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Should we spend money to save the dodo bird? - 0 views

www.treehugger.com/...oney-to-save-the-dodo-bird.php

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  • Sean Wybrant on 20 May 10
     
    An interesting read on the label "extinct" and the potential problems with declaring an animal extinct as well as references to a statistical model that could potentially help allocate resources to the animals with a higher probability of potential change.
Sean Wybrant

Learn and Serve Colorado - A starting point for service learning - 0 views

www.cde.state.co.us/servicelearning

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shared by Sean Wybrant on 19 May 10 - Cached
  • Sean Wybrant on 19 May 10
     
    This is the Colorado Department of Education website devoted to service learning including a description of service learning, research articles about service learning in the classroom, and resources for further exploration of service learning concepts.
Sean Wybrant

Animal Diversity Web - Raphus cucullatus (the dodo bird for the rest of us) - 0 views

animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/...Raphus_cucullatus.html

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  • Sean Wybrant on 19 May 10
     
    This is the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology page devoted to information on the poor, clumsy, unfortunately overexploited dodo bird.
Sean Wybrant

The Philadelphia Zoo Creatures: An exhibit of endangered animals (sort of) - 0 views

www.philadelphiazoo.org/creatures

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  • Sean Wybrant on 20 May 10
     
    This may be the only way to see some of the animals on the endangered species list in the near future. It is a scary thought, and the fact that an exhibit of plastic is a featured exhibit at a zoo makes one really question the world we live in.
C Clausen

No Limits, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach - 0 views

www.techlearning.com/8466

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shared by C Clausen on 19 Oct 09 - No Cached
  • Best Practices Center's 21st Century Learning Project. The project helps teachers gain the skills needed to prepare students for a world dominated by digital technologies.
  • While many educators still see technology and the Internet as just ways to obtain or manage information, Tomlinson sees it as a lot more. "It's about whole new ways to work and think and learn, to conduct your business and your life," says Tomlinson.
  • With the right support and leadership, Tomlinson says, teachers can have the best of both worlds: they can build strong literacy skills while using technology to push students into higher levels of learning.
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  • After each field trip, students create Webcasts documenting what they have seen and learned during their travels. "That's where these 21st-century tools can help us with our basic teaching and learning mission here at George Hall," Tomlinson says. "The children are actually talking about where they've been and what they've learned, using new vocabulary in authentic contexts." She
  • "a new kind of digital divide exists, one that 10 years from now will separate those who know how to use new media to band together online from those who don't."
  • "It will not be on 'official' channels and much of it will be 'under our radar' and on their own time. But this will change the relationships and deepen them between our classes. And more important, it changes our role as teachers and leaders of student learning."
  • K12Online Conference, Marsha Ratzel, a 6th-grade math and science teacher at suburban Leawood Middle School in Kansas's Blue Valley School District, began to consider how she might give the new student-centered strategies a try.
  • creating learning opportunities that help students develop the skills and motivation that result in success throughout life.
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