenks on 26 Feb 11
       
      The "paperless classroom" or the "not so much paper as before" classroom
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The Difficulty of Discovery (Where Have All The Geniuses Gone?) | Wired Scien... - 99 views

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discovery Nature of science

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  • In sciences and engineering, 99.4% of the 171 subfields have seen increased teamwork. Meanwhile, 100% of the 54 subfields in the social sciences, 88.9%of the 27 subfields in the humanities, and 100% of the 36 subfields in patenting have seen increased teamwork
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      London Jenks on 31 Jan 11
       
      This highlights the need to teach our students to collaborate effectively and work well in teams. What skills do they need? 
  • We live in a world of such complexity that our problems increasingly exceed the possibilities of the individual mind. Collaboration is no longer an option.
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