Making your own SMART Board lessons is not as difficult as you might think. The following article will give you some tips on how to make them a structured interactive learning experience for your students. A SMART Notebook file, complete with example techniques, is also available to download.
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced the Next Generation Learning Challenges initiative. This multi-year project aims to help improve both college readiness and college completion in the U.S. through the use of technology. Administered through the nonprofit EDUCAUSE, the program will provide grants to organization that will help develop technology tools to more teachers, students, and schools.
This site could be used as an entry writing assignment to begin class, journal writing, or even a connection to today. Students have to read the paper and add their own "on this day" description.
Living and Learning in a Cynical World-The "Conan Challenge." How do we help our students to learn to engage in serious discourse pertatining to complex issues in a world where winning the argument is everything?
Washington Post article discussing the release of the Common Core Standards being released in draft form. Contains a link to the standards and a site for collecting feedback.
But in recent years Adderall and Ritalin, another stimulant, have been adopted as cognitive enhancers: drugs that high-functioning, overcommitted people take to become higher-functioning and more overcommitted. (Such use is “off label,” meaning that it does not have the approval of either the drug’s manufacturer or the Food and Drug Administration.) College campuses have become laboratories for experimentation with neuroenhancement
This article was interesting to me because in an interview with the author, she stated that these drugs enhance cognition in more logical, left-brained skills, and decrease creative thinking. Clearly, students feel that the skills they are being challenged to remember, retain, and perform best in are those left-brain subject areas, rather than being challenged in the arts, communication, and creativity.
Higher education doesn’t reflect the life that students are living. In that life, information is available on demand, files are shared, and the world is mobile and connected. Today’s colleges, on the other hand, are typically “tethered, isolated, generic, and closed.”