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Vicki Davis

Drawing to Learn | Learning Sciences Research Institute - 1 views

www.lsri.nottingham.ac.uk/...drawingtolearn

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shared by Vicki Davis on 29 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 29 Sep 15
     
    "Ainsworth, Prain and Tyler  (2011) in a paper in Science argue that  drawing  can play a number of  important roles in learning:, namely: Drawing to enhance engagement - surveys have shown than when students draw to explain they are more motivated to learn compared to traditional teaching of science. Drawing to learn to represent in science - the process of producing visual representations  helps learners understand how scientific representations work. Drawing to reason in science - student learn to reason like scientists as they select specific features to focus on in their drawings, aligning it with observation, measurement and/or emerging ideas Drawing as a learning strategy - if learners read a text and then draw it, the process of making their understanding visible and explicit helps them to overcome limitations in presented material, organise and integrate their knowledge and ultimately can be transformative. Drawing to communicate - discussing their drawings with their students provides teachers with windows into students' thinking as well being a way that the peers can share knowledge, discovery and understanding."
Martin Burrett

Book: Uncharted Territories by @Hywel_Roberts & @DebraKidd - 0 views

ukedchat.com/...uncharted-territories

imagination book book review

shared by Martin Burrett on 26 Feb 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 26 Feb 18
     
    "In their new book, Debra Kidd and Hywel Roberts firmly place teachers, and ultimately their students, in a range of different locations, where the learning inhabits, offering a fantastically imagined context with prompts, ideas and illustrations helping exploration and discovery. In a fascinating resource book, which can be used in many subject areas, across most stages in schools, the authors break down each chapter destination (including a forest, castle, graveyard, ship, zoo, cave, theme park) into a story starter - introducing the location and providing provocative initial questions; key landmarks (either for primary or secondary aged students), a stopover - providing a more in-depth account of their learning journey; stepping stones - context based tasks provided to also prod your imagination, and; the bedrock - offering a debrief of the processes, helping teachers understand the justification of the processes undertaken."
Martin Burrett

Virtual Volcano - 24 views

dsc.discovery.com/...interactive.html

science volcano interactive geology Earth

shared by Martin Burrett on 27 May 12 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 27 May 12
     
    A good interactive stimulation of a volcano. Change the settings and see how the eruption changes. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Vicki Davis

Free Teacher Resources | Discovery Education - 3 views

www.discoveryeducation.com/...index.cfm

education news technology stem engchat math_teacher english_teacher science_teacher history_teacher

shared by Vicki Davis on 08 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 08 Dec 13
     
    If you're looking for free resources for Science,English,Math,and Social Studies to add some interest during December, this page from Discover;y has lots of great things separated by grade level including lesson plans and "learning adventures."
Kelly Faulkner

Teacher's Discovery - Classroom Teaching Materials - 18 views

www.teachersdiscovery.com

resources teaching materials technology games copyables

shared by Kelly Faulkner on 25 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Kelly Faulkner on 25 Jun 10
     
    great site for teacher resources - i particularly like the game-type novel study activities.  reasonable prices (to me here in nz), and shipping.
Ruth Howard

Free - 10 views

www.opsound.org/free

free opensource copyright copyleft gift economy all_teachers bestpractices administrator

shared by Ruth Howard on 28 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Ruth Howard on 28 Sep 09
     
    Explore Opsound for open source sounds/music really beaut discoveries here but this link is for exploring the history of open source ideas etc...
Ted Sakshaug

Darwin: Who Wants to Live a Million Years?: Science Channel - 6 views

science.discovery.com/...darwin.html

darwin evolution interactive science Biology game middleschool

shared by Ted Sakshaug on 20 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 20 Jul 10
     
