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Professional Learning Communities at Work Best Practices for Enhancing - 0 views

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    Professional Learning Communities at Work Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement Professional Learning Communities at Work Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement by Richard DuFour & Robert Eaker
Jeff Johnson

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants - Some Thoughts from the Generation Gap - 0 views

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    Digital Natives are used to receiving information really fast. They like to parallel process and multi-task. They prefer their graphics before their text rather than the opposite. They prefer random access (like hypertext). They function best when networked. They thrive on instant gratification and frequent rewards. They prefer games to "serious" work.
Jeff Johnson

Ecofont | less is more - 0 views

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    Appealing ideas are often simple: how much of a letter can be removed while maintaining readability? After extensive testing with all kinds of shapes, the best results were achieved using small circles. After lots of late hours (and coffee) this resulted in a font that uses up to 20% less ink. Free to download, free to use.
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Petals Around the Rose - 0 views

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    What I wish I had done before starting this is note the time and/or number of attempts until knew I had it solved. My best suggestion, view problem from a child's perspective. Good luck!
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Home Schoolers Content to Take Children's Lead - New York Times - 0 views

  • Hayden Billings, 4, put a box over his head and had fun marching into things. His sister Gaby, 9, told stories about medieval warrior women, while Sydney, 6, drank hot chocolate and played with Dylan, the baby of the family. In a traditional school setting, such free time would probably be called recess. But for Juli Walter, the children’s mother, it is “child-led learning,” something she considers the best in home schooling. “I learned early on that when I do things I’m interested in,” Ms. Walter said, “I learn so much more.” As the number of children who are home-schooled grows — an estimated 1.1 million nationwide — some parents like Ms. Walter are opting for what is perhaps the most extreme application of the movement’s ideas.
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