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Vicki Davis

We Went to the Amazon to Find Out What Makes These Weird Web-Tower Things - Wired Science - 4 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 16 Jan 14
     
    Science teachers will love this - a mystery of silk towers in the Amazon is finally solved. These structures went viral after someone posted and asked what they were on the Internet and now it has been discovered: a spider - although no one is really sure how. It baffled entemologists. This whole topic is very cool because it is science but it is also social media and how the two have become inextricably intertwined. This is a great one to talk about in your science classes because there are so many ways you can go with it. So cool.
Vicki Davis

China's moon landing next month is trouble for NASA | Fox News - 2 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 25 Nov 13
     
    Yes, it is time to explore space. It may just take a political competitor to wake up the United States to the space-age advantage it has had for decades as the Chinese plan to land a robotic probe on the moon. We need to be talking about space. "China's mission to robotically land on the moon next month is sure to stir up lunar dust, but it may also cause a political dustup, too. China is in the final stages of preparing its robotic Chang'e 3 moon lander to launch atop a Long March 3B rocket, slated for liftoff in early December. The ambitious mission is built to first orbit the moon, then propel down to a landing site, after which a small, solar-powered lunar rover will be unleashed."
Vicki Davis

Tales of an Inner-City Teacher: Crunch Time.... - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 30 May 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 30 May 08
     
    Exciting description of a wonderful individual research project at the elementary level with limited resources and a very hard working teacher.
  • Vicki Davis on 30 May 08
     
    I love the pictures on this blog showing the students using the computer, on the floor... everywhere, working on individual research projects. (Got to this blog to see the final products.) At first I said, "display boards?" but then I realized the amount of computer work required to create these display boards and I saw the age of the students and the number of computers in this classroom. This is a tremendous amount of work. Applause here from me to Kristi, another teacher blogger who I "met" from yesterday's post (hey go back to yesterdays and leave yours!)
Vicki Davis

Reflections from the Pearson organizer that filmed Edubloggercon - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 06 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 06 Jul 08
     
    I think that Elaine's viewpoints on edubloggercon are excellent ones and I think it is worth reading her thoughts and hear her side as she was with Pearson and the film crew. I keep thinking that as long as I've been in the edublogosphere I've heard people say that "we don't have the right people in the room." We finally get a company listening and then people don't want them in the room. Of course, it could have been filmed a little better but it was their first edubloggercon -- we can all live and learn and grow together. The edublogosphere is growing and we're going to have to learn how to deal with that.
Clint Hamada

The Truth About Homework - 0 views

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  • Clint Hamada on 02 Mar 09
     
    Finally, any theoretical benefit of practice homework must be weighed against the effect it has on students' interest in learning. If slogging through worksheets dampens one's desire to read or think, surely that wouldn't be worth an incremental improvement in skills. And when an activity feels like drudgery, the quality of learning tends to suffer, too. That so many children regard homework as something to finish as quickly as possible - or even as a significant source of stress -- helps to explain why it appears not to offer any academic advantage even for those who obediently sit down and complete the tasks they've been assigned. All that research showing little value to homework may not be so surprising after all.
Vicki Davis

eracism - Semi Finals VoiceThreads - 7 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 20 Jan 10
     
    Eracism project semifinal voicethreads
M Jesús García San Martín

People - 2 views

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  • M Jesús García San Martín on 13 Jul 11
     
    People es un recurso TIC diseñado con la herramienta de autor Malted para inglés de 5º de Primaria. Trabaja el presente simple, los adverbios de frecuencia, los pronombres interrogativos y hace un repaso por las profesiones, las horas y las actividades diarias y de tiempo libre. Como todos los recursos Malted, se complementa con una ficha de trabajo complementaria para el alumno y un cuaderno del profesor. Además, esta unidad incluye escenas adicionales realizadas con las herramientas Voki y Xtranormal: por ejemplo, puede verse un pequeño vídeo clip en el que un personaje habla sobre su trabajo, u otro vídeo clip en el que un personaje habla sobre su fin de semana realizado con Xtranormal; también pueden verse y escucharse unos mensajes hechos con Voki. Por último, cuenta con un glog final realizado en Glogster.
Angela Maiers

The Innovative Educator - 0 views

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  • Angela Maiers on 13 May 08
     
    Great post-much needed discussion!
Vicki Davis

Tag Overload - 110 views

Just remember that we only 16 tags -- that is NOT a lot! Also -- looking at it by NOUN is important. Who is a person -- I"m an administrator so I'd be interested in this. I found that structure ...

started by John Maklary on 30 Mar 08 3 follow-ups, last by Vicki Davis on 09 Apr 08
anonymous

FCAT shrinks South Florida's Class of 2009 - Education - MiamiHerald.com - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 11 May 09
     
    This is news for all of us to be aware of. (From the ASCD Brief) Will the public allow this to stand? Will this finally bring this whole issue of high stakes tests to a climax? Will the Gov stand firm and say that the kids just aren't ready to graduate? We've not heard that last of this, for sure.
  • anonymous on 11 May 09
     
