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Is English Language So Popular because of the USA? - 0 views

Americans might tend to inflate the influence of the United States in the history of the spread of English. Before the World Wars, particularly WWII, the US was a bit player on the world stage. The...

english quiz online

started by puzznbuzzus on 17 Feb 17 no follow-up yet
puzznbuzzus

Some Interesting Health Facts You Must Know. - 0 views

1. When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, and they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate. 2. The human head is one-quarter of our total length at birth but on...

health quiz facts

started by puzznbuzzus on 15 Feb 17 no follow-up yet
Robin Galloway

National Educational Technology Plan: Your Questions Answered | Edutopia - 2 views

www.edutopia.org/...ology-plan-netp-audrey-watters

unietd education technology policy government schools edtech DOE

shared by Robin Galloway on 26 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • An Internet-enabled device for every teacher and student in the country. Universal broadband access for homes and schools. Those, along with an embrace of cloud computing, openly-licensed educational materials and open source technologies are part of the new education technology recommendations from the U.S. Department of Education.
  • An Internet-enabled device for every teacher and student in the country. Universal broadband access for homes and schools. Those, along with an embrace of cloud computing, openly-licensed educational materials and open source technologies are part of the new education technology recommendations from the U.S. Department of Education.
  • The 124-page document lays out an ambitious agenda for transforming teaching and learning through technology. Much of the plan emphasizes "21st century learning," and competencies that, according to the Department of Education, include critical thinking, complex problem solving, collaboration, and multimedia communication.
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  • a world of digital knowledge, "always on"0- learning resources, and online communities for both educators and students
  • At least one Internet-enabled device for every student and educator
  • Use of Creative Commons and open licenses in course content
  • Changes to CIPA (Children's Internet Protection Act) to open access to the Internet and rethink how filtering works in schools
  • Transform the print-based classroom into a digital learning environment.
  • Encourage online learning
  • As good as the NETP may sound, it may be a bit disconcerting that here we are, two years into the Obama Administration, and we've only just now agreed on the plan for education technology.
  • But a plan, of course, is merely that -- a plan. It remains to be seen if there is either the political willpower or the budget to enact its contents.
  • Robin Galloway on 26 Jan 11
     
    "An Internet-enabled device for every teacher and student in the country. Universal broadband access for homes and schools. Those, along with an embrace of cloud computing, openly-licensed educational materials and open source technologies are part of the new education technology recommendations from the U.S. Department of Education."
Kim McCoy-Parker

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

www.ascd.org/...eys-to-Effective-Feedback.aspx

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.
Kim McCoy-Parker

Sir Ken Robinson: Why We Need to Reform Education Now - 0 views

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robinson ken reform education

shared by Kim McCoy-Parker on 04 May 13 - No Cached
  • In 1970, the U.S. had the highest rates of high school graduation in the world, now it has one of the lowest.
  • now around 75 percent, which puts America 23rd out of 28 countries surveyed.
  • They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students.
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  • 'drop out'
  • high schools every day, close to 1.5 million a year.
  • According to one estimate, if the numbers of young people leaving school early could be cut by 50 percent, the net gain to the U.S. economy from savings in social programs and gains in additional tax revenues could be around $90 billion a year - that's almost $1 trillion in just over ten years.
  • One of the themes of TEDTalks Education is that current policies are based on a tragic misdiagnosis of the problem. They treat education as an industrial process rather than as a human one. They are driven by a culture of testing and standardization that has narrowed the curriculum and sees students as data points and teachers as functionaries rather than as living breathing people.
  • To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system.
  • The key to personalizing education is to invest properly in the professional development of educators. As Bill Gates argues, teachers need mentors too.
  • 7,000
  • Teaching is an art form. Great teachers know they have to cultivate curiosity, passion and creativity in their students.
  • achievement soars when teachers fire the imaginations of their students with a true spirit of inquiry.
  • All students have their own stories, motivations and circumstances and teachers have to connect with them personally.
  • "Everyone has a story," she says. "Everyone has a struggle and everyone needs help along the way."
  • We have millions of young people walking away from education, he says. But "right now, we could save them all," if we're prepared to innovate fundamentally and not just do more of the same.
  • "Every child," she says, "deserves a champion who will never give up on them... and insists they become the best they can possibly be."
  • give them the creative freedom to innovate and do their jobs within a proper framework of public accountability.
  • There are those who say that we can't afford to personalize education to every student. The fact is that we can't afford not to.
Kim McCoy-Parker

