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dean groom

Edmodo - A screencast teaser | edmodo - 0 views

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    Edmodo - micro bloging - ideal starter blogging for junior high school - learning to use courseware effectively - and also for journal entries in PBL. In Alpha testing.
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    a video on the use of Edmodo.
jkrauss

BIE: Research & Evaluation: Project Based Research - 0 views

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    "We have recently completed a national survey of PBL use in US high schools." Might be BIE-centric (several articles by John Mergendoller, other principals of BIE),
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    I am collecting articles that evaluate efficacy of the pbl approach.
Michelle Krill

About The Book Chats | The Fireside Book Chat - 7 views

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    Book review podcasts from high school students.
Donna DesRoches

Prairie South Video Server - Project Based Learning at ACHS - 0 views

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    a cross disciplinary high school project
Kathleen N

The History Game Canada - 0 views

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    The History Game Canada is a game based on Canadian history that lets anyone play the past. Based on the award-winning, best-seller Sid Meier's Civilization III, The History Game Canada is the "What If" game of Canada... and you're the author. Will you replay our history or rewrite it? History teachers and high-school students are our primary audience, but we think we've designed a game that will appeal to all ages, all Civilization players, and anyone with a passing interest in the history of North America and particularly Canada. You'll need a copy of Civilzation III Conquests (patched to version 1.22) or a copy of Civilization III Complete. (Canada pack is free)
Gloria Becker

It really, actually changed my life - 0 views

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    "High school students reflect on their experience of project based learning and describe how they not only learned a great deal of content, but also practiced the 21st century skills needed for personal and workplace success. [Time: 4:00]"
edutopia .org

Ten Takeaway Tips for Teaching Critical Thinking | Edutopia - 1 views

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    Suggestions from educators at KIPP King Collegiate High School on how to help develop and assess critical thinking skills in your students.
cs2blogwalking

Watch Nerve | Movie & TV Shows Putlocker - 0 views

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    A high school senior finds herself immersed in an online game of truth or dare, where her every move starts to be manipulated by an anonymous...
dean groom

Raising expectations « Educational Discourse - 0 views

  • they will continue to live like their parents with the same expectations
  • what students might need to do well as they leave school
  • Communication skills - delivering their message clearly without misconceptions.
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  • ollaborative decision-making and work strategies. Groups are vital to progress - working together to create a product is found in nearly all professions - from construction to high-tech scientific work. Up until now collaborative - group - work has been “done” but there seems to be a lack of focus on learning those essential dynamics for productive collaboration.
  • Students are mostly “me” focused, it goes with the age.
  • he system really doesn’t encourage novel ideas or divergent thinking. Instead, there continues to be a dominate frame of reference that if you “learn” enough information and can then answer the questions on a test,
  • here needs to be direct instruction on effective and non-effective collaboration
  • Presentation skills, on the other hand, are largely neglected in schools, and few people put effort into developing them. Thus, presentation skills are a primary differentiator among you and your peers.”
eterry02

Good Teachers May Not Fit the Mold - Educational Leadership - 0 views

  • teachers' ACT scores exerted a larger influence on student achievement than did student poverty level, class size, and teaching experience combined.
  • Adequate knowledge of their content areas.
  • Rice (2003), who has reviewed hundreds of studies of teacher quality, notes that
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  • "subject matter knowledge contributes to good teaching only up to a certain point, beyond which it does not seem to have an impact" (p. 37).
  • Good teachers must know their subjects well, but having doctoral-level knowledge of Freudian interpretations of Victorian literature, for example, doesn't really improve someone's ability to teach language arts to 8th graders.
  • Knowledge of how to teach their subject areas
  • They found that although content knowledge is essential, teachers who also possess strong pedagogical content knowledge are more effective than those with content knowledge alone.
  • strong pedagogical content knowledge
  • were likely to gain a full year more learning than students whose teachers had weak pedagogical content knowledge (among the bottom one-fifth of teachers).
  • common metrics for hiring and rewarding teachers are only weakly linked to student success.
  • Traditional licensure or credentials.
  • "little rigorous evidence that [teacher certification] is systematically related to student achievement"
  • Yet the study detected no before-and-after effects—that is, teachers appeared no more effective after undergoing the grueling certification process than before it (Clotfelter, Ladd, & Vigdor, 2007).
  • Advanced degrees.
  • "have found no discernible effect of teachers having a master's degree or higher on student achievement" (p. 26).
  • One possible exception appears to be high school science and mathematics,
  • Extensive classroom experience.
  • Yet on average, after a few years of teaching, added years of teaching experience appear to offer little guarantee of increased effectiveness.
  • teacher effectiveness
  • Belief that all students can learn.
  • Belief in their own abilities
  • Ability to connect with students.
  • School leaders must consider, then, which attributes they can augment and which they cannot.
  • reexamine the metrics, explicit or implicit, they use to select and compensate teachers
  • Being credentialed, being experienced, or holding an advanced degree is no guarantee of effectiveness
  • know how to teach
  • teacher's dispositions and attitudes
  • teased out through interviews and observations
  • analogy
  • quality of their teachers can be the difference between academic success and failure.
  • Verbal and cognitive ability.
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Ruth Howard

