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During the introductory stage of the WebQuest, it can be very helpful to point out three types of student examples: exemplary, acceptable, and unacceptable.
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1. IDEAS: The meaning and development of the message, or what the paper is trying to say. Activity: Pick A Postcard.
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. WORD CHOICE: The specific vocabulary the writer uses to convey tone and meaning. Activity: Rice Cakes or Salsa?
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5. SENTENCE FLUENCY: The way the words and phrases flow throughout the text. Activity: Music to Our Ears.
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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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Level 7. Encourage consideration of alternative explanations plus a means of evaluating them, and follow-through on evaluations.
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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.
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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.
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a teacher may use bumper stickers or well-known slogans and have the class brainstorm the inferences that can be drawn from them.
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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.
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What You Need to Be an Innovative Educator | Edutopia - 0 views
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But by looking at existing models -- cool stuff that has been accomplished by others before you -- you'll have an idea of what's possible. And of what you might be missing.
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The trust of administrators, colleagues and parents certainly matters. You can lose your job or professional standing without it. But without trust from students, you're just a well-dressed, silly person with your name on the placard by the door.
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Technology doesn't have to be expensive. Just ask John Kuglin, a long-time tech guru who shows educators how to tap into myriad free Web resources that can be used in and out of the classroom
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Keeping content on hard drives just isn't an option anymore, according to Kuglin, who points to Dropbox, Google Drive, and Pogoplug.com
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Drive, By Daniel Pink: What motivates students? Part Two - Implementing 21st Century Sk... - 0 views
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century. Drive says for 21st Century work, we need to upgrade to autonomy, mastery & purpose." (
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-"People to contribute rather then just show up and grind out their days." (100) -What teacher has not wanted this?
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-"Control leads to compliance: autonomy leads to engagement...only engagement can produce mastery" (110-111) When was the last time you had true engagement and what caused this engagement?
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-"Do the workers refer to the company (school) as "they"? Or do they describe it in terms of "we"?" (129) Do your students see school on their team?
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First, Student's need to gain autonomy, not empowerment (we love this word, it gives the impression that students have power in the system). Autonomy is self direction. Second, Mastery of the topic (big word in education ten years ago). And third, purpose (education likes to use meaning or relevance).
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I find it very difficult sometimes to convince students that I am not grading a project, or that they can take a quiz whenever they are ready. Students have learned that they will be told and shown how to survive in education.
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We need to encourage students to be independent thinkers that formulate their own methods to their own answers. The data collection systems of education need to change to meet the new education system of the 21st century; we need to stop attempting to make new methodology fit into old data collection routines.
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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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I teach lessons on internet safety using the FBI-SOS scavenger hunt and on internet privacy using the Jo Cool Jo Fool website. Jo Cool Jo Fool has some dated areas, but the same concepts covered apply today. During the FBI-SOS scavenger hunt, we have commercial breaks periodically and I show the old Citibank identity theft commercials from YouTube. I also have my students figure out how to locate my college-age son via the information that can be found online
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This open community is for ISTE members and the wider educational community. It’s here to facilitate learning, networking, and sharing for anyone with an interest in educational technology. Two heads are better than one, and we think the more heads, the better!
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What can I do here? Spiff up your profile page: In the right navigation, click Settings and tell us about yourself, your work, the web 2.0 tools you use, and what you like to do. Most of all, have fun customizing your page! Watch this great Getting Started video Join a group: Looking for like-minded individuals? We have special interest groups, tools, and topics—there’s a group for every interest! Start or join a discussion: Ask a question, give advice, or leave a comment for a friend. Write a blog: Got a lot on your mind? Consider writing an ongoing blog and reading others’ posts and comments
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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]