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Martin Burrett

The Virtual Circuit - 92 views

www.succeedingwithscience.com/...swf.php

science electricity circuit iwb whiteboard resources

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  • Martin Burrett on 31 Aug 11
     
    A science resource about electrical circuits. Build a lots of circuits based on instructions. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/science
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  • Alison Burns on 20 Mar 15
     
    This connection did not work.
  • Rachel Hinton on 20 Mar 15
     
    This one does: http://sustainability.sellafieldsites.com/resources/virtual-circuit/
  • Rachel Hinton on 20 Mar 15
     
    I went to Martin Burrett's site and was instructed to go to http://ukedchat.com/ictmagic-science/.
Sharin Tebo

How Do We Transform Our Schools? - Education Next : Education Next - 26 views

educationnext.org/ow-do-we-transform-our-schools

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  • And yet the machines have made hardly any impact.
    • Sharin Tebo
      Sharin Tebo on 07 Feb 15
       
      Why would they? It is PEOPLE, not programs or 'things' that make a difference!
  • An organization’s natural instinct is to cram the innovation into its existing operating model to sustain what it already does. This is the predictable course, the logical course—and the wrong course.
    • Sharin Tebo
      Sharin Tebo on 07 Feb 15
       
      This idea of 'nonconsumption' is exactly what the authors of Blended discuss. This is the opportune moment to disrupt and innovate. 
  • The way to implement an innovation so that it will transform an organization is to implement it disruptively—not by using it to compete against the existing paradigm and serve existing customers, but to let it compete against “non-consumption,” where the alternative is nothing at all.
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  • At first glance there appears to be little non-consumption of education in the United States since students are required to receive schooling. Looking deeper, however, reveals many pockets of non-consumption where students would be delighted with computer-based learning rather than the alternative, nothing at all. Take Advanced Placement (AP) courses for starters. According to a 2005 report by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), 33 percent of schools nationwide offered no AP classes in 2002–03. Those that do provide AP courses today only offer a fraction of the 34 courses for which AP exams are available, because they lack the resources to hire more AP teachers or there is not enough student demand to justify a dedicated course and teacher.
  • Credit recovery is another big opportunity.
Glenn Hervieux

5 Great Teachers On What Makes A Great Teacher : NPR Ed : NPR - 78 views

www.npr.org/...-on-what-makes-a-great-teacher

teachers teaching

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  • That's why so many of us have to seek out PD opportunities both on and offline on our own time, past the meetings and opportunities provided by our school.
  • I know I'm going to get pushback on this, but I think one of the major problems we face in cultivating great teachers is that we don't pay enough attention, especially in K-12, to the learning of the teacher.
  • Glenn Hervieux on 11 Nov 14
     
    So many great points by veteran teachers - one with over 50 years of teaching experience - on what makes a great teacher - not just the quality, but the process of becoming/sustaining excellence in teaching
Sharin Tebo

Why the Growth Mindset is the Only Way to Learn | Edudemic - 83 views

www.edudemic.com/growth-mindset-way-learn

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  • The growth mindset is the opposite of the fixed: It thrives on challenge and sees failure as an opportunity for growth. It creates a passion for learning instead of a hunger for approval.
    • Sharin Tebo
      Sharin Tebo on 01 Nov 14
       
      This is completely how I feel but it took me a while, a long while to get to this point. Convincing others that failure presents opportunities to do it better next time and the time after that is challenging.
  • Then again, that study was just about small children- but children grow up. And if they’re taught that their capacity to learn is fixed, they bring their intellectual insecurities into adulthood. They’ve been essentially taught to try to avoid looking stupid, and that’s a hard habit to break.
  • Find peers No one can put in the work or learn for you. But having a support community is the single most effective supplement to the learning process. Collaboration maintains focus, speeds up learning, and sustains interests. No matter what it is you’re pursuing, find a group or a mentor for it.
donnawesley

Robertson, I. (2011). Establishing and sustaining teacher education professional development in a self-study community of practice: pre-tenure teacher educators developing professionally. - 0 views

www.ascilite.org.au/...robertson.pdf

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  • donnawesley on 20 Jun 14
     
    This is item 3 of 3 for the diigo annotated bibliography.
bheath

From Farm to Table | Orion Magazine - 23 views

www.orionmagazine.org/...7807

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  • “Farmers’ markets aren’t sexy anymore
    • bheath
      bheath on 11 Jun 14
       
      Read on and tell me why Farmers markets have failed to advance the sustainable and local food movement.
  • What we need is a system of local “food hubs” that can process and bundle local foods and deliver them to the places where America eats.
  • Perhaps the only thing all these food hubs share is a conviction that there is value in preserving regional identity, artisanal character, and sustainable practices—in saving some products from the great meat grinder of industrial food distribution.
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  • Some simply bundle the produce of multiple small farms to reach the consistent volumes and product diversity required to supply local markets. Some are purely virtual marketplaces that allow chefs to find available produce from regional farms and buy it directly. Some have a social mission to not only bring foods to underprivileged neighborhoods but to increase food literacy as well, or to guarantee fair prices to farms and farmworkers. And some specialize in incubating new producers like Pete
  • See an audio slide show about the Mad River Food Hub at the Reimagining Infrastructure series homepage, www.orionmagazine.org/infrastructure.
Matt Renwick

Can Minecraft Foster a Growth Mindset? - 38 views

plpnetwork.com/...inecraft-foster-growth-mindset

minecraft foster growth mindset designing classroom

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  • Matt Renwick on 20 Mar 14
     
