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Ben Hacking

Educational Leadership:Giving Students Meaningful Work:Five Hallmarks of Good Homework - 0 views

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    5 essential principles to abide by when designing homework for students: - keep it purposeful - demonstrates learning efficiently - create ownership between the content and the student - appropriate to their level of understanding - not one-size-fits-all - aesthetic appeal
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    5 essential principles to abide by when designing homework for students: - keep it purposeful - demonstrates learning efficiently - create ownership between the content and the student - appropriate to their level of understanding - not one-size-fits-all - aesthetic appeal
Sean Tm

Common Sense For School Internet Safety Policies | Techdirt - 1 views

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    Culture by Tim Cushing Fri, Aug 31st 2012 6:31pm Filed Under: culture, safety, schools Permalink. Common Sense For School Internet Safety Policies from the less-irrational-fear,-more-education dept We talk quite a bit here about the growing pains of various institutions when faced with upstarts like the internet and social media. The usual suspects like the recording industry and newpapers come to mind first, but one of our oldest institutions continues to painfully stumble its way into the future: the educational system.
Sean Tm

The Teacher's Quick Guide To Education Technology | Edudemic - 0 views

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    ← New Kickstarter Project Aims To Build Incredibly Interactive Math Lessons Saturday, September 1, 2012 11:45 am, Posted by Jeff Dunn 0 | Trends The Teacher's Quick Guide To Education Technology Topics: edtech, graduating, guide, infographic, mouse, twitter inShare5 Technology has become an integral part of our daily lives: we use it to learn, to shop, to pay bills, and to entertain ourselves. Not surprisingly, younger generations are heavily influenced by computers in a way that changes the way they retain information and the ways they develop opinions about culture.
Sean Tm

Connected Learning Infographic | Connected Learning - 1 views

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    Connected Learning Infographic | Connected Learning
Ben Hacking

Education Week: Panel of Scholars Define '21st-Century Skills' - 0 views

  • skills considered necessary for the 21st-century workplace generally fall into three categories: cognitive, such as critical thinking and analytic reasoning to learn "deeply"; interpersonal, such as teamwork and complex communication; and intrapersonal, such as resiliency and conscientiousness.
  • focus more research and resources on nonacademic skills.
  • a student's ability to transfer and apply existing knowledge to a problem in a new context. "Transfer is the sort of Holy Grail in this whole thing," Mr. Pellegrino said. "We'd like to believe we can create Renaissance men who are experts in a wide array of disciplines and can blithely transfer skills from one to the other, but it just doesn't happen that way."
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  • Transfer is deeply connected to your knowledge base and your skill in an area,"
  • learning procedures and conceptual models within a specific subject area
  • "In mathematics, for example, we wouldn't necessarily just give kids these problem sets but engage them in identifying, framing, and solving real-world problems that would use those problem sets
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    21st Century Skills - cognitive: critical thinking & analytic reasoning - interpersonal: teamwork and complex communication - intrapersonal: resiliency and conscientiousness. Recommended that we focus more on nonacademic skills. Keen interest in a student's ability to transfer and apply existing knowledge to a problem in a new context.
Ben Hacking

Technology and Education | Box of Tricks - 0 views

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    Thanks David! Another great resource! I'll add it to our web.
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