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Keri-Lee Beasley

Teach Parents Tech - 0 views

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technology google parents howto letter funny

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 15 Dec 10
     
    Clever letter from google on how to teach your parents tech. Lots of useful and practical ideas. Worth checking out.
anonymous

Addition Math Games - Math Lines 20 | Learning Games For Kids - 0 views

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numberbonds to 20 games addition math

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  • anonymous on 27 Feb 11
     
    Game to practice number bonds to 20
Katie Day

Giving children the power to be scientists - 1 views

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teaching science software free download research primary_school

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  • Katie Day on 15 Mar 11
     
    "Children who are taught how to think and act like scientists develop a clearer understanding of the subject, a study has shown. The research project led by The University of Nottingham and The Open University has shown that school children who took the lead in investigating science topics of interest to them gained an understanding of good scientific practice. The study shows that this method of 'personal inquiry' could be used to help children develop the skills needed to weigh up misinformation in the media, understand the impact of science and technology on everyday life and help them to make better personal decisions on issues including diet, health and their own effect on the environment. The three-year project involved providing pupils aged 11 to 14 at Hadden Park High School in Bilborough, Nottingham, and Oakgrove School in Milton Keynes with a new computer toolkit named nQuire, now available as a free download for teachers and schools. Running on both desktop PCs and handheld notebook-style devices, the software is a high-tech twist on the traditional lesson plan - guiding the pupils through devising and planning scientific experiments, collecting and analysing data and discussing the results."  Software is free to download
Katie Day

wcsmusic Home - Wells Cathedral School - 0 views

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  • Katie Day on 31 Mar 11
     
    "wcsmusic, formerly i music, is an exciting concept aimed at widening access to musical excellence through the production of revolutionary interactive learning materials. Due to the generosity of our funding partners, our products are available completely - FREE OF CHARGE. These include our award winning software, The Virtual Javanese Gamelan, and our second module, Virtual West African Drumming. These materials will offer a full 'hands on' practical exploration of an aspect of music from a computer workstation, integrating performance, composition and aural perception. Follow the links to discover more about the materials we are offering. wcsmusic is the trademark of Wells Cathedral School."
Jeffrey Plaman

bPortfolios: Blogging for Reflective Practice | The Sloan Consortium - 0 views

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  • Jeffrey Plaman on 31 Oct 11
     
    This is a nice site illustrating the benefits of student blogging linked to research findings.
Keri-Lee Beasley

Speech-to-Text in a Fifth-Grade Classroom * The Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity - 1 views

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 02 Nov 15
     
    Using speech-to-text takes time to practice. Great article explaining the impact it had on one young learner.
David Caleb

How to Raise a Creative Child. Step One: Back Off - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Research suggests that the most creative children are the least likely to become the teacher’s pet, and in response, many learn to keep their original ideas to themselves.
  • What holds them back is that they don’t learn to be original. They strive to earn the approval of their parents and the admiration of their teachers.
  • only a fraction of gifted children eventually become revolutionary adult creators,
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  • The parents of ordinary children had an average of six rules, like specific schedules for homework and bedtime. Parents of highly creative children had an average of fewer than one rule.
  • “Emphasis was placed on the development of one’s own ethical code.”
  • parents didn’t dream of raising superstar kids. They weren’t drill sergeants or slave drivers. They responded to the intrinsic motivation of their children. When their children showed interest and enthusiasm in a skill, the parents supported them.
  • A majority of the tennis stars remembered one thing about their first coaches: They made tennis enjoyable.
  • Research reveals that the more we practice, the more we become entrenched — trapped in familiar ways of thinking.
  • what motivates people to practice a skill for thousands of hours? The most reliable answer is passion — discovered through natural curiosity or nurtured through early enjoyable experiences with an activity or many activities.
  • In fashion, the most original collections come from directors who spend the most time working abroad.
  • winning a Nobel Prize is less about being a single-minded genius and more about being interested in many things.
  • Relative to typical scientists, Nobel Prize winners are 22 times more likely to perform as actors, dancers or magicians; 12 times more likely to write poetry, plays or novels; seven times more likely to dabble in arts and crafts; and twice as likely to play an instrument or compose music.
  • “Love is a better teacher than a sense of duty,” he said.
  • You can’t program a child to become creative. Try to engineer a certain kind of success, and the best you’ll get is an ambitious robot.
  • If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
  • David Caleb on 03 Feb 16
     
    "Research suggests that the most creative children are the least likely to become the teacher's pet, and in response, many learn to keep their original ideas to themselves." Gifted kids don't often produce something new but excel in the 
Louise Phinney

Practical Tips for Mobile Learning in the PBL Classroom | Edutopia - 0 views

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mobile learning

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  • Louise Phinney on 01 Nov 12
     
    "give students the flexibility and space to question and think outside of the formal classroom"
Keri-Lee Beasley

Viewing Art to Start Students Reading | 4 O'Clock Faculty - 1 views

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  • Replacing written text with artwork, photographs, or illustrations offers a number of advantages, especially early in the school year.  Visual imagery is very accessible and a lot less intimidating to a wide range of learners including non-readers, struggling readers, and English language learners. This enables these students a greater chance to practice some of the forms of complex thinking that they will need as the year progresses such as using text evidence, identifying theme, and making connections.
  • Another advantage the visual imagery has over written text is that it is very fast to decode.
  • Artworks can and should be treated just as a written text. By doing so, students can get their academic thinking started early, laying a foundation for them to build on throughout their school year.
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 09 Sep 15
     