    "Our students have shown an amazing ability to sustain focus"
Shannon Baird

Connected Educators | Helping Educators Thrive in a Connected World - 1 views

connectededucators.org

connected

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  • Marc Patton on 09 Jul 12
     
    The Connected Online Communities of Practice project will steward a scalable, sustainable ecology of online communities in education to improve teacher and leader effectiveness, enhance student learning and increase productivity.
Steven Szalaj

Schools need to teach students to maintain attention - chicagotribune.com - 6 views

www.chicagotribune.com/ool23-20130923,0,6455734.story

Education attention schools

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  • Steven Szalaj on 02 Oct 13
     
    Schwartz is a professor of social theory and social action at Swarthmore College.  Here he presents a case for working at sustained attention in schools.
Roland Gesthuizen

Will a teenager combust if you remove their iPhone? - Sustainability education - Blog - Sustainability education - TESAustralia Community - 43 views

community.tesaustralia.com/...f-you-remove-their-iphone.aspx

teenager sustainability education community blog

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 13 Aug 13
     
    "Thea Nicholas, Science and Sustainability Educator from the not-for-profit organisation Cool Australia, conducts an interesting experiment by separating teenagers from their technology. Find out how long they last... "
Mark Gleeson

iTeach: The best 1:1 device is good teaching - 11 views

www.andrewmarcinek.com/...1-device-is-good-teaching.html

CTL educational technology PD

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  • Devices come and go, but progressive teachers who adapt will sustain longer than any device
  • Usually this conversation is focused on what hardware works best for teaching and learning. While this is an important decision to make, it should not be the focus. In fact, the best devices a school can employ are great teachers.
  • We have reached a point in education technology where devices are, for the most part, adaptable.
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  • the best device a school can roll out is a teacher who can adapt to new and emerging technologies, does not always require formal training for learning and staying current, and is not tethered to a product (PowerPoint) in order to teach.
  • Mark Gleeson on 05 Jul 13
     
    As I mentioned earlier, the best device a school can roll out is a teacher who can adapt to new and emerging technologies, does not always require formal training for learning and staying current, and is not tethered to a product (PowerPoint) in order to teach. Education technology will continue to progress and part of this evolution will be for students and teachers to stay current with both curriculum and digital literacy. Even in the absence of technology, a great teacher will continually seek out ways to engage his or her students in great lessons, simulations or challenges.  
Brandie Hayes

World's Largest Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Plant Planned for China | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building - 31 views

inhabitat.com/ersion-plant-planned-for-china

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  • Brandie Hayes on 27 Apr 13
     
    2:50 video and article about a new Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Plant to be built in China by Lockheed Martin. It will be the worlds largest.
Jac Londe

World debt comparison: The global debt clock | The Economist - 64 views

www.economist.com/...global_debt_clock

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  • Jac Londe on 18 Apr 13
     
    Sustainable or unsustainable ? Public Debts are crippling our lives.
Matt Renwick

Educational Leadership:Strong Readers All:E-Readers: Powering Up for Engagement - 33 views

www.ascd.org/...owering_Up_for_Engagement.aspx

ASCD ebooks engagement

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  • E-readers have tremendous potential to entice reluctant readers to read more. A study that we recently conducted among low-reading-ability middle school students demonstrated that potential. Students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades became more engaged and motivated during their scheduled silent sustained reading periods when they were given the opportunity to use e-readers.
  • Responding to text is one way that students establish comprehension and improve their skill in understanding, predicting, and critically analyzing what they read. Larson (2009, 2010) observed students spontaneously using the highlight feature of the Kindle called "My Clippings" to leave personal notes and questions about what they were reading.
Roland Gesthuizen

Story of Stuff (2007, OFFICIAL Version) - YouTube - 146 views

www.youtube.com/watch

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  • It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 21 Nov 11
     
    From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.
  • Chris Brennan on 21 Nov 11
     
    I created Stuff Survey and Film Discussion Questions for use in my classroom. Enjoy!
  • Elizabeth Resnick on 22 Nov 11
     
    I showed this video to my 7th grade tech class; it led to a great discussion. I posted screen shots from the film on Voice Thread and asked the class to comment.
Steve Ransom

Principal: 'I was naïve about Common Core' - 4 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...-i-was-naive-about-common-core

commoncore testing standardizedtesting highstakestesting accountability critique

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  • The promise of the Common Core is dying and teaching and learning are being distorted.  The well that should sustain the Core has been poisoned.
  • Whether or not learning the word ‘commission’ is appropriate for second graders could be debated—I personally think it is a bit over the top.  What is of deeper concern, however, is that during a time when 7 year olds should be listening to and making music, they are instead taking a vocabulary quiz.
  • Real learning occurs in the mind of the learner when she makes connections with prior learning, makes meaning, and retains that knowledge in order to create additional meaning from new information.  In short, with tests we see traces of learning, not learning itself.
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  • Teachers are engaged in practices like these because they are pressured and afraid, not because they think the assessments are educationally sound. Their principals are pressured and nervous about their own scores and the school’s scores. Guaranteed, every child in the class feels that pressure and trepidation as well.
  • I am troubled that a company that has a multi-million dollar contract to create tests for the state should also be able to profit from producing test prep materials. I am even more deeply troubled that this wonderful little girl, whom I have known since she was born, is being subject to this distortion of what her primary education should be.
  • The Common Core places an extraordinary emphasis on vocabulary development
  • Parents can expect that the other three will be neglected as teachers frantically try to prepare students for the difficult and high-stakes tests.
  • They see data, not children. 
  • Data should be used as a strategy for improvement, not for accountability
  • A fool with a tool is still a fool.  A fool with a powerful tool is a dangerous fool.
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