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Brenda Schumaker

econedlink - Economic and Personal Finances for K-12, interactive resources, online lea... - 0 views

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economic education lessons concepts standards grade levels K-12

shared by Brenda Schumaker on 20 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Brenda Schumaker on 20 Jun 12
     
    The Econ Ed Link contains a calendar of important dates in history. It has everything from an interactive calculator to estimate how long it would take someone to become a millionaire, to a variety of other interactive tools for students to use. This website also has a large library of online interactive tools for teaching economics, personal finance and entrepreneurship for grades K-12. The interactive tools include videos and game-like activities that are broken down by subject and grade. This website also maintains a large library of online economic lessons for teachers to access for their students ranging from kindergarten all the way thru 12th grade. The site offers something for educators, students and after school programs. This would be a great resource to use during after school programs to keep the students interested and excited about learning.
Kim McCoy-Parker

Feedback for Learning:Seven Keys to Effective Feedback - 1 views

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feedback assessment formative

shared by Kim McCoy-Parker on 15 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Formative assessment, consisting of lots of feedback and opportunities to use that feedback, enhances performance and achievement.
  • Basically, feedback is information about how we are doing in our efforts to reach a goal.
  • Effective coaches also know that in complex performance situations, actionable feedback about what went right is as important as feedback about what didn't work.
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  • Effective feedback requires that a person has a goal, takes action to achieve the goal, and receives goal-related information about his or her actions.
  • Information becomes feedback if, and only if, I am trying to cause something and the information tells me whether I am on track or need to change course.
  • Any useful feedback system involves not only a clear goal, but also tangible results related to the goal.
  • in addition to feedback from coaches or other able observers, video or audio recordings can help us perceive things that we may not perceive as we perform; and by extension, such recordings help us learn to look for difficult-to-perceive but vital information. I recommend that all teachers videotape their own classes at least once a month. It was a transformative experience for me when I did it as a beginning teacher. Concepts that had been crystal clear to me when I was teaching seemed opaque and downright confusing on tape—captured also in the many quizzical looks of my students, which I had missed in the moment.
  • Effective feedback is concrete, specific, and useful; it provides actionable information
  • To be useful, feedback must be consistent. Clearly, performers can only adjust their performance successfully if the information fed back to them is stable, accurate, and trustworthy. In education, that means teachers have to be on the same page about what high-quality work is. Teachers need to look at student work together, becoming more consistent over time and formalizing their judgments in highly descriptive rubrics supported by anchor products and performances. By extension, if we want student-to-student feedback to be more helpful, students have to be trained to be consistent the same way we train teachers, using the same exemplars and rubrics
  • Even if feedback is specific and accurate in the eyes of experts or bystanders, it is not of much value if the user cannot understand it or is overwhelmed by it.
  • helpful feedback is goal-referenced; tangible and transparent; actionable; user-friendly (specific and personalized); timely; ongoing; and consistent.
  • A great problem in education, however, is untimely feedback. Vital feedback on key performances often comes days, weeks, or even months after the performance—think of writing and handing in papers or getting back results on standardized tests. As educators, we should work overtime to figure out ways to ensure that students get more timely feedback and opportunities to use it while the attempt and effects are still fresh in their minds.
  • Adjusting our performance depends on not only receiving feedback but also having opportunities to use it.
  • What makes any assessment in education formative is not merely that it precedes summative assessments, but that the performer has opportunities, if results are less than optimal, to reshape the performance to better achieve the goal. In summative assessment, the feedback comes too late; the performance is over.
  • performers are often judged on their ability to adjust in light of feedback. The ability to quickly adapt one's performance is a mark of all great achievers and problem solvers in a wide array of fields. Or, as many little league coaches say, "The problem is not making errors; you will all miss many balls in the field, and that's part of learning. The problem is when you don't learn from the errors."
  • In most cases, the sooner I get feedback, the better.
  • The ability to improve one's result depends on the ability to adjust one's pace in light of ongoing feedback that measures performance against a concrete, long-term goal. But this isn't what most school district "pacing guides" and grades on "formative" tests tell you. They yield a grade against recent objectives taught, not useful feedback against the final performance standards. Instead of informing teachers and students at an interim date whether they are on track to achieve a desired level of student performance by the end of the school year, the guide and the test grade just provide a schedule for the teacher to follow in delivering content and a grade on that content. It's as if at the end of the first lap of the mile race, My daughter's coach simply yelled out, "B+ on that lap!"
  • Score student work in the fall and winter against spring standards, use more pre-and post-assessments to measure progress toward these standards, and do the item analysis to note what each student needs to work on for better future performance.
  • "no time to give and use feedback" actually means "no time to cause learning."
  • research shows that less teaching plus more feedback is the key to achieving greater learning. And there are numerous ways—through technology, peers, and other teachers—that students can get the feedback they need.
Robin Galloway

