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Slashdot | YouTube Breeding Harmful Scientific Misinformation - 0 views

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As information becomes more and more viral, public educators have an ethical and moral obligation to teach our students skills of critical inquiry and multiple literacies.

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Challenging Class Bias - Terezia Zoric | Learningwork.ca - 0 views

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This educator's resource is designed to provide support for Junior, Intermediate, and Secondary Teachers who wish to integrate work on challenging socio-economic class bias into their teaching. Most of the activities and resources within this document have been written or adapted for an intermediate/senior (grades 5 to 12) student audience.
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This educator's resource is designed to provide support for Junior, Intermediate, and Secondary Teachers who wish to integrate work on challenging socio-economic class bias into their teaching. Most of the activities and resources within this document hav

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This educator's resource is designed to provide support for Junior, Intermediate, and Secondary Teachers who wish to integrate work on challenging socio-economic class bias into their teaching. Most of the activities and resources within this document hav</div>

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The Constructivist Consortium - Bookstore - 0 views

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Some of my favourite books! all in one place.

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edtechpost - OER Dynamic Search Engine - 0 views

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Search all of these Open Education Sites from one place. Got a new site? Log in as username: edtechpost_guest (same password) and add it to the list. Simple, eh?

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Web 2.0 Tools - Web 2.0 That Works: Marzano & Web 2.0 - 0 views

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SD = Identifying Similarities and Differences CL = Cooperative Learning SNT = Summarizing and Note-Taking ER = Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition HP = Homework and Practice NR = Nonlinguistic Representation OF = Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback HYP = Generating and Testing Hypotheses QCO = Questions, Cues, and Advance Organizers

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">SD = Identifying Similarities and Differences CL = Cooperative Learning SNT = Summarizing and Note-Taking ER = Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition HP = Homework and Practice NR = Nonlinguistic Representation OF = Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback HYP = Generating and Testing Hypotheses QCO = Questions, Cues, and Advance Organizers</div>

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Piwik | Web analytics | Open source - 0 views

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piwik is an open source (GPL license) web analytics software. It gives interesting reports on your website visitors, your popular pages, the search engines keywords they used, the language they speak… and so much more.

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Education Software for Schools: Free Software, Open Source | School Forge - 0 views

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Differentiated Instruction ; Educational resources that help classroom teachers adjust ... - 0 views

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Tips and strategies.

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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observations that are intended to falsify a statement will fall under one of the paradigms they are supposed to help compare, and will therefore also be inadequate for the task.
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The majority of the scientific community will oppose any conceptual change, and, Kuhn emphasizes, so they should. In order to fulfill its potential, a scientific community needs to contain both individuals who are bold and individuals who are conservative.
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here typically follows a period in which there are adherents of both paradigms. In time, if the challenging paradigm is solidified and unified, it will replace the old paradigm, and a paradigm shift will have occurred.
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Thisi s a very good overview of the nature of paradigm shifts - and accurately describes our current moment of transition.

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a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

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CAST: Differentiated Instruction - 0 views

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According to the authors, several key elements guide differentiation in the education environment. Tomlinson (2001) identifies three elements of the curriculum that can be differentiated: Content, Process, and Products. Additionally, several guidelines are noted to help educators form an understanding and develop ideas around differentiating instruction.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">According to the authors, several key elements guide differentiation in the education environment. Tomlinson (2001) identifies three elements of the curriculum that can be differentiated: Content, Process, and Products. Additionally, several guidelines are noted to help educators form an understanding and develop ideas around differentiating instruction.</div>

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Nine Essential Instructional Strategies - Marzano - 0 views

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What Works in Classroom Instruction by Robert J. Marzano, et. al.

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CultureSource.ca: Canada's Resource Library for Teachers - 0 views

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CultureSource.ca is the pre-eminent online cultural resource library for Canadian teachers. Conveniently located online, CultureSource.ca is a collection of approved arts, history and literature resources, ideal for including in lesson plans and in the classroom.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">CultureSource.ca is the pre-eminent online cultural resource library for Canadian teachers. Conveniently located online, CultureSource.ca is a collection of approved arts, history and literature resources, ideal for including in lesson plans and in the classroom. </div>

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[educator resource] Download YouTube Videos - 0 views

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(via Rheingold) "Luckily, there are literally dozens of tools for downloading videos from YouTube and/or converting those YouTube videos to some format other than .flv. It's hard to pick the best one, as they all have pluses and minuses. Thus, we've chose

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ccLearn | Creative Commons for education - 0 views

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ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons dedicated to realizing the full potential of the internet to support open learning and open educational resources.
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ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons dedicated to realizing the full potential of the internet to support open learning and open educational resources.

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Critical Pedagogy on the Web: Home - 0 views

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This site has a dual focus, providing both a general overview of critical pedagogy--its definitions, history, key concepts, and major theorists--and links to other critical pedagogy resources on the web

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Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008 - 0 views

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list is compiled from the contributions of 155 learning professionals (from both education and workplace learning) who shared their Top 10 Tools for Learning both for their own personal learning/ productivity

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How to Plan For Differentiate Instruction - 0 views

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After having read what the research has to offer on differentiated instruction, specifically, brain-based research on learning, learning styles and multiple intelligences, and authentic assessment, you are now ready to plan.

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Kaltura | Open Source Video Platform - 0 views

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free downloadable video packages, online video player & video editor for wikis, blogs and leading web platforms
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This is not just another video embed tool - it includes every functionality you might need for video and rich-media, including the ability to upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix content with an online video editor, enable video responses, manage and track your video content, create playlists and much more

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Schools of thought: teach children philosophy, experts urge | News crumb | EducationGua... - 0 views

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Children of all ages should study philosophy in school to develop their critical thinking skills, education experts said today.

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[video] Henry Giroux: Figures in Critical Pedagogy - 0 views

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To watch the rest of this video visit: http://freire.education.mcg... A dialogue between Joe L. Kincheloe, Canada Research Chair in Critical Pedagogy and Henry A. Giroux, Global Television Network...

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