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David Hilton

School:Education - Wikiversity - 10 views

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shared by David Hilton on 31 Dec 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 31 Dec 09
     
    I know wikis are as popular with some educators as Al-Qaeda is with the CIA, however sometimes these portals and schools on Wikimedia sites can contain some interesting and useful information. I think so, anyway.
Dean Mantz

Free music, free books, free games, free poems and free puzzles that help teach childre... - 15 views

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shared by Dean Mantz on 04 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Dean Mantz on 04 Feb 10
     
    Multiple resources for educators to use in teaching reading and literacy to elementary and special needs students.
Ted Sakshaug

Voices in the Dark - Voices in the Dark - Free MP3 Audio Books - 4 views

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shared by Ted Sakshaug on 04 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 04 Feb 10
     
    public domain stories free to listen to
Ted Sakshaug

sing? at Science (and more) to Music - 6 views

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  • Ted Sakshaug on 11 Mar 10
     
    Standards  based songs for k-12 topics Discussion of use in the classroom
Joseph Alvarado

Moms Fighting Autism Webinars - 6 views

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  • Joseph Alvarado on 31 Mar 10
     
    To help moms who have children with autism and to support Autism Awareness month, Momsfightingautism.com is offering a free virtual conference with 17 different presenters over two days on Saturday April 10th and Sunday April 11th. Attendees can listen and participate from anywhere in the world free.
Ted Sakshaug

AudioOwl - Free Audio Books - Download mp3 and iPod format today! - 18 views

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shared by Ted Sakshaug on 25 May 10 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 25 May 10
     
    Free audio books
Deven Black

TeachersFirst: Xw1W- Across the world once a week - 17 views

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shared by Deven Black on 27 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Deven Black on 27 Feb 11
     
    Students around the world answer the same culture-based question; a new question every week.
Barry Peterson

The Best Live Education Tool Available - 32 views

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shared by Barry Peterson on 23 May 11 - No Cached
  • Barry Peterson on 23 May 11
     
    Dear Educators, With this webcasting tool, you can connect live face to face with anyone, anywhere, anytime.....family, friends, students, teachers, colleagues, administrative groups, principals meetings, etc. without having to travel. You can even promote world peace by connecting with teachers and students in their classrooms worldwide and learning more about each other's country and culture The tools for your use include the ability to have live video chat, make PowerPoint presentations, stream video, share your desktop, record and share your presentation, and much more. Guests do not have to download any software. They simply click on the link to your conference that you send them, no cost, no travel and better yet, no wasted time. This tool is affordable and easily fits into a classroom, school or administartive office budget. As a former superintendent in the education system with more than 50 schools spread out 400 miles along a major highway, the ability to communicate with everyone in an efficient, effective and economical manner was essential. Hope you find this helpful. Best wishes, Barry
Ruth Howard

Donald Clark Plan B - 5 views

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shared by Ruth Howard on 11 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Ruth Howard on 11 Jun 11
     
    The Extraordinary and the ordinary- the projected trajectories of current computer technologies and their application for sustained mind controlling outcomes. It's already here- we will be interacting with computers with our minds. Incredible applications for learning.
Vicki Davis

Knowledge and Practice Standards for Teachers of Reading International Dyslexia Associa... - 1 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 12 Sep 11
     
    This guide is from Dr. Louisa C. Moats and the International Dyslexia Association. It bridges research into practice to create a "research-based tool for practitioners." These are the standards used by the IDI to guide teachers of reading, spelling, and writing.
Michael Walker