    The story of 5600 kids who won't graduate in Florida this year.
Deron Durflinger

Niall Ferguson: How American Civilization Can Avoid Collapse - The Daily Beast - 4 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 03 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • “killer applications
  • Competition
  • The Scientific Revolution
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  • Modern Medicine
  • The Consumer Society
  • The Work Ethic
  • The Rule of Law and Representative Government.
  • these killer apps were essentially monopolized by Europeans and their cousins who settled in North America and Australasia
  • the great divergence
  • They also grew more powerful
  • 20th century, just a dozen Western empires—-including the United States—controlled 58 percent of the world’s land surface and population, and a staggering 74 percent of the global economy.
  • tendency of Western societies to delete their own killer apps.
  • But there is a second, more insidious cause of the “great reconvergence,” which I do deplore—and that is the
  • Ask yourself: who’s got the work ethic now? The average South Korean works about 39 percent more hours per week than the average American. The school year in South Korea is 220 days long, compared with 180 days here. And you don’t have to spend too long at any major U.S. university to know which students really drive themselves: the Asians and Asian-Americans
  • Yet life expectancy in the U.S. has risen from 70 to 78 in the past 50 years, compared with leaps from 68 to 83 in Japan and from 43 to 73 in China.
  • On no fewer than 15 of 16 different issues relating to property rights and governance, the United States fares worse than Hong Kong. Indeed, the U.S. makes the global top 20 in only one area: investor protection
  • The future belongs not to them but to today’s teenagers
  • The latest data on “mathematical literacy” reveal that the gap between the world leaders—the students of Shanghai and Singapore—and their American counterparts is now as big as the gap between U.S. kids and teenagers in Albania and Tunisia.
  • Yet statistics from the World Intellectual Property Organization show that already more patents originate in Japan than in the U.S., that South Korea overtook Germany to take third place in 2005, and that China is poised to overtake Germany too
  • the United States’ average competitiveness score has fallen from 5.82 to 5.43, one of the steepest declines among developed economies. China’s score, meanwhile, has leapt up from 4.29 to 4.90.
  • Perhaps more disturbing is the decline of meaningful competition at home, as the social mobility of the postwar era has given way to an extraordinary social polarization. You don’t have to be an Occupy Wall Street leftist to believe that the American super-rich elite—the 1 percent that collects 20 percent of the income—has become dangerously divorced from the rest of society, especially from the underclass at the bottom of the income distribution.
  • Far more than in Europe, most Americans remain instinctively loyal to the killer applications of Western ascendancy, from competition all the way through to the work ethic. They know the country has the right software. They just can’t understand why it’s running so damn slowly.
  • What we need to do is to delete the viruses that have crept into our system: the anticompetitive quasi monopolies that blight everything from banking to public education; the politically correct pseudosciences and soft subjects that deflect good students away from hard science; the lobbyists who subvert the rule of law for the sake of the special interests they represent—to say nothing of our crazily dysfunctional system of health care, our overleveraged personal finances, and our newfound unemployment ethic
  • And finally we need to reboot our whole system.
  • If what we are risking is not decline but downright collapse, then the time frame may be even tighter than one election cycle
  • Western Civilization's Killer Apps
  • COMPETITION
  • THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
  • THE RULE OF LAW
  • MODERN MEDICINE
  • THE CONSUMER SOCIETY
  • THE WORK ETHIC
Fabian Aguilar

