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Six Vintage-Inspired Animations on Critical Thinking | Brain Pickings - 0 views

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Critical Thinking - great short videos to stimulate discussion.

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Can Badging Be the Zipcar of Testing and Assessment? | DMLcentral - 0 views

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Please read this. We've been focusing our assessment efforts on grading, and vice versa. Is grading really how we want to show that we value 'responsible action'?

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kwassink on 29 Feb 12

I like the idea. Gives more flexibility, increases the student buy in etc.

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Get Your Geek On - Unwrapping the Gifted - Education Week Teacher - 0 views

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Should we find some school shirts to start sporing as conversation starters?

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Think Thank Thunk » The Case for Binary Assessment: - 0 views

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Can we please, please, please try do binary grades in 9th grade?

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kwassink on 08 Apr 12

Very pertinant after our discussion of what "meeting standard" means.

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Building Good Search Skills: What Students Need to Know | MindShift - 0 views

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What, we have to teach them this?

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anonymous on 26 Mar 12

Wanna talk 21st century skills? I'm struggling to think of one more fundamental than good search skills.

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A nice outline, description, and template of project management applied to everyday projects. This could be a great scaffold for many of the projects we ask out kids to complete.

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Get networked

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anonymous on 26 Mar 12

Pretty sure part of why people aren't into the whole curating the internet thing is that it seems overwhelming. It isn't - read this, then go find good stuff and share it with the rest of us.

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The Turing Problem - Radiolab - 0 views

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The kids need to hear this. Advisory?

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Google: Exploring Computational Thinking - 0 views

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My physics kids are using VPython with great success this trimester. Let me know if you want to play along (please).

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Too much Facebook time leads to depression in girls | ZDNet - 0 views

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I'm not sure about the causal inference here, but the data is interesting. Are we doing any 'social networking' education?

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Some good ideas here. Perhaps this should find its way into the curriculum for laptops in some way?

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https://dougjohnson.wikispaces.com/file/view/fairfaxBYOD.pdf - 0 views

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Here's an interesting policy from Fairfax county about use of personal devices at school. Might be something work visiting as we're now seeing things like Nook's and Kindles and phones are becoming more powerful and could potentially be something beneficial to use (in some instances) during class.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Here's an interesting policy from Fairfax county about use of personal devices at school. Might be something work visiting as we're now seeing things like Nook's and Kindles and phones are becoming more powerful and could potentially be something beneficial to use (in some instances) during class.</div>

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