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krs10walsh

Homepage - ReadWriteThink - 2 views

shared by krs10walsh on 30 Oct 14 - Cached
    • Callie Theodoss
       
      Can choose the grade level that you want to find resources for, lesson plans, and the student interactives are pretty cools!
    • krs10walsh
       
      This is really great. I think I will spend some time checking this out for my first graders.
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  • Grade Level
    • klytle
       
      I love this website it always has such good ideas.
  • Grades   3 - 8  |  Game & Tool Trading Card Creator
    • klytle
       
      The Trading Card Creator is a great tool when studying biographies.
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    This is a great resource for ELA teaching ideas. Lots of interactives
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    This is a great resource for ELA teaching ideas. Lots of interactives
Julie Grant

3 Must Have Google Drive Tools to Improve Students Writing ~ Educational Technology and... - 1 views

  • Track Changes
    • anonymous
       
      I have added this and used as a group is writng a discription of New Literacies Institute.
    • Julie Grant
       
      I like this article on helpful add-ons to improve students' writing.
  • 1- ProWriting Aid
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  • Check your writing for consistency, plagiarism, acronyms, cliches, redundancies, grammar mistakes and more. Check for consistency of spelling, hyphenation, and capitalization; - Eliminate clichés and redundancies;  Check for plagiarism and unoriginal content;  Online grammar and spelling checker;  Improve readability;  Find overused words;   Improve dull paragraph structure;  Find repeated words and phrases;  Eliminate vague, abstract, and complex words from your writing;   High quality copy-editing and proofreading services;
  • Track Changes is a great tool for collaborative writing
  • allows users to see changes and editing
  • EasyBib
  • look for and  access citations and also generates a bibliography for your paper. You can choose from the three different citation formats: APA, MLA, or Chicago.
amfpiscitelli

The Fischbowl - 15 views

shared by amfpiscitelli on 30 Oct 14 - Cached
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    • Julie Grant
       
      Interesting points about the value of homework...
  • What kind of research did we do to determine that 120 minutes was the appropriate and most effective amount of homework each night
    • anonymous
       
      Good question
    • kararyan
       
      I agree...big debate here on HW...
    • amfpiscitelli
       
      I agree how is the time determined per grade level?
    • anonymous
       
      Karl Fish always has someting interesting to say
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  • Students need the practice. I can't cover the curriculum unless I give homework. It teaches responsibility.
    • msfellows
       
      I've definitely heard these same three reasons given to justify homework.
    • kararyan
       
      I've heard them too. And I agree SOME students really do need the practice...but some do not..
    • amfpiscitelli
       
      I think all students could use extra practice. I have heard these 3 reasons as well.
  • The research provides little or no support for number one. What little support it does give could be accomplished by giving them time in class to practic
  • there's not enough time to cover the curriculum
  • I have yet to see any research that shows that assigning homework teaches responsibility
  • in order to cover the curriculum, we should change the curriculum.
  • So if we just made up this number, how is that "data-driven"? Perhaps we need to sit down and rethink this and decide if that's truly the best number.
  • Data-Driven Schools: Homework
  • What kind of research did we do to determine that 120 minutes was the appropriate and most effective amount of homework each night?
  • if we did that, then we'd probably also want to look at the research on the effectiveness of homework in general
  • research shows no support for homework at all at the elementary level
  • at the high school level there is only a weak correlation between homework and increased test scores
  • There was no relationship whatsoever between time spent on homework and course grade, and “no substantive difference in grades between students who complete homework and those who do not.”
    • kararyan
       
      Has anyone here done a study/collection of data on HW in middle school?
    • amfpiscitelli
       
      That would be a great idea Kara!
  • even most of what I've read in support of homework tends to show it having a relatively small effect on student "achievement"
  • So why do we assign homework?
  • Students need the practice. I can't cover the curriculum unless I give homework. It teaches responsibility
  • The research provides little or no support for number one.
  • Instead of assigning homework (and assigning students a "second shift") in order to cover the curriculum, we should change the curriculum.
  • I would suggest that giving them meaningful and important things to do might teach them responsibility better than assigning homework of dubious value.
  • any homework we assign should be justified.
  • Was there a correlation between the amount of homework that high school students reported doing and their scores on standardized math and science tests?
    • hortac
       
      Homework is sometimes a time management tool. Some students need more time to process the work and if we waited for them to finish in class, the cows would come home. Having them finish at home keeps us all moving forward...
    • amfpiscitelli
       
      Yes it can be a time management tool.
    • krs10walsh
       
      Excellent article I will certainly share with my 10th grader, 8th grader, and 4th grader at home. I'm sure the first grader will like to hear about it as well... After we finish their homework.
    • amfpiscitelli
       
      Homework is a reinforcement in my classroom.
  • Yes, and it was statistically significant but “very modest”:
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    Homework myth
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    Homework Debate
anonymous

De-schooling Society, chapter 6 - 0 views

    • anonymous
       
      Charter schools are an attempt to address Illich's vision, but these are often more focused on schooling and less a trasformation of schools
  • I intend to show that the inverse of school is possible: that we can depend on self-motivated learning instead of employing teachers to bribe or compel the student to find the time and the will to learn; that we can provide the learner with new links to the world instead of continuing to funnel all educational programs through the teacher.
  • schools are fundamentally alike in all countries, be they fascist, democratic or socialist, big or small, rich or poor.
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  • his identity of the school system forces us to recognize the profound world-wide identity of myth, mode of production, and method of social control, despite the great variety of mythologies in which the myth finds expression.
  • The alternative to dependence on schools is not the use of public resources for some new device which "makes" people learn; rather it is the creation of a new style of educational relationship between man and his environment. To foster this style, attitudes toward growing up, the tools available for learning, and the quality and structure of daily life will have to change concurrently.
muirheadrenee

http://www.kidzsearch.com/ - 2 views

shared by muirheadrenee on 30 Oct 14 - Cached
    • muirheadrenee
       
      great tool for student research
msfellows

PVSlider - 1 views

  • multiplying numbers by powers of ten
    • msfellows
       
      I come back to this tool over and over. Today I used it when teaching division by a divisor with decimal places. We don't "move the decimal" to make the divisor a whole number. We multiply by a power of 10 to change place value enough to make a whole number.
pacittijanet

Welcome to Discovery Education | Digital textbooks and standards-aligned educational re... - 2 views

    • pacittijanet
       
      I am using the board builder tool on this site to build lessons for students to work independently as well as to collaborate with colleagues to build units - great resource
    • amfpiscitelli
       
      I use Discovery Education to kick off new units especially for sixth grade Science. There are a lot of useful videos to start a unit. I have created folders with kick off videos I use for the 3 Science units in grade 6.
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