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How to Teach Math as a Social Activity | Edutopia - 1 views

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  • Carly Guinn on 09 Sep 12
     
    "Establishing a cooperative-learning environment in an upper-elementary classroom" -- great for the first few days/weeks of class!
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State Requirements on Pledge of Allegiance in Schools - Under God in the Pledge - ProCo... - 0 views

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      Carly Guinn on 09 Sep 12
       
      Love this website, ProCon.org -- unaffiliated, nice to get both sides to arguments!
  • Carly Guinn on 09 Sep 12
     
    Was looking into this after E05 -- these rules are much stricter than I imagined!
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Educational Uses of Facebook - Ecademy - 0 views

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  • Allie on 08 Sep 12
     
    Could facebook be used in educational settings? I have seen teachers use facebook as a way for students to be creative in projects...making a facebook from the eyes of an influential historical figure. Not sure if facebook would be a good tool or not?
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SafeKids.com | Online safety & civility - 0 views

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  • Allie on 08 Sep 12
     
    Another website about internet saftey. These were found on the York County website. During my practicum on Friday the students had a lesson on internet saftey and digital citizenship.
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Infinite Learning Lab - 0 views

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  • Allie on 08 Sep 12
     
    A resource for kids, parents, and teachers about internet saftey.
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Bill Goodwyn: Technology Doesn't Teach, Teachers Teach - 0 views

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  • Technology doesn't teach. Teachers teach.
  • All of us involved in education received the same mandate this past winter from President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan: to replace traditional, static textbooks with dynamic, interactive digital textbooks within the next five years. Several organizations have accepted this challenge enthusiastically and are partnering with districts every day to help transform classrooms into the digital learning environments our leaders envision. But the process is complicated.
  • We have seen the power of new technology in practice, especially when used by effectively trained teachers. In an initiative to replace traditional social studies textbooks, those students using digital tools in the Indianapolis Public Schools system, in which 85 percent of students are enrolled in subsidized lunch programs, had a 27 percent higher passing rate on statewide progress tests than students in classrooms that were not plugged in. Students in Miami-Dade County Public Schools who used digital resources achieved a 7 percent increase in their science FCAT (Florida's Comprehensive Assessment Test) exams. And students of the Mooresville Graded School District in North Carolina increased their performance on state exams by 13 percent over three short years, thanks to digital content and passionate, technology literate teachers
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  • North Carolina's Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) perfectly illustrates both the power of effective teacher training and technology. Since 2008, CMS has provided digital science resources to Title I schools -- schools with a high concentration of students living in poverty. Along with digital content, the district provided teachers with ongoing professional development designed to show them how to build engaging lessons, enhance their current curriculum and inspire students by integrating digital media, hardware and software. The professional development, however, was not mandatory. The results could not have been clearer: The students of teachers who opted into the professional development not only closed the achievement gap between themselves and students from Title I schools that did not have the same technology, they also outperformed the non-Title I schools, amassing a 57 percent passing rate on the state's end-of-year standardized science tests, compared to the 43 percent passing rate of those from wealthier schools. These are some of the most disadvantaged students in the state, remember, and yet they caught up to -- and surpassed -- students from more affluent schools.
  • Kasey Hutson on 08 Sep 12
     
    One of the coolest points - Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools provided technology resources to Title I schools, and made professional development to integrate technology into the classroom optional. Those teachers who participated in the professional development not only closed the achievement gap, but also outperformed non-Title I schools in the area.
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Bill Goodwyn: Technology Doesn't Teach, Teachers Teach - 0 views

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      Kylee Ponder on 07 Sep 12
       
      Technology doesn't teach - teachers teach. Interesting concept to think about. Can't technology HELP teachers teach more effectively?
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Charter School Movement Turns 20, Amid Criticism And Success Stories - 0 views

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      Kylee Ponder on 07 Sep 12
       
      Interesting to think that there are THIS many students waiting to get into a charter schools. Is the wait worth it? 
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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...
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Free Web Sites for Teaching the Election - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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  • Emily Wampler on 07 Sep 12
     
    Election Websites!  Check it out for Social Studies...
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Tracking School Children With RFID Tags? It's All About the Benjamins | Threat Level | ... - 0 views

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  • Benjamin Hindman on 07 Sep 12
     
    I think this is taking attendance policies a little too far...
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Schools SHOULD BE Where We Learn Democracy « Cooperative Catalyst - 1 views

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  • Benjamin Hindman on 07 Sep 12
     
    an interesting article that discusses the importance of teaching democracy in the classroom
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Text Message (SMS) Polls and Voting, Audience Response System | Poll Everywhere - 0 views

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  • Kristine Kellenberger on 07 Sep 12
     
    Free Audience Response System for Educators
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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.
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EDU - YouTube - 0 views

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  • Kelsey Agett on 06 Sep 12
     
    Look guys! Youtube has an education section!!!
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Back to School: Preparing for Day One | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • 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.
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      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.
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20 Education Technology Books You Should Be Reading | Edudemic - 0 views

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  • Denise Lenihan on 06 Sep 12
     
    If its still hard for you to transition to having EVERYTHING on the computer, here are helpful TEXTBOOKS you can have in your classroom for Edu Technolog. Maybe for those who are also more reluctant to things online? 
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