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David Boxer

Students Distracted by Screens? The #1 Antidote - from Tom Daccord on Edudemic - 0 views

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    "More importantly, it happens in K-12 classrooms all the time.  I know because when teachers relate stories of engaged students using technology, their students all ask the same question: "Can I have more time to work on it?" The ingredients for cooking up engaging activities vary, but certain elements are constant. For one, the activities are challenging and expectations high. There's no "click-along-with-me-and-do-what-I-do-kids" passiveness in these classrooms. Instead, it's more like: "This is hard. And I'm not going to show you how to do it. But I expect what you create will be excellent." There's also an authentic audience. Tell students you're going to present their work at a conference, or submit it to a state publication, and then watch the heightened focus in their eyes. Yet, the audience doesn't necessarily need to be outside the school walls. Just tell them you're going to show their work to other classes and teachers. As one teacher noted: "I didn't realize how little I mattered, until I told my students that I was going to publish all their work to an audience." And great teachers figure out other ways to make kids care. They personalize the content - drawing connections to kids' lives - and help students understand why what they're doing is important."
Jenni Swanson Voorhees

Having Conversations on Commenting with Kids | A Platform for Good - 0 views

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    Good thoughtful advice about how to support kids to learn appropriate skills.
David Boxer

Deeper Learning: Performance Assessment and Authentic Audience | Edutopia - 0 views

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    "Change Your Gradebook into a Logbook Only list things in your gradebook that students and parents can Google. If the search of that assignment title doesn't bring up the beginning of the breadcrumb trail you intended, then you need to word it better. I used to list things like "Quiz 1" or "Homework from Chapter 3" in my gradebook. No one has any idea what those are, and if those scores are low, no one has any idea how the kid can improve them. This is opposite of how psychology shows that humans work. We want to be shown our mistakes so we can fix them. Student grades need to fluidly move up and down as kids show learning, retention or lack thereof. So, start listing the big ideas from your course as your assignments. "
Renee Hawkins

8 Things Kids should Be Able to Do with Technology ~ Educational Technology and Mobile ... - 0 views

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    Wonderful image and excellent reminder about the real purpose of technology. "Technology is a tool, not a learning outcome."  The graphic was designed by Bill Ferriter (@plususin) and has started a conversation in the Twitterverse.
Jenni Swanson Voorhees

Web Based Software Tools - Technology Help Site - 0 views

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    Example of page shared with parents detailing online tools that kids are using at school.
Teresa Sengel

Amidst a Mobile Revolution in Schools, Will Old Teaching Tactics Work? | MindShift - 0 views

  • The point at which kids learn is when they go into their community and research noteworthy historical sites to understand their significance.
  • What the mobile phone added was an immediacy to the task at hand. Was it imperative to the learning process? Probably not. But did the QR creation make the project more interesting, more relevant to their lives, and thus more personal for students? That’s what educators are betting on.
  • When the child takes a picture with a phone, the child can then integrate the picture into an artifact that also contains a concept map, an animation, etc. In fact, the picture can be imported into a drawing program, then labeled with text. So it is more than a camera.”
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    A focus on the pedagogy required to fully embrace mobile technologies.
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    Things to consider when selecting tech tools
Renee Hawkins

MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages - 0 views

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    Free Online Comic Creator.
Jenni Swanson Voorhees

Because your kids deserve the very best educational apps. - appoLearning - 0 views

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    App reviews, etc. for all grade levels.
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