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in title, tags, annotations or urlUnconference: Revolutionary professional learning | Powerful Learning Practice - 136 views
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as adults we are so unused to seeing democratic, generative thinking, live, in action.
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moving from expert-driven learning to self-authorized learning.
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Fakebook: Fakebook. Create educational games and quizzes at classtools.net - 144 views
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"Fakebook" allows teachers and students to create imaginary profile pages for study purposes. Looks pretty realistic. Would be a suitable substitute for Facebook without the concerns associated with the real site.
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I have been wanting something just like this! It's sooooooooo authentic looking and functioning... I LOVE IT!!!!
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Cool idea for using with authors/characters.
How Google Plus Communities Could Connect Students - 29 views
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With a connection to his previous Texas home, Ashby has helped set up collaborative student projects between North Carolina and Texas schools, among others. "We're just trying to basically let our students get connections, and then we want our students to take it from there," Ashby said. These connections — both in the U.S. and globally — help students understand that their work is not just for their teacher, but for a broader audience. He hopes that will give them intrinsic motivation to perform better.
What Reflects a Great School? Not Test Scores - Education Week - 79 views
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These gains often turn out to be an achievement mirage
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Three interconnected factors are as essential for whole-school achievement as knowing how to teach well: trust, collaboration, and authenticity.
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professional learning is ongoing and embedded
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The Flipped Class: Myths vs. Reality - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education. - 148 views
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The traditional definition of a flipped class is:Where videos take the place of direct instructionThis then allows students to get individual time in class to work with their teacher on key learning activities.It is called the flipped class because what used to be classwork (the "lecture" is done at home via teacher-created videos and what used to be homework (assigned problems) is now done in class.
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The Flipped Classroom is NOT:
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The Flipped Classroom IS:
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Getting A Job Is Not The Purpose Of School - 41 views
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By calling it “school” (rather than learning), and “a job” (rather than work), we’re unwittingly creating a tone of drudgery and compliance that centers the institutions and their processes (grades, academic success and performance), and de-centers the end result (skills–>understanding–>creativity–>wisdom).
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the vast majority of social ills that plague us–as a planet, not just in one country–stem from a surplus of bad work
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And because we’ve all had jobs that sucked, it’s easy to shrug it off as a necessary evil in life, but it’s not. Work that demeans, dehumanizes, mechanizes, and depersonalizes individuals also, by design, demean, dehumanize, mechanize, and depersonalize society at large, and telling people to “be thankful they have a job” is an antiquated response that misses the point.
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Analyzing the History of the Bicycle: A Prezi DBQ » Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas - 7 views
How to Determine Website Credibility - 114 views
Guideline on Some Questions and Answers about Grammar - 36 views
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Grammar names the types of words and word groups that make up sentences not only in English but in any language
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sentence structure
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conventions and style of language.
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