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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.
Alyssa Littlefield

The Writing Revolution - Peg Tyre - The Atlantic - 3 views

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shared by Alyssa Littlefield on 29 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • For the first time, elementary-­school students—­who today mostly learn writing by constructing personal narratives, memoirs, and small works of fiction—will be required to write informative and persuasive essays. By high school, students will be expected to produce mature and thoughtful essays, not just in English class but in history and science classes as well.
    • Elizabeth Tewksbury
      Elizabeth Tewksbury on 29 Sep 12
       
      I love this, because usually when a student cannot write, everyone (including fellow teachers) simply point fingers at the English teachers and blame us.  
    • Alyssa Littlefield
      Alyssa Littlefield on 29 Sep 12
       
      Where does the information for the Nation's Report Card come from? 
  • he new writing standards are meant to reverse a pedagogical pendulum that has swung too far, favoring self-­expression and emotion over lucid communication.
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  • Although New Dorp teachers had observed students failing for years, they never connected that failure to specific flaws in their own teaching.
  • “Most teachers,” said Nell Scharff, an instructional expert DeAngelis hired, “entered into the process with a strongly negative attitude.”
    • Elizabeth Tewksbury
      Elizabeth Tewksbury on 29 Sep 12
       
      Big surprise.  I KNOW this would happen at my own school as well.  :-/
    • Alyssa Littlefield
      Alyssa Littlefield on 29 Sep 12
       
      This seems like a pretty broad statement...
  • seth_mitchell on 29 Sep 12
     
    Interesting conversation starter.  
Kelly Brown

The Writing Revolution - Peg Tyre - The Atlantic - 1 views

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  • The school’s success suggests that perhaps certain instructional fundamentals—fundamentals that schools have devalued or forgotten—need to be rediscovered, updated, and reintroduced. And if that can be done correctly, traditional instruction delivered by the teachers already in classrooms may turn out to be the most powerful lever we have for improving school performance after all.
    • Suzanne Tighe
      Suzanne Tighe on 29 Sep 12
       
      It is all about balance.  Some students need more help with understanding how to write.  Others need less.  I would not want writing to be reduced to a formula but we need to have ways to support student in their writing journey.  It is hard to write well if you believe you cannot write because you lack success.  The focus needs to be on what students need in the format that they need.
    • jeff brookes
      jeff brookes on 29 Sep 12
       
      So now the proverbial pendulum is threatening to swing back, back to the basics of writing instruction. Is there a way we can learn from the mistakes of our past over-reactions and consider the possibility that both the technical and creative aspects of writing can (and should) be taught? And that the qualities and skills involved in both can (and should) be taught explicitly and through immersion in the best examples of each genre.
    • Kelly Brown
      Kelly Brown on 29 Sep 12
       
      One strategy to use with ELLs is to provide them with sentence starters, similar to the ones the teachers at New Dorp are now using. The SIOP Model, a way to create lesson plans that encompasses strategies that support ELLs, benefits not only them but all students as well.
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    • Kelly Brown
      Kelly Brown on 29 Sep 12
       
      One strategy to use with ELLs is to provide them with sentence starters, similar to the ones the teachers at New Dorp are now using. The SIOP Model, a way to create lesson plans that encompasses strategies that support ELLs, benefits not only them but all students as well.
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.
Susan Inman

Why K-12 schools are failing by not teaching SEARCH | The Thinking Stick - 3 views

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technology research digital literacy

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  • Susan Inman on 26 Nov 12
     
    Interesting article about teaching students how to search on the web...with k-12 lesson plans for teaching search techniques
seth_mitchell

How My Learning Has Changed « - 1 views

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PD conferences education

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  • So, having also recently attended an EdCamp, I can say there is something between that and a traditional conference that would be best for how I want to learn.  And, I am okay with giving up a Saturday (with the promise of a bagged lunch) to sit in a high school to talk teaching and learning.
    • seth_mitchell
      seth_mitchell on 05 Dec 12
       
      Boy, this sounds a whole lot like SMWP's upcoming tech conference.
  •  If I am going to travel to conferences, then I need it to add value — not only to come away with new ideas, but new tools that I have had the chance to try, and the experience I couldn’t have had if I were not there.
  • What I need now is a chance to spend time making sense of what I am hearing — I crave the opportunity to engage with the smart people who are with me in the room.
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  • Focussed visits to districts, schools and classes are very powerful, with specific objectives and learning in action and not only in a presentation.  I also find the traditional ‘study group’ to continue to have a huge impact on my learning.
Rebecca Redlon

New 'flipped classroom' learning model catching on in Wisconsin schools : Wsj - 0 views

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technology flipped classroom

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  • Rebecca Redlon on 04 Mar 13
     
    More evidence that "flipping" is catching on.
thebda

Lift Off | Harvard Graduate School of Education - 0 views

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lift harvard school education student voice

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  • thebda on 27 May 16
     
    "The remarks of Donovan Livingston, Ed.M.'16, student speaker at HGSE's 2016 Convocation exercises." The sky is not the limit, it is only the beginning.
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!
seth_mitchell

Shaping Tech for the Classroom | Edutopia - 7 views

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      seth_mitchell on 16 Jul 12
       
      I'm all for students having access to email.  What I hear about instant messaging in the classroom, however, makes me wonder. Some pro-tech writing teachers who have the benefit of 1:1 have talked about how challenging it can be to keep kids from being distracted by IMing.
  • The number-one technology request of today's students is to have email and instant messaging always available and part of school.
  • Many teachers, under pressure from all sides, are often so afraid to experiment and to trust their kids with technology that they demand extensive training before they will try anything new. All these factors impede even the many schools trying to change.
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    • seth_mitchell
      seth_mitchell on 16 Jul 12
       
      This is where SMWP comes in.  It seems our mission ought to be encouraging folks to do new things in new ways while helping more reluctant digital immigrants make the step toward doing old things in new ways.
  • Rebecca Redlon on 15 Jul 12
     
    Doing old things in new ways
Susan Inman

Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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distraction reading education

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  • Susan Inman on 27 Feb 12
     
    This article is long-ish, but it brings up one of my biggest concerns about technology and whether or not we should use it so much.  It talks about they way kids' brains are changing to a multi-tasking mode, leaving them unable to focus for a longer period of time on any one thing.  How does our work respond to this?  If our kids are always on their screens, and then we start using them a lot in school, we are increasing their screen time.  But then, our approach is more "focused and academic," right?  Does that make it ok?
thebda

ThumbScribes - Collaborative Writing Community - Login - 1 views

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collaborative interactive

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  • thebda on 01 Mar 12
     
    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.
seth_mitchell

Are We Learning the Right Lessons From New Dorp High School? - Jim Fredricksen - The At... - 4 views

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writing teaching grammar WAC WTL PD

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  • seth_mitchell on 29 Sep 12
     
    Great response to Peg Tyre's "The Writing Revolution"
Susan Inman

http://usm.maine.edu/sites/default/files/cepare/MiniBrief.pdf - 1 views

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technology iPads

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  • Susan Inman on 28 Jan 14
     
    A survey from schools that are 1:1 with iPads....
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