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Vicki Davis

How mobile technology in education is shaping the next generation of employees | Inform... - 1 views

www.information-age.com/...ping-next-generation-employees

education mlearning workforce edu_news

shared by Vicki Davis on 29 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 29 Sep 15
     
    This article talks about how today's teaching is going to change the business world. Sadly, I think that much of the teaching they CLAIM happens (such as mobile learning and differentiation) may not be as widespread as they think. Either way, this generation is different and I do think they expect to be a truly mobile workforce. Of course it will be interesting to see how the kids who are lucky enough to have personalized learning feel about the workforce.
yc c

THE BRITISH LIBRARY - The world's knowledge - 7 views

www.bl.uk

maps history museum british exhibition online

shared by yc c on 02 Jun 10 - Cached
  • yc c on 02 Jun 10
     
    Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art is a show to overturn such expectations. It leads the visitor - a bit like some erstwhile explorer - on a creative adventure around the back of that flat piece of paper we think of as the world. Drawing on the finest collection of maps on this planet - the British Library has more than four million to choose from, the vast majority of which are only very rarely, if ever, put on public display - the exhibition sets out to make clear that these pictures are about far more than mere physical description. They are a series of subjective images, each shaped by the beliefs and desires, the ambitions and prejudices, the passions and anxieties of its period.
Sandy Kendell

As 'digital natives' mature, world to have 6 billion mobile connections, 4.7 billion In... - 14 views

www.ibtimes.com/...ensky-scwartz-booz-company.htm

digitalnatives socialmedia future

shared by Sandy Kendell on 01 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Sandy Kendell on 01 Sep 10
     
    How Generacion C - Connect, Communicate, Change - Born in 1990 and After - Now hitting college - Will Shape the World
Dave Truss

Draw on any Webpage like a Virtual Whiteboard - 21 views

www.labnol.org/...17923

IWB ML-All ML-1-1 interactive tools

shared by Dave Truss on 12 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Dave Truss on 12 Oct 10
     
    Well, there's a new and interesting web app called markup.io that can help you here. It instantly turns any web page into a virtual whiteboard where you can add text, draw shapes, arrows or even do some freehand drawings. Here's a quick demo:
Clint Hamada

GPS Math Modules - 0 views

users.marshall.edu/...GPS-UTM%20Activities.htm

GPS distance navigation geometry trigonometry

shared by Clint Hamada on 23 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Clint Hamada on 23 Jan 09
     
    A complete unit integrating GPS into area, shapes, error, etc. A very integrated unit. Something to try in the future?
Fred Delventhal

Shape Collage - Free Automatic Photo Collage Maker - 0 views

www.vincentcheung.ca/shapecollage

freeware collage photography tools graphics photos software shape images multiplatform

shared by Fred Delventhal on 24 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Fred Delventhal on 24 Feb 09
     
    Make picture collages in less than a minute with just a few mouse clicks
Fred Delventhal

Exploratorium | Evidence | How Do We Know What We Know? | Human Origins - 0 views

www.exploratorium.edu/...index.html

education facts investigation learning science science_connections teachers

shared by Fred Delventhal on 17 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Fred Delventhal on 17 Oct 08
     
    For most of us, science arrives in our lives packaged neatly as fact. But how did it get that way? Science is an active process of observation and investigation. The Evidence Project examines that process, revealing the ways in which ideas and information become knowledge and understanding. a case study in human origins In this case study on human origins, we explore how scientific evidence is being used to shape our current understanding of ourselves: What makes us human-and how did we get this way?
anonymous

innovation3: For Children in Massachusetts Today is a New Day - 0 views

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21st century literacies innovation3 learning wholechild

shared by anonymous on 26 Jun 08 - Cached
  • anonymous on 26 Jun 08
     
    It has taken ten years of advocacy by colleagues throughout Massachusetts to achieve this reform package. I am proud of the role MASCD has played in shaping the agenda. Working together with hundreds of educators, business leaders, parents and politicians, we have come to a new day for children. The power to transform is with us; let us use it wisely. "It's about all the kids!"
Donna W

