My Diigo 04/17/2012
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Effects of Technology on Classrooms and Students
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student satisfaction with the immediate feedback
- – By kris james
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A great history game about 1066. Lead your army into bloody battles. It’s gory and your students may even learn something.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/History- – By Martin Burrett
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A superb collection of downloadable PDF files of puzzles, Sudoku, crosswords, mazes and much more.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular- – By Martin Burrett
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A superb collaborative notepad site. Easily link to videos, audio, images, websites and other notepad pages.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools- – By Martin Burrett
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Welcome :: Homework Help and Answers :: Slader
See item 73 in Godin’s “Stop Stealing Dreams”
- – By tom campbell
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Making and reading maps in the 21st century
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Time Charts of Cartography: Includes a comprehensive index of maps from ancient times to the present, with links to images.
- – By kris james
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types of information (geographical, political, and demographic) that digital maps can provide
- – By kris james
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About | Technology in (Spl) Education
This is a website to collect and share tools, hardware and applications available for the enhancement of technology in edudcation with emphasis in Special education. We have been collecting material over the last 7 years. This is our attempt to put together all that information in a categorized format so parents, educators and other professionals who work with kids with special needs can benefit from the knowledge we already acquired.
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Holiday Checklist: Get Ready for 2012 with Edmodo | Edmodo – Safe Social Networking for Schools
edmodo resources: help center, teacher rollout resources, permission slip for students, etc.
- – By Elizabeth Resnick
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Building Good Search Skills: What Students Need to Know| The Committed Sardine
the hallmarks of a good online search education
- – By Elizabeth Resnick
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“What do students really need to know about online search to do it well?”
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Search competency is a form of literacy, like learning a language or subject.
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inquiry,
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literature review,
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evidence-gathering,
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build the evidence for new conclusions.
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What students need to be competent at is identifying the kind of source they’re finding, decoding what types of evidence it can appropriately provide, and making an educated choice about whether it matches their task.
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construct tighter or deeper searches
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They have the technical skills to access Web pages, but also books, journal articles, and people as they move through their research process.
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how to carry out excellent research online.
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- – By m. vest
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How Tech Will Transform the Traditional Classroom| The Committed Sardine
good apps list but leaves out Reflection: show your iPad/phone on the Mac screen.
- – By Elizabeth Resnick
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While it may seem obvious, all the iPads in the world are useless without fast WiFi and plenty of power outlets. What’s more, many schools forget that teachers need their own iPads, and must become avid users, too. Speirs reminds educators, “You have to think through how it is to actually live with this device.”
Finally, Speirs cautions teachers not to be intimidated by parent and faculty expectations, to gradually introduce the iPad rather than rushing in. Teachers and school administrators may wish to refer to Ruben Puentedura’s excellent argument for tech in education and to the NMC Horizon Report. And look for inspiration in existing iPad pilots.
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While it may seem obvious, all the iPads in the world are useless without fast WiFi and plenty of power outlets.
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For instance, one might suggest that more efficient classrooms through the use of technology could allow for a shortened or staggered school day to serve more, smaller classes. But, according to Brovey, “It is difficult for us to imagine a school structure where [class time] becomes more fluid.”
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Twitter is the undisputed channel for everything from breaking news to political and cultural debates. How long can schools block access to it before they become completely irrelevant? The important thing when deciding school online policies, says Brovey, is that “you have to show that you’re exercising due diligence.”
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allow teachers to bypass those filters, and to have a simple, fast whitelisting process, ideally from the page that appears when a user visits a blocked site.
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How Schools Can Teach Innovation – WSJ.com
To succeed in the 21st-century economy, students must learn to analyze and solve problems, collaborate, persevere, take calculated risks and learn from failure.
- – By Elizabeth Resnick
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problems can never be understood or solved in the context of a single academic discipline
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all courses are interdisciplinary and based on the exploration of a problem or new opportunity.
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young innovators are intrinsically motivated. T
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The play is discovery-based learning that leads young people to find and pursue a passion, which evolves, over time, into a deeper sense of purpose.
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Teachers need professional development to learn how to create hands-on, project-based, interdisciplinary courses.
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Students should have
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digital portfolios that demonstrate progressive mastery of the skills needed to innovate.
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play, passion and purpose.
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To succeed in the 21st-century economy, students must learn to analyze and solve problems, collaborate, persevere, take calculated risks and learn from failure.
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The HASTAC Scholars recently published a blog post entitled Pedagogical Ethics for a Digital Age (here). This blog-post is a reaction to it….
- – By Donal O’ Mahony
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