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US NSF - News - Science of the Olympic Winter Games - 0 views

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  • Brenda Muench on 16 Feb 10
     
    " Science of the Olympic Winter Games Photo of ice skater, words Science of the Winter Olympic Games, and logos of NBC Learn, NSF and Vancover Olympics NBC Learn, the educational arm of NBC News, has teamed up with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to produce Science of the Olympic Winter Games, a 16-part video series that explores the science behind individual Olympic events, including Downhill and Aerial Skiing, Speed Skating and Figure Skating, Curling and Hockey, and Ski Jumping, Bobsledding and Snowboarding. This groundbreaking project between the NSF and NBC Learn uses the global spotlight of the Olympics to make science more accessible and more interesting to students by showing how science helps athletes fulfill the Olympic motto: Citius, Altius, Fortius--Swifter, Higher, Stronger. Read more about the "Science of the Olympic Winter Games." Each video is complemented with lesson plans which include fun classroom activities. The lesson plans were written by teachers at Academic Business Consultants for grades 6-9 and are aligned with California State Standards. Get your lesson plans and activities at Lessonopoly. "
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Grades 6-8 - 0 views

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  • Students learn that, because anyone can publish on the Web, they must carefully evaluate the sites they use for research. They review evaluation criteria and use a checklist to "grade" informational sites.
  • Students learn how to write bibliographic citations for online sources following the style recommended by the Modern Language Association.
  • Students learn how to write bibliographic citations for online sources following the style recommended by the Modern Language Association.
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 05 Mar 10
       
      6th
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  • Students learn that, because anyone can publish on the Web, they must carefully evaluate the sites they use for research. They review evaluation criteria and use a checklist to "grade" informational sites.
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 05 Mar 10
       
      6th
  • Students learn that when cyberbullying includes threats to safety, they must involve trusted adults. They develop a plan to enable students to report cyberbullying to school authorities anonymously.
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 05 Mar 10
       
      7th grade
  • Students explore the benefits of online talk and messaging and consider scenarios in which they might feel uncomfortable or be asked to give away private identity information. They identify situations in which flirting and sexual talk is risky and discuss safety rules to apply online.
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 05 Mar 10
       
      7th grade??? Not quite sure where to put this one but this is one we need to be covering with our kids and our parents
  • Students explore a scenario in which a friendly relationship turns to a bullying one involving cell phones and computers. Then they create a glossary of abbreviations that will give contextual clues to text messages.
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 05 Mar 10
       
      6th grade
  • Students learn they can converse and share ideas and opinions with others in cyberspace. They adopt a critical thinking process that empowers them to protect themselves and their families as they visit sites requesting private identity information.
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 05 Mar 10
       
      8th grade
  • Students learn how to create secure passwords in order to protect their private information and accounts online.
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 05 Mar 10
       
      7th grade - taught in 5th grade as well but needs to be revisited
  • Students consider possible ways to copy others' works using the Internet and learn that many forms of copying are illegal or unethical.
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 05 Mar 10
       
      6th grade
  • Students explore why and how commercial Web sites attempt to attract and keep visitors.
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 05 Mar 10
       
      8th grade
  • When you know the specific information you need, keyword searching is the most effective method of searching on the World Wide Web. Students learn strategies to increase the accuracy of their search. They compare the number and kinds of sites obtained and make inferences about the effectiveness of the strategies.
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 05 Mar 10
       
      8th grade
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Grades 4-5 - 0 views

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  • Students model a network and learn that the Internet consists of many computer networks that are able to communicate with one another.
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 02 Mar 10
       
      4th grade
  • Students consider that some Web sites are designed as advertising environments to entertain visitors while promoting advertisers' brands and products.
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 02 Mar 10
       
      4th grade
  • Students learn strategies for getting immediate help with their homework, including going online with an adult to homework help search services and reference databases.
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 02 Mar 10
       
      5th grade
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  • Students are guided through a multi-lesson project to collaborate in making real-world purchasing decisions using mathematical and critical thinking skills and accessing Internet resources to collect information.
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 02 Mar 10
       
      5ht grade - Could we buy ISAT prizes??
  • Students learn that, although the Internet makes it very easy, copying others' work and presenting it as one's own is unethical. They also learn about circumstances in which it is permissible to copy others' work.
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 02 Mar 10
       
      5th grade
  • Students consider that while they are enjoying their favorite children's Web sites, they may encounter messages from other children that can make them feel angry, hurt, sad, or fearful. They explore ways to handle a particular cyberbullying situation, learn some basic prevention rules, and propose actions to take to calm down when online language makes them angry.
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 02 Mar 10
       
      4th grade
  • Students learn that sometimes youths in groups think and behave differently than they would if each person was alone. They examine the role of the bystander in cyberbullying situations and develop an ethical pledge for bystanders.
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 02 Mar 10
       
