promoting those metacognitive skills that enable us to monitor our own learning and make changes in our approach if we perceive that our learning is not going well.
Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds - 2 views
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testing
Educational Leadership:Teaching for the 21st Century:What Would Socrates Say? - 2 views
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I think that the idea here that we are resting our ideas about learning on data without judgment or discernment is critical to the discussion.
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Download YouTube Videos Online for Free - 0 views
States having problems with common core standards | Featured School Reform | eSchoolNew... - 1 views
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As states move forward in their adoption of the Common Core State Standards, a new survey reveals that thorough implementation of these standards is still years away, and many states are forgetting a key piece of the common standards movement: linking to postsecondary education.
Simple private real-time sharing and collaboration by drop.io - 0 views
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A free tool that allows teachers to publish emails in one spot (ie newsletter), post links and files for students and parents, and have students hand in assignments. Free up to 100mb, and you can create as many drops as you like, so you can have one for news, one for files,one for that special unit you are teaching, etc. At the least it is a quick way to share files too large to pass via email
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Found this in the latest issue of Educational Leadership. Also found several posts at the "Free Tech 4 Teachers" Blog. Looks very handy and EASY to use.
EUSD iRead - 2 views
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iRead is a group of teachers in Escondido Union School District dedicated to the idea that digital audio can be a powerful learning tool for all students. This learning community of teachers is using digital audio tools (iPods, mics, iTunes, Keynote, Garageband, etc. and various accessories) to improve reading processes.
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Use of iPods to improve reading skills.
Archived -- Prisoners of Time: Report of the National Education Commission on Time and ... - 0 views
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Powerful report from federal gov't in 1994(!!!) about how learning is a prisoner of time. Very interesting.
Aegom Smart Board Lessons - 1 views
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A pad site that develops Smart Board lessons. Schools can purchase sire licenses. Might be useful when schools are looking for a good way to stretch tech budget money.
55 Open Source Apps Transforming Education - Datamation.com - 6 views
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Thanks, Jason. Found some interesting apps.
Nine Elements - 4 views
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Thank you, Darla. I especially appreciate # 7. :) Bev
Steve Hargadon: New Ning Plans: The Good, The Bad, and the Unknown - 1 views
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Preliminary Analysis of the changes coming in July at Ning!
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Ning will stop being a free service in July. Here are some thoughts and details about this transition from Steve Hargadon, creator of the Classroom 2.0 Ning.
Google for Teachers: another gift from Richard - NeverEndingSearch - Blog on School Lib... - 5 views
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Here is a great FREE resource for teachers - Google for Teachers...Books, Docs, Maps and more
About 60second Recap | 60second Recap - 0 views
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60second Recap™ wants to make the great works of literature accessible, relevant, and, frankly, irresistible to today's teens. 60second Recap™ video albums seek to help teens engage with the best books out there ... not just to help them get better grades, but to help them build better lives.
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Interesting site designed to engage kids with great literature using the media of the day: video. Check out the Library, and check out Recap Resource.
NetSafety w/ Anne Collier - 2 views
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Internet Safety - should we be basing these decisions on fear or research?
Genius Denied ~ About the Book - 0 views
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gifted students spending their days in classrooms learning little beyond how to cope with boredom as they “relearn” material they’ve already mastered years before.
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the pernicious notion that education should have a “leveling” effect, a one-size-fits-all concept
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This book promotion highlights an issue that came up in class Friday. It ignited quite a bit of sidebar discussion during the breaks and in the ensuing days. (The Davidson Institute, by the way, is one of the few organizations in this country that focus on profound giftedness and on how to develop that talent. Their work looks at an educational culture that focuses on differentiation for struggling learners, but not so much for learners who need more, deeper, swifter). Our sidebar discussions sprang from the action research article about the teacher who apparently let much of the class languish while concentrating efforts on the group of below-proficient math students. Someone noted that it looked as if the proficient kids were left hanging for weeks while the others caught up. You can't re-capture lost instructional time. The notable thing for me is how many passionate views and personal stories came out of this. Many people have experienced first-hand--as teachers, curriculum specialists, and parents--that we really only differentiate "down." Differentiation "down" or "up" is hard work, but . . . With all the talk for excellence, many people in the field still believe that we aim for mediocrity--this is what many are seeing, but are afraid to shout out. Then you get into he interesting conversation about the strain in American society that fears intellectual achievement and cries "elitism." It seems to be a form of populism. At the same time, if we repress or under-serve our best and brightest, "Good luck finding those scientists who will make alternative energy, those researchers who will cure cancer, those thinkers who will solve the health care crisis, or those artists and writers who will polish the mirror of human experience for us." This is just one facet of an endlessly interesting conversation!
