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Katie Danner

VirginiaTrekkers - 0 views

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    Social Studies + Science games about Virginia regions
Pamela Evans

Teachers Should Know Copyright from Wrong | Edutopia - 1 views

  • "Fair use in the educational setting is defined more broadly but does not encompass all uses," warns Ensign.
  • Ensign says a teacher may not be allowed to show the film The Lion King to the class simply because it was raining and the kids were squirrelly. It could be shown only if the class were doing a study of Disney films or were engaged in the study of a related subject.
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    Some great information on when you can or cannot use the same piece of copyrighted material.
Kate C

http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigra... - 0 views

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    Part 2 of the Prensky's 2001 articles on Digital Natives. This one focuses on scientific evidence to back up what he said in part one. It also includes this interesting quote about the attention span of digital natives, which seems to contradict other research on multi-tasking: "Their attention spans are  not short for games, for example, or for anything else that actually interests them. As a result of their experiences Digital Natives crave interactivity-an immediate response to their each and every action. Traditional schooling provides very little of this compared to the rest of their world (one study showed that students in class get to ask a question every 10 hours). So it generally isn't that Digital Natives can't pay attention, it's that they choose not to."
Christian Sciacca

Salamander Study Enlists New York City Seventh Graders - 0 views

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    What a great way to get students excited about science!
Dianne Brewster

King James needs you to tell him what is going on in Jamestown.: Introduction - 0 views

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    A good resource for fourth grade Virginia Studies lessons
Kate C

Encyclopedia Virginia - 0 views

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    AMAZING resource about Virginia history
Amy George

Chocolate Souffle Recipe : Mark Bittman : Recipes : Cooking Channel - 0 views

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    what college student doesnt want some therapy baking time and these look delicious!
anonymous

Quality Homework - A Smart Idea - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Eighth-grade history students who relied on a spaced approach to learning had nearly double the retention rate of students who studied the same material in a consolidated unit, reported researchers from the University of California-San Diego in 2007.
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      So are learning and retention the same thing?
Kelsey Everton

What Digital Native children can teach the rest of us about technology - 0 views

  • “focused on giving children a real voice in the broader, often very adult, discussion of future technologies and real-world problem solving.”
  • they can teach us not only about their own needs and desires, but also about our own future preferences and how technology might help us solve bigger, global problems
  • digital natives allow us to see unrestrained possibilities for Web-based developments
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  • We found that today’s children intuit a very seamless connection between online and offline worlds
  • A strong trend in the pictures the children drew was a break down in the barrier between the physical and digital worlds, with children appearing to see no difference between ‘real’ and ‘computer-based’ activities.
  • today’s children see technological devices as a natural extension of themselves
  • Current initiatives include Trash to Treasure, another illustration-based study which looks to kids for new ways to recycle and manage waste
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    This is a great article on what our students, the "Digital Natives" can teach us about technology! I have highlighted what I found to be the most interesting and insightful quotes from the article!
christine putnam

FLYING SQUIRREL ADVENTURE - 0 views

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    Studying squirrels? Try this webquest.
Emily VanDerhoff

The Persain Gulf War: Introduction - 0 views

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    For everyone in Social Studies this morning: In 1990, the United States became involved in a Middle East conflict, which many Americans viewed as none of our concern. As atrocities against the citizens of Kuwait were committed, President George H.W. Bush turned to General Colin Powell to organize military operations.
Kelly Peterson-Chapman

Study's the Name of the Game - 0 views

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    Article about gaming in schools!
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