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Roland Gesthuizen

Step 1: give every kid a laptop. Step 2: learning begins? - 16 views

arstechnica.com/...2

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  • The state program works with teachers to change their lesson plans appropriately; the goal is to get students to think critically and engage with all subjects through creative work. "Since our beginnings, we've always looked at notions of creation," Mao said. "It's not about consumption of content, it's about the creation of knowledge."
  • making a laptop program effective is only 10 or 20 percent about the hardware itself, with the rest being about making sure the teachers know how to use them and how to lead students to proper learning goals
  • Bolting old lesson plans to new computers will do little, but future programs with strong teacher buy-in and excellent institutional support have the potential to do much more.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 12 Feb 12
     
    Countries considering "one-to-one" laptop programs might also compare the OLPC experiences to a different program in Maine. At present, this northeastern state distributes a MacBook to every middle school student and to about half of high school students, for a total of over 70,000 laptops.
Randolph Hollingsworth

Suffern Middle School in Virtual Worlds - A running account of the process of the proposal, acquisition, development and integration of a virtual presence for education at Suffern Middle School, Suffern, New York, USA. - 1 views

ramapoislands.edublogs.org

shared by Randolph Hollingsworth on 09 Mar 12 - Cached
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 09 Mar 12
     
    not active currently - also created Educator Coffee Chats in Second Life
Damien Murtagh

NASAeClips's Channel - YouTube - 59 views

www.youtube.com/NASAeClips

teacher student resources science videos

shared by Damien Murtagh on 05 Mar 12 - Cached
  • Damien Murtagh on 05 Mar 12
     
    NASA eClips is organized according to grade level with playlists intended for elementary school, middle school, and high school.
Bob Kachurek

A Student's Guide to Global Climate Change | US EPA - 59 views

www.epa.gov/...index.html

science ClimateChange GlobalWarming

shared by Bob Kachurek on 21 Nov 11 - Cached
  • Bob Kachurek on 21 Nov 11
     
    An excellent site for middle school students.
Paul Hieronymus

Schools and Students Clash Over Use of Technology | MindShift - 5 views

blogs.kqed.org/...s-clash-over-use-of-technology

BYOD

shared by Paul Hieronymus on 31 May 12 - No Cached
  • Students want more control over how they use technology in school, but many classrooms are still making it difficult.
  • A whopping 45 percent of middle-schoolers and 55 percent of high-schoolers say that they mainly access the Internet through mobile devices.
  • esistance from administrators, 52 percent of whom said they don’t allow students to use any personal mobile device in class, at least partially because a blended learning model represents a shift in the relationship between teacher and student.
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  • And access to tablets doubled between 2010 and 2011 – up to 26 percent for middle-schoolers and 21percent of high-schoolers.
  • When parents were asked what most concerns them about their children’s future almost three-quarters said they worry that their children won’t “get the right skills” to succeed in the future.
  • Paul Hieronymus on 31 May 12
     
    Some great points here!
Jenna Ervin

Summer Reading Flowchart: What Should You Read On Your Break? | Teach.com - 98 views

teach.com/...summer-reading-flowchart

reading flowchart resources

shared by Jenna Ervin on 21 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Jenna Ervin on 21 Jun 12
     
    A fun flowchart, for teachers and students, to keep up the reading during the summer and even the school year. Targeted to high school students, but advanced middle school readers could use it as well.
Gerald Carey

The KYVL for Kids Research Portal - How to do research Home Base - 3 views

www.kyvl.org/homebase.html

research library resources

shared by Gerald Carey on 20 Jul 13 - Cached
  • Gerald Carey on 20 Jul 13
     
    Mainly for younger children but I think it would work for middle school. The good thing about it is that each step has a link that explains the step in more detail.
Roland Gesthuizen

88 Teacher Interview Questions | Teacher Catapult - 91 views

teachercatapult.com/...teacher-interview-questions

questioning teachertraining career interview list questions

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 22 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 22 Aug 13
     
    "Below are some sample teacher interview questions. These questions are quite common for high school, middle school, and elementary teacher interviews.  The difficulty level of these questions vary from easy to more difficult, but all of which are typical of a standard interview.  When given an interview as a teacher, it is important to realize that you can prepare for it just as you would for an important test. "
Glen Muir

BBC News - How Chinese babies and Mid-East pizza tip US markets - 17 views

www.bbc.com/...world-us-canada-29133022

supply and demand

shared by Glen Muir on 15 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • his year in the US, milk futures leapt 26% and butter prices 62%
  • As a result, there was usually an oversupply of milk products on the market, Levitt says.
  • US and European governments stored excess dairy products
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  • nd dairy regulation decreased, driving a new incentive and ability to trade with other nations.
  • s a result, the dairy market tends now toward undersupply.
  • But from December 2013 to February 2014, Chinese demand grew to 20-25% of all global dairy imports, with much of the supply coming from the US and New Zealand.
  • New Zealand is the world's largest dairy exporter, accounting for nearly one-third of the global dairy trade.
  • Many of the nation's cows graze in fields, and a big drought in 2013 caused national milk production to plummet nearly 30%.
  • The US started exporting more dairy, capturing more international market share but pushing up domestic prices.
  • It's not all bad news for New Zealand, though. Traditionally, when the price of dairy goes up, farmers expand operations and produce more milk, thus lowering prices down the line.
  • The increase in supply could eventually lead to cheaper prices in the US, but not for several months.
  • US franchises including KFC, Ihop, Subway, The Cheesecake Factory, Jamba Juice and Papa John's Pizza have all staked claims in the Middle East, with more chains looking to follow.
  • A young, newly urbanised population in the Middle East is demanding more dairy imports.
  • That removed an estimated $6.6bn (£4bn) in annual dairy trade from the global market. In 2013, the EU alone exported $3bn of dairy to Russia, of which cheese accounted for more than one-third.
  • In response, the European Commission has announced it will provide financial support to the dairy industry, subsidising private storage of cheese, skimmed milk powder and butter until they can be sold at a later date.
  • But it will take a little while to see those changes reflected in American supermarkets.
  • Glen Muir on 15 Sep 14
     
