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Bret Biornstad

Catching Readers Before They Fall an interview with the authors - 0 views

Franki: Pat and Katie, you've both done so much work in learning how best to support struggling readers. Can you share any new learning or thinking you have about this topic? Pat: Sure. I'll go ah...

reading interventions

started by Bret Biornstad on 06 Aug 11 no follow-up yet
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Learners not Knowers - 0 views

Learners not Knowers Its interesting that the quote I shared with my students the other day was, "The learners shall inherit the earth, while the knowers will be beautifully equipped to live in a ...

learning

started by Bret Biornstad on 04 Nov 11 no follow-up yet
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I wonder… - 0 views

I wonder… About ten years ago I slowly stopped giving my kids very sequential directions. About five years ago I stopped giving rubrics. And in the past few years, with some classes, towards the...

planning

started by Bret Biornstad on 20 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
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First Weeks- Picture Books About Books: Young Learners and Reading Identity - 0 views

Katie DiCesare In the first few weeks of school, I am attempting to understand a whole new class as individual readers (yikes!). I am trying to discover where, when, why, and what they like to rea...

beginning of the year primary

started by Bret Biornstad on 06 Aug 11 no follow-up yet
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Fostering Resilience - 0 views

Fostering Resilience: ALL Kids Have a Future cc flickr photo by TMAB2003 I have been pondering educational matters…specifically, the challenges schools face in addressing the needs of ALL student...

resilience kids transformation change culture school philosophy

started by Bret Biornstad on 13 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
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Sharing Our Lives As Readers With Our Studentts - 0 views

Franki Sibberson As a classroom teacher, sharing my own life as a reader has always been an important part of my teaching. I believe that if we are to have authentic conversations with kids about ...

beginning of the year reading

started by Bret Biornstad on 06 Aug 11 no follow-up yet
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10 Ways to be a light-hearted teacher - 0 views

10 Ways to Be a Light-Hearted Teacher While browsing on the internet I found the article "10 Ways to Be a Light-Hearted Parent" by Gretchen Rubin. I absolutely loved the article and I immediately ...

teaching teachers

started by Bret Biornstad on 13 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
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Children Who Can Read, But Don't - Tips for Parents - 0 views

Children Who Can Read, But Don't.. Studies show what common sense tells us: the more kids read, the better they read and the more pleasure they get out of reading. Unfortunately, the reverse also...

parents reading strategies

started by Bret Biornstad on 30 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
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Free Technology for Teachers: Book Reviews for Kids, By Kids - 0 views

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  • Bret Biornstad on 16 Jan 12
     
    Scholastic's Share What You Read service is very easy for students to use and for teachers to incorporate into the classroom. The advantage of using the Scholastic service over a creating a wiki for the class is that the Scholastic service saves teachers time. The Scholastic service does not require users to create an account prior to writing a review. In fact, the only information they ever ask for is the student's first name, grade, and state.
Bret Biornstad

LEGO.com Pharaohs Quest : Comic maker - 0 views

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lego comic digital storytelling edtech

shared by Bret Biornstad on 15 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Bret Biornstad on 15 Jan 12
     
    Making a comic is a wonderful way to involve children in some creativity and storytelling. Although writing is limited in the actual online comic maker, kids can still use it as a spark for a story of their own. They could handwrite or type a story, and use printed cartoons from Pharaoh's Quest as their illustrations. Younger kids will relish the opportunity to make stories that revolve around their toys. Play with literacy even more, and work out children's names according to the Egyptian Hieroglyphic Alphabet.
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The Medium Is the Medium - 0 views

The Medium Is the Medium Recently, book publishers got some good news. Researchers gave 852 disadvantaged students 12 books (of their own choosing) to take home at the end of the school year. They...

reading technology

started by Bret Biornstad on 13 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
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Brainology - 0 views

Brainology SCHOOL MATTERS Brainology Transforming Students' Motivation to Learn Carol S. Dweck Winter 2008 This is an exciting time for our brains. More and more research is showing th...

motivation mindsets brain learning

started by Bret Biornstad on 21 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
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LINKS Learning for Kids: Math: Illustrated Lessons - 0 views

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math lessons symmetry

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      Look at the lesson on symmetry.
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Challenge.gov : The central platform for crowdsourcing US Government challenges, contes... - 0 views

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writing contests

shared by Bret Biornstad on 18 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Bret Biornstad on 18 Sep 10
     