    Darwin's natural selection game
Reuven Werber

City Brights: Howard Rheingold : Crap Detection 101 - Information evaluation - 13 views

www.sfgate.com/...detail

Infolit informationfluency assessment accuracy evaluation literacy information Internet crap detection informationliteracy information_literacy

shared by Reuven Werber on 17 Oct 10 - Cached
  • To me, the issue of information literacy could be even more important than the health or education of some individuals. Fundamental aspects of democracy, economic production, the discovery and use of knowledge might be at stake. Some of the biggest problems facing the world today seem to be far beyond the ability of any individual or community, or even the whole human race, to tackle.
  • Sandy Kendell on 17 Oct 10
     
    Evaluating the accuracy of information on the Internet
Toni Olivieri-Barton

JeopardyLabs - Online Jeopardy Template - 1 views

jeopardylabs.com

interactive game education web2.0 template tools gameboard elementary middleschool web2 jeopardy

shared by Toni Olivieri-Barton on 09 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Fred Delventhal on 09 Feb 09
     
    JeopardyLabs allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world. Building your own jeopardy template is a piece of cake. Just use our simple editor to get your game up and running. Not interested in building your own jeopardy templates? Well that's cool too. You can browse other jeopardy templates created by other people. It doesn't get any better than this! via Jennifer Dorman http://groups.diigo.com/discovery-educator-network/bookmark/cliotech
  • Nelly Cardinale on 03 Mar 09
     
    Create your own jeopardy template online, without PowerPoint. Or browse the pre-made templates created by other people!
  • Toni Olivieri-Barton on 31 Dec 11
     
    Simple Jeopardy game builder.
Patti Porto

Auditorium - 0 views

playauditorium.com

music flash fun gaming

shared by Patti Porto on 30 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Auditorium is about the process of discovery and play. There are no right or wrong answers; there are many ways to solve every puzzle. To get started, fill up the first audio container.
  • Patti Porto on 30 Jan 09
     
    Interesting puzzle combining motion and sound
Eloise Pasteur

Doing Digital Scholarship: Presentation at Digital Humanities 2008 « Digital Scholarship in the Humanities - 0 views

digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/...ion-at-digital-humanities-2008

digital_scholarship humanities research tools web 2.0

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  • My session, which explored the meaning and significance of “digital humanities,” also featured rich, engaging presentations by Edward Vanhoutte on the history of humanities computing and John Walsh on comparing alchemy and digital humanities.
  • I wondered: What is digital scholarship, anyway?  What does it take to produce digital scholarship? What kind of digital resources and tools are available to support it? To what extent do these resources and tools enable us to do research more productively and creatively? What new questions do these tools and resources enable us to ask? What’s challenging about producing digital scholarship? What happens when scholars share research openly through blogs, institutional repositories, & other means?
  • I decided to investigate these questions by remixing my 2002 dissertation as a work of digital scholarship.  Now I’ll acknowledge that my study is not exactly scientific—there is a rather subjective sample of one.  However, I figured, somewhat pragmatically, that the best way for me to understand what digital scholars face was to do the work myself. 
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  • The ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure’s report points to five manifestations of digital scholarship: collection building, tools to support collection building, tools to support analysis, using tools and collections to produce “new intellectual products,” and authoring tools. 
  • Tara McPherson, the editor of Vectors, offered her own “Typology of Digital Humanities”: •    The Computing Humanities: focused on building tools, infrastructure, standards and collections, e.g. The Blake Archive •    The Blogging Humanities: networked, peer-to-peer, e.g. crooked timber •    The Multimodal Humanities: “bring together databases, scholarly tools, networked writing, and peer-to-peer commentary while also leveraging the potential of the visual and aural media that so dominate contemporary life,” e.g. Vectors
  • My initial diagram of digital scholarship pictured single-headed arrows linking different approaches to digital scholarship; my revised diagram looks more like spaghetti, with arrows going all over the place.  Theories inform collection building; the process of blogging helps to shape an argument; how a scholar wants to communicate an idea influences what tools are selected and how they are used.
  • I looked at 5 categories: archival resources as well as primary and secondary books and journals.   I found that with the exception of archival materials, over 90% of the materials I cited in my bibliography are in a digital format.  However, only about 83% of primary resources and 37% of the secondary materials are available as full text.  If you want to do use text analysis tools on 19th century American novels or 20th century articles from major humanities journals, you’re in luck, but the other stuff is trickier because of copyright constraints.
  • I found that there were some scanning errors with Google Books, but not as many as I expected. I wished that Google Books provided full text rather than PDF files of its public domain content, as do Open Content Alliance and Making of America (and EAF, if you just download the HTML).  I had to convert Google’s PDF files to Adobe Tagged Text XML and got disappointing results.  The OCR quality for Open Content Alliance was better, but words were not joined across line breaks, reducing accuracy.  With multi-volume works, neither Open Content Alliance nor Google Books provided very good metadata.
  • To make it easier for researchers to discover relevant tools, I teamed up with 5 other librarians to launch the Digital Research Tools, or DiRT, wiki at the end of May.
  • Eloise Pasteur on 14 Aug 08
     