Spanish for Kids | 123TeachMe - 0 views

www.123teachme.com/...spanish_for_children

shared by Donna W on 07 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Donna W on 07 Sep 08
     
    colors, numbers, abc, days, face, family, opposites, shapes, etc
anonymous

Diamante Poem Maker - 18 views

www.readwritethink.org/...diamante

poem writing interactive

shared by anonymous on 03 Feb 11 - Cached
  • anonymous on 03 Feb 11
     
    In this online tool, students can learn about and write diamante poems, which are diamond-shaped poems that use nouns, adjectives, and gerunds to describe either one central topic or two opposing topics (for example, night/day or winter/spring). Examples of both kinds of diamante poems can be viewed online or printed out. Because diamante poems follow a specific format that uses nouns on the first and last lines, adjectives on the second and fourth lines, and gerunds in the third and fifth lines, this tool has numerous word-study applications. The tool provides definitions of the different parts of speech students use in composing the poems, reinforcing the connection between word study and writing. It also includes prompts to write and revise poems, thus reinforcing elements of the writing process. Students can print their finished diamante poems.
Ed Webb

Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com - 13 views

www.nytimes.com/...29language-t.html

language epistemology psychology

shared by Ed Webb on 14 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Some 50 years ago, the renowned linguist Roman Jakobson pointed out a crucial fact about differences between languages in a pithy maxim: “Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.” This maxim offers us the key to unlocking the real force of the mother tongue: if different languages influence our minds in different ways, this is not because of what our language allows us to think but rather because of what it habitually obliges us to think about.
  • When your language routinely obliges you to specify certain types of information, it forces you to be attentive to certain details in the world and to certain aspects of experience that speakers of other languages may not be required to think about all the time. And since such habits of speech are cultivated from the earliest age, it is only natural that they can settle into habits of mind that go beyond language itself, affecting your experiences, perceptions, associations, feelings, memories and orientation in the world.
  • When speakers were asked to grade various objects on a range of characteristics, Spanish speakers deemed bridges, clocks and violins to have more “manly properties” like strength, but Germans tended to think of them as more slender or elegant. With objects like mountains or chairs, which are “he” in German but “she” in Spanish, the effect was reversed.
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  • once gender connotations have been imposed on impressionable young minds, they lead those with a gendered mother tongue to see the inanimate world through lenses tinted with associations and emotional responses that English speakers — stuck in their monochrome desert of “its” — are entirely oblivious to
  • one conclusion that seems compelling is that while we are trained to ignore directional rotations when we commit information to memory, speakers of geographic languages are trained not to do so
  • if you saw a Guugu Yimithirr speaker pointing at himself, you would naturally assume he meant to draw attention to himself. In fact, he is pointing at a cardinal direction that happens to be behind his back. While we are always at the center of the world, and it would never occur to us that pointing in the direction of our chest could mean anything other than to draw attention to ourselves, a Guugu Yimithirr speaker points through himself, as if he were thin air and his own existence were irrelevant
  • our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue
  • some languages, like Matses in Peru, oblige their speakers, like the finickiest of lawyers, to specify exactly how they came to know about the facts they are reporting. You cannot simply say, as in English, “An animal passed here.” You have to specify, using a different verbal form, whether this was directly experienced (you saw the animal passing), inferred (you saw footprints), conjectured (animals generally pass there that time of day), hearsay or such. If a statement is reported with the incorrect “evidentiality,” it is considered a lie. So if, for instance, you ask a Matses man how many wives he has, unless he can actually see his wives at that very moment, he would have to answer in the past tense and would say something like “There were two last time I checked.” After all, given that the wives are not present, he cannot be absolutely certain that one of them hasn’t died or run off with another man since he last saw them, even if this was only five minutes ago. So he cannot report it as a certain fact in the present tense. Does the need to think constantly about epistemology in such a careful and sophisticated manner inform the speakers’ outlook on life or their sense of truth and causation?
  • The habits of mind that our culture has instilled in us from infancy shape our orientation to the world and our emotional responses to the objects we encounter, and their consequences probably go far beyond what has been experimentally demonstrated so far; they may also have a marked impact on our beliefs, values and ideologies. We may not know as yet how to measure these consequences directly or how to assess their contribution to cultural or political misunderstandings. But as a first step toward understanding one another, we can do better than pretending we all think the same.
Vicki Davis

