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Katie Day

UKLA : The UK Literacy Association - 0 views

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    "The United Kingdom Literacy Association (UKLA) is a registered charity, which has as its sole object the advancement of education in literacy. UKLA is concerned with literacy education in school and out-of-school settings in all phases of education and members include classroom teachers, teaching assistants, school literacy co-ordinators, LEA literacy consultants, teacher educators, researchers, inspectors, advisors, publishers and librarians."
Keri-Lee Beasley

Twurdy Search - Search for Readable Results - About Twurdy - 1 views

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    Twurdy uses text analysis software to "read" each page before it is displayed in the results. Then Twurdy gives each page a readability level. Twurdy then shows the readability level of the page along with a color coded system to help users determine how easy the page will be to understand.
Katie Day

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

  • 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

Paper Prototyping - The k12 Lab Wiki - 0 views

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    lesson to demonstrate the value of rapid prototyping and provide designers with a tool for prototyping that is easy to use and allows quick iteration
Katie Day

Powers of Ten - the k12 Lab Wiki - 0 views

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    re Charles & Ray Eames movie/book and its possible uses in the classroom.... "Powers of Ten is a reframing technique that can be used as a synthesis or ideation method. It allows the design team to use an intentional approach to considering the problem at varied magnitudes of framing."
Katie Day

Making the Most of your iPad -- ESU3 (Educational Service Unit) - 0 views

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    iPads in schools.....
Katie Day

Switch Zoo - Animal Games - 0 views

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    Play animal games and make new animals at this virtual zoo!
Katie Day

Student-created book trailers -- School Library Journal competition - 1 views

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    examples of good book trailers made by students
Katie Day

Mrs. Kolbert's Class Blog » Science Explanations in Plain English - 0 views

  • I’ve always loved the way the folks at CommonCraft, with their “In Plain English” series, use paper cut-outs to give simple explanations about not-so-simple things. The CommonCraft-like videos we created a few weeks ago were created by my 3rd block class. They were all on the same topic, The Reason For The Seasons. They did a great job on the videos and learned a lot about their topic in the process of creating their videos.
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    A 3rd grade class creates their own explanations of science mimicking the CommonCraft videos... "BLAH in Plain English"
Katie Day

1 to 1 Schools - 0 views

shared by Katie Day on 22 Jul 10 - Cached
Katie Day

Making the Case for Space: Three Years of Empirical Research on Learning Environments (... - 0 views

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    By Aimee L. Whiteside, D. Christopher Brooks, and J. D. Walker
Keri-Lee Beasley

Elementary School at NIST - 0 views

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    Elementary school blog landing page.
Katie Day

STEM Education Has Little to Do With Flowers - NYTimes.com - Natalie Angier - 0 views

  • “A program officer from a foundation recently asked me, ‘Is the work you’re doing STEM education or science education?’ ” said Elizabeth Stage, the director of the Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California, Berkeley. “I drew him a Venn diagram, showing him what’s central about science and how that overlaps with technology, engineering and math.” Dr. Stage, a mathematician by training, thinks it’s a “false distinction” to “silo out” the different disciplines, and would much prefer to focus on what the fields have in common, like problem-solving, arguing from evidence and reconciling conflicting views. “That’s what we should have in the bulls’-eye of our target,” she said.
  • Yet others don’t frame the word “science” so narrowly, as the province of the given rather than of the forged. Science has always encompassed the applied and the basic, and the impulses to explore and to invent have always been linked. Galileo built a telescope and then trained it on the sky. Advances in technology illuminate realms beyond our born senses, and those insights in turn yield better scientific toys. Engineers use math and physics and the scientific mind-set in everything they design; and those who don’t, please let us know, so we can fly someone else’s airplane and not cross your bridge when we come to it. Whatever happened to the need for interdisciplinary thinking? Why promote a brand that codifies atomization? Besides, acronyms encourage rampant me-tooism. Mr. Dyak said that some have lobbied for the addition of medicine to the scholastic program, complete with a second M. “It’s called STEM squared,” he said. Even the arts are hankering for an orthographic position, he added. STEAM education: great books, labs and motherboards, and free rug cleaning, too.
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    "For readers who heretofore have been spared exposure to this little concatenation of capital letters, or who have, quite understandably, misconstrued its meaning, STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, supposedly the major food groups of a comprehensive science education."
Katie Day

Understanding Science - explore an interactive representation of the process of science - 1 views

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    developed by the Univ of California Museum of Paleontology
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