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Aaron Davis

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: Great Research Tools for Teachers and Students - 0 views

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    An interesting list of tools for doing research online.
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Research strategies for senior students - 0 views

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  • It’s true that the Internet can be a wild and woolly place to find information, with the potential for complexity, bias and reliability concerns. However, it is also the environment that most resembles real life, where complexity, bias and reliability concerns are just part of the way the world actually works.
  • 1. Start with the Wikipedia article.
  • look at the citations list.
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  • 3. Go to Google Scholar
  • 4. Set up a bookmarking system
  • 5: While in Diigo, do a search for the obvious tags
  • 6. Set up some kind of tool that allows them to curate content.
  • 7. Then there is the use of Internet search in general, such as Google or Bing.
  • go to Google Alerts and set up an alert for anytime that topic is mentioned online.
  • Aaron Davis on 03 Mar 14
     
    A great summary of how to go about doing research online from Chris Betcher.
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Biography: Australian people | National Library of Australia - 0 views

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history Manuscripts Research Australian History

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  • Case StudySearching for information on an Australian poet I am writing a biography on the Australian poet Edward Harrington. What information is available on him? We can start by searching likely databases for entries on Harrington e.g. Australian Dictionary of Biography and AustLit It is always useful to search the Catalogue to see if the Library has any items relating to Harrington. A Catalogue search for "Edward Harrington" shows that we hold a portrait of him, a biographical cuttings file and an oral history recording by him. It is a good idea to check his published works to see if any biographical information is included in his writings. We can then search the Trove newspaper database to find articles that mention Harrington. If Harrington was involved in any organisations, such as a poet's society, searching for the organisation may provide some useful background on his life and activities
  • Aaron Davis on 09 Feb 15
     
    A guide for researching individuals through the archives
Aaron Davis

Gender and Group Work - HuntingEnglishHuntingEnglish - 0 views

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group work collaboration BIM teaching and learning

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  • What is the ideal number for the group size for this task? Are students clear about what effective collaboration looks like and sounds like? What are the group goals and individual goals for this task? Are they clear to the students? How are you going to fend off ‘social loafing’? Should personality differences influence our grouping decisions? Are there introverts in the classroom that should receive particular attention as we decide upon grouping students? How should we group in relation to ability or skill levels? Are the groups separate by ability or mixed, or randomised? Does this make a difference?
  • Aaron Davis on 20 Feb 16
     
    Alex Quigley explores the topic of group work. Rather than a clear answer, he provides a excellent series of reflective questions to guide things. If we accept the notion of the 'wisdom of crowds', then what is the magic number for group size? There is no fixed answer, but research evidence shows that any group size above six is unlikely to be effective. Why is this? Well, successful group work relies on group goals, but alongside individual responsibility. With too many students in a group it is too easy for social loafing (students putting in less effort when they know they can because other group members pick up the slack) to happen. Better to have a smaller groups, such as trios or fours. Of course, even then, they'll need training.
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Shanahan on Literacy: How Many Times Should They Copy the Spelling Words? - 0 views

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literacy spelling vocabulary

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    Tim Shanahan explores the connection between the act of repetition and learning new words. he provides analysis of a range of strategies, as well as exploring the research at the same time. It is true that high frequency words do not have typical spelling patterns, but it is rare that all of their elements are odd (e.g., the vowel pronunciation in "the" is a bit funky, but the /th/ is a more consistent element). Analyzing such words, rather than just repeating them again and again, is a better avenue to long-term learning than copying it over and over again
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6 Steps to Teaching Students to Search | Teacher Tech - 0 views

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THINKING TOOLS - 0 views

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    Using thinking tools is one way to "make thinking visible" and help our students explain their thoughts in a simple and explicit way. As the team from Project Zero themselves say "Visible Thinking includes a large number of classroom routines, easily and flexibly integrated with content learning, and representing areas of thinking such as understanding, truth and evidence, fairness and moral reasoning, creativity, self-management, and decision making. It also provides tools for integrating the arts with subject-matter content. Finally, it includes a practical framework for how to create "cultures of thinking" in individual classrooms and within an entire school."
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Rewordify.com: Understand what you read - 0 views

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literacy reading summarize English ESL research

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    A fantastic site that allows you to insert a link to another site and it will go through and simplify/reword some of the more difficult words.
Aaron Davis

The Experience of Education: The Impacts of High Stakes Testing on School Students and ... - 0 views

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NAPLAN Testing Research Education

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    A study into the impacts of NAPLAN and other such testing on students.
Aaron Davis

