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Sherilyn Crawford

Interdisciplinary Learning in Your Classroom: Explanation - 0 views

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  • Sherilyn Crawford on 02 Oct 11
     
    A tool to not only learn about what interdisciplinary learning is and where it came from, but also demonstrations and opportunities to create your own curriculum.
jeffery heil

Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Twitter Series-My Super, Top Secret Tip... - 0 views

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  • jeffery heil on 30 Sep 11
     
    This is the last in my series on everything Twitter. You can read this first on How I do Twitter PD and the second on What People Wish They Had Known Before They Started.  Today lets look at all my tips, tricks and resources for getting more out of Twitter. 
Sherilyn Crawford

KB...Konnected - 0 views

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  • Sherilyn Crawford on 06 Oct 11
     
    A site with links to all sorts of student websites as educational resources for students who finish early...
jeffery heil

9 New Skills You Need To be a 21st Century Educator | Online Universities - 0 views

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  • Blogging Teachers competent in WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr and other free, popular blogging platforms have an excellent (and paperless!) tool at their disposal
  • Social media: Social media doesn’t have to worm its way into assignments to prove itself educationally valuable. Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn burst with teachers and other academic professionals chattering about ideas, strategies, resources and tools.
  • Interclassroom communication: More and more, teachers turn to Skype, Cisco and other communication tools to connect with other schools worldwide. Why set up international pen pals when technology allows kids to interact almost literally face to face?
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  • Cultural literacy: Cultural literacy has always been a desired skill in teachers abroad and living in multiethnic domestic regions.
  • Socratic seminar:
  • Community engagement:
  • Information literacy: Seeing as how information literacy is considered integral to student success, schools have little use for teachers without the relevant skills.
  • Networking: A networking teacher is, ostensibly, an open teacher.
jeffery heil

A Focus on Learning Rather Than Testing | FutureReady | The North Carolina New Schools ... - 0 views

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  • One theme that has already emerged is the prevalence of trust that schools and their faculties will do what is in the best interest of students.
  • “We train the people and then leave it to them. The focus is on teacher professionalism. We talk about central steering, not central control.”
  • Key decisions, such as class size and textbook selection, are locally controlled.
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  • a national policy exists that requires schools to avoid ability grouping of students in what was described as preventing a “dead-end education for students.”
  • Teachers generally teach approximately 19 hours per week. The balance of their time is focused on working with their colleagues, reaching out to families and other duties
  • 96% of teachers are unionized
  • High levels of teacher education and preparation allow them to be more independent in the classroom.
  • Broad commitment to the vision of a knowledge-based society.
  • Educational equality
  • Education is free of charge to all, including books, meals, transportation and health care
  • “Our secret is investing in early intervention so that students don’t need it later.”
  • Sweden and Norway spend less on the front end and more later in remediation.
  • The principal works as a pedagogical director.
  • A culture of trust in which no school inspectors or national exams exist.
Sherilyn Crawford

A new yardstick to measure schools? | SignOnSanDiego.com - 1 views

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shared by Sherilyn Crawford on 05 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Sherilyn Crawford on 05 Oct 11
     
    This article talks about new legislation on Governor Brown's desk in California and the idea that "control" of education should pass from Federal to State.
Sherilyn Crawford

Welcome Back Wordle… Plus 7 Other Free Word Cloud Generators! | 21 st Century... - 0 views

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  • Annie Reyes on 09 Oct 11
     
    I think someone asked how to put more than one word together for Wordle.. here are tips!
  • Sherilyn Crawford on 10 Oct 11
     
    Resource for word cloud sites, including Wordle. Gives information about each site and links.
Sherilyn Crawford

