Google Form is an online poll and survey creation tool that is free and part of Google Docs
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nsert varied questions types: text, paragraph, multiple-choice, checkboxes, choose from a list, grid, scale
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Learning Styles and Children | Funderstanding - 0 views
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20 to 30 percent of learners remember through hearing, 40 percent retain information visually, and the rest either have higher memory retention after writing something down or through real-life activities.
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Visual Learners Visual learners like having information presented to them in an eye-catching way, have strong visualization skills, and to see the “big picture.” Enjoy a fun activity with visual learners encouraging their language and reading skills. Tie the activity into the child’s homework by using vocabulary or spelling words for an upcoming test. Help the child create a list of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and pronouns to use for the activity. If they have a list of vocabulary or spelling words they need to memorize for school, they can be added to the list. Kids can select a color for each type of word and then write them onto flashcards using the coordinating color for each word group (green for nouns). Have the child place the cards in stacks according to color/type. Discuss with the child that they will be creating a visual language story using the words by placing them into sentences and a finished story. This encourages visual learners to see the big picture and understand the final outcome of the activity. Once the child has begun forming sentences, he can arrange them to form a story, working until all the words have been used. Tap into his auditory and kinesthetic/tactile learning, and his active processors, by having him read the story out loud while acting it out.
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Autism Fact Sheet: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) - 0 views
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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a range of complex neurodevelopment disorders, characterized by social impairments, communication difficulties, and restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behavior. Autistic disorder, sometimes called autism or classical ASD, is the most severe form of ASD, while other conditions along the spectrum include a milder form known as Asperger syndrome, and childhood disintegrative disorder and pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (usually referred to as PDD-NOS).
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The hallmark feature of ASD is impaired social interaction. As early as infancy, a baby with ASD may be unresponsive to people or focus intently on one item to the exclusion of others for long periods of time. A child with ASD may appear to develop normally and then withdraw and become indifferent to social engagement.
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Digital Literacy: process of teaching and learning about technology and the use of technology.
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7. Digital Rights & Responsibilities: those freedoms extended to everyone in a digital world.
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8. Digital Health & Wellness: physical and psychological well-being in a digital technology world.
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We need to have virus protection, backups of data, and surge control of our equipment. As responsible citizens, we must protect our information from outside forces that might cause disruption or harm
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basic set of rights extended to every digital citizen. Digital citizens have the right to privacy, free speech, etc.
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Digital law deals with the ethics of technology within a society. Unethical use manifests itself in form of theft and/or crime.
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As Children's Freedom Has Declined, So Has Their Creativity | Psychology Today - 0 views
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In Kim’s words, the data indicate that “children have become less emotionally expressive, less energetic, less talkative and verbally expressive, less humorous, less imaginative, less unconventional, less lively and passionate, less perceptive, less apt to connect seemingly irrelevant things, less synthesizing, and less likely to see things from a different angle.”
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During the immediate post-Sputnik period, the U.S. government was concerned with identifying and fostering giftedness among American schoolchildren, so as to catch up with the Russians (whom we mistakenly thought were ahead of us in scientific innovation).
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creativity is the central variable underlying personal achievement and ability to adapt to unusual conditions.
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The Torrance Tests were developed by E. Paul Torrance in the late 1950s, when he was an education professor at the University of Minnesota.
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Well, surprise, surprise. For several decades we as a society have been suppressing children’s freedom to ever-greater extents, and now we find that their creativity is declining.
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Creativity is nurtured by freedom and stifled by the continuous monitoring, evaluation, adult-direction, and pressure to conform that restrict children’s lives today. In the real world few questions have one right answer, few problems have one right solution; that’s why creativity is crucial to success in the real world. But more and more we are subjecting children to an educational system that assumes one right answer to every question and one correct solution to every problem, a system that punishes children (and their teachers too) for daring to try different routes. We are also, as I documented in a previous essay, increasingly depriving children of free time outside of school to play, explore, be bored, overcome boredom, fail, overcome failure—that is, to do all that they must do in order to develop their full creative potential.
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I know of several local school districts that believe that their students cannot fail. How does this prepare a student for his/her real life? It does them great harm to continue to pass them on. They will never learn to overcome the impediments that occurs in life. You will also have an apathetic student on your hands! It is necessary to allow students to fail. Not to make them feel bad about themselves...but to allow them to understand there are second chances in life (sometimes) and that they are not beyond redemption.
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In the next essay in this series, I will present research evidence that creativity really does bloom in the soil of freedom and die in the hands of overdirective, overprotective, ov
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If anything makes Americans stand tall internationally it is creativity. “American ingenuity” is admired everywhere. We are not the richest country (at least not as measured by smallest percentage in poverty), nor the healthiest (far from it), nor the country whose kids score highest on standardized tests (despite our politicians’ misguided intentions to get us there), but we are the most inventive country. We are the great innovators, specialists in figuring out new ways of doing things and new things to do. Perhaps this derives from our frontier beginnings, or from our unique form of democracy with its emphasis on individual freedom and respect for nonconformity. In the business world as well as in academia and the arts and elsewhere, creativity is our number one asset. In a recent IBM poll, 1,500 CEOs acknowledged this when they identified creativity as the best predictor of future success.[1]
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One of the groups designing assessments for the Common Core Standards has formed two panels of experts to provide advice on how to ensure that the new tests will validly, reliably, and fairly measure how English-learners and students with disabilities are achieving.
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Visual Learners - Learning Styles and Visual Learners - 0 views
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diagrams, mind maps, word webs, visuals, and other forms of graphic organizers will help visual learners get the most from your instruction. Teach students to use highlighters when going through their notes and to create flashcards when studying for tests and learning information.
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opportunity for concrete, contextually meaningful experience through which they can search for patterns, raise their own questions, and construct their own models.
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take on more ownership of the ideas, and to pursue autonomy, mutual reciprocity of social relations, and empowerment to be the goals.
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This movement occurs in the so-called "zone of proximal development" as a result of social interaction.
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disappointed with the overwhelming control of environment over human behavior that is represented in behaviorism.
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This transformation involves the mastery of external means of thinking and learning to use symbols to control and regulate one's thinking.
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the claim is that mental processes can be understood only if we understand the tools and signs that mediate them
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the gesture of pointing could not have been established as a sign without the reaction of the other person.
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symbol system which represents things by design features that can be arbitrary and remote, e.g. language
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promote concept discovery, the teacher presents the set of instances that will best help learners to develop an appropriate model of the concept.
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Variables in instruction: nature of knowledge, nature of the knower, and nature of the knowledge-getting process
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Feedback must be provided in a mode that is both meaningful and within the information-processing capacity of the learner.
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Cognitive constructivists focus on the active mental construction struggling with the conflict between existing personal models of the world, and incoming information in the environment.
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in which learners construct their models of reality as a meaning-making undertaking with culturally developed tools and symbols
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Errors need to be perceived as a result of learners' conceptions and therefore not minimized or avoided.
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the learners are responsible for defending, proving, justifying, and communicating their ideas to the classroom community.
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learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.
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learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.
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learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.
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that learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.
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learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.
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learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.
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Bruner's major theoretical framework is that learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.