    Review of digital humanities scholarship tools
Marisa P

John Dewey: School and Society: Chapter 4: The Psychology of Elementary Education - 0 views

www.brocku.ca/...Dewey_1915a.html

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  • To refuse to try, to stick (97) blindly to tradition, because the search for the truth involves experimentation in the region of the unknown, is to refuse the only step which can introduce rational conviction into education.
    • Marisa P
      Marisa P on 16 May 08
       
      great quote
  • It should also be stated that practically it has not as yet been possible, in many cases, to act adequately upon the best ideas obtained, because of administrative difficulties, due to lack of funds —difficulties centering in the lack of a proper building and appliances, and in inability to pay the amounts necessary to secure the complete time of teachers in some important lines. Indeed, with the growth of the school in numbers, and in the age and maturity of pupils, it is becoming a grave question how long it is fair to the experiment to carry it on without more adequate facilities.
  • The aim, then, is not for the child to go to school as a place apart, but rather in the school so to recapitulate typical phases of his experience outside of school, as to enlarge, enrich, and gradually formulate it.
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  • Since the aim is not "covering the ground," but knowledge of social processes used to secure social results, no attempt is made to go over the entire history, in chronological order, of America
  • His experiments are modes of active doing—almost as much so as his play and games. Later he tries to find out how various materials or agencies are manipulated in order to give certain results. It is thus clearly distinguished from experimentation in the scientific sense—such as is appropriate to the secondary period —where the aim is the discovery of facts and verification of principles.
  • means to ends
  • These subjects are social in a double sense. They represent the tools which society has evolved in the past as the instruments of its intellectual pursuits. They represent the keys which will unlock to the child the wealth of social capital which lies beyond the possible range of his limited individual experience. While these two points of view must always give these arts a highly important place in education, they also make it necessary that certain conditions should be observed in their introduction and use. In a wholesale and direct application of the studies no account is taken of these conditions. The chief problem at present relating to the three R's is recognition of these conditions and the adaptation of work to them.
  • 1) The need that the child shall have in his own personal (105) and vital experience a varied background of contact and acquaintance with realities, social and physical. This is necessary to prevent symbols from becoming a purely second-hand and conventional substitute for reality.
  • The need that the more ordinary, direct, and personal experience of the child shall furnish problems, motives, and interests that necessitate recourse to books for their solution, satisfaction, and pursuit. Otherwise, the child approaches the book without intellectual hunger, without alertness, without a questioning attitude, and the result is the one so deplorably common: such abject dependence upon books as weakens and cripples vigor of thought and inquiry, combined with reading for mere random stimulation of fancy, emotional indulgence, and flight from the world of reality into a make-belief land.
  • The final use of the symbols, whether in reading, calculation, or composition, is more intelligent, less mechanical; more active, less passively receptive; more an increase of power, less a mere mode of enjoyment.
  • third period of elementary education
  • the second period
Brian C. Smith

Basics - So Young, and So Gadgeted - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...12basics.html

