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Blair Peterson

YouTube - Chat between Personal Learning Environment ( PLE ) and Learning Management Sy... - 0 views

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    Interesting video making fun of traditional ways of using technology. The student character explains how he uses social media and web 2.0 tools for learning.
Blair Peterson

Education Week: Videos: Unleashing Technology to Personalize Learning - 0 views

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    Chris Lehmann's video is good because it focuses on pedagogy with technology.
Blair Peterson

Members Project: sOccket - 0 views

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    4 girls from Harvard invented a soccer ball that provides power for lights. Kicking it 15 minutes can power a light for 3 hours.
Blair Peterson

A 'Stealth Assessment' Turns to Video Games to Measure Thinking Skills - Technology - T... - 0 views

  • new methods to measure skills like critical thinking, creativity, and persistence.
  • "A lot of important stuff happens when playing games," Ms. Shute said. "You're just doing. You're in the process."
  • "Wouldn't it be lovely to actually pass along the log files of what students did in order to look at their scientific-inquiry skills?"
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  • She looks first to the core competencies—critical thinking, empathy, persistence—that she wants to test, then breaks them down into smaller goals
  • student's grasp of systems thinking—understanding the complex relationships among parts of a whole—might ask players to complete tasks that show information gathering, developing hypotheses, and tracing causal relationships.
  • If instructors know where students need the most help, they can quickly tweak their courses—and their games
  • Taiga Park requires players to look for the cause of a widespread fish die-off in a virtual river by "interviewing" park rangers, environmental scientists, and the owners of a logging company. While students learn about pH levels and runoff, they also come away with lessons on data analysis, complex cause-and-effect relationships, and communication.
  • found that she could use routine assignments—like peer reviews and summaries of research material—to analyze her students' higher-order thinking skills. All assignments can be linked back to a larger skill, she says. "Evidence is everywhere."
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    Using video games for learning and assessing student learning.
Blair Peterson

Day in the Life of a Next-Generation 'Teacher' | edtechdigest.com - 0 views

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    Scenario of a day in the life of a teacher in 2040.
Blair Peterson

Education Week: Framework Crafted for Student Use of Mobile Devices - 0 views

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    Resources for developing policies for mobile devices. Information comes from the Center for Education Policy and Law at the University of San Diego.
Blair Peterson

Welcome to my PLE - 0 views

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    Interesting video from a 7th grade student. She explains how she uses Web 2.0 tools for her learning.
Blair Peterson

InfoWhelm and Information Fluency - 0 views

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    Video from the 21st Century Fluency Project.
Blair Peterson

Group Work that Works - 0 views

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    Written for college classes, but the author provides 4 "S" principles that he feels will improve group work/projects. 1. Significant problem, 2. Specific Choice, 3. Same Problem, 4. Simultaneous Reporting
Blair Peterson

8 Reasons to Focus on Informal & Social Learning - 0 views

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    Slideshare presentation from Charles Jennings. Doesn't go into details because the slides are visual but you can understand the ideas.
Blair Peterson

The State of Workplace Learning Today - 0 views

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    Good blog post on learning in the workplace today. Highlight informal learning and blended learning.
Blair Peterson

Survey Results - 0 views

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    Survey results from 6th graders in 2010. In general, the students felt that it has been a positive experience.
Blair Peterson

[ #msief ]: John West-Burnham's Seven Questions for Leaders of Learning - Ewan McIntosh... - 0 views

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    Seven powerful questions for educators. 
Blair Peterson

Karl Fisch: Do you Believe in Algebra? (VIDEO) - 0 views

  • First, there are fewer of them, with 156 standards for grades 9-12. In addition, 38 of those standards are identified as "advanced" standards, which leaves us with 118 standards for all students spread out over four years of high school, or just under 30 per year.
  • (My not-so-modest proposal is that no state legislature is allowed to require standards that they couldn't demonstrate proficiency on themselves. Since they are clearly successful adults and they are saying that these standards are necessary for all students to be successful, surely they'd be able to demonstrate proficiency by taking the same tests our students do. But I digress.
  • I'm still not sure whether teaching algebra as a separate course is the best way to accomplish it -- even for that small subset of our student population that is passionate about math and science.
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  • an we find a way to have students whose passion is math and science explore rich, meaningful mathematics that isn't divided up into courses (Algebra), semesters (first semester linear, second semes
  • So, do you believe in Algebra as a separate course/body of study in high school?
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    CurriculumFramework 
Blair Peterson

YouTube - Macrowikinomics Murmuration - 0 views

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    Interesting concept by Don Tapscott from his book Marco-Wikinomics. it's the visuals of the starlings in murmuration that really makes one think.  
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