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Blue Screen Solutions: Skype's Disappearing Cat and Other Hidden Icons - 0 views

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skype cat icons

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  • Jenny Sommers on 03 Dec 13
     
    fun hidden icon for skype!
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http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eli7081.pdf - 0 views

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    interesting information
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Blog.com - What's your story? - 0 views

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    official blog stuffs
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20 Tools for the Social Classroom (ages 5-18) « Centre for Learning & Perform... - 0 views

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    a list. i like lists.
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Innovation Excellence | 10 Emerging Educational Technologies & How They Are Being Used ... - 0 views

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    interesting... the photo looks familiar!
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Envisioning: Education - 0 views

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    cool visual mapping of future emerging technology
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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
  •  “Don’t ask me any more questions.” “Because I said so.”
    • Jenny Sommers
      Jenny Sommers on 18 Oct 13
       
      Garth- this reminds me of our conversation of how we shut children's learning down.
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  • Level 1. Reject the question.
  • Level 2. Restate or almost restate the question as a response.
  • Level 3. Admit ignorance or present information.
  • Level 4. Voice encouragement to seek response through authority.
  • Level 5. Encourage brainstorming, or consideration of alternative explanations.
  • Level 6. Encourage consideration of alternative explanations and a means of evaluating them.
  • Level 7. Encourage consideration of alternative explanations plus a means of evaluating them, and follow-through on evaluations.
  • When brainstorming, it is important to remember all ideas are put out on the table. Which ones are “keepers” and which ones are tossed in the trashcan is decided later.
  • Encourage Questioning. Divergent questions asked by students should not be discounted. When students realize that they can ask about what they want to know without negative reactions from teachers, their creative behavior tends to generalize to other areas. If time will not allow discussion at that time, the teacher can incorporate the use of a “Parking Lot” board where ideas are “parked” on post-it notes until a later time that day or the following day.
    • Jenny Sommers
      Jenny Sommers on 18 Oct 13
       
      I like this idea of the "parking lot" board. Students do need to feel like asking questions is ok- this doesn't stifle them but lets class continue on track.
  • Students should be explicitly taught at a young age how to infer or make inferences.
  • a teacher may use bumper stickers or well-known slogans and have the class brainstorm the inferences that can be drawn from them.
    • Jenny Sommers
      Jenny Sommers on 18 Oct 13
       
      I like this example.
  • How to Answer Children’s Questions In a Way that Promotes Higher Order Thinking
  • Jenny Sommers on 18 Oct 13
     
    interesting read- especially the section on "how to answer children's questions in a way that promotes higher order thinking
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Teaching Math To Visual Learners - 0 views

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  • hey much prefer to learn from whole-to-part,
  • it is important to bring attention to all the ways math is relevant to everyday life
  • Bring your visual learner along shopping with you and be sure to have him or her help you figure out how much money you will need for your purchases. Letting them have a piggy bank, and counting the money often will also be helpful. Math is plentifully available in cooking together, clipping coupons, saving for a special toy, and even in building with blocks or cutting play-dough into fractional parts. Math can be almost everywhere when you are looking for it.
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  • Color, color, color!
  • Make a picture.
  • Use multimedia software when available.
  • Manipulatives are key.
  • using color to differentiate between addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems can be very helpful. In learning sequential step problems, highlighting each step in a different color can also overcome this natural difficulty.
  • What To Avoid With Visual Learners
  • Rote memorization and drill will not only be mostly impossible for your visual learner, but will also sap his natural love of learning.
  • Visual learners also tend to “visualize” time passing, so timed quizzes and tests put almost tangible pressure on them, causing unnecessary anxiety
  • not always be able to “show their work.”
  • , be prepared for a visual learner to
  • It is important to help them to understand that their visual learning style is not a disadvantage, but simply a different way of acquiring knowledge
  • Jenny Sommers on 16 Oct 13
     
    visual learners: what they are; how they learn; things to avoid; techniques for teaching math to them
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Free Media Useful for Your Web Pages - 0 views

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  • Jenny Sommers on 09 Oct 13
     
    copyright friendly photos, clip art, background textures, music and soundeffects for webquests
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TeacherWeb® - WebQuests - 0 views

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    information about what a webquest is as well as examples and a template
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Digital Natives Looking to Unplug, Connect | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network - 0 views

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  • If you were creating a classroom, what would it look like? It would be interactive and have a lot of activities. It should be half and half activities and lecture. I do like when it’s more open, but it is important for us to know what lecture looks like because we might have to do that later. The tables should be set up in a circle so we are all facing each other and talking.
  • It turns out, however, that in this group of students, many talked as if they craved more human interaction, and wanted to unplug more during class
  • our students and these students we interviewed have been around technology so much, that when they were asked questions about technology, they had a hard time understanding the question (what do you mean, technology?). Technology isn’t technology for our students–it’s just part of their lives
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      Jenny Sommers on 08 Oct 13
       
      Interesting. I feel that some of our college courses tell us to use technology just so we can say we are using technology.
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      Jenny Sommers on 08 Oct 13
       
      I never thought about it that these young people that have grown up with technology don't realize what technology really is.
  • Educators say not to incorporate technology for technology’s sake, but more often than not, it is assumed that a new tech tool will effectively engage students
  • As teachers, we shouldn’t be taking away real opportunities for students to engage with each other and simply replacing those opportunities of connection with technology
  • Jenny Sommers on 08 Oct 13
     
    Interesting read about what some young people want from technology
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Welcome | Teaching Copyright - 0 views

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    information and curriculum for teaching students about copyright and fair use
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Fair Use Frequently Asked Questions | Teaching Copyright - 0 views

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    teaching info on fair use
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