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Adam Babcock

Transcript: Obama's State Of The Union Address : NPR - 4 views

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education history

shared by Adam Babcock on 26 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • What we can do — what America does better than anyone — is spark the creativity and imagination of our people. We are the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices; the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers; of Google and Facebook. In America, innovation doesn't just change our lives. It's how we make a living.
  • This is our generation's Sputnik moment.
  • That's what Americans have done for over two hundred years: reinvented ourselves
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  • asking Congress to eliminate the billions in taxpayer dollars we currently give to oil companies. I don't know if you've noticed, but they're doing just fine on their own.
  • the biggest impact on a child's success comes from the man or woman at the front of the classroom. In South Korea, teachers are known as "nation builders." Here in America, it's time we treated the people who educate our children with the same level of respect.
  • If you want to make a difference in the life of our nation; if you want to make a difference in the life of a child — become a teacher. Your country needs you.
Adam Babcock

Education Week's Digital Directions: Classroom-Tested Tech Tools Used to Boost Literacy - 10 views

www.edweek.org/...02literacy.h04.html

reading edtech literacy fluency

shared by Adam Babcock on 09 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • English-language learners
  • audio recorders to have student-teachers read sets of vocabulary words, then she creates matching PowerPoint presentations with the words and burns them onto DVDs
  • 2nd through 4th graders over 16 weeks as they used webcams to see themselves reading and then he identified their mistakes.
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  • at least two fewer mistakes per minute.
  • podcasting to help her students practice fluency.
  • Then they can literally see the pauses or mistakes they made in the editing program and correct them.
  • Using VoiceThread, for instance—which allows users to create collaborative, multimedia slide shows with images, documents, and videos
  • Storybird, allows students to tap into a library of illustrations to create digital books, says Lovely.
Dana Huff

Presentations in the High School English Classroom - 27 views

www.thethinkingstick.com/learning-through-presentations

presentations powerpoint

shared by Dana Huff on 05 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Dana Huff on 05 Feb 11
     
    Utecht provides great guidelines, tools, and models for student-created presentations.
  • Leslie Healey on 06 Feb 11
     
    they (students and teachers) did this at Educon 2.3 and it was inspiring. We are going to try it 4th quarter 20th century short fiction.
Patrick Higgins

Mr. Langley's Digital Classroom - 19 views

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english googlesites languagearts english2.0

shared by Patrick Higgins on 04 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Patrick Higgins on 04 Aug 11
     
    Love this example of a teacher using Google Sites to really push his transparency.  
Tracee Orman

The Potter Games - 12 views

www.thepottergames.com

harry potter hunger games choose-your-own-adventure internet activities reading

shared by Tracee Orman on 31 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Tracee Orman on 31 Jul 11
     
    This is an interactive website based on the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books/games. The characters of Harry Potter have been thrown into The Hunger Games (as tributes or mentors) by Lord Voldemort. The player chooses one of the characters and must read each passage, then makes a decision for that character, which could result in becoming the Victor...or "Reenervate" to try again. If you have students who like Harry Potter or The Hunger Games, they will have fun on this website. New characters are unlocked daily & we plan on writing more stories - one with the characters rebelling against Lord Voldemort and breaking out of the arena. It is great practice for reading skills - some characters have longer passages, some shorter. Some have up to 144 different scenarios (that's 144 pages of text). The least amount of reading for a player is 19 pages. So think about your low readers - that may be more than they read in a week by just playing one character. The writers who have/are contributing to this non-profit project include teachers, high school students, college students, professional writers, graphic artists, musicians, librarians, and so many more. We're all fans of both series, of course. :) (For grades 7 and up) I have a free download of lesson ideas for using The Potter Games in your classroom here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Potter-Games-Using-Interactive-Fiction-to-Improve-Reading
Melissa Tredenick

Project LA Language Arts Activities - 10 views

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LA grammar tools resources teaching

shared by Melissa Tredenick on 25 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Melissa Tredenick on 25 Oct 09
     
    Great collection of Language Arts grammar PowerPoints, worksheets, online activities, and games for grades 3-5
  • Melissa Tredenick on 25 Oct 09
     
    Great collection of Language Arts grammar PowerPoints, worksheets, online activities, and games for grades 3-5
Katie Dixon

Defining bullying - The Sun Chronicle Online - News - 0 views

www.thesunchronicle.com/...8840106.txt

Bullying Classroom Management Ed Policies

shared by Katie Dixon on 30 Mar 11 - No Cached
    • Katie Dixon
      Katie Dixon on 30 Mar 11
       
      What is the balance?  Stress their important role, teach them how to partner with the school, church, etc at home - but hold parents accountable? Would this not teach students that they are not personally accountable for their actions?
  • "It has to be a process. I don't look at it as being one shot, one year and done,"
  • focusing on bystanders, mostly at the middle school level,
Kristin Bergsagel

