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What Is Integrated Curriculum? - 0 views

  • Can making wind and rain machines improve the reading comprehension and writing scores of elementary students on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test? Do students really learn math by learning to clog dance? When students spend after-school time participating in a microsociety that reflects the roles of real life, will their test scores in math and reading improve?
  • Lee's students have shown more than 100 percent gains in comprehension and writing on the FCAT.
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      Its sad that we even have to ask these questions, what about increased levels of creative thought, or deeper understanding of social interactions etc etc etc
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  • Lee claims that when she teaches science concepts she also teaches students to think and write in the structured, coherent ways required on standardized tests
  • What exactly is integrated curriculum? In its simplest conception, it is about making connections. What kind of connections? Across disciplines? To real life? Are the connections skill-based or knowledge-based?
  • we defined three approaches to integration—multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary
  • Multidisciplinary approaches focus primarily on the disciplines.
  • When teachers integrate the subdisciplines within a subject area, they are using an intradisciplinary approach
  • Through this integration, teachers expect students to understand the connections between the different subdisciplines and their relationship to the real world.
  • In this approach to integration, teachers organize the curriculum around common learnings across disciplines. T
  • ey chunk together the common learnings embedded in the disciplines to emphasize interdisciplinary skills and concepts.
  • They are learning the interdisciplinary skill of communication (thinking and writing in a structured and coherent way).
  • In the transdisciplinary approach to integration, teachers organize curriculum around student questions and concerns (see Figure 1.3). Students develop life skills as they apply interdisciplinary and disciplinary skills in a real-life context. Two routes lead to transdisciplinary integration: project-based learning and negotiating the curriculum
  • Project-Based Learning. In project-based learning, students tackle a local problem. Some schools call this problem-based learning or place-based learning. According to Chard (1998), planning project-based curriculum involves three steps:
  • Teachers and students select a topic of study based on student interests, curriculum standards, and local resources. The teacher finds out what the students already know and helps them generate questions to explore. The teacher also provides resources for students and opportunities to work in the field. Students share their work with others in a culminating activity. Students display the results of their exploration and review and evaluate the project.
  • Negotiating the Curriculum. In this version of the transdisciplinary approach, student questions form the basis for curriculum.
  • Studies of project-based programs show that students go far beyond the minimum effort, make connections among different subject areas to answer open-ended questions, retain what they have learned, apply learning to real-life problems, have fewer discipline problems, and have lower absenteeism
  • The boundaries of the disciplines seemed to dissolve abruptly.
  • The essential difference between the three approaches was the perceived degree of separation that existed between subject areas. Given our experiences at the time, both of us believed that the three approaches fit on an evolutionary continuum.
    • kynan robinson
       
      all education is evolutionary which is why we need to keep studying, reading investigating asking questions
  • suggests that even intradisciplinary projects should include math and literature/media to be rich and vibrant
  • backward design process.
  • We believe that educators will continue to experience deepening connections as they become more experienced in this area.
  • Real-life context Student questions
  • Coplanner Colearner Generalist/specialist
  • Disciplines identified if desired, but real-life context emphasized
  • All knowledge interconnected and interdependent Many right answers Knowledge considered to be indeterminate and ambiguous
  • Student questions and concerns Real-world context
  • Interdisciplinary skills/concepts stressed
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  • Interdisciplinary skills and disciplinary skills applied in a real-life context
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    great overview of different approaches to integrated  Curriculum
Andrew Williamson

MathsYear7 - Jewellery using Mathematics - 0 views

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      This is a great wiki in general for maths students and teachers. I particularly like some of the practical application of maths to everyday situations. For students to link real world concepts to abstract concepts is important for students to engage in their learning. It also links creative thinking in maths. Which in my opinion is what maths is all about.
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    This is a great wiki in general for maths students and teachers. I particularly like some of the practical application of maths to everyday situations. For students to link real world concepts to abstract concepts is important for students to engage in their learning. It also links creative thinking in maths. Which in my opinion is what maths is all about. 
Andrew Williamson

Glogster EDU - 21st century multimedia tool for educators, teachers and students | Text... - 0 views

