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Karrissa Harbour

Mathwire.com | March 2012 - 1 views

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teaching math problems problem_solving

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  • Karrissa Harbour on 17 Sep 12
     
    Interesting website with creative and unique problem-solving math problems.
Benjamin Hindman

Let Them Play: Video gaming in education - 0 views

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  • I started my 4th-grade students up on an updated version of Lemonade Stand.
  • The kids all wanted to make money and, within less than an hour, my English-language learning students were appropriately using words like net profit and assets.
  • allow students to play educational games as part of a facilitated lesson have  students create video games for their classmates or younger students use game design principles in curriculum design
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  • the added visual and audio effects, video games deliver information to students’ brains in a much more effective envelope.
  • research has shown that educational video games can increase student achievement, as well as spatial reasoning skills, compared to more traditional instruction.
  • Mission-based video games are about more than just getting students to memorize facts. Video games have been shown to teach literacy, problem-solving, perseverance, and collaboration.
  • Most video games offer students opportunities to both gain knowledge and, more importantly, immediately utilize that knowledge to solve a problem.
  • This immediate application of knowledge, coupled with the inherent fun of video games, engages and motivates students far better than many traditional lessons could. Students become problem solvers who can think through complex missions to find the best possible solution.
  • And because students are so motivated to find a solution, they will often take risks they might otherwise be too scared to take in the classroom.
  • Not only is he gaining valuable collaborative and leadership skills, he’s also becoming a true global citizen.
  • With any in-class activity, our job as teachers is to help students transfer that knowledge so they can use it in scenarios outside of that day’s lesson. The same goes for educational games.
  • Because students were in the lab, they weren’t bored enough to cause trouble during their down-time. Plus, teachers started seeing some intriguing self-regulation habits take form. With a limited number of controllers, students were politely asking and offering to take turns in the game lab, without adult intervention. And the lab attracted a variety of kids — girls, boys, special education students, kids from all socio-economic backgrounds. Students who normally never interacted were playing together.
  • School leaders contend that by building video games that work, students begin to understand complex systems, which will give them valuable knowledge as they enter the workforce.
  • Benjamin Hindman on 03 Oct 12
     
    A very interesting look at gaming in education.  This site also provides ideas and suggestions for integration of games into the classroom.
Lauren Tappan

Problem Solving Decks (K-8) - Mathematics - 0 views

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math problem solving problems

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  • Lauren Tappan on 29 Oct 12
     
    teacher directions, student cards and answer sheets
Lauren Tappan

Thinking Blocks - Model and Solve Math Word Problems - 1 views

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math problems interactive

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      Lauren Tappan on 29 Oct 12
       
      would be more useful to use as a model to children on how to use this strategy or it could be for extension or extra practice
Kylee Ponder

Kelly Meeker: From Legos to Raspberry Pi: The Most Creative Startups in Education Techn... - 0 views

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  • The key to educational technology success will not only be solving a problem (although that's a necessary first step) -- it will be creating a tool that can be used universally, whether it's across classrooms or across devices, without special tools or special training
    • Kylee Ponder
      Kylee Ponder on 29 Aug 12
       
      "The key to educational technology success will not only be solving a problem (although that's a necessary first step) -- it will be creating a tool that can be used universally, whether it's across classrooms or across devices, without special tools or special training."
Stephanie McGuire

Digital Literacy Includes Learning to Unplug - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • The new digital divide isn’t between children who have access to computers and devices and those who do not. It’s between kids whose parents are saying “turn that thing off” and those whose parents don’t limit their access — because they don’t know how, or because they’re not available to do it.
  • Instead of closing the achievement gap,” said the author of the Kaiser study, “they’re widening the time-wasting gap.”
  • The F.C.C. is considering creating a “digital literacy corps” to teach productive uses of the computer and Internet to students, parents and job seekers
  • Stephanie McGuire on 05 Sep 12
     
    A problem lies also in the time wasted on technology. Education needs to include WHEN to use technology for learning purposes.
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  • Madeline Grygiel on 05 Sep 12
  • Madeline Grygiel on 05 Sep 12
     