Progressive Education - 0 views

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shared by Michael Walker on 11 Jul 09 - Cached
  • As Jim Nehring at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell observed, “Progressive schools are the legacy of a long and proud tradition of thoughtful school practice stretching back for centuries” — including hands-on learning, multiage classrooms, and mentor-apprentice relationships — while what we generally refer to as traditional schooling “is largely the result of outdated policy changes that have calcified into conventions.”
  • Progressive educators are concerned with helping children become not only good learners but also good people
  • Learning isn’t something that happens to individual children — separate selves at separate desks. Children learn with and from one another in a caring community, and that’s true of moral as well as academic learning. Interdependence counts at least as much as independence
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  • Progressive schools are characterized by what I like to call a “working with” rather than a “doing to” model.
  • A sense of community and responsibility for others isn’t confined to the classroom; indeed, students are helped to locate themselves in widening circles of care that extend beyond self, beyond friends, beyond their own ethnic group, and beyond their own coun
  • “What’s the effect on students’ interest in learning, their desire to continue reading, thinking, and questioning?”
  • Alfred North Whitehead declared long ago, “A merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God’s earth.” Facts and skills do matter, but only in a context and for a purpose. That’s why progressive education tends to be organized around problems, projects, and questions — rather than around lists of facts, skills, and separate disciplines
  • students play a vital role in helping to design the curriculum, formulate the questions, seek out (and create) answers, think through possibilities, and evaluate how successful they — and their teachers — have been
  • Each student is unique, so a single set of policies, expectations, or assignments would be as counterproductive as it was disrespectful.)
  • they design it with them
  • what distinguishes progressive education is that students must construct their own understanding of ideas.
  • A school that is culturally progressive is not necessarily educationally progressive. An institution can be steeped in lefty politics and multi-grain values; it can be committed to diversity, peace, and saving the planet — but remain strikingly traditional in its pedagogy
  • A truly impressive collection of research has demonstrated that when students are able to spend more time thinking about ideas than memorizing facts and practicing skills — and when they are invited to help direct their own learning — they are not only more likely to enjoy what they’re doing but to do it better.
  • Regardless of one’s values, in other words, this approach can be recommended purely on the basis of its effectiveness. And if your criteria are more ambitious — long-term retention of what’s been taught, the capacity to understand ideas and apply them to new kinds of problems, a desire to continue learning — the relative benefits of progressive education are even greater.[5]
  • Students in elementary and middle school did better in science when their teaching was “centered on projects in which they took a high degree of initiative.
  • For starters, they tell me, progressive education is not only less familiar but also much harder to do, and especially to do well. It asks a lot more of the students and at first can seem a burden to those who have figured out how to play the game in traditional classrooms — often succeeding by conventional standards without doing much real thinking. It’s also much more demanding of teachers, who have to know their subject matter inside and out if they want their students to “make sense of biology or literature” as opposed to “simply memoriz[ing] the frog’s anatomy or the sentence’s structure.”[12]  But progressive teachers also have to know a lot about pedagogy because no amount of content knowledge (say, expertise in science or English) can tell you how to facilitate learning. The belief that anyone who knows enough math can teach it is a corollary of the belief that learning is a process of passive absorption —a view that cognitive science has decisively debunked.
Nedra Isenberg

WOWIO: Free Ebooks, Comics and Graphic Novels | Free Books + Free Minds - 0 views

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  • Nedra Isenberg on 01 Apr 09
     
    Searchable by categories and age levels.
Vicki Davis

ICDL - International Children's Digital Library - 1 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 04 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Julie Radachy on 23 Oct 09
     
    You can find a variety of books online, in many languages and reading levels (mostly Elementary). The titles are searchable just as you would in a library catalogue, and you can enlarge the text.
  • Vicki Davis on 31 Dec 11
     
    International Children's Library includes many ebooks that you can download onto your Kindle. The books are organized by grade level and there are over 10,000 of them. (A big hat tip to Peter Fogarty who shared this resource over at the TES forum, a place where I find a ton of great things for my classroom.)
Ted Sakshaug

Seventeen Interesting Ways* to use Voicethread in the Classroom - 0 views

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shared by Ted Sakshaug on 20 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 20 Jul 09
     
    good ideas for using Voice thread with students
Barry Peterson

Connect Administrators, Teachers and Classrooms, Anywhere, Anytime - 23 views

GVO Conference has no limits or restrictions. This system will take whatever you throw at it! GVO Conference requires absolutely no download and works on all operating systems. This highjly secure ...

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Barry Peterson

Connect Classrooms From Around The World - 17 views

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  • Barry Peterson on 01 May 11
     
    Connect classrooms, teachers, administrators...online collaboration - all features are included.
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