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Beth Downing

BrainPOP | BrainPOP Educators Homepage: Free Tips, Tools, - 0 views

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    BrainPop offers online subscription for students and teachers. It provides countless short videos on a variety of topics and provides a quiz at the end.
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    Great teacher resource that is FREE for teachers with a current BrainPOP username and Password! This can be used in conjunction with your current subscription.
Beth Downing

Office of Educational Technology - 0 views

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    The Office of Educational Technology is involved in a variety of projects and initiatives that leverage technology to improve teaching and learning and create opportunities for innovation.
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    Great link to research, report, and grants through the Office of Educational Technology
Hasnaa Ameur

Educational Technology Theory and Issues - 0 views

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    This website offers a wealth of scholarly papers addressing theories and  issues in educational technology.
traceyucf

Education World: Educator Gives Tips on How to Make Better Presentations - 0 views

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    An award-winning educator and author offers advice for students and teachers everywhere to avoid being a "talking head" during presentations and instead engage and invigorate their target audience.
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    An award-winning educator and author offers advice for students and teachers everywhere to avoid being a "talking head" during presentations and instead engage and invigorate their target audience.
Meghan Starling

App for That - Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything - 0 views

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    A must-use resource for Apps. Shrock categorizes Apps into "Remembering Apps," "Understanding," "Applying" "Analyzing" "Evaluating" and "Creating" according to Bloom's revised taxonomy and gives recommendations on what Apps to use.
Victoria Ahmetaj

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice | Just another WordPress.com weblog - 0 views

  • He pointed out to me how similar teachers experiencing failures with students is to physicians erring in diagnoses or treatments (or both) of their patients.
  • In the other book, surgeon Atul Gawande described how he almost lost an Emergency Room patient who had crashed her car when he fumbled a tracheotomy only for patient to be saved by another surgeon who successfully got the breathing tube inserted. Gawande also has a chapter on doctors’ errors. His point, documented by a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine (1991) and subsequent reports  is that nearly all physicians err. If nearly all doctors make mistakes, do they talk about them? Privately  with people they trust, yes. In public, that is, with other doctors in academic hospitals, the answer is also yes. There is an institutional mechanism where hospital doctors meet weekly called Morbidity and Mortality Conferences (M & M for short) where, in Gawande’s words, doctors “gather behind closed doors to review the mistakes, untoward events, and deaths that occurred on their watch, determine responsibility, and figure out what to do differently (p. 58).” He describes an M & M (pp.58-64) at his hospital and concludes: “The M & M sees avoiding error as largely a matter of will–staying sufficiently informed and alert to anticipate the myriad ways that things can go wrong and then trying to head off each potential problem before it happens” (p. 62). Protected by law, physicians air their mistakes without fear of malpractice suits.
  • Nothing like that for teachers in U.S. schools. Sure, privately, teachers tell one another how they goofed with a student, misfired on a lesson, realized that they had provided the wrong information, or fumbled the teaching of a concept in a class. Of course,  there are scattered, well-crafted professional learning communities in elementary and secondary schools where teachers feel it is OK to admit they make mistakes and not fear retaliation. They can admit error and learn to do better the next time. In the vast majority of schools, however, no analogous M & M exists (at least as far as I know).
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  • substantial differences between doctors and teachers. For physicians, the consequences of their mistakes might be lethal or life-threatening. Not so, in most instances, for teachers. But also consider other differences:
  • From teachers to psychotherapists to doctors to social workers to nurses, these professionals use their expertise to transform minds, develop skills, deepen insights, cope with feelings and mend bodily ills. In doing so, these helping professions share similar predicaments.
  • *Most U.S. doctors get paid on a fee-for-service basis; nearly all full-time public school teachers are salaried.
  • While these differences are substantial in challenging comparisons, there are basic commonalities that bind teachers to physicians. First, both are helping professions that seek human improvement. Second, like practitioners in other sciences and crafts, both make mistakes. These commonalities make comparisons credible even with so many differences between the occupations.
  • *Doctors see patients one-on-one; teachers teach groups of 20 to 35 students four to five hours a day.
  • *Expertise is never enough. For surgeons, cutting out a tumor from the colon will not rid the body of cancer; successive treatments of chemotherapy are necessary and even then, the cancer may return. Some high school teachers of science with advanced degrees in biology, chemistry, and physics believe that lessons should be inquiry driven and filled with hands-on experiences while other colleagues, also with advanced degrees, differ. They argue that naïve and uninformed students must absorb the basic principles of biology, chemistry, and physics through rigorous study before they do any “real world” work in class.
  • For K-12 teachers who face captive audiences among whom are some students unwilling to participate in lessons or who defy the teacher’s authority or are uncommitted to learning what the teacher is teaching, then teachers have to figure out what to do in the face of students’ passivity or active resistance.
  • Both doctors and teachers, from time to time, err in what they do with patients and students. Patients can bring malpractice suits to get damages for errors. But that occurs sometimes years after the mistake. What hospital-based physicians do have, however, is an institutionalized way of learning (Mortality and Morbidity conferences) from their mistakes so that they do not occur again. So far, among teachers there are no public ways of admitting mistakes and learning from them (privately, amid trusted colleagues, such admissions occur). For teachers, admitting error publicly can lead directly to job loss). So while doctors, nurses, and other medical staff have M & M conferences to correct mistakes, most teachers lack such collaborative and public ways of correcting mistakes (one exception might be in special education where various staff come together weekly or monthly to go over individual students’ progress).
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    Teacher vs. Doctor
Victoria Ahmetaj

