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Tom McHale

Vocab Videos - Bringing Vocabulary to Life - Vocab Film Festival. - 13 views

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    The Vocab Film Festival challenges students and filmmakers to create and share their own vocabulary video and photo projects for a chance to win over $20,000 in monthly and grand prizes.  Entries must meet our monthly challenge and illustrate the meaning of a vocabulary word listed below. The Festival closes 5/31/11, so there will be a total of 4 monthly challenges Could be an interesting way to engage kids in vocab.
Leslie Healey

Teacher Resources | Library of Congress - 9 views

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    comprehensive resources to find and cite primary sources. our senior seminar will visit the Library of Congress next year as the beginning of the research project. Provides citation examples and guides for MLA and Chicago styles.
Dennis OConnor

Information Fluency Common Core Alignment - 9 views

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    One school districts work aligning information fluency with the new Common Core Learning Standards.   Lots of work done here.  Are you facing a similar project?  
Leslie Healey

Rookie | » Higher Learning - 6 views

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    a new site about teen-dom from one of the coolest teen bloggers on the net. This post about surviving high school would make a great project for my seniors ( for underclassmen)
Suzanne Rogers

The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712 (William Byrd) - 3 views

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    Listed in Common Core mapping project
Suzanne Rogers

Banneker's Letter to Jefferson - 2 views

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    on Common Core mapping project
Suzanne Rogers

The Bloody Tenent of Persecution, Roger Williams | The Reformed Reader - 2 views

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    in Common Core mapping project
Suzanne Rogers

Speech to the Virginia Convention Patrick Henry-text of speech - 3 views

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    common core mapping project
Suzanne Rogers

Speech to the Virginia Convention (Patrick Henry) Teachers guide! - 4 views

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    common core mapping project
Leslie Healey

Will hyperconnected millennials suffer cognitive consequences? (Audio) | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project - 8 views

  • multitaskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and who approach problems in a different way from their elders,
  • mostly positive between now
  • and 2020
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  • exhibit a thirst for instant gratification and quick fixes, a loss of patience, and a lack of deep-thinking ability due to what one referred to as “fast-twitch wiring.”
  • In the report, Weinberger wrote, "Whatever happens, we won't be able to come up with an impartial value judgment because the change in intellect will bring about a change in values as well."
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    note last line: there will be a change in values as a result of the changes in learning provoked by  he internet.We have embarked on the biggest social experiment of the century by accident.
The0d0re Shatagin

Tech Tips For Teachers: Free, Easy and Useful Creation Tools - The Learning Network Blog - NYTimes.com - 7 views

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    Ryan Goble, who often coaches teachers in what he calls the "mindful" use of technology, has written today's guest post on user-friendly tools that enable the creation of student projects.
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    NYTimes article recommending 5 free tools: Visualizing Text, Comic Text, Interactive Timelines, Digital Interactive Presentations, Idea Maps & Brainstorms
Clifford Baker

Teaching "Against the Textbook": Proposal for global "critical reading" wiki project - National Council for the Social Studies - 0 views

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    We create a single wiki, "A Critical Supplement to Major History Textbooks," and create a page on it for each textbook we're using, in whatever class. In our classrooms, we assign student teams to tackle each section of the textbook by identifying any perceived biases, coverage emphases and de-emphases, omissions, errors of fact, and so forth, in that section, and publish their findings on that textbook's page on the wiki.
anonymous

CES Resources NEW: View Asking the Essential Questions: Curriculum Development - 1 views

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    Coalition for Essential Schools: Information on asking "essential questions" and inquiry-based curriculum
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