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Alice Barr

Socrative | Student response system | Engage audiences - 1 views

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  • Alice Barr on 18 Nov 11
     
    Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.
Molly Kellogg

What's All This Talk about Rigor? - 0 views

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    • Molly Kellogg
      Molly Kellogg on 12 Feb 13
       
      This all adds up to good teaching!  I don't think each description defines rigor since there is more to an effective learning experience than just the rigor, but I certainly agree with all of descriptors in the left column!  I think they're really describing best practices in teaching and learning, so rigor is connected to things like engagement, relevance, student-centered work, open-ended problems, critical thinking skills, accessibility, and high expectations for everyone.
  • Rigor involves all partners in teaching and learning.
    • Molly Kellogg
      Molly Kellogg on 12 Feb 13
       
      Very important point - I agree!  Students, teachers and other thinkers involved in a learning experience have a shared responsibility to create and maintain the correct environment for rigorous learning.
  • encourage productive struggling.
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  • A rigorous lesson embraces the messiness of a good mathematics task and the deep learning that it has the potential to achieve.
    • Molly Kellogg
      Molly Kellogg on 12 Feb 13
       
      YES, YES!!!  Bring on the productive struggle and messy learning!!!  That is what learning is like in real life and that is what we need to provide for our students or they will never truly learn to be critical thinkers, independent problem solvers or inventive thinkers!
  • persist
  • reflect
  • take responsibility
  • ask productive questions
  • teachers
  • preserving the challenge of the task!
  • rigorous formative assessment
    • Molly Kellogg
      Molly Kellogg on 12 Feb 13
       
      Absolutely - this is how we learn to differentiate for students throughout the learning experience.
  • When selecting tasks, teachers must be sure that mathematical ideas are explicit and the connections are clear
  • Professional development experiences
    • Molly Kellogg
      Molly Kellogg on 12 Feb 13
       
      How can we shape our professional development opportunities to invite more rigor for staff to enrich their learning and to serve as a model for their teaching?
Alice Barr

Cell Phones as Classroom Tools | Teachinghistory.org - 0 views

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  • Alice Barr on 08 Nov 11
     
    Cell phones are in our schools and classrooms. According to data recently gathered by the Pew Research Center, 88% of teen cell phone users text message. While schools have taken various approaches towards student cell phones, from banning and storing in lockers, to lunchtime use, there are free online resources available that can transform cell phones into handheld classroom response systems.
Alice Barr

Nine Elements - 0 views

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  • Alice Barr on 23 Jun 09
     
    Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use.
Alice Barr

Ten Great Ways to Crush Creativity - Stepcase Lifehack - 0 views

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  • Alice Barr on 29 Aug 09
     
    Leaders have more power than they realize. They can patiently create a climate of creativity or they can crush it in a series of subtle comments and gestures. Their actions send powerful signals. Their responses to suggestions and ideas are deciphered by staff as encouragement or rejection. If you want to crush creativity in your organization and eliminate all the unnecessary bother of innovation then here are ten steps that are guaranteed to succeed.
Alice Barr

Grading 2.0: Evaluation in the Digital Age | HASTAC - 1 views

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  • Alice Barr on 09 Dec 09
     
    In this HASTAC forum, three Scholars invite you to consider evaluation and assessment in the face of new forms of digital media, new kinds of skills and technologies, and the ever-changing landscape of education and academia. Grading 2.0: Evaluation in the Digital Age   As the educational and cultural climate changes in response to new technologies for creating and sharing information, educators have begun to ask if the current framework for assessing student work, standardized testing, and grading is incompatible with the way these students should be learning and the skills they need to acquire to compete in the information age. Many would agree that its time to expand the current notion of assessment and create new metrics, rubrics, and methods of measurement in order to ensure that all elements of the learning process are keeping pace with the ever-evolving world in which we live. This new framework for assessment might build off of currently accepted strategies and pedagogy, but also take into account new ideas about what learners should know to be successful and confident in all of their endeavors. 
Alice Barr

Teacher Guides: Can You Trust the News? - NewsTrust.net - 1 views

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  • Alice Barr on 15 Mar 10
     
    Teacher Guides: Can You Trust the News? How to Teach Students to Recognize Good Journalism Welcome, teachers! Today's students are coming of age during unprecedented changes in how we consume news and information. They have access to worlds of knowledge other generations could hardly have imagined. In order to effectively use this knowledge and make well-informed decisions as citizens, they must first learn to be discerning about the information they consume. As educators, it's our responsibility to nurture critical thinking skills and a healthy skepticism to help them reach that goal - along with an appreciation for quality journalism.
Alice Barr