    "A study published in 2010 by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that children and teenagers whose parents do not have a college degree spent 90 minutes more per day exposed to media than children from higher socioeconomic families"... why is this? Parents busy working? Lack of resources (e.g. books)? Home environment (e.g. no yard to play in outside)?
  • Stephanie McGuire on 06 Sep 12
     
    Thank you for sharing the original article, very interesting and well written! What a difference in time wasted per day. I would agree with your ideas of why that might be. So I certainly think a digital literacy core could be a helpful and useful investment! I also think education for parents is just as important as students to learn to use the Internet to learn new information and be creative.
Allie

Houghton Mifflin Math - 1 views

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math

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  • Allie on 16 Sep 12
     
    If anyone needs any good math ideas or problems here is a website with some good ideas!
Benjamin Hindman

How Social Gaming is Improving Education - 0 views

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  • solving the real-life problem of, say, building a website, requires individuals to orchestrate the expertise of communication, business, and economics, in addition to computer science.
  • 6th graders learn geography from Google Earth, collaborate through an internal social networking platform, and present ideas through a podcast.
  • Gamers explore the fully-interactive 3D world of an ill patient and assist the immune system in fighting back a bacterial infection.
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  • “The amount of detail about proteins, chemical signals and gene regulation that these 15-year-olds were devouring was amazing. Their questions were insightful. I felt like I was having a discussion with scientist colleagues,” said Stegman.
  • he video game excites students about science
  • “The amazing results of the training and simulation program have led to significantly improved grades on students’ critical skills tests, taking scores from a 56% success in 2007, to 95% at the end of 2008 after the simulation was instituted.”
Emily Wampler

Innovation Design In Education - ASIDE: Century of the Child: Moving Forward - 0 views

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      Emily Wampler on 31 Aug 12
       
      I don't think Play is a magic fix for all the problems in US education, but I think it's a step in the right direction.  
    • Emily Wampler
      Emily Wampler on 31 Aug 12
       
      Couldn't agree with this more.  Assessment and standards for Pre-K?!?  Get real, America.  Let the kids play.  
  • The "children's garden" was to be a place that valued a child’s enjoyment, creative process, and intuitive investigation of materials. This is not what many kindergartens look like today. Too often they are worksheet driven in preparation for testing.
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  • For more than a decade, NCLB has pushed education into mediocrity, opting for a homogenized system to pass tests. We’ve taken the play out of learning, and as a result, children have disengaged in a flawed process to the tune of over a 35% dropout rate.
  • Today, free play to learn how to socialize, invent, and imagine is rare; instead, child's play is organized. Add in diminished recess, limited physical education, and worksheet-driven classrooms and we have a recipe for unimaginative kids who lack a passion for learning. It is no wonder that we have trouble getting kids to think creatively. If they can’t play, they can’t learn and certainly not innovate.
  • We need to promote play, passion and purpose for it and break free of fixed silos of learning. Creating innovators is not part of mainstream, conventional education that is too focused on measuring assessments through one-right answer tests.
Emily Wampler

What Is Education For? - 2 views

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      Emily Wampler on 02 Sep 12
       
      This is hard to swallow; seems very pessimistic about human nature.
  • It makes far better sense to reshape ourselves to fit a finite planet than to attempt to reshape the planet to fit our infinite wants.
  • What can be said truthfully is that some knowledge is increasing while other kinds of knowledge are being lost.
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  • It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane.
  • But capitalism has also failed because it produces too much, shares too little, also at too high a cost to our children and grandchildren.
  • First, all education is environmental education. By what is included or excluded we teach students that they are part of or apart from the natural world.
  • The goal of education is not mastery of subject matter, but of one’s person.
    • Emily Wampler
      Emily Wampler on 02 Sep 12
       