     Government-sponsored "contests" for adults and kids that are designed to elicit ideas on how to solve various problems.
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HistoryBuff.com - 0 views

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history resources research reference socialstudies primary sources

shared by Bret Biornstad on 20 Jul 11 - Cached
  • Bret Biornstad on 20 Jul 11
     
    to integrate History Buff into the classroom: History Buff is a website that can help history come to life through story, virtual tours, audio and primary source news papers. I suspect that most students fall into the judge-a-site-by-it's-cover category like me. For this reason, if I was using it in my classroom, I wouldn't send students directly to the website to do a lot of digging on their own. Instead, I might direct them to the portion of the site I knew we would be using through a classroom website, wiki, blog or use a Weblist or Symbaloo to link to them. It is amazing how changing something as small as the entry point into a site can change a students attitude about the site (heck, I'm like that too!). Once I got into History Buff, I really appreciated the connection to primary sources and the way that the "actual" newspapers bring history to life. I REALLY liked the hoaxes in news section and suspect that students will get a kick out of it to. Your kids will be asking, how can people be SO gullible? These kinds of stories are wonderful discussion starters and will make students think critically about their own news media. As a fun extension, have your students write their own hoax news stories. Okay, now for demystifying the navigation of this site. See the itty bitty brown words in the left sidebar that are all squished together? That is the navigation. For real. I didn't notice it at first either! Go ahead and click on one to test it out…not so bad when you know what you are looking for, right? Right. For your convenience, I'm linking to each page of the site below so you can easily find what you are looking for. :) Online Newspaper Archives Historic Panoramas Reference Libraries (audio resources, hoaxes) Primary Source Material State Facts Interactive Quizzes Tips: History Buff has a newsletter you can subscribe to if you are, you know, a history buff. Just enter your email in that box under the header and clic
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Great Teacher are Gardeners - 0 views

I think I remember you telling me that you have a class based around video production, but it is only a semester long. If such a class exists, I would love to sit in on one of your lectures. Also, ...

teaching

started by Bret Biornstad on 23 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
Bret Biornstad

*MUST SEE Pegby: Peg it up, Move it Around, Get it Done. - 0 views

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Collaboration organization tasks bulletinboard notes Must See

shared by Bret Biornstad on 20 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Bret Biornstad on 20 Jul 11
     
    How to integrate Pegby into the classroom: Pegby is one of those tools that I get totally geeked out about. I love the 3×5 note card look, the columns, the tagging, the associated calendar dates. A recipe for edu-love I tell ya! Pegby is a great tool for organizing your teacher self this year. Add ideas for the school year, tasks, lesson plans, to-do items, etc. to your board as cards. Create columns that make sense to you and organize to your heart's content! Want one better? Share your board with colleagues so that you are all on the same page and can share lessons/resources/task responsibilities. Older students can keep their school year organized by adding assignments, tasks, uploading work, taking/keeping notes and sharing their board with Pegby. As students work on and complete tasks, they can move items from one column to the next. Those unit tests won't be a problem because they can tag pertinent information and easily study and review tagged information. Pegby would also be a great tool for organizing research projects (even collaborative research projects). Students can decide how they want to organize their research and notes, tag information and attach documents. All of the research is in one place and tagged for easy reference when it comes time to compile the research. Does your school use standards to keep track of learning? Why not create columns of Standards headings, and associate each standard with a note card? Students can upload any files or work associated with the standard. OR instead of making each column a standard heading, columns can be associated with mastery level of the standard. As a student moves through levels of mastery, they can move that standard card from one column to the next making stacks out of the standard subject. Students can keep track of their own learning, share their "Standards" board with teachers and parents. Is your class collaborating with other classrooms? Create a collaboratio
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Professor Garfield Intro - 0 views

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media sharing multimedia

shared by Bret Biornstad on 06 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Bret Biornstad on 06 Aug 11
     
    Are you looking to engage kids in a safe online setting and provide 21st century learning opportunities? Professor Garfield provides an environment where children can safely create, interact, read, engage, and express themselves through a variety of innovative online tools including an e-book reader and comics lab.
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It's Easy… - 0 views

It's Easy… Which path will you take? Image from http://bit.ly/pASkSU As educators, we are often faced with an opportunity to take the easy road or the hard road. The easy road often works for u...

teaching teachers philosophy

started by Bret Biornstad on 13 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
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