EdTechTeacher - 0 views

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  • Alice Barr on 04 Aug 11
     
    Used wisely, technology empowers students to take responsibility for their own learning. In Leonardo's Laptop, Ben Shneiderman provides teachers with a powerful framework, Collect-Relate-Create-Donate (CRCD), for designing student-centered learning opportunities using computers. In particular, Shneiderman's CRCD framework emphasizes the importance of the social aspects of learning in generating creative work. In CRCD projects, students research information, work collaboratively to create a meaningful product that demonstrates their learning, and contribute that project to a larger learning community. Shneiderman designed the Collect-Relate-Create-Donate framework as a vehicle for preparing young people for a 21st century world where innovation, creativity, and collaboration will be more highly prized than retention and repetition.
Alice Barr

IfItWereMyHome.com - 1 views

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  • Alice Barr on 06 May 11
     
    The lottery of birth is responsible for much of who we are. If you were not born in the country you were, what would your life be like? Would you be the same person? IfItWereMyHome.com is your gateway to understanding life outside your home. Use our country comparison tool to compare living conditions in your own country to those of another. Start by selecting a region to compare on the map to the right, and begin your exploration. You can also use our visualization tool to help understand the impact of a disaster. The Pakistan Flood and BP Oil Spill are currently featured. Check out the individual pages to gain some perspective on these awful tragedies.
Molly Kellogg

Educational Leadership:Teaching for the 21st Century:Taking the Digital Plunge - 2 views

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  • I consider experimenting fearlessly with digital connections to be part of my job as a teacher.
    • Rod Corey
      Rod Corey on 23 Jun 10
       
      Experimenting fearlessly is an important step in redesigning education and encouraging the development of 21st century skills.
  • Clay Burell is Korea's best kept secret, asking provocative questions about the changing nature of schooling. Jenny Luca is an Aussie dynamo, encouraging teachers to create meaningful service learning projects. Kevin Jarrett runs one of the most inventive elementary-level computer labs in New Jersey.
    • Merry Stuhr
      Merry Stuhr on 23 Jun 10
       
      I need to check out their work!
  • The Tempered Radical
    • Megan Rice
      Megan Rice on 23 Jun 10
       
      subscribe later?
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  • Wouldn't young adults truly prepared for the 21st century have experience using computers to learn with—rather than simply about—the world
  • Don't today's 12-year-olds need to recognize that future coworkers are just as likely to live on the other side of the world as on the other side of town?
    • Mike Arsenault
      Mike Arsenault on 23 Jun 10
       
      More and more of our kids will be working with their peers from around the world. Technologies like Skype and WebEx will change how they work.
    • Rod Corey
      Rod Corey on 23 Jun 10
       
      This is a great point which is why worldwide collaboration in education is so important to pursue and engage in.
  • no one has taught them about the power of these connections
  • few are using those networks to pursue meaningful personal growth
  • Consider the potential: Students from different countries can explore global challenges together. Small cohorts of motivated kids can conduct studies of topics with deep personal meaning to them. Experts can "visit" classrooms thousands of miles away.
    • Rod Corey
      Rod Corey on 23 Jun 10
       
      This sounds great but where do I start and how do I get going?
  • Connecting with colleagues online
    • Rod Corey
      Rod Corey on 23 Jun 10
       
      This is something that I need to begin to explore.
  • no one has taught them about the power of these connections
    • Kimberly Grover
      Kimberly Grover on 23 Jun 10
       
      When does this education begin? Or, does it matter? The impulse of typing the "emotion of the moment" overides what the adolescent brain has been taught.
  • each conversation includes opportunities for students to ask questions and feel a push against their preconceived notions.
    • Stephanie Robison
      Stephanie Robison on 23 Jun 10
       
