A recent study by Scholastic and the Gates Foundation found that teachers spend only about 3 percent of
their teaching day collaborating with colleagues. The majority of American teachers plan, teach, and examine their practice alone
SpeakPipe - listen to your customers - 10 views
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Listen to your students.
MetaBlast - 8 views
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The last remaining plant cell in existence is dying. An expert team of plant scientists have inexplicably disappeared. Can you rescue the lost team, discover what is killing the plant, and save the world? Meta!Blast is a real-time 3D action-adventure game that puts you in the pilot's seat. Shrink down to microscopic size and explore the vivid, dynamic world of a soybean plant cell spinning out of control. Interact with numerous characters, fight off plant pathogens, and discover how important plants are to the survival of the human race.
Alone in the Classroom: Why Teachers Are Too Isolated - Jeffrey Mirel & Simona Goldin -... - 6 views
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With a common curriculum there is agreement about what students are expected to learn, what teachers are to teach, what teacher educators are to instill in potential teachers, and what tests of student learning should measure.
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Time and money need to be invested to support teachers' understanding of the curriculum and to develop an ethos of collaboration within schools. Also needed are ongoing professional development programs to support teachers' substantive work together.
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"Educators spend most of their time distanced from their colleagues. Instead of forcing them to compete with each other, we should help them find new ways to work together."
How Finnish schools shine | Teacher Network Blog | guardian.co.uk - 3 views
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Teacher based assessments are used by schools to monitor progress and these are not graded, scored or compared; but instead are descriptive and utilised in a formative manner to inform feedback and assessment for learning.
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"Teachers are respected, exams are shunned and league tables simply don't exist - but if the Finnish system is so good why is it so hard to emulate?"
Educational Origami - Comparing 20th and 21st Century Educational Paradigms - 122 views
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Mainly collaborative some individual
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Mainly collaborative some individual
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Mainly collaborative some indi
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Nice table comparing the way teaching was and where it might be going. -
"Mainly collaborative"
A Media Specialist's Guide to the Internet: 39 Sites For Using iPads in the Classroom - 35 views
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Resources .for using iPads in the classroom
Making Online PowerPoint Content Engaging: Writing a Narration Script | Faculty Focus - 118 views
Moving to Digital Student Portfolios | Langwitches Blog - 136 views
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Blog as ePortfolio: Cost effective, lasts beyond student enrollment in school.
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iPad Creative - iPad Creative Blog - iPad vs iPhone 4S camera shootout, part 1 - 48 views
Tech Talk for Teachers: Do You Stream on UStream? - 62 views
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Have your class create a webcast, and be "on the air" in a matter of minutes using UStream.tv.
Laser Pandas | Think Thank Thunk - 40 views
Michael Sigman: When Everyone Gets a Trophy, No One Wins - 61 views
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"A" grades, which once conveyed excellence, are now given to 43 percent of all college students, according to a study by grade-inflation gurus Stuart Rojstaczer and Christopher Healy.
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a scandalous 86 percent of private school students, it turns out, get nothing lower than a "B."
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the vast majority of all private school children are virtually guaranteed to be above average.
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Welcome to Discovery Education Player - 2 views
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Video Segment about Christopher Columbus
Climate Science? There's an App For That | Climate Central - 0 views
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Whether you're interested in keeping tabs on Arctic sea ice, finding a renewable fuel source close to your home, or monitoring corporations' carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, there's an app for that.
My Library - 5 views
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