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Ted Sakshaug

PinDax | Create and discover message boards for your interests and passions - 14 views

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shared by Ted Sakshaug on 16 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Jackie Gerstein on 16 Nov 09
     
    Free customizable message board widgets you can put on your website
  • Jackie Gerstein on 16 Nov 09
     
    Free customizable message board widgets you can put on your website
  • Ted Sakshaug on 14 Apr 10
     
    PinDax offers a fun real-time alternative to the traditional message board. Sign up for free, and get up and running in minutes.
Vicki Davis

Screenr | Instant screencasts: Just click record - 18 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 19 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 27 Mar 12
     
    An excellent screencaster- you can post to YouTube or send wherever. You don't need to install software to run this one.
Vicki Davis

The Kids Are Ready | Classroom Applications - 7 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 14 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 14 Jul 11
     
    Nice write up on how Brad Flickinger is running his elementary classroom with a lot of high-quality technology equipment where the students serve as mentors for each other. Love this model. Hat tip: Robert Madden
Vicki Davis

Brenham Tech Daily: Fab Find: Chromebook Friendly Word Clouds - 9 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 19 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 19 Jul 14
     
    Chromebook friendly wordclouds. Since Java doesn't run on the chromebook, you'll want to find non-java alternatives for your word clouds.
C CC

The dangers of encouraging dominance in debate by @viewthrudifeyes - UKEdChat.com - 2 views

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shared by C CC on 01 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • C CC on 01 Jan 16
     
    As a teacher, how do you react when one student (or a small minority) dominate discussion and class debate? Do you step in to include the rest of the group or just let the one-sided rhetoric run its natural course? If you intervene, what is the usua…
Martin Burrett

Cube Slam - 0 views

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game hand-eye coordination Pong

shared by Martin Burrett on 08 Nov 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 08 Nov 18
     
    "Pong may be simple, but it is a great game for hand-eye coordination, and this 21st century 3D version from is fast and fun. You can also share the link and play together online. Requires Chrome to run at its best."
Martin Burrett

Creating Wonder in High Prior Attainers by @mathsmuse - 1 views

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wonder

shared by Martin Burrett on 26 Nov 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 26 Nov 18
     
    "High prior attainers. Gifted and talented. High Achievers. The students that are aiming for the very top grades at GCSE, that we're all determined to keep at A level for our subject. We put on trips. We run extracurricular clubs. We bring out the "Challenge Questions". We create peer mentoring. But one thing we often neglect is developing their sense of curiosity in our subject, developing that sense of wonder and awe for the best little bits, that need to actually just know how/ why/where/what is going on with this little bit of your subject."
Martin Burrett

10 Things To Make Staff Meetings More Productive - 2 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 13 Nov 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 13 Nov 18
     
    "Drawing from almost 200 scientific studies on workplace meetings, a team of psychological scientists provides recommendations for making the most out of meetings before they start, as they're happening, and after they've concluded. Their report is published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Meetings are a near-ubiquitous aspect of today's professional workplace and there is abundant trade wisdom and written guidance about how meetings should be run. But, as researchers Joseph Mroz and Joseph Allen (University of Nebraska Omaha) and Dana Verhoeven and Marissa Shuffler (Clemson University) point out, very little of this guidance is informed by the available science."
Martin Burrett

Teens need vigorous physical activity and fitness to cut heart risk - 0 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 01 Feb 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 01 Feb 18
     
    "Guidelines for teenagers should stress the importance of vigorous physical activity and fitness to cut the risk of heart disease, new research suggests. Current NHS guidelines say people aged 5 to 18 should do at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity each day to improve their current and future health. But in a study of adolescents aged 12 to 17, University of Exeter researchers found significant differences between the effects of moderate activity (such as brisk walking) and vigorous activity (activity that leaves people out of breath, such as team sports or running around a playground)."
Martin Burrett

Rules about technology use can undermine academic achievement - 0 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 05 Jun 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 05 Jun 18
     
