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Karen Gray

Why Curation Will Transform Education and Learning: 10 Key Reasons - 0 views

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    Interestingly broad look at resources, research, and classroom materials. Especially interested in the comments on the commercialization of google.
Beth Miller

Educational Leadership:Working Constructively with Families:When Students Lead Parent-T... - 2 views

  • During the conference, the students asked their parents to write any questions they had on an index card and to hold their questions until the end. This gave the students uninterrupted time to make their presentations.
  • I feel the student-led conferences empowered students and helped them claim ownership of their education. In our case, it was a responsibility that our student enjoyed.
  • parents attended the conference without their child and discussed their child's performance with the advisor, who served as an advocate for the student.
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  • (1) a guiding structure for the conference; (2) a way to prepare students to run their own conferences; (3) a method of communicating the new format to parents and colleagues; and (4) the procedural operations that we would need to develop.
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  • The students learned that they would do all the talking and that the advisor was there basically for moral support. (The team instructed the advisors to intervene only when students became bogged down or if parents overshadowed them.)
  • Once their portfolios were complete, students rehearsed the script three times with classmates as stand-in parents.
Karen Gray

PBLU.org | Making Projects Click - 0 views

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    Upcoming Classes How to Launch the Project * How to Create a Project Calendar * How to Manage the Project * How to Grade the Project * How to Showcase Student Work * How to Get PBL Teacher Certification PBLU is an online social network of educators who continually learn and share how to do Project Based Learning.
Karen Gray

Blogs vs. Term Papers - 0 views

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    From the article: Of all the challenges faced by college and high school students, few inspire as much angst, profanity, procrastination and caffeine consumption as the academic paper. The format - meant to force students to make a point, explain it, defend it, repeat it (whether in 20 pages or 5 paragraphs) - feels to many like an exercise in rigidity and boredom, like practicing piano scales in a minor key.
Karen Gray

Assessing Projects : Using Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning - 1 views

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    When assessment drives instruction, students learn more and become more confident, self-directed learners. Assessing Projects helps teachers create assessments that address 21st century skills and provides strategies to make assessment an integral part of their teaching and help students understand content more deeply, think at higher levels, and become self-directed learners.
Karen Gray

Give Your Students a Voice with Micro-Podcasts - iPads in Education - 2 views

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    Thought you might be interested in this post on pod casting and a free web source, cinch.
Michele Mathieson

historyteachers - YouTube - 0 views

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    What a fun, educational way for students (or even teachers) to show what they know. Would love to work with anyone who wants to try this this year.
Beth Miller

At Calhoun School, Longer Classes in 5 Short Terms - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • Daniel Isquith, who has taught math at Calhoun for eight years, said he was initially “worried the kids would burn out” during the long classes. But he reorganized his lessons into 15-minute chunks, with a little breathing room in case things ran over: a 15-minute lecture, 15 minutes of problem solving, then 15 minutes of group work, capped by a final 15 minutes in which the students have to summarize what they did in class — a gem, he said, that the old schedule did not permit. During two-hour classes he changes things up just as often, to keep the students engaged. “Once you live in this and get a sense of pacing,” Mr. Isquith said, “it’s incredible what you can accomplish in terms of real actual understanding versus proficiency.”
Beth Miller

Education World: Student-Led Conferences Hold Kids Accountable - 1 views

  • * Students assume greater control of their academic progress. * Students accept personal responsibility for their academic performance. * Parents, teachers, and students engage in open and honest dialogue. * Parents attend conferences at increased rates. * Students learn the process of self-evaluation. * Students develop organizational and oral communication skills.
Beth Miller

Education World: Student-Led Conferences: A Growing Trend - 2 views

  • "From a teacher's perspective, we were able to get a better picture of each child. It forced us to sit down with each student and review strengths and weaknesses. This conversation often told us the students learned more than perhaps we had measured through conventional assessments."
Beth Miller

Using Student-Led Parent-Teacher Conferences to Build Relationships | Edutopia - 2 views

  • A powerful student-led parent-teacher conference focuses on student learning goals we can set by examining the student's work. This is an active event in which the learner and those responsible for supporting her education identify her strengths and areas of growth and make plans to address these areas.
Karen Gray

Skype in the classroom - 0 views

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Karen Gray

Landmark Decision on Electronic Reserves for Courses - 0 views

  • The judge held forcefully that the use of a work for educational purposes weighs "strongly" in favor of a defendant's claim of fair use
  • the scope for "fair use" of factual, informative copyrighted works is larger than that of fictional, "creative" works.
  • In works of ten chapters or more, the use of one chapter is fair. In works of fewer than ten chapters, it is not fair to use more than 10 percent of the work, counting front and back matter (notes, bibliography, index, etc.) as well as the main body of the work. When instructors stayed within these bounds, the judge found that the third factor weighed in favor of fair use; when they went beyond these bounds, she found the opposite.
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    Interesting review of a decision interpreting Fair Use and e-reserves such as we create on our class webpages.
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