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in title, tags, annotations or urlHMS Blogging Template - 61 views
The Role of Technology in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics - 81 views
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The use of technology cannot replace conceptual understanding, computational fluency, or problem-solving skills.
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Programs in teacher education and professional development must continually update practitioners’ knowledge of technology and its classroom applications.
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All teachers must remain open to learning new technologies,
Video Games Win a Beachhead in the Classroom - NYTimes.com - 47 views
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create a game that was hard to beat but harder still to quit
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games themselves could feasibly replace tests
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whether children learn more when playing individually or collaboratively.
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Can We Prevent An Education Bubble? - Forbes - 45 views
Education Week Teacher: Redefining Instruction With Technology: Five Essential Steps - 95 views
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This was the wrong approach: To truly change how my classroom worked, I needed a technology-based redefinition of my practice.
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Break down to rebuild.
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By setting aside my pre-conceived notions of how my classroom "should" look, sound, and feel, I was able to transform my practice from the ground up.
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Rewordify.com: Understand what you read - 85 views
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Rewordify takes a complex passage and rephrases it in simpler terms. Students can adjust Rewordify's settings to match their needs. For example, students can add words to a "skip list" and those words will not be changed when they appear in a passage. Students can also use Rewordify to simply highlight difficult words instead of having them replaced.
How to Fix Our Math Education - NYTimes.com - 63 views
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the assumption that there is a single established body of mathematical skills that everyone needs to know to be prepared for 21st-century careers. This assumption is wrong. The truth is that different sets of math skills are useful for different careers, and our math education should be changed to reflect this fact.
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Today, American high schools offer a sequence of algebra, geometry, more algebra, pre-calculus and calculus (or a “reform” version in which these topics are interwoven). This has been codified by the Common Core State Standards, recently adopted by more than 40 states. This highly abstract curriculum is simply not the best way to prepare a vast majority of high school students for life.
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A math curriculum that focused on real-life problems would still expose students to the abstract tools of mathematics, especially the manipulation of unknown quantities. But there is a world of difference between teaching “pure” math, with no context, and teaching relevant problems that will lead students to appreciate how a mathematical formula models and clarifies real-world situations.
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Diigo in Education - 108 views
Marie, my primary use and focus with Diigo is the social networking aspect that you mentioned. There is definitely truth to the statement that "Chance favors the connected mind." I've created a g...
elearnspace. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age - 17 views
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Over the last twenty years, technology has reorganized how we live, how we communicate, and how we learn.
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I aggree that as teachers we need to realize that technology has changed instruction and the way that our students learn and the way that we learn and instruct.
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Technology has always changed the way we live. How did we respond to changes in the past? One thought is that some institutions, some businesses disappeared, while others, who took advantage of the new tech, appeared to replace the old. It will happen again and we as educators need to lead the way.
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With technology our students brains are wired differently and they can multi-task and learn in multiple virtual environments all at once. This should make us think about how we present lessons, structure learning and keep kids engaged.
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Rubbish. The idea that digital native are adept at multitasking is wrong. They may be doing many things but the quality and depth is reduced. There is a significant body of research to support this. Development of grit and determination are key attributes of successful people. Set and demand high standards. No one plays sport or an instrument because it is easy rather because they can clearly see a link between hard work and pleasure.
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Information development was slow.
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Many learners will move into a variety of different, possibly unrelated fields over the course of their lifetime.
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Google Tip of the Day #33 - Adding an Attachment to a Calendar Event - 95 views
Imagining College Without Grades :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs - 0 views
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A professor who tells his students that “grades are the death of composition.” Another said: “Grades create a facade of coherence.”
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politically impossible
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grades were squelching intellectual curiosity.
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C. Wright Mills on blogging | Savage Minds - 0 views
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On Intellectual Craftmanship. I was amazed how clearly the reasons why scholars blog were laid out in the opening paragraphs. In what follows I have changed none of Mills’s original language except for replaced ‘journal’ and ‘file’ with ‘website’ and ‘blog’. Clearly Mills didn’t envision the files he advocates as public documents, but other than that the parallels are uncanny
The Trouble With Twitter - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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To those who Twitter, the reporter who investigates a story before offering it to the public must also seem tediously ruminant. On Twitter, the notes become the story, devoid of even five minutes of reflection on the writer's way to the computer. I can see that there are times —an airplane landing in the Hudson, a presidential election in Iran—when this type of impromptu journalism becomes a necessity, and an exciting one at that. Luckily, reporters still exist to make sense of information bytes and expand upon them for readers—but for how much longer? I worry that microblogging cheats my students out of their trump card: a mindful attention to the subject in front of them, so that they can capture its sights and sounds, its smells and tactile qualities, to share with readers. How can Twittering stories from laptops and phones possibly replace the attentive journalist who tucks a digital recorder artfully under a notepad, pencil behind one ear, and gives full attention to the subject at hand?
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I went home after the lecture and—hypocritically, I admit—updated my Facebook status and my blog to declare how much I despise Twitter.
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Twitter serves as a source of links to longer news stories.
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Which is one of its main uses in journalism. As Jay Rosen (@jayrosennyu) and others have put it, through services like Twitter and, indeed, Diigo we edit the web for one another. We can see it as acting as human filters, intelligent gatherers and sifters of information for the various networks in which we are nodes.
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Text Message (SMS) Polls and Voting, Audience Response System | Poll Everywhere - 14 views
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Just making sure everyone knows about this tool.
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Free resource for tracking student thinking (with cell phones, too)
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Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology
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