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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Census data provided by: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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There are times in Kyrene when the technology seems to allow students to disengage from learning: They are left at computers to perform a task but wind up playing around, suggesting, as some researchers have found, that computers can distract and not instruct.
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1. Students involved in online learning outperform their peers.According to a 2009 meta study from the Department of Education: “Students who took all or part of their class online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through traditional face-to-face instruction.” Students who mix online learning with traditional coursework (i.e. blended learning) do even better. Source: Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies, United States Department of Education.
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Create fully animated comics online with Kerpoof. Choose from a library of scenes and characters, add animation, movement, as well as music and speech bubbles to bring a story idea to life. Extremely intuitive menu bar and helpful video tutorials make this tool quite useful. A key feature is a Teacher Account that allows teachers to register students and create classes where students can collaborate on creations
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oondoo is another tool to create comics quickly. You can opt for a free
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Pixton offers both a free account for personal use and an education platform with a unique pricing structure. There are a number of features provided with the Pixton education platform. Teachers can create a class, add students and assign a project all within the Pixton platform. Also, students can be signed up without and email account. Once created, comics can be printed, downloaded, embedded or shared online. The Pixton platform is also certfied for use on Smart and Promethean interactive white boards
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History student learns from her grandfather, makes his WWII story a senior project - Lo... - 0 views
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The 22-year-old spent the last school year meeting with him and researching his role in World War II for her thesis.
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Klise said she had only heard snippets of his war stories in the past. She said her questions would “jog his memory” and he would share more and more.
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New research shows that video games have great educational potential.
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Ninety-seven percent of American teenagers regularly play video games.
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What is Curriculum Theory by William F. Pinar (Multiple Participant Book Review) | Joy ... - 1 views
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primary of which is the idea that curriculum is a “complicated conversation.”
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Pinar argues that curriculum – or currere – is an organic idea rather than a Socraticmessage that never changes (Pinar, 2011) Teachers must discover this currere for themselvesthrough methods of self reflection and self discovery.
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Pinar has a good grasp of the situation stating “standardization makes everyonestupid,” and “to deny the past and force the future, we teach to the test.”
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These practices were found to have a more significant impact on student performance than any other variable, including student background and prior achievement.
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