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    A great poster creator. Worth a look students can upload images and manipulate them to look like posters. Students can export out to blogs etc or print. Could be useful online tool for short presentations of student work. 
Andrew Williamson

Australian Primary School Maths Activities, FREE Maths Games, Lessons, Videos, Workshee... - 1 views

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    Amazing Resource of teacher and student interactive maths activities. Free to join 
Garth Kydd

TeacherLED Interactive Whiteboard Resource Isometric Dots - 2 views

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    A great interactive isometric grid to demonstrate to the students how to draw 3D shapes. Particularly irregular shapes the students may have created using MAB.
Andrew Williamson

The Interactive Mathematics Classroom | - 1 views

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    Students learn mathematics by DOING mathematics, and not by watching someone else do mathematics. In recent years there has been an explosion in the number of high quality digital resources available from the Net and elsewhere that allow students to investigate, explore or consolidate the topics they are learning in their maths class.
Andrew Williamson

Welcome to A Maths Dictionary for Kids 2010 by Jenny Eather | Online Dictionary | Math ... - 0 views

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    A Maths Dictionary for Kids is an animated, interactive online math dictionary for students which explains over 600 common mathematical terms and math words in simple language.
Andrew Williamson

Math Games - 2 views

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    Great student interactive game for junior primary school 
Andrew Williamson

ICTmagic - Maths - 1 views

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    Looking for some interactive web based maths games interactive learning activities (Some are just intereactive black line masters)? Look no further.
Khamal Sarkis

VoiceThread - Group conversations around images, documents, and videos - 0 views

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    This is a great tool for encouraging students and parents to comment and discuss as a group. With Voice Thread you are able to upload images and have students record an audio track over a slideshow. Then, once it's posted, members can post audio comments. You are also provided with an embed code to put into your blogs. Browse some of the examples and see how it works.
Garth Kydd

http://www.wmnet.org.uk/resources/gordon/Hit the button v9.swf - 0 views

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    An great interactive game where students can practice and refine their automatic recall of number bonds and timetables. 
Andrew Williamson

InTec InSights: Technology Integration Ideas for the Classroom - 0 views

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    Great blog with heaps of interactive student online flash games for the class room
Andrew Williamson

Words - Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check. Spelling technique. - Game - 0 views

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      This would be great on a IWB
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    Awesome student interactive this would be great on a IWB. 
Andrew Williamson

nrich.maths.org :: Mathematics Enrichment :: February 2010 Front Page - 1 views

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    This looks like an amazing site with loads of activities for teachers and students. Amazing when do people find the time to put this together and who is paying for it?
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    Yep Andrew, total agree! Not quite sure how the stages relate to VELS. But loads of open ended problems and games. Seems to have activities for just about all of the different areas of the Maths cirriculum.
Andrew Williamson

Adrian Bruce's Educational Teaching Resources-Reading Games-Math Games-Educational Soft... - 0 views

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    This is an amazing site full of great student interactive activities coering all areas of the curriculum. 
Andrew Williamson

Collaborative annotation of images online | SpeakingImage - 0 views

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    This is a fantastic web 2.0 tool. Upload images and annotate. You can other embed media inside the annotations. Annotations pop up as you click or hover over the objects you add. You can embed the annotated image into webpage or blog. This could be a useful tool for teachers and students. Lots of scope for creativity with layers etc. You can share to a group and set editing permissions for public or restricted people/groups for collaboration purposes. 
Andrew Williamson

Lure of the Labyrinth - 1 views

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    Looks like a fantastic interactive game says its mathematics based but i only got through two rooms before I had to leave. Either way some students are really going to get in to this one
Andrew Williamson

BBC - Primary History - World War 2 - 1 views

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    Great student interactive from bbc on the second world war
Andrew Williamson

Estimate Differences - 1 views

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    Great student interactive for estimating the difference
Andrew Williamson

YouTube - Growth of a Google Doc by the eyes of a student - 0 views

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    Great short video demo/example of how Google docs can be used to improve student writing. If you have a spare three minutes... worth a look
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