BBC News - Plumstead pupils discover US high tech school ethos - 1 views

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    Technology High curriculum in USA where students propose a project that they introduce to the community and teachers ask what do students need to know to accomplish this? What skills? Steps used by real world.
Terry M.

Project Based Learning - 36 views

  • Learn how to Design your Project. Plan rigorous and relevant standards-focused projects that engage students in authentic learning activities, teach 21st century skills, and demand demonstration of mastery.
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    #PBL On-line - a great resource for learning about Project-based learning!
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    Welcome to PBL-Online, a one stop solution for Project Based Learning! You'll find all the resources you need to design and manage high quality projects for middle and high school students.
css-solar

solar outdoor parking lot lighting - 0 views

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    SOLAR LIGHT FOR PARKING LOT The application of solar lights for parking lot is mainly used in parking lots, stadiums, school playgrounds, and other places. Due to factors such as the environment, the purpose of use, etc., the areas, where parking lot solar lights are needed, are normally large with high lighting requirements and large illumination ranges. As a professional solar lamp manufacturer, Second Sun's commercial solar lighting for parking lots can meet the requirements for high installation heights and no blind spots in the illumination range. And we can also provide solar lights poles for parking lots to support the commercial solar lighting for parking lots with monitor equipment needs.
Keith Dennison

seven thirty-five a.m. - 2 views

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    I am just starting a blog as part of a reflective practice. I also want to use it to connect with people who are interested in education and interested in smart inclusion of technology into the classroom. It's brand new, but I have a post on there with examples of what we're doing at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, NJ.
jkrauss

Reinventing the Big Test: The Challenge of Authentic Assessment | Edutopia - 0 views

  • Equally worrisome is that today's assessments emphasize narrow skill sets such as geometry and grammar, and omit huge chunks of what educators and business leaders say is essential for modern students to learn: creative thinking, problem solving, cooperative teamwork, technological literacy, and self-direction. Yet because NCLB has made accountability tests the tail that wags the dog of the whole education system -- threatening remediation and state takeover for schools that fall short -- what's not tested often isn't taught.
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      The disconnect between high-stakes tests and the future we are preparing our kids for
  • many experts tout the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) exam for its challenging, open-ended questions on practical topics, such as climate change or the pros and cons of graffiti. Even more advanced models, some using computer simulations, will become available in a few years -- and none too soon.
  • static problem, for instance, would ask test takers to say from memory how to save a certain endangered bird species. A dynamic assessment (in a real example from Bransford's lab) asks students to use available resources to learn what it would take to prevent the white-eyed vireo from becoming endangered. This is a novel question that demands students independently dig for information and know enough to ask the right questions to reach a solution.
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  • The British government has created a computer-literacy test that challenges teens to solve realistic problems (how to control crowds at a soccer match, for instance) using online resources. The more sophisticated these tools become, and the more adeptly test makers use them, the better assessment will be.
dean groom

Parramatta Marist High School Online - 0 views

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    Parramarra Marist PBL Courseware Portal
David Wetzel

7 Online Science Projects for All Grade Levels: Project Based Learning Science Activiti... - 20 views

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    Projects in science are provided which take full advantage of Internet resources to help students develop a better understanding of the world in which they live.
David Wetzel

7 Real Time Data Online Science Investigations: Project-Based Learning Designed to Deve... - 14 views

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    Students learn how to conduct science investigations in the same manner as scientists, as they learn to analyze sets of online real time data to solve problems.
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