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100 Best Social Sites for Students, Academics and Educators | Associate Degree - Facts ... - 31 views

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    A number of schools are even hiring to accommodate the increase in students. For those heading back to school, here are the 100 best social sites for students, academics and educators.
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Winning Equation: How Technology Can Help Save Math Education | Edutopia - 0 views

  • During most of the twentieth century, the United States dominated the math field with its output of important mathematicians and its great strides in engineering, science, and finance. But the depth of the country's decline is apparent in some frightening statistics: Less than one-third of eighth-grade students and fewer than one out of four seniors now test as proficient or better for math, according to recent National Assessment of Education Progress reports.
  • One technology that jump-starts algebraic thinking for middle school students is SimCalc, a program that uses computer-based graphs, animation, symbols, and tables to make difficult concepts, such as mathematical rates of change and accumulation, easier for students to learn.
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Golden Swamp » Standards and synapses are very different - 0 views

  • I put the Illinois Learning Standards and the Synapse side-by-side to suggest that we require students to learn subjects inside of little boxes, while students think about them in highly connected networks. The boxes in the Standards are separated from each other in all sorts of ways: living things are in different boxes than processes of the Earth. Different things about the same subject are spread out over five different grade levels. There seems little chance of having a thought that relates an early box in “A” to a late box in “E.”
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Sakhalin Finnie: Inspirational Project-Centered Teaching | Edutopia - 0 views

  • Finnie's students designed an emergency plan for the home, and an emergency kit. They also created a newspaper, complete with illustrations, that "tells someone who doesn't know anything about earth science all about earthquakes, volcanoes, and plate tectonics how they're all related, and why we have earthquakes." In addition, the students videotaped a five-minute earthquake-safety commercial in the form of a rap song, and victory was theirs.
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Financial Literacy: Making Sense of Dollars and Cents | Edutopia - 2 views

  • Financial Literacy:Special Report Table of Contents Financial Literacy: Making Sense of Dollars and CentsThe Bucks Start Here: A Hands-On Approach to Personal FinanceHow To: Teach the Soft Side of BusinessTake It to the Bank: Students Learn to Manage Their MoneyMoney Corps: Finance Experts as Guest TeachersEntrepreneurial Education: The Successful Investor ProjectMoney Lessons: A Guide to Financial-Literacy Resources
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    素质教育应当改名为素养教育
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Learning 2.0: The Threat (and promise) of Social Interaction - Bokardo - 0 views

  • So the shift to public display, a shift to expected social interaction, changed the way the students learned and the effort they put into their education. If that’s not an incentive to experiment with and use social software I don’t know what is. Social software isn’t just a new way to work, it changes the effort we put into that work. Now there is a sound byte for social media consultants.
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Zero-Thumb Game: How to Tame Texting | Edutopia - 0 views

  • Cindi Rigsbee, for example, makes sure her students know when text language is appropriate and, more important, when it's not. She talks frequently in class about types of writing, the intended reader, and the evolution of language. At the beginning of each school year, she introduces a discussion about the way English has transformed over time. "We look at Old English, Middle English, and what was contemporary English in the time of Jane Eyre. Then I show them a MySpace page."
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In class, anytime -- baltimoresun.com - 0 views

  • Green's university, Coppin State, is one of a few hundred across the country that's using the lecture-archiving system called Tegrity. In Maryland, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Salisbury University and the Community College of Baltimore County are using it, too. School officials say the technology is not only helping students stay on pace with course work, it's taking away a prime reason for dropping out.
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