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Tyler Hancock

A Look Inside the Digital Lives of Tweens | MindShift - 0 views

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    An article that gives a little insight into the reality of teenagers nowadays. Pssh. Kids these days.
Craig Nansen

The Awesome Highlighter - 0 views

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    Awesome Highlighter is a web site for a free online highlighting tool. This web site lets you highlight text, pictures or video from a web page and then it gives you a link to your highlighted page. You can email the page to yourself or share it via Twitter, Facebook, Delicious or Wordpress. You can add notes to the highlighted pages as well. A record of your highlighted pages is kept for later reference. This is a great research tool.
Jon Krantz

Odd Holiday Celebrations - 1 views

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    Gives odd holiday tips for class celebrations
Craig Nansen

Technology Combined with Good Teaching Leads to Success | Edutopia - 9 views

  • Of those classrooms employing the boards and using the voting technology, there was an immediate increase of 17 percent in scores.
  • He also found that if a teacher had been given 20-30 months to hone his or her skills, there was an average 20 percentile gain.
  • Robert Marzano
    • Craig Nansen
       
      Robert Marzano has a high level of credibility with our district administrators.
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  • voter-response technology
    • Craig Nansen
       
      We refer to them as "clickers" or classroom response systems. Minot Public Schools use SMART Response units.
  • are the future of educational strategies
  • when a teacher was trained to use the technology, had used it for two years, and did so 75 percent of the time. That profile shows a whopping 29 percentile gain in scores.
  • he warns that there is such a thing as too much technology
  • you clearly "can't take the human being out of teaching."
    • Craig Nansen
       
      David Thornburg states "any teacher who could be replaced by a computer should be." What do you think of this statement?
  • To get the most out of the interactive whiteboard, a school district can't just give it to a teacher, and can't just give it to any teacher. The district has to train that teacher. And Marzano was quick to point out that weaker teachers require professional development in the use of both interactive whiteboards and effective teaching.
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    I shared this article with all our district administrators to support our plan to put SMART Boards in every classroom in the district.
anonymous

Silverstein's The Giving Tree: - 0 views

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    The Animated Film Narrated by Shel Himself (1973) | Open Culture
Craig Nansen

Plato, from The Phaedrus, quoting Socrates - 1 views

  • for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.
    • Craig Nansen
       
      This was written by Plato, Socrates' student, from a dialoge between Socrates and Phaedrus in 370 B.C. Seems like resistance to change is nothing new.
Lindsay Wolfe

Target : Company : Field Trip Grants - 0 views

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    Learning opportunities extend far beyond the classroom. But schools are finding it more and more difficult to bring students to museums, historical sites and cultural organizations. Field Trip Grants help give children these unique, firsthand learning experiences.
John Groves

School: Webcams used only on missing laptops - Security- msnbc.com - 0 views

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    The best laid plans..... It would seem that giving every student a laptop has lend to unintended consequences including a spike in crime. I wonder when the last time a student was accused of stealing a book?
Craig Nansen

"Use backchanneling in your classroom" published in the February 2010 NJEA Reporter! | ... - 0 views

  • “Use backchanneling in your classroom” published in the February 2010 NJEA Reporter!
  • The inspiration for this project came from a blog post by Chris Webb of Minot Public Schools in Minot, North Dakota. He wrote about how his colleague, Pat Gerding, used TodaysMeet.com in his middle school social studies classroom.
  • You can view the article right here (on the web) entire issue here online (it’s pretty slick – a ‘virtual PDF’ that gives you tons of viewing options) or just read our article here (4.4 mb .PDF).
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    "Use backchanneling in your classroom"
Erin Baumgarten

Online games - 0 views

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    These games give you a variety of differnt earlychildhood reading and math readiness skills. Mnay of these we have used on our Smartboards as center time.
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