Making predictions, Kasmer and Kim explain, helps prime the learning process in several ways. In the act of venturing a guess, we discover what we know and don’t yet know about the subject. We activate our prior knowledge on the topic, readying ourselves to make connections to new knowledge. We create a hypothesis that can then be tested, generating curiosity and motivation to find out the answer. Most of all, making predictions leads us to think deeply, to “explore the ‘why’ that underlies challenging problems,”
What's Your Best Guess? Predicting Answers Leads to Deeper Learning | MindShift - 1 views
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"Students who view mathematics as only memorizing facts and procedures are often unsure of when or how to apply what they have learned. "
Where's the Authentic Audience? Guest Post by Andrea Hernandez | Langwitches ... - 0 views
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a thought provoking blogpost about Where's The Authentic Audience? The author takes a closer look at the buzz word circulating among blogging educators and classrooms and asks tough questions: What happens when there is no audience coming to your or your students' blogs? She elaborates her point by reflecting on the importance of quality work, connected teachers, give and take, writing with an audience in mind, digital literacy and humility."
Skype Jobs for Students | Langwitches Blog - 1 views
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"o piggy back onto my last post about Alan November's call to make students contributors to their own learning, I wanted to share the "Skype Jobs" of my students."
Teacher world Virtual field trip link - 1 views
Virtual field trip - 0 views
Miss T's Reflections: Digital Storytelling in Class - 1 views
Media and Technology Resources for Educators | Common Sense Media - 0 views
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Get tools to educate yourself and your students from Common Sense Media for Educators. In addition to their K-12 curriculum on Digital Literacy and Citizenship, they offer an online tutorial designed to help you implement the curriculum in your classroom. Units are: Safety, Security, Digital Life, Privacy and Digital Footprints, Connected Culture, Respecting Creative Work, Searching, Research and Evaluation, Self-Expression and Identity. Common Sense Media has partnered with Edmodo. Together they have created the Digital Citizenship Starter Kit. Join the Digital Citizenship Community to obtain the resources!
Student Generated Questions - 3 views
BalancEdTech - Mini Biographies - 1 views
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"Student pairs or groups will research and report on an important historical figure. This could either be done to review people already studied, to seed background knowledge of upcoming people, or just people the students are interested in. Students will use the project to learn about or practice wiki page creation with the basic elements of text, images, and hyperlinks. They will also get an opportunity to explore writing their own questions, which will become the core skill in later inquiry projects."
Time management - 1 views
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One goal is to help yourself become aware of how you use your time as one resource in organizing, prioritizing, and succeeding in your studies in the context of competing activities of friends, work, family, etc.
Harvard Education Letter - 0 views
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When teachers deploy the QFT in their classes, they notice three important changes in classroom culture and practices. Teachers tell us that using the QFT consistently increases participation in group and peer learning processes, improves classroom management, and enhances their efforts to address inequities in education.
A Taxonomy of Reflection: Critical Thinking For Students, Teachers, and Principals (Par... - 0 views
We asked, you answered! 15 more brilliant ways to use Edmodo | Edmodo - Safe Social Net... - 2 views
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Ideas for ways to utilize Edmodo in the classroom.
Problem Solving with students - 1 views
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Be a thinker, not a stinker.
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Great problem solving procedures
Educational Leadership:Giving Students Ownership of Learning:Footprints in the Digital Age - 3 views
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What do you think about this concept?
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Whether we like it or not, social Web technologies are having a huge influence on students who are lucky enough to be connected, even the youngest ones.
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"Your personal footprint-and to some extent your school's-is most likely being written without you, thanks to the billions of us worldwide who now have our own printing presses and can publish what we want when we want to."
AMS Houston Chapter Contact Information - 1 views
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"Feel free to contact any of the officers for comments, questions, suggestions or even additions to the newsletter or website. We would appreciate hearing from you! "
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