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20 percent projects: 7 ideas to think about | Ditch That Textbook - 1 views

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    Google's 20 percent project idea has started to take education by storm. The gist of it, as outlined in this New York Times article: Google allows its employees to use 20 percent of their "on the clock time" to pursue projects that interest and inspire them.
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Ten Ideas for Teaching Teachers Technology | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Some ideas to weave into our attempts to work with faculty.
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iPads changing teaching & learning - Mark Anderson's Blog - 1 views

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    Ideas in micro blog format
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Using Paper Slides in the Classroom « Inside the classroom, outside the box! - 2 views

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    A low tech method that uses some high tech tools.  A very clever idea.
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The Adventures of Library Girl: Library Girl's Picks: The Best Digital Tools for Format... - 0 views

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    Some really good ideas hidden in this blog entry.
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Using Prezi in the Early Elementary Classroom « Click Brick - 0 views

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    Some ideas to get the juices flowing if the tool interests you.
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TOP TEN REASONS TO HAVE STUDENTS BLOG ABOUT THEIR READING EXPERIENCES by Russ Anderson ... - 0 views

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      I see text blogging and video blogging as the same and both can generate the positive behaviors described in the article.
  • When students write deeply, about ideas they care about (in this case, books and reading), their voices organically begin to take shape. Their words start to sound like them and represent them as readers, but more importantly, as people.
  • By having students blog, you are giving them a place to share their love of reading
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  • Not to say that writing for a teacher contains no value, it does, but when a student writes for an audience of 100 or 1,000, neat things start to happen. The ownership they feel over their words increases.
  • Thanks to the wonderful world of social media, students have a closer connection than ever to their literary celebrities.
  • Online writing is a 21st-century skill
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The New Digital Citizens - 0 views

  • Five Card Flickr.” Each drive contains a folder with five photographs downloaded from the photo-sharing website’s royalty-free photo bank. The students pop in the thumb drives and open the folders, and the images blossom on their screens: a pair of dice, a pale and lanky teenage boy, a flower, a parrot, drums, a toddler wearing huge glasses, a tropical island. In pairs, the students get to work, arranging the images in various sequences to tell a story in the form of a play. 
  • “I just want them to think of themselves as creators,” Vail says. “And I didn’t want them writing just another paper. I want them to use technology to actualize their ideas. To dramatize their creativity.” 
  • images to use as the cover page of their adaptations—like a playbill for a Broadway show
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  • sometimes you have to catch your bees with honey.” 
  • the most successful teachers are like Emily Vail: the ones who don’t revolutionize their pedagogical methods overnight, but take a “slow and steady approach.”
  • learning is often more about process and problem solving than accessing or memorizing static information.
  • “when there’s stress, you just do what works instead of trying something new and different.
  • The fallacy,” Hogan explains, “is that technology makes teaching easier. But it actually allows you to do things you couldn’t do before, which is much, much harder.”
  • n order for the program to be successful, Hogan says, the student needs to have a sense of ownership and accountability.
  • provide lessons of what she calls “digital citizenship,” teaching kids not to text in public, or answer their phones in the middle of conversations. “That’s on the parent,” Gordon says. 
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    ME Magazine article - thanks Linda
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