From Labs to Laptops to Carts at Las Montanas: A Story of Principals at Work | Larry Cu... - 0 views

  • From Labs to Laptops to Carts at Las Montanas: A Story of Principals at Work
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    Larry Cuban's blog on Las Montanas High School- Laptops in the classroom
dsharrisfla

A Systems Approach to the Future of Distance Education in Colleges and Universities... - 0 views

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    Great article on customizing distance learning and online education in post-secondary (colleges/universities)... I also specifically like this article because it gives some depth to my argument on legitimizing degrees earned through online programs at reputable schools.
traceyucf

Using New Technology to Rediscover Traditional Ways of Learning | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Digital technology such as tablets can help teachers and students rediscover traditional ways of learning by using touch, movement, sound, and visuality.
pbarbur

Technology and Teaching: Finding a Balance | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Edutopia blogger Andrew Marcinek provides a thoughtful course correction for teachers facing full-on technology integration, offering three suggestions for focusing on media and balancing it with what students should be learning.
dsharrisfla

30 Ideas for a Digital-Friendly New Student Orientation | Josie Ahlquist - 0 views

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    Those who have worked within New Student Programs and Orientation know that summers are not a time for vacation or downtime. The months of June and July stacked tightly, back to back, with transition programs for new students and their families.
traceyucf

CiteULike: Educational Blogging - 0 views

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    S. Downes. EDUCAUSE Review, Vol. 39, No. 5. (September 2004), pp. 14-26. "I think it's the most beautiful tool of the world and it allows us the most magic thing."-Florence Dassylva-Simard, fifth-grade studentThe bell rings, and the halls of Institut St-Joseph in Quebec City echo the clatter of the fifth- and sixth-graders. Some take their chairs in the more traditional classroom on the lower floor. Others attend to their projects in the large, open activity room upstairs, pausing perhaps to study one of the chess games hanging on the wall before meeting in groups to plan the current project. A third group steps up a half flight of stairs into the small narrow room at the front of the building, one wall lined with pictures and plastercine models of imagined aliens, the other with a bank of Apple computers. blogging education internet lit-review weblog
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    S. Downes. EDUCAUSE Review, Vol. 39, No. 5. (September 2004), pp. 14-26. "I think it's the most beautiful tool of the world and it allows us the most magic thing."-Florence Dassylva-Simard, fifth-grade studentThe bell rings, and the halls of Institut St-Joseph in Quebec City echo the clatter of the fifth- and sixth-graders. Some take their chairs in the more traditional classroom on the lower floor. Others attend to their projects in the large, open activity room upstairs, pausing perhaps to study one of the chess games hanging on the wall before meeting in groups to plan the current project. A third group steps up a half flight of stairs into the small narrow room at the front of the building, one wall lined with pictures and plastercine models of imagined aliens, the other with a bank of Apple computers. blogging education internet lit-review weblog
traceyucf

Connected Learning: How Mobile Technology Can Improve Education - 0 views

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    Research on mobile technology in education
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    Research on mobile technology in education
pbarbur

Galleries on Education - Education Week - 0 views

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    Interviews and video stories on technology education and schools that changed to net zero schools
Yun

Tablets are impacting education in a big way: Brij Singh, Fliplog - The Economic Times - 0 views

  • You create publishing apps for mobile devices, what are these apps?
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    This article demonstrates how tablets impacted education.
Yun

Tablets And Education: Dream or Reality? - Jon Burg's Future Visions - 0 views

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    This article is about the relation between Tablets and Education. The author did an analysis though the article at profound and detailed. Very good article.
Yun

http://sfx.fcla.edu:3010/ucf?sid=google&auinit=A&aulast=Molnar&atitle=Computers+in+educ... - 0 views

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    This article is introduced a Brief history of computers in education.
kaiteme5050

Smart Boards in Elementary Classrooms - 0 views

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    Lots of great ideas, resources, and lessons for how to use SMART boards in elementary classrooms!
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