1. IDEAS: The meaning and development of the message, or what the paper is trying to say. Activity: Pick A Postcard.
6+1 Traits for Revision | Scholastic.com - 0 views
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10 ways schools are teaching internet safety | eSchool News - 0 views
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That’s because applicants must amend their existing internet safety policies by July 1, 2012, to include information about how they are educating students about proper online behavior, cyber bullying, and social networking sites
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1. Through gaming
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Helping Visual Learners Succeed | Education.com - 0 views
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This would work with science because you could use this strategy with having students identify vocabulary words or even better when describing a cycle of some scientific process. Also visual patterns in words can be very important to science because knowing prefixes many words in science class can be understood without even knowing the word before hand.
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Demonstrate what you want your child to do.
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I like to use prezi for presentations in science. It really allows you to get deeper into the subject material with visuals. I can use it to keep zooming in on a photo and eventually show what an "atom" looks like and the students start to understand how small they truly are!
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I like how this article breaks down strategies to help students succeed!
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Ways to use Facebook effectively in class | ZDNet - 1 views
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Here are ten ways to use Facebook in class:
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Set up a dedicated Facebook group for your class A Facebook group can allow your students to create discussion boards, communicate with each other and their teacher, and can be linked with online projects & other classroom groups. Teachers can use these groups to send out mass messages, reminders, and potentially even post homework assignments.
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Use Facebook Apps Facebook is more than a place to tag photos from last night’s not-so-clever encounter with tequila. It is now a platform that runs on mobile devices, and can be integrated with applications designed for learning. From news to learning a new language, there are many apps that allow searches and sharing across the platform.
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Education World: Tech in the Classroom - 0 views
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Tech in the Classroom is a recurring feature that examines widely available technology, software and gadgets and how they might be used in a school setting. What favorite gadget or tool are you using in the classroom? As this new content area grows, let us know what products you’d like to read about.
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Tech in the Classroom: StudySync This is a Web-based supplemental curriculum. Aligned to the Common Core and aimed at middle-school and high-school students, StudySync enlists broadcast-quality video, digital media, mobile platforms and social learning to advance reading, writing and critical thinking
A Warning to Young People: Don't Become a Teacher | Randy Turner - 0 views
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Teachers are being told over and over again that their job is not to teach, but to guide students to learning on their own. While I am fully in favor of students taking control of their learning, I also remember a long list of teachers whose knowledge and experience helped me to become a better student and a better person. They encouraged me to learn on my own, and I did, but they also taught me many things. In these days when virtual learning is being force-fed to public schools by those who will financially benefit, the classroom teacher is being increasingly devalued. The concept being pushed upon us is not of a teacher teaching, but one of who babysits while the thoroughly engaged students magically learn on their own
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But there is no way that eighth graders' opinions should be a part of deciding whether I continue to be employed.
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It is hard to get past the message being sent that our teachers are not good enough so we have to go outside to find new ones
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How To Increase Higher Order Thinking - 0 views
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Parents and teachers can do a lot to encourage higher order thinking, even when they are answering children’s questions
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“Don’t ask me any more questions.” “Because I said so.”
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