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Free Technology for Teachers: How To Do 11 Techy Things In the New School Year - 8 views

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    A quick-start guide for teachers who want to try something new in the 2010-2011 school year.
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Back to School - 0 views

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    Great word list and free online games for the first week of school
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Busting the Myths of Digital Learning - 5 views

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    Survey from JogNog reveals schools unprepared to support digital learning - EdTech Times
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The Fischbowl: The Invention of Air, PLNs, and School Transformation - 0 views

  • The whole notion of intellectual circulation or flow is embedded in the word “influence” itself (“to flow into,” influere in the original Latin). Good ideas influence, and are themselves influenced by, other ideas
  • This resonates for me in relation to my own blogging, where I often think of blogging as “rough draft thinking”, or “thinking in progress,” and where I count on commenters and linkers to help me refine my own thinking.
  • I believe we miss so much, and our students miss so much, because we view so much of what we do as transitory, and not worth keeping or revisiting. What is it about self-reflection (again, both professionally and with/by our students) that worries us so?
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  • An idea that flows through society does not grow less useful as it circulates; most of the time, the opposite occurs: the idea improves, as its circulation attracts the “attention of the Ingenious,” as Franklin put it.
  • We are going to have to seize on the current crisis to make transformative change and conjure up new institutions – or least new learning paradigms. One of our core values must be to seize these "new ways of sharing ideas or organizing human life," to be compulsive sharers and utilize these tools and our learning networks to transform our schools, our communities and our world.
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YouTube - Gotta Keep Reading - Ocoee Middle School - 6 views

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    What a fun way to get middle school kids psyched about reading. I love watching the looks of sheer joy on the students as they participated in this flashmob take-off from the Oprah Black/Eyed Peas show.
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Five Strategies to Ensure Student Learning | Edutopia - 0 views

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    After Arizona's Mesquite Elementary School developed Reteach and Enrich, a program to provide additional instruction time for students struggling with math, test scores shot to the top and have stayed there ever since.
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Ten Tips for Engaging Underperforming Students | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Guided by research, educators at Cochrane Collegiate have homed in on ten top teaching methods, and teachers receive weekly PD to help them implement the practices.
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Literature Based Word Lists | Articles - 2 views

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    Literature-based word lists for all grade levels (kindergarten through high school). http://bit.ly/9uMY66
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Teacher Development Is Key to Closing the Achievement Gap | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL) defines four key practices for sustained student achievement. 
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My Blog - 2 views

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    Great website for art classes. Includes blog responses from students. Great way to develop ability to think about and critique art.
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    An example for PLNs in elementary in schools (art, blog community)
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Ending the Year on a Positive Note | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Teachers celebrating accomplishments as summer approaches.
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Quick Tips for Succeeding On a Low Budget | Edutopia - 0 views

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    tudents do much of their work on erasable slate boards, which helps keep the school's copy budget low; former principal Connie Erickson has come up with multiple ways to save money, such as the tips shared below. Connie Erickson, founding principal of Mesquite, and current principal Katie Dabney have found that fiscal creativity is key in finding ways to "squeeze a little water out of the rock," as Erickson describes it.
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