Foundations Look To Advance Common Core Curriculum -- THE Journal - 1 views

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elearning online-learning education learning pearson gates foundations common core standards k-12

shared by Robin Galloway on 27 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • three-year initiative to fund an instructional system and 24 online courses--a "complete, foundational system of instruction" to be developed by Pearson--covering K-12 English/language arts and K-10 math. One course will be provided for each grade level. Four of those courses--two in each subject area in the early to middle high school grade levels--will be contributed as free and open resources through Gates Foundation funding "with the intent of widening access and spurring innovation around the Common Core,"
  • the courses will be "designed to engage and motivate" students and will incorporate social networking, gaming, video, and simulation, coupled with assessment and teacher professional development, both online and blended.
  • Conning said the initial group of courses will be made available in 2013, "before the Common Core Standards are implemented." She also said the courses will be field-tested in a variety of districts beginning in the late fall with some individual units. The complete system of courses is expected to be completed in December 2013 and ready for the 2014-2015 school year,
  • Robin Galloway on 27 Apr 11
     
    Gates and Pearson foundations partner to develop online courses developed around the common core standards in language arts and math for K-12 students (one for each grade level). 
Robin Galloway

Prohibition - YouTube - 1 views

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secondary unietd-example video youtube social studies

shared by Robin Galloway on 06 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Robin Galloway on 06 Dec 13
     
    This video was created on iMovie for my Educational Technology & Design class. It is meant for 10th grade students in a US History or Government class. unietd Grade 10 social studies history government
Katie Krill

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grading assessment

shared by Katie Krill on 18 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Katie Krill on 18 Jun 13
     
    Create your own assessments and make grading easier with this technology.
Karisa Fisher

Grading - 1 views

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shared by Karisa Fisher on 13 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Karisa Fisher on 13 Feb 13
     
    Many teachers are using Ipads so its something useful to learn!
Ruth Finney

Aplusmath.com : Games - 3 views

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Grade 2 and 3 substraction multiplication addition & subtraction flashcards. Algeba

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  • Ruth Finney on 06 Feb 13
     
    Great elemantary student math activity choices. Colorful and relevant for middle grades especially.
  • Ruth Finney on 06 Feb 13
     
    Math is so much more interesting and motivating if it is rewarded with a game.
Jason Milke

Turnitin : Leading Plagiarism Checker, Online Grading and Peer Review - 3 views

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Plagiarism writing technology unietd

shared by Jason Milke on 04 Feb 13 - Cached
  • Jason Milke on 04 Feb 13
     
    Get tool for teachers to use while grading papers!
heather wendel

Students more likely to graduate at smaller schools- NYTimes.com - 0 views

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new york city students public graduate unietd

shared by heather wendel on 27 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • New York City teenagers attending small public high schools with about 100 students per grade were more likely to graduate than their counterparts at larger schools
  • heather wendel on 27 Jan 12
     
    New York City teenagers attending small public high schools with 100 students per grade were more likely to graduate than their counterparts at larger schools
  • heather wendel on 27 Jan 12
     
    Graduating students
Danielle Connett

Interactive Learning and Reading Activities for Students in Grades PreK-12 | Scholastic... - 1 views

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interactive reading scholastic education activities resources

shared by Danielle Connett on 18 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Danielle Connett on 18 Sep 12
     
    This website is great for the thematic unit! It has all sorts of activites geared for all grades. They are very interactive and technological.
  • Danielle Connett on 18 Sep 12
     