    "Parents who restrict their children's use of new media technologies may be acting counterproductively in the long run, particularly if they invoke afterschool homework time as the reason. Their children's scholastic achievements at college lag behind the academic performance of same-age peers, a University of Zurich study shows."
Nik Peachey

Nik's QuickShout: Becoming a Technology Teacher Trainer - 2 views

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shared by Nik Peachey on 10 Nov 17 - No Cached
  • Nik Peachey on 10 Nov 17
     
    I'm really proud to announce the release of the second edition of my Digital Tools for Teachers ebook and also the Trainers' Edition which should enable any teacher with a basic knowledge of technology to run teacher training and development courses and sessions for pre-service and in-service teachers.
Martin Burrett

Book Review: Living Contradiction by @Sean_S_Warren & @StephenBigger - 0 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 27 Nov 17 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 27 Nov 17
     
    PROS: An important book that questions an authoritarian school culture. The book grapples with both the philosophical and the pragmatic aspects of school culture. A resonatory self-examination of teacher identity and a significant contribution to the debate about how schools and classrooms are run. A survey of a wide range of related research that challenges the status quo on the effectiveness of punishment and authoritarianism as approaches to behaviour management."
Martin Burrett

Physical activity in lessons improves students' attainment - 1 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 12 Nov 19 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 12 Nov 19
     
    "Students who take part in physical exercises like star jumps or running on the spot during school lessons do better in tests than peers who stick to sedentary learning, according to a UCL-led study. The meta-analysis of 42 studies around the world, published in British Journal of Sports Medicine, aimed to assess the benefits of incorporating physical activity in academic lessons. This approach has been adopted by schools seeking to increase activity levels among students without reducing academic teaching time."
Vicki Davis

Special education and Trump: What parents and schools need to know - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 01 Apr 25 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 01 Apr 25
     
    With budget cuts and changes in the organizations running a variety of education programs, the Hechinger Report gives an overview on what will change about funding for those with special needs (it won't). If you're concerned, read this article.
Ed Webb

Peru's ambitious laptop program gets mixed grades - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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  • what we did was deliver the computers without preparing the teachers
  • the missteps may have actually widened the gap between children able to benefit from the computers and those ill-equipped to do so
  • Inter-American Development Bank researchers were less polite."There is little solid evidence regarding the effectiveness of this program," they said in a study sharply critical of the overall OLPC initiative that was based on a 15-month study at 319 schools in small, rural Peruvian communities that got laptops."The magical thinking that mere technology is enough to spur change, to improve learning, is what this study categorically disproves," co-author Eugenio Severin of Chile told The Associated Press
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  • OLPC laptops, which are rugged and energy efficient and run an open-source variant of the Linux operating system, are in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Mongolia and Haiti, and even in the United States and Australia. Uruguay, a compact South American nation of 3.5 million people, is the only country that has fully embraced the concept and given every elementary school child and teacher an XO laptop
  • no increased math or language skills, no improvement in classroom instruction quality, no boost in time spent on homework, no improvement in reading habits
  • On the positive side, the "dramatic increase in access to computers" accelerated by about six months students' abstract reasoning, verbal fluency and speed in processing information
  • "We knew from the start that it wouldn't be possible to improve the teachers," he said, citing a 2007 census of 180,000 Peruvian teachers that showed more than 90 percent lacked basic math skills while three in five could not read above sixth-grade level.
  • Each teacher was supposed to get 40 hours of OLPC training. That hardly helped in schools where teachers had never so much as booted up a computer. In Patzer's experience "most of them barely knew how to interact with the computers at all."
  • In the higher grades, Martinez said, children's use of the machines is mostly social
  • "For them, the laptop is more for playing than for learning,"
  • Negroponte thinks the main goal of technology educators should be simply getting computers into poor kids' hands.His proposal last year to parachute tablet computers from helicopters, limiting the involvement of adults and "educators," caused some colleagues to wince. But Negroponte is dead serious, and has begun a pilot project in two Ethiopian villages to test whether tablets alone, loaded with the right software, can teach children to read.
  • The OLPC team always considered Internet connectivity part of the recipe for success. They also insisted that each child be given a laptop and be permitted to take it home.Uruguay, a small, flat country with a far higher standard of living and ubiquitous Internet, has honored those requirementsPeru did not
  • Some schools didn't have enough electricity to power the machines.And then there was the Internet. Less than 1 percent of the schools studied had it.
Ed Webb