Starting With Why: The Power of Student-Driven Learning - 0 views

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learning student-driven learning

shared by Kim McCoy-Parker on 25 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • She would thrive after being asked: “What do you want to learn?” “What do you want to read?” “What matters to you?” And then taking her answers and the curricular outcomes and designing a learning plan that incorporated all of this, plus embedded technology.
  • So often in education we focus on the wrong things. Test scores. Marks. Awards.
  • We need to start with why
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  • it’s what you do with the content that matters.
  • Memorizing & regurgitating falls miserably short of equipping our students.
  • We’ve made education about manipulation and hoops instead of inspiring our students to pursue learning that matters to them — learning that can help them make a difference in our communities and the world.
  • I believe students are fully competent to be co-creators of their own learning environments. I believe that students can change the world; they are not the future; they are right now. I believe that students need skills that go far beyond the content of most curricula. I believe that students want to learn, but often they lack the environment that sparks the emergence of passionate, life-long learners. I believe that my students have a voice and it should be heard. I believe students can read at their appropriate grade level and still be illiterate. I believe that each of my students has unique talents and interests that should merge with our learning environment at school. I believe my students are not empty vessels waiting to be filled.
  • I believe that my students need to develop metacognitive skills and make their thinking visible. I believe that students are fully capable of differentiating their own learning. I believe my students are creative and can teach me important things. I believe school shouldn’t be a place where young people go to watch older people work hard. I believe, if given the chance and the right support, my students will become more than they ever thought they could be. I believe that once students begin to see their talents and gifts, they will grow in confidence.
  • As a teacher: I believe that my classroom should be a place of joy, engagement, learning and play. I believe that I should be less helpful. I believe that I should ask more questions, and offer fewer answers. I believe that I should model what learning, failing, grit & perseverance look like. I believe that I should take risks, even when I’m afraid. I believe it’s crucial to use content to teach skills. I believe that the most important question I often ask my students is, “What do you need?” I believe that I am not the all-knowing guru, nor do I want to be. I believe I need to be transparent with my learning and who I am. I believe that kids need a life outside of school, so I don’t believe in homework — at least not the rote, meaningless stuff that’s usually assigned.
RaeAnne Mason

Apps in Education: Around the World with 15 Cool Geography Apps - 0 views

appsineducation.blogspot.com/...ld-with-15-cool-geography.html

shared by RaeAnne Mason on 30 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Google Earth: FREE With Google Earth for iPad, you can fly to far corners of the planet with just the swipe of a finger. Explore the same global satellite and aerial imagery available in the desktop version of Google Earth, including high-resolution imagery for over half of the world's population and a third of the world's land mass. You can swipe with two fingers to adjust your view to see mountainous terrain.
  • GeoWalk HD: $2.99 AU We are all used to the idea that encyclopedias are pretty boring and usually too overloaded with information, that's why we decided to squeeze the most essential and exciting info about our planet into a brief, informative and illustrative 3D Fact Book to explore the world in a playful way.
  • National Geographic World Atlas: $1.99 AU National Geographic World Atlas HD utilizes the highest resolution images, providing you detail, accuracy, and artistic beauty normally found in wall maps and bound atlases. Preloaded with 3 different styles of world maps with an internet connection, you can continue zooming through continent-level maps into Bing maps - close enough to see your home!
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  • Living Earth: $1.99 AU Enjoy a stunning live 3D simulation of our planet at our current moment in time with global weather, forecasts and world clock for cities around the world. View live global cloud patterns along with the most realistic 3D rendering of our planet available. A humbling view of our home in your hands or a strikingly beautiful nightstand or desktop clock.
  • MapBox for iPad allows you to use your iPad to view, create, and share beautiful maps made with the MapBox suite of open source map-making tools. Use this app to take your maps offline and on the go as fast and interactive as ever. Make new maps by combining offline map layers with online maps from MapBox, OpenStreetMap and MapQuest. You can even overlay GeoRSS data layers.
Robin Galloway

