Using iPads in Social Studies - 0 views
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scott klepesch on 09 Oct 10Pilot program for the state of Virginia
This makes a lot of sense to me — textbook as platform to be populated by the very teachers who will use them.
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Egypt's Uprising | Teaching with the News | Choices Program - 0 views
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Ideas for using the uprising in Egypt in a lesson. Lots of resourc materials included.
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Part of the CHOICES Program for History and Current Events in the Classroom
Six Reasons Why Textbooks Should Stop Being Textbooks : 2¢ Worth - 0 views
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Can’t teachers respectfully and with regard for the law select, shape, mash and mix existing digital content into modules or learning objects for their learners. Might we even see commercial modules, produced by what use to be the textbook industry, t
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ollowing the same model, communities of teachers can contributed well researched and carefully designed modules for portions of their curriculum (or standards if you insist) that they know well and about which they are especially passionate.
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"Yesterday, Mashable author, Sarah Kessler, wrote "The Case for Making Online Textbooks Open Source," where she drew attention to programs at MIT and Carnegie Mellon that post lectures and other course materials online for free. "
Eye Witness to History - 0 views
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"Your ringside seat to history - from the Ancient World to the present. History through the eyes of those who lived it, presented by Ibis Communications, Inc. a digital publisher of educational programming."
"Misinformation in TV Drama Can Gain Credibility" « INFOdocket - 0 views
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"Newly published research suggests nuggets of misinformation embedded in a fictional television program can seep into our brains and lodge there as perceived facts. What's more, this troubling dynamic seems to occur even when our initial response is skepticism."
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Very, very interesting piece. There are lots of ideas for discussion in this article.
Why Web Literacy Should Be Part of Every Education | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and... - 0 views
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"Like reading, writing, and arithmetic, web literacy is both content and activity. You don't just learn "about" reading: you learn to read. You don't just learn "about" arithmetic: you learn to count and calculate. You don't just learn "about" the web: you learn to make your own website. As with these other three literacies, web literacy begins simply, with basics you can build upon. For some it can lead to a profession (i.e. becoming a computer programmer) while for most it becomes part of the conceptual DNA that helps you to understand and negotiate the world you live in."
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Not specific to social studies but an important article about the importance of web and digital literacies.
Advancing the Flip: Developments in Reverse Instruction | Connected Principals - 1 views
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Steven B. Johnson writes in Where Good Ideas Come From about the revolutionary power of social media such as Twitter to advance ideas and innovation in a myriad of fields, and it has been fascinating to see this concept in action in the swift spread over the past six months of the practice of flipping classrooms, which is also known as reverse instruction or learning, and is closely related to (or often synonymous with) teacher vodcasting.
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At the same time, what is now an opportunity is also becoming an urgency: if students don’t need to come to class to get informational content delivery, if they can get it easily on their own, we need to transform how we use our classroom time such that it continues to be relevant and valuable.
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I decided to use [reverse instruction] to teach my students the basic concepts of neurons. For homework, I posted to our wiki a Khan Academy video, as well as, a couple of TED talks from leading neurologists to explain some of the purposes neurons have and cutting edge research that’s being done in the field. In total, maybe about 25 minutes of work.
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Shares teachers who have experimented with flipping instruction. Also, contains links to articles about Khan Academy.
Program on Public Consultation 2015 Federal Budget Exercise - 1 views
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Choose your own adventure, and see if you can reduce the deficit.
Brazilians Welcome Obama As Their Own : NPR - 0 views
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"He looks more Brazilian than American."
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Brazil was settled by waves of European immigrants and millions of African slaves brought there in chains. Their descendants make up the second-largest black population in the world after Nigeria.
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there's no hiding the fact that blacks are worse off than whites.
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The History 2.0 Classroom: Currently Reading... - 0 views
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insight and concrete examples that can help educators understand how computers are reshaping our economy, the jobs that will be available to our students & more importantly, how we can begin to restructure our classroom instruction to help develop the expert and complex thinking skills that are required to compete and hold a job in our changing economy.
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Computers don't cause unemployment, they can replace only specific types of jobs / tasks: 1. Routine Cognitive - cognitive tasks that can be accomplished by following specific rules 2. Routine Manual - manual tasks that follow precise, physical movement that can be programmed
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Step two, help our students developed the skills and abilities necessary to find, understand, analyze and evaluate information.
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Article discusses the skills and experiences schools should focus on. Jobs that prize memorization and recall are being replaced by computers. What is valued can be fostered in a rich digital classroom.
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