The Blur Between Leading and Teaching - 0 views

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shared by Sherilyn Crawford on 10 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Anything that we do with technology has to be focused on learning first.
  • We need to always focus on “why” we are doing something before we focus on what and how.  We also need to clearly be able to articulate that to those we work with.
  • Any plans that we create must help to build capacity within schools so that all stakeholders benefit.
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  • I saw a distinct parallel between the characteristics of great teaching and great leadership.
  • Give trust, gain trust. As soon as you show that you trust people to do great things, they are more likely to do them.
  • Provide some clear goals and objectives to the work you are doing.  With those in mind, ensure there is flexibility in the way people achieve those goals.
  • Let people build and share their strengths and interests.
  • We can learn much more from a group than we ever could from only one.  Do your best to bring people together and empower them to be leaders.
  • If you look at the list above, there should be no distinction between what falls under leadership or teaching; they clearly work in both areas.
  • Sherilyn Crawford on 10 Oct 11
     
    Very nicely worded blog post about teaching and leadership and how they are interconnected.
Sherilyn Crawford

TechLearning: 25 ways to teach with Twitter by Sonja Cole - 0 views

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  • Sherilyn Crawford on 10 Oct 11
     
    This article gives 25 ways to use twitter as an educator (including the sharing of resources) and even gives sample tweets.
jeffery heil

SpeEdChange: If school isn't for collaborating, why does anyone come? - 0 views

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  • If students want to learn in isolation; if they want to sit at a desk and work on their own stuff, occasionally checking in with an "expert," they have no reason to come to school.
  • For years we've talked about (or we may have even been) kids who've only come to school because of team sports, or music groups, or theatre, or even hanging out at lunch.
  • If school isn't about doing things together, just about everyone has better places to spend their day.
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  • The world of work has moved on, but the educational structure, despite the efforts of many individual teachers and administrators, crawls along
  • Bill Gates favorite boy Salman Khan, believe that kids sitting alone, working by themselves, with canned, inflexible data in front of them, is the best preparation for life in the present and future.
  • So here is what your classroom, and your school, needs to offer kids:
  • 1. A learning environment in which students make most decisions.
  • 2. A time environment in which students learn and work along a schedule which makes sense to them
  • 3. A technological environment which supports collaboration across every barrier.
  • 4. A social environment where adults do not rank students according to their oppressive standards.
  • jeffery heil on 16 Oct 11
     
    If students want to learn in isolation; if they want to sit at a desk and work on their own stuff, occasionally checking in with an "expert," they have no reason to come to school. They can do a lot better at home, or at their local coffee shop or even the public library, where both the coffee and the WiFi connection will be better.
Sherilyn Crawford

5 Traits of the 21st Century Teacher - 0 views

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  • Driven to Learn
  • A Media Creation Expert
  • A Digital Navigator
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  • An Empathetic Mentor
  • A Technology Harmonizer
  • It is no longer acceptable to teach only from a textbook, to rely on the same worksheets an methods year after year without at least questioning them and researching why they are the best resource available.  
  •  Powerpoint and Word are becoming antiquated as newer and more powerful presentation and editing suites become available to teachers.
  • This means having social media accounts and understanding how they are used, even if you don’t use them specifically for learning.
  • This student-centered focus also creates learning opportunities for the teacher to learn with students, developing their teaching and collaborative skills
  • One of the keys here is that we work at making the technology work (in the best way we can) so the lesson becomes about the learning instead of the management of machines.
Christina Andrade

Language Castle Blog » Blog Archive » Have You Seen "Driveby Teaching"? It's ... - 0 views

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  • “Driveby teaching” happens when teachers talk while moving around the room without taking the time to see that the children make the right connections with the words being used.
Sherilyn Crawford

How to do the right thing in a system that is wrong? - The Answer Sheet - The Washingto... - 0 views

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shared by Sherilyn Crawford on 13 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • I propose narrowing the focus. Here’s the problem I think deserves billboard-level attention: Kids can’t be taught to think better using tests that can’t measure how well they think.
  • The logic should be obvious. What gets tested gets taught. Complex thinking skills — skills essential to survival—can’t be tested, so they don’t get taught. That failure doesn’t simply rise to the level of a problem. It’s unethical
  • But nothing happens
  • Sherilyn Crawford on 13 Oct 11
     
    Article on why ed reform is necessary
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