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Interventions for Comprehension - 0 views

Interventions for Comprehension - Details: Skill- Comprehension: Details Intervention - Visualizing Source or adapted from - "Strategies That Work" by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis Mat...

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

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods - 0 views

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visualization education design tools

shared by Bret Biornstad on 13 Jul 11 - Cached

Bret Biornstad on 13 Jul 11

The Periodic Table of Visualization gives you a one-stop-shop to discuss the different kinds of visual data, helping students understand how to "read" and decode that information. These are great critical thinking activities because they ask students to process information in a different way.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner"> The Periodic Table of Visualization gives you a one-stop-shop to discuss the different kinds of visual data, helping students understand how to "read" and decode that information. These are great critical thinking activities because they ask students to process information in a different way. </div>

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Comic Creator -- Boys' Life magazine - 0 views

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shared by Bret Biornstad on 12 Jul 11 - Cached

Bret Biornstad on 12 Jul 11

Comic Creator in the classroom: The Boy's Life Comic Creator is a great little tool to help your boys connect with writing and story telling in a way that they enjoy and understand. The tool is simple enough to use as a writing station/center on classroom computers. The comic does need to be created in one sitting, there is no way to save and come back to a comic later. Completed comics can be printed off and shared. The Comic Creator is a great entry point into writing but could also be useful in math for creating and solving story problems. Students can create a short math comic strip that can be traded with other students to solve. Students taking a foreign language class could practice new words by creating a comic strip story in Comic Creator. Use Comic Creator the first week of school as a way for boys to tell all about themselves. Each student can create a comic strip that stars them as the main character. Invite other students to try to match the comic strip with the student as a fun interactive bulletin board activity (Think comics on one side, student pictures on the other and string to draw the "line" between matches).

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner"> Comic Creator in the classroom: The Boy's Life Comic Creator is a great little tool to help your boys connect with writing and story telling in a way that they enjoy and understand. The tool is simple enough to use as a writing station/center on classroom computers. The comic does need to be created in one sitting, there is no way to save and come back to a comic later. Completed comics can be printed off and shared. The Comic Creator is a great entry point into writing but could also be useful in math for creating and solving story problems. Students can create a short math comic strip that can be traded with other students to solve. Students taking a foreign language class could practice new words by creating a comic strip story in Comic Creator. Use Comic Creator the first week of school as a way for boys to tell all about themselves. Each student can create a comic strip that stars them as the main character. Invite other students to try to match the comic strip with the student as a fun interactive bulletin board activity (Think comics on one side, student pictures on the other and string to draw the "line" between matches). </div>

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TeachPaperless: If School Is Not Relevant - 0 views

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How's your Resiliency-3 good things - 0 views

How's your Resilience? How are you feeling about what's ahead for you in 2012? This has been a pretty punishing period for many people who work in western economies and the New Year promises litt...

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started by Bret Biornstad on 24 Dec 11 no follow-up yet

How Important is Teaching Literacy in All Content Areas? | Edutopia - 0 views

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"Adolescents entering the adult world in the 21st century will read and write more than at any other time in human history.
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Just like conversation, writing helps us make sense of what we are learning and helps us make connections to our own lives or others' ideas.
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You can't avoid thinking when you write.
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Approximations - 0 views

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein As my son Jamin starts high school, he has new...

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

Julian Treasure: 5 ways to listen better | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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listening communication

shared by Bret Biornstad on 08 Aug 11 - No Cached

Bret Biornstad on 08 Aug 11

This could be a great video to show at the beginning of your new school year to set the tone for class conversations. Julian Treasure's RASA framework for listening is one that could easily be used as the model in your classroom. In fact, I think that I'm going to introduce it to my new students in a few weeks.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This could be a great video to show at the beginning of your new school year to set the tone for class conversations. Julian Treasure's RASA framework for listening is one that could easily be used as the model in your classroom. In fact, I think that I'm going to introduce it to my new students in a few weeks.</div>

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A Google a Day - 0 views

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thinking EXCEL

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Math Videos - 0 views

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video Mathematics education teacher teaching

shared by Bret Biornstad on 11 Aug 11 - No Cached

Bret Biornstad on 11 Aug 11

Math Pickle is the most excellent mathematics inspiration I have come across. It approaches mathematics from the standpoint of a problem solver instead of from the standpoint of a rules follower. Already that shift in thinking makes my brain happy. Brilliant. Math Pickle has problems and videos for every grade kindergarten through twelfth. Use these videos to pump some inspiration into the way you approach and teach math or show them to your students and encourage them to continue solving the problems. Don't forget to film your students working through their own math pickles! The Inspired page of Math Pickle is a must see. Students can take a look at what mathematicians do in real life. They can also learn about the source of Math Pickle problems. Tips: Be sure to check out Muse, news and reviews for additional ideas, puzzles and reviews of math products, puzzles and games for the classroom.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Math Pickle is the most excellent mathematics inspiration I have come across. It approaches mathematics from the standpoint of a problem solver instead of from the standpoint of a rules follower. Already that shift in thinking makes my brain happy. Brilliant. Math Pickle has problems and videos for every grade kindergarten through twelfth. Use these videos to pump some inspiration into the way you approach and teach math or show them to your students and encourage them to continue solving the problems. Don't forget to film your students working through their own math pickles! The Inspired page of Math Pickle is a must see. Students can take a look at what mathematicians do in real life. They can also learn about the source of Math Pickle problems. Tips: Be sure to check out Muse, news and reviews for additional ideas, puzzles and reviews of math products, puzzles and games for the classroom.</div>

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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...

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

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

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 ...

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Why "I Don't Do Tech - 0 views

Why "I Don't Do Technology" Isn't Acceptable The FAA Credit Union building, which stands in for the Crime Lab in "CSI: Miami". Image by Tony Hoffarth. Imagine an episode of CSI where the main ch...

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David B. Cohen, who - 0 views

David B. Cohen, who teaches at the upscale Palo Alto High School in CA, summed it up nicely: What I wish people would realize is that "good" schools with high test scores don't think of their inst...

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started by Bret Biornstad on 15 Jul 11 no follow-up yet