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Akshar Prasanna

Rational Optimists Fueling Life - 0 views

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blogs books reading digital storytelling

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  • Akshar Prasanna on 04 May 12
     
    We are a bunch of bloggers who care for the world. We just want to share our fantabulous experiences with the people and let them know how to enjoy life.
Anne Weaver

TeachersFirst: Now I See! - Infographics as content scaffold and creative, formative as... - 32 views

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infographics

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  • Cathy Oxley on 15 Aug 12
     
    These pages are intended for grades six and up, but many of the strategies are adaptable for younger students, especially to begin building experience with creating infographics.
Robin Cicchetti

The Business Case for Reading Novels - Anne Kreamer - Harvard Business Review - 14 views

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data reading promotion reading

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  • in fMRI studies of people reading fiction, neuroscientists detect activity in the pre-frontal cortex — a part of the brain involved with setting goals — when the participants read about characters setting a new goal. It turns out that when Henry James, more than a century ago, defended the value of fiction by saying that "a novel is a direct impression of life," he was more right than he knew.
  • they discovered "a significant relation between the amount of fiction people read and their empathic and theory-of-mind abilities" allowing them to conclude that it was reading fiction that improved the subjects' social skills, not that those with already high interpersonal skills tended to read more.
  • It's when we read fiction that we have the time and opportunity to think deeply about the feelings of others, really imagining the shape and flavor of alternate worlds of experience.
  • Robin Cicchetti on 18 Jan 12
     
    Data on the benefits of reading fiction.
David Williams

ToAskQuestions - 0 views

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  • David Williams on 11 Jan 12
     
    Ask questions and get answers from the real experts on any topic of life. Get knowledge and share your experience with ToAskQuestions.com
ADAM CARRON

Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners - 0 views

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21st century information ict collaboration

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  • ADAM CARRON on 21 Jun 12
     
    10:41 PM Susan Oxnevad 15 comments Technology is a tool that can be used to help teachers facilitate learning experiences that address the diverse learning needs of all students and help them develop 21st Century Skills. At it's most basic level, digital tools can be used to help students find, understand and use information.
Katie Silva

Understanding by Design: Essential Questions | Fluency21 – Committed Sardine Blog - 0 views

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essential questions thoughtful deep

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  • questions that are not answerable with finality in a brief sentence… Their aim is to stimulate thought, to provoke inquiry, and to spark more questions — including thoughtful student questions — not just pat answers” (106).  In order to think in terms of questions, “[i]nstead of thinking of content as something to be covered, consider knowledge and skill as the means of addressing questions central to understanding key issues in your subject” (107)
  • we are likely to change our minds in response to reflection and experience concerning such questions as we go through life, and changes of mind are not only expected but beneficial” (108).
  • Katie Silva on 13 Nov 13
     
    Does anyone have essential questions for literature focus time with younger students?
Walco Solutions

Training & Placement Programs Industrial Automation Training - 0 views

Walco Solutions offers Automation & embedded internships program. The internship program provides practical work experience and an introduction to Automation and Embedded systems for the coll...

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Walco Solutions

Training & Placement Programs Industrial Automation Training - 0 views

Walco Solutions offers Automation & embedded internships program. The internship program provides practical work experience and an introduction to Automation and Embedded systems for the coll...

started by Walco Solutions on 26 May 15 no follow-up yet
Nancy Prentice

21st-Century Libraries: The Learning Commons | Edutopia - 0 views

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LearningCommons

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  • Libraries are reinventing themselves as content becomes more accessible online and their role becomes less about housing tomes and more about connecting learners and constructing knowledge.
  • Libraries are reinventing themselves as content becomes more accessible online and their role becomes less about housing tomes and more about connecting learners and constructing knowledge
  • Printed books still play a critical role in supporting learners, but digital technologies offer additional pathways to learning and content acquisition. Students and teachers no longer need a library simply for access. Instead, they require a place that encourages participatory learning and allows for co-construction of understanding from a variety of sources.
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  • the space does include paper books and physical artifacts, as well as flexible furniture and an open environment, digital content encourages students to explore, play, and delve deeper into subjects they may not otherwise experience
  • a flexible space with moveable chairs, desks, and even bookshelves. Small rooms can be opened up to allow for group projects, and the circulation desk as well as the sides of the stacks are writeable with dry-erase markers to encourage the collaboration and sharing that the previous space had discouraged.
  • the role of the coffeehouse in the birth of the Enlightenment -- it provided "a space where people would get together from different backgrounds, different fields of expertise, and share."
  • interact with the content, the technology, the space, and each other in order to gain context and increase their knowledge.
  • Students and teachers no longer need a library simply for access. Instead, they require a place that encourages participatory learning and allows for co-construction of understanding from a variety of sources.
Cathy Oxley

