Simply put, we can’t keep preparing students for a world that doesn’t exist. We can’t keep ignoring the formidable cognitive skills they’re developing on their own. And above all, we must stop disparaging digital prowess just because some of us over 40 don’t happen to possess it. An institutional grudge match with the young can sabotage an entire culture.
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StoryJumper: publish your own children's book. - 14 views
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You can even create a classroom account to manage your students so they don't have to create their own account. Link to the classroom set up guide: http://www.storyjumper.com/main/classroom
Reading Strateies for the Social Studies Classroom - 17 views
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Reading Strategies for the Social Studies Classroom
http://d97cooltools.blogspot.fr/2012/05/thinglink-in-classroom.html - 15 views
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a playlist of resources for using ThingLink in the classroom.
Differentiated Tech Instruction by Flipping My Classroom | Elementary School Tech Ideas - 23 views
A Media Specialist's Guide to the Internet: 39 Sites For Using iPads in the Classroom - 31 views
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Blog post by Julie Greller on sites for using Ipads in the classroom
NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children - 17 views
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"The world of children's literature contains a variety of genres, all of which have appeal to the diverse interests of children as well as potential for classroom teaching. In recent years, however, nonfiction or information books have emerged as a very a
Infographics in the Classroom - nhinstitutes - 14 views
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Examples of student infographics
Creative Commons in the Classroom - 12 views
Weblogs In and Around the Classroom - 1 views
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Weblogs are increasingly being used in education by researchers, teachers, and students. Professors are keeping research blogs, requiring students to blog, or creating course weblogs. Students are keeping course blogs or personal blogs. Scholars are studying and writing about the weblog phenomenon while keeping weblogs about weblogs. The list is growing quickly. Here is a smattering of what is going on in and around Academia.
We Love Learning - 9 views
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Classroom teacher Nicole McMahon at St Luke the Evangelist School in Blackburn has developed a blog for her Prep class.
Creating a classroom where readers flourish - 0 views
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"The average higher- achieving students read approximately three times as much a week as their lower-achieving classmates, not including out of school reading."-Richard Allington, What Works for Struggling Readers
Local classrooms to get dose of augmented reality | The Australian - 4 views
Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education | Video on TED.com - 3 views
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Ok, so the talk goes for 20 minutes but he's very easy to listen to, entertaining and explains some great new features he's introduced to his Khan Academy. The whole idea of flipping the classroom is very appealing.
The Flipped Classroom Infographic #flippedclassroom #blendedlearning #edtech - 9 views
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I'm going to apply this next term with one of my Year 11 classes. I've generated videos using iShowU app (only for Mac, I think it was around $10) from app store.
Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade - NYTimes.com - 20 views
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A classroom suited to today’s students should deemphasize solitary piecework. It should facilitate the kind of collaboration that helps individuals compensate for their blindnesses, instead of cultivating them. That classroom needs new ways of measuring progress, tailored to digital times — rather than to the industrial age or to some artsy utopia where everyone gets an Awesome for effort.
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The new classroom should teach the huge array of complex skills that come under the heading of digital literacy. And it should make students accountable on the Web, where they should regularly be aiming, from grade-school on, to contribute to a wide range of wiki projects.
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According to Davidson (2011 p7) if we're frustrated at information overload then we should quit operating under twentieth century rules ... I'm currently reading "Now You See It". This is an article about the book.
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