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Strategies for dealing with off-task behaviors. Study of Law students sheds light.

One way to empower students is to involve them in the process of analyzing their learning and evaluating their work. When they do, true learning takes place, way beyond the intended curriculum. READ ON to see how you can create rubrics with your students to evaluate student-created videos, writing, or other projects. Included are two examples of rubrics my kindergarten students made to evaluate their digital photo story and our class movie.

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Use the contents of this Kit when you need help understanding an information fluency method. 

Finding a good search engine that you can rely on to use with your students is an essential task of any teacher today. While Google, Bing and Yahoo dominate adult search engine choices, they are not always the best pick for students. The sites in this top ten list are either specifically geared toward K-12 students, or have great educational applications for the classroom. Some you will know of, but some will likely be new. So, take a browse through some of the best search engines for students and see which one will best fit the needs of your class.

Interesting info if anyone is thinking of selling their old ipad

Welcome to the 20th Century History Series Website! The podcasts below are meant to be used as revision for the International Baccalaureate (IB), Advanced Placement Programs (AP), as well as AS and A2, AQA, OCR, Edexcel. They can also be used as support for College Foundation Year, or for general entertainment, if you just enjoy history!   The podcasts are free, and are intended as a supplement to regular learning and for general entertainment. They are heavy on historical evidence; numbers, names, dates, events and keywords, which is the basis for writing a solid paper or project. Created by Kim Sønderborg  Head of Humanities, IB examiner, Franconian International School, Germany.

Phat Poetry - an energetic program of performance poetry designed to introduce Years 5 - 8 students to the world of language and ideas. Storytelling, the investigation of rhyme, rhythm and the devices of poetry underpins the central theme of the performance. In 2012 we explore themes of identity, love, friendship, war, community laced with a healthy dose of nonsense using everything from ballads, sonnets and haikus to free verse, odes and raps.In this show we introduce a new component that takes a look at how Australian poetry has developed an increasing engagement with the cultures and poetic traditions of Asia.

Hans Rosling spoke at the IB Asia Pacific conference in 2012. If you don't know his work, here's a short introduction to how he uses data to tell stories.

Sarah Kay gave a keynote at the IB Asia Pacific conference in 2012. One of her main questions to us was "how will you react when you encounter a breakthrough?"

Interesting visual tool - you type in a word, it generates / finds words from the thesaurus and creates a mind map

What to do if you want to hand your iPad on to someone else

Link to a PDF correlating the IB Learner Profile with the ISTE NETS

Some cool things built in Minecraft

Great math resource

Great resource from YIS about living with laptops = workshop with parents.

"A learning environment expert and education advocate, Elyse is dedicated to improving the teaching of writing by helping educators understand the changing nature of the discipline in a digital age."

Movie Review of the Hunger Games- According to Common Sense Media, students 10 and under shouldn't see this.

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Nice compilation of science resources primary and secondary

pointers about what to teach students to improve their internet search skills