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'Teach Naked' Effort Strips Computers From Classrooms - Technology - The Chronicle of H... - 0 views

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Here's the kicker, though: The biggest resistance to Mr. Bowen's ideas has come from students, some of whom have groused about taking a more active role during those 50-minute class periods.
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Introduce issues of debate within the discipline and get the students to weigh in based on the knowledge they have from those lecture podcasts, Mr. Bowen says.
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"Strangely enough, the people who are most resistant to this model are the students, who are used to being spoon-fed material that is going to be quote unquote on the test," says Mr. Heffernan. "Students have been socialized to view the educational process as essentially passive. The only way we're going to stop that is by radically refiguring the classroom in precisely the way José wants to do it."
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"inverted classroom."
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'I paid for a college education and you're not going to lecture?'"
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PowerPoint is not the problem. It is how PPt is used.
- anonymous on 24 Jul 09
  
  That's exactly the point. Of course we do need discussions in classrooms, but we also need to enable students to perform well in them, and here is where technology comes in: You can facilitate it in the learning process. - The headline of this article makes things far too easy...
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">That's exactly the point. Of course we do need discussions in classrooms, but we also need to enable students to perform well in them, and here is where technology comes in: You can facilitate it in the learning process. - The headline of this article makes things far too easy...</div>
  
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Patrick Higgins on 23 Jul 09

I like how Bowen is questioning the use of tech for tech's sake. This further shows how it's not about the technology, but about the teaching.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I like how Bowen is questioning the use of tech for tech's sake. This further shows how it's not about the technology, but about the teaching. </div>

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Beyond Social Networking: Building Toward Learning Communities -- THE Journal - 0 views

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specific instructional use is more effective and acceptable for students to understand why the teacher has created the space. What Social Networking Does Not Offer to Learning
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While this level of connection and shared information is a great first step in community building, it does not necessarily lead to learning communities or the sharing of ideas. This must happen intentionally and is where the instructor is very much a necessary support to the process.
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Beyond Social Networking: Building Toward Learning Communities -- THE Journal - 0 views

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shared by Susan Payne on 18 Jul 09 - Cached

specific instructional use is more effective and acceptable for students to understand why the teacher has created the space.
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While this level of connection and shared information is a great first step in community building, it does not necessarily lead to learning communities or the sharing of ideas. This must happen intentionally and is where the instructor is very much a necessary support to the process.
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Susan Payne on 18 Jul 09

Teachers as guides to move students beyond the social piece to forming a learning community.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Teachers as guides to move students beyond the social piece to forming a learning community.</div>

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Wordle in the Classroom | Clif's Notes - 0 views

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Tom Barrett, developed the below presentation. It is full of strategies and tips for effectively integrating Wordle with teaching and learning.
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30 Ideas for Teaching Writing - National Writing Project - 3 views

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anonymous on 15 Jul 09

We set out to create a better way to read on-line; our goal was to make something different, engaging, intelligent and digital. The concept was born, as many good ideas are, on a crumpled cocktail napkin late one evening in 2006, and we've been working to

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">We set out to create a better way to read on-line; our goal was to make something different, engaging, intelligent and digital. The concept was born, as many good ideas are, on a crumpled cocktail napkin late one evening in 2006, and we've been working to</div>

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Big Ideas (UBD) - 0 views

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Writing exercises are a great way to both increase your skill as a writer and to genera... - 0 views

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James Miscavish on 16 Jul 09

# Record five minutes of a talk radio show. Write down the dialogue and add narrative descriptions of the speakers and actions as if you were writing a scene. # Write a 500-word biography of your life. # Write your obituary. List all of your life's acco

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner"># Record five minutes of a talk radio show. Write down the dialogue and add narrative descriptions of the speakers and actions as if you were writing a scene. # Write a 500-word biography of your life. # Write your obituary. List all of your life's acco</div>

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