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Jessica Vacchetto

Study: Reading novels makes us better thinkers - Salon.com - 1 views

www.salon.com/..._make_better_decisions_partner

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shared by Jessica Vacchetto on 16 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Jessica Vacchetto on 16 Jun 13
     
    Time to push back in favor of fiction?
  • Steve Ransom on 17 Jun 13
     
    No kidding. Common core swings the pendulum far in the other direction with document-based evidence, informational/expository texts, and sapping the love of the printed word right out of learning.
Steve Ransom

Radio Show » Mapping Media to the Common Core - 0 views

maps.playingwithmedia.com/radio-show

podcasting radioshow radio tips howto tools process

shared by Steve Ransom on 16 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 16 Jun 13
     
    Good tips and resources on podcasting/creating a radio show by Wesley Fryer.
Steve Ransom

The web's 'echo chamber' leaves us none the wiser (Wired UK) - 0 views

www.wired.co.uk/...online-stubbornness

audience echochamber

shared by Steve Ransom on 13 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 13 Jun 13
     
    Important in all worlds, analog and digital.
Steve Ransom

Slicereader - Easy reading for Mac - 0 views

mthr.me/slicereader

reading app text application mac assistivetechnology

shared by Steve Ransom on 11 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 11 Jun 13
     
    A great, free text chunking app for those who need textual information processing accommodations or those with short attention spans or distractability... Mac-only
Laurel Loewenguth

TubeChop - David Weinberger on Too Big To Know (46:26) - 0 views

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knowledge internet

shared by Laurel Loewenguth on 10 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Laurel Loewenguth on 10 Jun 13
     
    Great video on how the internet is changing our ideas of knowledge, AND a great example of the effective use of PowerPoint
Steve Ransom

We Don't Like "Projects" | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/...t-like-projects-shawn-cornally

pbl projects critique

shared by Steve Ransom on 09 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • In short, we seem to have students who believe that projects are for assessment purposes only.
  • he gave the project the highest praise a teenager can give anything: he stayed up until 2:00 AM working on it.
  • if learning isn't accompanied by the psychological stress of an exam, then they're somehow "let off the hook" and can devalue the content.
  • Steve Ransom on 09 Jun 13
     
    How sad that we've coopted the "project" in such ways. We can change this.
Steve Ransom

SearchReSearch: Be prepared: What will happen to your content when you die? - 0 views

searchresearch1.blogspot.com/...-what-will-happen-to-your.html

die death google inactive

shared by Steve Ransom on 08 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 08 Jun 13
     
    Google takes you through its Inactive Account Manager so that you can tell it what to do when you are no longer responsive. You'll have to appoint at least one trustee.
Steve Ransom

Professional blog | The Reflective Educator - 0 views

davidwees.com/...-did-not-learn-teacher-college

teacher preservice highered advice pd classroommanagement pln learning passion

shared by Steve Ransom on 06 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 06 Jun 13
     
    Great advice... all things that hopefully came up in class, but they take a while to really "learn". Don't wait.
Steve Ransom

2013 Internet Trends - Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers - 0 views

kpcb.com/...2013-internet-trends

internet trends research statistics socialmedia

shared by Steve Ransom on 04 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 04 Jun 13
     
    A good souce of current data if you need it for any projects.
Steve Ransom

Should my class blog, tweet, Google App, Moodle, Desire2Learn, or Edmodo? Arrghhh!!! | ... - 0 views

royanlee.com/?p=2827

socialnetworking web2.0 tools comparison classroom features matrix

shared by Steve Ransom on 17 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 17 Jun 13
     
    A handy little matrix to help you make decisions regarding creating an online component to your classroom.
Steve Ransom

Facebook Makes Us Sadder And Less Satisfied, Study Finds : All Tech Considered : NPR - 0 views

www.npr.org/...s-us-sadder-and-less-satisfied

facebook study loneliness depression happiness

shared by Steve Ransom on 21 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • social comparison.
  • "When you're on a site like Facebook, you get lots of posts about what people are doing. That sets up social comparison — you maybe feel your life is not as full and rich as those people you see on Facebook," he says.
  • "It suggests that when you are engaging in social interactions a lot, you're more aware of what others are doing and, consequently, you might be more sensitized about what's happening on Facebook and comparing that to your own life,"
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • The prescription for Facebook despair is less Facebook. Researchers found that face-to-face or phone interaction — those outmoded, analog ways of communication — had the opposite effect. Direct interactions with other human beings led people to feel better.
  • Steve Ransom on 21 Aug 13
     
    Facebook Makes Us Sadder And Less Satisfied, Study Finds
Steve Ransom

MattBGomez Home - 0 views

mattbgomez.com

Kindergarten Blog blogexample

shared by Steve Ransom on 05 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 05 Aug 13
     
    Great Kindergarten blog to follow. Also follow Matt on Twitter.
Steve Ransom

DebateGraph - 0 views

debategraph.org/Stream.aspx

debate mindmapping mindmap inspiration organization semanticmapping

shared by Steve Ransom on 01 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 01 Aug 13
     
    DebateGraph lets you explore and view individual debate and dialogue maps (and the graph of interrelated maps) through different types of bubble, box, tree and outline views that have complementary strengths, and that are accessed via the Views menu (above the map).
Steve Ransom

Straw Poll - 0 views

strawpoll.me

polling poll survey tool

shared by Steve Ransom on 25 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 25 Jul 13
     
    no account creation needed. Very easy. Nicely visual.
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