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Clif Mims

2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning - 0 views

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    This 2020 Forecast is a tool for thinking about, preparing for, and shaping the future. It outlines key forces of change that will shape the landscape of learning over the next decade. The forecast does not predict what will happen, but rather serves as a guide to the as-yet-unwritten future. It is designed to help you see connections among things that once seemed unrelated and to help you consider the changes and challenges that you are facing today within the context of wider patterns of change. Ultimately, the 2020 Forecast aims to provoke your own thinking about what role you want to play in creating the future of learning.
Dean Mantz

Home - Who Runs Gov - Government directory - 0 views

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    Start your Search SEARCH Go advanced search Browse Profiles advertisement GovRank * Administration Officials (38) * Hill staffers (22) * Political appointees (17) * Members of Congress (17) * Lobbyists (15) Most Viewed Profiles As of Jan. 22, 2009 | 1:19AM Barack Obama Read edits As of Jan. 21, 2009 | 6:20PM Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) Read edits As of Jan. 22, 2009 | 9:50PM Jason Furman Read edits As of Jan. 22, 2009 | 6:43PM Hillary Rodham Clinton Read edits As of Jan. 22, 2009 | 5:51AM Caroline Kennedy Read edits Latest Headlines * Obama Says New $825 Billion Stimulus Plan Is 'on Target' washingtonpost.com, Fri, 23 Jan 2009 * Successor Chosen for Clinton's Senate Seat washingtonpost.com, Fri, 23 Jan 2009 * Does a Glass Ceiling Persist in Politics? washingtonpost.com, Fri, 23 Jan 2009 * Stimulus Plan Meets More GOP Resistance washingtonpost.com, Fri, 23 Jan 2009 * Senate Gets Reacquainted With McCain the Maverick washingtonpost.com, Fri, 23 Jan 2009 Partners Home > Home Table of contents 1. 1. 1. 1.1.1. In the News 2. 2. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) 3. 3. Recently Added Profiles 4. 4. The Plum LineGreg Sargent's blog 1. 1. 4.1.1. NRCC: The Economy Is "Robust" 2. 4.1.2. Featured Blog Posts 5. 5. In the LoopBy Al Kamen 1. 1. 5.1.1. Recent Columns WhoRunsGov.com offers a unique look at the world of Washington through its key players and personalities. It's your window into how deals get made and policy is shaped in the new Obama administration that is remaking the nation's capital
Dean Mantz

Reading Games | Word Level Index - 0 views

  • The interactive reading games below are ideal for developing the reading skills of your pupils. Use the reading games on your interactive whiteboard, or computer, at school or at home. Please register if you intend to use these games.   The games below are listed by word level and sentence level activities. To find a game quickly please use the 'quick game finder'.
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    The interactive reading games below are ideal for developing the reading skills of your pupils. Use the reading games on your interactive whiteboard, or computer, at school or at home. Please register if you intend to use these games. The games below are listed by word level and sentence level activities. To find a game quickly please use the 'quick game finder'.
Clif Mims

WordAhead: Vocabulary Videos - 0 views

shared by Clif Mims on 11 Oct 09 - Cached
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    "This website has a collection of short, simple and fun video clips to correctly define and provide examples of around 800 words in context. The videos are entirely appropriate for middle and high school students. The students are encouraged to play with words,create their own vocabulary videos and upload their work to the website. Teachers may direct activities and assign word projects to the students. The Study Room allows personalized list creation and sharing. Visitors can also sign up to receive a word of the day in the email."
Dean Mantz

