Digital Web Magazine - The Principles of Design - 11 views
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concepts that can that make any project stronger without interfering in the more technical considerations later on
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one of many disciplines within the larger field of design
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a discipline within the field of art
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Executive Summary | U.S. Department of Education - 9 views
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regardless of background, languages, or disabilities,
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personalized learning
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critical thinking, complex problem solving, collaboration, and multimedia communication should be woven into all content areas.
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Six Steps for Planning a Successful Project | Edutopia - 15 views
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...has put together a [LINK] six-step rubric for designing a project. He says Fading Footprints, which became a model for King and Expeditionary Learning Schools, doesn't take an entire school, or even a team of twelve, to plan and carry out; one or two teachers can tailor this one to fit their time and resources.
Lifelong Learning Tips for Success - Continuing Education - 8 views
Tools of the Mind | Extended Campus | Metro State - 8 views
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Tools of the Mind is a research-based early childhood program that builds strong foundations for school success in preschool and kindergarten children by promoting their intentional and self-regulated learning. In a series of rigorous experimental trials, Tools of the Mind has been shown to have a significant impact on self-regulation of preschool children. The study also found these gains in self-regulation to be related to scores in child achievement in early literacy and mathematics.
Developing Hybrid Learning Environments - Synthesizing Education - 13 views
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There are two keys to building the kind of trust required to make the new system successful. The first is to train teachers to effectively facilitate student learning without being the center of attention on a daily basis. This means teachers must develop a new skill set that hybridizes their content knowledge as well as their ability to transfer that knowledge to other fields. The number one trait that districts will be using to judge new teachers in the years to come: flexibility.
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The second emphasis should be on generating this type of hybrid learning on a district level before extending beyond the walls of local control.
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districts should begin working with isolated courses and training their staff gradually to facilitate these types of learning environments.
What Makes a Great Teacher? - Magazine - The Atlantic - 27 views
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Great teachers, he concluded, constantly reevaluate what they are doing. Superstar teachers had four other tendencies in common: they avidly recruited students and their families into the process; they maintained focus, ensuring that everything they did contributed to student learning; they planned exhaustively and purposefully—for the next day or the year ahead—by working backward from the desired outcome; and they worked relentlessly, refusing to surrender to the combined menaces of poverty, bureaucracy, and budgetary shortfalls.
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one way that great teachers ensure that kids are learning is to frequently check for understanding: Are the kids—all of the kids—following what you are saying? Asking “Does anyone have any questions?” does not work, and it’s a classic rookie mistake. Students are not always the best judges of their own learning. They might understand a line read aloud from a Shakespeare play, but have no idea what happened in the last act.
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Mr. Taylor follows a very basic lesson plan often referred to by educators as “I do, we do, you do.” He does a problem on the board. Then the whole class does another one the same way. Then all the kids do a problem on their own.
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Great teachers, he concluded, constantly reevaluate what they are doing. Superstar teachers had four other tendencies in common: they avidly recruited students and their families into the process; they maintained focus, ensuring that everything they did contributed to student learning; they planned exhaustively and purposefully-for the next day or the year ahead-by working backward from the desired outcome; and they worked relentlessly, refusing to surrender to the combined menaces of poverty, bureaucracy, and budgetary shortfalls.
Reggio Emilia approach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 4 views
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Children must have some control over the direction of their learning; Children must be able to learn through experiences of touching, moving, listening, seeing, and hearing; Children have a relationship with other children and with material items in the world that children must be allowed to explore and Children must have endless ways and opportunities to express themselves.
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In the Reggio approach, the teacher is considered a co-learner and collaborator with the child and not just an instructor.
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Teacher autonomy is evident in the absence of teacher manuals, curriculum guides, or achievement tests
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The Reggio Emilia Approach is an educational philosophy focused on preschool and primary education. It was started by Loris Malaguzzi and the parents of the villages around Reggio Emilia in Italy after World War II. The destruction from the war, parents believed, necessitated a new, quick approach to teaching their children. They felt that it is in the early years of development that children are forming who they are as an individual. This led to creation of a program based on the principles of respect, responsibility, and community through exploration and discovery in a supportive and enriching environment based on the interests of the children through a self-guided curriculum.
InformIT: The Business of Understanding > Ode to Ignorance - 1 views
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I'm a success when I do something that I myself can truly understand
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the most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something
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What teachers really want to tell parents - CNN.com - 12 views
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if I get an offer to lead a school system of orphans, I will be all over it, but I just can't deal with parents anymore; they are killing us
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if you really want to help your children be successful, stop making excuses for them
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it's OK for your child to get in trouble sometimes. It builds character and teaches life lessons. As teachers, we are vexed by those parents who stand in the way of those lessons; we call them helicopter parents because they want to swoop in and save their child every time something goes wrong. If we give a child a 79 on a project, then that is what the child deserves. Don't set up a time to meet with me to negotiate extra credit for an 80. It's a 79, regardless of whether you think it should be a B+
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Service Web 3.0 - The Future Internet: Service Web 3.0 Video - 0 views
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With over a billion users, today's Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Future Internet, an initiative driven by the European Union, has become a prime research focus of STI International and the Service Web 3.0 project. In order to explain, promote, and attract new contributotrs, we created a video to be viewed by stakeholders, who may be non-experts, in a new generation Internet. The video outlines the basic themes of the European Union's Future Internet initiative. These include: an Internet of Services, where services are ubiquitous; an Internet of Things where in principle every physical object becomes an online addressable resource; a Mobile Internet where 24/7 seamless connectivity over multiple devices is the norm; and the need for semantics in order to meet the challenges presented by the dramatic increase in the scale of content and users.The video has proved to be popular and has already appeared on the main pages of the EU Future Internet Portal and the Software and Services Unit website. Please distribute this link in order to futher promote the ambitious goals behind the vision of the Future Internet, supported by STI International and Service Web 3.0.
Progressive Education - 0 views
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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.”
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Progressive educators are concerned with helping children become not only good learners but also good people
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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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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.
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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.
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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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What happens when you plagiarize in College | 30 Minutes a Day to a 4.0 GPA VTABLOG - 0 views
Study: Positive teacher-student relationships necessary to raising achievement - Columb... - 0 views
Ed Tech Trek: iPods Pilot Project with ELL Students - SUCCESS!! - 0 views
Top News - School of the Future: Lessons in failure - 0 views
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From eschoolnews, this article about the Philly School of the Future and why it wasn't the huge success that they had envisioned. I think this is a must-read for folks who are considering one-to-one programs. Learn from the mistakes of others. Interesting comments from readers, too.
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Interesting read about assumptions, a well-meaning program, and the lessons learned
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