Five Ways that Smart Boards Are a Smart Choice in the Classroom - 2 views
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Sarah Lillejord on 01 Oct 13This site gives five ways that the smart board could be used to help you teach your students.
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Animal Assisted Therapy, Exploring the therapeutic link between animals and humans - 0 views
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Humane society advocates using animals to heal, comfort and give purpose to lonely or sick children.
How pets benefit child development - 1 views
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Walking a dog or running in the yard and throwing a ball are great ways to exercise the dog as well as for children to get away from sedentary indoor activities and move around. Small motor skills can be encouraged by allowing children to scoop food and pour water into dishes, and by helping to groom them
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Focus on the benefit of pets for children.
Service Animals in Schools (Adopted January 2012) - 0 views
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In the past 20 years there has been an expansion of the diversity of service animals being utilized by persons with disabilities, with some confusion as to what truly is a “service animal”. Effective March 15, 2011, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulations define a service animal as “a dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability” (USDJ, 2011).
Revised ADA Requirements: Service Animals - 0 views
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ADA requirements for service animals.
Unexpected Learning Opportunities Through Games | Grand Canyon University - 2 views
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When a student can be so engaged and motivated, this type of learning tool becomes an important part of the curriculum. Clegg (1991) pointed out the most important predictor of learning is the instructional context and not necessarily the actual game, but the collaborative and cooperative learning built into the overall experience, offering an engaging environment for information assimilation.
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Games create competitive and collaborative situations making learning fun and engaging; meeting the many needs of the students (Weiss & Loebbeck, 2008). During the early grades, teachers spend up to eight hours with their students each day; they could utilize the interactive and social aspects in games in order to realize additional learning in the classroom and use it to support other subjects (Klopfer, Osterweil, & Salen, 2009).
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An article about the benefits of games in the classroom. Provides statistics and examples on how effective they are. Search Criteria-Bing: Learning through games research
teachwithyouripad - Social Studies Apps - 0 views
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This blog offers numerous apps that can be used in conjunction with ipads and tablets in the social studies classroom. Various apps can help students learn geography, American history, and connect with different cultures around the world.
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This blog offers numerous apps that can be used in conjunction with ipads and tablets in the social studies classroom. Various apps can help students learn geography, American history, and connect with different cultures around the world.
Promethean - 0 views
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The Promethean website promotes its interactive whiteboards and their positive effects on classroom performance.
SMART Board interactive whiteboards shown to be highly effective for collaborative lear... - 0 views
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This study was done at a high school and the evidence showed that doing group activities, discussions, etc. on a SMART Board is an effective tool. Although this was conducted at a high school, the evidence may correlate to all age groups in activities where the entire class works as a whole. (Complete URL: http://downloads01.smarttech.com/media/research/international_research/canada/11_0142_new%20brunswick_research_summary.pdf) Bing: SMART Boards in schools
"We Don't Need Smart Boards, We Need Smart People (Jerry Brodkey) | Larry Cuban on Scho... - 1 views
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The author of this article discusses why SMART boards (and other technology) are not needed in the classroom. The author finds no extraordinary benefits of SMART boards and therefore supports the idea of less technology in the classroom.
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The author of this article discusses why SMART boards (and other technology) are not needed in the classroom. The author finds no extraordinary benefits of SMART boards and therefore supports the idea of less technology in the classroom.
boston_parents_paper_puzzling_through.pdf - 0 views
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"Best practises" teaching strategies and tips for teaching children with an ASD.
The Teacher's Guide to Facebook - 0 views
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This blog gives guidelines for teachers about how to present themselves on facebook and how to handle requests from students. It stresses that teachers are professionals and the way they present themselves on any type of social media should reflect that.
Technology and art: Engineering the future - 0 views
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This article touches on the interconnected-ness of art and technology. It briefly compares new ways of doing and seeing art as opposed to older methods. It also looks into how new technology is able to create new types of art.
Google Earth in Education: Visual Aid and Beyond « Teaching (and Learning) wi... - 0 views
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Website giving history and overview of google earth. Gives accuracy of tool. tips for use in the classroom
South Florence High Makes Art and Technology Work for Student and Adult Learners - 0 views
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This article talks about a high school in South Carolina that used extra tech. money to integrate more art into their school. It lays out "what's it like?" "why bother?" and "how to start?"
Classroom Resources - Google Earth for Educators - 0 views
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Googles published website giving tutorials and tips for teachers. Can be used as a place to share student projects, teacher reviews, and lesson plans. plans range from population growth tracking to up to the minute earthquake watching.
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Googles published website giving tutorials and tips for teachers.
Critical Evidence: How the Arts Benefit Student Achievement - 0 views
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Publication from the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies that describes what research says about how study of the arts contributes to academic achievement and student success.
http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/www.google.com/en/u... - 0 views
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easy to read handout about google earth in the classroom. tells you what it is and why to use it. gives instructional ideas for grade levels.
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