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seth_mitchell

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

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math Standards common core Technology writing

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  • 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.
  • seth_mitchell on 27 Feb 12
     
    Plenty of opportunities in these math standards for reflection, publication, revision, and collaboration.
dawn pendergrass

5 Essential Questions About ePortfolios - Getting Smart by Susan Lucille Davis - edchat... - 18 views

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    • smithfraney
      smithfraney on 07 Aug 12
       
      Look twitter!
  • digital portfolios could be used as a “parking lot”
    • smithfraney
      smithfraney on 07 Aug 12
       
      Interesting concept.
    • dawn pendergrass
      dawn pendergrass on 07 Aug 12
       
      for college applications or the parking lot?
    • rcusteau3
      rcusteau3 on 07 Aug 12
       
      If students have a choice they will be motivated.
    • dawn pendergrass
      dawn pendergrass on 07 Aug 12
       
      Yes, yes and yes.  I think that is why students really buy into the portfolio process.  They get to choose!!
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    • bedlingtongirl
      bedlingtongirl on 07 Aug 12
       
      wow!
    • dawn pendergrass
      dawn pendergrass on 07 Aug 12
       
      so easy to do.......www.wordle.com....if you've never seen it.  :)
    • Laurie Sevigny
      Laurie Sevigny on 07 Aug 12
       
      We hope this is the case that the portfolio is owned by the students w/sharing w/ others
    • dawn pendergrass
      dawn pendergrass on 07 Aug 12
       
      This idea -- the students need to take ownership, sift through their learning and make sense of their triumphs and challenges.  We feel that this is a VERY meaningful learning experience.
    • Mary Bellavance
      Mary Bellavance on 07 Aug 12
       
      Amen!
    • Laurie Sevigny
      Laurie Sevigny on 07 Aug 12
       
      One of the most important aspects for us about portfolios is that reflection happens - putting portfolio together is not just making a checklist - it is thinking about your learning - the metacognition.
    • Mary Bellavance
      Mary Bellavance on 07 Aug 12
       
      Great question!
    • jkelly72
      jkelly72 on 07 Aug 12
       
      Good idea!
    • hmclean
      hmclean on 07 Aug 12
       
      I agree
    • Laurie Sevigny
      Laurie Sevigny on 07 Aug 12
       
      The audience should be defined ahead of time so students can develop the portfolio w/this audience in mind
    • Martha Vignola
      Martha Vignola on 07 Aug 12
       
      authentic audience, yes
    • Laurie Sevigny
      Laurie Sevigny on 07 Aug 12
       
      Pre teach HOW TO curate and organize, maybe develop a template for this - but then it is up to the student to take this on - it is their work
    • Martha Vignola
      Martha Vignola on 07 Aug 12
       
      Display an exemplar (teacher made)
    • bedlingtongirl
      bedlingtongirl on 07 Aug 12
       
      Move student from passive learner to active learner. Making authentic meaning of their respective learning, student directed, not teacher lead...
    • Martha Vignola
      Martha Vignola on 07 Aug 12
       
      I agree.
    • dawn pendergrass
      dawn pendergrass on 07 Aug 12
       
      One of the BEST parts of my job!!!  
    • dawn pendergrass
      dawn pendergrass on 07 Aug 12
       
      Holy Cow!  Now I think that I need to create my own digital portfolio!  Yikes.  This may cause some marital strife ;)  I tend to dive into these things and then not come up for air until I am done and it is perfect.
    • bedlingtongirl
      bedlingtongirl on 07 Aug 12
       
      Yes!! Can't wait to try it so I can show my students.
  • What is the teacher’s role?
    • Nancy Grose
      Nancy Grose on 07 Aug 12
       
      Creating a personal portfolio as an exemplar to model for students would be a way to guide students' learning
    • dawn pendergrass
      dawn pendergrass on 07 Aug 12
       
      That is great!  I kept my portfolio from ETEP and have often shown them my own portfolio.  But perhaps creating my own writing portfolio would be helpful and show that this is something that writers do -- not just students.
  • in other words, a place for gathering all of one’s academic, artistic, athletic, or other achievements from kindergarten to twelfth grade.
    • smithfraney
      smithfraney on 07 Aug 12
       
      As a content area teacher, I use e-portfolios in place of lab notebooks.  All the students lab reports are housed in a digital setting.  So my goals and vision for e-portfolios are much more singular.
    • Laurie Jacques
      Laurie Jacques on 07 Aug 12
       
      Something our district is looking at doing. Spotty digital portfolios now. MYP and IB require reflection!
    • Laurie Sevigny
      Laurie Sevigny on 07 Aug 12
       
      Some students will take the bull by the horns and make the most of the features of the portfolio process and program. Of course others will just go through the motions to get it done. Either way, the process of creating is what's important - the generation of a body of work that the student will consider and the process of accomplishing the task as well.
    • Susan Dee
      Susan Dee on 07 Aug 12
       
      This is my concern with moving in the direction of an ePortfolio. I've seen this happen with "paper" portfolios time and time again. Lots of work is put into it and when it's finished parents see it as a "keepsake" and still want a "grade". How do we change this culture? How do we assist parent and administrators.
Rebecca Redlon

In the Classroom: Live Oak Elementary School Students Produce Audio Podcasts | Edspace - 1 views

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elementary 21stcenturylearning podcasting

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  • Rebecca Redlon on 20 Aug 12
     
    Another great way to use podcasts in the -- this one for 3rd grade!
Rebecca Redlon

Rewards of teaching young children to blog SmartBlogs - 3 views

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blogging elementary literacy

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  • Rebecca Redlon on 14 Aug 12
     
    blogging to aid literacy skills in elementary grades
thebda

What Should Children Read? - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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non-fiction CommonCore reading nytimes

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  • careful reading can advance great writing.
  • Common Core dictates that by fourth grade, public school students devote half of their reading time in class to historical documents, scientific tracts, maps and other “informational texts” — like recipes and train schedules
  • What schools really need isn’t more nonfiction but better nonfiction,
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  • Most students could use greater familiarity with what newspaper, magazine and book editors call “narrative nonfiction”: writing that tells a factual story, sometimes even a personal one, but also makes an argument and conveys information in vivid, effective ways.
  • Web sites, which have begun providing online lesson plans using articles for younger readers, and on ProPublica.org.
seth_mitchell

14 Steps to Meaningful Student Blogging - 2 views

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blogging technology writing collaboration web2.0 digital writing blogs

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  • 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.
    • seth_mitchell
      seth_mitchell on 25 Jul 12
       
      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!
    • seth_mitchell
      seth_mitchell on 25 Jul 12
       
      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.
    • seth_mitchell
      seth_mitchell on 25 Jul 12
       
      There's an untaught rhetoric here.
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  • Don't grade!
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