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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Ben Hacking

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Welcome - Safer Internet Day - 0 views

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    Excellent resources that inform and promote internet safety. Mark your calendars folks, Internet Safety Day is February 5, 2013.
Ben Hacking

CLIME Connections: Council for Technology in Mathematics Education - 0 views

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    Council for Technology in Mathematics Education: An affiliate of NCTM
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

Moodle 2 Essential Training for Teachers | Video Tutorial from lynda.com - 0 views

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    Between this site and Atomic Learning, you have two great resources that will help you understand more of the ins and outs of moodle.
Ben Hacking

Jing, screenshot and screencast software from TechSmith - 0 views

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    A fantastic tool for teachers and students to create screencasts and screenshots. Teachers and students can annotate over screenshots they take. Implications: Teachers can find any visual stimuli and students can add their comments or solutions over top. Teachers can then grade their responses. Teachers and students can also record instructional tutorials for others to view. So many options here.
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    A fantastic tool for teachers and students to create screencasts and screenshots. Teachers and students can annotate over screenshots they take. Implications: Teachers can find any visual stimuli and students can add their comments or solutions over top. Teachers can then grade their responses. Teachers and students can also record instructional tutorials for others to view. So many options here.
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
Ben Hacking

PLN Starter for Elementary Teachers | It's All About Learning - 0 views

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    YTV - Yet to Verify But...appears to be a great resource for primary school teachers to consult for their particular grade levels' tech integration possibilities.
Ben Hacking

25 Ways Teachers Can Integrate Social Media Into Education | Edudemic - 0 views

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    This infographic provides a nice overview of how teachers and students are using the more popular social media sites. Twitter, Facebook, Wordpress, YouTube, Pinterest are included in this connected infographic about how social media is used to connect, notify, teach and curate in the 21st century.
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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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