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Patrick Higgins

http://spacemag.tumblr.com - 0 views

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    If you are interested in publishing your students' work and collaborating with other classrooms from around the world, this is worth looking at.
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    This is a magazine created by students from around the world. It's truly amazing on so many levels.
Patrick Higgins

TED | Talks | Alisa Miller: Why we know less than ever about the world (video) - 0 views

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    Alisa MIller's short TED talk about the dearth of world news coverage and some of the causes for that. Great for showing the how and why of our news stories.
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    You should all take 5 minutes and watch this. It's worth it.
Patrick Higgins

Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before - 0 views

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    Maps that change shape depending on the data set you choose.
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    This is some fantastic visualization. Allows you to reshape the world map according to certain data sets.
Patrick Higgins

Reading in a Whole New Way | 40th Anniversary | Smithsonian Magazine - 0 views

  • We can agree or disagree with Kevin, but the world keeps spinning. Screens are made and used in instructive and destructive ways. As an educator I need to learn to use screens as learning platforms so that I can model constructive informative behavior for the students I interact with. So here is how I came to write this post. I subscribe to Will Richardson's blog weblog-ed in my Google Reader. He shared a link to Kevin Kelly's blog Technium. As I read the blog post I used Diigo to underline and add sticky notes. I now have this annotation in my Diigo groups. I will Twitter this and add a link in the New Literacies Institute Ning at newlit.org. Kevin will sell a few more books, which I have hundreds of, and add more readers of his blog.
  • This article is very interesting because it made me think.And I thougt that I was right when I bought a computer for my 81st birthday.It has a wide screen,and I could enlarge the letters to be able to read it because my eyes are bad. I felt that I was not anymore excluded of the world.I had entered the 21st century. The last 12 or some years I spend writing a book by hand.Nobody would ever read a single word of the more than 400 pages.No editor would have accepted it.But is has been typed and now it is on the web.Everybody can read it,and sites of military history,dutch and french,published it or parts of it(I wrote it in french)because it is about the 1940-campaign. Thank you,dear author,you made me feel I was right.
  • Bring on the technology, we have plenty of idle brain space waiting to make use of it.
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    Kevin Kelly writes about how reading has changed from a silent, individual pastime to one that is collaborative, more physical pursuit.  
Patrick Higgins

Invitations to Learn // Carol Ann Tomlinson - 0 views

  • I am accepted and acceptable here just as I am. I am safe here—physically, emotionally, and intellectually. People here care about me. People here listen to me. People know how I'm doing, and it matters to them that I do well. People acknowledge my interests and perspectives and act upon them.
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      Some great lines here regarding the needs of the learners in your classroom.
  • I understand what we do here. I see significance in what we do. What we do reflects me and my world. The work we do makes a difference in the world. The work absorbs me.
  • when students discover meaning and relevance implicit in books, ideas, and tasks. Without meaning, schoolwork is purposeless for students.
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  • What I learn here is useful to me now.
  • "Other teachers told us what to think. This one is different because she showed us how to think and that we can think."
  • Rubrics and work samples help students understand the hallmarks of quality work.
  • I accomplish things here that I didn't believe were possible.
  • the actions of those excellent teachers consistently convey invitation.
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    Tomlinson article detailing the emotional needs of learners in the classroom.
Patrick Higgins

Web 2.0 and Emerging Learning Technologies - Wikibooks, collection of open-content text... - 0 views

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    Wonderul resource put together by studets from Universities across the world.
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    This is definiltely worth bookmarking.
Patrick Higgins

Body Ritual among the Nacirema - Wikisource - 0 views

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    I used this one when I taught world history/current events to teach perspective and bias.
Patrick Higgins

Gapminder World - 0 views

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    Play with numbers here and ask your students to find trends.
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    Can't get enough of GapMinder.
Patrick Higgins

FreePoverty - Knowing Helps - 0 views

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    great geography game
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    find places on the map and donate to help end world poverty.
Patrick Higgins

Welcome to sitesALIVE! - 0 views

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    Follow skipper Rich Wilson as he embarks on a world-wide trip all by himself.
Patrick Higgins

Maps of War ::: Visual History of War, Religion, and Government - 0 views

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    Flash maps for various historical events. I particularly like the World Religion one.
Patrick Higgins

Kiva - Loans that change lives - 1 views

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    Can we tie this to our research projects? Has a "Dunks for Darfur" type feel to it, only less boisterous.
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    Micro-loans to third world entrepreneurs.
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

A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook. - By Vaughan... - 0 views

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    A respected Swiss scientist, Conrad Gessner, might have been the first to raise the alarm about the effects of information overload. In a landmark book, he described how the modern world overwhelmed people with data and that this overabundance was both "confusing and harmful" to the mind. The media now echo his concerns with reports on the unprecedented risks of living in an "always on" digital environment. It's worth noting that Gessner, for his part, never once used e-mail and was completely ignorant about computers. That's not because he was a technophobe but because he died in 1565. His warnings referred to the seemingly unmanageable flood of information unleashed by the printing press
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