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April Grybosky

Elon PBL T2 Project - 0 views

shared by April Grybosky on 27 Jul 09 - Cached
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    Elon grant funded curriculum writing for four PBL Lessons.
April Grybosky

PowerPoint Presentation - 1 views

shared by April Grybosky on 27 Jul 09 - Cached
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    PPT of PBL
April Grybosky

PPT Problem Based Learning PPT - 0 views

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    This PPT was used with Elon's grant project.
April Grybosky

PPT Problem Based Learning PPT - 0 views

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    This PPT was used with Elon's grant project.
Ed Webb

How to Wake Up Slumbering Minds - WSJ.com - 2 views

  • what school requires students to do -- think abstractly -- is in fact not something our brains are designed to be good at or to enjoy
  • it is critical that the task be just difficult enough to hold our interest but not so difficult that we give up in frustration. When this balance is struck, it is actually pleasurable to focus the mind for long periods of time
  • Students are ready to understand knowledge but not create it. For most, that is enough. Attempting a great leap forward is likely to fail.
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  • students cannot apply generic "critical thinking skills" (another voguish concept) to new material unless they first understand that material
  • Trying to use "reading strategies" -- like searching for the main idea in a passage -- will be futile if you don't know enough facts to fill in what the author has left unsaid.
  • what is being taught in most of the curriculum -- at all levels of schooling -- is information about meaning, and meaning is independent of form
  • At some point, no amount of dancing will help you learn more algebra
    • Ed Webb
       
      But if you learn dancing AND algebra, you may be better at both, or at least approach each in a more interesting way.
Marge Runkle

20 Ideas for an Excellent Podcast [WorkHappy.net] - 4 views

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    Good list of "look-fors" when creating a podcast
Dominic Salvucci

McDonald's Wireless Connectivity - 0 views

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    The website to find if a McDonald's near you offers wireless Internet.
Andrew Williamson

Australia Publishes CC Info Pack - Creative Commons - 0 views

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    Great post on Creative Commons. This should answer all your questions re: using CC material on your blog
Jay Swan

Comiqs - 1 views

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    Create and share your own comics using your photos, doodles, and text.
Susan Lister

nrich.maths.org :: Mathematics Enrichment :: stemNRICH - 0 views

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    new part of Nrich specific to science and engineering
Robin Hawley-Brillante

Next Test - Value of $125,000-a-Year Teachers - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Article about experimental school in NYC where teachers are paid a lot and eliminate assistant principals.
Tony Baldasaro

Weblogg-ed » "Tinkering Toward Utopia" - 1 views

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    During Boot Camp last week, Sheryl turned me on to Phillip Schlechty's newish book "Leading for Learning: How to Transform Schools into Learning Organizations" and I had a chance to get through a chunk of it on the cramped, smelly plane(s) to Melbourne. In it, he makes a pretty compelling case that "reform" is really not going to cut it in the face of the disruptions social Web technologies are creating and that we really do have to think more about "transform" when it comes to talking about schools. There are echoes of Sir Ken Robinson here, and I've still got Scott McLeod's NECC presentation riff on Christensen's "Disrupting Class" on my brain as well, especially the "the disruption isn't online learning; it's personalized learning" quote. And while there are others who I could cite here who are trumpeting the idea that this isn't business as usual, I think Schlechty does as good a job as I've seen of breaking down why schools in their current form as "bureaucratic" structures will end up on the "ash heap of history" if we don't get our brains around what's happening.
Tony Baldasaro

Adobe - Managing Your Digital Footprint - 0 views

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    When it comes to job hunting, people have no shortage of concerns: preparing a compelling resume, providing polished answers to interview questions, and having excellent references, just to name a few. But since the word "Google" became a verb, job seekers have one more thing to worry about: ensuring their online records won't deter hiring managers from making a job offer.
Barbara Moose

Kidsmart: Welcome - 2 views

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    KidSMART - learn about the internet and being a SMART surfer
Miguel Rodriguez

A Textbook Example of What's Wrong with Education | Edutopia - 0 views

  • A Textbook Example of What's Wrong with Education A former schoolbook editor parses the politics of educational publishing.by Tamim Ansary var addthis_options = 'delicious, digg, facebook, google, reddit, stumbleupon, twitter, more'; Print Forward addthis_pub = 'glef'; Share Comments(38) Comment RSS Click to enlarge pictureThe Muddle Machine Credit: Monte Wolverton Some years ago, I signed on as an editor at a major publisher of elementary school and high school textbooks, filled with the idealistic belief that I'd be working with equally idealistic authors to create books that would excite teachers and fill young minds with Big Ideas. Not so. I got a hint of things to come when I overheard my boss lamenting, "The books are done and we still don't have an author! I must sign someone today!" Every time a friend with kids in school tells me textbooks are too generic, I think back to that moment. "Who writes these things?" people ask me. I have to tell them, without a hint of irony, "No one." It's symptomatic of the whole muddled mess that is the $4.3 billion textbook business. Textbooks are a core part of the curriculum, as crucial to the teacher as a blueprint is to a carpenter, so one might assume they are conceived, researched, written, and published as unique contributions to advancing knowledge.
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      I have worked as an editor for an educational publisher myself and, let me tell you, a lot of this sounds really familiar!
Tony Baldasaro

Colby College | Colby Magazine | Summer 2009 - 0 views

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    Professor Cal MacKenzie writes about the potential power of computer-based learning at Colby College.
Susan Smith

More Remote Learners in Your Future | From the Bell Tower - 7/16/2009 - Library Journal - 0 views

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    What does this have to do with higher education? High gas prices got adult learners questioning the value of driving an hour each way to a college campus. Suddenly, online learning became vastly more attractive to a whole segment of higher education's market. Articles about fuel prices driving students to online courses became as prevalent as those about the impact of the recession on higher education are right now. While the price of fuel has retreated to a more manageable range, the number of Americans flocking to online higher education has shown no such decline.
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