DigiTales - The Art of Telling Digital Stories - 0 views

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shared by Cathy Oxley on 18 Feb 09 - Cached
  • While the heart and power of the digital story is shaping a personal digital story about self, family, ideas, or experiences, the technology tools also invite writers and artists to think and invent new types of communication outside the realm of traditional linear narratives.
Raymond Lai

Welcome to Equinox Software. - 0 views

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  • Raymond Lai on 04 Mar 10
     
    Has anyone had experience with this piece of open software? Thanks, Ray http://www.google.com/profiles/Raymond.WM.Lai#buzz
Dennis OConnor

ALA | Interview with Keith Curry Lance - 1 views

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ala 21cif library media specialist library2.0 research

shared by Dennis OConnor on 11 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • A series of studies that have had a great deal of influence on the research and decision-making discussions concerning school library media programs have grown from the work of a team in Colorado—Keith Curry Lance, Marcia J. Rodney, and Christine Hamilton-Pennell (2000).
  • Recent school library impact studies have also identified, and generated some evidence about, potential "interventions" that could be studied. The questions might at first appear rather familiar: How much, and how, are achievement and learning improved when . . . librarians collaborate more fully with other educators? libraries are more flexibly scheduled? administrators choose to support stronger library programs (in a specific way)? library spending (for something specific) increases?
  • high priority should be given to reaching teachers, administrators, and public officials as well as school librarians and school library advocates.
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  • Perhaps the most strategic option, albeit a long-term one, is to infiltrate schools and colleges of education. Most school administrators and teachers never had to take a course, or even part of a course, that introduced them to what constitutes a high-quality school library program.
  • Three factors are working against successful advocacy for school libraries: (1) the age demographic of librarians, (2) the lack of institutionalization of librarianship in K–12 schools, and (3) the lack of support from educators due to their lack of education or training about libraries and good experiences with libraries and librarians.
  • These vacant positions are highly vulnerable to being downgraded or eliminated in these times of tight budgets, not merely because there is less money to go around, but because superintendents, principals, teachers, and other education decision-makers do not understand the role a school librarian can and should play.
  • If we want the school library to be regarded as a central player in fostering academic success, we must do whatever we can to ensure that school library research is not marginalized by other interests.    
  • Dennis OConnor on 11 Jan 11
     
    A great overview of Lance's research into the effectiveness of libraries.  He answers the question: Do school libraries or librarians make a difference?  His answer (A HUGE YES!) is back by 14 years of remarkable research.  The point is proved.  But this information remains unknown to many principals and superintendents.  Anyone interested in 21st century teaching and learning will find this interview fascinating.
Jamin Henley

News: 'Too Much to Know' - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...istory_of_information_overload

Information Literacy information

shared by Jamin Henley on 17 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • at root managing textual information is about selecting or summarizing items of interest, and storing and sorting them in a way that makes them retrievable at a later date and possibly by other people
  • The potential to gather more information than we can comfortably manage has probably been around since writing first allowed for the accumulation of more material than could be remembered, but overload has not been a universal experience. In many times and places scholars have experienced a dearth of books rather than overload
  • Jamin Henley on 17 Mar 11
     
    Complaints of information overload are ubiquitous these days -- as are the articles debating what it all means.
Anne Weaver

SlimeKids - School Library Media Kids - 30 views

www.slimekids.com

reading reading promotion

shared by Anne Weaver on 13 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Deven Black on 13 Mar 11
     
    School Library Media Kids -- Packed with book trailers and language arts-related games, School library media Kids is designed to provide an interactive learning experience to get students motivated to learn on their own! Students can choose from exceptional literacy-related resources such as author and book review websites as well as superb educational tools including reference works and search engines.
Sydney Wedphoto

Fun Experience with Professional Wedding Photography in Sydney - 1 views

Weddings are all about showing each other that you are in love and committed towards one another. It is an event that should be fun because it only happens once in a lifetime. Couples who are happy...

wedding photography Sydney

started by Sydney Wedphoto on 27 Sep 11 no follow-up yet
Joyce Valenza

National Archives Experience : Digital Vaults - 21 views

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digital storytelling cool tools research 2.0 video primarysources

shared by Joyce Valenza on 06 Jul 11 - Cached
  • Joyce Valenza on 06 Jul 11
     
    Create movies and posters using primary sources
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