Grading and Its Discontents - Do Your Job Better - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 8 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 13 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Most students bring with them an unhealthy attitude toward grading that has been instilled in them by parents and schoolteachers, an attitude based on the flawed assumption that grades are supposed to function as "carrots and sticks." Consequently, it's not enough for me to simply convey the mechanics of my grading policy; I must also ensure that students acquire a more accurate conception of grading, one that will enhance—rather than impede—their learning.
  • Since grades have only instrumental value—rather than any intrinsic value—they must be treated as only means to some end, and never as ends in themselves. I tell my students: If your primary goal in college is to receive good grades, you will probably view the required work as an onerous obstacle and you're not likely to feel very motivated to do the work. But you are most likely to receive good grades when you are so focused on learning that grades have ceased to matter.
  • The students seems to be assuming that they already had a full score and that the professor is therefore responsible for taking away some of what rightfully belonged to them. Needless to say, that is a mistaken assumption.
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  • Learning is never directly caused by anything that a professor does. It happens as a result of the student's own activities (reading, thinking, writing, etc.), while the professor can only facilitate that process. Since the responsibility for learning lies with the student, so does the burden of demonstrating that he or she has actually achieved that learning.
  • You are not your grades. I want my students to avoid defining themselves in terms of a grade. I want them to know that grades represent nothing more than someone's assessment of one or more instances of their academic performance. Given the nature of the grading process and the limited purposes for which it is designed, the grades they receive are in no way a reflection of who they are as people or even what they are capable of achieving in the long run.
  • Professors rarely observe their students outside of the classroom or lab, which is why we are in no position to judge how hard or long someone has studied. We can only assess their actual performance. A student using ineffective methods of study would have to work a lot harder and a lot longer than a student who is using effective methods
  • Some students must invest more time and effort than other students in order to receive the same grade. That may seem unjust, I tell students, but it simply mimics the way "real life" functions
  • being told that the entire life plan of a young man or woman depends on what grade I give them does put me in an awkward situation psychologically: I don't wish to be the person who destroys someone's dream, but I also have a strong need for integrity. It would be best for both parties if students simply do not share this kind of information with faculty members.
  • I believe that when students see their grades as pieces of information, rather than as external rewards or punishments, or as mechanisms of control, they are much more likely to discover the joy that is inherent in the very experience of learning.
Ed Webb

Princeton U. Decides to Shut Down Online Collection of Policy Videos - Wired Campus - T... - 3 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 28 Jul 10 - Cached
  • The University Channel Web site will shut down on November 3
  • Princeton (and other universities) can upload these videos onto their channel on YouTube (regular and .edu), which would actually make them available to a wider audience. They can also leverage their other social media channels (e.g., Twitter, Facebook and even their website) to promote the videos periodically. Rather than viewing this as a loss, I see this as a pragmatic, digital-era cost-saving measure that can also increase the opportunities to share this valuable content.
  • Articles like this aren't very helpful unless they provide readers key data, such as the yearly budget for running this sort of operation, and the traffic the service generated. Other information, such as why there are budget problems would be helpful.If there was little interest in this service, then paying for servers and bandwidth makes little sense. On the other hand, if there was a lot of interest, then finding alternative funding would seem to be something that Admins should be requested to do.Youtube is getting about 5B hits a month, so somebody is watching video out there.
Kelly Faulkner

Campus Channel - Run Your Own TV Channel :: Home - 10 views

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shared by Kelly Faulkner on 28 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Kelly Faulkner on 28 Nov 10
     
    new software for schools. in the try it stage now. oz/nz schools only.
Ruth Howard

Setting up and running a school garden - 1 views

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shared by Ruth Howard on 25 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Ruth Howard on 25 Mar 09
     
    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations- a how to set up your own edible school garden document.
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