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Tracking America: Poverty and Policy - 0 views

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    Nice set of manipulatable visualizations to explore basic data and trends and relationships dealing with poverty, gender, and level of educational attainment.
Steve Ransom

for the love of learning: Why should students blog? - 0 views

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    A nice listing of potential outcomes of blogging with students and having students blog themselves.
Steve Ransom

Becoming Twitterific « Art Class With LMJ - 0 views

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    A great post for those getting started with Twitter or those who have created an account and have let it lapse or just don't know what to do next.
Steve Ransom

TeachThoughtThe Complete Guide To Twitter Hashtags In Education - 0 views

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    A GREAT listing of all of the education-related hashtags that you can use to follow and participate in a twitter chat.
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Understanding Twitter Chats - Part 1 | ReadingOnTheRun.com - 0 views

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    If you want a great education community to dive into right away on Twitter, consider lurking or participating in one of the many scheduled Twitter Chats that go on almost every day of the week. Here's a 2-part video tutorial to help you get started. It's also a great way to find relevant educators on Twitter to follow.
Steve Ransom

Education Week Teacher: Tips for Tech-Cautious Teachers - 0 views

  • Has this tool been recommended by colleagues or student I respect, or is someone else willing to try this tool with me?
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      The importance of having a network of educators to connect with!
  • In other words, model what you want your students to do: Use technology as a tool for learning.
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      That's it. YOU have to use the tools first so that you can integrate them with your students in a natural, logical way. Demonstrate being a [digital] learner for yourself. Then, it is just a natural extension with your students.
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    Excellent suggestions pertinent to EDTS 523 and those new/struggling with education technology. Start small. Just keep growing.
Steve Ransom

Meet the man behind "Is Twitter Wrong?" who helped debunk fake pictures during Hurrican... - 0 views

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    Great example of the new challenges of a read-write web. New skills/literacies are required to practice informed citizenship.
Steve Ransom

Project Based Learning: Explained. - YouTube - 0 views

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    A nice overview made visual by CommonCraft
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Decimal, Fraction, Percent equivalence - 0 views

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    Would work well on the IWB, too
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How to Create Nonreaders - 0 views

  • It takes insight and guts to catch oneself at what amounts to an exercise in pseudodemocracy.
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    A must-read. But everything by Alfie Kohn is a must-read.
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The Teacher's Guide to Facebook - 0 views

  • A simple and popular workaround for awkward or potentially unprofessional interactions is to use Facebook pages, groups or separate accounts in the classroom. Pages are essentially separate profiles that students can Like in order to receive updates, and you can add students to groups in order to stay connected. Creating a separate profile for yourself is an easy way to prevent students from seeing any personal information that you would normally have on Facebook.
  • When you set a social media policy for your classroom, it’s important to delineate clear guidelines with your students on how they should and should not interact with you.
  • “During the term, I perceive that friending a student creates uncomfortable boundaries for the student-professor relationship,” she says. “After all, students post information about their personal lives and vice versa.”
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Bring Your Own Device: A Guide for Schools - 0 views

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    This guide examines the use of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) models in schools. It looks at the potential opportunities and benefits, as well as the considerations, risks and implications that arise when schools allow students and staff to use personally owned devices in the classroom and school environments. Strategies, tips and techniques are included to address the considerations and manage the risks.
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    A great example of where school districts are heading regarding students bringing their own devices to school for learning. It's full of theoretical benefits, risks, and things to think about.
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Elementary Students Study Robotics, Engineering - 0 views

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    A nice local piece shared by Pedro that shows what is going on and possible with things like robotics computers... even at the primary level.
Steve Ransom

Setting up MS Word for APA 6th Ed. - YouTube - 1 views

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    Error noted in this screencast. The title page should read Running head: with a lower case h
Steve Ransom

Testing in kindergarten: whatever happened to story time? | Ben Joravsky on Politics | ... - 0 views

  • When all is said and done, kindergarteners will have spent up to 60 days of class time—or a third of the school year—taking various standardized tests. And you wonder why so many wealthy people send their children to private schools.
  • to hold teachers accountable for how much their students learn—or at least how well they score on standardized tests, which is not always the same thing. But the idea is that high-scoring "good" teachers will keep their jobs and low-scoring "bad" teachers will be fired, presumably to be replaced by the thousands of "good" teachers eager to come to Illinois to give more tests.
  • "Most of the kids just look at me," says another kindergarten teacher who asked not to be identified. "They're five. They don't what a 'main character' means."
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  • means one-on-one testing.
  • Presumably, by the end of the year the child will know enough to say the bug feels anxious. At which point the teacher will get to keep his or her job, for at least another year.
  • that student's file her delightfully original take is marked: "Wrong!"
  • Here's the twist. All teachers record the answers. Think about this, folks: teachers get to grade their own accountability tests. Damn, if they had this for students back in the day, I might have passed chemistry.
Steve Ransom

Topics & Research: Safety - 0 views

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    Nice site for statistics, reports, and such surrounding bullying and other issues that impact school climate.
Steve Ransom

#BaldForBieber Hoax Teaches Kids to Fact Check Before Shaving Their Heads - 0 views

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    Poetic justice for those who fail to fact check.
Steve Ransom

Pressure Pic Problem - Boyfriend's Story - That's Not Cool - YouTube - 0 views

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    A humorous, interactive YouTube video dealing with peer pressure and sexting - a sad but real issue facing kids (and adults :-( ) today choice embedded at the end of the scenario with feedback.
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