      5th grade
  • Students learn the benefits of using passwords and then play a board game to discover some strategies for creating and keeping secure passwords.
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 02 Mar 10
       
      4th grade
  • By examining and identifying actual online requests for private information, students learn to apply the same safety rules in cyberspace as they use when encountering strangers in the face-to-face world.
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 02 Mar 10
       
      5th grade
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Adventures in Pencil Integration: will technology replace teachers? - 0 views

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  • "So you're saying that as long as we have parents working and essentially getting free babysitting we'll have teachers."   "Yes, I guess so.  Don't get me wrong, I value education and my role as a teacher.  It's just that the primary role of a teacher is socialization.  No one says it outright.  We talk about learning to read and yes, that's true.  But on some level, schools raise kids while parents work."  
  • Brenda Muench on 02 Feb 10
     
    ""So you're saying that as long as we have parents working and essentially getting free babysitting we'll have teachers." "Yes, I guess so. Don't get me wrong, I value education and my role as a teacher. It's just that the primary role of a teacher is socialization. No one says it outright. We talk about learning to read and yes, that's true. But on some level, schools raise kids while parents work." "
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IXL Math - 0 views

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  • Brenda Muench on 22 Jan 09
     
    Math practice tool for educators and families that adapts to a student's individual level of proficiency and includes achievement awards and progress reports. Various membership options are available and non-members are always welcome.
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Grades 9-12 - 0 views

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  • Students explore the consequences of unintended audiences viewing their social network profiles. They consider four key characteristics of social network sites and how they might affect teens as they try out new identities. Then, students collaborate to write a letter to parents demonstrating their understanding of issues related to unintended online audiences.
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 05 Mar 10
       
      freshmen
  • Students explore how bullying behaviors on social networking sites and cell phones can affect teens around the clock. They identify positive actions that bystanders can take to alleviate a particular scenario. Then they write a letter to the editor discussing the positives and negatives of social networking sites, messaging, and cell phone technologies used by teens.
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 05 Mar 10
       
      Soph.
  • Students learn to think critically about their choices of Web sites for research by using an evaluation checklist that discusses the key characteristics of trustworthy sites. A sampling of sites on a topic of high interest to students provides the lesson context. Optional strategies for the use of Web 2.0 tools are included. Extend the lesson to examine the use of Wikipedia.
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      Brenda Muench on 05 Mar 10
       
      Jr.
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  • Students explore real stories of cyber security threats and damage and learn to think responsibly about securing their families' data at home and when using public computers. They think creatively about how to talk with their families about cyber security .
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 05 Mar 10
       
      Seniors - great stuff to discuss as they prepare to go to college and operate on a different network
  • Cite Your Sources
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 05 Mar 10
       
      When this one becomes available we need to look at it!
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Children's Websites: Usability Issues in Designing for Kids (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - 0 views

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  • Another change relates to reading. In the first study, many children were willing to read instructions before, say, starting a game. Now many kids behave more like adult users and refuse to read. This reduced willingness to read seems related to experience: the more experience our users had, the less they read.
  • Like to try many options Mine-sweeping the screen
  • Very confusing
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  • Not used (young kids) Relied on (older kids)
  • Back button
  • Readability level
  • 8th to 10th grade text for broad consumer audiences
  • Advertising and promotions Can't distinguish from real content Ads avoided (banner blindness); promos viewed skeptically
  • And it's confusing when pages have multiple links to the same destination, because users don't know whether the various links actually point to the same place or have slightly different meanings.
  • avoid redundant navigation schemes for adult users
  • Kids suffer from a learned path bias: they tend to reuse the same method they've used before to initiate an action. In our studies, we often saw kids who had been successful with a certain approach to a site stick determinedly to that approach over and over again, even as it failed them during subsequent tasks that required them to use a different navigation scheme.
  • The main predictor of children's ability to use websites is their amount of prior experience.
  • On a more negative note, kids still don't understand the Web's commercial nature and lack the skills needed to identify advertising and treat it differently than real content.
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City Brights: Howard Rheingold : 21st Century Literacies - 0 views

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  • And don't swallow the myth of the digital native. Just because your teens Facebook, IM, and Youtube, don't assume they know the rhetoric of blogging, collective knowledge gathering techniques of taggers and social bookmarkers, collaborative norms of wiki work, how to tune and feed a Twitter network, the art of multimedia argumentation - and, by far most importantly, online crap detection.
  • I teach courses today on social media issues at Stanford and Berkeley.
  • The most important critical uncertainty today is how many of us learn to use digital media and networks effectively, reasonably, credibly, collaboratively, civilly, humanely.
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  • They accept "information" from "news" sources simply because they are known television news stations
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Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists - 0 views

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  • Brenda Muench on 09 Jan 09
     
