This link has been bookmarked by 13 people . It was first bookmarked on 14 May 2008, by Scott Ashwell.
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07 Sep 21
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Discovery Education Science levels the playing field for students, giving everyone an opportunity -- and an enticement -- to learn
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The service offers a lot of interactive labs the kids can work on that I wouldn't otherwise be able to have in my classroom
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the service reduces the pressure on students who have disabilities, are slower to pick up new concepts, or have missed class due to illness
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Many videos are closed captioned, which helps hearing-impaired students
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On the flip side, the service gives advanced students access to selected middle school-level resources for additional learning
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The service also helps teachers respond to the inevitable assemblies, snow days, and other intrusions that cut class time short
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Accompanying images reinforce the definition. An animation zooms in on a photo of a quarry to focus on a granite rock before delving deeper to reveal its constituent minerals: feldspar, mica, quartz, and hornblende. A video takes the lesson further by repeating the basic definition and then showing minerals in daily life -- the salt we eat, the gypsum in building materials, the clay we mold, and the gold we wear
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If her students are learning about American colonial times in history class, for example, she might assign readings and videos about diseases from that period.
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I don't want collaboration to mean just group work; I need projects in which all students have a part, but they are individually accountable
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Virtual labs allow students to explore and experiment
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In a lot of science classes, you can't do the lab, because it's too expensive, you don't have the time, or you don't have the space
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Hands-on work is critically important
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Beth ServaCooking Up a Virtual Laboratory: Discovery Education Science Delivers
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"I think it is really important, because twenty-first-century teaching is all about collaboration," Belt explains. "I don't want collaboration to mean just group work; I need projects in which all students have a part, but they are individually accountable."
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When they change a variable in a digital simulation, they can see the results of those alterations more quickly -- and in many cases, more safely -- than in a traditional lab.
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Scott AshwellThese digital resources, from interactive glossaries to lab simulations, help teachers engage students.
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