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Jacey Barnes

Brain Storm | Scholastic.com - 14 views

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  • orn with all of our brain cells, but now we know that the brain can grow new neurons-and that physical exercise and mental stimulation can facilitate their growth,
  • Different people have different interests and learn differentl
    • Jill Watkins
      Jill Watkins on 11 Mar 13
       
      I think this reiterates our Principles of Learning!
  • we engage people in their own interests, they are more awake and alive."
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  • agenda boards are posted in ever
  • "immersion" areas with supplemental resources that allow students to dig deeper into a subject, and materials rotate with the units
  • nce. They also learned the strategy of body mapping, in which the teacher touches a part of his body when introducing a concept verbally, providing the brain with another reference point to help it remember-and recall-the concept.
  • create an environment that maximizes learning.
  • building, they are met with calming, darker colors, which prepare the brain for learning
  • Blues can cause the brain to release 11 neurotransmitters that relax the body, while black and other dark colors can lower stress.
  • Plants, lamps, and curtains filter natural light, and there's an absence of clutter. "It creates a learning environment that feels more like a well-kept living room," Shafer explains.
  • Teaching Smarter With the Brain in Focus, we can extrapolate fr
  • The Middle School Mind. "The words become part of their lexi
    • Jacey Barnes
      Jacey Barnes on 12 Mar 13
       
      I like brains. 
Kathy Laffoon

Creating Innovators » - 1 views

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innovations

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  • Kathy Laffoon on 05 Jul 13
     
    This book is a must-read!
Kathy Laffoon

amabile creativity - Google Search - 0 views

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creative problem solving

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    To print
Kathy Laffoon

Assessment Tools | NWP Digital Is - 0 views

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assessment

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  • Kathy Laffoon on 18 Jul 13
     
    Assessment of digital media
Kathy Laffoon

Consensus Decision Making | Red Cedar Learning Cooperative - 1 views

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consensus decision making

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  • Kathy Laffoon on 11 Sep 13
     
    For innovations group decisions
Kathy Laffoon

Teaching Brainstorming - 1 views

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inventive thinking

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  • Kathy Laffoon on 04 Oct 13
     
    Great resource for our innovations class!
Kathy Laffoon

Why entrepreneurs have an edge over governments in shaping global development - 0 views

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entrepreneurs Innovation

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  • this innovation has so much power to change the world simply because nearly one half of all diseases around the world can be traced back to pathogens in polluted water supplies. Using approximately the same power required to power a hair dryer, it’s now possible to provide clean drinking water every day in nearly any community in the world.
  • tech philanthropy
  • We traditionally think about solving the world’s most intractable problems — providing clean drinking water, eradicating disease, and feeding the world’s growing billions — as being so immense that only the most powerful governments and multilateral institutions could solve them. But that may not be the case
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  • Coca-Cola that plans to bring the Slingshot — in addition to electricity and free Internet — to over 20 countries and more than 1,000 communities around the globe by 2015
  • it may turn out to be that the modern tech philanthropists and social entrepreneurs are like the tiny David armed only with a slingshot against a massive Goliath. Instead of looking for a complex and sophisticated solution to these problems — or assuming that the disadvantages in the fight to solve humanity’s problems were just too great to even try —  it may turn out that all we needed was a bit of tech-agility and a Slingshot.
  • e Slingshot water purification system invented by Dean Kamen —
Kathy Laffoon

e-Learning Infographics - 0 views

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infographic

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  • Kathy Laffoon on 05 Nov 13
     
    Use with innovations classes for examples for Infographics.
Kathy Laffoon

Amazon.com: instant challenges: Books - 0 views

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instant challenges

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  • Kathy Laffoon on 13 May 13
     
    DI's Instant Challenge CD $49
Tarah Palmer

http://www.nextnavigator.com/content/userfiles/files/TeacherQuestions.pdf - 0 views

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Question Stems

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  • Tarah Palmer on 13 May 13
     
    Thinking this could be used during research to formulate questions for investigation.
Kathy Laffoon

Promising Practices June 2011 * Adams Five-Star School District, Thornton (2 of 3, Stud... - 1 views

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Inquiry Quest

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  • Kathy Laffoon on 28 Apr 13
     
    Here is the project from the student / parent perspective.
Tracey Kracht

Social Bookmarking in Education with Diigo - 4 views

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diigo

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    • Tracey Kracht
      Tracey Kracht on 11 Mar 13
       
      Access is allowed across platforms and devices.
  • give you the option of joining a group
    • Tracey Kracht
      Tracey Kracht on 11 Mar 13
       
      Groups will allow you to create and everyone can share to the same group, thus you are sharing resources without sending an email.  These items are also 'tagged' for faster retrieval.
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  • annotate web pages
  • Diigo lets you take screenshots of bookmarked pages to visually remind yourself of the page content
  • Saved sites can be tagged for easy searching
  • The real bonus of using social bookmarking with your class is the ease that you can work on project based learning tasks.
  • share annotated bookmarks with a class
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