Digital Learning Day - 1 views

www.digitallearningday.org

shared by Robin Galloway on 28 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Robin Galloway on 28 Jan 12
     
    Digital Learning Day is a nationwide celebration of innovative teaching and learning through digital media and technology that engages students and provides them with a rich, personalized educational experience. On Digital Learning Day, a majority of states, hundreds of school districts, thousands of teachers, and more than a million students will encourage the innovative use of technology by trying something new, showcasing success, kicking off project-based learning, or focusing on how digital tools can help improve student outcomes.
Katy Resop Benway

Swipe, Tap, Flick and . . . Read? Research on Children and E-Books | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/...childrens-ebooks-sarah-vaala

ebooks education literacy technology edtech

shared by Katy Resop Benway on 14 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Katy Resop Benway on 14 Jul 14
     
    "Though e-books have been available for children to read on computers for some time, they are receiving quite a bit of attention recently due to the development of new, more mobile platforms on which to view them. Survey research from Pew Research Center indicates that the number of American adults who own a tablet or e-book reader nearly doubled this past holiday season, rising from an estimated 10% of the population in December to 19% in January. Still, parent reactions to children's e-books, expressed through news media and blogs, seem to mirror the range of opinions regarding electronic textbooks: some parents love them while others adamantly keep their children away. "
Evans Mudanya

Vookbag to bring social network atmosphere to the classroom - The Northern Iowan - Univ... - 2 views

lol SN txting unietd uni

shared by Evans Mudanya on 21 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Evans Mudanya on 21 Feb 12
     
    Imagine using a social network during class, except instead of browsing through pictures and statuses of friends, the network allows students to excel in their classes instead of serving as a distraction from studies.
  • Evans Mudanya on 21 Feb 12
     
    This is gr8, thx UNI.
  • Robin Galloway on 21 Feb 12
     
    Wow, nice to see this kind of entrepreneurship coming out of UNI! Maybe we will have a change to use this in the Fall. Thanks for tagging this for us, Evans!
puzznbuzzus

How to Prepare Aptitude Test for Competitive Exams - 0 views

Practice as many questions before your assessment. The more psychometric aptitude test questions you practice the more your speed, accuracy and confidence will improve. Improving these factors will...

Aptitude Test Online

started by puzznbuzzus on 23 Feb 17 no follow-up yet
Zachary Peiper

Stockholm's School Without Classrooms - 0 views

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learning education school classroom teaching technology design

shared by Zachary Peiper on 08 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Zachary Peiper on 08 Feb 12
     
    The principles of the Vittra School revolve around the breakdown of physical and metaphorical class divisions as a fundamental step to promoting intellectual curiosity, self-confidence, and communally responsible behavior. Therefore, in Vittra's custom-built Stockholm location, spaces are only loosely defined by permeable borders and large, abstract landmarks. As the architects explained, "instead of classical divisions with chairs and tables, a giant iceberg for example serves as cinema, platform, and room for relaxation, and sets the frame for many different types of learning," while "flexible laboratories make it possible to work hands-on with themes and projects."
Brenda Schumaker

