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in title, tags, annotations or urlShould I Stop Assigning Homework? - Jessica Lahey - The Atlantic - 15 views
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It's a complicated question. Economic data is showing that only our best a brightest are receiving an economic benefit from the academic part of education. More that half going to college are making a poor economic decision. How academic is your group? Is there something they could do to prepare them to lead a more satisfying life?
DiigoNotes - 7 Skills Schools Should be Teaching Them - 44 views
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not just a Powerpoint, eh
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This article is adapted from his book, The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach The New Survival Skills Our Children Need—and What We Can Do About It (New York: Basic Books, 2008)
Top 10 College Lessons from "Community" | Best Colleges Online - 10 views
Reflections of a new-ish blogger « Educational Insanity - 0 views
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My theory is– don’t worry about getting your voice out there, or comments, or rankings, or even being invited to the right parties (inner circle) — rather focus intently on children, your vision, and leaving education better than you found it. Concentrate on helping those within your sphere of influence to make principled changes in education that is in the best interest of kids.
100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner | College@Home - 2 views
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For those unfamiliar with the term, a learning style is a way in which an individual approaches learning. Many people understand material much better when it is presented in one format, for example a lab experiment, than when it is presented in another, like an audio presentation. Determining how you best learn and using materials that cater to this style can be a great way to make school and the entire process of acquiring new information easier and much more intuitive. Here are some great tools that you can use to cater to your individual learning style, no matter what that is.
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Sprixi - Free images to choose and use! - 36 views
10 Personal Response Systems Teaching Strategies: Best Practices for Using Clickers to Support Engagement and Learning - 22 views
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Students have no risk of embarrassment with respect to their individual answers and are very motivated to actively participate when using the personal response system (PRS). This interactive wireless system produces active learning by providing each student with a simple and handheld response remote. This remote is non-threatening and is in use from pre-K through college graduate education. PRS is often referred to as Clickers, Classroom Response Systems, and Learner Response Systems.
Wiki or Blog: Which is Better? - 9 views
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Both wikis and blogs provide teachers with a a dynamic process for integrating Web 2.0 technology in their science and math classes. These two types of online tools offer students a more engaging process for learning. Both are relatively easy tools which do not require teachers or students to learn any special program tools or computer skills. Their uses and applications are only limited by the vision and purpose for helping students learn.
Best of free typing games - Typing games : improve typing skills - 27 views
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An awful lot of ads at the top of these; some of them encouraging them to download stuff. Think I'll pass on this one.
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I have the Adblock app from Firefox on all my student computers so they did not show up. This helps with a lot of free educational sites. You might want to give it s try. It installs quickly.
50 Essential Twitter Feeds for Education Reformers | Best Colleges Online - 16 views
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