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Jennifer Massengill

Ten Steps to Better Student Engagement | Edutopia - 0 views

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PBL engagement

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  • Begin every activity with a task that 95 percent of the class can do without your help. Get your students used to the fact that when you say, "Please begin," they should pick up a pencil and start working successfully.
    • Jennifer Massengill
      Jennifer Massengill on 17 Oct 12
       
      An interesting thought for my students who assume they can't do it and consistently sit and wait for teacher help; often without even looking at what they are supposed to do.
  • eachers tend to get the first response when they scaffold challenging tasks so that all students are successful.
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  • you can begin by discerning which activities truly engage your students.
    • Jennifer Massengill
      Jennifer Massengill on 17 Oct 12
       
      I know that assignment would have terrified me as a kid.
  • create intermediate steps
  • Consider writing responses to student journal entries in order to carry on a conversation with students about their work.
  • Unfortunately, low-performing students get used to doing poor-quality work. To help them break the habit, use a draft-and-revision process.
  • Jennifer Massengill on 17 Oct 12
     
    Interesting ideas on how to make project based learning a positive experience for all.
Kelsey Agett

Back to School: Preparing for Day One | Edutopia - 0 views

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first day school elementary

shared by Kelsey Agett on 06 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • If you are a new teacher, this is imperative. By rehearsing, this gives you an idea on pacing, one the greatest challenges for most beginning teachers.
    • Kelsey Agett
      Kelsey Agett on 06 Sep 12
       
      We talked about this...it may feel awkward, but seems worth it, even with little kids.
  • Modeling forgiveness and kindness and giving a kid a second
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  • Every child deserves a chance to make a new first impression.
  • Kelsey Agett on 06 Sep 12
     
    Good advice, especially since most of us did not get to experience a first day of school as a student teacher.
Jennifer Massengill

Weather Wiz Kids weather information for kids - 0 views

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weather science experiments

shared by Jennifer Massengill on 16 Sep 12 - Cached
  • Jennifer Massengill on 16 Sep 12
     
    Planning on teaching a lesson on weather? Check out these activities to make your class memorable!
Alexander Hendrix

VLM | Teacher's Corner - 0 views

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  • Programs Teacher Guide Schedule Your Visit Prepare for Your Visit  Discovery Boxes  Teacher Training  Adopt a Wild Thing in School  Exhibit and Program Guides
  • Science comes alive for students of all ages at the Virginia Living Museum, the mid-Atlantic region's premier science education facility
  • elementary students
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  • nvironmental science labs are in-depth sessions in which middle and high school students actively participate in conducting experiments, collecting data and analyzing results.
  • Alexander Hendrix on 07 Nov 12
     
    More Field Trip opportunities for Teacher
Emily Wampler

Connecting the Digital Dots: Literacy of the 21st Century (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAU... - 0 views

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shared by Emily Wampler on 31 Aug 12 - No Cached
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      Emily Wampler on 31 Aug 12
       
      And wonder where they get the idea that "funds are plentiful" in education?  Hmm...
  • The greatest challenge is moving beyond the glitz and pizzazz of the flashy technology to teach true literacy in this new milieu. Using the same skills used for centuries—analysis, synthesis, and evaluation—we must look at digital literacy as another realm within which to apply elements of critical thinking.
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      Emily Wampler on 31 Aug 12
       
      This is really true; just because students may be "digitally savvy" doesn't mean they are competent/scholarly users of these digital technologies.  
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  • Digital literacy represents a person’s ability to perform tasks effectively in a digital environment, with “digital” meaning information represented in numeric form and primarily for use by a computer. Literacy includes the ability to read and interpret media (text, sound, images), to reproduce data and images through digital manipulation, and to evaluate and apply new knowledge gained from digital environments. According to Gilster,5 the most critical of these is the ability to make educated judgments about what we find online.
    • Emily Wampler
      Emily Wampler on 31 Aug 12
       
      It's interesting how they emphasize the higher orders of thinking here-analyze, judge, apply, evaluate, etc.  There's probably lots of room for creative thinking within digital literacy, too.  
  • Visual literacy, referred to at times as visual competencies, emerges from seeing and integrating sensory experiences. Focused on sorting and interpreting—sometimes simultaneously—visible actions and symbols, a visually literate person can communicate information in a variety of forms and appreciate the masterworks of visual communication.6 Visually literate individuals have a sense of design—the imaginative ability to create, amend, and reproduce images, digital or not, in a mutable way. Their imaginations seek to reshape the world in which we live, at times creating new realities. According to Bamford,7 “Manipulating images serve[s] to re-code culture.”
    • Emily Wampler
      Emily Wampler on 31 Aug 12
       
