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10 Collaborative Brainstorming Web Apps - 0 views

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    Here is a brief listing of collaborative/brainstorming tools 
thebda

ThumbScribes - Collaborative Writing Community - Login - 1 views

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    On line community for collaboration.  More of a high school thing I think but it seems like you can set up your own private group.
Rebecca Redlon

On Cloud Nine -- THE Journal - 3 views

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    An article that defines a bunch of different collaborative tools -- informative
seth_mitchell

Digital Learning Day: Collaborative Romeo and Juliet Blogging Community | NWP Digital Is - 2 views

  • Every day at BCLUW is Digital Learning Day. Technology is not viewed as a separate entity needing a specific time to be etched into the classroom for use, in fact it reminds me a lot of the dichotomy between reading and writing; technology infused curriculum is the norm here, a natural part of pedagogy and student learning. 
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    Digital approach to exploring a classic.
seth_mitchell

Common Core State Standards Initiative | English Language Arts Standards | Anchor Stand... - 3 views

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      These three standards hit all four of our tech PD focus areas: reflection, collaboration, publication, and revision.
  • 6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.
  • 5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
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  • 10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
seth_mitchell

Common Core State Standards Initiative | Mathematics | Introduction | Standards for Mat... - 0 views

  • Mathematically proficient students can explain correspondences between equations, verbal descriptions, tables, and graphs or draw diagrams of important features and relationships, graph data, and search for regularity or trends
  • the ability to contextualize, to pause as needed during the manipulation process in order to probe into the referents for the symbols involved. Quantitative reasoning entails habits of creating a coherent representation of the problem at hand; considering the units involved; attending to the meaning of quantities, not just how to compute them; and knowing and flexibly using different properties of operations and objects.
  • They justify their conclusions, communicate them to others, and respond to the arguments of others.
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  • In middle grades, a student might apply proportional reasoning to plan a school event or analyze a problem in the community. By high school, a student might use geometry to solve a design problem or use a function to describe how one quantity of interest depends on another. Mathematically proficient students who can apply what they know are comfortable making assumptio
  • Mathematically proficient students at various grade levels are able to identify relevant external mathematical resources, such as digital content located on a website, and use them to pose or solve p
  • roblems. They are able to use technological tools to explore and deepen their understanding of concepts.
  • In the elementary grades, students give carefully formulated explanations to each other. By the time they reach high school they have learned to examine claims and make explicit use of definitions.
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    Plenty of opportunities in these math standards for reflection, publication, revision, and collaboration.
seth_mitchell

OMG! Survey, like, says digital-savvy students are good at writing! - latimes.com - 0 views

  • more than two-thirds of their students had fair or poor abilities to digest long and complicated texts and understand plagiarism issues
  • found such advantages as greater creativity, personal expression and increased collaboration
  • promoted a deeper interest in writing because students could see their works published in such online forums as http://www.figment.com
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  • Sometimes, good old-fashioned pen and paper are the best way
  • English teachers were far more positive toward digital tools for writing — nearly two-thirds said it made teaching easier — than colleagues teaching math, science and social studies.
  • technology is not the most important element in promoting good student writing
thebda

Subtext - 1 views

  • Subtext is a free iPad app that allows classroom groups to exchange ideas in the pages of digital texts. You can also layer in enrichment materials, assignments and quizzes—opening up almost limitless opportunities to engage students and foster analysis and writing skills
  • Teaching in a 1:1 iPad classroom allows me to use technology to redefine teaching and learning. Subtext has been a wonderful addition to the 'toolbox'
seth_mitchell

Education Week Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: Writing Re-Launched: Teachi... - 1 views

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    Great shout-out to NWP.
seth_mitchell

14 Steps to Meaningful Student Blogging - 2 views

  • Teach them how to blog first. We did an excellent paper blogging lesson first (found on the blog of McTeach), which brought up why we were blogging and how to do it appropriately.  This got the students excited, interested as well as got them thinking about what great comments look and sound like.
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      This is such a crucial step.  My own failed attempts at creating a classroom of bloggers can be traced back to this missing step. The paper idea is worth exploring.
  • Talk safety!
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      It would be worth offering some of Common Sense Media's lessons here: http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/curriculum
  • They taught each other how to do anything fancy and also let each other know when font or color choices were poor.
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      There's an untaught rhetoric here.
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  • Don't grade!
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