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Fabian Aguilar

American Cultures 2.0 - 0 views

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shared by Fabian Aguilar on 11 Aug 09 - Cached
  • If we want students to become citizens who understand their role as a citizen then we need to teach them to understand and respect the power of questions.
  • Without the freedom and courage to ask that paradigm shifting question then progress and innovation would cease to exist and we would become slaves to our past and out-dated solutions.
  • The power of just one word can totally change the meaning of something as intrinsic as national identity.
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  • The more students have an opportunity to read, speak and write the more they are going to understand the power of words.
  • The moment students craft words meant not just for the teacher and a few other peers, but for the wider world, is the moment students learn that a misplaced, mispronounced, or misspelled word has consequences far beyond a grade. These authentic learning opportunities are crucial to prepare students for the new realities of a more global and transparent world.
  • Students (and teachers) need to understand that everything they do communicates, whether they know what they are communicating or not.
  • Once students really figure out who they are and what they stand for then they can more comfortably be themselves. However, an important social skill that many students have difficulty grasping is knowing appropriate social norms in various settings.
  • Anyone can be a teacher... if you are alert and willing to learn from others. We need to teach students to be alert and willing to learn from sources other than textbooks. We need to teach students how to create and cultivate learning from a personal learning network, in order to extend the traditional capabilities of school from the limited hours of the school day to the unlimited hours beyond the school day. The informal classroom of life offers lessons far more valuable than the classroom if only we are open to learning from each other each and every day.
Michelle DeSilva

socialtechineducation - home - 0 views

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LessonPlans Web 2.0 Education 21st century skills Interactive Collaboration Teacher Wiki Wikispaces curriculum

shared by Michelle DeSilva on 29 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Michelle DeSilva on 29 Jul 09
     
    A place where teachers can share lesson plans integrating social tech into teaching and learning.
Fred Delventhal

Byrdseed Gifted Lessons - 0 views

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gifted differentiation education teaching learning

shared by Fred Delventhal on 11 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Fred Delventhal on 11 Aug 09
     
    Practical Ideas For Your Gifted Classroom
Dave Truss

The Connected Classroom: Supporting Reluctant Swimmers-or letting them drown? - 0 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 26 Jul 09 - Cached
  • I have to wonder how many folks would jump in at all if they were afraid of the water. As David Truss points out, "too many people fear drowning and never get into the pool” and that in most Teacher Ed programs the amount of technology skill they leave the program with seems to be optional... to me that's like throwing a non-swimmer into the deep end.
  • I spend a day or two, sometimes a week “teaching folks to swim.” I give them the skills and we go SLOW.
  • There has been talk in the edtech community for a long time that we need to stop talking about the tools, but I disagree. You are always going to have those non-swimmers who finally find their way to the edge of the pool. Teach them what the water feels like and support them as they develop confidence in using the tool. When I share a tool like voicethread with a teacher, they can see so many ways it can be used in the classroom. They get excited about the potentials but they don’t understand the many concepts that go into it, embedding, and sharing, and privacy, and moderating comments, are so new to them…They are excited about being at the pool's edge, but it is like being thrown into that deep end for the first time.
    • Dave Truss
      Dave Truss on 26 Jul 09
       
      So True! We do need to continue talking about the tools, but that can't be our focus, that is our line of support.
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  • There was also some talk in the comments on Durff’s post that administrators must make technology a priority if we are to get teachers to "take the time" to explore new things- it is one of the things that is driving me to complete my administrative certification. Provide opportunities for teachers to see what is possible (take them to the pool), Give them the skills they need (the swim lessons). Provide support for them and swim along side the teachers. Only then will you have competent swimmers.
  • Dave Truss on 26 Jul 09
     
    There has been talk in the edtech community for a long time that we need to stop talking about the tools, but I disagree.
Ted Sakshaug

Microsoft Education: Teacher and faculty resources, lesson plans, and free tools - 0 views

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shared by Ted Sakshaug on 01 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 01 Jul 09
     
    lots of stuff for teachers
Dave Truss

Recipe for a Disruptive Keynote : Stager-to-Go - 0 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 01 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Much of what is called virtual education is really just bad teaching done on the cheap. Most of what I have seen offered as online courses for students doesn’t rise to the level of a mail-order correspondence course. There may be no lectures, but there is no deep learning to be found either. Teachers don’t know their students and the pedagogical emphasis is on product over process.
  • Don’t tell me that online education delivers individualization. The concept of delivery is itself the enemy of learning. Individualization is not customizing the pace of the multiple choice tests, but knowing the
  • strive to create learner-centered, project-based, collaborative, non-coercive environments in which students learn through a community of practice
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  • decentralize knowledge
  • Our network policies treat teachers and children as either imbeciles or felons. How many of you are unable to use your classroom computers in educationally sound ways because of a network policy created without your input? We install iPod labs so that children can be marched down the hall once a week for iPod lessons. We chain laptop computers to desks and don’t allow children to take them home. That’s the point of a laptop. You cannot blame such stupidity on four walls of brick and mortar. The blame lies within the bankruptcy of our imaginations.
  • Dave Truss on 01 Jul 09
     
    Much of what is called virtual education is really just bad teaching done on the cheap. Most of what I have seen offered as online courses for students doesn't rise to the level of a mail-order correspondence course. There may be no lectures, but there is no deep learning to be found either. Teachers don't know their students and the pedagogical emphasis is on product over process.
tee1962 Reagan