      Ah ha!  There's the bit about creative thinking.  They just give it a different name: visual literacy.  
  • Competency begins with understanding
  • The idea that the world we shape in turn shapes us is a constant.
  • In the end, it seems far better to have the skills and competencies to comprehend and discriminate within a common language than to be left out, unable to understand
    • Emily Wampler
      Emily Wampler on 31 Aug 12
       
      I think this definitely is true, and is a good reason why we need to incorporate digital literacy in the classroom. 
  • the concept of literacy has assumed new meanings.
  • Children learn these skills as part of their lives, like language, which they learn without realizing they are learning it.3
  • A common scenario today is a classroom filled with digitally literate students being led by linear-thinking, technologically stymied instructors.
  • Although funds may be plentiful
Kimberly George

Shaping Tech for the Classroom | Edutopia - 1 views

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technology education

shared by Kimberly George on 04 Sep 12 - Cached
  • I would even include writing, creating, submitting, and sharing work digitally on the computer via email or instant messaging in the category of doing old things (communicating and exchanging) in old ways (passing stuff around).
  • But new technology still faces a great deal of resistance. Today, even in many schools with computers, Luddite administrators (and even Luddite technology administrators) lock down the machines, refusing to allow students to access email.
  • Two big factors stand in the way of our making more and faster progress in technology adoption in our schools. One of these is technological, the other social.
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  • The missing technological element is true one-to-one computing, in which each student has a device he or she can work on, keep, customize, and take home
  • A second key barrier to technological adoption is mo
  • But resisting today's digital technology will be truly lethal to our children's education. They live in an incredibly fast-moving world significantly different than the one we grew up in.
  • These "digital natives" are born into digital technology. Conversely, their teachers (and all older adults) are "digital immigrants."
  • So, let's not just adopt technology into our schools. Let's adapt it, push it, pull it, iterate with it, experiment with it, test it, and redo it, until we reach the point where we and our kids truly feel we've done our very best.
  • Kimberly George on 04 Sep 12
     
    This relates to what we talked about in class- barriers to technology advances in the classroom. 
  • Stephanie McGuire on 05 Sep 12
     
    Oh I really like their step by step process to eventually be a teacher using new things in new ways. It makes this journey to learn technology more manageable!
Kasey Hutson

the Edthena blog - about better coaching for teachers and using technology - 0 views

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blog coaching teachers using technology edtech

shared by Kasey Hutson on 09 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • The public perceives education as of the government. The public is demanding better education options. The public is asking for real progress in the way of education reform. And yet, the government is now sitting on the sidelines waiting till next year.
  • To those lawmakers who claim to be education advocates and committed to real change in education -- take education off your lipservice list and put it on your to-do list. Stop using education and education investment as a bargaining chip to get your other deals done.
  • However, without a concerted effort to "place bets" on the ideas that have the potential to transform education, how can we ever expect to "hit it big" when it comes to education technology?
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  • Edhtena is a technology platform that's focused on schools. And yet, schools sometimes don't have the right technology upgrades to support technology like Edthena.  Sure, the computers are powerful enough. Sure, the internet bandwidth is there. But the software -- mainly the browser -- that users have may not deliver the best experience.  This is why we're so excited by Microsoft's announcement to automatically update Internet Explorer for all users. LOTS of schools are still running LOTS of computers with Windows XP with old versions of IE. Now, teachers won't have to worry about what version software they have. And IT departments won't have to worry about capacity to update everyone over time.  Everybody wins here. Thank you, Microsoft.
  • Kasey Hutson on 09 Sep 12
     
    I'm biased because this blog is from my childhood best friend's older brother (whew), but he has a really cool start-up company that is focused on educational technology and, further, on using technology to provide teachers feedback. Adam is a TFA alum, originally from Virginia Beach, who is passionate about teaching and helping teachers improve their craft. Worth checking out!
smsanders

Tablets, laptops and mobiles in the classroom: top tips from teachers | Teacher Network... - 0 views

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tips classroom tablets

shared by smsanders on 16 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • The device in my opinion should very much depend on what you would like to achieve.
  • The key piece of advice I would give here is use your young people to hel
  • Group work with or without devices goes beyond just the subject knowledge. Being able to work and communicate effectively with others is a key life skil
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  • working with people from other schoo
  • If we are encouraging more use of 1:1 devices, we should also be encouraging more sharing of learning experiences.
  • smsanders on 16 Sep 12
     
    Take a look at some of the advice different educators give. There's even a link that takes you to a live discussion
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