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

www.econedlink.org/educator

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.
Morgan Malskeit

Worksheets & Handouts | Play and learn: Being online - 0 views

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Bullying_Social Media

shared by Morgan Malskeit on 14 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Today, children are going online at an increasingly young age; therefore this book aims at introducing concepts of modern technology in their daily vocabulary and activities. Whilst this activity book offers children from 4 to 8 years of age 30 pages of fun and games, it also leads them to sharpen their basic language and mathematical, social and cultural skills. It gives them a glimpse of the impact modern technology can have on their everyday life. Above all it offers an opportunity for parents and teachers to sit together with their children and discuss these important issues. Although the activity book was created in such a way that young children can enjoy and do the games alone, many of the exercises do have a deeper level. The booklet endeavours to encourage parents and teachers to talk about topics such as privacy and modern technology with their children and pupils starting from a very young age as these issues undoubtedly already play an important role in their lives. The table on page 4 offers parents and teachers an overview of the themes that are touched upon and the exercises that go with them. Additional information can be found at www.saferinternet.org. We encourage you to read these guidelines as they will provide more sample information about the pedagogical objectives behind each game and the messages the children will hopefully pick up
  • Morgan Malskeit on 14 Oct 14
     
    What technology can have on peoples lives and the outcomes of it.
David Hind

Battle of Wilson's Creek - 0 views

www.historynet.com/battle-of-wilsons-creek.htm

Wilsons Creek Civil War battle Iowa

shared by David Hind on 12 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • the Iowans marched over from the right to anchor the left flank.
  • The 2nd Kansas rushed forward, and alongside the Iowans doggedly held their ground. After 20 minutes of back-and-forth probing, the Southerners fell back.
  • troops from the 1st Iowa
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  • Totten's tired artillerymen, the 1st Iowa, the 1st Kansas and Missouri's Home Guards fell back next.
  • His coarse, opinionated manner had made him nearly impossible to like, and his uncompromising stance in St. Louis had alienated many. But until the rise of tough Union commanders like Grant and Sherman a couple of years later, his hard-driving style would be sorely missed in an army filled with too many Sigels and Frémonts. And few could have argued with Samuel Sturgis, who after Lyon's death remembered him to have been 'as brave a soldier as ever drew a sword, a man whose honesty of purpose was proverbial, a noble patriot, and one who held his life as nothing when his country demanded it of him.'
Brighid DuBon

Summaries of Ancient Greek Time Periods - 0 views

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unietd thematic unit periods ages

shared by Brighid DuBon on 29 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Brighid DuBon on 29 Jan 14
     
    If the Odyssey has any basis in fact, it describes events of the end of the Mycenaean age. It was composed in the dark ages and/or archaic period, and finally written down in the archaic period as well.
  • Brighid DuBon on 29 Jan 14
     
    If the Odyssey has any basis in fact, it describes events of the end of the Mycenaean age. It was composed in the dark ages and/or archaic period, and finally written down in the archaic period as well.
Morgan Kuennen

UNI - College of Education - 0 views

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UNI education teachers

shared by Morgan Kuennen on 12 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Morgan Kuennen on 12 Feb 14
     
    College of Education, University of Northern Iowa
  • Morgan Kuennen on 12 Feb 14
     
    College of Education, University of Northern Iowa
tuttleh

Watch Online | Growing Up Online | FRONTLINE | PBS - 0 views

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technology teaching unietd

shared by tuttleh on 15 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Mikayla Hockenberry on 15 Jul 14
     
    What it's like for this generation of students to be so immersed in technology...
  • tuttleh on 17 Oct 14
     
    Frontline did a program on students spending all of their time online while growing up. Students can connect with so many people with social media. That can be a good and a bad thing. There are a lot of safety issues students need to know about with social media. This program talks about who should talk to students about the safety of social media and what needs to be said.
Diann Herington

9 Characteristics Of 21st Century Learning - 0 views

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21stCenturyLearning unietd education

shared by Diann Herington on 13 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Diann Herington on 13 Feb 13
     
    This take on 21st century learning is notable because of the absence of technology.
Katie Krill

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

www.useoftechnology.com/formation-technology-education

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.
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