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10 Infographics for Learning | Getting Smart - 1 views

  • We all love infographics. Why? Well, they help us grasp information in a quick and fun way that appeals to our visual senses. In fact, there’s an infographic here explaining that. Below you’ll find 10 infographics that discuss learning in many different capacities – online, blended, mobile, etc. Tell us, what’s your favorite infographic on learning?
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Livescribe 'smartpen' useful for students, journalists - USATODAY.com - 0 views

  • I like the Livescribe pens and find them useful. But as computers, they are a dead end. They're just not flexible enough to be general-purpose devices, like tablets. An iPad that worked well with pen input would make me drop the Echo. Apple's competitors already have rudimentary pen-based tablets out, and who knows, maybe the iPad 3 will have some surprises for us.
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eLearning Blog // Don't Waste Your Time » Google Wave in education - 0 views

  • m my first post on Google Wave: “What is Google Wave?” I’ve been finding and reading (a
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Metacognition - Dylan Wiliam - Video search - Journey To Excellence - 0 views

  • research evidence that actually training students in thinking about thinking - what scientists call metacognition - actually can work.
  • metacognition is, really, managing your own learning to make sure you’re actually using your brain in the most effective possible way
  • we are learning is that students have tremendous insights into their own learning from a very early age
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  • most successful teachers are those who have managed to find ways of harnessing students’ ways of insights into their own learning in order to help the teachers do a better job of teaching.
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From Groups to Teams: The Key to Powering up PBL | Edutopia - 1 views

  • PBL is method for teaching students to find, process, understand, and share information, not a way to extend the industrial landscape of regurgitation and recall.
  • Teams focus on performance, commitment, and outcomes.
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Educational Technology and Life » Blog Archive » Passion and Professional Dev... - 0 views

  • I asked that they support risk taking by giving their people to opportunity to fail “early and often”
  • On their corporate web site, Google shares the following “ten things that Google has found to be true”:
  • “focus on the student and all else will follow” often serves me (and the participants in my workshops) well.
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  • I hope each of them will find (at least) one thing they’ll be passionate about to learn well.
  • is Google’s concept of “20% time.”
  • 20% time sounds a lot senior projects. When I was teaching senior English, my school had recently adopted WestEd’s Senior Project model.
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Learning to Learn - Tools and Technologies for Inquiry Based Learning - 0 views

  • Inquiry based learning originates with John Dewey's philosophy that education begins with curiousity. It focuses on guiding students through a process of finding answers to questions.
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Survey Finds Parents Mostly OK With Kids' Use of Tech - 0 views

  • concern over stranger danger is interesting given that the actual risk (as opposed to perceived) of a child being harm by a stranger they meet online is very low.
  • understand actual risks as measured by data from organizations like the Crimes Against Children Research Department, the Centers for Disease Control, the Justice Department and others who keep up-to-date records on risks and harms.
  • great to see that parents are in-touch with their kids’ use of technology
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