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Educational Leadership:Giving Students Meaningful Work:Seven Essentials for Project-Bas... - 0 views

  • launching a project with an "entry event" that engages interest and initiates questioning
  • Students created a driving question
  • product of students' choice created by teams
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  • each team regularly paused to review how well they were collaborating and communicating, using rubrics they had developed with the teacher's guidance
  • generated a list of more detailed questions
  • more meaningful if they conduct real inquiry
  • student teams critiqued one another's work
  • emphasizes that creating high-quality products and performances
  • A Publicly Presented Product
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      High Tech High uses this as a great motivational tool
Phil Taylor

Wolfram|Alpha Widgets - Create, Share, and Embed Widgets for Free - 1 views

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    So cool!!!!
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Education Week: Professional Development for Teachers at Crossroads - 0 views

  • Mediocre, scattershot training, apart from doing little to help students, is a burden for teachers.
  • “We should start where students’ weaknesses and shortcomings are and then seek strategies or techniques to help [teachers] understand those shortcomings.”
  • “But the heart of it has to be about planning for good instruction and evaluating teaching.”
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elearnspace › It's New! It's New! - 0 views

  • Technical competence
  • An educator needs to know how to use the technology of an era
  • Experimentation. Every teacher/educator should see herself as a researcher
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  • Autonomy. The most important goal for any educator is to develop learner autonomy
  • Creation. Learners need to create.
  • Play. Experimentation (as listed above) is an intentional activity
Phil Taylor

Education Week Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: Classroom Assessments for a... - 2 views

  • In the 21st century, we can no longer afford this disconnect. To help students become college- and career-ready, we need to teach them how to apply what they are learning in school to the practical and intellectual tasks in their everyday lives.
  • we need to make sure that our own classroom assessments are aligned with the skills our students will need in the future
  • Collaborate:
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  • Connect through writing
  • Persuade
  • Summarize and synthesize
  • Use critical thinking
  • Problem-solve
Phil Taylor

The Pervasiveness of Technology: Why We Have To Face Up {Technology in Education, 21st ... - 0 views

  • CBC documentary
  • it is essential that there is a purpose, and pedagogic purpose to the activities we do with technology
  • f we stand a chance of having students ‘unplug’ themselves willingly and engage in ‘deeper thought’ more often than ‘superficial thought’ in their leisure or work, they must understand why deeper thought is more important, and why it is better to put it before the ‘rush’ and instant gratification of technology.
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  • they are given direction and purposeful tasks to complete with the technology, and it is used for tasks that generally cannot be achieved through other means.
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      The reason when to use technology.
  • tech for learning
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The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their 20s - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Researchers are exploring this notion too. They theorize that the ever-accelerating pace of technological change may be minting a series of mini-generation gaps, with each group of children uniquely influenced by the tech tools available in their formative stages of development.
  • Net Generation, born in the 1980s, and the iGeneration, born in the ’90s and this decade.
Phil Taylor

Education Week's Digital Directions: Digital Tools Expand Options for Personalized Lear... - 0 views

  • Some of the latest technology tools for the classroom, however, promise to ease the challenges of differentiating instruction more creatively and effectively, ed-tech experts say, even in an era of high-stakes federal and state testing mandates. New applications for defining and targeting students’ academic strengths and weaknesses can help teachers create a personal playlist of lessons, tools, and activities that deliver content in ways that align with individual needs and optimal learning methods.
  • Preliminary data showed significant student progress toward mastering the skills targeted in the program, officials say
  • “By leveraging technology to play a role in the delivery of instruction,” he says, “we can help to complement what live teachers do.”
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  • Making the Transition Experts caution, however, that instituting such large-scale change is not simply a matter of putting new tools in place. As in San Diego, most teachers will need extensive professional development to use digital tools and learn the best ways of teaching with technology.
  • ‘Feedback to Children’
  • “We have this generation of students that yearns to customize everything they come into contact with,”
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