National Punctuation Day - 0 views

www.nationalpunctuationday.com

grammar edu_news

shared by Vicki Davis on 14 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 14 Sep 09
     
    Just got this in my inbox - English teachers listen up and plan to celebrate national punctuation day. "HOW TO CELEBRATE NATIONAL PUNCTUATION DAY What can you do to participate in National Punctuation Day on September 24! 1. Go to www.NationalPunctuationDay.com and become familiar with punctuation rules and issues. 2. Organize punctuation activities at your school, library, or office. 3. Share punctuation peeves with founder Jeff Rubin at Jeff@NationalPunctuationDay.com. 4. Send photos of incorrectly punctuated signage to Jeff Rubin at Jeff@NationalPunctuationDay.com 5. Forward this news as a way to spread the importance of proper punctuation. - Entrants must send a recipe and a sample of their cookie, cake, pastry, doughnut, or bread baked in the shape of a punctuation mark to National Punctuation Day, 1517 Buckeye Court, Pinole, CA 94564. - Entrants must send two print photos ‹ one putting the item in an oven before baking and the other taking it out when it¹s done. Make sure we can see the baked goods clearly. - First-, second-, and third-place winners will receive a box of non-edible NPD goodies, and all entrants¹ photos and recipes will be published on the National Punctuation Day website (www.NationalPunctuationDay.com). - All entries must be received by September 30, 2009. This looks like a lot of fun
yc c

greenshot.sourceforge.net - 10 views

greenshot.sourceforge.net

mswindows screencapture annotation software

shared by yc c on 11 Oct 09 - Cached
  • yc c on 11 Oct 09
     
    Greenshot is a revolutionary screenshot tool optimized for productivity. * Save a screenshot or a part of the screen to a file within a second. * Apply text and shapes to the screenshot. * Offers capture of window, region or full screenshot. * Supports several image formats.
Martin Burrett

Pink Trombone - 3 views

ukedchat.com/...pink-trombone

science voice voice-box simulation biology

shared by Martin Burrett on 05 Jun 17 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 05 Jun 17
     
    Interesting voice simulator where you adjust the shape of the virtual mouth and voicebox to investigate how these work to produce sound.
Martin Burrett

Makers Empire 3D - 2 views

ukedchat.com/...makers-empire-3d

3D design CAD

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  • Martin Burrett on 19 Mar 18
     
    "An interesting 3D design platform with challenges to aid learning and a variety of options. Free version has limited shapes library."
Martin Burrett

Running an Extra Curricular Activity (Why, What and How) by @richardjarogers - UKEdChat - 0 views

ukedchat.com/...extra-curricular

extra curricular club

shared by Martin Burrett on 27 Jun 19 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 27 Jun 19
     
    "My teenage years were brilliant, and one of the reasons for this is that I was involved in so many active clubs and hobbies. I was an army cadet, I did karate and I even tried hockey and acting for a short while. The Extra-Curricular Activities (ECAs) I did as a kid shaped my character more than my lessons in school. I can say that with conviction. In my ECAs, I made new and lasting friendships and learnt cool skills (such as how to start a fire with potassium permanganate, and how to disarm an attacker with a pistol)."
Duane Sharrock

Metacognition: An Overview - 7 views

gse.buffalo.edu/...metacog.htm

thinking about thinking Cognitive Strategy Instruction Flavell regulation planning strategy metacognition mindfulness infotention learning sternberg CSI

