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Kevin Quinones

Free Technology for Teachers: Nine Tools for Collaboratively Creating Mind Maps - 69 views

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    Mind maps or graphic organizers can be invaluable tools for visual thinkers and visual learners. The process of creating a mind map can help students gain an overview perspective on complex, multifaceted concepts. Mind maps can also help students outline an essay or story they're planning to write.
Shane Freeman

WWI Poetry Analysis and Creation - Thematic History - 19 views

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    This activity is targeted to the critical analysis and construction of understanding of war poetry.  The tasks involve developing an understanding of the effects that warfare has on the individual soldier as a snapshot of the battle experience that most men experienced during the brutal trench war conflicts of the first world war.
Ann Garland

Project Based Learning - MST 2.0 - 20 views

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    An evolving page to gather and organize PBL resources for the MST team
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    Like this proyect: PBL_St_Kit_Project_Management.doc View Download Kit of tools for managing groups of students (and helping them self-manage) no mas 900
m Asif

Jobs Career - 7 views

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    Currently, we are looking for Experienced and Qualified 0 & M Professionals for our Power Plants in Pakistan (Punjab and Balochistan) and Middle East. A handsome salary and fringe benefits package is being offered.
jkrauss

What do effective group contracts look like? - Studentsofpbl's Blog - Blogster - 30 views

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    Suggestions from a New Tech Network teacher on putting together contracts for project work.
Telannia Norfar

New Feature Log | Prezi Learn Center - 33 views

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    tutorial for using new features in prezi
jkrauss

From Impossible to I'm possible - 34 views

    • jkrauss
       
      As important, give them a reason to care. Earlier you say "We need to help them see why they should be engaged" that feeling why we should is hard to transmit, so instead we need to inspire, make them feel compelled to investigate and learn. 
  • Second, we spoon feed our students too much.
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      Authors of "Engaging Minds" recommend designing learning experiences that provide "liberating constraints"-- that is, situations with optimal structure AND ambiguity, that cause the student to question, interpret and customize their investigation and arrive at something significant and personally meaningful.
  • We need to do a better job helping them see why they should be engaged,
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      Getting kids to see "why they should be engaged" is hard-- We need to set up the conditions where they feel compelled to learn. Starting the course of study with an engaging entry event can ignite that need to know. BIE arranges their PBL units around this idea-- Entry event + Driving Question are the set up, from there kids take the ball and run.
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      Yep! This is risky for a lot of teachers. Their inclination is to intervene when things get messy. It's tempting but better to support kids through their struggle rather than remove the struggle.
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