Teachers are key for students who like learning and remain curious - USATODAY.com - 0 views

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  • or says, is to "maximize the likelihood that students will get the pleasurable rush that comes from successful thought.
  • So the challenge for a teacher is to find that sweet spot of mental difficulty, and to find it simultaneously for 25 students, each with a different level of preparation.
  • Rather, we remember what we think about, and that can have non-obvious consequences. During frog dissection, are students thinking about anatomy or that they find it gross?
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  • One way to help ensure that students think of content is to view teaching in terms of a story structure.
  • Good teachers design lessons in which students unavoidably think about the meaning or central point.
  • People differ in their abilities and in their interests, but there is no evidence for differences in learning styles.
  • The secret to getting smarter is really not a big secret: Engage in intellectual activities. Read the newspaper, watch informative documentaries, find well-written books that make intellectual content engaging. Perhaps most important; Watch less television. It's rarely enriching, and it's an enormous time-sink.
Jenny Gilbert

English channel - 0 views

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shared by Jenny Gilbert on 09 May 09 - Cached
  • Jenny Gilbert on 09 May 09
     
    over 3000 resources for teaching english
Maggie Verster

Disengaged Students: southpark video with a teacher message - 0 views

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21st century learning video

shared by Maggie Verster on 24 May 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 24 May 09
     
    In this video Mr Mackey tries to teach a disengaged 21st century classroom. Teachers can learn some important lessons from this video
Dave Truss

Google Docs, Wikis, and Tracked changes in Word: Looking at Collaborative Writing :: Ah... - 0 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 16 May 09 - Cached
  • writing is moving into the public sphere. Most writing that is published electronically is, by nature, works in progress. We post, we receive feedback (solicited or not) and we often rewrite or reconceptualize. In this way, teaching collaborative writing explicitely is crucial.
  • For me, the value of collaborative writing does not lie in the product but in the process; students are challenged to think critically, negotiate tactfully and engage meaningfully in a real life skill. The learning is layered and seamless.
  • when I first starting incorporating technology into my teaching repetoire, I must admit that it was the driving force of the lesson. In this way, I was trying to teach tech...which is not my area of expertise. However, when I finally figured out that I was not a tech teacher but rather someone who was using technology as a means to teach the skills and processes that have always been important to me...everything seemed so much more focussed and doable.
  • Dave Truss on 16 May 09
     
    A new blogger doing great things... drop by and leave her a comment.
  • Dave Truss on 16 May 09
     
    ...writing is moving into the public sphere. Most writing that is published electronically is, by nature, works in progress. We post, we receive feedback (solicited or not) and we often rewrite or reconceptualize. In this way, teaching collaborative writing explicitely is crucial. For me, the value of collaborative writing does not lie in the product but in the process; students are challenged to think critically, negotiate tactfully and engage meaningfully in a real life skill. The learning is layered and seamless.
Ted Sakshaug

SOS Classroom - 1 views

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resources elementary k-8 education lessons all_teachers

shared by Ted Sakshaug on 08 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 08 Jul 09
     
    SOS Classroom offers a directory of free online educational resources for K-8 Language Arts and Math. These sites are submitted by parents and teachers, and they are all reviewed and organized by members of the SOS Classroom team!
Marc Safran

Welcome to Knowitall.org - 0 views

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knowitall.org k-12 ETV resources lessons lessonplans curriculum

shared by Marc Safran on 10 Aug 09 - No Cached
  • Marc Safran on 10 Aug 09
     
    Created by ETV for K-12 students, teachers, and parents, Knowitall.org is a free online collection of resources designed for classroom use. This educational web portal contains interactive sites, simulations, image collections, virtual field trips and streaming video that support and provide quality inquiry-based experiences for students on the Internet.
David Hilton

Engaging Imaginations (ahaa Teachers Pages) - 23 views

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  • David Hilton on 04 Oct 09
     
    An excellent example of tech integration by a dynamic teacher in Hawaii.
Dave Truss

Is the term 21st Century out of date? | U Tech Tips - 7 views

www.utechtips.com/-term-21st-century-out-of-date

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shared by Dave Truss on 13 Oct 09 - Cached
  • They all tell us what we want our kids to turn out like. They all remind us what we need to value in education. But we don’t. At least not in action. (GENERALIZATION ALERT:) Schools continue to push content-driven curricula. Teachers continue to plan lessons building expertise within the discipline. And if students get our “21st Century Skills”, it’s because of an exception-to-the-rule teacher, choices the students make outside of class, or just plain luck. We all know that what we need is buy-in. We see the success stories, celebrate the schools that do it, and ultimately wonder, what does it take to make it work everywhere? Buy-in. So back to the teacher accessibility issue. How do we ensure that teachers see teaching a 21st Century Curriculum as part of their job?
  • Dave Truss on 13 Oct 09
     
    Remind yourselves that your teachers have ALWAYS been trying to prepare their students to succeed in the world they will live in. And then collaborate with them on how that world has changed.
Kelly Faulkner

Annenberg Media - 7 views

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annenberg teaching resources lesson-plans

shared by Kelly Faulkner on 30 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Kelly Faulkner on 30 Oct 09
     
    just got this from @freetechforteachers. across the curriculum.
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