Educational Leadership:Teaching Screenagers:Teaching the iGeneration - 0 views

  • The resources included videos for those who learned by more kinesthetic and auditory modalities, written newspaper reports for those who learned best by visual modalities, and even interactive websites for those with a more tactile and kinesthetic learning style.
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  • Instead of showing the video in class, you might have them watch it on YouTube as a homework assignment.
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  • access the video 24/7
  • using technology to enhance education doesn't mean that we should move classes totally online. Students need face-to-face social interaction, especially in the primary and middle school grades.
  • The point is not to "teach with technology" but to use technology to convey content more powerfully and efficiently.
  • Baby Boomers, in general, prefer face-to-face or telephone communication
  • seem to embrace both cell phones and e-mail, with a bit of instant messaging thrown in.
  • Gen Xers
  • Net Generation
  • social networks like Facebook, instant messages, Skype, and texting.
  • iGeneration, a phone is not a phone. It is a portable computer
  • born between about 1925 and 1946 are often called the Traditional or Silent generation
  • Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War, they are characterized by a belief in common goals and respect for authority.
  • Baby Boomer generation, born between 1946 and 1964, tends to be optimistic, idealistic, and communicative and to value education and consumer goods.
  • born between 1965 and 1979, were defined by Douglas Coupland (1991) as Generation X
  • not as easily categorized.
  • 1980s and the birth of the World Wide Web
  • Generation Y, simply meaning the generation after X.
  • Don Tapscott's (1999) term—the Net Generation
Dean Mantz

On Intelligence - Welcome - 0 views

  • The first set of links provides information for people who have not yet read the book or have a general interest. It contains: Bios of the authors Reviews of the book, what people are saying The table of contents An excerpt from the book, "The Prologue" A list of venues and dates where the authors will be speaking The second set of links contains resources for people who have read the book and want to learn more about the theory. Here you will find: An online discussion forum Additional resources including an expanded bibliography and source code for simulations Q&A section for asking the authors questions A form for emailing the authors
Sheryl A. McCoy

n2teaching: Opportunity to Comment: Activating Links - 0 views

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    Commenting on a blog post helps the reader/commentator and the blog author. The author of the blog always benefits from the feedback of their colleagues and other readers, while the commentator benefits by sharing their ideas and related links.
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    some tips for making active links in blogger
Clif Mims

Technology Integration Matrix - 0 views

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    The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells..."
Clif Mims

OER Commons - 0 views

shared by Clif Mims on 16 Jun 09 - Cached
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    The worldwide OER movement is rooted in the idea that equitable access to high-quality education is a global imperative. Open Educational Resources are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse, without charge. OER often have a Creative Commons or GNU license that state specifically how the material may be used, reused, adapted, and shared. As a network for teaching and learning materials, the web site offers engagement with resources in the form of social bookmarking, tagging, rating, and reviewing. OER Commons has forged alliances with over 120 major content partners to provide a single point of access through which educators and learners can search across collections to access over 24,000 items, find and provide descriptive information about each resource, and retrieve the ones they need. By being "open," these resources are publicly available for all to use, and principally through Creative Commons licensing, many thousands are legally available for repurposing, modifying and improving.
Ginger Lewman

How To Successfully Integrate Blogging Into Your Busy Life - 0 views

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    I've written previously on how your resume is meaningless, on building career security, not job security and on the rise of personal branding.  To summarize the overarching themes of those three posts quickly: Your work should be working for you, building your reputation, not locked away in a resume. A resume proves nothing, a living case study proves everything. Creating a name for yourself in your industry provides you the ultimate freedom:  career security. The tools exist for you to influence your industry in deep ways to make positive change and carve out a name for yourself. Building your personal network enables incredible connections with the world around you not previously possible. A blog is the ideal avenue to accomplish all of this and so much more.
Clif Mims

Into the Book: Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies - 0 views

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    A reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. Focuses on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Watch the engaging 15-minute videos and try the online interactive activities. "Behind the Lesson" provides teachers with information and teaching resources for each strategy. Watch the 10-minute professional development videos, and explore the Web site for lesson plans, video and audio clips, downloads, and more.
Dean Mantz

The eSkeletons Project - 0 views

  • The eSkeletons Project website is devoted to the study of human and primate comparative anatomy. It offers a unique set of digitized versions of skeletons in 2-D and 3-D in full color, animations, and much supplemental information. The user can navigate through the various regions of the skeleton and view all orientations of each element along with muscle and joint information. eSkeletons enables you to view the bones of both human and non-human primates ranging from the gorilla to the tiny mouse lemur. All of the large apes are represented as well as other species from different parts of the world. Many of these primates are rare or endangered species.
Dean Mantz