    Interesting blog post advocating for the use of analysing images in support of literacy skills.
Sean McHugh

From Collecting Dots to Connecting Dots: Using Mind Maps to Improve Memory and Learning... - 0 views

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  • Build your mind maps over time, such as before class, during class, and after class: this makes use of distributed practice.
Miles Beasley

Teaching Poetry the Connected Way | Powerful Learning Practice - 2 views

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english writing literacy poetry voicethreads edmodo

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  • Miles Beasley on 02 May 12
     
    Good resource for combining Poetry and Technology
Keri-Lee Beasley

Our Space: Being a Responsible Citizen of the Digital World | The GoodWork Project - 1 views

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 16 Jan 12
     
    A curriculum for Digital Citizenship for Grades 9 -12. 
Keri-Lee Beasley

Social Media for Administrators - 0 views

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  • As I have done a lot of work with school administrators on why they should be using social media and some practical ways to use it within their schools, I wanted to compile some articles together that will help schools/organizations move forward.  They will be listed under two categories; the why and the how.  The articles are listed below:
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 05 Aug 12
     
    George Couros outlines the Why & How of social media for administrators. Great collection here.
Sean McHugh

pr0tean: A Framework for Transformational Technology - SAMMS - 2 views

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cpd PD professional_development technology framework SAMMS SAMR

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      Sean McHugh on 04 Aug 13
       
      SAMMS. Transform teaching with digital technologies by focusing on what  makes tech transformational.
  • Frameworks like SAMR and RAT are incredibly helpful here, but we still need a framework to assist with the top levels of redefinition/transformation of learning through effective uses of digital technologies.
  • what are the transformative, unique affordances of digital technologies?
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  • Five features or facets of pixels that out perform paper -  (SAMMS): Situated practice (work anywhere)Accessibility (access to information)Multi-modality (screen centred creations)Mutability (provisionality/fluidity/malleability)Social networking (syncronous/asyncronous people power) 
Sean McHugh

sines & wonders: The ten commandments of CPD - 1 views

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cpd PD InSET training professional_development

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      Sean McHugh on 04 Aug 13
       
      OK this guy is a bit of a twazzock, but there's no denying the truth of a lot of this, especially 7, 4 and 2. The comment at the bottom is as good, if not better than the article!
  • Point 3: This depends whether you have a static or evolutionary view of language. Neologisms are always uncomfortable until familiarity breeds acceptance. In English, we've been verbing nouns for centuries. If you don't like it then you must reject Shakespeare and most other great writers who indulged in the creation of new verbs this way. Caution, self-awareness and a hint of irony can make this practice more acceptable.
  • Point 8: Providing simple frameworks to help people more easily structure and remember complex knowledge can be useful as long as one acknowledges the flaws and limitations of any model. 'It's only a model'
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  • CPD isn't just about the acquisition of new knowledge from experts. Just as valuable sometimes is reflection on existing knowledge in order to share it, consolidate it, reorganise it and apply it more widely.
  • Don't give us sheets of A2 paper and ask us to "brainstorm"
  • Stop mentioning the 21st Century
  • Don't just read out your slides
Sean McHugh

Children are suffering a severe deficit of play - Peter Gray - Aeon - 2 views

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      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 13
       
      Including play in virtual spaces?
  • The golden rule of social play is not ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’ Rather, it’s something much more difficult: ‘Do unto others as they would have you do unto them.’ To do that, you have to get into other people’s minds and see from their points of view. Children practise that all the time in social play.
  • Children also experience anger in their play. Anger can arise from an accidental or deliberate push, or a tease, or from failure to get one’s way in a dispute. But children who want to continue playing know they have to control that anger, use it constructively in self-assertion, and not lash out.
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  • where adults are in charge, they make decisions for children and solve children’s problems. In play, children make their own decisions and solve their own problems. In adult-directed settings, children are weak and vulnerable. In play, they are strong and powerful. The play world is the child’s practice world for being an adult.
Katie Day

Daily Walkthroughs with GoogleApps and the iPad - Practical Theory - 0 views

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shared by Katie Day on 08 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • One of the mandates for high school principals in the School District of Philadelphia is to give more frequent written feedback to teachers based on the teaching and learning we see on a daily basis on our walk-throughs. It is one of those mandates that is pretty much indefensible in theory, but the devil, as always, is in the details. For me, the trick is to create a way to give teachers feedback that is useful, as observational and non-judgemental as possible, easy to manage, both for teachers and me, and something that can be more than just sheets of paper that are put into a binder and then forgotten about. So I am going to be using my iPad and a GoogleForm (and Spreadsheet) to get feedback to teachers quickly and (hopefully) wisely and well.
Katie Day

The End of Education Is the Dawn of Learning | Stephen Heppel interview | Co.Design - 0 views

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teaching schools future 21stcenturylearning

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  • I have a simple rule of three for third millennium learning spaces: • No more than three walls so that there is never full enclosure and the space is multifaceted rather than just open. • No fewer than three points of focus so that the "stand-and-deliver" model gives way to increasingly varied groups learning and presenting together (which by the way requires a radical rethinking of furniture). • Ability to accommodate three teachers/adults with their children. The old standard size of about 30 students in a box robbed children of so many effective practices; these larger spaces allow for better alternatives.
  • Schools are full of things that our descendants will look back on and laugh out loud at: ringing a bell and expecting 1,000 teenagers to be simultaneously hungry; putting 25 children together in a box because they were born between two Septembers; assessing children based on how well they work alone; and so on.
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