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Charles Brads

Purdue study: Hands-on learning better | www.jconline.com | Journal and Courier - 0 views

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    Youngsters taught science in classes where the goal was to design and build a device to perform a specific task scored significantly higher on a final test than students who got traditional classroom instruction
Melissa Seifman

Blogs for Learning | Articles - - 0 views

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    Great article with practical suggestions for Blogging in a classroom
Melissa Seifman

2¢ Worth » What Does a 21st Century School Look Like? - 0 views

  • The central theme of our BBQ flavored conversation was t he challenge of getting reluctant teachers to buy in to the spirit and practice of a 21st century school.  Since the principal was at the table, I suggested that the use of digital networked content be part of the evaluation expectations for teachers, and that it needed to go much MUCH deeper than just saying, “We want you to do one technology-infused unit this year.”  I suggested that all relics of learning and teaching that are shared, must be digital.
    • Melissa Seifman
       
      I totally agree. A 21st century school, and instructors integrate real technology into their lessons. It is no longer sufficient to call a lesson with internet research and use of powerpoint or other office tools a "technology" lesson.
  • Students would be working, but in the same spirit of the work they engage in when playing many of the video games that they spend time with. Their work would be such that they are constantly asking questions, and are in constant need of information and collaborative arrangements for inventing solutions
  • They will also need to dedicate much time to responding to discussion forums, occasional synchronous chat sessions, grading projects, and maintaining their online classrooms.
    • Melissa Seifman
       
      Online classrooms are a must I think.. Today's students are to be much more interested and engaged by online learning environments than traditional text-book/lecture based ones because they have literally grown up in it. Their way of thinking has changed.
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  • Libraries will be filled with computers or Kindles rather than books. It will be hard to find the teachers since the students will be directing their own education
    • Melissa Seifman
       
      Yes! Students having a buy in to what they are learning...Librarys that are no longer book and magazine repositories, but rich media centers with many different real technologies available... We'll just forget the part about.. *cough* funding the technology...
  • When the community looks at the school, they see learning — not a school.
    • Melissa Seifman
       
      I especially love the last quote of this highlight - when the community looks at a school, they see learning - not a school. Communities need to be able to be just as activily involved..
  • Students don’t think of 21century learning - they live it
Melissa Seifman

Using Read/Write Web to build a fact sheet - 0 views

  • Is there any way to ramp up your knowledge of these fields, fast, other than the "Google and wander" method?
  • we'll walk you through how we identify top blogs on any topic, how we quickly figure out what their most popular recent posts have been about, how we incorporate their blog archives into our knowledge about the field and how we find where else they are participating in conversation around the web
  • Find The Most Popular Blogs in Your Field
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  • Add The Feeds to a Reader
  • Pull Out Your New Tab's Feeds
  • The Top of the OPML File.
  • Now to Find the Hottest Posts from Those Top Blogs
  • Rank the Blog Posts With Robots!
Jared McLear

Wikis in the Classroom - SlideShare - 0 views

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    A slideshow presentation on why to use a wiki in the classroom.
Charles Brads

12 skills that workers need - Kansas City Star - 0 views

  • 5. Forgive others and believe that others are well intentioned.
  • 5. Forgive others and believe that others are well intentioned.
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    12 skills that workers need12 skills that workers need
Charles Brads

Using Challenging Concepts To Learn Promotes Understanding Of New Material - 0 views

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    While most teachers progress from easier topics to more advanced ones, that may not always be the best approach, according to a new study.
Jared McLear

What is the Wiki Tool? - 0 views

  • As the instructor, you need to configure and make it available.
  • Participation details can also be viewed for a student in the course showing pages they have edited
  • When instructors create a Wiki in a content area of the course, an entry in the gradebook can be automatically generated so that participation in the Wiki can be included in the student grades.
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  • Other options for wikis include allowing students to edit the pages, allowing students to delete or “purge” individual pages, controlling who can comment on pages, and limiting access to the wiki for a specific time period
  • and a history of the changes made
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    Wiki overview from Duke University
Charles Brads

Educational Leadership:Giving Students Ownership of Learning:Springing into Active Lear... - 0 views

  • Belief 1: The rules of a classroom and a content area are based on what the teacher wants.
  • Belief 2: What the teacher wants me to say is more important than what I want to say.
  • Belief 3: The point of an assignment is to get it done.
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  • Belief 4: Once an assignment is finished, it's off the to-do list.
  • Belief 5: If I make a mistake, my job is to replace it with the right answer.
  • Belief 6: I feel proud of my work only if I receive a good grade.
  • Belief 7: Speed is synonymous with intelligence.
  • Belief 8: Once I get too far behind, I can never catch up.
  • Belief 9: What I'm learning in school doesn't have much to do with my life—but it isn't supposed to—it's school.
  • To what extent do the classroom rules encourage the "neatness" of compliant behavior instead of the inherent messiness of engagement?
  • To what extent do scoring tools over-reward students for packaging their work and underreward the quality of thinking?
  • To what extent do school staff members "save" students from having to struggle?
  • To what extent do students revise work?
  • To what extent has the pace of the curriculum compromised the opportunity to go more deeply into the discipline?
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    How students' beliefs work against active learning.
Charles Brads

Obama voters key to levy win - 0 views

  • The analysis found that the positive correlation between Obama and levy support was statistically significant. For every 10 percent increase in Obama support in a precinct, levy support increased by about 5 percent.
    • Charles Brads
       
      Slope = 5/10 = 0.5
Carmen Hartzell

search-cube - the Visual Search Engine - 0 views

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    Try this in place of google sometime.
Carmen Hartzell

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds - 0 views

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    This is a great way to make words into a snazzy visual.
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    Make a word cloud.
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