TECHNOLOGICAL PEDAGOGICAL AND CONTENT KNOWLEDGE - 0 views

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    Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) attempts to identify the nature of knowledge required by teachers for technology integration in their teaching, while addressing the complex, multifaceted and situated nature of teacher knowledge. At the heart of the TPACK framework, is the complex interplay of three primary forms of knowledge: Content (CK), Pedagogy (PK), and Technology (TK).
Sheryl A. McCoy

IBM Research | IBM Research | Paul Keyser - 0 views

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    Science accounts for more of the texts surviving from antiquity than any other sort of writing, and yet is rarely studied or even read because the texts are relatively hard to find in translation.\n\nMr. Keyser, with Georgia L. Irby-Massie, wrote the science source book: Greek Science of the Hellenistic Era: A Sourcebook w/ updated translations
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    This would be a valuable library resource for education majors; an especially valuable personal resource for science/math/history teachers interested in the real story of the sophisticated level of knowledge in "ancient" times".
Dean Mantz

Mobile Learning Institute - 0 views

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    The Mobile Learning Institute's film series "A 21st Century Education" profiles individuals who embrace and defend fresh approaches to learning and who confront the urgent social challenges that are part of a 21st century experience. "A 21st Century Education" compiles, in short film format, the best ideas around school reform. The series is meant to start, extend, or nudge the conversation about how to make change in education happen.
Dean Mantz

Humanized > Enso - 0 views

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      Need to review because Rita suggested it.
  • Enso lets you do common computing tasks easier and faster than ever before. You get a huge productivity boost and a simpler digital life.
  • Enso is dead simple to use. You just hold down the Caps Lock key and type an Enso command, which is displayed in a translucent overlay. Once the command is typed, you simply release the Caps Lock key to activate it, and the overlay disappears. If you type fast, it all happens in a flash. For instance, to launch the Firefox Web browser, you just hold down the Caps Lock key and type "open firefox." To look up the meaning of the word "proclivity," you just hold down the Caps Lock key and type "define proclivity."
Dean Mantz

Internet Archive: Wayback Machine - 0 views

  • The Internet Archive, the Library of Congress and California Digital Library collaborated on a pilot in the spring of 2008 and a full-year program for the 2008/2009 school year, working with a total of 10 elementary, middle and high schools. We are looking to expand this program to new schools in the coming year. You can explore the collections created during the 2008/2009 school year on the Archive-It website here.
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    Use this resource to search the web and go back to items posted long ago that are no longer available.
Dean Mantz

Top News - How tech drives success in Title I schools - 0 views

  • The report, "Leveraging Title I and Title IID: Maximizing the Impact of Technology in Education," and the guide, "A Resource Guide Identifying Technology Tools for Schools," were released Sept. 24 by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) and the National Association for State Title I Directors (NASTID)
  • For instance, acccording to the report, Kansas's Technology Rich Classrooms program saw a 10.4 percent increase in third grade state reading scores. In Arkansas, the Technology Integration in the Elementary Classroom project saw third graders' literacy proficiency increase from 67 percent to 84 percent, and among fourth graders from 47 percent to 69 percent.
  • Sixty-seven percent of Title I students have access to a cell phone outside of the classroom, 79 percent have a music or video device, and 46 percent have access to a computer, according to Project Tomorrow's 2008 Speak Up survey data.
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    Title I improvements with technology integration.
Dean Mantz

The Private Eye - jeweler's loupes and inquiry method for hands-on interdisciplinary sc... - 0 views

  • Discover the drama and wonder of looking closely at the world, thinking by analogy, changing scale and theorizing with The Private Eye. Designed to develop critical thinking skills, creativity, literacy and scientific literacy — across subjects, The Private Eye is based on a simple set of "tools" that produce "gifted" results. Hands-on, investigative, The Private Eye — using everyday objects, a jeweler's loupe, and simple questions — accelerates science, writing, art, math, social studies, and more. K-16 through life, The Private Eye develops "the interdisciplinary mind." 
Dean Mantz

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Take It from the Top - 0 views

  • Take It from the Top How does this stack up? Simple wooden blocks can be stacked so that the top block extends completely past the end of the bottom block, seemingly in a dramatic defiance of gravity. To make this work, you must start moving the top block first and then proceed on down the stack, rather than startingfrom the bottom up. A mathematical pattern can be noted in the stacking.
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