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Ron King

Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium - 0 views

shared by Ron King on 23 Apr 13 - No Cached
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    Smarter Balanced is a state-led consortium developing assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards in English language arts/literacy and mathematics that are designed to help prepare all students to graduate high school college- and career-ready.
Ron King

Phillips Exeter Academy | Hands On Math - 0 views

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    The Exeter Mathematics Institute courses are tailored and designed for the needs of each school district. These sample course descriptions are examples of courses that have been offered in various school districts over the years. In most of these courses, we use the same Exeter Mathematics Problem Sets that are used during the Exeter school year. In the Geometer's Sketchpad course and in all of the hands-on courses, we use materials that have been specifically developed by Exeter Math Institute instructors. All of these materials are available using the links below
Ron King

Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum for Grades 6-8 - 2 views

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    This FREE, pioneering curriculum is designed to empower students to think critically and make informed choices about how they create, communicate, and treat others in our ever-evolving, 24/7 digital world. Browse the units to find the topics and lessons that are just right for your students.
Ron King

ctillustrated.com | - 1 views

shared by Ron King on 18 Mar 12 - No Cached
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    A cartoon guide to solving problems, designing systems and understanding human behavior!
Ron King

Mathematics Assessment Project - 0 views

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    The project is working to design and develop well-engineered assessment tools to support US schools in implementing the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSS).
Troy Patterson

JFK for Kids is multimedia biography of President Kennedy | MacNews - 0 views

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    MultiEducator (http://www.multieducator.net/) has introduced JFK for Kids 1.0 for iOS or Mac OS X. It's a multimedia biography of President John F. Kennedy 51 years after his taking office. JFK for Kids is designed especially for kids in grades 3-5.
Troy Patterson

Interactive teaching methods double learning in undergraduate physics class - 0 views

  • Interactive teaching methods significantly improved attendance and doubled both engagement and learning in a large physics class,
  • students in the interactive class were nearly twice as engaged as their counterparts in the traditional class
  • scored nearly twice as well in a test designed to determine their grasp of complex physics concepts (average score 74 per cent vs. 41 per cent, with random guessing producing a score of 23 per cent). Attendance in the interactive class also increased by 20 per cent during the experiment.
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  • During the experimental week, Deslauriers and Schelew gave no formal lecturing but guided students through a series of activities that had previously been shown to enhance learning, such as paired and small-group discussions and active learning tasks, which included the use of remote-control "clickers" to provide feedback for in-class questions
  • These activities require more work from the students, but the students report that they feel they are learning more and are more vested in their own learning,"
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