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IKEA | Download planner - 1 views

www.ikea.com/...splashplanners.html

ikea design decorating planner 3d connections

shared by Patrick Higgins on 10 Feb 10 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 10 Feb 10

This might be useful to those of you who ask your students to design interiors as part of bigger projects.

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Plan B - Skip College - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...16steinberg.html

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 17 May 10 - Cached

Perhaps no more than half of those who began a four-year bachelor’s degree program in the fall of 2006 will get that degree within six years, according to the latest projections from the Department of Education.
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Of the 30 jobs projected to grow at the fastest rate over the next decade in the United States, only seven typically require a bachelor’s degree, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Among the top 10 growing job categories, two require college degrees: accounting (a bachelor’s) and postsecondary teachers (a doctorate)
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this growth is expected to be dwarfed by the need for registered nurses, home health aides, customer service representatives and store clerks. None of those jobs require a bachelor’s degree.
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Patrick Higgins on 17 May 10

I think there is validity to this one.

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Participatory Learning - Class - Tell your teacher where to go - 0 views

www.plearn.net/class

travel newteaching learning school2.0

shared by Patrick Higgins on 06 Aug 09 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 06 Aug 09

Will Farren's very interesting project whereby students can lead him to travel to new places and interact with various people.

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Story Vault - 0 views

www.storyvault.com

storytelling vault connections oralhistory

shared by Patrick Higgins on 29 Jun 09 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 29 Jun 09

A great way for stories about events to be aggregated. You could put oral history projects done with veterans or others around a centralized topic.

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Scarsdale Capstone Project - 0 views

www.scarsdaleschools.k12.ny.us/capstone

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teachingwithted / Lively Data and Statistics - 0 views

teachingwithted.pbwiki.com/Lively-Data-and-Statistics

teachingwithted ted data visualizations

shared by Patrick Higgins on 29 Mar 09 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 29 Mar 09

This project, TeachingwithTED, has really taken shape. This page shows how some really bright people are using visualizations to manipulate data and create some stunning conclusions.

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BBC Motion Gallery - Home Page - 0 views

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bbc resources education reference film mac

shared by Patrick Higgins on 11 Jun 09 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 11 Jun 09

High-quality stock footage for those of you thinking video projects with students next year.

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This I Believe | A public dialogue about belief - one essay at a time - 0 views

thisibelieve.org

thisibelieve connections writing npr

shared by Patrick Higgins on 15 Jul 09 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 15 Jul 09

Some of our teachers have done similar projects with their students.

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Google Templates for Student Projects - uTeach With Technology - 1 views

sites.google.com/...google-templates

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 18 Nov 10 - No Cached

Writing across the Curriculum - Resource Topics - National Writing Project - 0 views

www.nwp.org/...writing_across_the_curriculum

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 09 May 08 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 09 May 08

Some of these are very pertinent to what we are doing and show the amazing diversity of what we can accomplish.

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ClassroomBraids » home - 0 views

classroombraids.wikispaces.com

classroombraids collaboration wiki

shared by Patrick Higgins on 07 Oct 08 - No Cached

Patrick Higgins on 07 Oct 08

Great opportunity for your students to participate in a global project.

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Writing Our Future: Letters to the Next President - 0 views

www.letters2president.org

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 31 Oct 08 - No Cached

Patrick Higgins on 31 Oct 08

Erica's students wrote letters to the future president for the National Writing Project and this is the result. Great stuff Erica.

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New Document - 0 views

www.landmark-project.com/...printable.php

classdiscussion connections rubric

shared by Patrick Higgins on 21 Aug 08 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 21 Aug 08

I like this one.

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Official Google Blog: Our Googley advice to students: Major in learning - 0 views

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googley connections google njbtea

shared by Erica Hartman on 16 Jul 08 - Cached

... communication skills. Marshalling and understanding the available evidence isn't useful unless you can effectively communicate your conclusions.
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.. analytical reasoning. Google is a data-driven, analytic company. When an issue arises or a decision needs to be made, we start with data. That means we can talk about what we know, instead of what we think we know.
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. a willingness to experiment. Non-routine problems call for non-routine solutions and there is no formula for success. A well-designed experiment calls for a range of treatments, explicit control groups, and careful post-treatment analysis. Sometimes an experiment kills off a pet theory, so you need a willingness to accept the evidence even if you don't like it.
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... team players. Virtually every project at Google is run by a small team. People need to work well together and perform up to the team's expectations.
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... passion and leadership. This could be professional or in other life experiences: learning languages or saving forests, for example. The main thing, to paraphrase Mr. Drucker, is to be motivated by a sense of importance about what you do.
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Patrick Higgins on 25 Jul 08

Great article from the Google Blog about who they want and how to promote thinking skills in the classroom.

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Patrick Higgins on 25 Jul 08

Read this. It's worth it.

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Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America - 0 views

projects.flowingdata.com/walmart

walmart visualization maps map

shared by Patrick Higgins on 11 Mar 09 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 11 Mar 09

The growth of WalMart done in some neat flash.

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How To: Build Instruction Around Your Region's History | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/-to-regional-history-resources

connections edutopia region servicelearning sparta

shared by Patrick Higgins on 05 Jun 08 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 05 Jun 08

Great service learning and community involvement projects and ideas.

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USA Service - 0 views

www.usaservice.org

usa obama election presidency service servicelearning projects

shared by Patrick Higgins on 07 Jan 09 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 07 Jan 09

Obama announces the launch of usaservice.org and commits to renewed community involvement on the part of citizens.

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YouTube - Forrest Gump in One Minute, in One Take - 0 views

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gump video book literacy project summary awesome

shared by Patrick Higgins on 09 Mar 09 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 09 Mar 09

Take this video, put it into the context of your latest classroom reading, be it novel, short story, poem, what have you, and ask yourself if your students could get into this. It's like video sparknotes, only much much better. Summary isn't always writing...

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Take this video, put it into the context of your latest classroom reading, be it novel, short story, poem, what have you, and ask yourself if your students could get into this. It's like video sparknotes, only much much better. Summary isn't always writing...</div>

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Avalon Project - The Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents - 0 views

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avalon inaugural address president history speeches

shared by Patrick Higgins on 02 Jan 09 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 02 Jan 09

throw some of these into wordle and see what you get.

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Patrick Higgins on 02 Jan 09

Every inaugural address ever made.

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Patrick Higgins on 02 Jan 09

Throw some of these into Wordle and see what you get.

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A Modest Curriculum Proposal: Project Learning vs. the Textbook | Edutopia - 0 views

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edutopia education learning pedagogy analogy basketball

shared by Patrick Higgins on 27 Oct 08 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 27 Oct 08

Interesting idea.

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Patrick Higgins on 27 Oct 08

What would happen if we taught athletics primarily through the use of textbooks? What would happen if we taught academics primarily through hands-on experience?

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