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Stop pop-up ads in Safari - 0 views

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    Learn how to control pop-up ads on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac. Pop-up ads are advertisements that open over or under your browser window, in another tab, or as a graphic element within the current window. To help control pop-ups on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac, make sure your software is up to date.
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How to enable restrictions on your iPhone or iPad - 0 views

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    Restrictions, sometimes referred to as Parental Controls, let you manage which features, apps, and content can be accessed on your Phone or iPad, allowing you to rest easy when your kids - or anybody who isn't you - thumbs around your phone.
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How to recover deleted files - 0 views

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    Megan Aitken's partner lost "a load of photos." Here's my advice for recovering them. Lost files can usually be recovered-if you discover the loss soon enough. But every time you write to the hard drive, you lower the likelihood of a successful recovery.
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Frequently asked questions about using HDMI with Mac computers - 0 views

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    HDMI stands for High Definition Multimedia Interface. It's an industry standard for connecting high-definition audio and video devices.
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Eportfolio - 2 views

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    The setup of this eportfolio was easy to follow and navigate. The content of this persons work was setup to demonstrate her accomplishments as an emerging educator. I find that the subcategories/content used will provide a great outline for the construction of my eportfolio, as I have limited experience as well.
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UDL Guides Personalized Learning to Meet Common Core | Rethinking Learning - Barbara Bray - 2 views

  • The importance of this strategy is that both the teacher and the learner understand who the learner is and how they learn best. The learner and the teacher uses the UDL lens to personalize learning. So what does that look like? Here are two eighth grade students and their Personal Learner Profiles.
  • s an avid reader, likes to write descriptively, and enjoys drawing. is anxious when she speaks in front of others. forgets the sequence, moral and message of the sto
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    by Barbara Bray and Kathleen McClaskey Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is used to design curriculum, lessons and instruction based on the diversity of the learners in their classroom.
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Universal Design Learning Visually Explained for Teachers - 3 views

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    April 14, 2014 Universal Design Learning is a framework for learning that includes all students. Being grounded in socio-cultural theory, UDL views learning environments and social interactions as being key elements in development and learning. In UDL students are allowed to express their learning in a variety of ways.
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UDL in Your Classroom - Maryland Learning Links - 0 views

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    It is important for you to understand the basis and the context of UDL, but what is most relevant, of course, is how you can use UDL in your classroom. In this part of the site, we use a case study to look at ways you can apply UDL in four main areas of a ...
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The Bittersweet Journey of Change in Education | Blog | Project Based Learning | BIE - 0 views

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    This is one of an occasional blog post from BIE's partner schools and districts. There was a time when I felt it was a challenge to change the habits of my students. Then I attempted to change adults. Adult secondary teachers, no less.
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Teaching Students Better Online Research Skills - 1 views

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    Sara Shaw, an elementary school teacher in Avon, Mass., realized she needed to teach online research skills several years ago when her students kept turning in projects riddled with misinformation. The flawed material often came from websites the students used. They took the information as fact, when it often was just someone's personal opinion.
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How Teens Do Research in the Digital World - 0 views

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    Three-quarters of AP and NWP teachers say that the internet and digital search tools have had a "mostly positive" impact on their students' research habits, but 87% say these technologies are creating an "easily distracted generation with short attention spans" and 64% say today's digital technologies "do more to distract students than to help them academically."
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College Students Don't Know How To Research, Study Shows - 0 views

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    According to a new report released by Project Information Literacy, college students do not know how to research correctly. The study, which surveyed 8,353 students from 25 colleges, reports that 84 percent of respondents found "getting started" to be the hardest part of research projects.
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Educational Leadership:Teachers as Leaders:The Many Faces of Leadership - 4 views

  • School districts that want to improve make a wise investment when they cultivate and encourage teacher leaders, because they are in a position to take the long view and carry out long-range projects.
  • emerge spontaneously and organically from the teacher ranks. Instead of being selected, they take the initiative to address a problem or institute a new program
  • effective teacher leaders exhibit important skills, values, and dispositions.
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  • Teacher leaders must enlist colleagues to support their vision, build consensus among diverse groups of educators, and convince others of the importance of what they are proposing and the feasibility of their general plan for improvement
  • On the other hand, they are flexible and willing to try a different approach if the first effort runs into roadblocks
  • Ensuring that students have full access to such opportunities involves a collective effort, requiring discussion and consideration of alternatives.
  • Teachers must be confident that administrators and other teachers will not criticize them for expressing ideas that might seem unusual at first. Some of the most effective approaches to solving difficult issues in schools may not be intuitively obvious but may require that educators think creatively, which can only happen in a safe environment.
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    This article discusses the importance of leadership among teachers and how effective teacher leaders influence the improvement of schools.
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