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Patrick Higgins

TestCafe: free brain type test, free iq test, online testing, emotional iq test, I.Q., ... - 0 views

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  • Patrick Higgins on 02 Jul 08
     
    Left or right-brained?
  • Patrick Higgins on 02 Jul 08
     
    what hemisphere are you?
Erica Hartman

Tom Chapin - Not On The Test - 0 views

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shared by Erica Hartman on 04 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Erica Hartman on 04 Mar 09
     
    testing song
Patrick Higgins

10 ways to assess learning without tests… « What Ed Said - 1 views

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 04 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Patrick Higgins on 04 Oct 10
     
    A great toolkit if you are looking for alternative/performance-based assessment.  
Patrick Higgins

Healthier Testing Made Easy: The Idea of Authentic Assessment | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Patrick Higgins on 14 Jan 09
     
    Read this. There is yet another validation for Connections
  • Patrick Higgins on 14 Jan 09
     
    This is a telling reason for having Connections
Patrick Higgins

Flashcards: matching, hangman, crossword, word search, word scramble and flash cards - 0 views

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 19 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Patrick Higgins on 19 Dec 08
     
    This one looks promising. Students and teachers can create flashcards on their own material, or pull from ready-made cards for subject areas or standardized tests.
Patrick Higgins

Resources for Teachers Search Tools - 0 views

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 27 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Fake Websites to Use For Student Instruction on Using the Internet MISinformation Links California's Velcro Crop Under Challenge Dog Island Free Forever Facts about The Civil War Facts about... Google Directory - Reference Education Instructional Technology Evaluation Web Site Evaluation Hoax Sites Mankato, MN Home Page Bogus Websites-maybe Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie {www.fulkerson.org} BUY AN ANCESTOR ONLINE buydehydratedwater Facts about Beluga Whales Feline Reactions to Bearded Men The Jackalope Conspiracy Southern Lake Michigan - Where You Will Meet The Whales and Dolphins! Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus MoonBeam Enterprises - DreamWeaver Studios DreamTech International [CLONES-R-US] MERD Panexa (Acidachrome Promanganate) Google Technology The Dangers of Bread Bogus Web Sites AHS Digital Media Center Hoax Sites Process and Testing your Rubric Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division - dihydrogen monoxide info Bogus Web Sites November Learning Building Learning Communities Resources Archive of Articles, Alans Favorite Websites... Dorothy&Toto Ruritania Homepage GENOCHOICE - Create Your Own Genetically Healthy Child Online! A Brief History of Mark Twain RYT Hospital - Dwayne Medical Center All the Miracles of Modern Medicine™ The Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency Museum of Hoaxes Things to Know about the Internet World Jump Day YogaKitty Home Page Web Sites - Dihydrogen Monoxide Web-and-Flow Hotlist April Fool's Hotlist
Patrick Higgins

» Ethical Consumerism - Animal Testing Livvie's Blog!! - 4 views

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 26 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Patrick Higgins on 26 Oct 09
     
    This is the kind of idea I had when I said we were going to go with the portfolio idea. We need to be able to let our students tell the story of their learning.
Patrick Higgins

Can You Become a Creature of New Habits? - New York Times - 0 views

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 27 May 08 - No Cached
  • “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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      Patrick Higgins on 27 May 08
       
      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.
  • 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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      Patrick Higgins on 27 May 08
       
      This is where we come in.
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  • Ms. Ryan and Ms. Markova have found what they call three zones of existence: comfort, stretch and stress. Comfort is the realm of existing habit. Stress occurs when a challenge is so far beyond current experience as to be overwhelming. It’s that stretch zone in the middle — activities that feel a bit awkward and unfamiliar — where true change occurs.
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      Patrick Higgins on 27 May 08
       
      This is Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development where our students are stressed to the point of learning, but not beyond it.
  • Patrick Higgins on 27 May 08
     
    I am dropping this in your mailboxes today.
Patrick Higgins

DBQ Questions - 0 views

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 15 May 08 - Cached
  • Patrick Higgins on 15 May 08
     
    list of DBQ's by grade level and some resources for helping students make sense of documents.
Patrick Higgins

7 Bad Writing Habits You Learned in School | Copyblogger - 6 views

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  • Go around citing the sources of all of your ideas and people will start avoiding you, because it’s boring as hell
  • Patrick Higgins on 30 Oct 09
     
    What do you think of this?
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  • Danielle Kopp on 31 Oct 09
     
    Pat - this is such a true article - but can it fit anywhere in our classrooms? As an avid reader I have to admit that some of the BEST stuff I've read is just from the heart of an author. I like this - how can I use without making people angry ?? :)
  • Patrick Higgins on 01 Nov 09
     
    Danielle, That's precisely the question I want everyone thinking about. We truly focus so much of our energies on getting the format down and getting the "i's" dotted and "t's" crossed, and for many of the students we teach, that is completely necessary; however, as we begin to look at the next phase of what we'd like to do in the district which includes more than just being "proficient" on some state test, can we blend some of the thinking in this post into what we are doing. And as for making people angry, my advice is that you don't get the results you really want without making a few people angry along the way. Not that you try to, but when you know that what you are doing will make your students better, you just go with it.
  • Danielle Kopp on 01 Nov 09
     
    Pat - I'd love to share this post with the kids or incorporate parts of it. I have to say that the best writing that the kids have done is usually the writing they do when we're in class and they just write. One of the hardest parts of teaching English is having to read 130 well constructed essays that follow the rubric but are so dry and boring that I have to restrain myself from stabbing my eyes out with my pen. It all goes back to the fact that in our H.S. the kids can write a great 5 paragraph essay or write persuasively but they have NO VOICE and I feel that the stress on structure and grammar could be why they have no voice. Interesting - we should discuss this a bit at our next Connections meeting!
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