The auditory nerve transmits sound to the brain and is composed of about 30,000 fibers. Contrast that with the optic nerve which sends visual signals to the brain through 1 million fibers (Burmark 2002). Basically, you’ve got a dial-up connection from the ear to the brain and broadband from the eye to the brain.
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Figure This! Math Challenges for Families - Challenge Index - 0 views
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This site rocks. Definitely use this.
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Math games and activities. This site rocks.
THE CHALLENGE to All Educators | Clif's Notes - 0 views
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Clif Mims' call to action.
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will you take the challenge?
Flickr: The Great quotes about Learning and Change Pool - 0 views
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Outstanding images with text to motivate and challenge us.
Thirst: A Student Research Challenge | innovation3 - 0 views
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Collaborative project opportunity.
Messaging Shakespeare | Classroom Examples | Focus on Effectiveness - 0 views
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How to bring Cellular technology to Stratford-on-Avon. This is a wonderful example of a teacher leveraging technology that is essential to the lives of students to further their understanding of a traditionally challenging subject.
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Texting Shakespeare. Check out this use of the cell phone.
Challenging the Presentation Paradigm (in 6 minutes, 40 seconds): Pecha Kucha - ProfHac... - 3 views
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I love this idea for many of you that demand oral presenations of your students. Limit them with time and content of slide and see what happens.
The Strength of Weak Ties » Towards a Framework For Visual Literacy Learning - 0 views
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Visuals, when combined with other multimedia, provide individuals with a competitive voice. One that can be heard. One that can be measured. One that says “here I am, and here’s what I think, here is what I have to contribute. Now what do you think?” Kids have meaningful things to say, so challenge them to produce visual content with purpose and with pride.
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Here are some things to think about...
Can You Become a Creature of New Habits? - New York Times - 0 views
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“The first thing needed for innovation is a fascination with wonder,” says Dawna Markova, author of “The Open Mind” and an executive change consultant for Professional Thinking Partners. “But we are taught instead to ‘decide,’ just as our president calls himself ‘the Decider.’ ” She adds, however, that “to decide is to kill off all possibilities but one. A good innovational thinker is always exploring the many other possibilities.”
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This is the part that we can really instill in our students: a sense of wonder that permeates all they do. How do we do it? My idea would be to tap into their passions. What do they go for? Also, one of the jobs of schools is to expose students to things they would not normally be exposed to. This can create new habits and new wonder.
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The current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure, meaning that few of us inherently use our innovative and collaborative modes of thought.
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This is where we come in.
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I am dropping this in your mailboxes today.
Siemens We Can Change The World Challenge - 0 views
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great project for be the change or our 6th grade carbon footprint
Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge - 0 views
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Erica showed me this. She's planning on doing it with her students.
The Four Rs: Rigor in Twenty-First-Century Schools | Edutopia - 0 views
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We believe curriculum becomes rigorous when students are pushed not only to know information but also to apply and demonstrate their understanding of that information. We believe that requiring students to reflect on and analyze their thinking and learning might be the most challenging task you can require of a teenager.
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Here is an example of a school in California that is taking much of what we have been discussing and applying it to their entire curriculum.
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How to Bring Service Learning to Your School | Edutopia - 0 views
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direct collaboration with the recipients of the service, and should be genuine and personally meaningful, generating emotional consequences that can build empathy and challenge preexisting ideas and values.
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It is widely agreed that the next component -- reflection -- is the hallmark of high-quality service learning.
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Service Learning and how to do it well.
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