      Wow.  Love this quote, and agree whole-heartedly.
  • knowledge carries with it the responsibility to see that it is well used in the world.
  • Each of these tragedies were possible because of knowledge created for which no one was ultimately responsible. T
  • we cannot say that we know something until we understand the effects of this knowledge on real people and their communities.
  • In this instance what was taught in the business schools and economics departments did not include the value of good communities or the human costs of a narrow destructive economic rationality that valued efficiency and economic abstractions above people and community.
  • What is desperately needed are faculty and administrators who provide role models of integrity, care, thoughtfulness, and institutions that are capable of embodying ideals wholly and completely in all of their operations.
  • Process is important for learning.
  • My point is simply that education is no guarantee of decency, prudence, or wisdom.
  • he modern drive to dominate nature.
  • Ignorance is not a solvable problem, but rather an inescapable part of the human condition. The advance of knowledge always carries with it the advance of some form of ignorance.
  • Emily Wampler on 05 Sep 12
     
    This article was written 20 years ago, but still holds interesting and relevant information about the purpose of education.
Emily Wampler

Taking the risk - 0 views

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  • Why do we stick to one subject for each lesson, when in fact all subjects have links across the entire curriculum.
  • Today, I argued, we need to prepare children for flexible working and agile thinking, where their employment may well be highly mobile and location independent. They will need to acquire critical thinking and problem solving skills, and will need to be highly digitally literate. They will need to be creative and will need to know how to innovate. They will need to know how to self organise, and also work in distributed teams, where the other members of that team may be connected over great distance through technology. They will need to gain an appreciation that change is an opportunity rather than a threat, and that a lifetime of work may encompass a portfolio career of several different jobs, requiring different skill-sets. They will need to be lifelong learners.
  • I asked why we still use ICT suites, which send a message to the children that 'this is where we do computing'.
  • Emily Wampler on 07 Sep 12
     
    Short little article that seems prophetic in the author's take on what skills will be important for students to have for future careers.  He also asks some interesting questions about the way things have always been done...
Jennifer Massengill

Embracing Introversion: Ways to Stimulate Reserved Students in the Classroom | Edutopia - 0 views

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      Jennifer Massengill on 12 Sep 12
       
      Will the move toward cooperative learning and problem based learning affect introverts' need for time and space?
  • online communities
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      Jennifer Massengill on 12 Sep 12
       
      I've seen online classes use this well. An online chat gives an introvert time to answer questions and make comments at their own pace whereas in a live class the conversation would have moved on by the time the introvert was ready to contribute. The question is, is there any way to use this at the elementary level?
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  • In fact, the introvert may be a pushed out as the extroverts of the group dominate the conversation even if their thinking is not on target.
  • introverts aren’t averse to being with people; it’s just that they need solitude to re-energize, engage in deep creative thinking, and process the mass sensory input that the extrovert thrives on
  • acknowledging that introversion is not something to be “overcome,
  • Jennifer Massengill on 12 Sep 12
     
    Interesting to think about as we try to meet the diverse needs of our students.
Kylee Ponder

Here is What Makes A Great Teacher - 6 views

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      Kylee Ponder on 12 Sep 12
       
      pretty interesting infographic on teachers today - will we really have to spend 2,000 to 3,000 dollars to be a teacher of the year? 
  • smsanders on 16 Sep 12
     
    I can believe it, espeically since the schools often only give you $100 or so to spend on things for the whole year. I know my CT used about 3/4 of that buying construction paper alone.
  • Emily Wampler on 18 Sep 12
     
    that's crazy! amazing how congress has no problem scraping up a few extra billion dollars for a few new fighter aircraft, but can't seem to manage to help fund public education....
Kelsey Agett

Crisp: An education on teachers' issues - Framingham, MA - The MetroWest Daily News - 0 views

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education teachers issues

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  • No one went into teaching to climb much higher than the lower reaches of the middle class.
    • Kelsey Agett
      Kelsey Agett on 19 Sep 12
       
      Or maybe remedied...developed? Staff development isn't the answer to this problem, but maybe weak teachers who are willing to learn can learn to be better before they get the boot.
  • And certainly weak teachers must be eliminated
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  • Still, while Brooks supports the persistent modern inclination to think of schools as businesses, it's important to remember that they're not. And students aren't products, and teachers aren't factory workers
  • Kelsey Agett on 19 Sep 12
     
    Good look at education and teachers today.
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