Educational Leadership:Literacy 2.0:Orchestrating the Media Collage - 1 views

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shared by Fabian Aguilar on 11 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Public narrative embraces a number of specialty literacies, including math literacy, research literacy, and even citizenship literacy, to name a few. Understanding the evolving nature of literacy is important because it enables us to understand the emerging nature of illiteracy as well. After all, regardless of the literacy under consideration, the illiterate get left out.
  • Modern literacy has always meant being able to both read and write narrative in the media forms of the day, whatever they may be. Just being able to read is not sufficient.
  • The act of creating original media forces students to lift the hood, so to speak, and see media's intricate workings that conspire to do one thing above all others: make the final media product appear smooth, effortless, and natural. "Writing media" compels reflection about reading media, which is crucial in an era in which professional media makers view young people largely in terms of market share.
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  • As part of their own intellectual retooling in the era of the media collage, teachers can begin by experimenting with a wide range of new media to determine how they best serve their own and their students' educational interests. A simple video can demonstrate a science process; a blog can generate an organic, integrated discussion about a piece of literature; new media in the form of games, documentaries, and digital stories can inform the study of complex social issues; and so on. Thus, a corollary to this guideline is simply, "Experiment fearlessly." Although experts may claim to understand the pedagogical implications of media, the reality is that media are evolving so quickly that teachers should trust their instincts as they explore what works. We are all learning together.
  • Both essay writing and blog writing are important, and for that reason, they should support rather than conflict with each other. Essays, such as the one you are reading right now, are suited for detailed argument development, whereas blog writing helps with prioritization, brevity, and clarity. The underlying shift here is one of audience: Only a small portion of readers read essays, whereas a large portion of the public reads Web material. Thus, the pressure is on for students to think and write clearly and precisely if they are to be effective contributors to the collective narrative of the Web.
  • The demands of digital literacy make clear that both research reports and stories represent important approaches to thinking and communicating; students need to be able to understand and use both forms. One of the more exciting pedagogical frontiers that awaits us is learning how to combine the two, blending the critical thinking of the former with the engagement of the latter. The report–story continuum is rich with opportunity to blend research and storytelling in interesting, effective ways within the domain of new media.
  • The new media collage depends on a combination of individual and collective thinking and creative endeavor. It requires all of us to express ourselves clearly as individuals, while merging our expression into the domain of public narrative. This can include everything from expecting students to craft a collaborative media collage project in language arts classes to requiring them to contribute to international wikis and collective research projects about global warming with colleagues they have never seen. What is key here is that these are now "normal" kinds of expression that carry over into the world of work and creative personal expression beyond school.
  • Students need to be media literate to understand how media technique influences perception and thinking. They also need to understand larger social issues that are inextricably linked to digital citizenship, such as security, environmental degradation, digital equity, and living in a multicultural, networked world. We want our students to use technology not only effectively and creatively, but also wisely, to be concerned with not just how to use digital tools, but also when to use them and why.
  • Fluency is the ability to practice literacy at the advanced levels required for sophisticated communication within social and workplace environments. Digital fluency facilitates the language of leadership and innovation that enables us to translate our ideas into compelling professional practice. The fluent will lead, the literate will follow, and the rest will get left behind.
  • Digital fluency is much more of a perspective than a technical skill set. Teachers who are truly digitally fluent will blend creativity and innovation into lesson plans, assignments, and projects and understand the role that digital tools can play in creating academic expectations that are authentically connected, both locally and globally, to their students' lives.
  • Focus on expression first and technology second—and everything will fall into place.
David Yaggi

Common Core State Standards Initiative | Home - 8 views

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shared by David Yaggi on 02 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Michael Walker on 02 Jun 10
     
    The "official" Common Core site. The "Final" version was released today.
Vicki Davis

FOXNews.com - Florida Teen Commits Suicide Before Live Webcam Audience - Local News | N... - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 21 Nov 08 - Cached
  • But he acknowledged that an investigation into the delay in notifying authorities was "possible."
  • A message posted to his final MySpace blog by his mother Friday mentioned a history of mental illness.
  • "He was blogging between 3 and 4 a.m. on the 19th, Wednesday, at which time he inserted a link in the blog to a live webcam and posted a suicide note, and then was seen lying down on the bed," Crane told FOXNews.com.
  • Vicki Davis on 21 Nov 08
     
    Oh my goodness - this is terrible. A florida teen committeed suicide via webcam. This is horrible. Knowing how to report online crime is something we need to be able to do - a sort of e911 for online is what we need.
Maggie Verster

FINAL REPORT of DIGITAL YOUTH RESEARCH - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 25 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 25 Nov 08
     
    "Kids' Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures" is a three-year collaborative project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Carried out by researchers at the University of Southern California and University of California, Berkeley, the digital youth project explores how kids use digital media in their everyday lives. Read more
Dave Truss

Internet Archive: Details: A Brave New World-Wide Web - 0 views

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  • Dave Truss on 15 Sep 08
     
    I've finally finished the video version:-) This link is to the internet archive for a high quality stream or download (see left sidebar). A lower quality version is also on YouTube.
  • Dave Truss on 15 Sep 08
     
    My Brave New World Wide Web slide show made into a movie with music.
Emily Vickery

The Power of Tags, The Power of Words | Bit By Bit - 0 views

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  • Michael Richards on 26 Jul 08
     
    As part of Bob Sprankle's final project he created a Wordle tutorial. Bob has a strong grasp of how this tool can be used in the classroom to affect student learning.
  • Emily Vickery on 29 Jul 08
     
    Wordle tutorial.
Vicki Davis

Student Technology Assessments Are Now Simple. Finally. | SimpleAssessment - 0 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 23 Aug 08
     
    Free unlimited assessments on now.
  • Vicki Davis on 23 Aug 08
     
    Free unlimited Assessments from Simple Assessment. I may have to test this since hte testing service I used to use went out of business! ;-)
Mark Gomez

Deal would let L.A. teachers create "pilot schools" | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times - 5 views

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  • Charters operate independent of direct district control and are free from some rules that govern traditional schools, including adherence to L.A. Unified’s union contracts.
    • Mark Gomez
      Mark Gomez on 04 Dec 09
       
      this line speaks to the essence of my soul as an educator... you mean we can finally stop making decisions for students driven by who makes $ off of it?
  • 10 days of release time for any teachers conducting union business, said union president A.J. Duffy. But the union didn’t win the right to an arbitration hearing for teachers who had exhausted administrative appeals for resisting a transfer to another school. Duffy said some thorny issues remained to work out, but these could be taken up in negotiations over the coming months.
    • Mark Gomez
      Mark Gomez on 04 Dec 09
       
      there are only a few teachers i knew whou would ever need to use all of those days for union business... chapter chairs specifically... but what is the concern over exhausting administrative appeals if you have helped to set up and even hire the administrators at your pilot site... or set up the rules administering you?
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