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  • Metacognition refers to higher order thinking which involves active control over the cognitive processes engaged in learning. Activities such as planning how to approach a given learning task, monitoring comprehension, and evaluating progress toward the completion of a task are metacognitive in nature.
  • "Metacognition" is often simply defined as "thinking about thinking."
  • While there are some distinctions between definitions (see Van Zile-Tamsen, 1994, 1996 for a full discussion), all emphasize the role of executive processes in the overseeing and regulation of cognitive processes.
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  • Most definitions of metacognition include both knowledge and strategy components
  • According to Flavell (1979, 1987), metacognition consists of both metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive experiences or regulation. Metacognitive knowledge refers to acquired knowledge about cognitive processes, knowledge that can be used to control cognitive processes. Flavell further divides metacognitive knowledge into three categories: knowledge of person variables, task variables and strategy variables.
  • These processes help to regulate and oversee learning, and consist of planning and monitoring cognitive activities, as well as checking the outcomes of those activities.
  • What is the difference between a cognitive and a metacognitive strategy?
  • Cognitive strategies are used to help an individual achieve a particular goal (e.g., understanding a text) while metacognitive strategies are used to ensure that the goal has been reached (e.g., quizzing oneself to evaluate one's understanding of that text).
  • Metacognitive and cognitive strategies may overlap in that the same strategy, such as questioning, could be regarded as either a cognitive or a metacognitive strategy depending on what the purpose for using that strategy may be.
  • Metacognition, or the ability to control one's cognitive processes (self-regulation) has been linked to intelligence
  • Knowledge is considered to be metacognitive if it is actively used in a strategic manner to ensure that a goal is met.
  • Sternberg refers to these executive processes as "metacomponents" in his triarchic theory of intelligence (Sternberg, 1984, 1986a, 1986b). Metacomponents are executive processes that control other cognitive components as well as receive feedback from these components. According to Sternberg, metacomponents are responsible for "figuring out how to do a particular task or set of tasks, and then making sure that the task or set of tasks are done correctly" (Sternberg, 1986b, p. 24). These executive processes involve planning, evaluating and monitoring problem-solving activities. Sternberg maintains that the ability to appropriately allocate cognitive resources, such as deciding how and when a given task should be accomplished, is central to intelligence.
  • Cognitive Strategy Instruction
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  • Those with greater metacognitive abilities tend to be more successful in their cognitive endeavors.
  • CSI) is an instructional approach which emphasizes the development of thinking skills and processes as a means to enhance learning. The objective of CSI is to enable all students to become more strategic, self-reliant, flexible, and productive in their learning endeavors (Scheid, 1993)
  • Metacognition enables students to benefit from instruction (Carr, Kurtz, Schneider, Turner & Borkowski, 1989; Van Zile-Tamsen, 1996) and influences the use and maintenance of cognitive strategies
  • Duane Sharrock on 12 Oct 12
     
    "According to Flavell (1979, 1987), metacognition consists of both metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive experiences or regulation. Metacognitive knowledge refers to acquired knowledge about cognitive processes, knowledge that can be used to control cognitive processes. Flavell further divides metacognitive knowledge into three categories: knowledge of person variables, task variables and strategy variables."
  • Duane Sharrock on 12 Oct 12
     
    Sternberg defined intelligence as mental activity central to one's life in real-world environments; individuals "succeed" in life when they use mental skills to adapt to, select, and shape external environments. Correspondingly, in the late 1990s, Sternberg changed the name of the theory to the Theory of Successful Intelligence. As per its original name, the theory comprises three types of intelligence: analytical (also referred to as componential); practical (also referred to as contextual) and creative (also referred to as experiential).
Ed Webb

An unseen disadvantage : The focus on independence at American universities can undermi... - 5 views

www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/...unseen_disadvantage.htm

education students culture

shared by Ed Webb on 25 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • For middle-class students, college is “the ultimate symbol of independence” and also allows students to “distinguish themselves from their parents and realize their individual potential.” By contrast, students from working-class backgrounds are likely to have been socialized with different “rules of the game” —rules that emphasize interdependence with others (i.e., being part of a community).
  • “Many students from working-class families are influenced by limited financial resources and lack an economic safety net, and thus must rely on family and friends for support. Thus, these students’ expectations for college center around interdependent motives such as working together, connecting to others, and giving back,” said Stephens. “Given the largely independent college culture and the ways in which students’ social class backgrounds shape their motives for attending college, we questioned whether universities provide students from these different backgrounds with an equal chance of success.”
  • Admissions materials and university mission statements could be revised to reflect the importance of interdependent norms  In the classroom, professors could emphasize the importance of collaboration, require more group work, and seek to develop ongoing relationships with their students. Universities could provide students with more structured opportunities that encourage ongoing connections with peers and faculty.
Martin Burrett

Shape It Up - 4 views

sciencenetlinks.com/...shapeitup_final.swf

geology weathering landscape science

shared by Martin Burrett on 11 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 11 Apr 12
     
    A game which is about geological processes on land formation. Choose the correct process and timescale to get from one type of land to the other. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
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