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Katie Day

UWCSEA College IT - 0 views

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    new wikispaces for the UWCSEA IT dept
Mary van der Heijden

St. Marys City Schools Mobile Learning Technology - 0 views

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    Very good site for ideas on mobile learning
Keri-Lee Beasley

thefishbowl - home - 1 views

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    The PD wiki from KIS
Katie Day

Literacy Support blog at the Int'l School of Prague - 0 views

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    including resources on the iPods and iPads relating to literacy
Katie Day

Learn about .... through Poetry.....Films of The-School.org - 0 views

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    David Dowling's website where he has created poetry and video to accompany them -- to teach kids about the sun, the planets, flower, the Great Wall, clouds, DNA, etc.
Katie Day

New site tracks science misconceptions in middle/high school students - 0 views

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    The American Association for the Advancement of Science's Project 2061 (an imitative to improve science, math and technology literacy) -- "A new Web site is taking aim at this challenge, providing educators with quick lists of scientific statements broken down by subject matter, highlighting concepts that tend to be misunderstood by students.... The site (which is accessible after free registration) also provides teachers with some 600 multiple choice questions for tests that could help pinpoint conceptual sticking points. Multiple-choice tests have drawn criticism for being too reductive, and DeBoer acknowledges that "too often test questions are not linked explicitly to the ideas and skills that the students are expected to learn." So to figure out just what kids know-or think they know-researchers involved in the seven-year-long project tested more than 150,000 students in some 1,000 classrooms and conducted interviews with many of them to try to figure out how well the questions were getting at the underlying understandings."
Sean McHugh

Education Update:Finding New Ways to Assess Students' Learning:Purposeful Reflection - 0 views

  • Purposeful reflection is a critical attribute for innovative lesson planning, for meaningful interaction with adults, for increasing student achievement, for effective supervision and evaluation, for good curriculum design, and for assessment with understanding
  • A reflective school culture, Prolman remarked, makes the "thought muscles" stronger for both teachers and students and is directly related to higher achievement.
David Caleb

How to Misuse Technology & Kill 21st Century Thinking - Teaching, Learning, & Education... - 2 views

  • Computer use became routine. New programs were introduced to us weekly, with one request: play with it until you master it.
  • By January of 2007, he had an army of eight year olds who could type sixty words per minute, throw together PowerPoint presentations on environmental issues in a matter of hours, and analyze iPhone unveiling videos like they were nothing
  • Show them that the computer placed in their hands is a tool for communication, collaboration, and creativity. And, most importantly, sit back and watch what students can do when they are left to explore.
Keri-Lee Beasley

Elyse Eidman-Aadahl on Writing in the 21st Century | Spotlight on Digital Media and Lea... - 2 views

  • Absolutely. When we think about writing at the National Writing Project, we think about multimodal composition: words, audio, video, graphic texts, etc. That said, no one is abandoning words. We’re just acknowledging that today your ability to create and publish, say, a video affords opportunities for expression that go beyond just words.
  • Yes, absolutely. Whether in email, texts, or posting status updates, most people in the world are probably writing and publishing more words, images, video and audio now than ever before. Facebook is one of the biggest publishing platforms in the world. It’s word dependent, but it also includes audio and video—and creating audio and video are deeply compositional. The question is how can we take advantage of the fact that so many people are now creating and circulating content to improve teaching and learning.
  • Going public and writing for an audience is something we always cared about. Maybe the real shift is that now it’s easier and more expansive.
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  • There’s a very narrow band of writing that is assessed in schools, and a lot is at stake on that narrow field. So the question is how do we balance helping young people do well in assessment contexts with the other stuff that might actually take them fuarther in the world?
  • You mentioned earlier about teachers needing to have digital lives—why is that important to connected learning? We don’t want to just say to educators, “You do these fives steps and you’ll have active, enquiring learners.” That’s forgetting that the teacher is also a learner. We think if we have active, enquiring, connected, engaged adults, they’ll transfer that culture or learning and inquiry to young people.
  • How do we link what we’re learning about the creative opportunities in new digital environments to how people engage and learn in their communities and in society at large?
Keri-Lee Beasley

10 Golden Rules You Should Live By When Combining Fonts: Tips From a Designer – D... - 0 views

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    "Take risks. Experiment. Use your intuition. Combining fonts is as much an art as it is a science."
Keri-Lee Beasley

25 Ways To Design an Awesome Poster and Create a Buzz For Your Next Event – Desig... - 0 views

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    Great tips for poster design, together with beautiful examples
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