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"NOAA View is a new project from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. On NOAA View you can explore visualizations of data sets in the categories of Ocean, Land, Atmosphere, Cryosphere, and Climate. Each category has multiple subsets of data from which to choose. The data sets can be displayed in weekly, monthly, and yearly units. A basic explanation of each data set is available." Resource for discussing climate and weather.

We could use this to make TEI style testing items and some other interesting things. Keep in mind that images within these items ought to be sortable as well.

"Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought."

I'd make it "learning" rather than "science" but that's on the money. ""To me, that's the beauty of science: to know that you will never know everything, but you never stop wanting to, that when you learn something, for a second you feel crazy smart, and then stupid all over again as new questions come tumbling in. It's an urge that never dies, a game that never ends.""

"He cites Socrates's parable of the Egyptian god Theuth and how he invented writing, offering it as a gift to the king of Egypt, Thamus, who met the present with defiant indignation: This discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality."

Seems the blank out comic words and fill them with whatever you're reading so that it makes sense would be a pretty decent project for any English class.

""What's the sine of π/2?" I asked my first-ever trigonometry class. "One!" they replied in unison. "We learned that last year." So I skipped ahead, later to realize that they didn't really know what "sine" even meant. They'd simply memorized that fact. To them, math wasn't a process of logical discovery and thoughtful exploration. It was a call-and-response game. Trigonometry was just a collection of non-rhyming lyrics to the lamest sing-along ever. Some things are worth memorizing--addresses, PINs, your parents' birthdays. The sine of π/2 is not among them. It's a fact that matters only insofar as it connects to other ideas. To learn it in isolation is like learning the sentence "Hamlet kills Claudius" without the faintest idea of who either gentleman is--or, for what matter, of what "kill" means. Memorization is a frontage road: It runs parallel to the best parts of learning, never intersecting. It's a detour around all the action, a way of knowing without learning, of answering without understanding."

What kind image interactions have value in history (or anywhere else for that matter)?

I wonder what kind of interactive images we might make as ITRTs as part of history content.

This article makes me rethink my current profession entirely. I wonder how much I can charge people to help them reset their passwords... In all seriousness, I think this is the wrong article? :)

Weird. That pulled from another tab. Should have been Lincoln post. The pencil thing would make for an interesting math problem.

I wonder how doing a generic student's homework for a week might impact teacher/principal views on homework.

"Flows of Reading takes this process to the next level. We have created a rich environment designed to encourage close critical engagement not only with Moby-Dick but a range of other texts, including the children's picture book, Flotsam; Harry Potter; Hunger Games; and Lord of the Rings. We want to demonstrate that the book's approach can be applied to many different kinds of texts and may revitalize how we teach a diversity of forms of human expression.  We look at many different adaptions and remixes of Moby-Dick from the films featuring Gregory Peck and Patrick Stewart as Ahab to MC Lar's music video, "Ahab" and Pitts-Wiley's Moby-Dick: Then and Now stage production to works that evoke Moby-Dick less directly, including Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan and Battlestar Galacitca's "Scar." "

It'd be fun to have a computer art class create similar images to capture important moments in history.

There are many strange depths left to plumb where old and new blend.

A great source for colorize historical photos and a really interesting example of people doing hard work out of interest and passion. Portions unsafe.

"The Web Literacy Standard is a map of competencies and skills that Mozilla and our community of stakeholders believe are important to pay attention to when getting better at reading, writing and participating on the web. "

Henrico teachers Schuyler T. Van Valkenburg and Drew Baker have a history podcast. You should support them and spread it to your teachers.

"Set up your own private area for creating and playing interactive stories and text-based games. Find out more"

My children are feral but I'm working on taking them to the next level. I do wonder if it's less about wilderness per se and more about real experiences. You could probably do many things in the city/suburbs that would engage kids in a similar way.

I agree. "We foster and reward a narrow set of skills."

Some useful enhancements for multisite.