      This sounds like such an awesome opportunity to encourage students to defend their thinking (which is something we want them to do) in a form where it doesn't feel like a teacher assignment
  • experimenting fearlessly
    • Megan Rice
      Megan Rice on 23 Jun 10
       
      same wording as ohler article
    • Stephen Fox
      Stephen Fox on 23 Jun 10
       
      Same editor
    • alan hall
      alan hall on 23 Jun 10
       
      Sara, did you get this response?
  • I began using discussion tools like VoiceThread (http://voicethread.com) to create electronic forums for my students to interact with peers around classroom content—with extraordinary results
    • Stephanie Robison
      Stephanie Robison on 23 Jun 10
       
      Voice thread is something I would like to use in the classroom. Students seem motivated by it.
    • Molly Kellogg
      Molly Kellogg on 23 Jun 10
       
      They love it! And there are plenty of colleagues you can learn from, like the 5th and 8th grade teams.
  • "I love it when someone disagrees with me online because it makes me think again."
  • Begin by signing up for a Twitter account
    • Kimberly Grover
      Kimberly Grover on 23 Jun 10
       
      Why twitter? Aren't there other forums to find this same information?
  • Clay Burell
  • our students have no trouble connecting, but no one has taught them about the power of these connections. Although tweens and teens may be comfortable using digital tools to build networks, few are using those networks to pursue meaningful personal growth. Our challenge as teachers is to identify ways that students can use these tools for learning.
    • Mike Arsenault
      Mike Arsenault on 23 Jun 10
       
      This points to the fact that we must teach students about digital citizenship. They are creating their own rules in these online environments. They need some direction to cut down on the terrible negative sides of online life.
  • Model learning transparently.
    • Rod Corey
      Rod Corey on 23 Jun 10
       
      What if we build time into the daily classroom routine for checking and interacting with our digigal relationships. Teachers would visit their professional learning communities and students would do the same. This could be a once a week activity, or every day...
  • The key to becoming an effective 21st century instructor is to become an efficient 21st century learner.
  • Wouldn't young adults truly prepared for the 21st century have experience using computers to learn with—rather than simply about—the world?
    • Megan Rice
      Megan Rice on 23 Jun 10
       
      This is exactly what I've been saying in my blog posts...
  • Once you've taken your digital plunge, share with students how the digital connections you engage in enhance your skills and deepen your knowledge. Model learning transparently.
    • Mike Arsenault
      Mike Arsenault on 23 Jun 10
       
      This is so important. Teachers need to be learners and must model how they learn with their students.
  • but no one has taught them about the power of these connections
    • Megan Rice
      Megan Rice on 23 Jun 10
       
      I agree, but is this taught through the content we already need to cover, or a technology component?
  • Our challenge as teachers is to identify ways that students can use these tools for learning.
    • Megan Rice
      Megan Rice on 23 Jun 10
       
      yes!
  • This is why I experiment with every new tool that bursts onto the teenage radar
    • Megan Rice
      Megan Rice on 23 Jun 10
       
      I wish I had the time to keep up with all the sites out there! I remember when we first showed VoiceThread - kids loved it. Now, they are more familiar and not as excited because they use it elsewhere, which is wonderful, but requires me to keep up on the "newer" options.
    • Molly Kellogg
      Molly Kellogg on 23 Jun 10
       
      This is why we need regular time scheduled into staff meetings or inservice days to just EXPLORE and collaborate with colleagues around new tools.
  • Through Twitter, you'll get short online messages from fellow practitioners that point you to resources or pose questions.
    • Megan Rice
      Megan Rice on 23 Jun 10
       
      Am I ready to be tethered to my phone even more than I am?
  • Then start by following some of the good education blogs written by teachers. Many of these are listed in the Support Blogging wiki (http://supportblogging.com) and on my list of resources (www.pageflakes.com/wferriter/16618841).
Cathy Wolinsky

The Teen Brain | Harvard Magazine Sep-Oct 2008 - 0 views

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  • Human and animal studies, Jensen and Urion note, have shown that the brain grows and changes continually in young people—and that it is only about 80 percent developed in adolescents. The largest part, the cortex, is divided into lobes that mature from back to front. The last section to connect is the frontal lobe, responsible for cognitive processes such as reasoning, planning, and judgment. Normally this mental merger is not completed until somewhere between ages 25 and 30—much later than these two neurologists were taught in medical school.
  • the part of our brain that processes information expands during childhood and then begins to thin, peaking in girls at roughly 12 to 14 years old and in boys about two years later. This suggests that girls and boys may be ready to absorb challenging material at different stages, and that schools may be missing opportunities to reach them.
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