Class Size Does Make a Difference - David Zyngier - 0 views

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    Findings suggest that smaller class sizes in the first four years of school can have an important and lasting impact on student achievement.
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From Terra Australis to Australia | Education Kit - 0 views

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Manuscripts history Research Australian History Resources humanities First Fleet

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    "Education Kit The State Library of New South Wales and the Centre for Learning Innovation have collaborated to develop interactive learning activities for primary and secondary school students. Teachers and students can investigate further the original letters, diaries and artworks by members of the First Fleet that are held in the State Library's collections. Topics include: Bennelong Indigenous Contact Port Jackson Sydney Cove and the First Fleet Australia Day The Kangaroo  Rose Hill"
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History of our nation | State Library of New South Wales - 0 views

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history Manuscripts Research Australian History humanities Resources

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    "The Library's unrivalled collections provide a fascinating insight into the first encounters with the original inhabitants and amazing insights into how European explorers discovered, charted and settled this vast land. "
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The perils of “Growth Mindset” education: Why we’re trying to fix our... - 0 views

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  • By now, the growth mindset has approached the status of a cultural meme.
  • Regardless of their track record, kids tend to do better in the future if they believe that how well they did in the past was primarily a result of effort.But “how well they did” at what?
  • even some people who are educators would rather convince students they need to adopt a more positive attitude than address the quality of the curriculum (what the students are being taught) or the pedagogy (how they’re being taught it).
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  • An awful lot of schooling still consists of making kids cram forgettable facts into short-term memory. And the kids themselves are seldom consulted about what they’re doing, even though genuine excitement about (and proficiency at) learning rises when they’re brought into the process, invited to search for answers to their own questions and to engage in extended projects.
  • the most salient feature of a positive judgment is not that it’s positive but that it’s a judgment; i
  • the first problem with this seductively simple script change is that praising children for their effort carries problems of its own, as several studies have confirmed: It can communicate that they’re really not very capable and therefore unlikely to succeed at future tasks. (“If you’re complimenting me just for trying hard, I must really be a loser.”)
  • what’s really problematic is praise itself. It’s a verbal reward, an extrinsic inducement, and, like other rewards, is often construed by the recipient as manipulation.
  • books, articles, TED talks, and teacher-training sessions devoted to the wonders of adopting a growth mindset rarely bother to ask whether the curriculum is meaningful, whether the pedagogy is thoughtful, or whether the assessment of students’ learning is authentic (as opposed to defining success merely as higher scores on dreadful standardized tests).
  • the series of Dweck’s studies on which she still relies to support the idea of praising effort, which she conducted with Claudia Mueller in the 1990s, included no condition in which students received nonevaluative feedback. Other researchers have found that just such a response — information about how they’ve done without a judgment attached — is preferable to any sort of praise.
  • We need to attend to deeper differences: between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, and between “doing to” and “working with” strategies.
  • Dweck’s work nestles comfortably in a long self-help tradition, the American can-do, just-adopt-a-positive-attitude spirit.(“I think I can, I think I can…”) The message of that tradition has always been to adjust yourself to conditions as you find them because those conditions are immutable; all you can do is decide on the spirit in which to approach them. Ironically, the more we occupy ourselves with getting kids to attribute outcomes to their own effort, the more we communicate that the conditions they face are, well, fixed.
  • It isn’t entirely coincidental that someone who is basically telling us that attitudes matter more than structures, or that persistence is a good in itself, has also bought into a conservative social critique. But why have so many educators who don’t share that sensibility endorsed a focus on mindset (or grit) whose premises and implications they’d likely find troubling on reflection?
  • the real alternative to that isn’t a different attitude about oneself; it’s a willingness to go beyond individual attitudes, to realize that no mindset is a magic elixir that can dissolve the toxicity of structural arrangements. Until those arrangements have been changed, mindset will get you only so far. And too much focus on mindset discourages us from making such changes.
  • Aaron Davis on 11 Feb 16
     
    "An awful lot of schooling still consists of making kids cram forgettable facts into short-term memory. And the kids themselves are seldom consulted about what they're doing, even though genuine excitement about (and proficiency at) learning rises when they're brought into the process, invited to search for answers to their own questions and to engage in extended projects. Outstanding classrooms and schools - with a rich documentary record of their successes - show that the quality of education itself can be improved. But books, articles, TED talks, and teacher-training sessions devoted to the wonders of adopting a growth mindset rarely bother to ask whether the curriculum is meaningful, whether the pedagogy is thoughtful, or whether the assessment of students' learning is authentic (as opposed to defining success merely as higher scores on dreadful standardized tests). "
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