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Patrick Higgins

Intelligent YouTube: 80 Smart Video Collections | Open Culture - 0 views

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    We are always on the hunt for ways to find intelligent and informed sources of video to show to our students. This list from Open Culture is an incredible list of "smart" videos found on the web.
Erica Hartman

Web 2.0 Is the Future of Education - 0 views

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    I believe that the read/write Web, or what we are calling Web 2.0, will culturally, socially, intellectually, and ...
Erica Hartman

This. . . is. . . Sparta! The Culture of Education 2.0 - O'Reilly Radar - 3 views

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    this is an interesting article, esp since we teach in SPARTA
Patrick Higgins

Beloit College Mindset List - 2 views

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    Interesting list of traits for this year's college freshman done by Beloit College.
Patrick Higgins

95895d1229374265-funny-strange-random-pics-24mcj1g.jpg (JPEG Image, 500x667 pixels) - S... - 0 views

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    Yes. Combine this with Taylor Mali's poem "Like, You know?" and you've got an interesting summation of modern culture.
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    Great timeline of thought?
Patrick Higgins

Shorpy Photo Archive | History in HD - 0 views

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    Incredible site for images of the early 20th Century.
Patrick Higgins

American Folklore: Famous American folktales, tall tales, myths and legends, ghost stor... - 0 views

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    Folklore site that can be used for students to model from.
Erica Hartman

FRONTLINE: growing up online: watch the full program | PBS - 0 views

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    free to watch
Patrick Higgins

chris jordan photography - 0 views

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    Chris Jordan's site where he chronicles consumption via photos. Great stuff for visual thinkers.
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    Some great ideas for students to represent data here. Look at how this artist represents the consumption patterns of Americans.
Patrick Higgins

Peace Corps | Coverdell World Wise Schools - 2 views

  • Teachers, home-schoolers, service-learning providers—find rich educational opportunities and cross-cultural lessons, stories, activities, videos, and much more.
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    Great opportunity to connect 
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    If you are looking to bring speakers to your classroom, the Peace Corps, as part of their responsibilities, offer educational outreach to schools. You can contact them through this website to set something up.
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    Thanks Pat, this will work well for our Change the World Unit!
Patrick Higgins

Americans Consume 34GB of Content a Day - Culture - Lifehacker - 1 views

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    "Americans Consume 34GB of Content a Day"
Patrick Higgins

The New Writing Pedagogy - 0 views

  • Moving to a new pedagogy is not easy for many district administrators, however, as the Web as a writing space is still primarily an unknown, scary place to put students. But as research is showing, students are flocking to online networks in droves, and they are doing a great deal of writing there already, some of it creative and thoughtful and inspiring, but much of it outside the traditional expectations of “good writing” that classrooms require
  • That change is spelled out clearly by the National Council of Teachers of English, which last year published “new literacies” for readers and writers in the 21st century. Among those literacies are the ability to “build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally,” to “design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes,” and to “create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts.” Very little of that kind of work is possible to achieve without expanding the way we think about writing instruction in the context of online social tools.
  • “Using online writing tools will allow students to write whenever and wherever they feel inspired, and to be able to speak to an audience that is larger and more important to them than the traditional classroom,” Childers says. “There is a reason why we should constantly be looking for ways to incorporate more innovative writing opportunities into our curriculum.”
Patrick Higgins

Statistics | Race to Nowhere - 0 views

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    I've been really into research like this lately. This might be interesting to do poll your students about the questions they use in the film.
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