    For the International Polar Year, the Exploratorium gave polar scientists cameras and blogs and asked them to document their field work in real time. Follow along on their adventures and see what it's like to be a research scientist in the Arctic or Antarctica.
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BBC - Schools - Homepage - 0 views

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  • Brenda Muench on 03 Oct 08
     
    BBC Schools is a service for children, parents and teachers at home and at school - fun and easy to use curriculum based learning resources.
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Artsonia Kids Art Museum - The Largest Student Art Gallery on the Web! - 0 views

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  • Brenda Muench on 20 Feb 09
     
    Artsonia is a kids art museum where young artists and students display their art for other kids worldwide to view. This gallery displays schools (K-12) and student art projects in our museum and offer exciting lesson plan art project ideas.
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Grades 2-3 - 0 views

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  • Students extend their understanding of “property” to include not only computer equipment but also the work of others, and then discuss rules for respecting such property.
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 02 Mar 10
       
      2nd grade
  • Students learn that bullying behaviors may take place when they are online. They brainstorm slogans to remind one another that they can get help from a trusted adult.
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 02 Mar 10
       
      2nd - would be great when we start the instrument game and they ask about the password
  • Students explore, evaluate, and compare several children's informational Web sites, concluding that people's opinions about the quality and usefulness of sites will vary.
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 02 Mar 10
       
      third grade
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  • Students explore the concept of cyberspace as a means of connecting people and explain how the ability to communicate can unite a neighborhood.
    • Brenda Muench
      Brenda Muench on 02 Mar 10
       
      3rd grade - track who we talk to on a google map in 2nd and 3rd grade
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iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » Wiglington & Wenks Virtual World - 0 views

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  • Brenda Muench on 14 Jan 10
     
    "Students are dropped into the story and invited to particiapte, learning through exploration, problem solving, and critical thinking. The world highlights famous real-world landmarks, historical figures, inventions, culture, nature, and wildlife. "
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CarrotSticks Online Math Games - 0 views

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  • Brenda Muench on 18 Jan 10
     
    "CarrotSticks is free for unlimited practice and competition in Addition. You can purchase CarrotSticks Plus for $5.95 per month, which allows for unlimited practice and competition in Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division for a fraction of the cost of most tutoring services! CarrotSticks is currently free for unlimited classroom use. If you're a teacher interested in using CarrotSticks with your students, contact us to find out more! "
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Wolfram|Alpha Homework Day - 0 views

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  • Brenda Muench on 12 Oct 09
     
    "Meet us here on October 21, 2009, for the first Wolfram|Alpha Homework Day. This groundbreaking, live interactive web event brings together students and educators from across the country to solve your toughest assignments and explore the power of using Wolfram|Alpha for school, college, and beyond."
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Microsoft Security Brochures and Fact Sheets @import url( - 0 views

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  • Brenda Muench on 03 May 10
     
    Download free brochures, and fact sheets from Microsoft that you can use to teach classes or groups about computer and Internet security.
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Education World ® Technology Center: Managing Technology: Tips from the Experts - 0 views

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shared by Brenda Muench on 03 Jun 09 - Cached
  • If you use Microsoft Word, learn how to insert comments into Word documents. Highlight a word or phrase, go to Insert, select Comments, type your comment, and close the window. When a student moves the cursor over that word or phrase, the comment will pop up. Comments are a great editing and motivating tool for kids. Use them to guide drafting and brainstorming and to help students peer edit and work collaboratively on group projects.
  • Include some that say "Save your work; do not go any further until you help your neighbors reach this point."
  • Brenda Muench on 03 Jun 09
     
    great tip on using comments in Word
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Death of the IWB? | Australian Teacher Magazine - No.1 national education sector public... - 0 views

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  • This iPad mirroring is the important bit. It means that your screen is now interactive again. Not interactive by coming up and touching the screen (I’ve never been able to work out why on earth you would want that functionality with older students anyway!?), but interactive through mirroring any number of tablet devices in the hands of the students and teachers in the room.
  • The most recent iPad 2s I purchased were around $363. That would mean each class with these LCD screens could also receive an extra 13 iPads – that’s roughly enough for half the students in the class.
  • So, lets summarise: school administrators can choose to continue purchasing IWBs for between $5000 and $9000. Or, for the same price, they can get a mobile big screen LCD, with no ongoing globe or servicing costs; a Mac Mini (or Apple TV as another way cheaper way to mirror iPads on the screen); and iPads for around half the class.
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Photos For Class - The quick and safe way to find and cite images for class! - 1 views

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  • Brenda Muench on 05 Feb 16
     
    Kid friendly and cited images!
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TenMarks Demo - 0 views

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  • kylecorlett on 13 Feb 14
     
    This program lets you create assessments based on Common Core and grades them. And it's Free!
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