How To Do Things With Words : Learning Diversity - 4 views

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shared by Kristin Bergsagel on 14 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • the RRSG theory of reading comprehension is predominantly cognitive rather than cultural. It depicts the text as an encoded representation of a specific situation.
  • Making and having meaning, then, transcend cognition and involve a commitment to values and the pursuit of ideals.
  • These moral qualities are essential to human life, yet they seem to be completely redundant in the case of the aforementioned reader of “the cat is on the mat.”
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  • Could it be that teachers who are allegedly so obstinately unfaithful to the received theory of reading comprehension do in fact apply it in their classrooms, but fail to achieve adequate outcomes because the theory fails to explain reading as a meaningful human activity?
  • the most authoritative theory of reading comprehension misleads her into performing a futile cognitive exercise.
  • namely, instruct students to read the text creatively by transforming it into a model for exploring ideas such as self-deception, hubris, or the unintended negative consequences of well-intended parenting.
  • it doesn’t address texts adequately as media of communication between purposeful, goal-oriented actors.
  • The meaning of a message, then, is its use by the interacting parties and is therefore always much more than a mental representation. When we treat words or statements as mere representations, we fail to communicate.
  • A theory that fails to enhance communication undermines education, because education is a special form of communication dedicated to the transmission of learning.
  • The words remain his rather than theirs, conveying facts about his dream rather than becoming resources useful to them. These readers have missed yet another opportunity to make sense of the history of their nation and of their own lives in relation to it.
  • hopeful vision coupled to a darker prophecy and a threatening message.
  • This reading, then, intertwines American political history with the history of literature in a way that renders the reader herself an active participant in their making.
  • creativity, diversity, and agency
  • Readers, we propose, ought to associate the meaning of the text with its use. The texts students typically read in school, more specifically, ought to be used for the purpose of exploring ideas. Reading for this purpose is necessarily a creative endeavor because it entails transforming the text into a model of inquiry into certain aspects of the reader’s life experiences.
  • In other words, because they use the text in diverse ways, its meaning varies accordingly.
  • What is at stake is nothing less than how students relate themselves to cultural achievements that have shaped the world in which they live and the society in which they gradually mature.
  • Conversely, education researchers in universities and other research institutes are often insufficiently familiar with how children learn at school, and therefore simply do not have an adequate understanding of the problems their research should solve
Katie Dixon

Teachmeet victim selector - 7 views

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Classroom Management Smart Board web2.0 tools

shared by Katie Dixon on 11 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Katie Dixon on 11 Apr 11
     
    Popsicle sticks 2.0
Teresa Ilgunas

Bookmarklets | Readability - 11 views

www.readability.com/bookmarklets

resources web2.0 education tools free readability classroom reading languagearts

shared by Teresa Ilgunas on 21 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Teresa Ilgunas on 21 Apr 11
     
    This tool is fantastic when I want to have the class read a paper version of an internet article, OR when the ads are so distracting that I can't concentrate on what I'm reading.
Anne Williams

Big Thinkers: Judy Willis on the Science of Learning | Edutopia - 4 views

www.edutopia.org/is-neuroscience-learning-video

shared by Anne Williams on 09 May 11 - No Cached
  • Anne Williams on 09 May 11
     
    brain based research on the science of learning focus and curiosty in the classroom PD
Vanessa Alander

Formative and Summative Assessment in the Classroom - 12 views

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assessment formative summative

shared by Vanessa Alander on 09 May 11 - No Cached
    • Vanessa Alander
      Vanessa Alander on 09 May 11
       
      Use of exit slips as formative assessments!  
  • self-evaluation is a logical step in the learning process.
  • students keeping ongoing records of their work not only engages students, it
Vanessa Alander

http://www.smallschoolsproject.org/PDFS/co21003/rigor_not.pdf - 3 views

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rigor managment

shared by Vanessa Alander on 08 May 11 - No Cached
    • Vanessa Alander
      Vanessa Alander on 08 May 11
       
      Rigor is not... it is helping students develop complex ambiguous provocative challenging material in and out of the classroom
andrew bendelow

The Wikiness - 10 views

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challenge education goal-setting knowledge millennials gen-x

shared by andrew bendelow on 30 Jun 11 - Cached
  • it seems clear that Project-based learning (PBL) groups—I'm thinking literature circles--should be an excellent vehicle for their learning in a large classroom (next year 30+ sizes)
  • andrew bendelow on 30 Jun 11
     
    Who the Millennials are, and how Gen-X English teachers might best work with them
Patrick Higgins

The Crocodile in the Common Core Standards | Dailycensored.com - 17 views

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 19 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • As though literacy is to prepare children only for a working environment. And as though personal opinion isn’t vital in a working environment.
    • Patrick Higgins
      Patrick Higgins on 19 Oct 11
       
      This all reminds me of the dust-up caused by Grant Wiggins in his ASCDEdge post last year regarding fiction's misguided place in our classrooms.  
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