Educators have always needed to master the understanding of at least two fields of endeavor to be successful. First, they needed to master their content field. They are required to be experts of content. Second, they needed to master the field of education with a clear understanding of the latest and greatest methodology and pedagogy available. The 21st Century has now further complicated the teaching profession by requiring an additional third area of mastery, digital literacy.
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Educators Will Never Be 100% Connected. | My Island View - 0 views
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It requires an understanding of the connected culture in order to reap the full benefits of collaboration.
How Important is Teaching Literacy in All Content Areas? | Edutopia - 1 views
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We know students do plenty of listening in our classes, but what about the other three communication skills they should be engaging in and practicing daily?
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The ultimate goal of literacy instruction is to build a student's comprehension, writing skills, and overall skills in communication.
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Students need to be writing every day, in every classroom
Professional Learning Communities and Networks « The Cheeky Lit Teacher - 0 views
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Personal Learning Communities
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the administration is going to be actively involved in the groups as participants with teachers still being the leaders. It’s their intent to be an equal participant in the process. Teachers have been asked to choose which of the four groups they would like to join. The topics are differentiated instruction, cross-curricular projects, teaching with technology, and school culture – character education. All are meaningful, current topic areas that are connected to our school and board’s SMART goals.
Into the Book: Teacher Area - 0 views
The Answer Sheet - Must we have the digital vs. print battle? - 0 views
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It is ironic that in one of the world’s most progressive technological areas nobody here seems to be feeling like they have to choose.
Web 2.0 Guru - Tools By Subject - 0 views
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Interactive resources for specific core content areas.
The Teenage Brain - 1 views
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he greatest changes to the parts of the brain that are responsible for impulse-control, judgement, decision-making, planning, organization and involved in other functions like emotion, occur in adolescence. This area of the brain (prefrontal cortex) does not reach full maturity until around age 25!
The Australian Curriculum v1.2 - Information and communication technology (ICT) competence - 0 views
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ICT competence in the learning areas
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ICT in English ICT in mathematics ICT in science ICT in history
Shifting Focus a Lot at Work Could Wreck Your Diet| The Committed Sardine - 0 views
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If you are checking your Blackberry while helping your kids do their homework, you are switching tasks that require different perspectives," Hamilton says. "That can be taxing on the executive function of your brain and reduce your ability to use self-control in other areas of your life."
Day-to-day with the 11-inch MacBook Air and iPad 2 | Nanotech - The Circuits Blog - CNE... - 0 views
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Using the 11.6-inch MacBook Air and the iPad 2 on a daily basis is an ongoing study in high-mobility computing and the pros and cons of both devices.
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there are two gigantic (and, yes, obvious) differences that make me lean toward complementary. One has a keyboard, one doesn't. And one runs OS X, the other iOS.
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soon as I wander outside the confines of the office, I naturally reach for the iPad.
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Many US Schools Adding iPads, Trimming Textbooks| The Committed Sardine - 0 views
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And even with the most modern device in hand, students still need the basics of a solid curriculum and skilled teachers. “There’s a saying that the music is not in the piano and, in the same way, the learning is not in the device,’’ said Mark Warschauer, an education and informatics professor at the University of California-Irvine whose specialties include research on the intersection of technology and education.
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“I think one of the real key questions that will be answered over the next several years is what sort of things work best in print for students and what sort of things work best digitally,’’ Diskey said. “I think we’re on the cusp of a whole new area of research and comprehension about what digital learning means.’’
Guidelines for Policy Makers on Child Online Protection - Zunia.org - 1 views
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They are meant to act as a blueprint which can be adapted and used in a way which is consistent with national or local customs and laws.
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online child safety
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t includes a number of key areas for consideration. These Guidelines have been prepared in the context of the Child Online Protection (COP)
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Full STEAM Ahead: Why Arts Are Essential in a STEM Education | Edutopia - 0 views
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True STE(A)M education means that students are creating, applying, and incorporating mathematics and at least one of the other content areas into their work. Not every project is going to include every letter in STEM, but ideally, they should allow for the integration of at least two of them
21st Century Competencies - 0 views
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education is falling behind the curve,1 as it did during the rapid changes brought on by the Industrial Revolution.
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The last major changes to curriculum2 were effected in the late 1800s as a response to the sudden growth in societal and human capital needs
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Having students develop deep knowledge is as essential as ever. But today, we must also make that knowledge relevant.
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Blended Learning in Private Schools: An Interview with Mark Engstrom - ISM - 0 views
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There’s always going to be a demand for an adult to be leading child instruction. They’re needed for the feedback piece, or the compassion piece, or the guidance piece. Besides, parents will want that; they feel most comfortable with that.
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The program has to be mission-driven.
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Right now, we’re in a murky, gray area when it comes to blended learning. In 20 years, we’ll have some tried and true methods. Right now, it’s just messy. And schools have to be okay with messy, with not smooth.
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