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Patrick Higgins

Developing Questions for Critical Thinking - 0 views

  • “Education must be increasingly concerned about the fullest development of all children and youth, and it will be the responsibility of the schools to seek learning conditions which will enable each individual to reach the highest level of learning possible.”
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    Who doesn't need another refresher when it comes to Bloom's Taxonomy or Anderson's revised categories?
Patrick Higgins

21st century Pedagogy | Educational Origami - 0 views

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    Couple this one with the list of beliefs about writing, and it's amazing to see how we have created this class very similarly to the graphic.
Patrick Higgins

Hodgsonwriting - 0 views

  • The act of writing is an important way for students to learn by processing their ideas into coherent and organized form;Writing should be done across various curriculum areas and not be taught in isolation;Students should write for various audiences; At times, they may write just for themselves, for the classroom or, sometimes, for the world;Technology can be a useful tool for composing various forms of writing and media, including audio podcasts and video;Writing should be authentic and allow students to make connections between school and the world outside of school;Artistic elements and the concept of design play a role in the way that young people compose writing and other media;Reading quality books and stories of various genres provide an insight into the writing process and allow students to reflect, connect and utilize critical thinking skills;All students can succeed and improve as writers and readers and composers of multimedia.
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      I love these! Regardless of whether or not you feel that you will stick to them, I think it's good to have a set of guiding principles, and have them be publicly viewable, so that your beliefs are clearly stated.
Patrick Higgins

Hacking Education | Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on E... - 0 views

  • Students in the future will be as likely to be evaluated on their portfolio of work, as they are on their grades.
  • If I eat an apple, you cannot also eat that same apple; but if I learn something, there is no reason you cannot also learn that thing. Information goods lend themselves to being created, distributed and consumed on the web. It is not so different from music, or classified advertising, or news
  • But the most important thing about that was, I learned how to be obsessed with things... I got obsessed with these things and I had a series of stages in my life where I got obsesses with something else. And I just immersed myself to learn as much as I could. And it's that mechanism I used again and again and again in my professional life. So how do you teach kids to be obsessed with things?
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    Take a look at the annotations I made. To do this, you must have Diigo installed via Firefox. I think that might be our new project for the year--annotating articles for discussion at meetings.
Erica Hartman

How Different Groups Spend Their Day - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    can def. use this in connections
Patrick Higgins

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

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

Google Street View Tricycles - 0 views

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    this is how they get street view on roads where cars cannot travel
Erica Hartman

Gapminder.org - For a fact based world view. - 0 views

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    google bought this
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