    5 factors that affect global market price
anonymous

STEM Across the Middle Grades Curriculum - 24 views

www.amle.org/...-Middle-Grades-Curriculum.aspx

stem

shared by anonymous on 01 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • based on the current Maryland Educational Standards; the difference is the thematic problem-based approach to covering the content. Unit design within the program is driven by the grade-level science curriculum.
  • The team plans the units around an overarching question or problem that meets the following criteria: The problem is valid. Students can relate to the problem. There can be multiple paths to a solution. The problem can be applied to the various classes to truly integrate the unit across the grade-level curriculum
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 01 Jul 14
       
      Standards Based!
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    • anonymous
      anonymous on 01 Jul 14
       
      Good question is posed and students discover!
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 01 Jul 14
       
      Notice that they mention only one unit.  Probably started with one unit and can expand from there.  No need to change everything in a year.  Just take baby steps and add one good unit at a time that can be tweaked and improved the next year.
  • continue their exploration of this topic throughout their other classes as well.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 01 Jul 14
       
      Cross-curricular = creates cohesion, greater interest, deeper learning, relevance
  • we try to include guest speakers and field trips to give the students the opportunity to engage with the content beyond the classroom.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 01 Jul 14
       
      Could have guest/field trips be virtual through WebX, etc.
Deborah Baillesderr

PenPal Schools - 35 views

penpalschools.com

communication social studies cultures society

shared by Deborah Baillesderr on 01 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • Deborah Baillesderr on 01 Apr 15
     
    This is for middle and high school age students.
Martha Wilding

http://www.qconline.com/archives/qco/print_display.php?id=617382 - 22 views

www.qconline.com/...print_display.php

Technology Education Attention Metacognitive skills

shared by Martha Wilding on 21 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • they were waiting for a time when the videotape material seemed less important and not likely to be on the test. Those students were using their metacognitive skills to decide when was a good time to be distracted and when it was important to focus
  • "focus" on classroom work for 15 minutes.
  • no need to be internally distracted since an opportunity to "check in" will be coming
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  • gradually lengthen the time between tech breaks
  • Martha Wilding on 21 Jun 13
     
    Author describes study that showed that middle, hs, and university students were highly distractible by technology and were anxious if they could not check their devices. He described a strategy called "tech breaks" where students are allowed to check devices and social media for a minute and then to focus on school work for 15 minutes as a way of improving their metacognitive skills. 
  • Nina Levine on 23 Jun 13
     
    I wonder if using technology in the classroom - integrally - would mitigate some of the anxiety and/or increase attention. I wonder if there are other teaching/learning strategies we might employ that would increase engagement such that students would be distracted from their distraction...
Kenuvis Romero

Insula (building) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Insula_(building)

shared by Kenuvis Romero on 23 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • In Roman architecture, an insula (Latin for "island," plural insulae) was a kind of apartment building that housed most of the urban citizen population of ancient Rome, including ordinary people of lower- or middle-class status (the plebs) and all but the wealthiest from the upper-middle class (the equites). The traditional elite and the very wealthy lived in domus, large single-family residences, but the two kinds of housing were intermingled in the city and not segregated into separate neighborhoods.[1] The ground-level floor of the insula was used for tabernae, shops and businesses, with the living space upstairs. Like modern apartment buildings, an insula might have a name, usually referring to the owner of the building.[2]
Martha Hickson

JogNog helps teachers create learning games for their students | eSchool News - 4 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...rning-games-for-their-students

games game-making

shared by Martha Hickson on 21 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Martha Hickson on 21 Jun 12
     
    JogNog, a website that provides competitive learning games that motivate students in grades 2-12 to learn, has opened up its library of elementary and middle school content to teachers who want to create games that match their specific lesson plans.
Glenn Hervieux

What's the Big Idea? | Teaching Philosophy through feature film clips - 74 views

whatsthebigideaprogram.com

philosophy film video curriculum

shared by Glenn Hervieux on 24 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Glenn Hervieux on 24 Nov 13
     
    Whether or not you realize it, you probably have philosophical discussions with your students. But if you use the term "Philosophy", it would probably be met with blank stares. This website, developed by a college philosophy professor, provides an easy to understand, engaging introduction to philosophy for middle schoolers using FILM. I think it could also be used with high school students and used as a tool for how students could engage each other in a variety of discussions across the curriculum.
Marc Patton

Adobe Youth Voices - 7 views

youthvoices.adobe.com

Art Media_Resources Teacher_Resources Music

shared by Marc Patton on 01 May 12 - Cached
  • Marc Patton on 28 Jun 12
     
    Demonstrating the power of technology to engage middle- and high school-age youth, Adobe Youth Voices provides breakthrough learning experiences using video, multimedia, digital art, web, animation, and audio tools that enable youth to explore and comment on their world.
Randy Rodgers

Booktrack Classroom - Teachers - 91 views

info.booktrackclassroom.com/teachers

classroom reading soundtrack audio literature writing

shared by Randy Rodgers on 08 May 14 - No Cached
  • Randy Rodgers on 08 May 14
     
    Intriguing site lets students or teachers read along to stories with audio, movie-style soundtracks or create their own soundtracks for creative writing assignments. Includes a few sample lesson plans for using the site with elementary, middle, or high school students.
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