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Glenda Morris

SLAV Wee Project - 19 views

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    Web Elements Engaged is a joint project of the School Library Association of Victoria and ITmadeSimple. 'Students of today should be creators of ideas, not consumers of information'. Based on this premise, the project, Web Elements Engaged has challenged ten school teams, consisting of a teacher-librarian, a teacher and 15 - 20 students, from Year 3 to Year 10 across Victoria.
Cathy Oxley

Flickr: Oak Park Public Library Idea Box - 15 views

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    An amazing concept for developing engagement and creativity.
Alida Hanson

Out of Print - 10 views

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    "Out of Print highlights the sea change underway in the multi-billion dollar U.S. K-12 instructional materials market enabled by recent technology and intellectual property rights innovations. With a focus on the ultimate impact on student learning, the report provides examples of lessons learned from recent digital and open (OER) content initiatives by leading states and school districts and offers comprehensive recommendations for government, industry, and educators to ensure that the inevitable shift to digital instructional materials improves student achievement and engagement and efficiently uses scarce resources."
Martha Hickson

How to Teach Students to Evaluate Information: A Key Common Core Skill - 20 views

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    As educators pursue CCSS alignment, it is crucial to design curricula and assessment systems that engage students in higher-level thinking tasks that provide opportunities for students to evaluate information. This white paper will focus on one critical thinking skill that students need to learn-how to evaluate
Katy Vance

Subtext - 0 views

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    Subtext is a free iPad app that allows classroom groups to exchange ideas in the pages of digital texts. You can also layer in enrichment materials, assignments and quizzes-opening up almost limitless opportunities to engage students and foster analysis and writing skills.
Anne Weaver

TED-Ed Beta A New Service to Turn Videos into Engaging Lessons - 13 views

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    "we are providing you with a great tool from TED that allows teachers to use engaging videos to create customized lessons. TED Ed Beta enables you to use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-ED, or create lessons from scratch based on videos from YouTube."
James Whittle

Book Art | Off Book | PBS - YouTube - 9 views

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    "Books are in a conflicted state. Should they still exist in a digital era? Will they all be replaced by Kindles and Nooks? These questions dominate the discussion of books in our time. A select group of artists, who use books as their medium, engage this discussion from another angle. From pop culture pop-ups, to surreal sculptural stories, to reformations of antique sacred texts, these creators re-envision what the experience of a book can be. At times playful, and other times profound, this episode explores the boundaries of one of the most important human creations. "
Cathy Oxley

The Big List of Class Discussion Strategies | Cult of Pedagogy - 19 views

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    15 formats for structuring a class discussion to make it more engaging, more organized, more equitable, and more academically challenging. 
Sally Dooley

PDF Copy Available of "Student Engagement and the Opportunity Gap" - Reading By Example - 15 views

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    What an awe-inspiring professional development program.
Martha Hickson

A Slow-Books Manifesto - Maura Kelly - Entertainment - The Atlantic#.T3JKSukCudk.twitter - 16 views

  • are so mentally invigorating, and require such engagement, they make us smarter
  • neuroscientists have found plenty of proof that reading fiction stimulates all sorts of cognitive areas—not just language regions but also those responsible for coordinating movement and interpreting smells. Because literary books are so mentally invigorating, and require such engagement, they make us smarter than other kinds of reading material, as a 2009 University of Santa Barbara indicated. Researchers found that subjects who read Kafka's "The Country Doctor"—which includes feverish hallucinations from the narrator and surreal elements—performed better on a subsequent learning task than a control group that read a straightforward summary of the story. (They probably enjoyed themselves a lot more while reading, too.)
Jamin Henley

Can E-Books Make Society and Education Better? | Online Universities - 15 views

  • 65% of college freshmen read for pleasure for less than an hour per week or not at all
  • The percentage of non-readers among these students has nearly doubled—climbing 18 points since they graduated from high school
  • By the time they become college seniors, one in three students read nothing at all for pleasure in a given week.
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  • Not reading won’t kill you, but it will also make you a less interesting, engaged, and intellectual person
  • reading literature also helps to develop an individual’s emotional literacy
  • Reading about an event or the inner working of someone else’s mind or emotions stimulates the human brain to experience those same feelings or to essentially have the same experience in terms of memory that they would have if they actually did the activity or experienced the emotions themselves
  • The main activity of a college education is critical thinking and intellectual engagement: most of the background work for this endeavor is done through reading
  • Ubiquitous video, or some other information technology, may one day overtake the written word as the foundation of our literacy, but for the moment, reading and writing are the keys to full and fruitful participation in human society
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    As recently as 2007, there was note of an alarming trend of young people not reading
Jamin Henley

How Video Games Make Schools Better | Online Universities - 14 views

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    examines research and best practices to provide an enlightening overview of the ways in which these popular technologies make education (at all levels) more engaging and effective.
Cathy Oxley

Leading the Learning Revolution - Judy O'Connell - 17 views

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    Educators are increasingly using new media and digital technologies to teach and engage their 21st century students. Reading, writing, gaming, trans-media, immersive worlds, augmented reality, and Web 3.0 are all part of the new digital frontiers. Whether it's science or science fiction, Alice in Wonderland or Angry Birds, the dynamics of this new information ecology are transforming learning experiences in our schools. We can lead this learning revolution by ensuring that our library and the learning ecology we create can harness these new environments. How we do this, will determine our success and the future relevance and importance of our school libraries.
Judy O'Connell

EurekAlert! - Science News - 10 views

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    EurekAlert! is an online, global news service operated by AAAS, the science society. EurekAlert! provides a central place through which universities, medical centers, journals, government agencies, corporations and other organizations engaged in research can bring their news to the media. EurekAlert! also offers its news and resources to the public. EurekAlert! features news and resources focused on all areas of science, medicine and technology.
Cara Whitehead

SpellingCity for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch on the iTunes App Store - 9 views

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    VocabularySpellingCity is a fun way to learn spelling and vocabulary words by playing engaging learning games using any word list. The most popular activities are Spelling TestMe, HangMouse, and our vocabulary games, available to Premium Members. The most popular word lists are Sound Alikes, Compound Words, Hunger Games and SAT Words. This is a free app!
Gwen Lehman

Close Reading Relief: Re-engage Students with Digital Microstories | MiddleWeb - 1 views

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    Great article on using digital microstories to draw students back into literature and teach skills from the standards. The authors address the purpose behind this strategy, links to digital microstories, and ideas for digital presentations from students. They also touch on citation of images.
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