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Heidi Gable

School Tech: 6 Important Lessons From Maine's Student Laptop Program - 0 views

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Maine 1-to-1 laptop lessons learned

shared by Heidi Gable on 05 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Heidi Gable on 05 Jan 11
     
    "It's been about 10 years since Maine implemented its initiative, and while at least 33 states had experimented with one-to-one computing projects by 2007 , none have reached the scope of Maine's project. As jobs and life increasingly involve computers, it's clear that in order to remain relevant to students, schools will need to adopt more technology. Here are six lessons about doing so successfully, taken from Maine's initiative."
Dave Truss

Interactivate: Pattern Generator - 0 views

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mathtools interactive

shared by Dave Truss on 24 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 24 Feb 09
     
    What is Pattern Generator? This activity allows the user to learn to recognize several types of patterns through filling in the missing pieces. The patterns in this activity are made of: * shapes * letters * numbers This activity can be used to introduce the patterning used in the Coloring Multiples in Pascal's Triangle activity and Sierpinski's Carpet activity.
Dave Truss

» Would You Please Block? Bud the Teacher - 0 views

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filter budtheteacher classmanagement

shared by Dave Truss on 07 Oct 09 - Cached
  • What we’ve decided is that we will no longer use the web filter as a classroom management tool.  Blocking one distraction doesn’t solve the problem of students off task – it just encourages them to find another site to distract them.  Students off task is not a technology problem – it’s a behavior problem. 
    • Dave Truss
      Dave Truss on 07 Oct 09
       
      A brilliantly worded statement that needs to be said!
  • This opens up possibilities for students and staff using websites for instructional purposes that in the past were blocked due to broad category blocks.  It requires that staff and students manage their technology use rather than relying on a third party solution that can never do the job of replacing teachers monitoring students.
  • Dave Truss on 07 Oct 09
     
    What we've decided is that we will no longer use the web filter as a classroom management tool.
Heidi Gable

Mind - Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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research brain learning

shared by Heidi Gable on 07 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Heidi Gable on 07 Sep 10
     
    Forcing the brain to make multiple associations with the same material may, in effect, give that information more neural scaffolding
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