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  • and be withheld as punishment that really works.
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 17 Jun 08
       
      You don't say!
  • Piaget would probably advise parents that for a young child, everything — whether it has batteries or not — is a discovery waiting to happen. But toys work best when they are matched to a child’s level of development.
nate stearns

The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete - 0 views

www.wired.com/...pb_theory

curriculum data mining essay google science theory

shared by nate stearns on 01 Jul 08 - Cached
  • This is a world where massive amounts of data and applied mathematics replace every other tool that might be brought to bear. Out with every theory of human behavior, from linguistics to sociology. Forget taxonomy, ontology, and psychology. Who knows why people do what they do? The point is they do it, and we can track and measure it with unprecedented fidelity. With enough data, the numbers speak for themselves.
  • nate stearns on 01 Jul 08
     
    This is a world where massive amounts of data and applied mathematics replace every other tool that might be brought to bear. Out with every theory of human behavior, from linguistics to sociology. Forget taxonomy, ontology, and psychology. Who knows why people do what they do? The point is they do it, and we can track and measure it with unprecedented fidelity. With enough data, the numbers speak for themselves.
Lisa Johnson, Ph.D.

Kirschner, Sweller, and Clark's "Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching" (PDF) - 0 views

www.cogtech.usc.edu/...kirschner_Sweller_Clark.pdf

article constructivism elearnining methods

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  • Lisa Johnson, Ph.D. on 03 Jun 08
     
    Grabbed from the Half an Hour blog ... it's an argument to consider. http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2007/11/kirschner-sweller-clark-2006-summary.html
Vicki Davis

Discovery Educator Network - 0 views

community.discoveryeducation.com

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shared by Vicki Davis on 17 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 17 Oct 08
     
    STAR educators program.
  • Vicki Davis on 17 Oct 08
     
    If your school has united streaming and you do things to teach others about how to use this resource, you can become a STAR educator. Here is the application process and let me know, I'll be happy to help you. I have an ulterior motive on this one -- if I help recruit a STAR by December 1st, I can get a mythbusters or Deadliest catch DVD and really would love to give this to my son. Like all of you, I'm scrambling this year on Christmas to slash the budget and still do great things. (Hey, some of you might want to give my book for Christmas ;-) So, if you decide to join and want a little help, let me know. And if you do so, let me know and I can get credit and get a DVD -- my son LOVES mythbusters!! I've been a STAR educator for some time now, and it is another great networking program. They also have their summer institutes. They have a wealth of great resources and UNITED STREAMING is my teacher's FAVORITE classroom subscription that we have.
Michael Walker

Get Your Geek On, Help Scientists With iDoScien - Flash Player Installation - 11 views

planetgreen.discovery.com/...scientists-ido-science.html

idoscience social networks science learning research projects ideas

shared by Michael Walker on 28 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Michael Walker on 28 Jan 10
     
    From the site: 1. Teachers now have an unprecedented resource of meaningful science projects to engage their students. 2. Students can work with professional scientists anywhere in the world on real research projects that benefit us all. 3. Students can create their own projects and find collaborators all over the planet. 4. Citizen scientists can find like-minded people to share ideas. 5. Home-schoolers now have a network of science lovers to use as a resource for their children. 6. Professional scientists now have a turn-key solution to promote their research projects, archive their data, find collaborators and reach out to thousands of people they could not reach before.
  • Michael Walker on 28 Jan 10
     
    From the site: 1. Teachers now have an unprecedented resource of meaningful science projects to engage their students. 2. Students can work with professional scientists anywhere in the world on real research projects that benefit us all. 3. Students can create their own projects and find collaborators all over the planet. 4. Citizen scientists can find like-minded people to share ideas. 5. Home-schoolers now have a network of science lovers to use as a resource for their children. 6. Professional scientists now have a turn-key solution to promote their research projects, archive their data, find collaborators and reach out to thousands of people they could not reach before.
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