    This website is great!
Haley Ross

Dinosaurs! Teacher's Guide | Scholastic.com - 0 views

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shared by Haley Ross on 11 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Build-a-Dinosaur! (Grades K-2) Students familiarize themselves with dinosaur anatomy by taking part in an interactive dinosaur-assembly game. Students learn dinosaur facts and create six different types of dinosaurs from their component parts: head, body, tail, and legs. They can also create an imaginary dinosaur of their own.
    • Haley Ross
      Haley Ross on 11 Jun 14
       
      I enjoyed this activity because it gets you thinking about the different parts on dinosaurs and why they might have those adaptations.
  • Haley Ross on 11 Jun 14
     
    A fun and engaging site to get kids learning about dinosaurs. Even includes grade levels by activities.
Robin Galloway

Cursive handwriting no longer stressed at Eastern Iowa schools | TheGazette - 2 views

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language arts english writing cursive handwriting commoncore iowa standards curriculum

shared by Robin Galloway on 28 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • “It doesn’t seem like there’s the emphasis on cursive handwriting today that there was when I was in school,” said Lisa Donohoe, Shelby’s mom.
  • “We do have a curriculum for cursive handwriting as part of our SLEs (Student Learning Expectations),” said Mary Ellen Maske, executive administrator for elementary education for the Cedar Rapids school district.The district uses the Zaner-Bloser Handwriting curriculum, which introduces cursive handwriting in third grade, and practice in fourth and fifth grades.The goal is 10 to 15 minutes of cursive handwriting instruction each day
  • Iowa is among 42 states and the District of Columbia, to have adopted the Common Core State Standards for English, which omits cursive handwriting from the required curriculum.
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  • A 2009 study by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute in Washington, D.C., cites cursive as important for cognitive development because it “requires fluid movement, eye-hand coordination and fine motor skill development.
    • Robin Galloway
      Robin Galloway on 28 Apr 11
       
      Aren't there better ways to develop eye-hand coordination and fine motor skills? Note taking? Seriously? 
  • “We tell our students ‘We’re teaching you this style, but as you get older, you’ll develop your own style,’” said Thea Thies, a fourth-grade teacher at East Elementary School in Waukon. “That’s the fun part.”
  • Thies said she cites historical documents and handwriting analysis as examples of cursive handwriting in effort to increase her students’ enthusiasm of the subject.
    • Robin Galloway
      Robin Galloway on 28 Apr 11
       
      Yep, that should inspire them!
  • Robin Galloway on 28 Apr 11
     
    Why should cursive be taught at all in this century?
Jenny Olson

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  • Jenny Olson on 02 Oct 12
     
    Great math skills for about every elementary and middle school grade!  A great resource!
Magda Galloway

Margo the Macaroni Penguin - YouTube - 1 views

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unietd-example video spring2013

shared by Magda Galloway on 14 May 13 - No Cached
  • Magda Galloway on 14 May 13
     
    This informational video was created to support a Penguin thematic unit for second grade students. The video is an example of what students might create to present collaborative research to their peers in a digital storytelling format.
Em Dodds

Math for Special Education - Skills for Primary Grades - 2 views

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special education Teaching math technology

shared by Em Dodds on 03 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Em Dodds on 03 Feb 13
     
    A great resource that highlights important skills for students with special needs
Katie Krill

Use of Information Technology in Education | Use of Technology - 0 views

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information technology education learning

shared by Katie Krill on 24 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • New technologies are changing the way we learn and they have also changed the process of teaching.
  • Katie Krill on 24 Jun 13
     
    Interesting article: 6 uses of information technology in education.  Can be applied to any grade level.
Robin Galloway

Virtual Learning Academy Charter School - VLACS - 1 views

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shared by Robin Galloway on 12 Apr 12 - Cached
  • Robin Galloway on 12 Apr 12
     
    Virtual school based in NH serving students nationwide in grades 6 -12.
Nelson Rokke

Best content in educators | Diigo - Groups - 0 views

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UNIETD socialbookmarking Web2.0 library

shared by Nelson Rokke on 27 Jan 12 - Cached
  • Nelson Rokke on 27 Jan 12
     
    educators | Diigo Group This is a great resource for teachers! You will find inspiration for lesson plans, class projects, activities, and many more useful resources. The bookmarks are categorized by subject content and grade level, so it won't take you long to find what you need!
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