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The productivity and generosity of teachers on Twitter is inspiring and I have also become more efficient in creating and sharing resources.
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ollaborative Environment Many students prefer to work alone.  However, this is an option not often granted in careers.  In addition, collaboration fosters the development of new ideas and exposes students to opposing viewpoints.
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ands-on Learning Long a staple of science courses, labs provide a wonderful opportunity to provide students with another anchor for learning.  But it doesn’t stop there.  Any opportunity to connect to the outside world is a chance to enhance student achievement.
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eacher as Facilitator Modern realization of best practice in education no longer supports the idea of the teacher as an authoritarian figure standing in the front of the room scrawling on a chalkboard.  As educators, our role can be reshaped so that we work beside students providing support and encouragement for their personal journey.
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hey could conduct their research using books or the Internet engine SweetSearch, a search tool that limits results to academically vetted articles and avoids
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much of the “world wide web” served up by Google or Bing.
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narrow and academically reliable nature of the results on SweetSearch allowed the students to assign more credibility to their search results, spending more time reading for comprehension rather than deciding whether or not to throw out a source.
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requires the teacher to yield some control, and that is going to be a challenge for some of us who are more accustomed to holding the reins of facts and chronology pretty tightly.
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PBL is most often done in teams, it is always possible for issues of work inequity to arise.
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